The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-14

Captain Wayne is a southern cavalry
officer and is sent on a perilous night
ride to bear dispatches thru the federal
lines from Lee to Longstreet. He has
hardly got well within the union lines
when he encounters. a party of soldiers
in blue who are escorting a young woman
to point at which she is to meet friends
for further journey. In the dark he
escapes detection and with quick wit
plays himself and his companion off as a
substitute escort sent in place Of the ex-
pected friends. This burdens him with a
third person, but it is the only way out
Of his predicament, and it "goes." The
woman is Mrs. Brennan. She was expect
ing to meet Major Brennan. On the meet
| ing with Captain Wayne instead hangs
| the story. It leads to tWayne's arrest as
a spy, to daring escape, to a thrilling
| fight with guerrillas in which the blue
and the gray unite in defending a south
ern household from an attack by blood
thirsty rabble, and Immediately after
ward to a duel with Major Brennan, per-
haps the most unsatisfactory character
in the book. Following the duel, which is
thoroly French in the extent of injuries
inflicted, Mrs. Brennan appears on the
scene and makes one Of those long
speeches which here and there mar the
for something quite different, but Mrs.
Brennan Is made to open a veritable de-
bate on the practice Of dueling. -.
"a most delightful ststi0n surely a she
most suppose we had wholly, reverted to barbar-
mockery. Think jof it, ahd the proud disdain
| In her face held US silent, mot six hours ago
that house yonder was the scene of desperate
battle Within its blood-stained rooms men
fought and died, cheering in their agony like
heroes Of romance. l saw there two bat
Ting shoulder to shoulder against host of in
furiated ruffans, seeking to protect helpless
women. They wore different uniforms they
| followed different flags, by the fortunes of war
they were enemies, yet they could fight and die
in defense Of the weak. thanked God upon
my knees -
There is about as much more before
she gets to the point of declaring that
the duel shall be carried no further unless
get Fortunately the average novel read
err doesn't allow that kind Of thing tc
spoil good story; he Cor she) ''skips.'
But it would have been better art to have
let Mrs. Brennan put an end to the due
with the kind of action she finally threat
ened than with an grafton.
There is a mystery, to Captain Wayne
at least, which is not solved until the last
chapter and adds much to the interest Of
the story.
A. G. McC1urg & Co., Chicago. $3.50.
A New Plan for Ending War.-At thu
close of Moncure D. Conway's newl!
= published Autobiography (Houghton
Mifflin & Coz, this man of large expert
ence makes a very impressive appeal To-
the establishment of peace among nations
Mr.. Conway proposes t'that the friends o.
. peace and justice shall insist on a demand
, that every declaration Of war shall be re-
garded as a sentence Of death by one PEG.
pie on another, and shall be made only
after full and formal judicial inquiry an(
trial, at which the accused people shall
; be fairly represented. This was suggested
to me by my old friend, Professor New
: man, who remarked that no war in his
r tory had been preceded by. a judicial tria
r of the issue. The meanest prisoner can
$ not be executed without trial. A dec
: faration of war is the most terrible of sen
fences; 1t sentences a people to be slail
!, and mutilated, their women to be wild
!: owed. their children orphaned, their cit
les burned, their commerce destroyed
The real motives of every declaration
of war are unavowed and unavoidable
let them be dragged into the light. N
war would ever occur after fair judicia
trial by a tribunal in any country open t
it's citizens --~>a> -.~ ,- ~,
i A Layman's Ideas on Scripture Cues
+ tions.-William T. Browne, the author q
q ''Joy Bells" is the author of a new boo
Il called The Lost Faith. In his latest et
n fort Mr.. Browne seeks to present
d ground work for the union of Christian
8 of every name on the basis of faith S
Il comprehensive as to include every shad
8 of belief. !" Among other points he EN-
l.; phasizes this: For a stronger reason tina
r is found in science in it's unaninity an
t helpfulness, should there be oneness an
t enthusiasm among all Christians
s Peter Ecker, New York. Paper, 81.
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