The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-27

"Pardn apn is "The Test.,' The test
is battle with storm up near the
Arctic circle. Pierre tFeroce,' a
giant sledge driver Injured to cold and
hardship, has a contempt for one Will
ard, product of civilization and re-
| fnement, with whom he is setting out
on what is to prove particularly try
ing trip. Willard, to boast Of
Pierre s, answers: -.-.
! Oh yes; everybody knows you knows you're
a big bully. I've seen you drink quart Of
| this wood alcohol they call whisky up here,
and then jump the bar from stand but
you're, all animal-you haven't the refinement
| and culture that makes real strength. It's the
| mind that makes us stand punishment.
The Canadian replies:
! Ha. ha, ha Wat a fonny talk. She'll take
the heducate man for stan the col, Ell? Mon
Dieu.
The battle with the storm puts Will
ard idea to the proof, and as it is
told, makes good reading &
Mr.. Beach's humorous vein shows it.
self well in "The Mule Driver and the
mule driver who is playing mute to
conceal crime is unable to contain
himself at sight Of a fellow disgrace
| ing the mule driver 8 'profession. -
The. driver describes his own feelings
this way: - :. = s..r
When he did it, all the little words inside
of me began to form and sizzle like sedlitz
out they came, boiling, in mouthfuls and streams
and squirts,- backwards, sideways and thru my
nose. f. -...#. s...
Then follow some Of the loosed tor
rent, but samples are not necessary.
In other stories Mr.. Beach shows
himself equally ready with touch OF
4 is one to please varied tastes and chang
ing moods. .'.~.>. -...s,-. =
| Mcclure, Phillips & Co., New York.
| MEMORY
Shrined in the inmost chamber of the heart
tThere is vase of sheer and beaten gold
A fragile thing and exquisite wherein
\ The fairest flowers Of departed Junes are KEEP
The slender vase which men call Memory
Hilton R. Greer in Lippincott's for August.
16 MgGM Ax g8aF NJ ooN a4Es54 Il
HIGH FINANCE SEASONED WITH
| HUMOR.-"A romance of outdoor
life,'' just the thing for vacation read
ing, especially if one is devotee 81
golf, is John Henry Smith, by Frederick
t Upham Adams, illustrated by A. tB
Frost. John Henry is millionaire who
thinks the only life worth living is that
! on the links of his country club. Bu
he doesn It care to be mixed up in four
somes in which young ladies take {
part; that u.s. not until after Grac,
Harding, famous beauty and daughte
of a man of a famous fortune, arrives
Then his sentiments undergo a change
and he even puts up with Grace's papa
who doesn It know a golf ball from
, Goldfish ball. That accounts for tn
:, golf and the love-making mentioned il
blackface type above; also for the higl
: finance. for Smith goes into the stool
market in the hope Of suddenly swellin,
his fortune to figure that will permi
him, with some show Of success, to as]
. theshand of the fair Miss Harding. In
st cad Of adding to his fortune, he nearl,
gives it away, and is only saved b
Papa Harding, and then But we fol
!, got; you will want to read the story a
. the lake.
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 81 so.
: ANOTHER DRIVE AT HIGH
$ FINANCE. Gideon Wurdz takes she
s at frenzied finance in a little book h
] calls Foolish Finance. He goes RICH
e down, or up, the list, from infant indus
e tries to systems, aiming a shaft at il
$ surance companies in passing. Here
d the way he describes stock exchange
: A stock exchange is in fact cathedral {
r. Inerous handsomely figured columns. The ed
: fee has no transepts, but boasts of more tha
% one knave. II
i There is much of like kind in til
- book, which should be taken ins: sma
" bites to. be most enjoyed.
y John W. Luce & Co., Boston.