The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-12


the barrel business; he had a Shake
speare open before him as he worked
and knew half the plays by heart.
He would recite to the villagers when
ever he could and felt that the stage
was the place for him. There came a
company of transformers to the vii
lage, the sort OF an affair which COM
bines hypnotism with free tooth pull
ing, and when the professor who was
at the head of IL heard that Joseph had
aspirations, he induced him to join
their company and 10 draw his entire
savings to $2S3Zout of the
bank and turn il over to him. They
were to bill him as the great Shake
spearean reader, and he was to own
the company. So amid the tears of his
mother and sweetheart, Joseph left for
Reynoldstown, eighteen miles away.
with the hypnotic professor and his
company His first recitations resulted
in the throwing of eggs and vegetables
and the jeers OF the populace. but Jo-
seph felt. the divine fire, and night after
night he washed the egg stains out of
his home made hose and doublet.
Finally the professor becomes tired of
poor houses and decides to disappear
while some of JoSeph'S money is still in
his hands, so he drugs the would-be
thespian and telling the landlord that
Joseph will settle all bills, takes the
first train for parts unknown. When
the poor rustic awakeS his troubles are
multiplied and he is thrown into iail
as q dangerous criminal. From here
on the plot thichens alarmingly and
the troubles that Joseph does not have
are not worth mentioning. He is ac-
cused of being horse thief, his sweet
heart goes--back on him temporarily
and things are wrong indeed: how
ever, just when despair has taken COM
plete possession of Joseph, his friends
and his mother appear to clear him and
he hears the pleasant news that his
uncle has died and left him his fortune
and his business. The story is most
amusing. and Joseph's character well
drawn, but a young man possessed of
such a beautiful confidence in every
body should never leave his mother.
o
Nanny 'Monqst the Wild Nations of Eu-
rope-By Ruthella Mory Bibbins Fred
erick A. Stokes company. For sale by
st. Paul Book and Stationery company
1t was a most original idea to record
the impressions of foreign countries
upon an old negro nanny who had new
er before been very far away from
Richmond, Va. But when Prof. and
Mrs. Irving decided to go abroad and
take the baby, the thought of leaving
nanny at home was never entertained
for a moment. At first she fatty re-
fused to go near those wild nations"
but when she discovered she was to
be separated from Miss Baby by re-
naming at home, she reluctantly con-
scented to leave her beloved Virginia.
The entire book is recital of the re-
marks made by nanny in France and
England and her original point of
view, combined with sketches of some
amusing people they met in their trav-
els. They did England thoroughly, ran
over to Paris for shopping and return
ed to London for the coronation, at
several functions connected with which
the king and queen. This is the way
nanny begin the story of 1t to the
baby:
"Oncst dey was a han'some young
gem'man, nominated de prince OBJ
Whales. His given Christyun name
war Alb'ut Ed'wud, but he war called
prince of Whales, cause he war de
biggest fish in de pond, mex to de
king an queen fishes. His pa war
daid long fore dis time Use tellin' You
bout, but his ma war active and
'ficiatin' still, not troublin' de watahs
'zactly, but jest lettin' all de fishes
know she war dar, ev'y now an den.
She jes' es kind-on'y she wouldn't
stan no nonsinse. When SOME de lady
fish switched roun' Sportin' too bright
colors, an distractin' too much ten
ton, or de gem'man fishes stayed out
in de middle o. de pond gallivatin'
roun' too frisky she'd let 'em hear
fom her, sho' nough." And so on
through description of the browning
of the king and what the dear old soul
had seen in London.
The Busy life-By Charles A Wagner. ].
s. Ogilvie company, New York For sale
by st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany.
There is a great deal of good advice
in this last work of Pastor Wagner's,
especially for men, and many of his
admirers will prefer it to its prede-
cessors. 1t is in way quite the OPP
posite of THE Simple Life,'' for here
the writer urges energy, heroic cour-
age and much eXertion. He dwells
upon that conquest of self which must
precede the conquest of others. and
even of success, and takes into account
the obstacles which youth has to over
come in the beginning. He particularly
recommends cheerfulness, which can in
the course of time become a habit of
the mind, shedding light on all in the
vicinity. OF it he says: