The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-26

yokes ones interest-it Is called ssThe I
Doomsman." The scene OF the story 4pens |
at period some century and a half
hence when the marvellous civilization Of
our western empire has been as COM
pletely wiped out as II it never existed. |
The total and appalling humiliation OF
the North American continent has been
effected, leaving nothing but a wilderness
as virgin as when Columbus set sail
across the untraversed Atlantic. On the
devastated sites of our boosted cities have
arisen unbroken forests, and the few re-
naming remnants Of population have per-
force returned to the most primitive con-
ditions Of life. Communication with the
rest OF the world has been completely cut
off. To tell more Of the authors novel
theme or to describe at length what
transpires under the strange conditions
imposed upon the new American race Of
pioneers and primitives, would be to spoil
the readers pleasure.
The October number is rich in short
fiction-stories by Arthur Train, George
bGibbs, F. e. Stearns, II. Addington Bruce,
T. Jenkins Hains, and others.
Carl Schurz to Tell His Life Story
McClure's Magazine makes promise in the
October number Of new historical SERIES
| Carl Schurz's "reminiscences of Long
! October McClure's is devoted peculiarly
| to American life and activities. Pastor
| Charles Wagner, the French Clergyman
author Of 'The Simple Life" writes of
| his visit at the White House, and gives
an interesting and important estimate of
President Roosevelt as man. What
Kansas Did to Standard Oip' concludes
Miss Tarbell's story Of the oil war In
| Kansas, and tells excitingly of how the
| IN nd xrny
Transportation in America" is the truth
full romance Of traffic, an absorbingly in
/ teresting story full Of curious informa.
ton. In this first paper Charles F. Lum-
mis-, foremost authority on the subject
carries traffic through Americas heroic
age up to the beginnings of the great
days on the plains. +" - 3
How to Save Niagara FaIIs.-In ''Hov
to Save Niagara Falls in the October
Technical World Magazine, Alton D
Adams suggests a unique plan for saving
the falls from destruction, by erecting
a great dam at the mouth Of the river
"For this great addition to the available
power of Niagara river writes Mr.
Adams, sufficient perhaps to meet al
demands during at least another century
it would not be necessary to divert on
drop from the volume or detract one incl
from the height or the great cataract
Neither would the existing power plant
or those under construction suffer injur.
!: by backwater from the dam at Lewiston
for it is not proposed to raise the waite
! level in that part Of the gorge which j
: just below the falls.
5 I'm the lower gorge, between the whirl
pool and Lewiston, the rapids would n
doubt be reduced to smooth water, by q
; dam that raised the river level 100 fee
: at the latter point. It Is not, perhap:
5 too much. to say that a surrender of tn
; rapids for. industrial purposes is the prlc
! that. must be paid in order to save tn
. falls =
9 A Home Builders ExperIence-Th
Y October number Of kelth's Magazine o
Y ''Home Building Is full Of interesting an
S suggestive articles for the prosperity
:. builder. The opening article is can En-
j. trance and Within fully illustrated, TO
y lowed by the publishers own building ez
$ perience, giving Photographic view
}. his new house with interiors, Hints Fl
# the Fall Garden ''An Attractive Grou
h Of Typical American Homes" "A Chaptt
o on Oriental Rugs" IA Complete Hous