The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-24
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THE UNEASY CHAIR

THE UNEASY CHAIR
On the very threshold I confess$.to hay
& ing the "Wanderlust." 1t Is not epidemic,
but 1t Is sometimes contagious and those
who catch 1t do not usually recover from
it till the end OF their days--perhaps not
even then.
Yet travel is not panacea for all
ills. It makes a. wise man better and fool
worse.
E Thus speaks w. A. Groffut in the intro
duction to Folks Next Door; the Log Book
of Rambler. The book is a collection OF
short chapters of travel which have APP
peared from time to time in the twin city,
Chicago. New York and Boston papers.
They tell of the authors cruises along the
coast of New England and Canada and
Of adventures in Bermuda, Cuba, Yucatan
and Mexico
In no sense a guidebook, the little vol
ume opens up before our view an entirely
new field of travel, one that even the
jaded globe rotter may call new. Every
page shows the striking insight of a keen
newspaper man, and every thought re-
ceives a new turn or twist that makes the
most trivial incident seem original.
The beginning of the travels was an in
vitation to take cruise on the Falcon,
a New York Yacht club boat which
sailed without an Itinerary" The first
adventure was the rif1ing Of lobster pot
from the bottom Of the sea.
''Ef you come by them Holsters onlaw-
fully added the skipper "it may go tough
with us Wien we git ashore-ef anybody
tells 4
4. We assured him that the beasts to es-
cape drowning, took the boat by storm.
When on the sea, the author says:
like the sea the best Of anything In
this interesting world-except, perhaps, the
land. y ~. ~ -r.'z
y And on the land:
farmer might do worse than to settle
IN Nova Scotia. Nova Zembla would be
worse, and perhaps even Greenland. e.. ~
But it is in the southern seas that the
author sees things never seen before.
Bermuda is merely little coral world =
projecting above the sea; but when one
comes to inspect its government he is
minded of the Declaration of Independence
engraved upon dime. ".
Down among the creoles he met a
chameleon.
He is literally a light eater, for the
owner of one confessed to me that she gave
him for monthly lunch "a bit of cork"
But he looked fat and was probably a glut-
ton. -. q
In the cha piers on Yucatan, the country
with the wonderful deserted cities that
have never been explored, in Mexico, and
He criticizes The policy of the American
government in seeking to open the canal
and predicts that this country will add
it's name to the already long list of fall
ures. -.-- >zs- - Il. s. K.
The East Side Publishing Company, WASH
ington, D. C.
THUS RUNS THE WORLD AWAY"
| One comes with kind, capacious hold,
But thru his fingers slips the gold;
He with talons, his the hands
| That rake up riches as the sands. .
One fats as does the OK unbroke;
Never on his red neck the yoke.
The pale, stopped thing, with heart and
| bratn - ="
On him the weight of toll and pain.
One longs-she with the full warm breast
| But no babes head does on it rest;
| On some starved slant fool thought fall
Loves boon is thrust. and sucked there
John Vance Cheney in February Me-
TClure's. ~ 4 ~
! Ben Franklin III the Role Of Cupid Am
bassador, and Life saver.-Ben Franklin
when he went to- Paris as the ambassador
Of the colonies to Frances, found ti1pe ifo1
4 many thingssbesides those which I de
volved upon him as a statesman. Among
other things he amused, himself at. help
ing to smooth the course &sofd> two yo'1sf
I people who loved but efAtund~ barriers. II
1.-the way of their marriage These tw'
young people, according to A Natlon'
4 Idol, by Charles FELTON, Pidgin, came
from Kentucky. There was a feud be-
tween the families, and when the father o
the girl discovered the leaning of tn
girls affections he sent her off to Pari
in the care of an uncle. Quite withou
design on the young mans part, it cam
about that he started to Europe by tn
same vessel, going as one of Franklin
secretaries. The girls uncle, discover
ing the situation, maneuvered with skill
and kept the young folk apart most OF tn
time But Cdr Franklin took a ham
and "helped some' AS the vessel neare
the coast of. France a. British man-o'
!, war was met Then came complications
the fall of the girl overheard and DARN
, rescue by the venerable ambassador.
l The story deals largely with the expert
ences Of the girl and Franklin In France
where the doctor became an idol Of tn
1 people. The work of Joining the tw
t parts of the story, that relating to tn
. lovers and that about Franklin as an i'd
y of the French Is not done with the great
i est of skill. Nevertheless the story Is on
= Of much interest. @sEE
III Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia. $780,
4 The Romance of a coWgirI.-France
Parker'ss Hope Hathaway is the story {
the daughter of cattleman lin the ia
: west. The girl had liking for the fire
= life Of the plains, became an expert horse
= woman, a sure shot and several othe
y things that go with a good, healthy III
g outdoors in the west Near her father
h ranch settled an Englishmen who entere
+ upon the unromantfc business of raisin
sheep. Among the cattlemen, sheep-raE
ing seems to bear some relation to sheer
stealing. Consequently the young Eng
lishnlan quickly found that his neighbo'
= could spare him, and, indeed, that the
9 intended to spare him and not spare hi
g at one and the same time. Hope disco
y cred the plot, and more than once save
e the young mans life, but also learned,
thought she did, that he, had past fro
which he was not entirely Free That
10 course, made ripples in the otherWi
n smooth course Of love.
The story is lacking in naturalness TT
. author evidently does not know the lal
n guage Of the plains. Hence the story h;
an artificiality that mars the pleasu
one might otherwise have in -eading
8 The illustrations are by Q, M: Russell, tt
= cowboy artist. rsssS
G. n, Clark Publishing Company, Boston
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