The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25

The comparison is easily made by read.
Ing A. Cahan's The White Terror and the
Red, which deals with the war of the red
terror of the nihilists against the white
terror Of the car twenty-five years ago.
1t is a stirring story. 1t shows how tho
Russian giant in his writings nearly
broke his chains. 1t takes the reader thru
the period as a nihilist; that Is the nihi.
lists are his friends thru the story. But
by comparison with the present struggle,
that effort toward a free Russia was weak
The giant has rested and grown to good
purpose since. If he does not break his
shackles now. he surely will after an
other rest and more growth. The hand
writing on the wall is the handwriting Of
fate, and If the autocracy does not see
and read it will be ground to powder.
1t Is worth while to note that quarter
of century ago Russia was dallying With
the idea Of a consultative assembly, as
she is today. But it Is safe to say that the
people will not stand another postpone.
ment Of twenty-five years.
Thru the story Of plottings and riotings
runs romance Of much interest, which.
however, gets nowhere. It is left, SADLY
enough, in grim prison, where doubt
less thousands OF Russian romances have
In fact been cut short off.
A. S. Barnes & Co., New York $150.
MY GARDEN
There Is a garden in my soul,
A garden where may not go,
Where all the day the sun shines fair
And only softest zephyrs blow.
The winding pathways cross the turf
Thro' sunshine to the restful shade,
Under the loW-arched chestnut-trees
And elms, that throng the quiet glade.
Out in the noisy street I fare,
With all it's dust and hideous cries,
Lonely, and Shaving at my task
AS long as the daylight fills the skies,
But sometimes for an hour I steal
And by the gate, beneath the stars,
lean and long and look within,
And cool my forehead on the bars.
-sheila M. MacDougall, in Harper's Mag
azine for April.
FACTS ABOUT MISSIONS CON.
DENSED.-The Blue Book of Missions
for 1905 is a much larger book than was
that Of 1904. It is work of about 25O
pages, compact with information about
the missions Of the world It contains the
essence OF the annual reports (for 1904
of 100 or more missionary societies, with
statistical tables, and with the latest IA cts
sions Cloth Protestant and Roman Catho-
LISP in each Of the nom Christian countries
Of the world.
1t also contains large collection Of mis-
cellaneous information carefully indexed
for quick reference.
The editor is Rev. Henry Otis Dwight,
LID, secretary Of the bureau of mis-
sions.
Funk & wagnalls company. New York.
81 net.
HOW MARK TWAIN MADE FIVE
Oo-.ARs.-Al boys like to earn a few
pennies now and then. but Mark Twain
tells Of a very unusual way in which he
once made the princely sum of SIS as a
small boy. At one school he attended
there was a strict rule against marking
the desks. Any boy discovered mutilat-
ing a. desk must be pupished-heing Of
fered his choice between paying IS or
taking a public whipping. The Irresistible
combination Of a shiny-topped desk and
brand-new knife in his pocket was too
much for Mark; he succumbed to the
temptation and whitfield away until the
teacher caught him. The punishment was
set for the following day, and Marks faith
err, thinking it pity the lad should be
publicly whipped, gave him a lecture and
IS BILL Five dollars looked pretty biz
to Mark. He thought it over carefully,
his pocket, went up and took the whip
ping.
PORT ARTHUR BOOK BY AUTHOR OF
WAR is HELL."-The first book on the
market by the new publishing house, Moi
fat, Yard & Co., will be Richard Barry's
Port Arthur" The author is the young
San Francisco journalist who went to
Port Arthur last autumn with only 5000
and no overcoat, and has. since he reached
New York on Dec. 6 last, made literally
an international reputation by his vivid
description, studies and word pictures
In the reviews. magazines and illustrated
Weeklies Of many countries. His article
in the current Century Magazine created
wide interest, as did his War Is HELP in
the March II number Of the Saturday
Evening Post. -s ... ~
Mr.. Barry's book is described as no.,
only penetrating and eloquent review Of
a tremendous contemporary event. but a
piece of world literature that will COM
mand the widest attention, =
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