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P«|^|. PAGES
1 ill I- £, 13 TO 24.
VOL. XXIV.-NO. 174.
Wash Goods for Little
Big purchase from a New York jobbing house of
their entire stock of India Batistes; the goods are
on display in our corner window on Wabasha street.
The styles are gorgeous and the price is just half the amount you would
expect to pay. Come early to secure your choice. On sale 4#■
commencing tomorrow morning, per yard IOC
Al! of our 50c Wash Goods, in
cluding Broche Reyure Soie, plain and
dotted Mousseline de Scie, Lino de Lux
—in fact, every piece of our fine im
ported goods will-be on sale /% EL
for two days at, per yard. .. "tOC
Covert Sowings for cycle suits and
skirts, Monday only, 1/^^.
peryard lUC
300 pieces of 30 and 32-inch
Batistes and all we have left of our
English Dimities. You know these
" goods have been sold all seas.on at 20c.
Monday and Tuesday, 4 r\ _
per yard IvJC
35c Wash Laces for ioc
The above is the most important part of this extra
special store news. A gorgeous lot, consisting of more
than 5000 yards of dainty Valenciennes, Point de Paris
and Maltese Edgings and Insertions. Where we bought them and how
we can sell them at this less-than-wholesale price is unimportant to you.
See them tomorrow and you will buy unhesitatingly. The widths range
from Ito 7 inches and the regular retail prices up to 35c a yard. Tav.e 4f\ -^
your choics of the lot, psr yard .~, lUC
AI!-over Lacs Tuckings, Embroideries and Lacss —An im
porter's line of sample strips will be sold tomorrow in two special lots, OC
each .... : 49 C and rf£,QC
Corsets
Straight Front Summer
Corsets—Made of the best
English netting with couti! stripping,
well boned, regular price
$1.00. .Monday special only / i7C
Drugs Sundries
Purity is of more impor
tance than price when you
are buying Medicines or Toilet Prepara
tions. We guarantee the purity of our
goods, and these special prices for Mon
day speak for themselves:
$1.00 Swift's Specific (S.S. S.) 65c
51.00 Kilmer's Swamp Root 65c
.00 Maltine Preparations 75c
50c Dodd's Kidr.ey Pills-... ....33c
50c Pazo Ointment 33c
25c Will's English Pills 15c
25c Perry Davis Pain Killer 15c
25c Kor.don's Catsrrhal Jelly 13c
25c Wcodbury's Facial Soap, 2 cakes 25c
50c Crown Lavender Salts 29c
25c Bathing Caps (all colors) ". 19c
Imported Chamois Puffs, filled with fin«
quality face pewder; just the thing f^fi"
to carry In the purse, jr*^C*
each £m\J\j
Genuine Imparted St. Thomas C
Esy Rum, in h.-.lf-pint glass-stop- JVSC*
pered bcttles, per bottle «»«%^Vy
Silk Sample Pieces
sc, ICe, 15c, 20c, 30c and 50c Each
and upward—sample lengths in one-quarter to three yards each. Silks for all
purposes, such as hat drapes, scarfs, dress fronts, ruffles, trimmings, waists, etc.,
worth three to five times the price asked. A big clean-up of sample pieces and
remnants.
75c Silks flonday for 49c.
Taffeta Silks in plain and corded effects, plaids, stripes and fancies, /I f\ _
for waists or trimmings; 75c values for T"^7C
$1.25 Fculard Silks for 79c.
Rich Panne Foulards, Satin Foulards, Broche Foulards; color grounds are
navy, cadet, old r^se, reseda and green; in stylish, pretty patterns; m^f\
$1.25 and $1.50 values, per yard i^G
35-inch Black Kid-Finished Taffela, $1.50 quality, Monday $1,29
42-inch Black Taffeta, $2.50 quality, Monday special $1.79
IN IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S LIBRARY
Thousands of Rare Volumes Testify to the Scholarly
Tastes of the Sage of
Nininger.
Alarming of His Books Are Covered
'With. Notes Written in His
Own Hand.
"Plow little a thing is glory. It con
fcists simply of thoughts of you in the
minds of others, and in a short time those
others ■will be dust and their very names
have perished. Fame? Fame is nothing.
"We leave nothing behind us en this earth
that is permanent. Big or little, eminent
or obscure, we each contribute to that
Intangible network of eaith forces, for
ever renewing themselves with every new
brain that is born into the world."
On a clumsy, old-fashioned desk in one
corner of the library at Nininger there
lay a little book written by Ignatius
Donnelly. The. bonk was open, and the
visitor, entering the disused room one
day last week, chanced upon the book
and read the few mournful words quoted
auo\e. The woids are heavily under
scored, as if some one, impressed by their
6i>eLial appropriateness, has done his best
to make them point the moral of their
surroundings. Certainly they seemed es
pecially signiiieant read in the room that
fur forty-lour years was the author's
workshop, and where for almost half a
<< ntury he struggled for that elusive
fame his own words deride, a fame that
:i« jver quite within his grasp.
Nininger is a Übrarj in a woods. The
bouse where Ignatius Donnelly lived and
■rioif—a roomy, white house, encircled
by a broad veranda and with windows
reaching from coiling to floor—is sepa
rated fiom the few other houses in the
Silage by a grove of trees. In our rapid
Western life, where buildings exist one
■» i« k only on paper and almost the next
\m «k are very reaJ, if not substantial,
afftirs in lumber, Nininger seems an an-
Tlie house was built in 1557, and
was the home of Mr. Donnelly from £he
daj df its completion until his death.
Which occurred last January. A huge
elk s head hangs just above the side en
trance to the house. It has hung there
for forty years. In style of architecture
the building resembles an old Southern
plantation home. A wide hall runs the
vhnle length of It, dividing a long draw-
Ing room from the equally long library.
At the end of this hall is a winding
stairway and behind it the living rooms.
The furniture of the diawing room be
longs to ano tner decade. The uuaJnt.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
Calicoes — Blue, gray, black and
red Calicoes, the best goods, /\\/ -^
Monday only "T /^C
200 pieces of New Dimities and
Batistes, of which we have sold thou-
sands of yards at Be. Of/ >k
Monday O/^C
400 pieces of Batistes, Dimities
and plain Linen Colored Holly
Batistes —ln this lot you will find
every desirable style and pattern; all
new goods; not one yard in the lot
worth less than 15c. All you f%
want Monday and Tuesday, yd OO
Optical Dept
Rimless Glasses—You
break yours occasionally
and in all probability pay
.
50c or 75c more for getting
them repaired than we
would charge you. We
can duplicate your lens
from the broken parts; a
prescription is not necessary. Our
rimless lenses we guarantee to be
first quality—the best that money can
buy. If you have been paying $1 or
$1.25 for a new lens, we can sell it to
you for 50c or 75c, and guarantee it to
be the same quality. The 50c is worth
saving.
Eyes Examined Free.
oval-framed portraits on the wall, tTie
spindle-legged furniture, the old-fash
ioned and cumbersome piano, all take
one back quite half a century, when fur
niture was made for use and comfort
and the rooms for bigger people. The
library is exactly the length of the draw
ing room, but large as it is it is not
large enough to hold all the books in
the house, which number, perhaps, about
4,(K)0 volumes. Some of these books have
spilled out into the hall. The rooms up
stairs are filled with them, and one Is
continually coming across a little heap
of them stored away in out of the way
nookws and crannies about the house.
ATTRACTED BY BONAPARTE.
Like so many modern men, men wh«
lave worked hard and studied much.
Donaelly was evidently strongly attrfcted
by the complex personality of Napoleon
LJonaparte. Everywhere are to be found
portraits of the Little Corsioan. A fine
picture of him hang's in the drawing
room, another in the library, and in
this latter room, near Donnelly's writ
ing desk, there hangs the death-ir-ask
of the restless intriguer. Autograph pic-
Lures of men noted in history gaze stiff-
Jy at each other from the walls. There
is a picture of Gladstone with his own
almost indecipherable signature under
neath; one of Lincoln, with his name
scrawled below in uncouth but strongly
individual writing; one of James A. Gar
field, the signature correct and scholarly
like the man himself; one of Pasteur, and
many others.
Far removed from the living rooms of
the house, the library at Ninlnger has
an atmosphere all its own. It is an Eliza
bethan atmosphere. Indeed, the supersil
tious entering the room that has been
closed for many months, might easily be
persuaded into believing that the shades
of Bacon, Shakespeare, and those others
who made the history of that brilliant
Elizabethan age, had taken possession of
the low-ceilinged room. Donnelly, per
haps, understood more completely than
any other scholar of his time that fas
cinating period in English history. He
surrounded himself with every book ever
written on the subject. The shades—
If indeed they have taken possession of
the Library, and there Is an uncannlness
about it that would lead the credulous
to believe in such a tenancy—must cer
tainly feei at hona The bbz. teiasa-door-
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1901.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
' THE northwest's GREATEST STORE, sixth^anxwabasha STREETS, ST. PAUL lot of Carpets and Rugs in patterns that L/lvLo
„ ..■■'.'.'. ■— ■ we will discontinue. These embrace some fcjamm?
I /~* « <* Z^Z ~T~~ ™™™ ~ of the best selling patterns in almost all fljH 1.
C/Oriirmrimin of Vnin^Q iS th surest test of a grades and we will close them MSSfIV
WUII^paiASUIH vi yCtIUCb iv^ lity in in Bar. out, beginning tomorrow morning Jilt W
advertisement in this paper will read of "BEST RVALUES;" can gain-giving. WS every prices^ f°llOWln- CXtt"a SP eClal /TaglffiiCfi t
advertisement in this paper you will read of-BEST VALUES;" can ALL b2b^st? WH COURT rices" °°Wm- CXtt"a s P ecial I
COriPARISON. Compare these bargains with thoss advsrtissd e!s 2 whar 2 and if you ars^a PnC fe.'^ '^W
judge of qualities you will come here to do your buying. The GENUINENESS of our Bargains in^^^uia!" 2"1" §? n2k: *" Two;P'y All-wool, good assort
is What makes this Store greatest 1 yard. Clearance price .^ 19C 55c yard? Clearance ms« "*»££<»
""^""^ -"m^— ■■■^■■i^™ b^^^^^^«« ■» «« ■_^^^^^^^.^.^^ . ors and very durable; regular AC A H" h t
Underwear Children's Wear Ladies' Hosiery Lin*n * , 't^S^SS S&SJSSS^IraS
■ Ladies- Rich! Children's Special prices for Monday: Cm **? l JST^ZKSpffiT..^ 30c S?.™!^... 49C
thread Ve^J'fow Lawn Ca P 3, F|l| m^Sle^adsL^'iVg^ y kid finish^, Ha.f-Wool Ingrain Carpets, lar p Syria Brussels, heaviest and c!os
square and V shape made of f ; ne d^M^^K double sole and spliced he??' A£" every wanted color; variety of patterns and colors; rsgular est woven Ingrain made: both sides can
neck and no sleeves. ,. C ° , I»W\ Tomorrow". 2OC c gU'ai[ grade' P 7 ' C.earanceQQ^ be ussd. regular price 39c -7/}-
Excellent OR. quality, prettily H^TTSS S,-?,;--' •••••••••••• Special Mon da y Price OOC yard. Clearance price i\jC
value for... ZDG finished with red^S b!"!e o^af^S &.... 2^C ' Art Squads, best extra super all-woo!, at the following low prices.
Ladies' Ribbed lace or em- y^^mt 7' ;ihread Stockin Ss- O^ <;,!„ r-, ♦„ ,* 2x3 V*rds> va'JC $4"50 at... $3-35 3x4 yards, value' $9.00 at.. «6 63
fine sheer and broidery and <^lff[WW Tomorrow"--- ••••• • ZQC Silk Cloth-36 2J^x3 yards, value $5.75 at....4.15 3 ■ i x4 yards, value $10 15 at $7 4i
elastic Vests low hemstitching- L^es' fast black (Herrr.sdorf dye) Inc^ s widern light 3x3 yards, value $6.75 at... .$4-9 i 4x4 yards, value $12.00 '.'.sß 83
neck and sleeveless; s Richheu and Rembrant rib Lisle Thread greens. Dives, cen- 3x3^yards, value $7.90 at . S3 83 4x4 V, yards value SO a t ota'a
the grade usually only— ML/ Stockings very fine gauge and elastic. -ses. reds, turquoise - / 4x5 yards value Mat 4XM y^ds > value $13.50 at.. .§3.93
sold at 50c. Spe- ,«.-» iM » Reduced for Monday's sell- OR« and lavender; an 4x5 yards - vauslo.OO at $11.03
cial for Mon- QC O r]K A . ft'/ J -AM — ing from 50c to OOC id«al lining for sheer High-gr.:d2 Wool Smyrna Rugs, in very attractive designs and
day each.... JOG W *%? - Ladies- fancy Lisle Thread Stockings, qriUy'-Tn^hese rich C°loi'i -' reduCed pnees dunng the June clearance sale:
sil?ve^ Rib!? Ed More elaborates sX at 50c, 75c, JS^^T«?tS£ ■'"KS? W^MM 9x12 ft" .. 5 21.73 36,721.^,^00^: .93
feck and sleeveless 7 $1 ad up to $2.50 each ,.,. t Tomorrow.... O¥C yard ......... /C 7-6xlo-6 ft. Rug, 19.25 at,.. 15.75 30x60 in. Rug, 3.00 at 1.93
handsomely trim- —— .''-;.''.•-'. ".'.. .. .... -X '■'".. — n 6x9 ft. Rug, 12.75 at... 9.75 26x54 in. Rug, 2.25 at 143
ISli Basement Bargains. SS^ | W^o^£lm *•
' W=S~^i LAHP o^ firm, for lining cool LACE CURTALNS.
""™"~™""^~^™~"™"1 x^^^Jy-^\ «-</^i »» •*£_.. '^T^f summer dresses; cv- rk^/^ f
special! /$■ ' flfifeibk SALE ll i"jLJIjV^^)iSBCf ' cry wanted color: W"" Lots of everydescnption must {jo now. Prices
50c Fancy Taffeta X^J^ m H I^fNl <^Wsfe<sSi>^ 111 v' m"" ade to movs them at ones. Many choice things in 1, U and 2-pair
Ribbons. 4 in. wide. [^^MM M^^^^^ .... OC
Monday, per yard, \\r » fii3\^/ i-^hterm @f^f '
V^ r^Z-i&ff Beautiful shapes i 1 *^~^_ SrrV* "■■.^^- ■<^^L r^ ——■—.^_____
9Rf tl -' - rr^-J - ~*~* " • firm, for lining cool ■■■ I ACF CIIDTAIMC -r-^ ■«
SALE fl jlJ^V^^T^^^ ' cry wanted coIor: Lots of every description must o now. Prices
H^Pyf <Q^^^N^ day goq o U c a r!ity" m"" r adS t0 m°VS thsm at °nc'3- Many chDics thin2s »n I. H and 2-pair
100 Sample Parlor \S^,A3§^3fe-Si P flfi lotS"
Beautiful shapes Bfffrf^y. *1!^ _^^^.*^ y —_—__-____»_ """"™^^^"^^""^^^"
and decorations — ' ~*^"™™"™^i^ "" s~* g —^
-» *-0U S#i^^y goods made to sail for -^"h* largest stock of new Chambsrware ever SPECIAL llltl f* LAP* £1 ff\Y\C P* Wqla
fpg§ Slotoslseach. S^S^ASTAiSi? ■"" 20th Century Ice- UUIIC VlCdrdUtC Z>ait^
Remta^'meaLd /^^^v tJ^r- ' :i: SSESiSSSSStS";;:;:;:-::&!g SMISIS of Davenports, Roman Divans . and i Sofa Beds.
Pillow Casing, 54 f Tj&xfWi mr nn '■' W"k- (Basement-) lii^^ilSl^^ifi^^^i The "lebratel -Kelly" Sofa
in. wide, 16c kind JbO.UU ————————— W&Se2§& sßb, lSS^WxW^'l B<?d and lJav'enport comhined--
Monday <^r --«^_ #^I^?^ TIN-TOP SPECIAL! rf^^^^^^^Sii^i^^B^ tExact!y liklJ Pictur«)-^ime of Dlrch
7C LAMP i§E=~~t*sl. H H JELLY $500 Wilk^p ■ I imitation mahozany). highly polished;
GLOBES. /f JC3Sf^\ J^^l GLASSES. 7' fl^'
SPECIAL! 500 Lamp Globes, I- i^f^ .^ \ I ' f Small siz 9 ea-h lWc AnrV inc u he, 3: sPri^"^je «at and back;
n.. p. , allodd^mpiesfron; I /I fl UrS"to; tSh .":. *I S3 50. iSi^^^^^^ upholstered with best Florentine Vel
uuung rianneis, severalleadingman- \ &<# _.-. / . \\ if , . v ißJ4M*wf^^-'?k^«^«ffl3gwg our; all moss and hair filling. The
summer weight, 6c ufacturers; no two V-#ftf^ *zEz£- / \\ Wi! Jm ' IrLJL. W **^ —i^-——— v? - --. -• ••; 1 Xll best Sofa B-d on ft* VI rAA
quality, Monday, beautiful d«or*a- >&3£=^ ! \agjp WaTi SPECIAL! the market. Regular $63 Bed. Clsarance sale price ....... vpS-O.(JU
3 1C M°onlyat exact:yId HALF-PRISE. ? THIN BLOWN K4 ifSSite,^ ite, Checked No. 151 —Sofa Bed —Similar to No. 590— A $73.50 Maho^ny Day
" 1 i TlTrißi cdc- lA flf Nainsooks, 7c qual- above, but with fancy or spindle work enport cut COEL/i C/^k
—— vS^^sT^v, ': SI OO ! HJntSLbRS. Ifl |I ity, Monday, yard. in .arms.. upholstered in fine grade of to VI>O*X.OU
SPECIAL! /^fiPf^^WN H'-»..v^v>r 1 Special prices for Monday- Ji'] -1 01 ft figured tapsstry. Regular price, $39.50.
D. mr!ln( , c.,.1,.,. /filTSr Each for your '! The kind that sell for 84c doz- - 111 fl" U2"' Clearance sale ©OA C A No. 296—A $64.50 Mahogany Da v
snS fr *Sr«Kwa^^-M pt;,: so ,.-JSS2 lH $49.50
yard ' s^c 14-' h a rk n a^9 iJakSSiKsssii-jg&RS-.i^ E c " u rc C a °st t'Stytte-p^ No-107-A $57.50 Mahoeany Div
• V^iRV *T*OrW Sis fJSS the «' The kuid that cell for $1.80 doz. for for. ea..l2c 800K ' aa °Ur.. C*S h li, P"CS, r* 2750" CKOi RH enport Cut d^/S >i C A
——— \SSeL jßr&/ mlnufactu?^ at: <! Th, find that sell for $2.40 doz..go for. ea.. 15c price 8?c. Monday, Clearance sale price. vj>A. LOU to. vPiT^T.OU
CD r rl , . , *"*^f /^ clean-up prices, \- ■*■ '■-.''-'.-■'. .• ' . —: ' - special, "
2 5c w^ p inP.a^s ad 3 ' !; EXTPA SPFCIAF 59c BIG CUT IN DAVENPORT SOFAS. No. i^-A $29.50 imitation Mahog
-25c "^ 1. q,UeS> Vases, choco]ate Sugara a B o tAI X A feFbC IAL. 03Gl No ... A $75 00 Ma^c^n D any Davenport cut &r%A RH
Dimities, India Lin- Tea Pets, Pitchers. Celery Trays, Bread Trays i Silver Plated Tea - » • " ——— ™O. 447— A $75 UOMahceany Day- t ' f- CO^^S-fllJ
ons and Lawns, «nd hundreds of other pieces, goods made to > c rt 7 \ n^r.. in SPECIAL! enport cut • fIJCQ RH , VP^."T".^W
Monday, per yard s o e»u ach ° *3-50,•«=»>. All go $1.00 > lach set -"- '" ' S^T Soys • wTc to .......;.;..... ; $59.50 Roman Divan-Like cut-Frame of
, foreach " " V±.VJ.VJ each set. Boys' Wash Suits, ..•,-,...., ; .... -T........ . golden oak; upholstered in figured taper.-
J2'Q <^»wv 100 handsome BUSTS, in new |i Our $9.50 Sets, ' fE&^-'^FB* sai!or and Russian iflTTriSfßitlL-ilßlu try; ends can be adjusted to any angle:
U2{l tT b = and Oriental designs and Syte prl» $5.70 IgjL-^J blouse st yles, $2 >^^^»^^^?PK useful as a couch or divan. Re K 5«
= ' " ~~" rtT T\ All rew eood- Just ocen-d uo Sab price 56.8& M^T^^f kmd> Monday pric-. $26.50. Clear- pni RZ
SPECIAL! lc\?/D Aanewgoodo just en-du?- Our $12.40 Sets. - VfcC*)r*-; $f.oo^ K^»»SS5SP^»S^^'^ 1«?1 ' an'- sa'- Dri- ' $21.50
bFtCIALI 14 I J%/ Regular $1.00 size for... 60c Sale price $7 40 \£> r oIiUU 3 P \JJ£*lm\J\J
25c Revolving Can cj^ |;| u^ 52-00 size f0r... .51.60 \> Cur 316.50 Sets. Salepric« .....$9.90 ' [§^4S^^^MM^^A ' No. 692—Roman Divan- Without
Openers, Monday, J^J\ Refu" $3.50 sS f° '.WlißO Bur ! 2 0 001=t" It pr! C 8 V°, B0 SPECIAL! W '' ' ! back; frame of golden oak; upholstered
each, <fefdb Reulars4.so size for.. $3.60 Our $21 00 le s" SaeEri™ lil'2n J^c^l »- ' OmUfflßtM! with figured tapestry. Regular price
5° ISM- liillll °-'« S :SSsX IBSB :::::;■•: fe-USSL PHg !k;CH Se $15.00
————— IMP Re6"lar $7.50 size f0r....56.00 '' crvrr* Monday, set of 6, 2l l*iii»"* y . sale price vPßw*»\J IC/
special! iS'l MASON '!■ EXTRA SPECIAL. enp ' ;G^^§2^*^^^^^^>^
g^den SPRUIT gg <^^^|S SPEC!! Another lot of the -20th Cen- W^^^^^S^^^^>
Hose FRUIT (t^Tl tC^^# '»i^ ~~~7~ tury" Steel Bed Couches-(Likecut) W&@^zaß&&§^^^^
nim.'^ t m —^-^ tAASOA/5 s^^^ Steel Tab!, SPECIAL I on sale . Pnce for Mo nday. Couch M§^ 2^3T
daype?S' M°n" JARS ' pAT£NT «- Decorated Paper without mat- QQ/JR I^^^^
Pint size, each 4c O v3orH !; J^ Butche*™ 1 Napkins, assorted. tress \J?^.*T-wJ *^ OPES FULL WIDTH
5C • Ouart size, each .....5c . 1858. , 1,. _^ „ _ Knive" Monday 100 for Price with mattress fIM O /I C ~ R :
Half-gallon size, each 6c - S !.... HALF-PRICE 5C and bolster Q)IZ.H-O B«* 0^" la Plac« »* AH Times
Ed bookcases reach from the ceiling to
the floor and almost line the walls. One
of the largest cases is filled entirely with
the works of Elizabethan writers and
with books written about the famous Ba.
con-Shakespeare controversy. Many of
those books are doubtless valuable. The
oldest volume is a copy of Francis Ba
con's "De Augmentis Sclentiarum," a
first edition folio, published in 1623, the
very year that the first edition of
Shakespeare's plays was published. The
book is bound in vellum, but the binding
Is now bent and discolered. The wide
margins are worn in ragged edges and tne
pages are yellow with age. Donnelly did
not possess a 1623 folio of Shakespeare,
and when he first began to work on the
great cipher he was much handicapped
by the incorrectness of the modern copies
he was compelled to use. Later, however,
he obtained a photographic production of
the 1623 folio, and also a fac simile copy
of that first edition. Both these books
are filled with margininal notes made
while the writer was puzzling over the
cipher. He worked at first on the Henry
plays only, and so fine and close together
are the notes and figures written on the
margins of the pages of these plays that
they are almost illegible.
SUGGESTED THE CYPHER.
A curious little book found among the
Shakespearla would seem at first entire
ly out of place until cne has learned its
story. The title of the volume is "Every
Boys' Bock." It was presented to Dr.
Ignatius Donnelly, Ignatius Donnelly's
oldest son, when the former was a very
small boy. At that time Mr. Donnelly
was merely a Shakespearean scholar and
the idea of a cipher in connection with
the immortal works had not occurred to
him. The little book presented to his
son by a friend contained ai chapter on
ciphers and mentioned, among other
things, the Bacon cipher. That chapter
furnished to the scholar a clue that Don
nelly pursued' steadi'.y for ten years, in
the face of discouragement, ridicule and
abuse. The result was "The Great
Cryptogram" and later 'The Cipher on
the Tombstone."
A book bo old and bartered that its
crumbling covers are held together only
by means of stout cords, Is a geography
printed in 1777 "for J. Cooke, at
Shakespeare's Head, No. 17 Pater No:ter
Row," bo It says on the cover. On one
of the leaves is printed this neat little
bit of advertisement for Itself, written in
quaint letters with all the ss'a, ff's.
"To know the world, from, home you
need not ftmy;
Sit at your cafe and every clime fur
vey;
Empiref, kingdomf, state* and realms are
Men, mannerf, cuftomf, artf and lawf
made known;
Here every page your wonder fhall ex
cite
And give improvement w'.iile It givef de
light."
A copy of the second edition of a book
by one Dr. Campbell, entitled "Hermlp
pus Redivfvus," or "The Sage's Tri
umph," published jbn 1749, tells of the
writer's discovery of a much sought after
elixir of life. It is a book "wherein,"
to quote the learned doctor, "a method 13
laid down for prolonging the life and
vigor of man, including a commentary
upon a<n ancient inscription in which this
great secret is revealed; supported by
numerous authorities, the whole inter
spersed with a great variety of remark
able and well attested relations." Doubt
less, the doctor's elixir, like all the other
elixirs, was not efficaceous enough to
bring its discoverer fame, for the learned
doctor's book is chiefly interesting b3
cause it was written by a man whose
very name has long since been forgotten.
On a fly leaf of the book is written the
name "James Curtis" and the date
"1745." Doubtless James was a former
owner who hail purcha7ccl the book, at
tracted by its promising title.
A small volume of the- letters of Jun
lus published in Philadelphia in ISIB by
David Hanna, Is much thumbed and
many of the passages are marked. An
examination of h:s books cannot fail to
convince one that Donnelly deserves the
title "scholar." One cannot pick up a
book in his library without coming acio?s
marg nal notes, vigorous little comments
and bits of criticism all written in the
owner's painstaking hand. Such notes
written on the pages on an old Bible
fairly crowd the text. Many of the mar
ginal notes on the pages of this Bible
are rather trenchant criticisms, but for
all that they were very evidently writ
ten in a fervent spirit.
LITTLE MODERN LITERATURE.
The man who worked and wrote in that
library at Nininger had, apparently, a
fine scorn for modern literature, for in
but few of the bookcases do the so-called
"modern novels" have a place. Indeed,
for that matter, fiction itself has been
almost entirely crowded out. Some
chance visitor had left on a little table
in the room a copy of "Alice
of Old Vincennes." In Its spick
and span and very ornate cover
it seemed like an anachronism.
With modern flippancy the book touches
elbows with a bound volume of newspapers
published by Benjamin Franklin in Phil
adelphia, and entitled "The Pennsyl
vania Chronicle and Universal Advertis
er." The file, which is complete, Includes
the papers published between Feb. 1, 1768,
and Jan. 23, 1749. The papers are fasci
nating enough to keep a visitor prisoner
in the library for a year. An advertise
ment for a runaway slave speaks disap
provingly of his addiction to "strong drink
and the violin." Another, asking for a
clerk, states that only one accustomed
to writing witli ink on a table will do
and that "it will be folly for anybody
else to apply."
If there is a modern spot in the library
It might be called the south corner, for
here are filed away five fat and strongly
bound scrapbooks filled with newspaper
clippings about Mr. Donnelly. Everything
that has ever been said or written about
him, good, bad or indifferent, praise or
abuse—alas! It is mostly abuse—is to be
found inside those scrapbooks. The mer
ciless cartoons are there also, some of
them scathing enough to make even a
stranger wink. Besides these there are
several notebooks that form almost a
complete diary. A box close by is tilled
with letters written to Donnelly, not a
few of them by famous men. One writ
ten by Gladstone shortly after Donnelly
published his "Atlantis" covers lour
pages in the "grand old man's" villainous
ehirography.
The modern corner is also a strongly
political corner. Everything that bears
any reference to the many political battles
fought by the. Sage of Nininger has a
place there. This modern corner almost
persuades one into the belief that two
men owned the library and worked in it.
One a fighter, glorying in battle, giving
blow for blow, hurling at his foes keen,
witty, sometimes, indeed, vituperative
words; the other a scholar, happy only
when delving in the musty chronicles of
the past, living the shadowy life of a far
away period. Which was the stronger
side of that puzzling personality? Was
It the scholar who played with poStics,
or did the politician find amusement and
a brief iorgetiulness while he toyed with
books? It would l>e difficult, perhaps, to
say. But sitting in that old library, fin
gering the well-thumbed volumes, tracing
the lines of the restless pen that printed
Donnelly's own individuality on every
margin, one is forced to believe that his
heart was with hia books. They were
evidently his closest companions. Doubt
less he had many opportunities for con
trasting the satisfying companionship of
those faithful friends with that of those
other and not quite so dependable friends
of the world.
"He" fell every satirical or abusive thing
said about him," said his wife, who still
lives in the Donnelly homestead with the
books, "and every one hurt him. But
when he was surrounded by hia boojcs
he seemed to forget the world. There
was a look of content on bis face that
he never carried with him outside the
library."
And, Indeed, it would Beem very easy
tcr forget the world at Miningrer, Only
the river that hurries by, Just at the foot
of the lawn, has a suggestion of its rest
lessness. All the rest, the birds, the
books, the trees and the flowers, are hap
pily and drowsily content.
-M. G. F.
■ i flWjsy^Sk^r ' /r^
da y! boy! What would your father say if he knew you were fishing on Surv.
"Jest wait a minute and he'll tell yon. He's over there dlggtn' bait."
Fluent Trip in America.,
Visiting Bault St©. Marie, Mackinac,
Detroit. Cleveland, Buffalo Pan-American
Imposition, Niagara Falls, Toronto,
Thousand Islands, Quebeo, White Moun
tains, Boston, New York, Hudson River,
Saratoga, Montreal, etc. Personally con
ducted excursions leaving Minneapolis
and St. Paul July 4th. Malce your reser
vations early. Itinerary and full partic
ulars at ticket office. 378 Robert street
I iall L 13 TO 24.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Return llmtt, tea days.
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Tickets Illustrated pamphlets and all
Information at city ticket offices: 88)
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