The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1903, Page 1

T you want your early history of America, of the great Mid West, of the Indians, who ruled supreme; of the adventurous Euro- peans who came to wrest it from them; of the court life and intrigue hey left behind—history that is true wn to the smallest fact, but that is neverthele sugar- with romance, read Emerson s great novel “TH s- SIPPI BUBBLE,” e fi stall- meat of which follows herewith. It s ® masterpiece of American liter- ature—a fascinating, thrill serbing story from start to finisk In line with s Uterary policy of not only fur 12 T ers with the best books of the da by the most famous auth in t but of presenting eacl no mplete in two, fhree or, at mos r edit so that there are nt able waits between stallmer vo get “THE MIS- SISSIPPI BUBBLE" in the cheap- e but most attractive form ever ore- offer nev e estern journs cession w fol- 2 rapid suc ; “Chritter “The Tu Fox e Fergus Hume, etc., et gag making & ‘ g ra s g gnt X Eng z M ! mewl Sicinkirk » n halt Eng Pembroke de 1 w from fore i . more . and if 1 did, would hat if-1 tell ye of great ot {0 the west of the' Ottawa: of to my princess a people o il to them; of stream I " d, where diamonds res are 1o be picked up as ye like? beliexe? ye, would. ye al hearte and adventurous - circle about ‘him began to p neightened color and closer crow of young men tu the table, Silence the group. Ve sthing in this old “retten would of what there is yet to be found in America,” ¢ 1 a have beei cataracl, gentiemen, Du Mesne. “For myself, no farther’ thagh .the. great falls of the Ontoneagrea @ mere trifle of inte which ya! might, pitch your:tallest :English cathe- dxal ang sivk it berqnd ifs piunacle, with ease, Yet 1 havel spoke- with the' holy fathers . whe haves journeyed far to the b)kl—”' U/)) = « of Sagean, who was far to the west of that mighty river. Did not the latter gee and pursue and kill in fair fight'the giant « --unicorn, ~fabled of Scripture? s not that animal known to be a creature of the Hast, .and may we not therefore be ad- S _ vised; tbat this new country takes hold westward, even'to the vast'Messasebe, {upon ‘the storied lands of the East? Why, which is well known to run “into thej this holy friar with whom I spoke, fresh Cuina Sea upon gome far-ofi coast notiyet back irom his voyaging to the cold up- weil charted. 1 have alsu read the story per ways of the northern tribes, who live beyond ' the far-off chanvel . at Mich mackinac—did he not tell of a river-of thb name o. the Biue Earth, and did he not himself see turquojses-and diamonds and emeralds taken in bandfuls, from this same blue earth? Ah, bah! gentlemen, Burope for you if -ye like, but for me, back I go so soon as I‘may get proper passage and a connection which will war. Baek 1 go to Can- and rant ‘me the voyage. ada, to’' America, 'to. the woods streams. I would ses again my ancient Du L'hut, and my comrade Plerre Neir and Tete Gris, the trapper from the Mis- t ree trade Life is there living, omrac Old Wor small and outworn, of it T Thi u back to this little s you loved the New ked the cynical voice lied Wilson > cried D Meane own free will? r reasor le of his doubiet swed upon his “And why came World so mue of him who d among th eton rese fr he face and n ler of this str become a memt 1in the Klng ‘A ¥ u are s Fresehmo seered Wikion “Yet am | not a ¥ hma eried other. “Nor am- [ an Eng no man of a world off galte I am a man tty Lawren “What doth it cried Pembroke “Lay wagers more t at best. and let us have no more of t Gad! the f we know 1t ighting anfong ou se.ve w 1 know how the new court ¢ K 1 Castleton ga3 g and apple. a T 1lwa my fartune, s co drink. to T need her lapdeg. m last.”™ ¥ mntryman Lady Betty an f AT 18 Sadler and cheery =pring mor scene of fashi and of fol came he elite 4 London, v istom of the day seek remedy in reputed qualities ¢ the springs T wes and laas tude resultant upon the lor ries. Bewigged dandies s of colors well displayed d about iu the open, paid did ‘wit the: ity 4 and painted beau neir coaches waiting for ties wheo sat in their servants to bring out to ‘them the draft of which the ed healing for crowsfeet and hollow eves. Here and there elin caMed their % bear their little st 3 as _to the merits of r -hound. Hawk-nosed Jews vehicles, cursed a wha stood steps of. their lady; buy m silks! _Fresh’ from’ the Turkey walk on *{he-Exchunge; and cheaper- than vou can v their .ike in all the el y—buy my ='lks, Thus the peddler with his little lady.” eried the gipsy wo- man, who had left hér donkey cart out- side the line. phiiter! "Twill keep-a your eyes bright and your cheeks tew for