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Show "WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE." Desmond Fitzgerald publishes a book which he protends was written by Ritter Brown, and which the two of them have agreed shall be called "When Dreams Como True." And it Is more of a puxzlo to know why the one wrote it and the other printed it, and tho two named It, than it would bo to know from the second chapter what tho hero was going to do. That hero, in tho first place, lives n rough life in Mexico, although ho is worth twenty-five million mil-lion dollars. And when you let that soak in your mind, you have tho measure of the intelligence of the whole story. Jack is the hero, and he is a regular army officer, retired; he is devoted to the diplomatic life, and yet rejects the ambassadorship to Turkey because he prefers Chiquita, the lithe and graceful Indian woman he finds in old Santa Fe a woman of whom he knows nothing, a woman who dances better than tho artists he has seen in Paris and St. Petersburg, who confesses that the six-year-old child, suddenly introduced, has a right to call her "mother," and who claims to be a sort of princess of a tribe that sounds like the Yattuis. Tha hero, long time ago, sought the hand of Blanc h In marriage, she being a fine white lady in th" cities of the oast; and Blanch, with Bessie, a, HttJH blondo cousin, a father and a mother, c omosJH 'Mexico and surprises Jack. Then, just as JH holds up a lynching party and sets tin piljl free, Dick comes along and fulls in low -with IjH tho little blonde woman. Ramon, the IH s villain, wants to marry Chiquita, and Ulam hjHI to marry Jack. So she tells Ja k hern mulH 16ves him, how much better a wife she wouldH for him than could be hoped from tin jH m Indian woman; and Jack refuses her, andjH tells Bessie that she and her brother bnuWH and little mourned are joint ami equal nviitVB .the Esmarelda mine, which will make th m H Immensely wealthy. And Ramon shoots Bl H and Chiquita shoots Ramon. Then Chlquit H Jack take horse and flee to the mountains whH the Indian tribe from which she sprang wilioiijH the two of them as a 'hew Montezuma, and lH eagle flies over their joint heads and atnain- H influence the Indians to shout their approxal H Get it? Logical and direct, isn't it? 9 I Add to that dozens of pages at a time h M 1 the philosophy of the human race is discussed ii "H I the standpoint of the author, and permitted 1 tlH publisher, and you have some remote idea of ihfl 1 assinlne manner and the demented matter 'B "When Dreams Como True." It probably has h -M M to commend It to the reading public than any book! 9 printed since tho wars 01 tho roses. H THE STIMULATION OF MARSHALL. Poor little Tom Marshall heard the plaudits which greeted his warning to the very rich, and immediately issued a supplement. It would havo been wiser if his friends had taken him off Mon-tauk Mon-tauk Point and dropped him overboard. For what he says under the inspiration of the stimulus is silly. For example, ho tells the country that thero is a masterful sentiment abroad in tho land to tho effect that no fortune beyond ono hundred thousand thou-sand dollars should be possessed by any citizen of the United States. That is as foolish as the logic of those members of the recent Utah legislature who wanted to destroy all picture shows being utterly ignorant of the fact that some of the picture shows were good and helpful, and in no possible sense harmful to any good cause of either God or man. The vice-president of the United States usually has said very little, and said that little low. I know now why tho rule was established. Tom Marshall has spoken out loud, and then spoken again. And his second speech shows why Ice-presidents Ice-presidents ought to be muzzled. There may have been a time, and doubtless there was, when the limit of a hundred thousand dollars to any man In any nation would have been beneficial. bene-ficial. Certainly one can Imagine a condition where n fortune of that sort would bo no detriment to tho people. But that was a good while ago, when conditions wero more prlmatlve than they aro now. lr: this day and ago of the world if that limit wero to be placed on individual fortunes there would be an end of enterprise. There isn't a mill in tho country capable of giving profitable employment to twenty men that could be run by any man with that as the limit of his total possessions. And there are mills by the thousands with a hundred times that many men happily and profitably tm-)lo tm-)lo ed. Tom conies from Columbia City, Indiana, and it is about his sizo. Only one man in that town is worth oer a hundred thousand dollars, and he didn't ote for Tom. Ma be this is th little man's wav ot getting oven with him. |