TTTE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 4, 1920.
ABBEY, RICH IN ANCIENT LORE, IS BEING
RESTORED BY MONKS WITHOUT OTHER AID
At No Time Have More Than Six Worked in Rebuilding Which Was Started 12 Years Ago Building Is
Now Well on Way to Former State.
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W miracles are past must revise
his opinion, for what short of
a miracle could It be for four men,
none of them skilled masons or car
penters, to construct a magnificent
and Imposing church 250 feet long
with beautiful chancel, naves and
lofty tower and to accomplish the
task with very little money to pay
for the large amount of costly build
ing material required in such an ex
tensive operation?
To all human reckoning such an
undertaking would seem preposterous.
Yet it has been done and well done
by the good monks of Buckfast abbey,
situated in the tiny town of Buckfast
lelgh in Devonshire, England. Rather
say that it was situated there, for up
to a short time ago there was little
left of the famous old Cistercian ab
bey, dating: back to the days of the
early Knglish kings, except tradition
and a few weather-beaten foundation
stones. So old were the ruins that
almost nothing: is known of them, de
spite the fact that their location is the
little town on the banks of the River
Dart is in the near neighborhood of
such places as Plymouth, Ashburton
and .Exeter.
In 1S82 when the mansion which
had stood since the beginning of the
19th century on the old monastery site
was put up for sale the former splen
did Abbey of Buckfast, had vanished
out of all recognition.
Old Muiioi Is Sold.
At the sale the old mansion was
bought by some French monks, who
two years before had left their native
country in the face of a hostile gov
ernment. They were looking for a
suitable place to start undisturbed
their regular monastic life once more,
and this seemed a providential invita
tion. They were headed by Rev.
Father Thomas Duperou. O. S. B-, who
died abbot of the Sacred Heart abbey
in Oklahoma, lie was only the rep
resentative of Abbot Stephen Denis,
head of the "community of La. Pierre-nui-vire,
to which this colony cf
monks belonged.
For the first time at Buckfast abbey
since the Reformation mass was said
on October 28, 1882, and from that day
the manks tthere were only six of
them. at that time) date the period of
the beginning of the restoration of
the historic pile. At the end of the
mass the little band of earnest men
vowed themselves to the work of re
build ins the ancient English abbey on
its old foundation, believing their
footsteps had been directed to Buck
fast by the Almighty, so that they
might undertake the prodigious task
of restoring the sacred pile. Thus the
zeal of the monks was undauted by
the Eize of the undertaking before
them. A temporary church was soon
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held regularly and then the work of
excavating the foundations of the old
abbey was taken "up in earnest.
George Mivart the famous scientist,
was interested by the monks In the
movement, and with his help a com
mittee was soon formed, of which
Lord Clifford became the chairman, for
the restoration of the Abbot's tower,
which was still sufficiently preserved
to deserve that special care. The
whole work was superintended by
Father Walters who is still super
vising the rebuilding of the old
church.
'Work Brsia 1b 1007.
The work was moat solemnly begun
en January 5, 1907. a young brother
being appointed by the abbot to mix
mortar for the solitary mason of the
community. In brief two men begun
the actual work of restoration. It
was Impossible for any beginning; of
so huge a task to have been more
humble.
By little and little a few more
brothers were set to the same task
and at one notable -period the masons
numbered as many as six. The aver
age number of men employed on the
job for the last IS years however, has
been not more than the present num
ber, four. Yet the great task is now
almost complete
final success being
LIVING FOR RICHES IS DEPLORED ;
GOD SERVICER HIGHEST CALLING
Pastor Beseeches AD to Leave Things That Are Behind and Reach Ont to Great Deeds of Tomorrow Prayer,
Honesty, Justice, Labor and Love Suggested.
BY DR. JOSHUA STANBFIELD.
Pastor of the KJrst Metiiodlst Church.
"Forpettlns, or leaving- Uie things that
re behind, and reaching- out for thoaa
thing that are before." Phil. IU:13.
HOW rapidly time flies. .Today
we find ourselves In the last
Sunday of another year. But
what is time? Time is but the ""now"
of eternity. A point of time, a week
ago, was future. Now it is past. Time
Is a human creation composed of days,
hours, months , and years, something
which we have named and Indeed
created for human convenience, but
we are in an eternal "now," or the
now of eternity.
Sad Deeds Recorded.
But life is pre-eminently a "matter
of relationships. In your vital rela
tionships to God, 'O your family, to
men, to things, to movements, I hear
the old year saying, "I have brought
to you most largely." How have you
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fully assured.. This patient and per
severing labor of the monks has
shown once more to the world that
well-organized religious communities
of zealote are still able to achieve, as
In times past, great and lasting re
sults. It is now believed by the monies
that another decade at most will see
Buckfast abbey fully restored to its
ancient splendor and that then it will
be rated with Canterbury, Westmin
ister, York and other famous church
edifices in England.
All during the recent war the monks
nver for a day faltered in their self
appointed task despite the difficul
ties of continuing building opera
tions at that time and week by week
the abbey has grown more imposing:.
Hiatory la Interesting;.
In connection with its restoration
the history of Buckfast or "Buck
falsten" abbey as it was called in old
Saxon days Is interesting. The place
derives its name from the herds of red
deer (once very numerous on the out
skirts of Dartmoor) which were ac
customed to flock to the Dart for re
freshment. Hence "stag's fastness"
or "Buckfast." This name is repre
sented on the abbey coat of arms in
the ehpe of a stag's head.
The exact date of the abbey's foun
dation is still unknown, but it is
supposed to go hack to the second
half of the eighth century to about
760 A. D. Its extreme antiquity may
be inferred from the fact that Bus
faesen was never assessed. The state
ment in Domesday to this effect is
i explicit: "Busfestre is the head of the
abbacy. It never paid gold." Mr.
used these days and these relation
ships? What is the record?
What of that woman, not yet 36,
and yet old. with a lovely daughter,
who through this past year has spent
more than 100 hours, or most of them.
In tears and sorrow because "he" did
not come home "he" who had pledged
"love and loyalty forever" and he,
poor fool, deluding himself by talk
ing about being a "good provider,"
and seeing that they have "all that
Is necessary." How false! A wom
an and a child are more than crea
tures to be housed and clothed and
fed. "Life is more .Mian meat, and
the body than raiment." The old
year passes out into eternity with a
sad record for that man and all such.
What of the woman who through
the 865 days and 8700 hours of 1919
had "nothing to do" and has done it?
Such a life is indolent, aimless and
indulgent with entertainment and
amusement until all things are esti
mated by what they contribute to
her, and nothing fully satisfies. The
old year carries for her a sad and
Baring-Gould even thinks that before
Saxon times the place was already
center of British monarchism dating
from 500 A. D
The obscurity in which the early
beginnings of the abbey are wrapped
also necessarily holds good as regards
the names of the early abbots. The
first abbot of Buckfast whose name is
known, or rather whose name is iden
tifiable as that of an abbot of Buck
fast, is Aelfwine, in the reign of King
Canute. This king made to the abbey
the donation of Zeal Monachorum
The grant Is recogTiized in the Hun
dred Rolls of Edward I. Concerning
other properties attached to the ab
bey it is evident that In course of
time they became very extensive. The
abbey owned lands in "-e village of
Hoine- the birthplace of Charles
Kingsley). in whose ancient church
the Buckfast arms are still to be seen
to this day; at Spitchwick and Wide-combe-in-the-Moore.
besides the larg
er manors of Staverton, Ash and
Brent.
The abbot also possessed a irallows
at Bovey Heathfield. wi'.h he power
of life and death. Other possessions
could be mentioned as having been
added to the abbey's domain, but a
word must be said concerning the
woolen Industry established by the
Benedictine monks of Buckfast cen
turies ago and which even in our days
is tne prevailing industry of Buck
fastleigh and Buckfast. So effective
was this industry in the 13th century
that Abbot William Giffard obtained
a royal privilege for a weekly market
at Buckfastlelgh and a yearly Mi
chaelmas fair at Brent.
heavy record of what she has not
done. Nothing- worthy has been at
tempted; nothing has been done. Such
is a workless, worthless, withering
life.
And what of him who through the
year- has given his all of time and
strength and being to retting, and
gaining increase of money and prop
erty, and holdings and things until
now he is rich only In possessions, not
in personality; in what he has, and
not in what he is. He does not know
the words of the master that "Life
doth not consist In the abundance of
things that a man hath." "Born a
man, died a grocer," or "born a man,
died a millionaire," is a tragic epi
taph for any human.
And what, too. of him who through
the year has given himself to pleas
ure and to lust at a price we will not
mention? Nineteen hundred and nine
teen stands near today and looks with
sad eyes and aching heart upon every
such life.
But, thank God, there are others
men and women who through the
rear have practiced temperance,
prayer, honesty, Justice, labor, serv
ice and love. Men and women who
have wrought and labored with heart
and hand, time and means, for human
rood and betterment. The 62 Sun
days of the year have been well spent
and have brought "weeks of content
and strength for the cares of the
morrow."
The relationships of life, to God,
family, church, men. state and na
tions have been many.
Tomorrow la BIk Day.
Let our text be, "Forsettin the
things that are behind." But can we
forget? There is reason to think
we never can wholly forcet what has
been in our life: but we may "leave"
the thinss of the past, and that is
better, and Indeed, that Is what the
text urg-es we should do. "Leave the
CONTINUING my discussion of last
week relative to the Importance
of players whether adversaries
or declarant taking hints as they
can from the dummy hand and tu-rn-
hng them to their own advantage. I
would state that one of the very, im
portant things for the adversary ' to
note as regarding this hand Is the
possibility of its getting; a ruff. When
a ruff seems Imminent Instead of so
playing as to make it possible, he,
the adversary, should do all In his
power to avert It. as a means to this
end often resorting to the lead of
trumps. Such policy is particularly
desirable when the lead is through
declarant's strength up to dummy's
weakness, but even when the situa
tion is reversed and the lead Is
through dummy up to declarant, the
adversary should still often lead the
trump rather than leave the dummy
in position to ruff.
The adverse lead of trumps under
these conditions applies especially to
cases where the dummy has but few
trumps, three or less. If he helds a
greater number and is at the same
time short a suit, the ruff In any
case will usually be accomplished and
the adversary is generally powerless
to prevent it.
To force the strong: holder, the
declarant, is good play and should be
resorted to as often as possible, or
until it develops he is so strong; that
the force does not appreciably weaken
him. To allow the dummy, the weak
adversary, to ruff is usually to con
cede the side The or more tricks as
the case may be. The following is a
situation which often develops and
which, unless correctly handled by
the adversary, generally results in the
declaring side making one or more
tricks than it otherwise would.
Z, the dealer, gets the declaration,
we will say, at "two hearts." A.
holding ace, king and one or more
small cards of a side suit, say clubs,
leads king. The dummy shows two
cards of the suit and two small
trumps. If A follows king with ace.
as under uBual conditions he should
do. he establishes a ruff in the dummy
hand and that the declarant will not
be slow to take advantage of it goes
without saying. What, therefore,
does A accomplish for his side by
continuing his suit on the second
round? To be sure he makes his ace
(which he would probably make in
any case) but in so doing he gives
the, declaring side one and likely two
tricks which he would not otherwise
have made.
A's better policy by far would be
the lead of trumps in the hope that,
if his partner were unable to win the
trick and return the lead, thus ex
hausting the dummy of one of his
triumps and cripple him to that ex
tent. In the event dummy became de
prived of both of his trumps, the
original leader or his partner, as soon
as obtaining the lead, would lead A's
suit and he would thus make good
his ace as well as any other com
manding cards of the suit which he
or his partner might happen to hold.
Of course If A, seeing a brilliant
array of cards in the dummy hand,
and himself balding an atrociously
poor hand, has reason to suspect that
if he fails at once to make his ace
the declarant may score a small slam,
the above mentioned considerations
would be disregarded and he should
make his ace. As a rule.' however.
such situation will not often develop.
The old rule in whist which demands
the immediate return of your part
ner's trump card--having none or a
sudden fit of apoplexy bing the only
situations justifying a departure by
no means applies in auction and there
are times when the return lead would
be distinctly unwise. When it is ob
vious the lead is for the purpose pf
preventing- a ruff, or when the
declarant, having: advanced the lead,
has refrained from the lead of trumps,
the lead should be at once returned.
When, however, it Is seen the lead is
for the sake of expediency, any other
lead perhaps being worse, and more
especially if it Is a lead up to weak
ness, the return lead would constitute
a lead up to strength and should be
avoided. The effort should be made
rather to get the lead again to the
partner that he may go on with It if
in his Judgment it seems desirable.
The following: hand illustrates the
points just considered and emphasizes
the folly of establishing: a ruff in the
dummy hand:
97
J 7 4 3 2
10 8 7 6
i 9
Z, who belonged to the order of pre
emptive bidders bid "two hearts,"
which held the bid. I will give the
hand first as actually played:
8 5 4 Y f A3i
Q 10 8 A B K 5
J 4 3 2. Z K 9 5
A K 6 m J J 10 7 2
KQJ10
A 9
A Q
8 5 4 J
Trick. A ) Y B Z
1 K 9 2 3
2 A Q 7 4
3 2 K A
4 7 10 t
5 3 84 64 Q
6 44 9 J 8
7 J4 74 4 s
8 4 2 A
9 8 3 6 A
10 5 4 2 Q
11 I 104 J J
12 10 7 10
13 Q J K 9
Denotes winner of trick.
Declarer makes three by cards, or
one trick above his contract, and his
score totals 88 24 for tricks and 64
for honors.
Trick 1 A led king of spades,
and at
Trick 2, disregarding the fact that
he was thus esetablishlng a ruff in
the dummy hand, came out with ace
of the suit.
Trick 3 Instead now of leading; a
trump and depriving: the dummy of
on ruff at least, A led his fourth
best diamond, to which his partner
put up king and declarer ace.
Trick 4 Now is declarer's oppor
tunity of making dummy's two small
trumps. Instead of leading trumps as
under usual conditions he would, be
thingrs that are behind, press on to
the things that are before." Profit
by both the successes and the failures
of the past, and go on in the tomor
row to the hlg-hest and best of char
acter and of conduct, of being and of
doing of sanctity and of service.
"Press toward the mark for the
prize of your high calling of God In
Christ Jesus." What is the Christian
high calling the high calling in
Christ Jesus? It is to Christ likeness.
To the spirit and character and con
duct of the Christ-like life. "He Is
the fullness of the measure of the
stature of man"; and "Ye are com
plete in htm."
The highest Christian objective Is
a Christ-like character and life.
"Wherefore grow up into htm in all
thtns-s." Press toward the mark of
your high calling- of God in Jesus
Christ.
likely to do, he takes a third round of
spades, which the dummy ruffs; at
Trick 5 puts himself in the lead
with a diamond, and at
Trick leads his remaining: spade,
which dummy again ruffs.
Trick 7 A diamond lead from the
dummy hand enables declarer to ruff,
and a trump lead at
Trick 8 forces the adverse ace of
trumps. ,
Trick 9 B leads a small club, which
declarer wins with ace. and at
Tricks 10 and 11 exhausts the re
maining adverse trumps.
Trick 12 is won by declarer with
the last trump, and
Trick 13 by B wth the club king-.
Can it not be seen that the ruff
which A by his unwise 'policy estab
lished in the dummy hand enabled
the hand, which was otherwise trick
less, to win two tricks, and resulted
in Z'a not only making his contract,
but - one trick over? We will now
consider the hand from the standpoint
of correct play:
Trick. A Y B Z
1 K 9 2 3
2 8 7 A Sv
3 4 9 2W 10
4 5 Q If K
Denotes winner of trick.
From this on. however declarer may
lead, he can take but five more tricks,
or in all seven. He will thus fail by
one trick of making his contract, and
A-B will score 60.
The following brief ru.es cover
other situations which the adversary
should carefully observe as concerning-
the dummy hand:
Do not lead up tp a tenace in the
hand of dummy.
Do not lead up to king and one in
the hand of dummy. - (
Beat the dummy when you can and
it is otherwise expedient to do so.
When you sit at dummy's left, lead
such card when otherwise practicable
as beats him from the start.
The Impolicy of leading up to a ten
ace in the hand of dummy, ace, queen,
or king, jack, should be easily appar
ent. In the first case you give him
two sure tricks, in the other at least
one trick which he might not other
wise have won. Such combinations
should be led through, never up to. It
is better to lead up to ace, king, than
ace. queen, as ace. king-, barring a
trump, are both sure winners. Ace,
queen, however, are not necessarily
both winners.
For a similar reason, that is, be
cause you thus make the king: a sure
winner either for the first or second
round, you should avoid a lead up to
king and one in the hand of dummy.
Lead through such combination.
Beating: the dummy, or as some ex
press it, beating the board, applies
in its integrity to second player to the
trick, declarant being the leader. The
injunction does not necessarily mean,
however, that one should play the
commanding card of the suit if there
is reason to believe the card will be
good later. -It refers more to the play.
say, or queen. Jack. ten. etc., when
dummy holds nothing higher of the
suit. It would be unwise in the ef
fort to observe this rule to waste a
card which might serve a better use
later. If there is reason to believe
one's partner can win the trick with
a card of considerably less value.
The lead of such card when you Bit to
dummy's left as beats him from the
start is usually good policy, especially
when you may lead a card that is not
of any particular value in your hand,
as Jack. 10, 9, etc., the dummy holding
nothing higher. Such card under these
conditions will usually force a higher
one from dealer and it will then rest
between him and your partner your
partner having the advantage of po
sition as to which one wins the trick.
Policies Just the reverse of those
applying to the adversaries as regard
ing the dummy hand should be ob
served by the declarer as regarding
the hand. That Is to say. the. very
things which they should endeaver to
avoid are the things which he should
endeavor to accomplish, and the
things they should endeavor to ac
complish are the things he should en
deavor to avoid.
While the adversaries should strict
ly endeavor- to prevent a ruff in the
dummy hand, he should do all in his
power to make one. Every trick taken
by the dummy in this manner is a
trick gained, as the dummy's trumps
will inevitably fall otherwise to the
lead of trumps. So Important is it for
declarer to establish and utilize a
ruff in this hand that when a suit Is
led by his right hand adversary of
which he holds the ace, and dummy
but one, he should at once play the
ace in order at the next round to con
tinue the suit and enable dummy to
ruff. He should then get the lead
again in his hand for the next round
that he may give a. second ruff and
continue the process as many times
as dummy has small trumps, or as is
otherwise practicable. This same play
should at times be observed though
the situation is reversed, and it is
declarer rather than dummy who has
but one card of the suit, and dummy
who holds the ace. That is. the trick
should be won by dummy and declarer
should be given the ruff. Judgment
should be brought to bear on . such
case, however, as frequently an early
ruff in the declarant's hand is inad
visable and in the end works to his
detriment rather than his advantage.
On this point many players, I find
have an exceedingly hazy opinion,
they seeming- to think that a ruff,
whether taken by declarer or dummy,
is equally g-ood, and a play which
declarer should take advantage of
whenever the opportunity offers. If
there is a chance to develop a cross
ruff, the question admits of no argu
ment, as a cross ruf( is one of the
most prolific wayg of securing tricks,
and a play which should be taken ad
vantage of by all players, adver
saries as well as declarant, whenever
It can be done. For declarer deliber
ately to take a ruff in his own hand
If ha hofds but . five trumps is to
weaken his hand, and especially if the
ruff be repeated, often renders him
powerless to exhaust the adversaries
and bring In a suit of high or com
manding: cards. That the side that
remains with the last trumps is, as
a rule, the side that brings in a suit
or makes hisch or commanding cards
is no less true in auction than in
whist.
If declarer holds ix or more
trumps an early ruff in his hand Is
not, as a rule, a detriment to the hand.
In my next p'aper I will take up
some of the many ways in which the
declarant can turn to the benefit of
the side the often useful bints af
forded by the dumniyk
The Cobbler In Willow Street, and Other .
Poems, by George O'Nell. Boni & Live-!
right. New York City. j
Professor John L. Lowes, author of
"Convention and Revolt In Poetry."
says of Mr. O'Neill's poems: "For
their Imaginative beauty . I've heard
nothing like these poems for a long-,
long- time. Such sureness and deli
cacy of perception of beautiful things
la rare enough to make a day red
lettered when one' finds it."
Such an estimate is an eminently
just one. as the reader soon discovers
.n dipping Into only three or four of
the 86 poems contained in this book.
Many of the poems, it appears, are
reprinted from Century, Poetry, Con
temporary Verse and other magazines.
It is an unexpected pleasure to wel
come these hitherto fugitive, scat
tered verses within the covers of one
bound volume.
The poems are lyrical, sentimental,
love stories, humorous pieces, by
turns. Mr. O'Nell's work is worth
reading anyway for his Celtic humor,
but his best and most lasting- message
is iouna in nis serious verse. Many
of the poems only consist of four
lines, the longest and most ambitious
one being "Pandora," which lasts
from page 107 to 135. In "Pandora"
the verse Is of classic structure and
beauty.
Here is a little gem entitled "Suc
cess":
Across the quite smooth, tatin lawn.
W earing the dlamouds of dawn.
Upon his flame-burned breast and wings
A careful robin comes "and sings
In four short notes tht music that Is his.
Though he Ls very small and still.
Hearing blm sing with so much skill.
I cannot help but let him see
That somehow he appearl to me
Far more impressive than the peacock is.
In another, more charming mood
comes the message of a "Bouquet":
Into a little waifs frail, reaching hands
I put a Jonquil, just about to die.
That made her eyes turn misted violets
And changed her mouth into a butterfly.
For better work still can be com
mended the exquisite verses in these
divergent poems, with a hint of sad
ness in them: "In Music" and "Four
teenth Street."
The title poem tells of the content
ed, simple life of an old-fashioned
cobbler of shoes, a cobbler who had
the Joy of having pigeons as intimate
friends.
"In Music" we hark back to admire
Its haunting, poetic charm:
Long, thin notes of a violin -
Remind m of your hand
The texture of a satin fold.
Strango as a shadow strand.
Reticent flutes bring me this thought
With every halting note
How hesitantly . . . delicately
Life lilts in your throat.
Not All the King's Horse, by George
Agnew Chamberlain. The Bobbs-MerrlU
Co., Indianapolis.
Mr. Chamberlain, until recently
consul-general of the United States
in Mexico City, ls ambitious in writ-1
ing this powerful, emotional novel
depicting the anarchy that Is Mexico
today. The inner teaching of the
novel is that life is so insecure that
American investments are so unsafe.
In the foreign country known as"
Mexico, that the United States ought
to Interfere to restor and keep order.
That is where our author shows am
bition. The publishers say In a note: "Mr.
Chamberlain went into the consular
service immediately after college, has
never voted and wrote his novel abso
lutely without political bias." This is
a remarkable record for an Amer
ican. The story opens with the arrival In
Hulohillac, Mexico, of Richard Dteby.
mining engineer, to Inspect the golden
riches of the practically abandoned
Pico mine, left by the Spaniards in
a hidden Jungle. DIgby finds rich de
posits and interests Roxton Ellerton,
capitalist, in the venture.
Many big words are used, espe
cially those referring to the manipu
lations of oxidizing agents in mine
working, to describe how fresh capi
tal, and particularly American brawn
and muscle, made the Pico mine again
a gold-producing agency. MrMgby'a
happy, married life of domesTic bliss
is pictured in the family's new home
in Mexico. There are three Digby
children, and we In fancy see them
grow to womanhood and manhood
one boy and two girls. "
Risings among the Mexican peons
begin, with consequent agitations
against the "hated" Americans. Dig
by's business interests are ewept
away and he sees a crew from a
German warship rescue refugees from
a Mexican mob. while crews in Brit
ish and American warships are kept
in safety. '
"Come on. United States!" cries
Digby and his fellow American in
vestors who are sufferers, and there
is no reply. We read on. and see rob
bery, murder and worse ruin Digby
and his kind.
Somehow In reading the cruel Mex
ico of which the novel 'speaks, one
can echo the wih in Digby's heart:
"Never again. The United States fer
me."
New Wine, by Agnes snd Egerton Castle
X. Appleton & Co. New York.
These typical English novelists have
done good work in fashioning their
newest story,' "New Wine." The title is
taken from a text ln.St. Matthew, en
titled: "Neither do tnen put new wine
into old bottles; else the bottles break
and the wine runneth out, and the
bottles perish."
The term "new wine" refers to the
hero. Shane O'Connor, born In Amer
ica of an Irish father and a Virginian
mother. The father dies before
young Shane could speak and the
mother takes her babe into the wild
land of Galway, Ireland to Clenane.
the former home of the once great
family of O'Connor, now merged in
the earldom of Kilmore. v
One day old Lord Kilmore. ailing
himself, hears in his comfortable
English castle that his two sons had
died, traveling abroad. That meant
that young- Shane O'Connor was the
next in succession to the earldom and
Its riches and estates. Young Shane.
Irish and Catholic to the core, won
ders what he will do to behave de
cently to the English branch of his
family. He goes to England and
makes many mistakes socially, near
ly forgetting; the girl he had loved and
left in old Ireland, pretty Miss Moira
Blake.
Shane is now Lord Kilmore and
various pretty girls throw themselves
desperately at him. What is he to
do? Then the big- war breaks out.
Here it is that our novelists show
unexpected skill in working: out a so
lution. Out of the Ruins, by George B. Ford. The
Century Company, New York city.
Written In a style that is striking,
live and instructive, this is emphat
ically a book for our own present
time of reconstruction.
The subject of the message con
cerns France and Belgium and es
pecially the devastation which these
countries have suffered through the,
war savagery of the invading Huns.
Men. women and children In ruined
Europe have been carried into cap
tivity, along with valuable industrial
and agricultural machinery; forests
of trees have been willfully destroyed;
mines ruined, and la many cases
"Br-Joseph MesruEEti.
Georsje O'Nell. author of "The
Cobbler 1st Willow Street" aad
other poems.
towns nay, large cities have been
blotted out.
It will be seen then that both
France and Belgium need many work
men and much material in building
up the ruined homes, factories and
towns and iu making agricultural
land bloom again with crops.
Mr. Ford points out that France has
borne the brunt of the war and that
more than 1.400.000 of her best men
have been killed nearly half of the
total loss by the allies exclusive of
Russia. It is shown that from being
a creditor nation to the extent of
nearly 30,000,000.000 francs. France
has become a debtor nation for a like
amount.
"With regard to labor it is a great
question where it is coming from."
proceeds our author. "There were be
tween 500.000 and 600.000 building
trades workmen in France before the
war. of which at least 100,000 were
killed or are unable to resume their
trade. At least 100.000 to HOO.OOO
more will be needed just for repair
and renewal work throughout the
rest of France. This leaves only
200,000 or 300.000 men available in
the devastated regions. At a safe
estimate it will take these men near
ly 20 years to reconstruct the essen
tial buildings that have been de
stroyed. There is no labor available
in Eugland, there is none in America,
there is none in Belgium, and the
French do not wish to call in German
workmen, if there is any other way
possible. .
Mr. Ford shows conclusively that
the American and French merchants
heed ench other and that they should
do business. But several obstacles
are In the way. French merchants
require longer credit than American
business men usually give. It is
shown that most American exporters
demand half down when the order is
placed and the balance when the
goods leave America. We are told
that this not only ties up French
capital for an unnecessarily long time
and that the consignee has no redress
in case the goods, when they arrive.
are not according- to the speciflca
tions. Another cause of trouble lies
In the fact that the American export
ers are In many cases behind those
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their goods conform to. French I
standards and tastes and often send
goods packed in such a way that the ;
merchandise does not stand the ocean
voyage.
The remedy for this 'condition
means more and better business op
portunities for American business
men.
Mr. Ford Is an authority on the sub
ject of town planning. He was for
merly the town-planning consultant
to the cities of New York, Newark.
Jersey City, Omaha, etc. Since 191
he has been in France working on
reconstruction problems. He was a
member of the American industrial
commission and after that commis
sion returned from France he joined
the American Red Cross and organ
ized and directed the reconstruction
research service of that organization.
In June, 1919. he organized at Paris
an inter-allied tcwn-plannlng confer
ence and his report of that conference
has been published In France by the
French Research and Propaganda so
ciety. Mr. Ford knows the devas
tated districts from end to end and
because of this knowledge and his
intimacy with the French leaders and
rrencn aims, he Is
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fitted to enlighten the American peo-
pie.
To all who read It Mr. Ford's book
has a stirring appeal to lend a hand
to help raise France out of the ruins.
The remarkable Illustrations are of
unusual Interest. They have been
selected from Mr. Ford's personal col
lection and show graphically the gi
gantic task of reconstruction.
The Strongest, by Georges Clcmenceau
Doubleday. Page & Co.. New Tork City.
It Is with a feeling approaching to
sincere respect, and almost reverence,
that one reads this striking novel,
written by the picturesque premier
of the French republic.
The novel has peculiar Interest for
well-informed Americans, many of
whom are aware that Clemenceau
once was a physician in New York
city, and might have become a natu
ralized citizen of the United States
had not the Prussian invasion of 1S70
recalled Clemenceau to the defense
of his native France.
But the present novel. It is a
French story, written in old-fashioned
French style, with its kernel
,the choice of a girl able to select one
or two loves and a possible husband.
It illustrates love, and more love. Its
main text is famininity.
But by no means can the convic
tion be established that "The Strong
est" is a great novel. It is not. It
surely can't live in literary remem
brance. Asbea to Ashe, by Isabel Ostrander. Rob
ert M. McBrlde & Co.. New York City.
Norman Storm (an appropriate
name for a bad man) thinks he has
detected his wife Leila in breaking
her marriage vow of faithfulness.
piy for divorce? He does not. He
murders her by striking her on the
head with a driver a golf club. He
Vdciuhntahny.faWen hurt h"'
Storm trlea to conceal the fact that
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ease, the man of inherited , wealth
that he has .wasted, largely. But he
manes one mistaite. and leaves one
loophole. All hla cleverness falla. and
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detection and punishment come. Country S enemy.
The conventional plot development !t-i i i j
is avoided, and a keen analysis is fur-! ne woman helped
niehed of criminality. A puzzling, and the man won.
mysiery-siory.
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The Stranger" Banquet, by tonn Byrne,
Harper & Bros.. New Tork City.
It is worth while to read this
. . . , ...
strongly constructed, magnillcent
American novel of love. Intrigue. 14-
bor troubles, taming of L
W. W.'o.
and also shipyard life.
The heroine is ,Miss Derlth Keogh,
only daughter and co-heir with her
brother Jack of their dead father's
great wealth, the principal portion of
which is invested in chips and ship
buildings The character work In fashioning;
Jean Keogh. Jack Britton affinity
and Angus Campbell, shipbuilder, is)
unusually striking-. The labor trou
bles are handled by applications of
the golden rule.
The Moon Pool, by A. Merritt. G. P. Put
nam's Sons. New York City.
A sea story and also a fairy-yarn
of a kind that shows brilliant imagi
nation on the author's part, who deals
most of the time with f ighting-dwarf-men
arriving from another world.
The plot is an impossible one of
the kind that Edgar Allen Poe would
have evolved, had he -been a sailor.
Our- Little Old lad?, by Eleanor
Bralnerd. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
Hoyt
Uar.
oon city. N. X.
An eloquent novel where the great
est charm Is its gentle simplicity.
The aged heroine of this delightful
little story lives in New York city,
and she is a talkative person able to
recall pleasant incidents in a long
life. She is also a kind although
shrewd observer, and her recorded
conversation always is interesting.
Simla, by Stanwood Cobb. The Cornhill
Co., Boston.
Here we have euperior verse that
Is well fashioned, depicting the Simla,
that represents the highest in Hindu
thought, the new truth that recon
ciles flesh and spirit, love and life,
the world and the soul. The poem,
runs to 145 pages, and it is an in
tellectual pleasure to read it.
Harper's Magazine Gets Xetv Editor.
Thomas Bucklin Wells, for 17 yeara
associate editor of Harper's maga
zine, has been appointed editor to
succeed the place made vacant by
the death of Henry Mills Alden.
Mr. Wells' career has been one of
steady development in literary work,
under the Alden tradition. After a
brief but lively experience as a news
paper man, which followed his gradu
ation from Yale in 1S96. and termi
nated in a severe illness, he came to
the head of the house of Harper with
a letter of introduction and asked for
a Job.
"All right," said the great pub
lisher, "we will give you a Job. but
we can't pay you as much as you have
been getting."
But it was an opportunity more
than pay that Mr. Wells was after,
and he Said so. The publisher took
him at his word, and Mr. Wells
entered Into the employ of the house
at the munificent salary of $10 a
week. "And it was a long while be
fore I got $15." he avows, a bit rue
fully. During his three years of serv
ice at publicity work in the book de
partment and occasional manuscript
reading, Mr. Wells from time to time
ventured suggestions for articles for
Harper's magazine to Henry Mills
Alden, the grand old man of the
house, a white-haired, magnificent
presence in the editorial sanctum. In
1902 Mr. Alden himself asked the
head of the house to assign Mr. Wells
definitely to the staff of the maga
zine and he became Mr. Alden's as
sociate. From that time on more and
more of the responsibility was placed
upon his shoulders by the venerable
editor.
Unlike the late Mr. Alden. Mr. Wells
has traveled much. He has estab
lished a personal relationship with
most of the authors and artists whose
names appear in the pages of Har
per's, and he is well known in English
literary circles. For the past 15 years
he has annually visited England and
the continent in the interests of the
publishing house.
The new editor of Harper's has
taken a keen Interest in the pictorial
as well as the literary side of the
magazine, and has watched the
growth of American illustrators of
distinction and the development of
new processes of color printing which
have supplartted older types of maga
zine Illustrations.
ALBANY MAN CELEBRATES
Walter M. Parker Is Engaged in
Business 32 Years.
ALBANY. Or.. Jan. 3. (Special.)
Walter M. Parker, local grocer, cele
brated the 32d anniversary of his
mercantile career in Albany this
week. He embarked in the grocery
business in this city December 2s.
1887. and has conducted a grocery
store here ever since. His brother.
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associated with him and for the past
few years he has conducted the busi
ness alone. .
Besides being prominent in the
business life of the city, Mr. Parker
has been active in Albany's official
life. He has served at different
times In the city council and on the
local school board, lie also has been
prominent in various local fratern
ities and for the past few years has
served as secretary of the local lodge
of Elks.
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Man Who
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Cyrnm Totonaand Brady
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beautiful woman,
that told him who
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jwhere, and for which his coun-
try Was Waiting.
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