THE SUSDAY OltEGOMAX, POIITLAXD, MAY 9, 102O
V
Aluce In Rnftt Md Gold.
O'Shcuarhncssy. Harper &
. New York City. '
by Edith
Brothers,
This Is a well-written book, de
scriptive of the Alsace, France, which
our author knew as she traveled over
tha wap.tnrn V. .1 u t n t- W Viat!lftf-T-nnTirl 1
In the year 1918. Intimate word-pic-lures
of French life are given, in a
lime of national stress. ,
American readers have expressed
wonder as to the manner In which
natives of Alsace behaved in that:
historic November of 1318, when news
of the armistice came flashing; over
the wires. Here is our author's quiet
message, concerning euch scenes, as
she saw them:
At 10:30 Captain Tirman came back
to the popote where we were playing-
bridge Serin, Laferriere, Tous
saint and I. He was very pale, but
there was something shining about
his face.
"Ca y est, I'armistlce."
Dead silence; we don't even drop
our cards. In his excitement a very
naughty soldier's word escapes him.
He turns away in consternation and
the others, somewhat appalled, too,
at last drop their cards. I try not
to 6mile. General recovery; they
hope I didn't catch it. It was suffi
cient to break that strange feeling
of absence of feeling that each one
of us was experiencing.
"Alors c'est fini, la guerre," some
no finally said in a dazed way and
with the words the cruel thing
seemed to drop heavily from us, as
would come hideous exhausting bur
den. Toussalnt, with his far look of one
who loves forests, very strongly
marked, said, "To think that it has
found us like this, playing bridge
at the popote!"
Serin "I'll not -go to bed tonight."
I "Oh, my friends'." and then noth
ing more my knees suddenly as if
broken.
Laferriere (very quietly after a
pause) "I cannot but think of those
Who are not here."
Then a bottle of asti spumante is
produced by Laferriere, who in a
dreamy way remembers that he is
cher de popote. The stock of cham
pagne is exhausted. Nearly every
day and sometimes twice a day for
the last week, have not the radios,
plucked out of the air by the com
mandant, plus the beauteous com
muniques, necessitated the opening
of bottles even unto the last?
Serin, as we drink, all of us para
lyzed by the sudden cessation of the
world-horror, tells how one of his
gendarmes would keep referring to
the armistice as "la Mistie." in two
words, and we drink to las Mistie.
But in spite of the too, too simple
jok, how still, yet stern is each one's
heart! ...
Toussaint seizes from the stove a
marble statuettp and makes as if to
throw it at the clock, stopped some
four years ago at 12:25.
Serin, with his most childlike ex
pression, "Peace has broken out and
I will break out worse than peace
if I don't do something!"
Masevaux at that hour it had got
to be 11 o'clock was as lustrous as
an inkpot and all being still the prey
-of a strange paralysis of feeling, no
body suggested anything.
Peace, lovely, precious peace.
dreamed of, desired through years of
anguish, so redly bought in money
of the heart's blood, was ours!
But how could we understand in
one moment the immensity of what
had happened? Never have I felt
myself bo small, so almost non
existent. ... The war was done
and won. ...
We touched glasses .again, but
quietly, oB, so quietly!
Xlcho. by Sidney Tremayne. John Lane
Co., New York city.
"With a power and boldness that
win the reader's regard, this English
novel, with merciless strength, lies
hare problems connected with love
and marriage.
Many English hovels are quiet antf
decorous to the point of being dull
when it comes to the dissection of
emotions. Young readers will not
understand "Echo," but mature read
ers will do so.
Miss Echo Stapylton, 17 years old,
niece of Lady Hame, weeps because
she is lonely and in need of a kind
home, and chooses, as her weeping
place, a London park. A Bohemion
artist and painter of portraits. Max
Borrow, passes, and comforts Echo,
and they exchange addresses. Echo's
father and mother had separated
years previously. Mrs. Stapylton had
run away with another man.
Lady Hame insults Echo and the
girl goes to live with her father in
Paris. A sea voyage to Argentina is
taken to restore Mr. Stapylton's
health, and here Echo happens to
meet her mother, evidently a wicked,
dissipated woman.
Various honorable lovers come Into
Echo's life, and she marries James
"Powell, her family lawyer to get a
cafe home.
All the time Echo loves Max, and
Max loves her. Mr. Powell afterward
tfalls in love with another woman. Out
of the social jumble comes a solution
that is somewhat of a shock to social
conventions.
3fm. Gladstone, by Mary Drew. TITtirt rat
ed. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York city.
Mary Drew, daughter of Mrs. Glad
stone, widow of the great prime min
ister of Great Britain William Ewart
Gladstone, who died about 22 years
ego is the author of this notable
biography. It is voluminous, graphic
and informing. Remarkable word
pictures both of Mrs. Gladstone and
her husband are furnished by orig
inal sketches, extracts from historic
letters, etc.
Mrs. Gladstone came from people
famous in history, and her ancestors
Included Charlemagne, William the
Conqueror, Edward I and Harry
Hotspur.
Mr. Gladstone came from a Scotch
border family, and on his mother's
side was descended from King Robert
the Bruce.
The statement is made that Mr.
Gladstone In early life desired to be
a clergyman of the church of Eng
land. He lived to be the "uncrowned"
king of England one of the great
political leaders of his day.
The Art of FiKhtinr. by Rear-Admiral
Bradley A. Fiske, United States navy.
Illustrated. The Century Co., New York
city.
Rear-Admiral Fiske does not pre
sent this book as a pacifist or as a
prophet calling for more war and
shedding of blood.
Rather, he presents this message in
clearly expressed style to tell the
principles of the art of fighting, espe
cially of strategy so that America
may be better prepared when the need
for a new call to arms comes. He
tells the glowing story of war from
Ramses II, king of Egypt, about 1292
B. C, to Foch, the allied generalis
simo in the recent war; 3S2 pages.
t
The Hnsband. by E. H. Anstrnther. John
Lana Co., -n ew YorK city.
The old England before the late
war, with its quietness, its peace, its
cathedrals, its landed gentry and
placid lovers, flit before the readers'
vision in reading this emotional and
finely fashioned novel.
"The Husband" opens with the visit
of Miss Penelope Brooke, then in her
Sy Joseph MaSwueen.
feir Arthur Conan Doyle, author
of "The History of the Great
War."
29th year, to her aunt, Mrs. Marjorle
Dennithorne. The latter lived apart
from her husband Richard, beca"use
they got along together unhappily. If
ever two people were dissimilar in
their likes and dislikes, they were.
Miss Brooke proposes - to make her
future home with her aunt. Mr. Den
n.ithorne's stepbrother, Larry, ar
rives and makes furious love to Pene
lope, who refuses him. Penelope meets
Kichard Dennithorne, her aunt's hus
band, and Penelope and Richard love
each other. He is a man of various
ideals, wants to cut up large estates
to make homes for the homeless, and
believes in living in a near college
settlement to learn the exact social
condition of the London poor.
But what was Richard to do in lov
ing Penelope, when already he had a
wife? Our author side-steps the di
vorce question quite cleverly, and
shows unexpected skill in handling
the aimcult situation that ensues.
Vision and Beliefs of the Went of Ireland,
conectea ana arranged by Laay Ciregory.
Two volumes. G. f Putnam's Sons. Nw
York city.
"The Sidhe cannot make themselves
visible to alL They are shape
changers. They
L S i , -I
It' Ai
nan e-row small orJ"""1"" ' "L " 1 c" ""
large. They are seen as bird or
beast or as a barrel or a flock of
wool. Their own country is the Tir-nan-og
the country of the young."
Such 4s a significant 'quotation from
the message of these .wonderful vol
umes, filled to the brim with old Irish
legends about the "little people,"
about the power of people with the
evil eyes, about seers and healers,
touches, penalties, "banishes," warn
ings, herbs, charms, wise women, "the
unquiet dead," strange appearances,
etc.
Lady Gregory has collected these
stories and beliefs from the Hps of
Irish people, and now, in these two
volumes-, presents these quaint stories,
she says, with patient and reverent
care. These tales have peculiar psy
chic sensitiveness.
The two volumes contain in all 636
pages.
A Short History of the Great War. y TvTtl
lam L. AlcPherson. G. P. Putnam's Sons,
New York city.
Mr. McPherson 1s well known as
the militray critic of the New Tork
Tribune newspaper, and in his pre
vious book, "The Strategy of the
Great War," he discussed the struggle
in the broader sense, due to revolu
tionary conditions introduced by a
sudden reversion to rigid, positional
trench warfare.
In this book of 410 pages, with
index, we are treated to a. cleverly
presented, thoughtful study of the big
war, and dealing particularly with its
military and diplomatic aspects and
the part played in it by the United
States.
This work shows that the author
made wide research and inquiry be
fore reaching his conclusions, and
these are critical, illuminating and
reliable.
A Short History of the Italian Feople, by
Janet Penrose Trevelyan. lllustratea.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York city.
Mrs. Ceorge Macauley Trevelyan
is a well-known, cultured English
historian whose printed studies are
received with respect. In company
with her illustrious husband, she de
voted years to close studies of the
Italian people and their history.
In this message Mrs. Trevelyan
writes brilliant historical accounts of
the Italian people and their history
from the century preceding the first
invasion of the barbarians under Dio
cletian to the dawn of Italian unity
in the year 1870, when the modern
kingdom of Italy came into being.
There are 21 illustrations and six
maps.
Proportional Form, by Samuel Coleman
and C. Arthur Coan. G, P. . Putnam's
Sons, New York city.
Learned, scientific studies of much
value on the science of revealed
beauty, being supplimented to those
presented in "Natives' Harmonic
City." It is argued that as a har
mony exists between the laws of
gravity, sound 'and light, so springs
up a harmony of motion, musio and
color.
The book has an imposing appear
ance, and has 265 pages. Drawings
and correlating descriptions are by
Mr. Coleman, and text and mathema
tics by Mr. Coer.
Time-Telling. Through the Ages, by Harry
C. Breariey. Illustrated. Ioubleday,
Pag-e & Co.. Garden City, N. Y.
The record of a great achievement,
and possessing much of educational.
Informing value. The studies are
presentations of the history of all
time devices, from the crude daylight
measuring devices of cave men s ac
tivity! up to the wonderfully fash
ioned clocks and watche? of ourday.
The book has 294 well printed
pages, and is issued to mark the 25th
anniversary of the entrance of Rob
ert H. Ingersoll & Brothers, into the
watch industry.
Leader of Men, by Robert Gordon Ander
son. G. ' P, Putnam's Sons, New York
city.
Written in graceful style and with
purity of thought, with sentences in
prose that have nearly the beauty of
poetry fashioned by a master-poet,
this little book of 55 pages mirrors
the life work and thoughts of the
late Theodore Roosevelt.
There is one note in the sincere
recital: cordial appreciation. The
name of Roosevelt scarcely is men
tioned in the pages, but the reader
knows who the subject is, all the
same. -
The Romantic Woman, by Mary Borden.
Alfred A. Knopf, New York City.
Written in romantic, old-fashioned
style, this novel tells of the troubled
experiences of a Chicago girl, Joan,
who married Captain Gilbert. Hum-
1
phrey Fitzgerald Dawkins, English
aristocrat and heir to -an English
dukedom. Captain Dawkins was in a
cavalry regiment, his pet name was
Blinky and he was too often drunk.
He and his social set are described
as decadent.
American and "English Ideals are
contrasted and the former is shown,
to better advantage.
The story would be Improved -with
shorter paragraphs.
Organized I-abor m American History, by
Frank Tracy Carlton. r. Appleton tt Co.,
New York city.
In conservative, lucid style, our
author, who is professor of economics
In De Pauw university, gives in these
313 pages ft helpful study of the
American labor movement and -shows
the part wage-earners have played in
the industrial, social and political evo
lution of onr nation.
Professor Carlton especially sur
veys labor's progress in war time and
the important problems awaiting so
lution, problems brought by the re
turn of peace and our new social era.
Part of this book recently appeared
as magazine articles.
The prediction is made that the test
of democracy "is that of winning a
victory in the days of peace over the
foe within the nation."
The History of the Great War, by Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle. George H. Doras Cow.
Kew York city.
Thtsi the concluding volume of a
series of this author's history of the
service of the British army in France
and elsewhere during the recent war
with German armies, was reviewed in
The Orcgoaiaru of May 2.
Hii Friend and His Wife, by Cosmo Ham
ilton. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
Illustrated by Robert W. Stewart.
this is a lively and finely-constructed
novel of current American life, af
fecting society and married . condl
tions, mostly In a wealthy Quaker
colony of Connecticut.
EW BOOKS KKCKTVET.
From Serbia to Jugoslavia, by Gordon
uoraon-fcmlth, witn a preface by Dr.
Slavko Gronitch, minister of the kingdom
of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the
United States, 360 pages, an authoritative,
brilliant war study of what has haDDened
to Serbia since 1914 one of the most tragic
stories of the bis war; The Gate of Ful
fillment, by Knowles Risdale, the restful.
poetically fashioned message in prose, told
in a series of letters and telling of the ex
periment of a semi-Invalid who advertised
and secured a widow for,a secretary-companion
a charming story; Sheepskins and
Grey Russet, by C. Temple Thurston, a de-
N. Y.)
Moses' and the Monuments, by Melvln
Grove Kyle, LL. D., valuable, educational
studies on archaeology on pentateuchal
times, being the L. P. Stone--lecture at
Princeton X. J.) theological seminary.
1910, told In 278 pages (Bibliotheca Sacra
Co., Obsrlin, O.).
Lancelot, by ii.awin Arlington Koblnson.
a remarkable poem, notable for beauty of
expression and of decided romantic inter
est; The Thunderbolt, by G. Colmare. a
novel that has all the marks of being a
great story one of an epoch and pictur
ing life and manners in England, Ger
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE
:ixxrxiL-QWonrvrni.xcxxixcocKixx:
, ETHEL R. SAWYER,
Director of Training Class. Library Asso
ciation of Portland. I
-l VERT once in a whils there I
H, comes bursting into our com-land
a stately old dodo straying into
. ..... I
isroaaway, a geuine old-time adven - -
mrer ol tne oays ot naieign or
Drake. Such . a man M. Philippe
Bunan-Varilla seems to be.
He was engineer of the old French
Canal company in the pre-Panama
days. And when Columbia refused
to ratify the Hay-Herron treaty he
created the bloodless revolution which
made Panama a nation. M. Bunau
Varilla became the first minister of
Panama to the United States and he
it was who signed the treaty that
made possible the building of the
canal. Though well over 60 years of
'age, he took part in the recent war,
lost a leg at Verdun and won crosses
and honorary titles from the French
government in recognition of his
services. His recent book, - "The
Great Adventure of Panama," ought
to answer the demand for "pep" if
it is at all representative of its
author.
Since Ambrose Bierce disappeared
in 1915 many conflicting reports have
appeared as to his whereabouts. The
San Francisco Bulletin has a signed
statement dated March 24 from J. H.
Wilkins, a special writer, who went
to look for Bierce. It seems au
thenticated that this western Poe was
executed by a Villista firing squad
on the trail to M,onterey, where he
had been captured while directing
the movements of a. mule train bear
ing arms out of Torreon. He had
been working with the Carranza
government since it split with Villa.1
His two volumes of short stories,1
'In the Midst of Life" and "Can
Such Things Be?" show a command
of the elements of tense horror and
nerve-shaking fear that can only be
compared" with what the author of
the Fall of the House of Usher" and
The Pit and the Pendulum" can do.
He has also written a volume of es
says which reveal a disturbing per
sonality, at times outrageous and at
times full of ironic humor and at all
times evidencing the gift of expres
sion. Mrs. Humphrey Ward Is dead. Since
1881 Mrs. Ward has been contributing
to our English literature a distin
guished list of titles. Mrs. Ward was
the daughter of Thomas Arnold, sec
ond son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and
a niece of Matthew Arnold. In the
pages of her reminiscences, "A Writ
er's Recollections," published in 1918,
we are given a picture of the life
and society in the scholarly circle in
which she grew up. It was ln,S88
that her famous "Robert Elsmere"
appeared, the J'best seller" of its
time, and one of the earliest attempts
to bring ecclesiastical discussions into
the field of the novel. Its most
notable Imitator is, as everyone
knows, Winston Churchill's "The In
side of the Cup." Mrs. ,Ward has
been producing right up to the end
of her long life of literary activity.
She is the author of at least 30 works
and her new book, "Harvest," is an
nounced for early publication.
,
John Murray, an EngTlsh publisher
of renown, says thVt more books are
being written today than ever be
fore in the history of printing. "The
average is better than It was 30 or
10 years ago, but many of them have
no real knowledge of the author's
craft, and are sadly unequal to the
task they undertake." Perhaps the
idea of Johnny Tarleton (of Tarle
ton's underwear see Shaw's "Misal
liance") as to just what an author is
haa become too generally accepted.
many, etc. a novel somew-hat after the
Thackeray literary-quality and style: and
Sarah and Her Daughter! by Bertha Pearl,
a moving, eloquent story of the New York
ghetto, with pictures of Jewish life, amus
ing, tearful by turns tThomas Seltzer,
Iron Cousins, by Mrs. Alfred. Sedgwick,
a strong, emotional novel of life overseas
In ETn'gland tW. J.. "Watt A CO., N. Y.'.
Crowning an Ideal, by Annie Crosby
Bunker, a splendid, ahort story "of the world
war; and Fragments, by Fannie-Barbee
Hughs, charming,,, pleasant-to-read . essays
on literature, music, history, etc. '(Christo
pher Publishing .House, Boston).
That Human . Being Leonard Wood, by
Hermann Hagedora, an appreciative, well
written sketch of a well-known -American
soldier and administrator, 16 pages (Har-
count. Brace & Howe, JS, . Y.j. .
Useful Wild Plants of the United States
and Canada, by Charles Francis Saunders,
Illustrated by photographs and fcy numer
ous line drawings by Lucy Hamilton Ar
ing, 275 pages of technical and educative
values (Robert M. McBrlde & Co N. Y..
The Great War, compiled by . Louis K.
Orcutt, being an interesting, carefully pre
pared 'supplementary volume from the
armistice to the ratification of the peace
treaty, with a series of new.world marps
In colors, and with many graphic yiories
of heroism of American troops In the big
war (The Christian Herald, N. Y.L -' .
The Real Diary of the Worst Farmer,
by Judge Henry A. Shute, - Illustrated,
diary entries of arousnig barnyard adven
tures in New Kngfand laughable fiction
and well done XHoughtost-Mifflin,' Boston).
Beyond the --Horizon, by Eugene o Neill.
a powerful, compelling play of star excel
lence, delineating an unhappy marriage of
two misfits and a struggle for Individuali
ty and liberty:, and Primitive Society, by
Robert -H. Lowle. a carious, -learned, sur
prising book, telling, strange and startling
customs and relations among simpler races
of humanity, with studies of anthropology
and human organism. (Bonl & Llveright,
N. Y. ).
How tt Feels to Be CO, by ETlIl Barker
Butler, the author of the famous "Pigs Is
Pigs"; a most amusing, optimistic mes
sage of 33 pages, teaching that the length
of a man's days-he may be 50 is no
reason for worry (Honghton-Sliffllnv Bos
ton.). Painted Meadow, by Cophle .Kerr, a
wholesome, amusing, well-rounded Ameri
can novel about the rentle. decorous south
land of the early 00' s. of high collars, big '
sleeves, two-step, "free" silver arguments,
and ''Whistling Rufus" (Doran Co.. N. Y.).
The Golden Scorpion, by Sax Rohmer, a
fascinating mystery story with a criminal
element in it starting In London, England,
and dealing with Chinese desperadoes, etc;
and MarqueraVs Duel, by Anthony Pryde,.
a splendid, commanding romantic novel,
delineating fashionable, Lendon life 3ust
after the recent war dosed one of the big
English novels of the season (R. SI. Mc
Brlde & Co., N. Y.)
Scrambled Eggs, by Lawton Mackall.
with Illustrations by Oliver Herford, 64
pages, a lively, humoroas tale about world
ly conditions, society and politic -as
viewed by animals with the gift of Speech
(Stewart & Kidd Co., Cincinnati, O.L
. Bolshevism at Work, by William. T.
Goaoe, special correspendent of the Man
chester (England) Guardian newspaper In
Eastern Europe. In paper covers. 143
pageo, a review of actual condition in
Russia under Bolshevism, Interviews with
Lenine and other leaders, a belief that
bolshevlsm ia a spiritual phenomenon and
that the allies should declare "hands off
fti Russia and allow Russia to settle its
own vdestlny; and Psychical Miscellanea,
by J. Arthur Hill, 1 1-S pages, a clever series
.of 11. essays -on psychical research, telegra
phy hypnotism, do miracles happen?, and
life after death? (Harcourt, Brace . &
Howe. N. Y.). -- .
A You Wer, Bill, y -Edward Streeter.
amostogiy told 'and illustrated, written in
dialect "and mianelled words, picturing Bill.
fter being discharged from the army, as
a private 1. 1 v i . n aari & j ihj au ui&mus
love to "Mable" (Stokes & Co.. N. Y.).
The Conquest of the Old Southwest, by
Archibald Hentrerson. S95 pages, the ro
mantic and Interesting history-story of the
early pioneer in Virginia, the Carolinas,
Tennessee and Kentucky, 1740-1T90, with
the famous Daniel Boone as a central Tig-ure--a
book of exceptional research and
originality (Century Co., N, Y.).
Jane, by Anna Alice Chapin. the charm
ingly fashioned -romance of Jane O'Reilly,
Irish and witty, who runs away. Joins -a
one-night theatrical troupe and then meets
a real lover (Putnam's, N. Y.).
1 An author, according to Johnny, . Js
. I a man whom he pays to do-'what he
wants him to do; 'namely, to enter-
tain him with a story with a "plot."
tne' one disqualification for an
to Mr. Tarleton's way of
; t. -
try to get at his reader In sny wav,
Manuscript8 came !n to Mr Murray's
firm at the rate Of three-a day dur
ing the last year. We are assured.
however, that many of them will
never see the light of publication.
Meredith Nicholson js a popular
novelist who despises his popularity.
He aspires now to be s. Hoosier
chronicler and not "merely- a teller of
a good story. sGet his "Confessions of
a "Best Seller'," 'contained in his book
of essays, "The Provincial American,"
if you would read '.his autobiograph
ical account of hfs intentions to re
nounce the romantic; melodramatic
novel -f It must "take a real convic
tion to tarn aside and attempt to
live down such a record of selling
popularity as 40,000 copies of ''The
Main Chance," 15,000 of "Zelda bam
eron" and1 a .quarter- of a million
copied of "The House of a Thousand
Caifdles." ' One of ' the beetl books in
which to judgebf his ' change- of
manner is perhaps "The Poet," w-hfeh
most appropriately Is modeled on his
friend, the beloved Hoesier, James
Whitcomb Riley.. "
. -.When Blasco ibanez came to the
IThifed States one. of the first ques
tions which he is said to have asked
was not "Where does Mr. Morgan
live?" nor, "How high Is the Wool
worth building?" nor even, "How
much diL Brooklyn bridge cost to
build?" He eagerly inquired where
was the little house In which. Poe
wrote his poems. Nobody seemed to
know. But if tjtey had happened to
look into the f iles bf the papers twenty-five
years ago they might have
been edifle Or. maybe not to. have
read this item: "Poe's cottatee has
been sold again. 'The n'ew owner will
move it to the rear of the lot and use
it for a dentist's office."
Russia seems to have solved the
age-old problem which Pharaoh pro
pounded to the Israelites how to
make brick without straw. In a speech
at Petrograd on January 9 it Was
said: "The connjiissariat of th Peo
ple's Education has printed ten mil
lion copies of classic literature, in
spite of the lack of paper."
In the "government report under'the
heading of "Books, ' music, maps, en
gravings, etchings, photographs and
other printed matter" we can- read for
the month of January,. 1920, the fol
lowing items:
"Exports value J2334."'
"Imports value 633,751.
Something seems wroner with the
balance of trade in these CQmmodities!
Here is another issue for the com
Ing campaign. What will the repub
lican party do for this infant industry
when it gets in? How can the dem
ocratic party defend this serious at
tack on the market value of the Am
erlcan dollar by upsetting .the rate of
exchange? It's a good safe issue to
argue about splendid material for
stirring Speeches and appeals pre
serve pur literary hearths and homes,
American literature, ripe or rotten,
first! etc.; etc. and really the authors
are so Insignificant a body that they
can't, protest effectually, ' whatever
happens.
Now that Charles. Dana Glhsoii has
purchased the controlling Interest in
"Life" and taken active charge of the
publication,' shall we expect to see the
Gibson girl come to life again?
The Brownies' ticket for the forth
coming primaries:
For President Attorhejr i General
Palmer.
For Vice-president Governor Cox
of Idaho. -crora Boston Transcript.
- '
Tha Nation, has acquired another
well-known journalist and author in f
the person of Arthur H. Gleason, whoj
has recently Joined its editorial staff.
British labor movement- He has been
in England for the last'four years. He
was a stretcher-bearer with a British
unit in 1914-15 and was decorated. Sev
eral articles from his pen have ap
peared in leading periodicals based
upon his war experiences. For ths
Nation he is. to devote himself par
ticularly to the discussion of indus
trial and labor -problems. Prior to his
leaving London the British labor
leaders trave him a farewell dinner
which was presided over by the
famous labor leader, Arthur Hender
son. Mr. Gleason is also 'the author
of "Inside the British Isles" and,
"What the. Worker Wants."
Ill-Omened Opal Is Long
Linked With Disaster.
History Records Many Tales of
Beautiful Gems.
w
HO has not heard that woe at
tends the wearer of the beauti
ful, but ill-omened opal. The .very
origin of Its name is supposed to come
from the Greek wor'd ophthalmius, or
eye-stone, later called ophal, and one
writer suggests ' that "just as pea
cock's feathers are considered un
lucky because of the number of eyes
spying upon one, the opal or eye
stone acquired the same bad repu
tation!" .
Many are the tails told of Its e-vTl
Influence, among them the following:
"Alphonso the Twelfth of Spain is
said to have presented a magnificent
opal ring to Mercedes, his first wife.
on his wedding day. She shortly died
and Alphonso . gave the ring to his
sister, who died in a few days. After
her death he gave the opal to his
sister-in-law, with the same result
he then wore the ring himself, with
fatal consequence.
Was the opal at the bottom of all
this? one asks himself. The sugges
tion that there were imperfect drains
at the court of Alphonso, or that some
fatal- germ' was passed on with the
jewel is more satisfying to the mod
ern-mind yet jewelers say a preju
dice lingers about these stones.
Another tale is told of a rich finan
cier who recently took his opal ring
to a Jeweler to sell, because of the
misfortune it had brought upon him ,
his wife's illness, his son's death,
financial troubles. ill-health, and
many other woes were retailed. The
jeweler listened indulgently and then
informed him that his jewel was a
star-stone, and not an opal after all,
and therefore his imagination had
endowed it with such a malign in
fluence.
. One of the most plausible explanai
tions of the origin of the distrust of
the opal and superstition regarding it
is:
Two and a half centuries ago, when
the Jewelers of Italy were especially
famous for their artistic creations.
among which opals were conspicuous.
a terrible plague broke over the coun
try. When the pestilence was at its
height in Venice and other cities,
some one keenly observant discovered
that when a patient was at the point
of death, the opal worn -by him was
strangely brilliant, but lost its luster,
at least in part, after the death of the
hapless victim. The superstitious
leapeM to the conclusion that the gem
affected the wearer in some sinister
.fashion, instead of supposing as is
probably the case, that the patient af
fected the stone; for there is no doubt
that an opal is altered in brilliancy,
verv slightly, by variation in tem
perature, as may be seen in the case
of an opal ring worn by a person pos
sessing warm or a cold hand.
The love of pneclous stones, gem-
cutting, imitations and alterations,
are all subjects treated by a practical
erem cutter in Leopold jiaremonts
"The Gem-Cutter's Craft," at the Pub.
lie Library.
Psychiatric Social Worker
Aids Returned Men.
Aim Is to Adjust Individual to
a Environment ind Develop Per.
sonnlity so its to Make Better
.. ' Contact With World,
THAT women played an important
"part in the. ta'skof reabsorbing
the returned soldier into civilian life
and that the psychiatric social worker
did a large share in this work are
facts which .are amply attested by
Mrs. Malda H. Solomon, graduate of
Smith college at Northampton. Mass.
and psychiatric social worker at the
Boston Psychopathic hospital. But
first of all, do you know what a psy
chiatric social worker is? Well, cheer
up. Lots of others didn't until th
sudden ending of the war created a
need for helping the newly-demobil
lzed soldier adjust himself to the pro
saic life of the peaceful citizen.
The chief difference between the
social worker and the psychiatric so
ciaj worker is tha,t the latter, while
aiming to adjust the individual to his
environment on an economic basis is
in addition, interested in-the develop
ment of the individual as a person
ality.
"A larsre nercehtasre "of men came
back from the war wlth.a changed
attitude toward --life, work and play.
writes Mrs.i Solomon in the Smith
Alumnae tju&rteriy. "These men were
nervously undermined and it was in
aiding In their readjustment that the
psychiatric social worker, trained in
the- psychiatric point of view, was
almost essential. .
"One must avoid confusing the
functions of the psyclflatric social
worker, not only with those of the
occupation therapeutist, or the voca
tion teacner, dui aiso witm tnose oi
the psychologist. Though both deal
With mental cases, the psychologist
approaches the patient with the point
ot. view oz .nls mental rating and his
variations from the norm of intelli
gence, while the psychiatric social
worker alms to adjust the individual
to an environment better fitted to his
temperament and to develop his per
sonality so that he may make better
contracts with the world."
'. Girls Kscape in Bathing Suits.
SAN FRANCISCO. Misses Laura
and Isabel Viosca, upon their arrival
here today from Mazatlan, Mexico,
told a thrilling tale of their escape,
clad only in bathing suits, from Met
lean bandits. The Misses Viosca were
members of a house party of . 18
at the Los Mochis ranch of Ben John
ston in Sinaloa. The entire party had
gone bathing when a servant gave
warning that a raiding party of
Yaqul Indians were looting the house
The kuests in the bathing suits
scrambled aboard a small private car
owned by Johnston and on this es
caped to Sinaloa, -where it was atr
tached to an armed train proceeding
to Aiazatian.
Australia Bays Cattle.
VICTORIA, B. C. Canadian Hoi
stein cattle are highly regarded in
Australia, according to-H. A. Sim
mons, who recently delivered a small
herd of these cattle there. He claim
that the Holsteins bred in the Antipo
des are not as good as the Canadian
bred stock and is making preparation
to assemble another herd for export.
Soldier Land Bonght.
HUNTINGTON. B. C. Sumas Indian
reserve, comprising 160 acres of land
watered by the Little Sumas, has been
purchased by the soldier settlemen
be divided into lour farms,
"VISION OF MOTHER" TOPIC OF MOTHERS-DAY-SERMON
OF REV. G. H. BENNETT AT PATTON
Great Men of All Tim Hare Landed Sonl of Mother as Typifying Height of Earthly Achievement and Divine
. Inspiration, Asserts Pastor Day Becomes Memorial.
(6
A
Vision of Mother", ia the
toplo of a Mother's day ad
dress to be given by Rev.
George H? Bennett at Patton Metho
dist church today.
The address follows:
"No .memorial day can' be more
hallowed among men than the day In
which we hear again the mother's
voice that Is stilled, and feel again
the touch of her vanished hand. It
was she who shared her life with us
in life's first dawning. She it was
who walked in the valley of shadows
that we might see the light of life.
In her embrace was the garner of our
heartbeats and the couch of out re
pose. There we nestled in the hour of
pain, and there was the playground of
our Infant joy. Her -loving arms be
came our refuge. Mother taught our
baby feet and steadied them oevr the
tottering places. Her faithful hands
plied the needle early and late to com
fort js. She put the book under 'our
arm, and with a kiss started us off to
school. Yes, it was mother who taught
bur childish lips to speak the name of
Jesus, and whisper to him our earliest
prayer.
"Sam Jones said: "An angel was
sent from the gates of pearl one day
to bring to heaven the most beautiful
treasure of this worold. His search
was long 'and arduous. He swept over
garden of American Beauty roses
which were rich beyond compare
and gathered an armful. Then as he
passed an open window, he beheld n
lniant s smile and he paused to
laim It for the heavenly courts. On
ward he sWept, and through the lat
tice the angel saw a mother kneeling
by her child, and In her tender eyes
e perceived the mothers love. And
with these three treasures the angel
wheeled his flight toward the celestial
city. But when he waited at the gate
of pearl lo, the roses had withered
away; the Infant's smile had faded;
nd only the mother's love remained.
pure, deep and radiant as before and
at the throne of God the angel of-
tered the sweet incense Of a mother's
undying love, the choicest treasure of
this world.
A mother's lnv O if m-nA u
As the tremulous notes of the ringdove's
call.
Or the mnrmnr of waters that rently
flow
On onr weary hearts these accents fall.
A mother's love! O. 'tis the dew
Which nourisheth life's drooping Towers,
Ana quiCK neatn them to bloom anew
Mid fairer scenes and brighter bowers.
The illustrious Garibaldi once
WILLIAM LORING
NEW YORK HAD
History of National Metropolis Was of Engrossing Interest to Man Who
Spent Entire Life's" Span in Study of 'Conditions.
N
EW YORK, .May 9. In the death
of William Loring Andrews,
-writes Howard Mansfield to
the Tribune, New Tork. loses a very
fine citizen. Born in this city and
living here throughout his life, its
history became to him an absorb
ing interest, many of its public
institutions objects or personal con-
cern and its traditions a cult. One'
result was the authorship of mono-1
graphs on special phases of city his
tory, embodied, in hooks of beautiful"
typography and illustration, which
are of high repute among book lovers,
as are many other works from his
pen of more general historic and ar
tistic scope. His zeai for books made
him a widely-known collector of vol
umes especially selected for quality of
typography and binding appropriate
for worthy contents. His love of art
brought within his home works of
wide ranee and of a character that
gave evidence of the refined taste of
the collector. But his books were not
held by him as a mere possession,
nor were his art collections formed
to be tokens of culture. While his
tastes in art were varied and some
times changeful, they were always
genuine and developed In entire sin
cerity. His love of old New York lea mm
to join in the formation of the 'So
ciety of Iconophiles for the permanent
record, through engravings, or i the
fast disappearing buildings and char
acteristic scenes of the earlier city.
His appreciation of the need of good
bookmaking made him one of the
founders of the Grolier club, organ-
zed for the promotion of the arts
that enter into the making of books,
an institution of which he was at one I
time the president and at the time of J
his death an honorary member. Hisl
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Z'' J y skin calluses on bottom of V f
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"FREEONF" costs But .
said: "Often amid the trying scenes of
my tumultuous life have L in fancy,
seen my sainted mother on her knees
before God mother imploring the
Most High for her son.' Grover Cleve
land declared that when bowed down
with the cares and burdens of his
great office, he sadly missed the
counsel and the prayers of his sainted
mother. Henry Ward Beecher who
turned the enmity of England to
friendship for the north in the Civil
war, paid a tribute - to his mother
when he said: 'No devout Catholic
ever saw so much in the blessed Vir-
"gin Mary as I saw in my mother.
From her I received my love of the
beautiful and my poetic temperament,
my simplicity of heart and childlike
faith in God.'
'The child Is bound to the mother
by closer, tenderer ties than to the
father maybe it is because she Is
his more constant companion, his
guide and protector from the days of
helpfulness. She sows the virtues in
the heart and implants the noble
ideals in early life, which seldom
lose their power, but become the
towering oaks of Christian character.
The wise and pious mother never'be
trays the confidence of hr little" one.
and so her sincerity and truthfulness
are always held sacred. She never
tells a goblin story to frighten him
to obedience, and she never teaches
him to be afraid of the dark. And so
the wise and tactful mother to her
child becomes a heroine and a saint.
Sometimes men wander far into for
bidden paths, and their hearts are
cold and unresponsive to the appeal
of wisdom or the call of d-uty yet
one tender chord is hidden in that
heart. It is the memory of mother.
"Mother is honored and beloved and
revered for what she represents. She
stood for a peaceful home. She stood
for Integrity of heart and life. She
stood for culture and achievement
Yes, and for God and country. Your
sainted mother and mine were the
foes of vice. The comforting power
of the mother's love; the restraining
power of the mother's wish; the
The sermon printed last Sun
day, which was credited for
Rev. H. T. Cash, assistant pastor
of the East Side Baptist church,
should have been credited to
Dr. W. B. Hinson, pastor of that
church, by whom it was deliv
ered. ANDREWS OF
LOVE FOR CITY
deep concern In all matters of art
naturally brought him into early
membership- in the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, of which he was a patron
and a fellow in perpetuity, a member
of thte board of trnstees and, during
many years prior to his death, the
honorary librarian. Other institu
tions -of public educational value
within and without the city shared his
regara ana consiaerate generosity.
Mr. Andrews was a man of higTl
character and of trustworthiness in
all the affairs of life. He was devoted
to his friends and was especially com
panionable with associates of similar
tastes and activities. He -lived his
life simply, without ostentation or
pretense. In the private relationships
of the family his life was .ideal.
Among all who came into i intimate
association with him there remains a
lasting tribute of affectionate re
membrance. "
AD CLUB TO SEE Y0SEMITE
Portland Woman ot Be in Charge
of Department at Convention.
STOCKTON, Cal., May 8. A trip to
the Yosemite valley will conclude the
seventh annual Pacific Coast Ad club
convention here May 23 to 25. All
phases of advertising are to be dis
cussed. Among those scheduled to speak
are Reuben H. Donnelly, president
of the Associated Advertising clubs of
the World; William D. Stephens, gov
ernor of California; Dr. avid Bar
rows, president of the University of
California; Dr. Aurella Rinehart,
president of Mills college; and
Charles 'Meill of the United States
treasury- department.
The woman's department will he in
Lift Off Corns I
9.
oesn k
Aply a few drops of
old, bothersome corn. Instantly that corn stops
hurting. Then shortly you lift it right off, root
and all, without pain
"FREEFONE" costs But
few cents at drug stores
i i w , v y
soothing power of the mother's touch;
the strengthening power of the moth
er's prayer to these all men confess;
How rich and true are the words)
of Richard Watson Gilder:
She had no special trace nor -art:
Her riches not in banks were keptj
Her treasures were a eentle heart;
Her skill, to comfort those who wept
Love Is As Haven.
The love of her pure soul la & great
rock in a weary land, whose portals
give protection to afflicted children.
Her sympathy is a wellspring in the
desert of life, which never runs dry.
Her fortitude revives the fainting
heart and cheers the faltering mind.
Her faith is like the coral reef which
disputes the way of ocean currents
and withstands the fury of wind and
wave. The mothers hope is tha
olden coin that ransoms consultation
from dark despair. Benjamin West,
a premier among artists, said: 'A kiss
from my mother made me a painter.
Her tender sympathy : changed ths
whole course of his life; and so the
mother's kiss cures the little, bruised
and aching fingers, and her soft ca
ress smooths out the tangled locks.
Mother is made perfect through suf
fering.' She is the divinity of the
home. She is the guiding star to
life's great achievements. In, war and!
famine, in pestilence and poverty, and
in misfortune mother suffers more
than alL What wonder the dying
Christ with noble prudence " be
queathed his holy mother tolthe be
loved John, for his filial love anJ
protection. Love and reverence of
mother Is a token of your nobility of
mind and .heart. There i3 none with
out these. "'
A student in one of the great uni
versities was the son of a widowed
mother. She worked hard and econ
omized to keep him there. She even,
sold one of the plow horses, rather
than take him away from his classes.
At last commencement day came and
he was graduated. He sat on thevjplal
form, clad in modest garments, and
he carried the honor of the class. Ha
received his diploma and a beautiful
gold medal was awarded him for su
perior scholarship. When the-medal
was handed him, he stepped from tha
platform and walked down toward the
back of the room where sat a little,
motherly-looking woman in black. He
pinned the shining medal on her
breast. She buried her face in her
hands and wept like a child and the
great audience stood up and cheered
and cheered again. It was his
"Mother's day."
charge of Hazel Campbell Jeselson o
Portland. Or.
- Carl Brockhage of Oakland will
discuss newspaper advertising. .
ASTORIA NEEDS SCHOOLS
Means of Obtaining Funds Prob
lem fop Autliorities.
ASTORIA, Or., May 8. (Special.)
The Astoria school district is con-
ironted with the problem of con
structing one and perhaps two new
school buildings this summer and
how to obtain the required funds is
the problem. Three years ago th
people authorized the issuing of 8125.-
000 in bonds to construct the first
units of three buildings, but the sale
of the bonds was forbidden by the
capital issues committee.
That restriction has been removed,
but the state law restrains the dis
trict from selling bonds at less" than
par and with the bond market in. its
present condition that cannot be done
It is possible that instead of trying
to sell bonds the district will issue
short-time serial notes to 'be sold
locally, in order that proper school
accommodations may be provided for
the increasing number of pupils.
WAR CROSS FUND MIXED
Anstrla Has Many Applications for
Tension on Award.
VTKNNA, . May 8. In the work . of
unscrambling the affairs cf the old
empire curious complications occur.
One that is now -giving the authori
ties a good deal of trouble is the dis
position of the Maria Theresa medal
fund. This decoration was the Vic
toria cross of Austria. Its award
carried a handsome pension. The
foundation fund now amounts to more
than 170,000,000 crowns.
There are several hundred appll
oants for the medal for deeds per
formed in the world war. but none
has been passed upon pending the dis
tribution of the "foundation fund
among the states cf the former em
pi re.
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