TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, "NOVEMBER 21, 1920
B-r" (Joseph Kaovueen.
Th Anthology of Another Town, by B. W.
Mows. Alfred A. Knoff. Hew York city.
Ed Howe, once the editor of the
Atchison (Kan.) Globe newspaper
and always a good-fellow, has a
pleasant, cheerful philosophy that is
all his own. This philosophy lives in
' r.is books and Is so welcome and heal
ing that it is a pity his books are so
few. May their tribe increase.
In dignified Verms, our author's
name is Edgar Watson Howe, born in
Indiana, schooled in Missouri, and who
became a printer when he waa li
years old. But to his numerous
friends and especially his newspaper
friends he Is not known by that
fancy title. He is called! In friendship
Ed Howe. .
In this book now under review,
we welcome Mr. How in a novel
which is human, rich in character work,
is a resorvoir of middle-west Ameri
canism and has a rich fund of quiet
humor all its own. It consists of
short sketclfes of people men and
women of a supposedly middle-west
country town and these sketches are
written with a simplicity and deft
touch that are Inimitable. Really, the
book is a charming American portrait
r'u U er v.
It is related that Mr. Howe has
lived among the people about wnom
he writes for 50 years. As a father
mnfusnr he . must know enough
family secrets to supply plots for
more than a score of novels.
The most intimate and likeable
sketch one which newspaper men
will especially appreciate is the first
one in the book entitled "Doctor
nilkersnn."
Mr. Howe In the sketch tells of the
magic days when as a 'little Doy,
workliz on a farm, his father an
nounced one day that he had bought a
weeklv DaDer in the adjoining coun
try town. The boy Howe was taken
to the printing office and Jaught to
eet type by "an old-fashioned printer
named Martin, who had a bed in the
office, wrote stories for the New York
Mercurv. Dlayed the guitar, sang Dai
lads and took part in amateur the-
Jatricals.
r Brother Jim worked with Ed and
thev both worshiped the aforesaid Mr.
Martin, who told them wonderful
etories, an especially good one being
a revelation of circus life. One day a
real circus actually arrived in the
town where the Howes lived. The
father, who was a preacher by pro
fession, decreed that circuses were
Immoral and said he would use h'.s
influence to keep people away from
such a demoralizing exhibition. The
chief point of this story is the' fact
that Ed and Jim Howe both attended
the circus performance and enjoyed it,
without letting their father know of
the incident. They got home about I
A. M. and to their dismay found their
father waiting for them. The amusing
part of the event is that Ed talked
to him so diplomatically, the threa
tened whipping was postponed.
What amounts to a splendid Ameri
can classic of the serious sort is a
sketch entitled "George Coulter."
Coulter applied for and got a Job in
the Howe office as a journalist and
specialist In the subscription depart
ment. He was about 30 years old.
and his wife a tall, stout woman of
about 65. Coulter was not much of a
success in the business, was in weak
health and often went away for days
at a time. Then he died. Public
opinion seemed to point out Ed Howe
as the person best fitted to make the
. funeral arrangements and he assumed
full'charge. A quartet and pallbearers
were engaged and the funeral set for
5 P. M. Balie Waggener,' the lawyer,
was to have been one of the pall
bearers, but failed to show up in time.
Ed grabbed Sam Kelsey the mayor,
who was a "noted lodge man and
old soldier, and knew just what to do
at a funeral." Sam took charge.
The pallbearers put on white cotton
gloves and It is related that these
gloves were much too long in every
finger. Ultimately, the casket was
lowered Into the grave. Here occurs
the gem of the story. "Sam Kelsey,
with his hat still off, wiped a lot of
perspiration from the top of his bald
head, and. leaning over to me. whisp
ered in a tender, sympathetic way:
Who was he?' "
Here is another lively episode con-
i Gained in a three-lined sketch enti-
m i llu ' iinuii j i rv 1 1
' "A good many observers say Pilson
Blair is enjoying his second wife as
much as the Widow Payer enjoys
the life insurance she collected from
the lodge."
"Sarah Browncll" is a cleverly
written sketch of a woman who was
an able actor. The sketch is as much
a work of art as if she had been the
subject of a study in marble carved
by an artistic sculptor. -
The last sketch of all and where
Mr. Howe rises to artistry is "Joe
Allen," which is so much a living,
pulsing drama in type that it de
serves to be classed as one of the
best American short stories of the
year, it is a story of the battle of
Gettysburg. Joe reltites how he en-
listed In the rirst Vermont cavalry.
Joe and his comrades were at Little
Round Top, facing a Texas regiment.
Joe's horse was a light bay called
Abe, "in honor of the president" Joe
and Abe both figured in the fighting
and what happened to the two of
them tells the story.
This is Mr. Howe's first novel.
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Copyright, Bain, Is. T.
Edsrar Watson Howe (Ed Howe),
uthor of "The AnthioloR of
Another Town."
pointed special prosecutor for the
state of Illinois in the celebrated red
cases in which 20 men were found
guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the
United States government and sen
tenced to the penitentiary.
Our author chows the gradual rise
of the bolshevik spirit, the growth
of the soviet power and the iniqui
tous results of this domination. He
exposes the wickedness of the soviet
machine and Indicates the fallacy of
the soviet idea of living. Indicating
the influence of near bolshevism on
this continent, he discusses the
strikes incited by bolshevists in Win
nipeg and elsewhere. ,
It is thought best that "labor and
capital should be a partnership, as
are the blades of scissors. The prod
uct of the partnership must be more
fairly divided." It is asserted that
big business must be honestly or
ganized and that investors are en
titled to a reasonable return on their
investment. In other words a new
social order is called for, as part of
the building of a new world.
Mr. Comerford insists that respect
for the law should light the way in
this day of unrest and that a new day
is breaking. The creed of the' house
built up by Mr. Comerford is: "Man
is his brother's keeper."
umn. He was such an attractive gos
siper that he almost ruined the staff
and greatly retarded the work of the
office. Several times, gently but
i firmly, I had to remonstrate with him.
He always expressed great repent
ance and promised to reform but,
alas! he never did." ' -
Beatrix Potter, author of the pop
ular "Peter Rabbit" and "Benjamin
Bunny" stories for children comes of
famous stock. She Is the grand
daughter of John Bright, noted Eng
lish statesman. .' -
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"Getting out a column." complains
Professor Heywood Broun, "is hard
work. The pasta sticks to 'our fin
gers." "We don't mind that so much.
but somebody always steals our scis
sors, says F. P. A.
discussion, whether one believes or
not in immortality. It is in the air.
This well-written book is a frank
and candid discussion on the subject
spirit life pro and con, with ex
tracts from the writings of other au
thors.
William DunseatH Eaton, author of
this book, is a cousin at Thomas Car
lyle and a newspaper man of life
long experience. Founder and first
editor of the Chicago Herald, he also
served for several years on the staff
of the Chicago Times and later as
active editor of the National Repub
lican, now the Washington (D. C.)
Post.
In writing this book the author has
told of spiritualism as he found it.
giving names, dates and places. Many
of the names are those of well-
known people, and of course among
them are Sir Oliver Lodge. 272
pages. ,
Beyond the leert, by Alfred JCoye. Kred
encK A. stokes C.O., .e lora city.
Alfred Noyes, better known aid
esteemed by thousands of admirers
for his mastery of verse, shows m
this powerfully constructed, dramatic
tale that he also s master of the art
of short story creation. "Beyond the
Desert" is so eloquent in the meaning
it teaches that it is a prose-poem.
James L. Baxter, a native of Los
Angeles, an I. W. W. leader, suspected
of complicity in a plot to overthrow
the United States government, is be
ing conveyed to a train by guards,
when the train is delayed by a freight
wreck ahead. The halt is made on
the fringe of the famous Death Val
ley - desert and, grabbing the valise
of an Episcopal clergyman, Baxter
ran away and succeeded in making
his escape. One of the men that Bax
ter's gang had threatened to kill was
Senator John Reddington arid Baxter
remembered as the train he had left
came to a halt that Jean Redding
ton, daughter of the senator, had fed
her horse with sugar.
Baxter fled into the sun-scorched
desert and lost his way. He became
delirious and imagined he was res-
cued by a party of red-shirted '49ers
who gave him water and, when he
was able to talk, convinced him of
the folly of his I. W. W. ideas. They
showed him. in his dream, how tney
had found Jean Reddinerton. who in
the attempt to recapture him had
chased him on horseback, only also to
lose her way in the desert. She was
lying on the sand, hurt.
Baxter comes, out of his dream,
cured out of his I. W. W.ism, and
finds Miss Reddington, whom he
helps with water from his own slen
der supply. They start to reach civ
ilization, but become lost again.
Then it is that the hero spirit is
born in Baxter. He gives Miss Red
dington whom he secretly loves
the most of his supply of drinking
water and sets out for help. He finds
it and he and his rescuers and Miss
Reddington proceed to Los Angeles,
threatened with revolution by I.
W. W.
The end comes unexpectedly, like
the sudden crack of a whip.
Kewurrcotlon. by Jeo Tolntoy. International
.book .fuDllsblns- Co., Jsew Xorlc city.
In two volumes, translated by
Archibald J. Wolfe into English, and
rorming one of the series of this
publisher's Russian Authors' Library,"
these books are reissues of one of the
principal novels of this noted Rus
sian author. This realistic story of
somber Russian life already has been
passed upon by the reading world and
found eminently readable. The pres
ent edition is clearly printed and
otherwise worth while.
The Authors' league Is preparing a
book for the benefit of its fund for
needy authors. The title is to be "My
Maiden Effort" and the text is to con
sist of full and frank confessions
about their first literary ventures by
our best known American authors.
Now we shall know what happened
to George Aden first "Fable and
what discouragement awaited on
Owen Wister's early efforts. Gelett
Burgess is the collector and edl
tor and the signs all point to an en
tertaining book a-preparing. It is
'ntend-ed to put it on the market in the
spring-
Christopher- Morley's new book.
with its mouth-watering title, "Mince
Pie," contains this homily "on filling
an ink-well": "It is a sacramental
matter, this filling the ink-welL Is
there a writer, however humble, who
has not poured into his writing pot,
wifh the ink, some wistful hopes or
prayers for . what may emerge from
that oark source? Is there not 'some
particular reverence due the ink-well
The Pocket Chesterfield. Illustrated. Door
ance Ac Co., Inc., Philadelphia.
With a foreword by Dr. John Trai
ler, a "backword" by Lord Beorghley,
an apology by Gordon Doorance and
apt Illustrations by Stuart -Hay, this
pocket edition of the Chester-
is
field essays oh etiquette and good
behavior generally. To read these
bits of good advice and abide by them
should be part of the worthy ambi
tion of all young people approaching
18 or 20 pages old. The pages are
126. x
MAKE MOST OF TODAY, BORROW
NO TROUBLE, SAYS PASTOR
Magnifying Our Ills Common Human Weakness, Declares Rev. George
II. Bennett -Worry Only Unfits Men fbr Service.
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BY REV. GEORGE H. BENNETT, I
Pattern Methodist Church.
E are engaged In the practical;
art of everyday living, and all
should be deeply Interested "n
the secret of making life worth while.
One of the most striking conrtibu-
tions to the national museum was
made by Ignatz Matausch. After
much study and painstaking effort
he produced a wax imitation of a flea.
It was 1,280,000 times the actual size
of the pestiferous little beast. And
herein lies the interesting fact. It
illustrates a very common human
weakness our troubles are never
large enough, so we greatly exagger
ate them.
We have often heard hysterical peo
ple and chronic complainers relating
their experiences. . They seemed to
find a morbid comfort in magnifying
their ills, and eclipsing each other in
the magnitude of their daily woes.
When you see such, people coming.
they cast a shadow of dread before
them and drape the mind with gloom.
How refreshing to tired nerves is the
guest who has no troubles to relate.
Keep your troubles to yourself, but be
a sympathetic listener to the sor
rowing. Cultivate the habit of good
cheer. Laugh and the world laughs
with you.
J3ay Trouble Sufficient.
Every age and race has had its
some form of propitiation to humbug? trouble-borrowers, and they are not
the powers of evil and constraint that extinct to this day. One affliction is
devil the journalist? Satan hovers
near the ink-pot. I-uther solved the
matter by throwing the well itself at
the apparition. That savored too much
of homeopathy. If satan ever puts his
face over my desk I shall hurl a vol
ume of Harold Bell Wright at him."
Modern nursery rhymes will have
to be revised to frt. modern conditions.
How do you like this one? .
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn
The cow's in the meadow, the sheep in
the com.
Where's the little boy that looks after the
sheep?
Under the hay-stack not fast asleep
But with the fury of Genius frantic
Revising his diary for the Atlantic!
Cyril B. Efran in Judge.
The Nw World, by Frank Comerford.
L. Appletoa & Co., New York city.
The new world that. Mr. Comer
ford so graphically describes is that
which has been chanpred by the re
cent world war changed politically,
economically, nationally.
Mr. Comerford has traveled enough
through Russia. Ireland and this
country to know his subject thor
oughly. He writes a message of gen
eral reconstruction. Upon his return
from the bolshevik front he was ap-
BntnM Reftearrh and Statistic, by J. ;
iiorK" Frederick. 1. Apple ton & Co.,
New York city.
Mr. Frederick, president of the
Busio-ess Bourse, Inc., New York City.
And formerly managing editor of
Printer's Ink and editor of Advertis
ing and Selling, is the author of this
thoughtful and valuable book on busi
ness matters.
An admirably educated business ex.
pert and out of his wide experience
ae a business specialist Mr. Frederick
writes observations along that line
eminently worth while. The wonder
is that Mr. Frederick knows the de
tails of so many different businesses
so intimately and can write about
them go easily and with authority.
The pages are 342.
The qualifications of the researcher
and the statistician and the import
ance and nature of their duties are
analyzed in detail. Baeic principles
are given. There is exhaustive treat
ment of such topics aa for casting
ana aeveioping 01 Dusiness problems.
the makeup of research departments
market and distribution, the technique
of specialists and field investigators,
the use of maps and charbs, the dollar
and the budget idea in business
finance research, types and sources
of data, purely statistical investiga
tions and estimates, management
prooiems, etc.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
Margery Morris and Plain Jane, by Vio
let Gray, a pleasant story for girls from 10
10 j. , ja.oy j3u.ua jo ana xne joiiy jack
Rabbit, by C. E. KM bourne, an amusing
little book for small children; Oh, Virginia,
by Helen Sherman Griffith, a cheerful
story for girls from 9 to 34: Trudy and
Timothy and The Trees, by Bertha Currier
.Porter; a Yankee Girl at Fort sumter, by
Alice Turner Curtis, a story of the fascin
ating adventures of a little Boston girl in
tne city on Charleston, s. C, just before
the civil war meant for girls from 7 to
11; and a Little Maid of Old Maine, by
Alice Turner Curtis, an interesting story
of Maine, at the time of our revolution
written for girls from 7 to 11. These books
are all meant for the Christmas trade, and
are illustrated (The Penn Pub. Co., Phila.).
In Berkshire Fields, by Walter Rich
ord Eaton, illustrations by Walter King
Stone, an exquisitely written descriptive
book, describing the natural beauties and
bird life of the Berkshires, in New Eng
land and finely illustrated; and, A Short
Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow
Paine, a condensed and handy edition of
our author's great and larger work, "Mark
Twain; a Biography," 344 Pages a useful
and educative Christmas present for a
youth (Harper's N. Y. ).
Present Day Paris and the Battlefields,
by Somerville Story, an admirable and
competent guide book for Uturists and
other visitors to Paris (Appleton & Co.,
n. y.).
Collected Poems, by Alfred Noyes, vol
ume three, containing all Mr. Noyes' verse
from October, 1913, up to date of publi
cation, and including some exquisite new
veree rrom the poet not previously pub'
lished (Stokes. N. Y.).
October and Other - Poems, by Robert
Bridges, poet laureate of England. 36
poems of notable Import, set to English
scenes ana suojects (Alfred A. Knopf,
N. Y.K
The Marching Years, by Norman Bridge,
MD., LL.1., a vital and unusually interest
ing, well-written record of a New England
man and stalwart citizen (Duffield & Co.
N. T..
A, Poor Wise Man. by Mary Roberts Rine
hart, a splendid American novel of our
day a novel of live imagination : ; South
Sea Foam, by A. Safronl-Middleton.
sterling, fascinating account of life and
manners among peoples of Samoa, Tahiti,
etc.; and Tahiti Days, by Hector Mac-
Quarrie. finely illustrated' a delightful
record of adventures and. enjoyable days
passed in the South Sea islands (Doran
Co.. iN. Y.) .
Captain Macedolne's Daughter, by Will
iam McFee. a charming, entertaining
story ot fc,ngiin seafaring people (Double
day. Page, N. V.).
The Golden Barque, by Scnmas O'Kellv,
seven short stories of Irish life in Ireland
stories that are exquisite and beautiful
in fine literary construction ; The Night
Horseman, by Max Brand, an exciting.
red-biooriea' novel or openair America;
Peggy Stewart. Navy-Girl, by Gabrlelle E
Jackson, a sensible and healthy-minded
Htory for girls, and The Comedienne, by
Wladyslaw S. Reymont, translated from
the Polish, a realistic, able novel of a
Polish girl who rebels against a drab ex
istence in a hamlet, and who joins a
company of provincial players Now and
men a tragic taie f Putnam's. X. j .).
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THE- LITERARY PERISCOPE
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lbs ivATMbtfc.M BLKKK, now time," referring- to Its Dsycho-an-
Mrs. Peabody. is the author of I alytic closing chapters. A recent
a book -which, under the title j view adds this explanation. "In other
Broken Stuwkle. by John Gordon. Door
lies & Co . Inc., Philadelphia.
A. readable novel of the American
school of realism, depicting: worktngr
conditions around the sawmill and
lumber condition of Slab Fork, lo
cated in an eastern state touching on
the Canadian boundary.
Spirit Life: Or. To W. IMe, br "William
uneath Ratoo. Stanton A Van Vilet
Co., Chicago.
There is considerable discussion,
now that the death-letting caused by
the bigr war is over, whether man
somehow survives the irreat change
called -death. One cannot evade euch
'Little Heroes of France," records the
patriotism of the French .children
with whom she came in contact dur
ing her -,var experiences. She is a
descendant of the great Edmund
Burke and saw varied service in the
war. She was secretary of -he Serb
ian relief commission, devoted four
years of active service to the Scottish
Woman's Nursing association and col
lected more than J6.000.000. She has
decorations, from England, France,
Serbia, Russia and Greece, and holds
a commission as honorary colonel of
the 138th field artillery, American
expeditionary forces. She has visited
the war fronts Irom tne Jsortn sea
to Serbia and Italy and was the only
woman permitted to enter the citadel
of Verdun in the height of the strug
gle. The souvenir which she is said
to prize among her dearest posses
sions is the menu of a dinner given
in her honor by the officers in com
mand of the citadel's defense and au
tographed with signatures of Joffre,
Petain, Nlvelle, Dubois and the de
fenders of Verdun.
. Booth Tarkington has Just com
pleted the final volume in his trilogy
on middle western life. After "The
Turmoil" and "The Magnificent 'Am-
bersons" comes "Alice Adams." Mr.
Tarkington says he frequently uses
as minor characters in nis books per
sons whom he sees every day. A dis
concerting tribute to the verisimili'
tude of his character portrayals lies
in the fact that he notices after each
of his stories appears certain of his
neighbors grow distant and refuse to
exchange even the ordinary civilities
of daily intercourse. Black looks and
new books go together in Mr. Tark
ington's experience.
...
The jacket of May Sinclair's novel
ette, "The Tenderfoot." bears the
legend: "Miss Sinclair is always at
the frontier of the thinking of her
Bowery Drunks Are Fewer
Since Prohibition. -
Ffimoos Old MlMlon IVow Mas tbe
Time to Help Other Unfor
tunate. -
EW TORK, Nov. 20. At the old
Bowery mission, for more than
four decades the leading lower east
side haven for destitute drunkards.
lecture classes in elementary sociol
ogy and philosophy and educational
work among the ghetto's women and
children are taking the place of or
supplementing the work done there
heretofore for men without homes- or
food.
"Flops and eats," as shelter and
food are referred to by the old-time
denizens of the Bowery, are no long
er to be the chief solace afforded to
"hop heads" and "bums" by this in
stitution.
Directors of the famous place have
acknowledged time for more than
feeding and sheltering-from night to
night a horde of "floaters" and "bos."
Since its establishment 41 years ago
Bowery mission workers have been
rushed with seemingly ceaseless ef
forts to find food and sleeping room
for long lines of those classed as
down and out. Now, they say, the
advent of prohibition has brought op
portunity to lift their heads.
John O. Hallimond, mission super
intendent, and Anson C. Baker, secre
tary, outlined the nci situation.
'There's still plenty of 'hotch' on the
Bowery," they said, "and plenty of
drinkers to care for. But it's harder
to get than it used to be.
"We have almost as many men to
look after as ever. When the saloon
went it did not take with it drugs
and the like. But a far greater per
centage of them are sober, clear-eyed
and clear-brained. We are increasing
our educational work among the old
timers whose heads used to be so
steeped in liquor that they would re
tain nothing but the address of the
mission.
"We now have more opportunity to
look around, a chance for educational
work among women and to start at
the bottom with the rising genera
tion." Sixty-year-old "Christian John
Wentz, a.- follower of- the mission for
half his life and still hanging on,
added his word to that of Air. Halli
mond and Mr. Baker.
"The bum business is dead," . he
said. "But if a guy had told me ten
years ago that the day would come
when there wasn't enough bos and
cokies on the Bowery to keep this
place busy, and that the ' mission
would decide to go to taking care of
women and children, I'd iiave said
he'd been 'coking' himself, or hitting
the pipe."
sufficient for the day, yet some drag
in the griefs of yesterday and tomor
row. A brisk walk in the bracing
air wlil throw off morbid feelings. An
obscure bard has written:
But I notice when the atmosphere has
cleared.
That the bad luck I had looked tor didn't
, come and knock me flat.
And 1 didn't have the trouble that I
feared. .
Oh, 1 like to start the morntns with an
apprehensive sigh.
For I find a bit of -worry to my taste.
But 1 cannot help a-thlnking as tiie years
go speeding by.
That an awful lot of worry goes to waste."
There is some excuse for borrowing
money or its equivalent sometimes,
but there is never any excuse for bor
rowing trouble. More graves are dug
every year for people who worry
themselves to death than for those
who work themselves to death. Don't
let your imagination run away with
your common sense. Are you in dread
of the morrow? Remember the old
maxim: "Never cross a bridge till you
get to it." Are you always moaning
over the ' misfortunes of yesterday !
There's no use crying over spilled
milk," ts a wise saying. Profit by the
lesson of yesterday, but live for to
day. Jesus did not speak flippantly
of earthly troubles, when he said
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof." He would impress upon us
valuable lessons. We should work,
and fight, watch and pray for today
we have no tomorrow. - Make.the past
your teacheir but what about tomor
row? Remember Moses said, "As thy
days, so shall thy strength be." We
must live within the limits of our
capacities, walking in the light of
silence and revelation God's truth
and obedient to the moral law.
Today Grandest of All.
The sunbeams turn to white in the
lily, blue in the violet, and red In the
rose; and so the grace of God turns
the varying events of life to beauty
In those who love him. The days that
have sped into departed years should
be looked upon as a preparation for
today. This day is the grandest day
of all time, for it is the focal point
of 6000 years of toil and privation
study and progress. Each dawning
day should find us a little wiser.
little stronger, a little more patient
and serene than yesterday. Accept
ing the events of life which are be
yond our control, as- they come to us
and without complaint, is true philos
ophy. A colored auntie was taking
her first ride on a fast train, when it
jumped the track and went flowing
into the ditch. After the crash, auntie
picked herself up, opened her box of
lunch, and began eating a drumstick.
The conductor came rushing along
and asked, "Were you hurt In the
smashup, auntie?" "Law, no!" she re
plied In astonishment.; "Wuz there a
smashup? I to't dese ycre combusti
ficationa all went right along wif de
ticket.
"To them that love God shall all
things work together for good." is
the sacred promise. It is the pledge
of God that temporal adversity will
become spiritual prosperity, under his
providence. The darker the day, the
c-rer is your call to shine. The
trouble-borrower may brighten the
desponding hour, by listening to the
old clock on the stair. ' Early one
morning the old clock suddenly
stopped ticking. The face of the
clock turned pale, and the hands ex
tended wildly. "What's the matter?"
asked the face of the clock.. The pen
dulum replied, "I was thinking of
the day s .work before me, and find
i must tick S6.4UU times. Such a
task frightened me, so I stopped tick
ing." Then the face of the clock said
"Are you able to tick-six times?" So
the ' pendulum promptly ticked six
times. "Did that weary you any?
Then you can tick all day easily."
declared the face of the clock, 'tor
you have to tick but once in a sec
ond. And the old clock ticked mer
rily all day long.
Impossible Not Required.
The impossible is not reauired of us.
Bearing responsibility with courage,
and enduring 'misfortune with forti
tude, are the'higher forms of victory.
Eyes washed with tears may see more
clearly Xhat , heavenly land, where
tears are wiped away.
How "lean youth make life a sac
cess? Observe the small proprieties
as well as the greater. Attend to the
little details of work at home, in
school and Jn business. Let ambi
tion impel you, but listen to the voice
of conscience. Ambition achieved at
the expense of conscience has deluged
the world with blood and tears. Be
gin the day prayerfully . Greet your
friends with a cordial smile. Be
gracious to the stranger. If you
would have friends, be friendly. Cul
tivate good humor. The cynic and
the grouch who can endure? Unless
the tree has borne blossoms In the
spring, idon't look to it for fruit in the
autumn.
"Do not put off till tomorrow what
ought to be done today," is true wis
dom, yet many young men are idlers
and dreamers. They build air castles
and dream of pleasure and luxury
but neglect their education, have no
trade nor profession : and expect
something to . turn up. Places of
honor, trust and emolument held by
jurists. statesmen, .-scientists and
captains of industry today will be va
cant tomorrow. Who will take their
places? It wll not be the infers and
areamers.
DOUGLAS STREAMS CITED
Continued From First Tae
words, were phrenology the rage.
Miss Sinclair would give us heroes
with heads as bumpy as a Kafir
KnoDKerry. were palmistry the thine-
it would be palms up from Ktart tn
finish. Some persons will mil thi
book the frontier and others will call
it tne limit. &o tnere you are.'
Mark Twain and some other writ
ers, as Christopher Morlev ohwr
have done a good deal of .writing in
bed. But he also pointed out that
Opal Whiteley is the first author who
nas aone most of her writing under
the bed.
...
There is a new feminist ma
published in England, "Time and
Tide." Good name! Do von trot it?
Fact keeps right on the heels of
the most Impossible fiction (nr
drama) and it seems as though what
r iioe saia is almost true
about art not being the product of
nature but nature being the outcome
of art.
Edna Kerber has no sooner written
her "$200 a Year" and sowed the seeds
of bolshevism among the college pro
fessors, than along comes the report
that the faculty of Prince of Wales
college, in Charlottetown. Can., has
closed the college and walked out In
a body, on strike for an Itivmn in
salary. Probably some of them will
go on enacting Miss Ferber's plot 'and
find more remunerative work in the
mills and the "movies." or thorn
ought to be a feature value for the
vaudeville stage in a professor on
sinae.
Samuel T. Grover, president and
editor or the Richmond, Va.. Evening
journal, gives us mis personal re
miniscence of Eugene Field: "He was
a delightful writer but a sore trial
to the managing editor because of
his morning peregrinations, from one
desk to another, boring the editorial
staff for subject matter for his col
Evil Must Be Barred.
The Bible warns against evil evil
customs, manners, habits, beliefs;
against evils that menace health,
good name, business success and hap
piness in this world and the. next
"Sufficient - unto the day is the evil
thereof," said Jesus. We should bal
ance our accounts with God every
day. Don't carry a stock of evil over
to the morrow. And don't borrow
troubla. But who borrows troubla?
Thei evil-doer. Listen to' Cicotte, the
star pitcher of the Chicago ball team,
just indicted for selling out his team
to the gamblers: "I have lived a
thousand years in the last year," said
Cicotte. "The disgrace is awful. I
hate it worse because of my two
babies than myself." Beware then
how you devise an ev.il thing, you are
borrowing trouble, and laying up
something to worry about the rest of
your life. Be imbued with that love
which thinketh no evil.
"Let not the sun go down upon your
wrath." The morrow may be too late
to recall the hasty word, or make
amends for the wounded heart. An
apology Is manly. Conciliation is the
main street in every good neighbor
hood. How can a man's better na
ture overcome his baser self when his
heart is cold and his love is dead?
Your injured friend will forgive you,
so will- the injured God. You have
spent years in the life of sin, now be
fair -to yourself and try the way of
godliness a little while. Evil has
hogtied you. Truth Willi make you
free. .Try it. - -
Goojd Overcomes Evil.
Evil which makes some persons
gloomy comes of an overmastering
selfishness. You have known men
who lost sleep planning to increase
their bank accounts but not many
who lost sleep planning to help a poor
neighbor. But Jesus said: "Bear ye
one another's burdens." He did not
place a premium upon riches, nor did
he upon poverty but he did place
a premium upon that "love which
kind." We are not to live-by miracle.
but by work. Sympathy is good for
an aching heart, but only food fills an
empty stomach. Don't sit down and
wait for angels to feed you. .or an
earthquajce to shake the potatoes out
ot the ground.- Get busy and help
God to "overcome evil with good.
Worry never solves the problem
nor helps the situation, nor makes
you stronger to bear the strain and
shock but worry confuses the mind,
destroys the appetite and bodily func
tions, disturbs tha nervous system
and unfits for service. How shall we
be rid of worry? Some cases of
worry, like melancholia, have their
cause's in illness and require the at
tention of a physician. Some pious
people thought their neighbor was
"possessed of the devil," but she was
in a precarious nervous condition and
needed not repentance, but medical
aid. "Sojne cases of borrowing trou
ble, like the "blues," may be cured
by eating less and taking more exer
cise. Pious people sometimes imagine
their gloom and long-facedness is a
sign that they are r.eligious when it
only proves they are bilious and have
liver complaint. But many people
are very miserable and borrow much
trouble owing to the memory of
wrong and Wickedness. And it proves
true that "evil shall slay'the wicked."
Jesus offered words of comfort to
the trouble borrower ' when he said:
"In the world shall ye find -tribula
tion peace I give unto you.
"The
Breath of
Life
55
A Play in
Three Acts
By the Author of "The Riddle -
Time: The present.
Place: The parlor.
ACT I.
The curtain rises. Dinner is over and father is
seated before a blazing; fire tugging at his pipe.
. Mother is sewing and attempting to engage father
in conversation without much success until she
finally asks: "Why is it that the children always
want, to go out to movies, parties and automobile
Tides just as soon as dinner is over? Is there
nothing at home to interest them? I wonder if you
know the reason?" Father is at last moved to a
reply. "I have often thought of that very thing,
but it's beyond me to tell you why it's so." Just
then' grandfather, who lives nearby, stops in on his
way home, and as he greets them, the curtain falls.
"ACT II.
Curtain! Grandfather learns the cause of their
worry and loses no time in offering a suggestion.
"All my life," lie begins, "I have loved books not
books as you know them, but beautiful old lovable
books, brimming with adventure, romance and his
tory. It must be something most exceptional to
tear me' away from such company during an eve
ning. Even now I'm late for my engagement with
Mr. Pickwick, bul he won't mind when he' hears
that I'm putting in a good word for books in gen
eral. Buy books for the children books they will
keep and love and they'll stay at home." The
curtain falls as Grandfather is hurrying to ' Mr.
, . Pickwick.
- . . ACT. III.
, The curtain rises upon the same scene, but what
a change greets the audience. A week has elapsed
and a small but careful addition has been made to
the family library. A happy circle about the fire,
each one reading, has taken the place of the lonely
evenings mother and father used to spend alone.
The breath of life has been put into a love that was
dead. Each one is lost in his own newly discovered
world the greatest world the world of books.
. Curtain! . '
The J. K. Gill Co.
Third and Alder Streets
ri
Daily Mail. It was built for a Bel
gian millionaire to take a. party game
shooting" in Africa, and is now owned
by a former naval officer, who is to
use it for battlefield tourists. Trie
car seats 15 persons and at night nine
can sleep on spring" beds with every
comfort.
LOBBYING BAR SOUGHT
Argentina Asked to Prevent Of
ficials Aiding Private Kirms.
BUEXOS AIRES. Nov. 20. Presi
dent Irlgoyen has asked the Argen- cerns in which he was interested.
tine congress to pass a law designed
to prevent officials of the govern
ment or their employes from using
their influence in favor of private in
terests where business transaction
with the government aro involved.
They would be forbidden under ithe
measure from taking any part in
such transactions either directly or
indirectly.
The measure was presented shortly
after a legislative committee had
been appointed to investigate charges
made in the chamber of deputies that
Domingo 13. Salaberry, minister of
finance, had favored business con-
North Fork, 14 miles long, and South
Fork. 20 miles long. Boulder creek,
five miles long, is next; then Cavltt
creek, 15 miles long, which flows into
Little river near Peel. Cavltt has two
named feeders, McKay creek, two
miles long, and Jim creek, four miles
long. Next is Wolf creek, four miles
long, then Fish creek, five miles long,
and Kmlle creek, nine miles long, all
three flowing into Little river.
In township 26 south the first
named stream is Coos river which
flows through that township, but it
is a Coos county stream. It has one
named feeder in Douglas county.
Cedar, creek, ten miles long, and
Cedar has one named feeder, Lake
creek, five miles long. The name of
the next stream is not legible, but
the last four letters are Imer. so I
will .call it Imer creek. It is eight
miles long and debouches into Bear
creek, three miles long, the two form
ing Hubbard creek, which will be
taken in township 25. Dixon creek is
next, three miles long, then Clover
creek, three miles long. Cooper creek.
four miles long, Huntley creek, five
miles long; Bradley creek, three
miles long; French Branch creek, four
miles long, and Rock creek, 20 miles
long. These streams all flow Into
Canyon creek. Rock creek has three
named feeders. Harrington creek, six
miles long, Conley creek, five miles
long and Miller creek, three miles
lon Fall creek, six miles long, flows
one named tributary. Clear creek,
ten miles long.
I have not given the length of
Canyon creek, for no person- can tell
by any of the maps I can find, where
It ends; and it is much the same with
Little river. Apparently these two
streams come together at the town
ot Glide, in section 19, township 26
EOuth, range 3 west. Up to that
point Canyon creek is about 35 miles
long, and Little river about 25. Just
where Canyon creek (I take it that
is the name after the two streams
come together) flows into the Ump- 1
qua or one of its forks, no person
can tell from any map I can find.
I wish some person living at or near
Glide or Winchester or Oak Creek
(postoffice) would write me and clear
this matter up.
But something else has bothered
me still more and that is the true
paths and names of the various Ump
qua streams the main stream and
forks. I have Just received a .letter
from J. H. Booth, president of the
Douglas National bank, Roseburg. in
response to a letter of Inquiry 1 wrote
him.
I have not had time to thoroughly
go over this letter, but 1 note the
last paragraph of his letter, as fol
lows: "The south fork (of the Ump-
qua) does not flow by Winchester;
that Is where the north fork runs
down from the Cascades and goes
on to join with the south fork a
few miles below. The north fork
as stated, is the main stream, much
Warm Springs creek. I have all
along been under the impression, that
th6 .long -stream in -the maps called
by that name is really one of the
Unipquas; cither that or Steamboat
creek.
into Little river from the south. There
is another Fall creek, three miles , larger, next to tne Willamette, bod
long, flowing into Canyon creek about
13 miles west of the one of same
name flowing into Little river.
Next is Fairview creek, four, miles
long, then Williams creek, three miles
long- Warm Springs creek flows
into Canyon creek In section 1, town
ship . 26 south, range 1 west. - It
comes in from unsurveyed land in
the Umpqua national forest. It rises
near the' summit of the Cascade
mountains about 35 miles east of
its mouth. It is probably 40 miles
leng. It has four named feeders
Copeland creek, 12 miles long. Fish
creek, 15 miles long and Thielsen
creek, 20 miles long. Fish creek has
thinks, in volume of all strictly Oregon
etreams. He has been Us entire
length. It is a wonderfully pretty
and great fishing stream on its up
per reaches. - Then there -is the east
fork of the Umpqua, sometimes called
locally "Little river,' and it flows into
the north fork at Glide, 20 miles east
of Roseburg."
So It will be seen there is really
no such stream as Little river; and
the Canyon creek I mentioned as
flowing into Little river is the north
fork.
I hope som - good friend will draw
at. outline map of all of the Umpqua
streams and of Canyon creek and
CHINA SEEKS KNOWLEDGE'
: !
Money Voted to Sustain College at
University or Paris.
PARIS. Nov. 20. Paul Painleve.
former premier of France, has re
turned to Paris frortv bis mission to
China, having completed a full round
trip of the world. On the outward
journey he went by way ot America, 1
but returned through Suez.
He told the correspondents that
China had undertaken to set aside
100,000 francs yearly to support an
institute for higher education for
Chinese in Paris. A section depen
dent on the Universary of Paris is to
be created in one of the Chinese uni
versities and a sum of 600.000 francs
has been voted for this purpose on
condition that France promise a He
sum.
CROWN "JEWEL" IS GLASS
Magnificent Aquamarine Worn by
Kin? James II Stolen.
LONDON. Nov. 20. Sir George
Tounghusband, keeper of the Jewel
House at the Tower of London, has
revealed the fact that one of the
British crown Jewels, of which he is
custodian, is an imitation.
The stone was believed to be a
magnificent aquamarine, but proved
on examination to be only a piece of
colored glass. It figured first in the
crown of King James II. The mystery
of when the imitation wm substituted
for the real stone has not been solved.
.
Touring Car Has Cocktail Bar.
PARIS. Complete with "cocktail
bar," the largest touring motor car in
the world is now in Paris, says the
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