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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
@ The Whirlwind By s.ps,sH.sA.. 1s5

had a way of knowing things. or of fore ing his prophecies to come true: even when events seemed determined to warp them out of shape. If he said he could climb any of the trees on her father s place. he kept at 1t till he could. And did
 Arguments for and against abolition are fairly and forcibly presented. little atten- ton being given to the issue of seces- sion. John Mead, the hero-statesman, however. Is disappointing. He is admir- able. in that he rises from the obscurity and degradation of a drunken, ,illiterats percentage. In many instances he evinces the fine homespun brand of American hu- nor and philosophy which is indigenous to our strangely assorted life. His quai- tiles of brain and heart are big-the lat ter too big-and that Is where he begins to displease us. He Is guilty of the most child-like vacillation in his loves. and his downfall Is wrought by his infatuation for a pretty face and form. En passant, we have crow to pick with Mir. Hughes for Sepicting Southern womanhood in the person of Alabama June." as languor- ous. selfish. slack in morals, keeping fe- alty only to the pleasantries and ease of life This type, we must say. Is drawn from his imagination-however much the
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Ehudder ere it was finished. The efforts of the heroine to protect and save the queen were futile, resulting only in her final imprisonment along with the other royal personages. She was eventually pardohed out because of her lowness of birth. At the time of the execution she attracted with her beautiful voice and glorious eyes the attention of the crowds, with the words, '.vive la Reine," and by her exhibition their hearts were so conquered that she as captain led them up to the guillotine and would have de- stroyed it, but her insurrection. born of rhetoric and madness. died at its birth for lack of natural nourishment-organi- zation. She was finally sent to a dungeon as a iunatic; the queen and her royal lover both giillotined. and the ending of the story comes with the words: "Egiee, like great exploding spark, had ignited biaxed up. and burnt out"
 It would seem that the French Revo- lution had already received sufficient at- tention at the hands of novelists. and cer- tainly as this story draws no lesson from that black page of the worlds history, 1t is untimely and uncalled for. The book is thrillingly written, but all the more harmful because of this fact. GA. Wes- sells Co. New York. a.5o)
 Catherine Dillon.
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prS He Civil War has been, for many
 years. a fruitful warehouse of he-
 roic material for the construction of vital novels. The momentous events leading up to the four years struggle, and those developing out of It's finality, were all sunk deep into the very root and branch of the republic. The questions under such bloody debate and the issues which sent sons and fathers clawing at each others throats, were so powerful as to get down to the deepest depth of our common human nature. and Amer lean characteristics were exhibited and accentuated as never before in our ka- leidoscopic history. '~rhe Whirlwind" professes to make use of these principles for the building of novel which-temper- ately and sanely, 1t must be said-tells the story for the people living north of Mason and Dixon's line.
 Incidentally. is presented 8 well timed picture of the typical American states man. In John Mead. the hero of this his- torical romance. we recognise the traits of several of the foremost American pol iticians. blended in such manner as to hint at the many without settling on any one. We are reminded of the sturdy, self-made American in these lines: He
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fierce and exciting the temper, that year old events of once burning interest had been forgotten In more recent confiagra- tions."
 Illustratin the horrible pictures drawn, the following is a mild example:
 Change Change! Change! The sound of the angelus has ceased, and the cry of the cannibal Is heard in the land. The gentlest maidens have drunk blood and men have clad themselve in brooches of human leather. Quondam palaces have become prisons packed to the very roof tree; very God Himself has been driven from His Heaven with mockery. and curses; the only divinity dwells now on the earth-divinity real and palpable. no longer unseen and mysterious. the di- vinity of the Right of Insurrection. The world has tumbled in the dark over a precipice-this is the appalling shriek of its fall."
 [ A description of Eglee is given in this: Everywhere in the Faubourg she was known, but her state was one of such disreputable poverty that the triumphant revolution which proclaimed equality to all failed utterly to enhance her prestige" "
 The passages of profanity are too dis gusting to mention, and his pen pictures of the guillotine SO narrowing that many times the book was laid aside with a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
Home Thoughts B, Mrs. James Earle, o..

-s TROUGH year past our mind has
 often recurred to the sound philos- ophy embraced in a series of essays published under the modest title of Home Thoughts" which was one of the new books of the last year. A second series coming with the new year literature we instantly laid hands upon; and after an eager perusal we find ourselves gratefully possessed of a finer. richer view of our own life. and its possibilities, and one can hardly get such a glimpse of "the life worth living without a resolute set ting of ones face to the light, and the planting of ones feet in the climbing path Hamilton Mabie called the author wise-it Is the wisdom of inspiration. Sacred indeed are the subjects with which the writer deals. "The Gifts of Hope" '"The Development of the Individual ,' "Self-Control a Defense" "The Person. ifcation of the VIrtues." Moral Cour- age." ''rhe Unselfish Passion of Mater nal Love-" '@rhe Influence of An Attract i've Married Woman" '"rhe Ebb Tide" These subjects and others as unique and important are treated with an ethical insight seemingly beyond human ken. The effect of these Thoughts upon the mind is to give good understanding"
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of many of the phases of life. which to most people are incomprehensible. From the chapter on Moral Courage" we have this thought: ''Let us recall with a feaI which shall force us to stand with splen- did courage for high thinking and sim pie living in defiance of the flood of lux ury-what gave birth to the French Rev olution. It Is by the rough way that we reach the stars" r,. .s,
 Never have the women of any coun- try had larger opportunity to take part in the development of national character; 1t is a grand and inspiring work to which they are called. In and from the home and the mother must come, if it Is to come at all, the conservatism of Amer ican character and principles. and in the quiet. steadfast courage of American wo- men lies the hope of the survival of re- publican simplicity of life and the upIift- ing of our race" This extract from ''Self-Control a Defense:" Out of him self or herself-father or mother-has to emanate that force which shall neither beget repression nor quelling of the re- bellious spirit, but shall be an imparted influence that produces in the child a wish to be master of itself" We are told that the writer of these Thoughts" is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
The Religion of Mature Mind sIses sH esst cs: Geo

F Professor Goes book is somewhat disappointing as to title and horta- N tory to style, that is the worst that can be said of it.
 The ultra-conservative might call 1t unorthodox, since the author substitutes the immanent spirit for the anthropo- morphic deity of former days; assumes the truth of the theory of evolution, in which human endeavor and mans moral struggle are essential clements, complet- ing and glorifying the cosmic process, and candidly admits that temperament plays a large part in our religious ex- periences and needs Undoubtedly the modern seeker gets religion" in a diff ferent way from that which appealed to his forbears. Undoubtedly, also, religion gets him in different way.
 The man of today is not afraid to ques- ton any statement that is made to him, whether 1t concern sacred or secular af- fairs. If the premise doesn't appeal to his sense of what is reasonable and right he rejects 1t and takes the conse-
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others come from keen study of life in the rough.
 The plot throughout deals with the gradual rise of this same John. He is carried through the civil war. and there are some exciting battle-descriptions, and good work in the telling of his real sweetheart's devotion and self-sacrifice. His illiterate but oak-hearted mother, contributes much to lifting the book out of tho commonplace. She sticks to her strangely weak and strangely strong son with . loyalty which is touching and out of the ordinary.
 As whole. there is no especial strength or attraction in the book. The plot is sickly, the continuity of events poorly sustained, the forensic and war stories commonplace. with nothing new or orig inal in the substance or the telling. In sparse places there are really beautiful little bits of poetic description of forest and field life and some of the character work Is good. But ono is moved to ask himself why the novel was written--it has no distinct mission. the narrative is not even of expressing interest It be- longs to the class we pick up and put down at leisure. Like the drowsing old Biblical city. it is neither hot nor cold.
 Sam W. Dibble.
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quences."
 Another point stressed by the author is that one need not be born again." or pass through some intense or agonizng experience to become a Christian; nor need one be satisfied as to what special creed he must subscribe to. out follow ing the Christ's own formula, do the things and know of the doctrine" The new education deals first with the con- crete things, then with the abstract. So with the new Ideals in religion-frst do- ing. then thinking. believing. feeling. They come in orderly sequence to the ordinary mind and whether our ideals work from within outward or from out side to inside. the result is the same-we live the life only as we practice 1t daily, hourly.
 It Is absurd to say that we love God and believe in Christ snd do not the things that He says. By our fruits only are we known. What we believe is of little con- sequence so long as 1t does not show forth in a life of service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
AN AUTHORS TASK

Charles F. Lummis, author of a dozen books on southwestern subjects, the ac- knoWledged man of letters In Southern California and an authority on Spanish and aboriginal history in the southwest and Mexico. is building in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Cal. his own house with his own hands-a house. too. of large propor- tions. with thick walls of stone massive foundations of concrete, oaken doorways quaint windows. solid f1oorings and a most durable roof.
 Every day in the week the well-known litterateur is busy at housebuilding, from sunrise to sunset Dressed in mechanic s
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[ Dr. Goes admirable book deals with the doubts and difficulties that beset the average man, to whom religion must mean something more than emotionalism or a metaphysical statement of beliefs
 He strikes the keynote in every chapter when he seeks to impress upon the reader that Christianity is not the refuge of weak natures according to Nietsche's criticism, but that 1t is the expression of mans highest Ideals brought down into every day life, permeating the social fabric and continually working out into right doing as we'll as Tight thinking.
 There is crying need for a religion suited to the man in the street." A re- ligion freed from lacerdotalism and hair splitting vagaries: one that is reasonable as well as mystical, practical as we'll as idealistic; one that the manly man is proud to own as the law of his life Such religion Is interpreted for him in plain, terse English by Professor Coe in a book that will abundantly repay a careful reading. Julia Iverson Patton.
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one who has seen the practical working of both the old order and the new in American social and family life. and there are discussions of many conditions and phases of modern life; all in a wise and healthy vein. The strength and individ- uality of former days are brought up into the present, with a purpose to keep and foster the truths which the past has brought to light; and with a zeal for the wonderful present in which we live
 There is no miasfIla in these books. Tn the chapter on "Ebb Tide there occurs this sentence: There Is something very stimulating in the knowledge that the error of last year belongs to 1t. and that a new path stretches out untrodden and unstained which we may keep clean If we will" The whole impulse of these books is toward hope and richer fruition. while very definitely defining the ele- mentary conditions for these accomplish ments. Seldom is it that the reader of a new book closes the last page with consciousness of a wider mental vision. of more exalted ambition. of deeply stirred spiritual emotion. And with even more hopeful thankfulness for the possibiu- ties of ones own being and for the rev elation thereto. Avon Nosirrah.
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overalls and jumper. tar, hammer and saws and joins woodwork for the door and window frames and carves and fash ions interior wooden parts of his edfice when each Is needed. In fact, he is do- ing all the work on his big and solid house assisted by an Indian boy, from q New Mexican pueblo.
 When a days work with trowel. ax, chlsel or hammer Is finished and dinner with the family in the temporary dwell ing hard by is over, MT. Lummis climbs the stairs in the part of his house already finished. Then at his desk in his den until a. m. he wo'ks away at one of the five books he Is preparing under con tract.
 All together, MT. Lummis has been
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THE SEA.

l stand upon the summit of my life, Behind the camp, the court, the field.
 the grove. The battle. and the burden; vast, afar Beyond these weary ways, behold the
 Sea! The sea, o'erswept by clouds, and winds.
 and wings; By thoughts and wishes manitoba. whose
 breath Is freshness. and whose mighty pulse Is
 peace, Palter no question of the horizon dim Cut loose the bark! Such voyage itself
 Is rest; Majestic motion. unlmpeded scope A widening heaven, a current without
 care. Eternity Deliverance. promise, course Time-tired souls salute thee from ths
 shore. -Brownlee Brown.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15
MERGING from the destructive in- fiuence of the civil war period the

MEhflNG from the oestrucuVe ln-
 huence of the civil war period the
 South has risen to a position Of prominence in the literary world of which 1t may we'll be proud. And, indeed, there can be advanced no sound reason why the South, from a literary standpoint, should not be the most representative section of OUT country. This side or the imaginary Mason and Dixon line have occurred some of the most notable events in American history, and the civiliza- ton of the South has at all times been par excellence of any that has blessed the world. Rich in literary material and num- her and ability of writers, the literature of the section should be able to stand the test of the most rigorous comparison with that of any other and yet receive its diploma as the highest and best Amer tcan type The precedence of Southern writers today is but an earnest of what may come in the future, finger point ing the way to wondreus opportunities which can be made to work out for the South a name and a place in the worlds record of literature of lasting endurance.
 A Great Responsibility.
 The future literary honor or shame of the South in the annals of a history which its writers by their efforts and produc- tions are instrumental in making de- ponds largely upon the self-sacrifice of Southern authors upon the altar Of their noble profession and the highest interest of their section. It Is a fact worthy of constant remembrance that each produc- ton by a Southern writer lowers or lifts the general grade of Southern literature. In this day when many writers and publishers are rushing upon the public 60 much that is the veriest trash, deserv- ing the torch rather than the attention of the reader, the example set by a South ern author well deserves the highest com- mendation. It is stated that, after spend ing much time in the preparation of a novel, he finally saw it completed, and one afternoon sat down to read 1t over When his review of ene work was com plete in an audible but musdng tone of voice, he said:
 'T doubt not that could easily find publisher for this story, and it would probably bring me in a neat sum of money, which I need. But above the love of money or even the supply of my actual wants comes my responsibility to my sec- tion and to literature. The story is not an excellent one, and unless I can produce work which will reflect credit upon my section I will not produce any at tall, D. and so saying he silently laid the type written manuscript upon the fire. This nttle incident IS very apt one in illus tration of the idea of personal sacrifice on the part of authors. The next day this author commenced work on another novel, which is considered by the public his best.
 The south's Opportunity.
 While others are striving to write that which is popular" and publishers are eagerly awaiting its production by pub lication to fatten their purses, the oppor- tunity for Southern writers to take a firm stand in behalf of the highest ntera- ture is both emphasized and broadened. It Is time when Southern writers can
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AN ARAB PRovERB-"MEN
 ARE FOUR.

The man who knows not that he knows not aught- He is fool; no flight shall ever reach him. Who knows he knows not, and would faln be taught He is but simple; take thou him and teach him. But whoso knowing. knows not that he knows He Is asleep; go thou to him and wake him. The truly wise both knows. and knows he knows Cleave thou to him and nevermore for sake him.
 London Spectator.
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lasting impression upon the hearts and minds Of readers. The dove is used to illustrate the thought of purity, as: J 'oh to be as pure and spotless,
 As must be the heart of the doveV"
 Again. the fox is used as an illustration Of shrewdness. trickery or deceit, as:
 Surely the doer of such deeds as these, foxr' ''-'
 The deer is often used to fasten upon the mind thought as to gentleness or meekness, as; As is the gentle deer"
 Then when 1t comes to the field of ma- | terial nature, the poet has found himself very much at home. In describing the poor man who is longing after the things brought by wealth, Maurice Thompson has sounded beautiful note as to the freedom of nature when he says:
 Though am poor and cannot buy, The rare, time-mellowed things of art: God Keeps an open gallery
 or glories for the poor In heart"
 And another poet in speaking of his love of nature, says.
 T do not count the hours spend In wandering by the seas; The forest Is my loyal friend
 Like God 1t useth me.
 Tn plains that room for shadows make Of skirting hills to lie,
 Bound in by streams which give and take Their colors from the sky: "Or on the mountain crest sublime. Or down the oaken glade Q, what have I to do with time? For this the day was made" Last and least of the dspartmen+s or literature affected are the historical. bio- graphical and anecdotal. In this field the Seton-Thompson productions were the earliest and have led to hundreds of oth- CTS of similar nature. This field has been more heavily overworked than any other. All the magazines have devoted various amounts of space to such articles ana the publishers have issued an unwar- ranted number of books. Some of them nave been artistic gems. giving Mfe-sized pictures or tne animals in their natural coIors. The works have been exceedingly exhaustive in character. describIng sc- curately and minutely the whole history ana life Of the animals and their species You are carried into the holes and nests of the animals, introduced to their iamlnes. including cousins first. second ana third. and. furthermore, are told all their secrets, and the obtrusive but ac- curate kodak has been made to illustrate every phase of their life Articles and books with such suggestive titles az
 'Krag, the Kootenay Ram" and Little Journeys to Forest. Field and Stream [" are to be found everywhere and it is only with the opening up of 1903 that a ces- sation of the flood seems to have begun That literature has suffered from tbis nature craze Is unQuestionably true. as 1t has taken the time and efforts of some of our best writers away from higher efforts. But 1t has been of vast benefit to the world of readers. because if has shown them the wonders and beauty oF nature and her kingdom. and will, 1t is hoped, help in measure, along with other things, to stem the tide of human ity rushing away from the heart of na- ture into the heart of the great man-made centers. There has been created In the bosom of thousands of city dwelIers the desire for a more personal and direct contact with the Kingdom of nature. where dwell all the fascinating creatures of forest. valley and dale.
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A College Equality League.

Cornell has a new woman's organiza- ton. and It's name is the Sage Equality League. Miss Nora Blatch. granddaugh- ter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is the president. but 1t is no secret in college circles that the league is practically un- der the direction of her mother. Mrs. Stanton Blatch. The league does not in- tend to confine It's efforts to college poll ship of woman's rights into municipal and State elections.
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BEST EVIDENCE


ThP best evidence of the acceptability of any brand of sn article of common use is tho quantity sold "GooD LUCK" Baking Powder has, from the start, steadily increased in favor with the House-keepers until 1t now supplies largely more than half of the entire amount of Baking Powder consumed in the entire South GOOD LUCK" is frequently sold in train-load lots, the last of which consisted of One Hundred and sixty-nine Solid carloads.
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hard at work upon his house some thirty months. and upon the broad lines he has laid out for himself he win be house. builder for at least six years more.
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Sympathy Is not so plentiful as one might suppose. The man who suffers from insomnia has no pity for the fellow who has nightmare.
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11

See the Dudley school shoe at
Milirens.
Dollars saved by buying your clothing,
underwear and furnishings at II. w.
Eason & Cos. They are closing out
their entire stock.
Douglass shoes ut Milllrens.
The Wright hand made shoe for work.
men is sold at the Nolan shoe store.
See the selection OF furs at Millirens.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11
VOLUME 12.
Not a Sick Day Since.

II was taken severely sick with
kidney trouble. tried all sorts OF
medicines, none Of which relieved me.
One day saw and ad. of your Electric
Bitters and determined to try that.
After taking few doses felt relieved,
and soon thereafter was entirely cured,
and have not seen sick day since.
Neighbors of mine have been cured OF
rheumatism, Neuralgia, Liver and
Kidney trouble and General Debility
This is what B. f. Bass, OF Freemont,
N. G. writes. Only soc, at II. Alex
Stokes, Druggist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11

That handsome Austrian China In
Halls window will be closed out at a
bargain. Look for it.