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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09

Once more the record for the
transatlantic passage has been
broken Last Thursday the Cunar-
der Lusitania arrived at New York
after a run of four days, eleven
hours and forty-two minutes.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09

Burglars broke into the Lacka-
wanna station Monday night, but
failed to make haul.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09

Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this Office. Half tones supplied.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09
GENERAL NEWS.

Reports state that terrific erup-
ton of volcano in Java has caused
hundreds of deaths.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09

The French aviator, M. Lefe-
bure, who has made many Success
ful flights, and who was one of the
contestants two weeks ago at the
Rheims aerial meet, was killed on
Tuesday by his airship crashing to
the earth
Owing to advancing age, four,
and possibly five of the Justices of
the Supreme Court of the United
States will retire in the near future.
Chief Justice Fuller is among this
number President Taft will ap-
point their successors.
Mrs. F. B. Streeter has pre-
sented to the Bradford County Bar
Association the law library of her
son, the late Henry Streeter, as a
memorial to her husband, Hon.
+. B. Streeter, who was president
Judge of the Bradford judicial dis
trict.
SO great was the loss of life in
the flood around Mexico last week
that the authorities have ordered
all bodies cremated in order to re-
store sanitary conditions, as disease
/ has broken out. Fifteen hundred
bodies have been recovered, all of
which were burned upon huge
pyres.
The Lackawanna Railroad Com
pany bas sunk wells over 100 feet
deep on a mountain near Scranton
and water is gushing out of theui
at the rate OF $4,000 gallons an
hour. The sinking OF the wells took
over two years. The wells will
supply the company with water
enough for all its operations, will
lot to spare.
Bologna sausage is valued ir
Lancaster county in proportion tc
its age. At a public sale of Samue
Levenight estate, near Elizabeth
town, held last Thursday afternoon
extra high prices were paid for
almost everything sold. Mr.. ]. E.
Ulrich, who makes speciality O
buying up relics, capped the climax
by bidding bologna up to 80 cents
per pound. The fact that this
bologna was reputed to be over one
hundred years old accounts for the
high price paid.
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THE COLUMBIAN.

BLOOMSBURY, FA.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1909
catered a. the Post OGce, bloomsbury, Pa.
asseoondc class matter, March l, 1885.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09
Descriptions:

Two story and attic, bricl
and frame. 13 rooms. LO
about sc by 2l2 feet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09
LOCatiOn:

West Third Street betwees
Jefferson and West Streets,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-09-09

Albert Solleder and Joseph White
left for State College yesterday.
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served by 'Syrinx'' 1t is not that one
is disturbed by the erratic doings of Miss
Herrick. or bored by the pedantry of
Akenside. or the brusquerie of Seward.
or the smooth egotism of Laleham. but
that the story fails to proceed with suf-
ficient directness. The reader tires of
the lack of true development. The tale
ends with Miss Herricks marriage. and
yet it might have gone on for many
more chapters. Probably there is another
novel to follow. dealing with Miss Her
rick become a wife She is capa BILE Of
producing situation in that relation
ship worthy OF separate tale.
THE LODGER OVERHEAD, and 9th
ers. BY Charles Belmont Davis au
thor of The Stage Door, etc. Illus
trated. New York: Charles Serb
ners Sons. Washington Woodward
& Lothrop.
Mr.. Davis short stories are among the
best written today for the American
fiction-reading public. They are brisk
with action. sentimental without being
ins!pid. and they disclose character-read-
ing powers in the writer which are not
always discernible in those who adopt
are ten tales. of which THE Essential
Sense" and "The Dancing Man" are per-
haps' the best. The Lodger Overhead
is sufficiently aliegorical in its suggestion
to place it in class apart. 1t hardly
fits into the volume with the other tales
OF unquestionably real flesh -andbloOd
men and women. THE Band is An
amusing and tender story of young
woman earning few dollars as pianist
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which he has worn always in this coun-
try and which he asks for when about to
leave for the country--beyond. There
are two lovers. Carey Gordon. wealthy
rice planter. and Numa La Blanc. a
handsome wild creature. who represents
the chief trouble in Aline's life. Aline
herself. combines with the gentle blood
OF a daughter of the south the untram-
meied freedom and almost Eve-like inno-
cence OF creature reared in the green
vastness of the grand woods Her one
guardian is the faithful old Telesse, who
ioNes her AS daughter and reveres her
almost as saint
SiR1Nx. BY Lawrence North. Fronts
piece by John Rae. New York: Duff
field & Co.
III Is useless to try to account for Miss
Herrick. who is better known to her
friends of the yper-unccnventional set
as Aspasia She is a problem in femi-
nnlty. an altogether unlikely combination
of scholarship and emotionalism an
id!er and worker. Yet this does not
argue that she could not exist 1t is
futile to set down any combination of
personal characteristics as impossible
But IT does seem as though there were
more probable types for the craftsman
ship of this clever writer to present than
the erratic. unsatisfactory illogical
whimsical woman. Mr. North is new
in the novel-making world. and possibly
ne seeks to strike the public.s attention
by his unusualneSs. He writes so we'll
that il is pity he does not turn his
gift fer brilliant dialogue and clear char
acterizatlon to better ends than those
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at southern summer resort. The
White Light of Publicity" states a phase
of llow-journalism enterprise coupled
with press-agent cleverness, that will su2-
gest infinite possibilities to the uniniti-
ated reader. THE Greatest of These"
has certain qualities Of exceptional merit.
yet 1t is not altogether convincing as
study of life. 1t is hardly believable that
woman capable of as great love as
that which Miss Ferguson entertained
for Crichton would have allowed him to
pass out OF her life because of what
people might continue to say of him
on the score of youthful folly and
long-forgiven crime.
THE LITTLE BLUE BIRD, a Fairy
Play in Five Acts. BY Maurice Mae
terlinck. Translated by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos. New York: Dodd.
Mead & Co. Washington: Brentano's.
fairy comes TO the little son and
daughter of a woodcutter. after they
have been put to bed, and induces them
to go upon a quest for the blue bird.
which will cure her daughter. They are
accompanied in their search by the dog
and the cat. by bread and water by light
bird. which is happiness. to tile land
of memory. where the dead sleep until
some one on earth remembers them; to
the palace of night. where there are
terrible things that frighten and menace
the seekers; to the forest, where the
trees and creatures combine to wreak
vengeance upon the mortals who would
take the blue bird and increase mans
power; to the graveyard, where there
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CHAPTER XIX.
Declaration of War,

Joy Ogilvie was SD tired out that her
body lay like log all night. How her
mind was occupied she only knew after
ward. For the memory OF dreams is an
unconscious memory at the time: ii is
only when there Is opportunity Of COM
parison with actualities that dreams can
be reproduced. Then, at first, the
dreams are real-as they are forever while
memory lasts. Indeed. regarding dreams
and actualities. one might almost appeal to
scientific analogy, and in comparing the
world of imagination-whch is the king
dom of dreams-with the material world,
might adduce the utterance of Sir Oliver
Lodge i'm comparing the density of ether
with that of matter in the modern sclenti-
tic view: Matter is turning out to be
hlmy thing in comparison with ether"
This might well serve scientific
comparison. Nay more, ii might we'll be
an induction. The analog;es OF nature
are SO marveously constant. as exempli-
fed by the higher discoveries in physics.
that we might easily wander farther than
in taking the inner world of thought as
compared with the outer world of physical
being. as an analogy to the seen and un-
seen worlds.
In the meantime may take II that
joys dreams that night were in some
way reflective of the events of the day.
No girl of healthy emotional power could
fail to be influenced by such sequence
of experiences of passion and fear as she
had gone through. The realized hoping of
love. the auick-answerlng abandonment
of expressed passion: long long minutes
of the bliss of communion with that other
soul-minutes whose sweetness or whose
length could not be computed until the
leisure of thought gave opportunity. Tn
conscious cerebration goes on unceasng-
ly, and be sure that with such data as
she had in her mind, the workings of imag-
ination were quick and by means
cold. Again she lived the moments of
responsive passion, but so lived them that
she had advanced further on the road to
completed passion when her unconscious
ness to physical surroundings began 10
disappear and on the senses the actuali-
ties began TO consciously impress them
selves. The dawn, stealing in between
the chinks of the folded shutters, made
strange lines on the floor without p'erc ng
through the walls of sleep The myriad
sounds of waking life from distant field
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are vague terrors for the wayfarers.
but without substance; TO the kingdom
of the future, where the children are
being sent forth to life equipped with
their qualities and potentialities. And
at last after year of wandering.
which seems TO the parents at home but
a nights sleep. the boy and the girl
find that the blue bird has been there
all the time. But the blue bird escapes
when it is turned over to the daughter
of an old neighbor woman who looks
wonderfully like the fairy
This remarkable allegory is told with
all of Maeterlinck's delicacy of style and
range of imagination. The attributes OF
the things and creatures, which are given
life are vividly set forth. III this play
were put upon the stage. with all of the
authors lavish scenic effects. il would
be one of the most remarkable stage per-
formances ever undertaken. AS read
ing production it is an unceasing de-
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to whom has been given the commission
for the sculpture for the pediment of the
House wing OF the Capitol. and it is here
that he will execute this work and have
it cut in marble. Indeed. it was largely
on account of this commission and his de-
sire to make it possible for those most in
terested to follow the work. step by step,
that Mr. Bartlett decided to establish him
self in Washington and have this studio
constructed.
1t is interesting and encouraging to
know that this commission was given. as
all should be. without restrictions. A
sculptor having been selected who had
manifested through his previous produc-
tions sufficient merit to induce confidence,
the problem merely was given him and
the method of solution left to his own
judgment. The result. moreover, is here
seen to justify the action, for already Mr..
Bartlett has prepared sketch model
which has met with hearty approval. 1t
shows a group of figures representing the
people of the nation-those whom the
members of Congress actually represent.
There is, of course central allegorical
figure. statuesque and dignified. eptomiz-
ing the principal thought but to the left
the stock raisers. the producers of raw ma
terial. and on the other side are the
builders. miners steel workers. day la
borers. There are twenty more fig
ures, all told, and they are so arranged
that they fall naturally into groups and
at the same time form a single compost
ton. An OK and a lamb are introduced on
one side. piece of machinery and imple-
ments of labor on the other. but these
have been brought in naturally without
apparent forced effort. Meaning is essen
tial to such work as this. but 1t must not
be too obvious-it must not. at the ex-
pense of all else. demand attention. And
1t is this which Mr.. Bartlett most per-
fectiy comprehends and has borne in
mind. First and foremost his conception
is sculptural and decorative. The masses
are well balanced. the lines are rhyth-
mical and the play of light and shadow
kept in mind. And in addition to this the
composition has been we'll fitted to its
space-there is no feeling that the figures
have been cramped to suit it. Further
been regarded. SO that seen sidewise,
well as from the front, the masses fall
nicely into place. This Is accomplished
by pushing some Of the figures back and
bringing others forward so that the sur
face line is undulating. thus preventing all
portions of the designing being seen at
once To model full size and superintend
the cutting of these figures will take at
least two years, and in the meantime Mr.
Bartlett has other commissions TO execute.
Indeed, at present he is finishing an
equestrian statue of Mcclellan, to be
erected in Philadelphia, upon which he
has been working for a considerable
length of time. This is cast in plaster
and being colored green gives quite an
adequate conception of how. when cast in
bronze, it will appear. 1t Is colossal ard
will stand upon pedestal fifty feet in
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LADY ATHLYNE
By BRAN STOKER.
at Ill reserved


and surrounding street brought no message
to the closed eyes of weariness. The sun
rose. and rose and rose, and still she lay
there unmoving.
At last that unaccountable impulse
which moves all living things to sentence
at the ending of sleep. stirred her. The
waking grew on her. At first, when her
eyes partially opened. she saw. but with
out comprehending. the dim room with It's
low ceiling: the wide window, masked in
with the early light; the odd furniture ard
all the unfamiliar surroundings. Then
came the inevitable self-question: Where
am IL"
The realization of waking from such
dreaming as hers is rude and jarring
process and when ii does come, comes
with something of shock. For what
seemed long time JOY lay in sort Of
languorous ecstasy while memory brought
back to her those moments of the previ-
oGs day which were sweeter even than
her dreams. Again she heard the foot
steps of the man she loved coming up
rapidly behind her. Again she she
turned. in obedience TO some new impulse
which swayed her to surrender. the face
Of the man looking radiant with love and
happiness. Again she felt the sweet sat
israction of living and loving
when his arms closed round her and her
arms closed round him and they strained
each other strictly. Again there came to
from her earthly being as his mouth
touched hers and they kissed each other
In the absolute self-abondonment of re-
ciprocated passion = the very passing
memory of which set her blood tingling
afresh: the thrill which set her soul float
ing In the expanse of air and made all
conventions of the artificial world seen
far below seem small and miserable and
OF neither power nor import. Again she
was swept by that tide of wild desires.
vague and nebulous as yet, inchoate.
elusive. expansive. all-absorbng. which
proclaimed her womanhood to herself.
That desire of wife to husband. of sex to
sex. OF woman to man, which is the final
expression of humanity-the love song OF
the children of Adam. 1t was as though
memory and dreaming had become one.
AS If the day had merged in the night.
and the night again I'm the coming day:
each getting as II came all the thoughts
and wishes and fancfes and desires which
follow in the train of the all-conquering
love-god
In such receptive mood Joy awcke to
life. When she realized where she was;
and when the import OF her new sur
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Weeks Arrest BY General Charl ,s
King. author OF The ColoneIs
Daughter etc. Philadelphia: J. IS
Lippincott Company.
THE LADY OF THE HEAVENS. Ry H.
Rider Haggard. author of She. etc.
New York. Frank r. Lowell Com
pany.
THE RECOVERY; a story of Kentucky.
Bv Joseph A. Altsheler. author of
"A Sun of Saratoga. etc. New
York: Frank F. Lowell Company.
THE EMMANUEL MOVEMENT IN 4
NEW ENGLAND TOWN, SAs-
tematic Account of Experiments and
Reflections Designed to Determine
the Proper Relationship between the
Minister and the Doctor in the Light
of Modern Needs. BY Lyman p.
Powell, Rector Of st. Johns Church
Northampton. Mass. author OF
christian Science: The Faith and
ITS Founder. etc. New York: G. p.
.Putnam's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward 4 Lothrop.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: Study of
the Larger Mind. BY Charles Horton
Cooley. professor of sociology in the
University of Michigan. author of
Human Nature and the Social Or
der New York: Charles Scribners
Sons Washington: woodward a
Lothrop.
THE SHORT CUT. BY 6. Elliot Flint.
New York: The Romance Press.
RALPH RANsCOMB. BANKER. BY
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ordinate rulings in the court of cosmic
law And the principle holds whether
the arms be opposed or locked together
in any form Of passion. When love lifts
the souls, whose bodies are already in
earthly communion, law ceases to be.
From the altitude Of accomplished seren-
ity the mightiest law is puny: just as
from a balloon the earth looks fiat, and
even steeples and towers have no per-
spective.
clasped In each others arms. The world
they lived in at the moment was their
world. bounded only by the compass Of
their arms. After all what more did they
want-What could they want. Tney were
together and alone. Shame was not for
them or to them. who loved with all their
hearts-whose souls already felt as one.
For shame. which is a conventional or
dering Of the blood. has no place--not
even servtor's-in. the house Of love:
that palace where reigns the love of
husbandhood ind wifehood. of father
hood and motherhood-that true. realized
cosmOs-the aim, the objective. the
heaven of human life.
Their circumstances but intensified the
pleasure of the embrace. Athlyne and
Joy had both felt the same communion OF
spirits when they embraced al their first
meeting out of Amblesde WHEN their
souls had met. This had been intensified
when they sat In close embrace after
lunch beyond Dairy. when heart con-
sciously beat to heart Now Ii was COM
pleted in this meeting. unexpected and
therefore more free and unhampered by
preparatory thoughts and intentions.
when body met body in close il :en-
tative communion. The mere paucity of
raiment had force and purpose. They
could each feel as they hung together
closely strained the beating OF each
others heart: the rising and falling of
each others lungs. Their breaths com,
mingled as they held mouth to mouth. In
such delirious rapture-for these two
ardent young people loved each other
with love which both held to be but
the very beginning of an e,ernal bond
and which took in every phase, actual
and possible. of human beings-there was
no place for forethought or afterthought.
1t was the hour of life which is under the
guidance of nature; to he looked forward
TO with keen if ignorant anticipation;
and which Is To be looked back on for
evermore a time when the very
heavens opened and the singing of the
angelic choir came through unmufied
For seconds, in which time seemed to
stand STILL they stood body to body and
mouth 20 mouth. The first to speak was
the man:
Il thought you were in England by late
in the evenng-and YOU were there all
the time.'' He indicated the direction
by turning his eyes toward her room. His
words seemed TO fire her afresh. Holding
him more closely to her. she leaned back
from her hips and gazed at him lam
guorously: her words dropped slowly
from her opened lips:
"Oh-h. II we had only known" What
exactly was in her mind she did not know
did not think of knowing-did not want
to know. Perhaps she did not mean any
think definite. II was only an expression
of some feeling. of some wan; some emo
ton. some longing-some primitive ut
terance couched In words of educated
thought. as sweet and spontaneous as
the singing of bird in its native woods
at springtime.
Ito be continued tomorrow
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1t is curious thing that oftentimes
when an artist has failed in larger work
he. she has turned to miniature
painting. little realizing that it is even
more exactng than work in water colors
or oils. This. and the prevalent use OF
photography as a crutch. accounts for the
lack of strength In this special held and
explains to an extent the charm of Miss
Miss Foster had good academic training
and succeeded in larger work. both In
landscape and portraiture: and. second
arily. she works whenever opportunity
good. her manner direct and her style
distinctive. Some of her miniatures
shown on Tuesday were rendered ap-
parently in thin transparent washes,
whereas others showed the use of body
color and broader manipulation. One
of Mrs. A. r. Foster was rendered In
the former and one of Mrs Ward Brown
in the latter manner. There were two of
little lads which were especially charm
ing-Richard Hubbard, the son of Mrs.
Pittsburg boy. Both were of about the
same age and somewhat similar i'm
coorng. but Miss Foster had been for
tunate in catching expression and por-
trayed in each instance. not only likeness
but individuality Of character.
IN the Office Of the Secretary of War
is now to be seen a portrait of former
Secretary Luke Wright painted by Mr..
Gerard Barry Of this city. 1t is moder-
ate sized canvas showing the head and
shoulders only. but it is well modelled,
verile and straightforward piece of work.
1t Is customary for the departments to
have the portraits Of each outgoing Sec
retary painted and placed on the wall of
the Secretary's office. and this one will
undoubtedly take its place with the best.
Mr. Barry has also recently painted
portrait Of a young woman. which he
which is peculiarly pleasing. 1t pictures
the sitter In large blue hat and white
gown against a landscape background,
after the manner of the famous English
portraiturist, and with scarcely less clev-
erness. Though the Interpretation of
character is. OF course. the thing of all
to be desired in portrait painting. Yet
there is no reason why decorative mo-
tive should be ignored or why. as
in this case. one may not have both a
likeness and lovely picture.
MIR. ERNEST MOORE is just finishing
lVA the portrait. for which he has been
commissioned, Of Secretary Ballenger, for
the Seattle exposition. 1t is little less
than three-quarter length and repre-
sents the Secretary seated In a straight
packed chalr OF Weatnered OAK. One
ha nd rests on the arm of the chair. the
other in his lap. The pose is alert and
apparently characteristic. The face is
turned toward the observer and is ex-
tremely expressive Mr.. Moore has also
painted recently an excellent portrait OF
Dr. Wylie. and is now at work upon an
other of Mr.. d. Frazier Head.
TWO attractive ga rden pictures have
! been painted within the past few
weeks by Mr.. John r. Key, and are now
to be seen at his studio in the Corcoran