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The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
Births

Mr, and Mrs. Bill Simons are re-
specktively the happy father and mother
OF 4 l0-pound baby boy, which arrived
at their residence last Thursday 70 I've
with them II the future for better or
for worse Doc Livernore, our per
fessional vetrins-y surgeon and human
speshislIst, was present and ofTishiated
at the aocsshion- Doc says the boy Is 4
buster and looks 4 good deal Ike his
father We are sorry 10 hear this, be
cause If the boy looks Ike Bill L won't
Be any credit 10 him as he goes through
lire, being as Bill IS one OF the most
honiliest men in Bingviile.
We understand that the child has not
yet been named, and We would humbly
suggest that # be named after Us as q
delicate compliment 10 the BingvilIs
Burle.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
L0kaI items

It looks Ike SLOW as we 60 10 press.
but goodness knows we don't need TO
snow-we have enuf snow on the
ground to last until late IN the spring.
Ham Wilson let Harve Hines, our
tonsorial artist. give him a hair cut last
week We don't know Why N thunder7-
shion Ham Is having his hair cut right
IN rnidwinter. unless he Is IN love
Rumor SAYS that Ham has been paving
sttenshion to a widow down Hard
scrabble wav. II Ham ketChes his death
OF cold By having his hair cut she viii
probly continue 10 be 4 widow.
Mrs. Seth Dewberryr wife OF our
town constable, has returned home after
a weeks visit with Mrs Rame Miller
OF Millersville. Mrs DewberTy would Of
visited away longer but Seth wrote and
commanded her 10 come home-he said
he was 50 tired cooking his own grub
| that he had nearly starved 10 death
Brent Williams visited this Office one
day last week and promised to pay Us
/ 8 on subskripshion some day this week,
which he has not did We are not sur
o-ised. however, because Brent has been
promising to pay US this s. next week
( for the last three years.
Cy Hoskins couldn't seem to get q
I IRE started in the stove tother morning,
so Cv pored on about a pint Of kero-
Senc to help the FIRE along. It helped
| the FIRE along considerable, blowing the
| lids all often the top Of the stove and
singeing Cy's whisI1ers for him c. says
kerosene Is a turrible spiteful thing
when It explodes.
Abe Withercw swapped horses with
| Doc Livermore, our talented horse doc
tor and human speshalist, last week
Next DAY after they had traded. the
horse that Doc got laid down and died
/ Doc says he calklates it was agoing to
die before he traded II Doc also saws
that Abe viii haft to Be a purity sick
man hereafter TO seizure his Professional
service.
Miss Phonicia Hilderbrand was TO OF
sung a solo in the church choir las;
Sunday, but owing to a attak OF sore
throte Phonicia's voice was badly
kracked and so the solo remained un-
sung.
Gid Smalley bit on nail he found
in a plug of tobacco he bot in Hen
Weathersby's store one evening last
week Cid says he gest they put most
anything which they find laying around
IN plug tobacco so they won't have to
Use 50 much tobacco. He says he oncet
found collar button IN a plug OF to-
baoco. also d pants button and other
aTtikles too numerous to mention.
! Jason Tucker, chief of our fire de-
partment, desires US to say It amt 10
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07
MINCEMEAT
FOR SALE


This IS TO notify the general publick
and anybody else desiring mincemezt
that | offer Minceneat for sale in
OF. Jars. Last fall I made hole lot
Of mincemeat and sealed It up IN CT.
Jars and kept It until now, when every
body has used I'd their minccmczt
which IS why I offer It for sale az
35 CTS. PER or,
which is considerable more than I could
Of got for Il several months ago when
there was no demand for minCcmeat
as you might say.
You can't sell Mincemeat when
nobody wants il,
But when other folkses niineemeat is
all used up there Is generally a good
demand Tor mincemeat.
The lars in which this mincemeat
is Jared IS my property, TO be re-
turned TO me sometime n the fuchure
and when you DO return said jars C
ne IN good condishion | viii give YOU
back 10 cts for each Jar, making
the rnincemezt 10 cost You only 3 cts
per at. II you desire nincemeat. see
ne at once, as this Hinoemest Is liable
10 sell ike hot cakes and you would
feel ridicaIas II you was 70 come 10
me next week or wk after and ask me
for a Jar OF mincemeat and I wus 70
tell you that
1T HAD ALL BEEN SOLD.
JERUSHY PERKINS,
Miacemeatiss.
Bingyille
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07

Use for anybody 10 give FIRE alarm
n Bingville AZ present being as the
Town pump IS froze Up and there IS 10
water to put the FIRE out with.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-07

skripuon win also help along a wor-
thy cause.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
BOYS BOOKS.
Il Shedf of Stories for the
HOHdays.

Ralph d. aine's college Years"
Charles Scribner's Sons) and collection
of stories from various pens, ION the
Gridiron" (Harper & Bros), are chiefly.
in fact almost exclusively. concerned
with athletics. with football and base
ball and rowing. with training and games
and matches. TO the diminishment, in
the minds Of the young readers for
whom they are intended, of the i'm
portance of the aim for which parents
usually send their offspring to institu-
tiOns of learning. Mr.. Paine's stories
are all Of good old Yale: those in the
other book are distributed among that
university. Harvard. Princeton and pre-
paratOry schools, their writer's including
such we'll known names as those of
Jesse Lynch Williams, W. ]. Henderson
and ]. COnOver. Into Mr.. Paine's COM
pany of strenuous youths there slips a
mollycoddle - ominous word 49, but he
proves to be a giant in a freshman rush;
and Mr.. COnover's miserable grind"
turns out to be an heroic football player.
Mr.. Paine tells us. also. of the robustious
doings Of the Glee Club at a theatrical
performance. and of the noble way In
which it's members afterward befriend-
ed the stranded actors. Both books will
heighten the lively anticipations Of boys
on their way 10 college: both are full of
the high spirits of youth that must find
an outlet; and both tend TO incuIcate
the ethics of fair sportsmanship and the
spirit of college life. ION the Gridiron"
revealing this underlying serious pur-
pose oftenest.
"On the Old Kearsarge" is a new
volume of Cyrus T. Brady's BOYS Of the
Service series. These books are good
reading. wholesome and in the right
spirit, full of the adventure of history
and strong in that quality that goes to
the formation of character and the max
ing of gentlemen. A Boys Life of
Ulysses s. Grant" by Helen Nicolay
Century Company, is more than the
compilation from standard authorities,
including. of course, the Personal
Memoirs which its preface so modestIy
proclaimS II TO be. This is a really good
piece of work. we'll balanced and we'll
written, notably judicious in its selection
where so much had TO be excluded, fully
adequate to its purpose expressed in
the title. \ model of condensation is
Tudor Jenks's when America Won Her
Liberty" (Crowell & Coz. H. narrative
beginning with the firm establishment
of the Colonies. going on to the conflict
of the Old World nations i'm the New. the
narrowing down of the struggle to Eng
differences between king and Colonials.
and ending with the War of Independ-
ence and the recognition of the new Re
public. This is not merely a book of
events and names and dates. but of
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
UEST 4ND EAST MEET
4 UOman's Journey in Bosnia
and Herzegovina.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Some
Wayside Wanderings. BY Maude II.
Holbach- With forty-eight illustrations
from photographs by o, Hoi6ach and q
Company.
Mrs HOlbach gOssips as unpreten-
tiously and cheerfully about Bosnia and
herzegovina as sne did In a previous
book about Dalmatia. She describes the
splendid scenery very well and not too
lavishly: she dwells upon historical In
cidents, but not too much; and though
she does not speak the language OF the
native peoples, she fills her book with
guistic inability which prevented her
from her resolving her doubt. prompted
by conditions in Bosnia. as TO whether
the Western World has not done the Turk
an injustice and painted him blacker
than he deserved" She looks through
rose colored spectacles at everything
that the Austrians have done for the
country since the annexation: she
takes special pains TO note the native
industries fOstered by the government
the great state tobacco factory at Sara
jevo. the state schools in which carpet
weaving and inlaying with the precious
metals are taught: the government vine
yards wherein the peasants learn how to
cultivate the vine and make wine; the
model farms where the best of the mod
ern agricultural methods are exhibited in
working order for their benefit.
She discovered no local objections TO
the annexation. The Bosnian peasants
chief desire" she says. ''is peace, to plant
his fields and reap their produce; this
secure. l believe he cares little whether
Bosnia be Austrian or Turkish An in
cident which came Inder my notice at
the time of the annexation shows that
the BOsnians on the Servian frontier had
little faith in their kinsfolk on the other
side. A petition was sent TO SarajevO
when war was imminent asking for the
protection of Aust rian troops against
SeTvian bands," Even the MahOmetanS
for whom. by the way. the Austrians
have built Cor restOred) many mosques
and a fine COlleSc-did not relish the
evacuation y the Austrians of the sand
jak and the resumption of Turkish rule
nan the PeoPle Nulh IoT AuslIldhSs
when they 60 no money!" was the frank
comment of Turkish gendarme. \
great deal of good work was undoubtedly
done by the Austrian garrisOns in the
way of roadmaking across the country
and in tree and garden planting The
tourist is indebted to their government
for the erection of excellent hotels in at
tractive places; and in rural spots where
there are no inns travellers are COM
fOrtably cared for in the simple but
scrupulously clean gendarmerie stations.
Those who man these stations have a
multiplicity of duties. At a little lonely
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

the peasants called upon the soldiers 10
give help i'm Illness when the doctor was
not at hand. aad to hunt down the
wolves or bears that worked havoc III
their focks.
The Bosnians and HerZegOvinians sim
wear their native costumes, which are
the most beautiful in the world. The
dainty sleeveless jackets. edged WITH
gold. which the Herzegovinian women
don over their white gowns; their quaint
caps. sewn with coins. their floating
wells and shining necklaces. set on
faces which. as a rule. are handsome
and dark, expressive eyes. These are
the women of the Christian population;
Mahometan women must, of course
veil their beauty. In Bosnia they must
wear a mask as well as a veil. and the
author tells us that the masks are
hideous. though often elabOrately worked
with gold and silver. The Bosnian peas
ant girl is apparently merry creature
for the little time In which she Is care
free. Once married. she lis content 20
trudge behind the man through life
Ohere is, indeed, a saying that when
peasant greets another he asks him first
as TO his own health. then that of his
children, then that of his COW, and last
ly that Of his wife-of so little i'm
pOrtance Is the wOman.)" At Jatce the
traveller was lucky enough To see the
weekly market. which is held on Sun
day. She suddenly came upon what she
calls an enhancing scene. an assemblage
of hundreds of mountain shepherds and
shepherdesses gathered with their snowy
fiocks upon the fOwery meadows be-
side a clear. rushing river.
These men OF the mountains are splendid
specimens of humanity-tall and supple OF
limb, with finely cut features and dignitied
mien. Many of them wore coats of sheep
Sktn-wOOl Outside-Over their shoulders,
but others were I'm the short sleeveless
jackets that are their summer gaIb, with
gayly cOlored belts. stuck with knives, and
tUrbans Of scarlet. The women were in
white, with aprons of Oriental work. and
naments and coins. which sometimes liter
ally covered the front of their bodiCes. and
many of them carried distaffs in their
hands. The afternoon sun was sinking be
hind the hills, the golden light that comes
before sunset gilded the white fleece Of the
sheep and the white dresses of the women.
and played on the scarlet turbans Of the
crowds and the vivid emerald green of
meadows. while the mountains. where al
ready the purple shadows lenEthe1ed, rose
all around dark and mysterious.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

THE GERMAN DRAMA OF THE NINE
TEENTH CENTURY. BY Professor
Georg WitkowSki. Of the University of
Leipsic Translated by Professor L. f.
Harning OF the University Of Toronto.
l2mo. PIP. zee Henry Holt & Co.
This little volume is naturally more
serviceable for purposes OF reference
than valuable as a contribution to pure
dramatic criticism. II is, of course. diff
cult 10 give more than a passing glance
at the dramatic output of a century in
a book Of only two hundred small pages.
Professor Witkowski has labored to he
concise in his comments. but he has
had 10 include So many writer's Che even
gives space TO the opera makers) that
the really significant dramatists are
more or less lost in the mass. Hebbel
receives thirty pages-more than any
other. Sudermann gets eight and Haupt-
mann fifteen. and only the most cursory
discussion of the works Of these two
most important of the German drama
lists of to-day-and of the latter half
Of the century-is thus permissible
AS critic Professor WitkOwski is
more inclined 10 dialectiCal and philo-
sophical sublety than TO apt and in
structive Interpretation. He seems to
think that Part Second Of Faust" is an
ideal expression Of dramatic art. and
that every page must have an interior
metaphysic. The best playwrights-even
German playwrights - may turn out
plays without being conscious of the
philosophical meaning which may sub
sequently be read into them. The book
is however. valuable record Of the
activities of the century and offers the
reader a convenient roster Of Germany's
dramatists and the plays which they
have written. The chief names i'm il
are. Of course. KIeist. Grillparzer, Heb
bel. Ludwig. Wildenbruch. Auzengruber.
Sudermann and Hauptmann.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
FICTION.
Some Ne7c NOJeLs of 1merican
Life.

JOHN MARVEL. ASSISTANT. BY Thorn-
as Nelson Page. Illustrated by James
Montgomery Flagg. l2mo pp 573
Charles ScribIer's Sons.
ZANDRIk By Marian Edwards Richards
Colored FTontispiece. l2mO, pp. 3S6 The
Century Company.
THE THIRD DEGREE. A Narrative of
Metropolitan Life. by Charles Klein
and Arthur HornbloW. illustrated by
Clarence Rowe. l2mO, pp. $50. The q.
". Dillingham; Company.
Mr.. Pages new novel is one Of those
ambitious enterprises that rarely achieve
success. He essays to present TO us in
John Marvel" panoramic view Of the
multitudinous. interlacing. conflicting in
terests and movements of modern social
life. from top To bottom; of the unscru-
pulous hunt for wealth and power. the
growing self-assertiOn of labor, the devil
Gus ways of the labor leader, tine inward
ness of political corruption and it's con-
nectiOn with high finance; Of the evil of
which we have heard so much during the
recent municipal electoral campaign: OF
waste at one end and destitution at the
other. the hollow sham Of fashionable
religion, the futility Of charity without
love, and. on the personal side OF the
narrative. the struggles Of a penniless
man OF education for a fOothold, the
temptations that beset him. the weak
nesses that retard him. and. in John
Marvel and the jew Wolffert. the mod
ern altruism, the spirit of loving service.
of sacrifice to the betterment of the lot
Of others. OF course. this being a novel.
there is a love interest, and finally a
fortune hunting foreigner. The result is.
frankly speaking. disappointing. Re
garded as a novel only the book is too
long, not for the scope Of it's subject, but
OF account Of its treatment. which is
not from a wide point of view. but
abounds in unnecessarily detailed atten-
tion to minor characters. AS a picture
OF the life Of our times it impresses one
as superficial, not with the superficiality
Of it's author necessarily, but with what
one suspects 10 have been his conception
of the knowledge and understanding Of
his readers. He never seems To lose sight
Of them. never seems TO forget that while
he would give them strong meat, a daint-
fly prepared bouillon would he far better
for them. Books as serious as this one
attempts 10 be should be cast in a rough.
heroic mould. John Marvel" is not.
In this season of critical protest
against the theatrical managers fetch
o. the happy ending, let us raise voice
against a similar traction in fiction. 20
be sure, the wrench in 'Zandrie" is not
too violent: not too much is made of that
successful operation on the helpless in
valid. but one would have preferred the
,,-ou.pipu conservation of Iova and itS
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

ultimate solemn acceptance TO this con-
ventiOnal concession to a bad habit. even
though we are at liberty To speculate
upon the ultimate outcome according TO
our experience and optimistic or pessi-
mistic proclivities. For the rest. the
story is n study OF temperament, the
word being used here in it's legitimate.
not it's euphemistic significance. and a
markedly successful study at that. The
lonely child amid unsympathetic sur
roundings. living her secret life OF make
believe. firmly expectant of the knight
who is TO come riding out of the un-
known. stalwart. handsome. debonair.
until her faith is justified and she sees
him from the top of the convent wall
that is her prison, might so easily have
been made unnatural. mawkish. un-
wholesome. but there is not a false touch
in the deft, understanding unfolding OF
this emotional life, the growth Of an
innocent affection into deep and last
ing love. The term psychological" has
become sort of scarecrOw in fiction. a
warning signal. That is why one hest
tates 10 apply IL TO this story, which
contains so much that is dainty and
imaginative along with so much that is
strong and true; and yet the word must
be used. for "Zandrie" Is a notably SEN
sitive Interpretation of the growth OF a
soul; wherefore II is also an appealing.
convincing and satisfying story.
Increasingly frequent. because. We sup
pose. increasingly popular. is the trans
latiOn Of successful plays into the form
of fiction. The latest publication in this
field is The Third Degree" a novel re-
telling for the fireside reader that power
full story which has been getting itself
told with such success across the foot
lights. The authors had great good fort
une when they thus embodied THE Lion
and the Mouse" in a book, and doubtless
they will be similarly rewarded in the
case of The Third Degree" The play
is here set forth with dramatic feeling
and with considerable skill in the hand
ling Of its well known plot. The sub
tect is of contemporaneous interest. and
the authors present IT with an adrOitness
which will satisfy both the reader who
has seen the play and the reader TO
whom ii is unfamiliar.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
Literary .NetOS and Criticism

his drawings They are lightly touched
and graceful. and the artists delicate
key OF color is not unpleasing. but on the
whole Mr.. Thomson suggests that ne
would better have adhered TO the Georg-
ian literature which he was born To Illus
trate and has so often embellished so
well
The publishers Of the volumes OF Shake
speare Just traversed have had much
better luck with their edition of F1tz
Gerald's "Rubaiyat OF Omar Khayyam."
This IS. indeed. an exquisite book. Mr..
Edmund Dulac. whose illustrations TOT
THE Arabian Nights are appreciative-
ly recalled. here again discloses the hap
piest gift for the treatment OF Oriental
subjects He bases his designs largely
on Persian life But while he does not
attempt TO compete with the alegorical
mode so superbly exemplfied by We'd
der, he has put good deal Of thought
into his work. and some OF his pictures
are a little more than decorative; they
ars also POLITICALLY suggestive. We note
especially the simple solemnity OF his
illustration for the Quatrain In which
the loveliest and the best one by
one crept silently 10 rest" and there is
positive character in hts portrait Of the
Muezzin who. in the twenty seventh
quatrain. from the Tower Of Darkness
cries" Mr.. Dulac. in short. has ideas,
besides being an artist OF ability. Full
justice is done 20 his drawings in the
colored reproductions. and These are
mounted within gold borders on thick
vellum paper The quatrains, two TO
a page. are printed on only one side
Of the leaf, and they. too, have their
well designed borders. In its cover Of
white buckram. stamped in gold. this
is an impeccable holiday edition OF Fitz
Gerald's masterpiece.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

causes and consequences. developments
and results.
John T. Faris declares i'm the forsword
TO his winning Their Way Of. A Stokes
Company that he discovered years ago.
when still "a boy himself. that works 1f
biography are the most interesting OF
books" So they are. but not after thry
have been boiled down" to something
resembling nothing but the baldest of
biographical dictionary articles. which IS
what Mr.. Faris has done in this book.
with the biographies of some fOrty-odd
inventors. scientists. explorers. soldiers.
etc. The main facts are given; their
significance is insuficiently dwelt upon
There is no inspiration for youth in work
like this.
Here is a new series: Young Captains
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

OF Industry. planned by Hollis Godfrey.
7, onens with For the Norton Name"
UittIe. Brown & Coz, and tells of tns
valiant struggle Of a mere boy. just out
Of college. whose father dies suddenly.
having him in possession Of the Norton
c.1ass company. a small concern in the
de,d1, grin of the Glass Trust. IL
sounds quite up to date and very grown
up. does II not? Young norton WINS
his battle against vilanous ere" "r
monopolists just as do the hghterS IN
frenzied industry stories for children or
a larger growth. The book IS cleverly
written. with we'll sustained interest out
is II wise 10 introduce thus early the
grim business of life 20 the attention OF
youth? 10 may but result in intensity
ing and prOlOnging at its beginning tno
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

to give-intelligent. fairly sympathetic.
and very delicate impressions. the i'm
pressions OF an artistic and not un-
thoughtful observer. What he has TO
say about Italy may not touch the i'm
agination or linger in the mind. but
while he is saying Il we listen with
gCOd will
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
GERMAN DRAMA.
Il Study of Its Modern Deuel.
Op@entS.

THE GERMAN DRAMA OF THE NINE
TENTH CENTURY. BY Professor
Georg WitkowSki. Of the University OF
Leipsc. Translated by Professor l.. E
Harning of the University OF Toronto.
2uoo mn 200 Henry Holt & Go.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Some
Waysde Wanderings. BY Maude II.
Holbach. With fOrty-eight illustrations
from photographs by o. Holbach and
map. l2mO. PIP. l49. The John Lane
COmDanE
New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
ODera and Drama an Holiday
Gnb.

wAGNER's TRISTAN AND ISOLDE" 9"
Translated into English Verse by Rich
ard lie Galienne With CritiQue ny I'd
ward Ziegler With seven fun page
Illustrations in color after paintings y
Ceorze Alfred Williams. @to. pp. \, aSe
The Frederick A Stokes Company.
SAVOY OPERAS BY W :. Gilbert.
With Illustrations in color by W. Rus
sell Flint. 4to. PIP Nv, 2oD The Mac
milan Company.