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The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28

only at the extreme verge, and death depicted as the only fitting close for the vacillating, greedy, humiliated sell she carries about through the conclud ing chapters of the novel.
 The most severe comment current literature. which embraces it's critf cisms. made upon woman was in the critical sequels to Mrs. Wharton g startling story, for the general verdict was as much in indorsement of her social facts as of her artistic skill Criticism. joining forces with romance, left the modern society woman only patches of character. supplemented with polite belief in her respectabil- ity
 When such heavy guns as Ibsen un- timber for action against that dainty butterfly. woman. the general effect comes pretty close to apparent anni- hilation.
 That is what happens to unhappy Hedda Gabler, who managed, with every advantage of beauty and posi- tion in her own modest circle, to ruin the men who loved her, drive genius to it's death and end in nothingness herself. all through her unsuitable pride, temper jealousy and selfshness- A heavy indictment indeed but one which the ponderous and thunderous Ibsen found plenty of other butter flies to aim it at.
 MerciIess Dramatist.
 Woman and her weakness furnish a dramatist so thoroughly up-to-date as Arthur Wing Pinero with his most effective topics, and the characters in his Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith" are only selections from what seems to be an inexbaustibIe repertoire of observa- tions, of which but a few, in the way of saving graces, are creditable to womankind.
 When, occasionally, an American playwright succeeds in making his female lead" worth worrying over from across the footlights, he finds it very, very hard to go further along the line of approval by emphasizing the saving graces.
 There was C. NJ. s. Mcclellan, who wrote that immensely popular drama, Leah Kleschna. " Leah was just a plain, out-and-out thief-a lady burg lar, who starts the dramatic ball roll ing by attempting 3 burglary. and is prevented from accomplishing it by be- ing caught in the act.
 Leah's noble nature comes out strong through all the complications that ensue. and she ends as the bride of the philanthroptst who caught her stealing; but she, above any popular heroine of recent years, has a past that may be called record breaking.
 There was one woman in English romance, however, whose past was worse than hers, because it is a fixed principle of morals in English litera- ture that burglary and the other crimes of the calendar are merely peceadilloes in comparison with that one woman's sin as to which all
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
Death in Dirty Mix Cans.

Death turks in dirty milk cans wher. ever found. If the babies escape poi. soning it is by accident only. The cheap milk cans are easily indented when the tin begins to crack, leaving Assures for milk and water and acid.
 Under such conditions the tin peels and falls off and the cans quickly be. come unfit for use.
 The only way to prevent the use of lnsan1tary and dangerous milk cans is by close inspection on the part of the creameries and condenseries and city dealers. Cans should be examined ire. quently and all rusty or broken vessels should be promptly condemned
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
Brains and Lobster,

T dined with a man last evening who has absolutely no brains," said she. Absolutely. He was impossible. ,
 Why do you dine with such a man?" asked he.
 "A man with no brains is often quicker at ordering lobster a la New burg" she explained, than 2 man with"
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so good as the chance to work When by preventing child-labor, industrial accidents, remediable illness, stock watering, and other wholesale spoil ation not only of city workmen, but of farmers, professional men, and men and women of small property, we shall have struck at the root of much of our senile poverty, we shall have made the drawing of old-age pensions uni versal right which will be only occa- sionally exercised The pension will be opened to all who need it, but the need will be less. If our civilization is to be worth while, the solution of the problem of poverty in old age will eventually be found in prevention as much as in cure.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28

cusation. In modern literature, at least, Caesars wife cannot be wholly above suspicion and interesting at the same time-eertainly not upon the grand scale that makes a novel the book of the year."
 One of those books of the year" was Mrs. Humphry Wards Awaken ing of Helena Ritchie," in which the wilful Helena was very much indeed open to suspicion; the immortal Jul jus. for hundreth part of her indis- cretions, would have surely drawn his gladius and chased her all the way to the Temple of Janus. And some other thrilling novels of the same august English romancer depended for their thrills upon the self same theme.
 In the United States, one of the strongest novels of recent years was Edith Wharton's House of Mfrth, !" where all American society was drawn upon for types of vain and ambitious. greedy and intriguing women, with Lily Bart, the heroine, weakest and most intriguing of them all, her virtue assailed and withheld from destruction
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
An Unnatural Pose in a Strained Character, Mime. Nazimova as
 "Hedda Gabler."

in which the patriot was had the advantage of having the only available window that gave a clear sight of any of the windows in the palace. The patriot watched at his window off and on for about six months, until one day he got a view of the president passing by the palace window on which he was spying. He fired quickly and again Zelaya was slightly wounded in the shoulder. They got that patriot and shot him too.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
MADE BY NATIONS FOUNDER
70. Boon 1776" Found Cut in Bark of Tree Undoubtedly the Work
 of Pioneer.

s. s. Elam or Salyersville, Ky, stopped here recently on the way to Monticello. Prof. Elam brought with him and loaned to the Lexington public library block of wood which is considered of great historical inter- est and value. It is block cut from a beech tree which stood on a high point of hill near Salyersville and bears the following lettering cut in the bark of the block:
 ID. Boon
 1776."
 Instead of curves the B has tri- angles. the O's are open at the bottom and the 7's are of an old style. The letters are identical with those cut on the stone at the Richmond court house. The point on which the tree stood is on the route which Daniel Boone took when coming to this sec tion of Kentucky from Virginia.
 Mr. Elam secured the block from
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
Frequent Milking.

According to some experiments noted by tho department of agricul ture, it was found that where COWS were mixed three times a day-morn ing, noon and evening-the milk was richest at noon and poorest in the morning, and when milked morning and evening the milk was slightly richer in the evening.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
TubercuIin Tests.

According to Prof. J. A. Foord of the Massachusetts agricultural college. un- scrupulous dealers have learned how to prevent the usual reaction of tuber. culin. This being true, "tuberculin tested doesn't mean much in buying cattle unless the purchaser knows the character of the owner of the COWS and the veterinarians who tested thnm
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
South Jersey Sweet Potatoes

There were shipped from single station of Salem, N. J., 4S9 carloads of sweet potatoes. It is esti1,ated that the total crop of South Jersey will aggregate 4,000 carloads-total value $1,200,000. This is an increase of 24.- 900 barrels over last year.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
eYil of his WomanlY characters,


 most evil of his womanly characters Becky Sharpe. There, if anywhere was ample evidence that the author who paints an evil woman does it for sheer love of the job.
 The great Thackeray could judge and condemn the shrewd, conscience less, calculating Becky as mercilessly as though he were on the bench and she a criminal at the bar before him.
 Yet he loved in his capacity of artist as scientist might love a rare and perfect speciment of species-type; and his portrayal of the inimitable Becky Sharpe was done with almost loving kindness.
 Both he and Dickens must ever re- main monumental examples support ing the theory that the good woman is too tame for art rather than that the authors are indulging any prejudice against the sex Both made repeated attempts to depict the perfectly good, loyable girl and woman; and it has re mained that both scored repeated fail ures by presenting milk-andwater fig ures that had no more saliency and genuine life to them than so many marionettes.
 Reade and Stevenson.
 Even Charles Reade, of whom a wo- man critic declared he made all his women cats, left figures in his stories that seem to be alive. and did it purely because of their faults, not of their virtues.
 It was that sense of the good wo- mans artistic futility, as many admir- CTS of the late Robert Louis Steven son believe, wich so long debarred him from introducing her in his TO- mances, save as he could linn her in the faintest sketchings.
 It was hard for Stevenson to believe, and harder for him to say, that every woman on earth failed to fill the spec if1cations of a full-fedged angel, fit only for sinful and fallible man to wor- ship. It was equally hard for him, as the born artist, to put his pen to any literary adventure whose ample pie IuI SoQuSutSS Ol dCIIOu lI6dIGuGu lO be doubtful
 Between the inborn chivalry of the man and the acute perceptions of the artist Stevenson had to reach matu- rity before he could even dare attempt i the drawing of woman; and, when all is said and done with him, his sue | cesses have been exclusively with characters that are male. Frenchmen Are Unfettered.
 The English-writing author general l ly hampered by an almost imperious tradition bidding him regenerate his women if he doesn't keep them quite within the dead line of responsibility seems to feel always some measure ot ! the sense of futility that weighed upor Stevenson. But the Frenchman, ant the continental author at large, can be as merciless in analysing her as { viyisectionist with frog And often | times he creates an artistic triumph that is imposing in it's repellant real ism. The example of the august Bal zac, which has so profoundly infu
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
SeedIess Cucumbers

Cucumbers, long green ones IS inches to 2k feet-without seeds are the most recent arrivals from London in the fancy vegetable market of New York. They are the result of years of experiment by English gardeners.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28

counsel, as their successor camel rather as surprise.
 MT. Beck as assistant attorney gen- eral of the United States successfully prosecuted the celebrated Nicely easel As first assistant attorney general hei sucured the verdict against the NorthA ern Securities Company He also tooN prominent part in the first actions against the sugar trust, the paper trust, and other antitrust proceedings.
 He was in the midst of these cases when he removed to New York; and began the private practice of law.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
TRUSTS FOE NOW ITS AID
James M. Beck Who Once Fought Sugar Combine Now Chief Coun-
 sel for the Company.

New York,-The retirement of Par sons, Clossol & McIlwaine as counsel for the sugar trust was not uneXpect- ed but the selection of James M Beck,
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
Vain Entertainment.

Aladdin rubbed his lamp.
 Fine" he cried, "but can you pre- vent your wife from burning it on lodge nights?"
 Herewith he acknowledged there were limits to magic.
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
 Bonaparte's Resolve

Napoleon entered the clubhouse with frown a foot deep on his fore. head, and temper not fit for publi. cation.
 "Mille tonnerres." he calculated "If l ever play golf with Baron Munchausen again, may I end my days on the island of St. Helena
 Whats the matter with Nunch Boney?" asked Caesar. looking up from his asbestos copy of the con gressional record
 "You get nothing but bad lies all over the links retorted the emperor -Lippincott's.
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ly crazy.
 Watson himself has been trying to prove he was neither.
 The general public has been wonder ing whether he isn't both, and then some, largely along the lines of in. gratitude and petty meanness,
 But the Authors guild. of which his venomous efasion proved him so dan gerous a member, being yersed in the history of literature. has been seeing
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28

Britain virtuously refuses ever to speak-and has been most ardently reading for the past generation.
 Thomas Hardy's "Tess."
 Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the q Ur- bervilles" had committed that offense. Responsibility proffered the saving
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28

NUMBER of loving friends are joining with solicitous relatives tO aver that Will liam Watson, the English
 goet who wrote The Wo- man with the Serpent's Tongue. is not mad-mere-
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
ALL SEEM TO HAVE GRUDGE

OST of them, it would ap- pear, have the cruelest which any indictment can
 bring to the bar; and the authors of woman's own
 sex are no whit behind the others in that fatal ac-
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
Rev. T. p. Briggs.

The following item is from the New England Baptist organ-The Watch man, of Boston. Rev. MT. Briggs was pastor several years of the North Ash ford Baptist church.
 "The old jibe against minister's sons Is not often heard, but crops out once in awhile. In this connection it is worth while to refer to the family of Rev. T. P. Briggs and Mrs. Briggs, formerly of Cambridge, but now of Gliftondaie, Mass. It consists of six sons and two daughters, and they are all doing well, spiritually and material ly. The oldest son Is a music dealer in Cambridge, the second is a missionary in Japan, the third is superintendent of the Shepard, Norwell Company De pattment store in Boston, the fourth Is Librarian of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn, the fifth Is Treasurer of the Lexington, Mass, Lumber Company, and member of the Executive Con- mittee of the American Baptist Mis- sionary Union, and the sixth Is a mu- sician with the Steinway Piano Com. pany, Boston. One of the daughters Is married to a Harvard College gradu- ate, now Superintendent of Schools, and the other, graduate of Vassar College, is Industrial Secretary of the |. W. C. A. in Providence. The wives of three of the sons are college gradu- ates, Mrs. F. C. Briggs of Himeji, Ja- pan, a daughter of the late highly-es. teemed Deacon Witherby Of the Ja- maica Plains Baptist church, having first gone To Japan as self-supporting missionary under the Woman's Bap. tist Foreign Missionary Society. This is an honorable and happy family rec. ofd.e
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
Worlds Peace Society.


 The cry of "Peaee" resounds just now through all the world, and great gatherings of peaee-rnskers meet in VA rious quarters to stir up sentiment and to take such action AS will unite friends in some supreme effort to cease mak- ing further preparations for war, which are wasting sums Of money enough 10 educate and tit every chitd for great usefulness in carrying on every useful work to make the whole earth resound with praise and gladness. On the olh- CT hand, while the great mass Of the people desire peace and good will to prevail among all peoples, they are be- ing forced, unwillingly, to contribute sums to build navies and armies that would have astounded humanity halt a century ago. II Is done, too, under the advice and admonition of great and honofed leaders of this and other lands, as being the surest and safest way to prevent wars and secure peace.
 Where Is the line to be drawn beyond which expenditures for war prepara- tons will not be increased? They have doubled in the past ten years. Will they not be doubled again in the next ten years?
 Not so Is the voice Of those who meet in great conventions to favor imme- diate lasting peace among all nations of the world. They demand disarma- ment as the only sure way to bring about peace. when disag reements are 10 be settled in an International Court of Arbitral Justice. They are also hope ful that their cause Is gaining and will soon triumph.
 We have already reported the doings of two great peace conventions in this country. Another was held in London on Tuesday. It will be noted that the grandest and most eminent men and women known to the world are the leaders at these great peace consen- lions.
 Here k a short condensed report ot the opening session of the London con vention, as telegraphed to the press of this country:
 London, May 2i.-Andrew Carne- gie WAS the principal speaker al the annual meeting of the Peace Society tonight. He said that ali nations were beeoming interdependent and that no two should be permitted to disturb the worlds peace.
 "A proposal 10 start . worldwide peace movement, bearing the name of the late King Edward. was made by Sir William Msther at . meeting Of the Society this morning.
 "The suggestion found prompt ap- proval, and speakers who followed Sir William intimsted that there was req son for Inc belief that Emperor Will liam ~As desiroas of taking an impor- tant part, If not the actual leadership In promoting . PeAcc League of the World.n
 If that be true of Emperor William disananent must certainly be . tirst step in the movement.
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
0ffeuses that should be Stopped

EDITOR PATRIoT-ln passing along our streets one cannot help seeing. on every side, how, the earelessness of the many nullifies the efforts of the few in their endeavor to benefit and beautify our city. 1 refer, as an instance, to the bad habit of many of our good citizens in throwing down on the streets and sidewalks pieces of paper, large and small.
 W nile MT. Shaw was working, like the veritable beaver, 10 improve the small grass plot adjoining the station, MT. Businessman came out of the post office, opened two letters, threw the bits on the ground, tore the wrapper from paper and threw that also on the ground. Now, our postm aster has provided . receptacle in the lobby tor ail such wastes, leaving the offender oneexcuse for his careless habit.
 Think 1t over, Mir. Businessman and you, too, MT. Everyman.
 And, by the way, Mr- Familyman, do you ever caution your children not to throS fruit skins, sc. on the side walks and especially on the steps of the subway Better do 90. You do? Then yon are . praiseworthy citizen aud an exception to the general rule, for you think Of your neighbor and may save some one from sprained ankle or . broken leg.
 ANOTHER BUSINESSMAN.
 Putnam, May sI
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
\ Heathoa Rera

Mrs. Cowles, of the Zulu Mission, sends to the American Board et Mis- sions this intensely interesting and authentic story of an old white headed Zulu chief who fought for thirty years against municipalities, against powers, against the rulers Of the darkness of this world, and finally won out and died glorious death. His name was Dweshula tnwe-shoo lah). When dy- Ing he sent for the whole tribe to come and see him With his last breath he told them that for many, many years he had fought to be Christian. that the battle had been long and fierce, but that he had conquered and God had blessed him In IL. "Now," he said, "~hcn am gone 1 want you all to become Chrix,ians. One year has passed sincc Dweshuia's death, and now tn that remote spot, so far away in the ~ilds that missionaries can only rarely reach it, great turning to the Lord has taken place. Thirty men have cut oti their head. rings, and are washing of the grease and clay and are putting on clothes. Hets are being torn down and civilized houses arc gc- ing up in their place. The school Is 90 full that . pleasing letter has come from our school there, begging for se~ coad teacher 10 come and help. One preacher went there recently Ia hold a service. He had so al the service. The peoples say Ia each other, .'ltis Owe shula's God We are woFshipping, and pweshGls' God k dear to them. They loss The God who could make such s man. In times of famine was il not Dweshaia rho used te send his COWS here and lhsre to bc mllked for the ea- hies until the stress was overs Was IL not nweshals who used 10 inspxn his fourteen oxen into his big wagon. and car, load of COT for the poor people free ot charses'
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
People Tell Esch Other Aboat Good
 Thinfs,

Sixteen years ago few people in the world knew of such . preparation as . Powder for the Feet. Today after the genuine merit of Aliens Foot Ease has been told year after year by one grati- lied person to another, thefe arc mil- lions who would as soon go without denifrice ~ without Ailen's . Foot Ease. It h cIeanly, wholesome, healing, anti septic powder to be shaken into the shoes, which has given rest and com fort to tined and aching feet in all parts of the world. It cures while you walk. Over 5000 testimonials of cures of smarting, swollen, perspiring feet. Is prevents friction and wear of the stock. ings and will save in your stocking bill ten times it's cost each year. Imi- tations pay the dealer . larger profit, otherwise you would never be offered . substitute when you ask for Allen 5 Foot-Ease, the original powder for the feet. limitations are not advertised be- cause they are not permanent For every genuine article there are many limitations. The imitato7 has no repu- tafion 10 sustain-the advertiser has. It stands 10 reason that the advertised article is the best, otherwise the public would not buy il and the advertising could not De continued. When you ask for an article advertised in this paper, see that you get H. Refuse imi- tstions.
Putnam patriot., 1910-06-03
A Remarkable Confession.

An indication of great changes now taking place in the Turish Empire is the admission among Moslems them selves that their government, which once eNerted a wide influence over the politics Of the whole world, has been shorn of it's strength. The reasons as signed, as stated recently in public ad- dresses in tonstantinople, are signifi. cant in themselves, but as coming from the lips of their own eeclesiastics are truly amazing. One said: "Ne have arrived at this predicament be- cause we have gone afar from the es- senttsl requirements of religion. In proportion as we fell to plundering we were overtaken by poverty and dis grace. In proportion as We established countless houses of idieness Il. C. pashas' palacesl we were left in the rear of progress. As we crushed thousands of innocents with the heel of oppression and put out of existence thousands of sufferers by death in the desert or by murder on the high seAs, as ~e made the heart of humanity ache with our cruelty and intolerance, ss we counted 1t an honor to unite with the Satanic crew q. c. the palace court. iersl ~e became in that very propor- ton the objects of Gods wraih.s An. other said: Science and education have lifted other governments to the sky, while we have fallen low. We have constantly been lmpelled down. ward until neither trades nor sciences, neither morality nor wealth remain. ..... Our hope of reconsideration is in the hope of unity. We must deal with non Moslems ss with brothers, because We are sll the sons of one falherlsnd.~ ~ Such frank self.snalysis shows that true reform has begun within. Four of these remarkable addresses, trans lated from the Ottoman Turkish by Rev. stephen van R TIoweridse Of