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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-09-01
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Everybody loved that old fashioned lady. And I find almost everyone past 10 has, at the back of his mind, vivid inl- pressions regarding her and the social life of which she was the center. One re- members tic atmosphere of that day as one remembers the blush roses and spicy rnks of old gardens Even yet there are gardens where blush roses grow and know some women, not yet old, and a few young girls, whose mere presence serves today to reproduce that atmos- phere She was dauntless and sweet, that old fashioned lady; witty, but tender; as notable housewife as hostess; full Of gentle concern for others, with mind ever at leisure for their affairs, and a heart whose sympathy was instantaneous in their service. She stimulated and she soothed. Fine, complicated and interest," ing as the old lace and finely wrought gold she delighted to wear. she was a very precious piece of porcelain. The brilliant, soft daguerrotype that has preserved her beyond her just due. Perhaps the int- mate secret of her influence was the in- precision she gave of one whose heart is fixed, one whom the world can no longer harm.
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What Do You Go To Church For?

From the l. nlNerSalfSt Leauer.
 Some people, perhaps many people, go because they want personal qualification, and for them the pews must be com fortable, the church furnishings artistic. the music satisfactory and especially the minister must be personally all that could be desired. Verify all such have their re- ward. The church is to them just like any place to which they have gone to get something; if they get it they.are happy, if they do not they are miserable. There are other people who go to church to worship God; they go desiring to give ex- pression to the devotion of their l1yes 1nd with them it is not matter of church furnishings or music or even the minls- ter altogether; they go to give, and verify they have their reward. There are many people who, having a difference of opinion with the pastor. will immediately with draw from their usual place of worship, withdraw their support, because they have no sense of the real purpose of the church, that it is outside of the minister; he is part of the service but he can not de- stroy obligation and opportunity any more than a hard cushion or a discordant note in the music. There is a lesson for a good many of us in the story of the good old Scotchwoman who had a serious quar- rel with her pastor, but to the surprise of the pastor she continued her attend- ance at worship. When he expressed his qualification as well as surprise at her
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THE FLYING GIRL"

(By Edith Van Dyne. Illustrations by
 Joseph Pierre Nuyttens. The Reilly
 Britton Co.,, Chicago.)
 Few stories have ever come from the press at a more opportune time than did the Flying Girl by Edith Van Dyne, author of "The Aunt Jane's Necesp books, which have been read and loved by so many thousand girl readers. Al most concident with the publication of the book came the great Chicago avia- fion meet a which time several ladies made ascensions.
 The scene of the story is laid in Cal ifornia near a suburb of Los Angeles where climatic conditions are very fa- vorable to the art of flying stephen Kane, with his sister, Orissa, is the sole support of a blind mother but Steve has invented such a wonderful biplane that it is deemed wise for him to aban- don his work in an automobile repair shop and make ready 10 enter his ma chine in a coming aviation meet. The brother and sister have to endure many hardships in order to do this, put through skillful manipulation of tn sir scanty finances the good mother is al- lowed to feel none of the privation. Steve and Orissa work like Trojans to perfect and complete their machine and dllet ple UT tWo IdHdruouS lISlttS made by Steve in the early morning hours everything works to his satis- faction. The road to glory, however. is attended by many mishaps, not tEe least of which is the breaking of Steve's leg a short time prior to the great meet, through the duplicity Of one of the men hired to guard the han gar containing the machine. Every ef- fort is made to secure an aviator, but n m avail a e "a volunteers to take Steve's place. Many doubts are entertained as to the capa- bilities of the young aviator, but siie finally prevails makes the ascension and wins the big event; also perform : ing most daring feat in the rescue of the aviator who has tried to de- molish her machine.
 Throughout the story Miss Van Dyne las kept the character of Orissa sweet
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THE SONG OF KENNY fRv Maurice Hewlett Charles Scribner's s Sons New York.)
 To say that "The Song of Kenny is Maurice Hewletts masterpiece would mean to relegate; Rest Harrow The oueen.s ouair." "The Forest Lovers" and others of his incompatible novels to sec ond place, and yet he has never written anything more charmingly melodious, more beautifully mediaeval, more intense- Iy archaic than his last contribution 10 the world of literature
 From the "Dedication" AeeAy yshort verses to the closing chapter or ne book there is a spirit which predominates that is fascinating in the extreme.
 Listen to the foreword:
 To the Fountain of my long dream.
 To the chaice of all my sorrow; To the Lamp held up and the Stream
 Of light that beacons tomorrow. To the Bow, the Culver, the Dart
 To the Birdie rein, to the Yoke Proudly upborne to the Heart
 On fire, to the Mercy stroke.
 To Apollo hearding his cattle
 To Proserpina grave in Dis
 TO the high Head in the battle
 And the Crown-I consecrate this.
 One expects to meet face to face in the very outset of "The Song of Kenny John Denhouse fresh from Rest Harrow, with sonorous discource, robed in white wool, as philosophzng on a hillside.
 Die not "The Song of Kenny" precede Senhouse, by many centuries, MT. Hew- lett na oubt would have had difficulty in keeping him out for he seems in every way to fit into the surroundings.
 In this Interesting book again feudal lords prey bloody upon one another and killings and ravishings move the story along it's masterful way.
 Given the middle ages or Renaissane as background, Mr. Hewlett better than any other, hews and chisels and oarves away the entombing centuries till life vividy stands before us un covered and free and with script ano staff. bowl and hood. sword and shield lute and feather, to the tawny crags
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MARY MIDTHORNE." .

CBy George Barr McCutcheon. Illustra-
 tions by Martin Justice. Dodd, Mead
 and Company. New York)
 Nearly any other name that Mir. George Barr McCutcheon might have chosen for his latest novel. Mary Midthorne,' ? would have suited it quite as well as the one he did choose, for the heroine is really of third importance you might say in the story. for her brother, Eric, occupying much more prominent place, and their uncle, Horace Bladgen being the "real' hero of the book.
 But after all, Whats in a name ?''
 "The Plays the thng''-and in this in- stance, there is foul play more than fair play, which occupies many pages in the telling, and which Mir. McCutch- con has done in his very clever and sue cessful manner of delineation, both as to facts and personalities.
 The story deals with the two Midthorue children, Mary and Eric, who after a tragedy had separated their father and mother, are brought into the household of their mothers brother, Horace Blad- gen.
 Bladgen is the type of man you find in little country towns particularly, and in the large cities is always prominent in church or civic organizations.
 In Cornth, where Horace Bladgen lives, he is the autocrat of business, and pillar of the Congregational Church He is yolled to a wife who is a complete nonenity, and their only son, Chetwynd is vicious horrible boy endowed with monstrous physical strength.
 With the transpanting of the two Mid thorne children, sweet, lovable and gen. tie into tho home of the Bladgen's, all the trouble begins
 Horace Rladgen is the trustee for them and charges them with their board-not as he persuaded himself, because he desired the money, but that they might not feel afterwards that they had been objects of charity.
 He. however neglects to tell them oi the charge, and all Corinth regards then in the light of charity wards, while the insufferaOie cousin, Chetwynd make. more out of the situation than any one else.
 He bellies and cheats and affronts his cousin Mary and RnAS far with his
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ThEBO0K,SHELF
By THE BIBLIOPHILE

and bleak heights of Spier, we are led where Gernulf, Earl of Pikpoyntz. bru- tai outlaw, rules over the Valley Stones.
 Up-up-we go through rocks and crags, until we reach the great windy Castle, the banner hung banquet hall. the dark corridors, where our hero lords it alone, with an old housekeep- CT, with Blanchemains, the treacherous, and Shrike the black.
 over the flowing jade green Sar, tie story wears it's strange archaic mean ing. stirring the imaginatons and in- telligence until one is transported to the very lap of medieval customs and times, so impressively presented that only the hand of great artist like Mr. Hewlett could possibly do the sub ject justice.
 There is no make believe-no clap trap of the writer-but pure realism of which MT. Hewlett is master, that moves the scene along. carrying tue reader through the primitive subject interesting him in the poetic story and holding him captive to the very finale.
 In MT Hewlett's art, women hold q high place and "The Song of Kenny has to do with three girls--the last of three lines-who are left to represent one after another the great house of Kenny and to inherit the robe, the girdle and the crown"-over which their kinsmen plot and scheme and fight.
 Two of the three girls are of royal Blood, their romance and their courage the dire tragedy of one-and how they stand heroically the bloody mach- nations and subtle turbulence of the | times-all go to make a beautiful sub l ject for MT. Hewletts incomparable le art, not the least of which is his de- l lineation of woman-lovely woman. | Donna Mabilla and "the high little 1 lady" Sabine-step forth from this mediaeval picture to join the radiant group of Hewlett women who have charmed thousands of readers before | them!
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heartless City and renew Sweet Asso- citations.
 They wanted to wander once more down the Avenues of Rhubarb and clasp hands with Old Friends whose simple Hearts averaged about IA Throbs to the Minute.
 It is the regulation Dream of every Financial Yegman to go back to his Old Town wearing a Laurel Wreath and have the School Children throw Moss Roses in his Pathway.
 So Ezra sent on a Proposition.
 He wanted to build Library at the corner of Fifth and Main, thereby making it easy for his old Neighbors to read the Authors Game.
 He offered to give 10000 Bucks if the Citizens would raise 5000 more and maintain the Thing.
 Ezra had not been in the Habit of reading anything except the Tape and he cared about as much for George Bernard Shaw as George Bernard Shaw cared for him.
 Nevertheless, he wanted to be re- membered 50 Years hence as the Man who built the Library and not as the AIuN WHO uedll 1IOIll lDe DOtIOll ol the Deck, utilizing the Sleeve Device and the Bosom Hold-Out.
 By the use of Anaesthetics and Forceps the 5000 was secured.
 Then the Building was erected and the only Criticism made was that the Location was poor and the dod blasted Concern looked like Barn and it was arranged wrong inside and nobody didn't want no Library nohow.
 When Ezra came down to the Dedi- cation to face an outraged and tax burdened People he was just as popu- lar as Tonsilitis or Sciatica ever dared to be.
 Bill came back also.
 He floated into Town one day and appeared in Jimmson's General Store and called for a Good Cigar.
 He told Mr. Jimmson to take one and called up the Boys around the Stove and even those who were chew ing were told to put 'em in their Pockets and smoke lem after while.
 When the Word got out that Bill was Buying over at the Bee Hive rep resentative Citizens came on the Jump from the Harness Shop and the Undertaking Parlors and the Bow ling Alley.
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He Made Good"

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 Ernest Weekly twenty-four years old. came to Chicago from Nebraska several months ago to make good' and to prove to his parents that he would live up to the doctrines taught him when a child. He did, but was killed while performing be- ro&c deed to save another's life.
 Weekly planned to have Thanksgiving dinner with his parents. Instead, they are speeding here to take the body of their son home. Weekly was killed Tuesday night. when he was crushed by the wheels of a Wabash Railroad passenger train af- ter he had dragged Miss Celeste Urcuill, whom he did not know, out of harms way.
 Weekly was on his way to his boarding house, 537 West Sixteenth street. He had stepped from a train at the Fifty-ninth street station of the Wasbas,l hoad, when he saw young woman standing directl iy the path of an onrushing train. He ran to where sEe stood and swept her from the path of the train. He was unable to leap from the tracks in time to avoid be- ing struck. He was swept under the en- zine and crushed.
 Miss Urculi, who is sixteen years old, and resides al 536 East Eighty-first street. described Weeky's death at the coroner s inquest. "He ran toward me and swung
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BY GEORGE ADE

Every Man that showed got Lot tie Lee with Band around it and when Bill left on the $40 Mob fol- lowed him to the Train.
 Ever after that the Word was free Iy passed around that Bill was a Prince
 MORAL-In scattering Seeds of Kindness do it by Hand and not by Machinery.
 The New Fable of the Unruffled
 Wife and the Callus Husband
 One day a Married Woman who was entitled to a long TOW of Service Stripes on her Sleeve sat in the Mo- tor and watched the remainder of the Sketch try out his new trick Mono plane.
 He scooted away with the Buzzer working overtime and soon was cloud hopping about a Mile overhead.
 When he began doing the Eagle Swoops and the Corkscrew Dips, which so often serve as Prelude to a good First Page Story with a pie ture of the Remains being sorted out from the Debris, most of the Spec tators grasped and felt their Toes curling inside of their Shoes, but Wifey never batted an Eye.
 With only one little Strand of Wire or perchance a Steering Knuckle standing between her and lot of h. surance Money she retained both her Aplomb and the Lorgnette.
 How can you bear to watch 1t v asked Lady Friend, who was heav- ing perceptibly.
 "Listen," replied the Good Woman. "For many Shows l have been sitting on the Side Lines watching the Dear Boy take Desperate Chances. To be- gin with, he married into Our Fam fly. Once, at Asbury Park, he acted as Judge at Baby Show. Later he put a lot of Money into Bank, the President of which wore Throat Whiskers and was opposed to Sunday Baseball. He has played Golf on Public Links, hunted Deer during the Open Season in the Adirondacks and essayed the Role of Claude Melnotte in Amateur Theatricals. Once he at tended a Clam Bake and took every- thing that was Passed. At another time he made a Speech when the Alumni celebrated Football Victory. Frequently he goes Shopping with
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a Real One once at K. P. Banquet. It tasted a good deal like Rubber Glove"
 The only remaining Item before Dessert was tempting Salad of Wa ter Cress. -. a
 The Guest identified it as some thing that grew in the Crick below the Spring and was commonly classi- fled as Grass.
 Perhaps you had better order for Yourself" said the Host, as the low ly Water Cress followed the others into the Discard. alt
 The Guest motioned the Waiter to come close and said:"I want a nice Oyster Stew. and some Sparkling Burgundy"
 MORALLA Delicacy is. Something not raised in the same County. Copyrighted, 1911, by George Ade.)
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 Ezra and Bill, up among the in- flammatory Posters and the nervous Electric Signs, kept on playing Tag with the Sherman Act until they had it in Oodles and Bundles and Bales and Stacks.
 Finally, when they became so pros- porous that they had to, wear Shoes specially made, with Holes in the top, they began to be troubled with Ten der Recollections of Humble Birth place.
 Through the Haze of Intervening Years they saw the Game of Two Old-Cat in the Vacant Lot back of the M. E. Church and forgot all about sleeping in the refrigerated Attic and going down in the morning to thaw out the Wooden Pump.
 They yearned to elbow out from the Congested Traffic of the cold and
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f
 Course, tempting array of Frog Saddles.
 "A Frog is a Reptile" said the Hoosier, backing away from the Ia ble. Eve heard they were Et, but I never believed it. I can go out any Morning and gather Carload"
 The next Serving was Breast of Guinea Hen with Mushrooms under Glass on the Side.
 "On my Farm I've got a lot of these Things" said the Guest, poking at the Guinea Hen timidly with his Fork. We use them as Alarm Clocks, but I'd just as soon eat a Turkey Buzzard.0
 x "How about the Mushrooms s
 Flight People in our Township were poisoned this Summer from foolin' with that Truck. My pastures spec kled with 'em, but we never pick lem. Most of them are Toadstooks. I tried
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persecution of his cousin Eric, that the latter kills him in a fit of ungovernanle rage-brought on by no account of Fries but purely through Chetwynd's unkind-
 In the course of Events Eric goes un- punished, in fact even unsuspected or the terrible deed and IS love comes into his life and that of his sister Mary. theme is developed by MT. McCutcheon in a masterful manner. particularly of
 the effect upon the character of the
 erstwhile cruel Uncle Horace, who emerges finally into an almost love- able person, through the strain of loss, disappointment, shame, and humilia- l tion-human qualities which were for
 eign to his nature in the early part of his life
 Horace Bladgen's enemy, Adam Carr, is very subtly drawn and MT. Me Cutcheon makes of him very interest ing personality. while the minister, Presbrey, is merely disagreeable.
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The New Fable of the Two Philan- thropic Native Sons Who Brought Home the Bacon
 ~ NCE there were two Home Boys who sallied forth from a
 struggling Village in search of an irrational Female known as Dame Fortune.
 When they had covered enough Ground to be far away from the eld- erly Relations and no one could point out the Houses in which they were born they began to Deliver.
 It was a sad Jolt to the Walking Vegetables back in the Stockade when they heard, on Good Authority, that Ezra and Bill were slamming 1t over the Plate and batting above 400.
 They simply wagged the ossified Domes and hoped the Boys were get ting it Honestly.
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me out of the path of the train,'' she said Before he coul step out of the train s way it struck him and he was rolled under 1t. I never will forget the awful feeling that came over me when 1 realized that stranger had given his life to save mine.'' As he fell a smile was on his face.
 Weekly's parents live in Valley, Neb. The young man frequently wrote to them and told then. he would win a fortune in Chicago and then would return to them and live in comfort
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Too Much Money

From the Louisville CourierJournal.
 "Did you ever try counting sheep for your insomnia?'
 ''Yes, doctor, but I made a mess of it. counted 10000 sheep. put 'em on the cars and shipped 'em to market. The wad of money I got for 'efn made me afraid to 20 to sleep"