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Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

and all branches which are likely to
interfere with adjoining ones should
be cut out and the centers of dense
growth thinned out; side branches
which are making a stronger growth
then the others should be checked
by shortening in, so as TO maintain
an evenly balanced head. Some va
rieties have an upright habit of
growth and some make slender,
struggling growth. All need attention
each year. In cutting back the last
years growth the top bud should be
left on the side of the branch facing
the direction in which the growth
needs to be diverted. BY this method
there will be no difficulty in shaping
the tree into any desired form.
All pruning and training possible
should be done while the trees are
young and the growth of wood is
tender. At such time the healing
over is more rapid and complete, and
the tree suffers less injury.
Old trees that have been neglected
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
GETTING Rid Of It.

Tyres-I tell you the man who
takes care of his own motor car has
a good deal on his hands.
Byres-Well, soap is cheap.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
In the Suburbs,

rs Mrs. Gillet well-informed wom-
an?"
We'll, she's on party wire."-Life
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
Senarate AIIinn Chick.

At the first sign of droopiness In q
chick separate it from the rest Of the
flock and il II does not quickly re.
cover use the ak and burn the body
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
TESTIMONY
OF five WOMEN
Proves That Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable COM
pound Is Reliable.

Reedville, Ore.-"I can truly recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to all women who are passing
through the Change of Life, as It made
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c a bottle
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

anywhere, at
tracts and kills air &
nies. Neat, clean or 4.
namental, convenient
cheap. lasts all
season. ado OF
metal, can'tspil, or tilB
over, will not SOIL or
injure anything
Guaranteed efectives
Sold by dealers or
9 sent prepaid for 81
Ave-. Brooklyn, n. Y.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

me q well woman after
suffering three years.
- Mrs. MARY BoGARr,
Reedville, Oregon.
New Orleans, La. -
When passing through
the Change of Life / was
troubled with hot flashes,
weak and dizzy spells and
backache. Twas not fit for
anything until / took Ly-.
dia K. Pinkham's VegeT
table Compound which
proved worth its weight.
in gold to me. - Mrs. GAS
TON BLoNDEAU, 1541 Po-
lymnia ST., New Orleans
Mishawaka, Ind. :" Wo1
men passing through the
Change of Life can take
nothing better than Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable,
Compound. ! am recon-
mendingittoallmyfriends|
because of what it has
done for me. MRS. CHAS-
L.
BAUER, 523 E. Marion st. ]
Mishawaka, Ind.
Alton Station, Ky.-"F
months ] suffered from
troubles in consequence Of
my age and thought i,
could not live. Lydia F.
Pinkham's Veg e "a BILE!
Compound made me well
and / want other suffering
women to know about it. -
Mrs. EMMA BAILEY, Alton
Station, KY. r. /,
Oak. 81 was passing
n sG- - ia - -
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

BE thrifty on little things like bluing.
Don't accept water for bluing. Ask for Red
Cross Ball Blue, the extra good value blue.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

Garfield Ten is invaluable for NIL irregulari-
ties of the liver, kidneys and bowels. 1t is
made from pure and wholesome herbs.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
Livinq Up to Its Name,

How do people seem to like your
new song, The Acceptance"
Just carried away by it,"
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

Deisem, No. Oak. -"I was passing
through Change Of Life and felt very
bad. i could not sleep and was very
Compound restored me to perfect health
and / would not be without it. "-Mrs-'
T. M. THORN, Deisem, No. Oak.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
The Worrier.

Knicker-Does Jack worry?
Bocker-Yes; he wants to pasteur-
iZe split milk.-Judge.
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10
a WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.

In this age of research and experiment all naturU
IS by the sci comfort and hap
pines sof man Science has indeed made giant strides
In the past century, and among the-by no Ineaux
least important-dis In medicine is that OF
Therapion which has been used wit success In
French Hos pas and that IL Is worthy the attention
of those who suffer from kidney, bladder. nervous
diseases chronic weaknesses ulcers skin eruptiuns
piles, &C. there is doubt In fact tseems ey dens
from the big stir created amongst specialists. that
THERAPION is destined to cast into oblivion all
those questionable remedies that were formerly tbs
sole reliance of medical men. IL Is of course impos-
sible to tell sufferers all should like to tell heu1
in this short article, but those who would Ike TO-
know moro about this remedy that has effected so
many-we might almost say, miraculous cures.
should send addressed envelope for FREE book to
DIR. lie Clerc Med. Co., Haverstock Road, Hampstead.
London, Eng. and decide for themselves whether the
New French Remedy "THERAPION"N No. |. No
No. is what they require and have been seeking
in vain during life of misery, suffering, i'll health
and unhappiness. Therapion is soldby druggists or
mail slOO. Fougera Co., 10 Beekman st., New Yorhs-
Charlevoix county herald., 1912-08-10

Even your best friends haven't time
10 do much worrying on your account
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

presence Of the dog, or even Of awe In
the presence OF his majesty" And'
speaking Of dogs, Mr.. Lowe remembers
with an Englishman's affection the Aire-
dale terrier that found an island exist
ence so Enthusiastically monotonous, ana
almost told him so. From mans friend
to man himself Is but a single step,
wherefore this review Of a delightful
book may well end with a mention or
its human interest in the calm daily ex-
istence Of the one family on Swan Island
whose simple interests and little doings
assumed by contrast the Importance OF
events. There was the case OF the
donkey that killed the calf. NO cold
blooded murder in some big city could
have given a greater shock to the even
tenor Of this peaceful little world; and
when. after a solemn court martial, the
donkey was led forth to expiate MS
crime. we felt almost as If a shadow mad
momentarily darkened the fair SEM
blance of this island paradise"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
book itself. which is an ingenious ex-
ample Of the detective story Of to-day.
TIE OLD REALISM.
vIsTAs OF NEW YORK. BY Brander
Matthews Illustrated. Emo. PIP. zi1
Harper e Bros.

VISTAS OF NEW YORK. BY Brander
Matthews Illustrated. Emo. PIP. Zi1
Harper & Bros.
In his introduction Professor Mat
thews invites us to place this volume be-
side his earlier "Vignettes Of Manhat-
tan" and Outlines in Local Color" 1t
is the proper place for these twelve
sketches. for they are curiously dis
tant reminder Of the period when the
great battle over a certain form OF fic-
tional realism was fought In this coun-
try under the aggressive leadership OF
Mr.. Howells, who. in his turn, was the
disciple Of the Russian realists. and OF
other Continental novelists as we'll. Sew
eral Of Professor Matthews's tales be-
long to that period, now fully fifteen
years ago, in the matter Of their actual
composition. others were written only a
few years since, but all OF them. old
and new, exhibit the weakness OF a
method that took realism too literally.
confounding 1t with circumstantial at
tention to details, however unimportant
in their bearing upon the story to be
told. The result. In Professor Mat
thews's own case at least, was a monot-
onous level, which did not rise toward
The climax, but merely reaLhed 1t IN
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

on the night OF the murder and had an
swered the telephone. More amazing
still, the White House Itself seems to
be involved In some, inexplicable way.
Then q young member of the official
set" happens upon a positively startling
discovery. These are not the only clews
by any means The plot keeps on roll
ing, and. like SNOWFALL. picks up
everything in Its path rs 1t rolls. Mrs.
Lincoln keeps the case we'll in hand, In
Producing her new complications at the
right moment. and deftly entangling
them with what has gone before. OF
course. all Washington Is interested, the
departments, the Senate and House, the
White House. their wives and daughters
and sisters and cousins. and. no doubt.
the diplomatic circle as well. Particular
care has been taken In this review to
give the reader no inkling Of the de-
nouement He will find II decidedly
worth while to hunt for that In the
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

latter's enmity, he had this to say on the
affair:
One of the kindest friends I have ever
had has been Mr. Swinburne. But be-
lieve. rightly or wrongly, that Mr.. Swim
burne's critical opinions are often Wild
unsound. and even absurd; that his prose
style Is still oftener intolerably involved.
ford ana diffuse: and that he has In
consequence exercised a most pernicious
influence on contemporary style and on
contemporary literature Now,
having last year TO review In the Quar-
terly" Mr.. Symonds's "Shakspere's Prede-
cessors in the English Drama" work
which illustrated the mischievous inlu-
ence of Mr. Swinburnes criticism and
style-1 wrote as severe an attack on Mr.
Swinburne as a critic and prose writer as
/ could possibly devise.
Swinburne was furious and broke
friendship with Collins. The attempt at
reconciliation made some fourteen
years sfterward found him still SO obdu-
rate that he could bring only the stiffest
courtesy to the meeting then arranged.
The disinterested reader. taking full ac-
count OF the poetic temperament and OF
the critics ruthlessness in the passage
which caused all the trouble--a passage
reproduced, by the way in this biog-
raphy-can only feel that Collins was
absolutely in the right The ideal critic
Is jealous not for friendship, but for crit
icism.
Collins. unfailIng in fidelity to his
| worker in the cause. His son records an
appalling series of labcrs, of articles
| written. OF books composed or edited, and
Of lectures past counting. AS lecturer
he was forever travelling up and down
England, and as his son rather quantity
| adds. he also discoursed voluminously in
"the United States OF America and Ham
| burg. Germany" Notwithstanding the
almost overwhelming pressure Of his
| professional engagements he managed TO
and as an impassioned student of the
mysteries of crime he would go off with
| detectives to examine the scenes Of the
| WhiteChapel murders. sought interviews
with the Tichborne claimant, and even
went out of his way TO go to look at the
/ DDuN VI w HllldhSI NllSIl. TIC NdS
enthusiastic member Of THE Murder
| Club" the society in which Conan Doyle
f. w. Hornung, Laurence Irving. A. f..
w. Mason and others pursue harmless
but secret aims and It appears that we
arc to have a detective story 'Rast-
, chuks Revenge" devised as to its plot
! by Collins and written by Mr.. A. c. Fox
Davies. His love Of letters was so in
tense ard his memory was so good that
he was constantly delighting his friends
! by spontaneous recitatioEs of poetry and
Of prose. But he loved al anecdote found
In some comic paper and would repeat
that. too. with huge enjoyment. In short
| he was n warm-hearted, sympathetic
and busy human creature, who gloried In
right thinking and strove like soldier
TO advance what he believed TO be the
best interests Of literature. His biog-
raphy contains readable things about
some OF his famous contemporaries, like
Carlyle and Browning, there are letters
and anecdotes which were we'll worth
printing but as we relinquish the book
we thinl: only Of Collins, of his effective
work and his engaging personality.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

urally, what struck her most forcioly
was the excellence Of the ROADS tna'
make practically all Algeria and lunis
q paradise for motorists. And as for the
roads of our own country, well may we
be ashamed of them!
The local color has, after ALL oeen
made sufficiently familiar to us by many
recent novelists. And yet. how easily
we forget! Not a word here Of Tartar'h
OF Tarascon. terror Of the lions OF the
Atlas. No mention at Carthage or
"Salammbo," but The Garden OF Al
lab" and its heroine are remembere1
twice at Biskra: there Is a visit 10 tne
famous garden. and even to dance
house. Mrs. Ayers description OF the
semi sinister impression made upon her
by the famous dance being well worth
reading, brief though It is-a mere SEN
tence or two. Southwark, through the
fertile coast strip. over the plateaus OF
the mountains. into the desert itself, the
road leads to Chardain and Touggourt;
thence northwestward to Tunis. and
south again to Gabes and Medenine.
There is not too much history. the Ro-
man archaeology is not overdone, early
Christian martyrs are not forgotten
mosques. churches. monasteries are Wis
tied and described, but the human In
terest prevails in city and country. IN
oasis and desert. And the authors nu-
merous illustrations flood her pages with
the sunshine of Northern Africa.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
LITERARY NOTES.

The Scribners will bring out a fort4
night, hence Mr.. John Galsworthy's nav
book. THE Inn of Tranquility" Itha
collection of essays.
The Iron Mask.
The Man In the Iron Mask Is q Der.
sonage of endless interest and a nvs.
terry which may never be explained. IN
spite of repeated Investigations. Mr
Lang tells us that a new work on this
subject Is In preparation by a French
student. and that. in his opinion. II prom.
ises we'll. a5c1
Books Of Women.
Many books from the pens OF women
are to be produced this spring by the
Riverside Press. Among these is a COL
lection Of Tales of Greek Island" by
Nine. Julia D. Dragoumis. who is her.
self a. Greek. The readers of THE At
lantic" have now and again tasted these
dramatic and often touching stories A
novel by Miss Villa Gather is to appear
next month under the title Of Alex
ander's Bridge" and Miss Mary R.
Bangss High Bradford" a story Of a
Cape Cod village Of fifty years ago, will
be published at the same time. THE
Promised Land" the autobiograp ply Of
the Russian writer known as Mary
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
IN SUMMER SEAS
Studies of Nature at Her Un.
ending Tasks.

A NATURALIST ON DESERT ISLANDS
BY Percy r Love, b A. NJ b. (Can-
tab), Member OF the Ornithologists
Union. With 81 plates and three maps.
Svo, pp xii 300. Charles Scribners Sons
Mr.. Lowe Is a naturalist who under
stands the fine art OF loafng and in
viting his eyes-and ours; a writer. also,
who succeeds in transferring TO the
printed page the peace and restfuness Of
his holidays in the Caribbean and the
Gulf Of Mexico. He spent them on two
isolated islands. unknown even TO geog-
raphers. except as names on the map
Swan Island, out Of the beaten track OF
We! Indian travel, hundred miles due
north OF Honduras and BlanquilIa
Island. off the Venezuelan coast. Both
are virgin soil 10 the naturalist; both
more than repay him for the trouble OF
going forth TO seek them on the brow OF
the waters.
There are no adventures In this book;
nothing but a visit from Venezuelan
coastguards looking for gun runners.
There are no dangers TO remember; not
even hardships 10 record. The English
yacht on which Mr.. Lowe travelled was
amply provided with all the comforts OF
civilization, bur among the many things
he saw and describes there is his unique
experience OF watching Nature at her
primordial task of manufacturing stone:
The beach here has a very gentle slope;
and Just out OF reach OF the breaking waves
were long slabs OF a stony rock. They ran
at a very gentle angle Inland; and were
presently covered by the sand OF the
beach, further UP tho slope and by the
debris and humus that mad gone 10 make
up tho little plateau. Twenty yards or
moro from tho hlgh-water mark, the ham,
mer rebounded of the hard, smooth and
uniform surface OF the slabs; but as one
gradually approached nearer and nearer 10
the water 80 gradually the rock dipped and
became softer and softer. until at last ~
Was OF such n consistence that one could
push n walking-stick through IL. Finally
IL became nothing more than a smooth.
glistenIng surface Of muddy-looklng SAND
SO here II was. just below the limits Of high
and low water. that Nature was manufact-
uring stone" or blocks of cement. mixing
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

to her influence or appreciation. II
would have been strange indeed II she
had had any marked tastes In such d.
rections, for the duchess and Lehzen
had carefully avoided in her training
anything which might have encouraged
imagination and Independent mental ex-
ercise.
Her "sad and unhappy childhood GER
tainly had much to do with the stapii-
ity of character which at once' became
apparent upon her accession to the
throne. Her frmness and dignity were
as conspicuous as her modest grace. she
had lived in so retired a fashion that
little was known about her, and there
was much curiosity as to the probaole
behavior of the youthful holder of SO
great an office. At the very first meeting
of the Privy Council 1t was discovered
that her will was strong. Mrs. Jerrold
quotes Sir Bernard Bosanquets anecdote
of that Impressive occasion
With the utmost dignity. before her, as
sembled Privy Councillors. with her clear
young voice. the Queen began reading:
This Act intituled" (Which is the legal
way Of spelling entitled.
"Entitled. Your Majesty, entitled" hastily
corrected Lord Melbourne. in a loud voice
aside.
The young Queen slowly drew herself up
and said quietly and firmly Il nave said
it,"
tiful childish voice rang out.
i "This Act intituled'--
In her concluding chapter on the
Queens nome Mrs Jerrold gives a curl
Gus account of the extraordinary dis
order and confusion in court "housekeep-
ingY in the early years Of the reign.
Authority was divided among many high
officials. with the result that nobody was
directly responsible for the Queens COM
fort. and until Prince Albert and Baron
Stockmar brought about a domestic rev.
clution she could not even be certain OF
having a well warmed room TO live in
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
MuRpER IN WASHINGTON!

THE TREVOR CASE. BY Natalie sum,
ner Lincoln Illustrated by Edmund
Frederick. i2mo.. pp S33. d. Appleton
& Co.
The second wife Of the Attorney Cen
eral. a foreigner whom he had met In
London. is found dead one morning In
the locked safe in her husbands private
Office at his residence. She has been
murdered. The first clew points TO
burglar. caught on leaving the house
hurriedly into the night before. The sec
ond clew, a strong one. points to lieu
tenant commander in the navy. The
woman, Il is also brought out at the In
quest. had quarrelled violently with her
stepdaughter. The husband, himself. Is
found to be open TO suspicion, for a
newspaper man, investigating the case
on his own hook, discovers that the At
torney General had been In the house
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17

blending and churnlng the ingredients and
spreading the plastic sludse along the slop-
ing beach.
Then there are those master builders,
piling mountain upon mountain. Natures q
minute makers of coral; and there arc
birds and fish turtles, and plants and
trees, and the wonders Of the life of the
bottom Of the ocean; and there Is good
fishing of tarpon and lady fish and deyil
fish-where. asks the author. did IL ever
get its undeserved sinister reputation?
There are iguanas, and the only mann
NAL OF Swan Island. nearly extinct rat
Of repulsive proportions and the most
amiable Intentions. trustful as a pet
lamb. knowing not man and fearing him
not; ready. even. when brought to Eu-
rope. to make friends with King Ed
wards dog Caesar. the very first mammal
Of any kind other than its own which II
had ever seen. II exhibited not the
faintest signs Of fear or suspicion in the
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
Literary .Nese,s and Cr11fcfS"'

ascc,d. amateurish and excessively ami
oh,s criticism he was an exceptionally
useful writer. One or two OF his DOCKS
"Ephemera Critica." and the studies IN
Shakespeare" may for time continue
10 be read. but whether they last or not
hs will be held in grateful remembrance
by historians Of nineteenth century criu-
c,sm. FOR they cannot forget what ne did
to castigate false scholarship. to dls-
credit log rolling and to stem the tids
OF literary treacle.
He was so honest IN attack that ne
simply could not understand the ro-
duction of a personal element into at
ters Of literary citicism. He and SWIM
burne, who for long time were delight
fully intimate. had famous falling out.
and before he knew that he had wound
ed the poet, and thereby incurred the
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
AN EDITORS MEMORIES
M. Arthur Meyer on the Partisan
Currents Of His Day.

Paris, March o. '
NJ. Arthur Meyer. the veteran and
versatile Partisan journalist, editor OF
the royalist, catholic and reactionary
"Gaulois," has been encouraged by the
success of his recent memories, What
NV Eyes Have Seen," to write another
remarkably interesting book, "Ce que
IA peux dire"-"What I Can Tell You
About" 1t has just been published by
Plon. These political and literary souve'
Mrs supply a delightful narrative OF
events during the latter part OF the
Second Empire, and of the Third Re-
nublic until 1904. 1t contains upward
of forty vivid pen-and-ink portraits OF
the leading men and women OF the day.
enlIvened by some three hundred char
acteristlc anecdotes and personal cpl
sodes. which supply golden eggs with
which future writer's can make tnnum-
erah HE historical omelets. NJ. Meyer Is
an exquisite "raconteur," to use term
which means more than narrator OF
"story-telIer," and what he tells us Is
nresented In bright. crisp witty shape
|
devoid Of malice, yet brimful OF irony
:hern are pincbes Of salt. and dashes OF
honey. His "indiscretions" are always
discreet" and I'm good taste.
one finds in this album or remims-
cences a description OF the drawing
room of the Comtesse de Luynes. which
for half century was the place OF
A...t
ueeting-the "foyer'-of the most emil
mont public men of the time and had
doom Influence on the trend OF events
that have since become matters OF his
tory. During the empire Nine. de
Iuvnes's salon was the political foyer OF
Prince Napoleon. and among the most
assiduous guests were Renan, Taihe
Alexandra Dumas fills, Provost Paradol
Girardin. Flaubert and Henri Rochefort
II was the congenial hearth for Prince
Napoleon's liberal ideas liberal Christi
anity. liberal political economy and lib-
eral literature. Later on this delightful
drawing room became almost exclusive
| Iv liter, nv. It Is true that Henri Roche
fort often came there, but he never
| talked politics and gave full bride tc
! his Voltarian wit and to his incisive
criticisms on art and literature. Renai
put in constant appearances at Nine. de
| Luynes's salon until a few days befor
| his death, and used to exchange idea
there with Anatole France. Ernest Dau
det. Victorien Sardou. Hector Cremieux
Ludovic Halevy ard Arsene Houssaye.
The apparitioh of General Bouianse
brought somewhat discordant elemen
into this drawing room. II was shortly
followed by the stirring events oil th'
preyfus affair, which caused divisioi
amongst the habltues About haii OF
the genial little coterie withdrew. Ih'
salon. then became nationalist anc
.anti- Dreyfus" The leading hgure'
we're Jules Lemaltre, FRANCOIS Coppee
Maurice Barres. Syveton. Derouieoe
Drumont and Colonel Marchand. Ir'
famous drawing room became 'salor
de guerre." NJ. Meyer conveys the I'M
preston that he might tell us mucf
lore than lie actually discloses, anf
his gives greater weight to ono OF th'
r,ost readab,e books Of "reminiscences
that have appeared in Paris Tor some
g. C. !. II.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-17
The Traits of a Militant Man OF
Letters.

Life and Memoirs Of John Churton Col
lima Written and compiled by nlS
tions, one in photogravure. Svo. pp'
xvii, $50 The John Lane Company
When Churton Collins was child ne
was reported 'lost" one night After a
bewil6ered search he was discovered up
the chimney, clothed only in his night
shirt. He had tried to climb to the top
and had nearly succeeded. The incident
was prophetic. Collins was born to be n
man of letters, but It was never to prove
possible for him to remain merely
bookish type. dwelling contentedly In his
study His spirit was adventurous and
pugnacious. Among the English critics