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The Washington herald., 1912-11-17
Literary Notes

Z. F. Benson. whose novel, THE Vim
tage," gives brilliant picture of the en-
thusiasm OF the Greeks in their war
against the Turks nearly a century ago,
has remarked that the victories won by
the Hellenes IN that struggle for inde-
pendence were the first they had known
since captured by the Romans. Mr.. Ben
son was for a time a member Of the
Archaeological School at Athens.
Henry Holt & Co. will conclude their
publishing for the year of books for gen.
eral readers on November 16 on which
date they will issue Stanley washburn's
Trails, Trappers, and Tenderfeet in the
New Empire Of Western Canada" This
author, a trained newspaper man, has
already shown his ability to write vividly
in his THE Cable Came" and In his new
books gives us some very striking pic
lures, made still more so by the camera,
Of the Canadian Northwest. At the same
time they will issue George lies Lead
ing American Inventors" confined to
those whose work Is finished. and rang
Ing from Fulton with his "Clermont" to
Mccormick with his reaper and Mergen-
thaler with his linotype. Dr. Frederic
Taber Cooper follows his American
Story-tellers" with Some English Story
tellers." a book OF the younger novelists,
In which he will treat of fifteen Of the
best writers OF to-day.
On November the Holts have issued G.
II. Perris' Germany and the German
Emperor" DR.. Perris, already favorably
known here for his "A Short History of
War and Peace" In the same publishers
Home University Library. advances in
his new book the theory that political
revolution in Germany is inevitable.
!, Now that the attention of the world Is
directed to the dramatic struggle going
On between Turkey and the Balkan states,
renewed interest is being taken in Ar
thur d. Howden Smiths Fighting the
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'Servia Of the Servians," by c. Mijato-
yich. volumes from the Countries and
People Series" which the Scribners pub
lish, offer the fullest Information about
the countries they deal with in the small
est compass. They are complete and
popular studies by authorities which
treat OF every important topic-social,
economic, political and military. But
those looking for a more detailed study
in the case Of Servia will find it In The
Servian People" by Prince Lazarovich-
Hrebelianovich, who has Just left this
country to Join the allied forces against
Turkey.
A particularly comprehensive list is
that of George H. Doran Company. New
York, as to both variety and quality. Not
only are standard favorites like Ralph
Connor, Conan Doyle, Justin Huntiy Nc
Carthy, Baroness Orczy. represented by
new books Of conscientious endeavor. but
names new to the book world stand
arouse interest for sheer merits sake.
The list might best be described as in
ternational, for It is drawn from many
nations. England Is represented by that
premier living writer of mystery fiction.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose latest
novel is called The Lost WorId:"s by
Justin Huntly Mccarthy. with a slashing
cavalier romance. "A Health Unto His
Majesty" by Gilbert Frankau (son OF
Frank Dandy, already popular in Amer
ica), with one Of the smartest conceits Of
half century-a novel In verse entitled
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MRS LANCELoT: By Maurice Hewlett. Ths
Century Company. New York
It would be blunder to take Mr.. Hew-
lett seriously. He has roamed the world
IN search of themes for romance and
novel, and he has seldom failed to find
them adaptable to his fancy He has
however, never sought to hscribe his
characters or his scenes with the pains
taking pen Of the. realist, and to censure
or to condemn him because of his fan
tastic outlook on life,. is to play the tru-
, ant to the truth.
s To tell the story of Mrs Lancelot,"
even TO enumerate it characters descrip-
lively, can serve no. good purpose. To do
SO would be to misrepresent Mr.. Hewlett,
and to cause those who have not read the
story to misjudge him. The most that
can be done is to say that 1t lives and
moves and has its being amid the social
and political life Of England in the reign
Of King George ": that its plot centers
around the personalities, the deeds, and
the thoughts Of a husband. his wife and
two men who are in love with her, the
one a duke and premier. the other poet.
1t would be only part Of the truth to say
that Charles Lancelot is a complacent
husband. that GeorgiaRa Lancelot Is an
unfaithful wife, that the Duke of De-
vies is a lbertine, or that Gervaise
Poore is a seducer. That is what they
would be in a conventional story. 1t deals,
to be sure, with certain conventions OF
life. but they become something more
than that beneath the ingenuity and the
skill OF a writer who possesses the genu-
inc creative impulse.
Perhaps it is only fair to say that this
poet and preposterous young man did
eventually carry on Georgians, and that
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he kept her, at least SO far as her story,
as told by Mr.. Hewlett, goes
Despite Its extravagances. despite its
prepostorous revelations Of preposterous
poets. preposterous politicians, and their
preposterous womankind. We may enjoy
the story OF their preposterous adventures
because Il 10 Mr.. Hewlett who entangles
them into fantasy such as he alone can
weave
The MAN WHO BUcKED UP: By Arthur How
ard DOuhlsdsy. Psss & Co, New York. Prics.
u
Here Is a rare thing. a unique book
fun Of the truth that is stranger than q
$40 novel The man who bncked up
at the age Of thirty-elght and in eighteen
months owned newspaper and was
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Turk in the Balkans" CPutnam), a vol
ume which presents in graphic form the
revolving conditions which have prompted
the allies to make war against the Otto
man Empire.
The Putnams will publish about the
middle Of November a volume entitled
AN Unorthodox Conception Of Being
by William Ellsworth Hermance. The
authors conceptions are idealistic in the
ory; materialistic in fact; duallstic in en-
ergy. and monistic in being. His conten-
tions in many cases run counter to the
more orthodox school of philosophy and
give the reader an opportunity to pass
upon the validity of some Of the more
common theories that are held to-day.
The Putnams will publish late in No
vember new volume by DIR. Adolf Har-
mack, to be entitled bible Reading in
the Early Church" This new volume
with which Prof. Harnack continues his
series of New Testament studies, appeals
to a wider circle OF readers than the
more limited theological circle upon
which the former volumes made SO deep
describes the religious life OF the or
binary Christian of the early days. and
shows the profound influence here ex-
erclsed by the Bible.
The upheaval in the near East has
caused many people to look for books on
the countries Involved. Turkey Of the
ottomans." by Lucy NJ. Garnett, and
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band the wisdom of keeping his wife's
name clear of scandal. In the days that
followed he could neither truly forgive
Ruth nor endure the thought Of giving
her up. He began to lose his courage
Instead of making witnesses quail, he
ouailed before them. His animosity to-
ward cowperthwaite led him to intro
duce evidence illegally in the case against
the boss's lieutenant. and the Judge
promptly discharged the jury.
There followed the prosecution Of Mayo
himself. Shrewd and in his own way
benevolent, he got and inkling of the sit
uation- He was anxious to have the case
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against him fail. because Of his daughter
Claire, and her belief In him. He nrsi
sounded cowperthwaite. suspecting the
young lawyers love for Claire. but Cow
perthwaite was sphinx Then he ap-
preached the district attorney. The
weak Joint in his armor was found and
pierced with skin.
The characters appeal to US, because
their emotions are real With the art
Of a natural story-teller the author shows
through stirring action and dialogue how
necessary Especially in marriaee) Is faith
In others love and goodness
THE LAND OF FuoTPRIETs:. By stssard I'd.
ward White. Doublsdzy. Pags q Co., Nss fork
In the frst chapter of the book the
author points out that there are two
different kinds Of books on Africa. each
with nsws from the point of view Of the
average reader Of intelligence. The first
kind OF book goes In for pure adyen-
ture and gets all the thrills that the
country can afford, with few Of the
authors imaginations thrown Into the
bargain. OF this type Of book Mr.. White
says that the reader takes away an I'm
precision of strange unreaiity ORA coun-
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try impossible to understand by the or
dinary mental equipment. 1.-The AFFAIR is
Interesting. but 1t is more or less con-
cocted OF pasteboard for his amuse-
ment." The other kind OF book is more
purely of exploration, and the author
steers very clear OF the ridicule of old
timers.
The majority of readers. thinks Mr
White want something by which they
can learn the country SO that the aver
age reader can see things as they hap
pened to common everyday human
being. and enjoy them actually. IL vi
cariously. so that he may speculate as
to how he would have liked them him
self
Readers desiring sheer exploration can
get it in any library. But that is not
what the majority wants. They wish
to know what the country they read
about is like. not in grandiose word
paintings, nor in foreign-sounding words.
but in comparison with something they
know. This is what Mr.. White has
aimed at and accomplished, as we knew
that the popular author OF Arizona
Nights could and would.
KNOCKING THE NEIGHBORs: by Georr, Ade
Doubleday. Page a Co. New York. Price s.
The mention OF George AIDES name
makes thousands OF people smile reminis-
Gently. They remember some one OF
his books of genuine humor-perhaps
Pink Marsh. or Doc Thorne. or those
fables in slang that took the country
by storm; or perhaps they have seen his
college Widow" on the stage or The
Country Chairman" or The Old Town -
Now. after several years, during which
he has been giving most of his time TO
his farm in Indiana and the rest of II
TO writing successful plays, he has pro-
duced a new book-a book OF the minute,
book that will make you feel how
much entertainment you have missed
through the authors silence.
The pictures by Albert Levering are
welcome addition, for they illustrate
the spirit as well as the letter OF this,
the first George Ade book In many
years.
wHIPPEN: By Frederick orin Bartlett. Boston
Small, Maynard & Co.
A delightful little tale, typicaIIy
American. It deals with the rise in for
tune Of a young man who is never afraid
of new ideas. Beginning in a country
store, which is apparently the only prop
er beginning for the successful Ameri-
can. WhIppen first manifests his COM
mercial sagacity by selling his wife's
a. wv PLSes' hHS-hNe cents
and eighty cents, for the same quality.
Finding that the most expensive con-
fectionery is in greater demand. the en-
terprising clerk turns his attention to
eggs and then by degrees his ambitions
soar higher.
Though telling the housewives who
deal in the store that the eggs or pota-
toes in the basket without a clean paper
bottom and lining are just as good as in
the more pretentious basket. they per-
sist in taking the higher priced goods
and this gives whippen his idea for the
made.
1t is very lively story. for whippen's
rise in the world is amazingly rapid. The
fundamental truth in, the story is a pro-
found one, recognized by psychologists
and excellently presented In popular
form.
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mayor Of a town OF 1900 people, tells his
own story. Used to wealth and luxury,
spending thousands of dollars a year in
fashionable New York restaurants, a
waster, disowned by his father, he at
last pulled himself up by the bootstraps.
In his story he gives real names and
real places and real facts. This prodigal
who went out and got his own fatted
calf is Arthur Howard, and he Is mayor
of Salem, Mass. That is a far cry to the
disowned bankrupt. You may not believe
1t in a novel, but you will believe II in
Howard's own story
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

wages. and decent working condi-
lions, they have been paying them
starvation wages and treating them
almost like animals.
The last leg has been knocked
from under the wool tax argument,
and President Taft has no excuse
left to explain a veto of the demo-
cratic downward revision wool bill.
The president vetoed the first wool
bill not for the welfare of either
consumer or WOODEN mill worker,
but at the behest Of the millionaire
wooden trust owners who contributed
to his campaign fund. If he vetoes
the newly introduced wooden bill, it
will be for the same reason, and
the people will so understand it
Corpus Christi Democrat.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
OPPORTUNITY.

A word unsaid seems a little thing,
But alas, | may never know
If the coming days to a soul may
bring
The truth that ! fail to show.
A song unsung seems a little thing,
But the heart that | left today
May pine for the songs that | did
not sing,
AS it goes on it's cherries way.
A deed undone seems a little thing,
But the burden l might have
shared
Has left a heart with a bitter sting,
OF the thought that nobody
cared"
So the little thing that we leave I'M
done,
Are the things that men hold dear;
Lies battles are reckoned, lost or
won
BY a smile or a falling tear.
'Tis the little things that the bur
dened heart
In the time of trial heeds;
Then let us Tighten life's ache and
smart
With the sunshine of little deeds.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
WOMAN AND THE TARIFF.

When a woman purchases $40
worth of wooden dress good. $4.S7
Of that $40 represents the value Of
the goods and the remaining s5.13
Of the $40 the amount of tariff. In
other words. should the purchase be
made in England, where there Il no
tariff on ~wQolens, the woman would
receive the same Mount and quality
Of dress goods for s4.S7 that she
pays $40 for in this country.
This is because of the Paync-Ald-
rich ad valorem tariff rate Of los
per cent. When the democrats
came into power in the house Of rep
resentatives they framed a bill which
reduces the tax on wooIens nearly
40 per cent. The senate passed a
similar bill. President Taft vetoed
the bill, which prevented cheaper
and better woolens to American con-
The democratic majority of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
WHAT WATER CONSERVATION
MIGHT ACCOMPLISH.

1T is a pity the surplus water
now going to waste in the Missouri
Mississippi region can not be CON
for irrigation purposes" re
marks the Brownsville Herald. Yes;
there is enough water rushing down
the Mississippi now to irrigate thou
sands Of acres of land next summer
when the rainfall may not be suf-
ticient to make good crops. The
conservation policy is yet COMPARE
new. therefore we may not ex-
pect that such waters as are break
ing through levees can be stored for
a few years. but engineering feats
will finally make this possible. A
great deal Of money will Do required
to accomplish this, but il will be we'll
spent. On a smaller scale, the same
result will be attained in the Rio
Grande and other river sections Of
and large areas of land now
classed as arid will be brought under
cultiyativation and made as produc-
tive as any land in the country
San Antonio Express.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

The great floods on the Mississippi
river have naturally given rise TO
many strange and exciting incidents.
Some Of them are tragic, some
pathetic, and a few are pathefcally
funny. While a steamboat from
Memphis was rescuing flood victims
the other day a negro was discovered
on a raft with a mule. He steadily
refused to come aboard the boat
and leave his mule ITO drown. AS a
compromise the steamboat crew Of
fered TO take the raft in tow Rather
to the surprise of all concerned, ex-
cept the darkey. the mule and the
raft reached Memphis intact.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

the house now presents the bill
again.
President Taft will have less ex-
cuse to veto the bill than before.
He declared on the first OCCASION
that a certain tariff board had net
made its report, and that to permit
a reduction Of duties might make i.
impossible for the wollen manufac-
turers to protect" their working
men.
The tariff board report justifies a
downward revision of the Wooden
schedule. Then since the president
vetoed the wooden bill there has been
a strike of the textile workers at
Lawrence, Mass, which has revelaed
beyond argument and beyond con
tradictiOn that the wooden trust
magnates have been fooling and
cheating the public all the time.
The strike Of the Sc, 81 and SIS a
week men, women and children in
the WOODEN mills brought to light
the fact that while the mill owners
have been declaring that they were
protecting" their workers with fair
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 10, 1912.
TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE.

We learn by experience. AT least
some of us do and the rest think we
DO. Here in Brownsville experience
has offered us one or two important
lessons lately. Hereafter, for ex-
ample, whenever we have an extern
slye job of street paving we will try
to do 1t as we come to il.
Under the most favorable condi-
tions 1t can never be possible 10 pave
more than a few blocks at one time,
and perhaps it would be better to
confine the work to one street at a
time. The recent heavy rains have
opened our eyes to the fact that the
whole business district ought not
TO be torn up at n time, since we
may need some of the streets before
the others can be paved.
y II may be that something of the
existing state Of affairs has been due
to delay in receiving material so
that the contractors had TO keep
their men busy preparing the streets
before they were actually needed.
And at the same time if we
have to rebuild our waterworks sys-
tenn, we will try to finish up that
part running through the district
that is to be paved before the paving
process Is begun. Ii surely does look
as If the city might have managed to
keep out Of the way Of the PAYERS in
the present readjustment of the
waterworks system. That work
should have been begun early enough
in the paving district to get it out
of the way. Or, once it was begun,
ii should have been pushed on to
completion as rapidly as possible. 1t
would have been far better to have
finished this work in the business
district before beginning on that
part in the western part of the city.
The long yellow, waterworks
bitches, extending block after block,
are not only a hindrance to traffic,
but they are a constant source of
danger to pedestrians and vehicles.
The sides, softened by the rains, are
rapidly c%rumbling, which probably
will result in additional trouble and
expense. The water mains, exposed
TO the weather in many places, are
not improving in quality either.
Necessarily improvements of the
kind WI are making. involve plenty
of Inconvenience at the best. Next
time il Is to be hoped we will be
wiser and will know better how to
manage. Meanwhile. the present
situation should be remedied as
quickly as possible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
NEW BEE DISEASE.
Paralysis Afflicts Busy Little Work
ers in Texas.


A disease of bees known to bee
keepers as paralysis" has made its
appearance simultaneously in var
ious parts Of Texas. The present
outbreak of paralysis, occurring
over a large area and appearing sud
denly, is not unlike the similar sud
den outbreak of ''pickled brood
disease among the aparies last year,
is a statement from the office of Will
mon Newell, state entomologist and
professor Of entomology at the A.
& Nj. college Of Texas.
Practically nothing is known as
to the cause of paralysis but it's APP
pearance in such a manner would
seem to indicate that climatic condi-
tons may in some way be respon-
sible. This disease attacks only the
adult bees, never the larvae or
brood. The bees become sluggish,
tremble violently and the abdomen
becomes swollen, with a greasy ap-
%pearance. The dead and dying bees
are elected from the hive by the re-
naming workers and these dead and
dying bees are sometimes found by
the hundreds in front Of colonies
which are affected by the disease.
One authority recommends as a
remedy the interchange of healthy
and diseased colonies, the object be-
ing TO get all diseased bees out of
the colonies as quickly as possible,
thus removing the sources of infEc-
ton. The disease Is communicated
by the adult bees, from one to an
other, and is not carried on combs
or in honey so far as known.
Another authority recommends
the following treatment: Form as
many neuclei from strong healthy
stocks as there are sick colonies to
be treated. AS soon as the neuclei
have young laying queens, give to
each, as fast as it can care for it,
II or two frames of the oldest
capped brood from each Of the para
lytic colonies, and thereafter until
all brood from the diseased colonies
is used up. The diseased bees and
queen should next be destroyed with
sulphur fumes and the hives fumi-
gated at the same time
There is also ground for believing
certain colonies are more susceptible
to this disease than others, and that
certain colonies or strains are inn
mune from it. Whenever this dis
ease is noted, there, the hives should
be marked and at the first oppor-
tunity the b%eekeeper should destroy
the queen in the diseased colony and
replace her with a queen from some
other stock, either purchased from
a queen-breeder or reared from some
colony Of his own which has not
shown the disease. In this way a
gradual immunity to the disease
may be brought about in ones
apiary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
WHY NOT INTERURBAN LINE TO
LITTLE INDIANA?

Why not an inlerurban service
between Brownsville and Little
Indiana. as soon as the motor track
is completed between the inter-
national bridge and the Rio Grande
station? Ii probably would pay well
to make two or three runs a day the
full length Of the Brownsville
Sugar Belt. This would give one
of the most thickly settl~d sections
of the Brownsville section quick
connection with the city, and would
stimulate communication between
country and city. IL probably would
pay the railroad.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

The regret for the departing bull
whip" is touching. 1t is now dis
covered that many Of the prisoners
rather like it. A prisoner has so
few enj1yments it seems a pity to
fitch them away from him, especially
when the thing is done in the name
of humanity. Where was Senator
Bailey when that outrage was per-
petrated? What allied him that he
allowed a lot Of vain m and
silly reformers to put over a thing
like that on the poor joyless pris-
oners?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

The latest government farce is
about to be staged. II consists in
the trial of the former chief Of
drainage Investigations OF the de-
partmens of agriculture, c. G. Ell
lott. for alleged violations OF law.
involved in the t~ransference of
money from another fund Of the de-
pAstment for the purpose Of COM
pIetinS some nearly finished drain
age work. which money was replaced
out OF the neNs years drainage APP
preparation, while the outrage Of
countenancing what virtually
amounts 10 a colossal land fraud on
the part OF other government officials
Is ignored.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10
Little Old New York.

A Western mining p~rospector was
paying his first visit to New York.
What d5 you think OF ito" asked
the proud Gothamite as he pointed
out the ~skyscrapers.
Wal replied the miner. 1t looks
like a permanent camp all right
Success Magazine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-04-10

The small inland sea which formed
yesterday between Elizabeth and
Washington streets on 18th will be
remembered doubtless as the last
spectacle of that kind seen in the
business district of Brownsville.