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race in front of the Smiths stately resi-
dence
You should, painted Mr. Proper Thing,
mopping his perspiring brow.
Arrived at the front door which was
opened by dignified and awe-inspiring
butler their spirits were somewhat damp
ened when they were told that Mrs
Smith had been taken suddenly i'll and of
course could not see any one
Mr.. Proper Thing had thrown himself
into chair on the porch the moment
he had reached the top step, and had
planted himself there to rest, after the
awful climb up of dozens of steps, which
didn't agree with his $50 pounds avoirdu-
pois particularly.
What shall we do? asked Mrs. Proper
face, looking like he was going to have
stroke of apoplexy. tanning with his
hat and putting like porpoise.
Il don't know You are engineering this
party he growled.
"Oh, I'll tell you, she said quickly.
Let's go and call on the Browns. We
owe them a dinner cali and they don't
live far from here
Amy danger of EN- not being at home?
asked Mr.. Proper Thing, who by thi.
time would rather have found somebody
ter home" than plough from one place to
another on such warm night
They've such big family. somebody $
bound to be there" said Mrs. Proper
Thing, as off they started.
But IL
Alas. for human hopes. when they go
| to the Browns everything loomed up
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Drop In And See Us t Any Everg We Are Alays At Home

we are going this evening and make
dinner eall,'' said Mrs. Proper Thing to
her Hubby during the evening meal.
'Oh, Lord he groaned, Are We?
Which one OF the many that We owe,
are we going to make, might | ask?''
II think Wen choose the Smiths, as that
is of the longest standing she replied.
They, as well as any number of our
friends are always saying;
Why don't you drop into see us some-
time Just any old evening. We are al
ways home-nights. Do come soon.
so let's start this evening
''All right" said Mr.. Proper Thing,
looking like he'd rather take a whipping
than go.
Promptly at the two started out to
make the famous dinner call
Got any cards. john" asked Mrs.
Proper Thing
"N-o-p-e," said he. Haven't see any
for a year.
After ransacking every hole and corner
of every table; writing desk and chiffon
Ter drawer on the place, Mrs. Proper
Thing finally succeeded in finding two
crumpled up. soiled cards of her hus-
bands. and iamming them into her card
case said:
Come on
They boarded a street car and 1t was
a long ride. including transfers and all
the other Inconvenience, but they finally
arrived. . -
One really ought to, keep up with
their social duties BETTER said Mrs.
Proper Thing, as they climbed up the ter
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Holder talks is Edon Parr, and he tells
him that unless the people of that parish
correct their business methods and every
day life that they have no right to call
themselves Christians.
The vestry battles against him and
there is talk of the withdrawal of his
salary.
The young rector refuses TO resign and
the bishop fortunately upholds him and
so with the love of Alison Parr he fights
the good fight and makes out of St john
a free church. in which the membership
is not dependent upon the belief in dog
ma, but upon the daily life of a heart full
of Christ-like love for all humanity.
The story evidently bespeaks Mr.. Chur-
chilfs own ideas of Christianity.
None but a deep thinker--a man who
had given his time and attention to the
unraveling of character such as Hod-
der's and the insistence of real love and
Christianity in every day life. could have
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aTHE PENALTY.. ;.

By Gouverneur Morris. With full page
and double page illustrations by Howard
Chandler Christy. Charles Seribner' S
Sons, publishers, New York
1t is safe to say that when Mr.. Gouvern-
eur Morris writes a book everybody
reads it.
Certainly this has been the case with
his latest book, 1.-THE Penalty" which has
been discussed from east to west. from
north to south, bringing about arguments,
stimulating those who haven't read the
book with desire to read 1t at once and
with not an adverse criticism as to its
merit.
There may be those who do not care
to have the side of life it portrays
brought before them in such vivid form,
but when they once begin the story they
can't voluntarily put it down until they
have found out what happened TO every
body in it.
That is the secret and the charm of Mr.
Morris writings
He is compelling and fascinating and
his stories never lag in their intense in
terest.
OF course blizzard" the leading char
ter. is very different from the characters
one meets in every day fiction.
Barbara who finds a certain mag
netism and fascination in his depravity,
is a remarkable type whom we more fire.
quently meet.
With all of Blizzard's rascality, how
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pitifuly. because you couldn't find but
two of my visiting cards and we couldn't
call on perfectly strange people without
a card"
THAT suits me-" said Mrs. Proper
Thing, Il met your Cousin Anne ON the
street only yesterday and she said they'd
been waiting 10 have us out to dinner.
and if we ever paid that dinner call we
owe them she meant to ask us again"
I'm hungry enough to eat dinner right
this minute said Mr.. Proper Thing DO
you think we could induce them to give
the dinner tonight?"
Don't try to be funny, please, said
Mrs. Proper Thing disgustedly
Perhaps they'll ask us to stay to
breakfast" he went on unheeding her
persifage
They literally 'fel into the street car
that they ran a block to catch and when
they got to the station they We're to get
off at they both looked like they would
die from sheer exhaustion and disgust.
Il suppose they will be taking a bath
or one of the women folks will be wash
ing her hair. or they'll have a sewing.
woman there fitting a Dress" said Mr..
Proper Thing, "at this time of the night,
if they aren't in bed. Women are such
curious creatures"
Well, as they are your relatives" she
suggested. you can explain the lateness
of the hour to them. / wouldn't know
what to tell them exactly
Tel 1.-The mthe truth" he shouted and
as he said this, oh joyl OH blissi a light
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ton in his views and attitude toward life:
the novel might be called his personal
history. To the great mass of novel read
ers this story should appeal because it is
Churchill story and Mr.. Churchill has
never been known to disappoint his read
ers. To that less strictly defined public
which is perhaps too apt to pass over
novels in the belief that they have little
TO contribute. to the serious thought of
the day The Inside of the Cup should
prove no less interesting. 1t is fiction
primarily, to be sure but 1t is deeply root
ed In our civilization and culture.
Mr.. Churchilrs story primarily reviews
Mrs. Humphry Wards great novel, Rob-
'ert Elsmere,' of many years ago
Much comparison has been made of the
TWO Characteristic young ministers of
the gospel--so much alike and yet so to-
tally different
The sense of Mr.. Churchills story is
iaio In middle western city, which we
might picture to ourselves a s any of the
several large cities in the United States.
Tor the city, like the characters involved.
is typical of our present day American
civilization.
st Johns might be any fashionable
parish this side of the Atlantic
John Holder, the young rector. orthodox
and dignified, might find his prototype in
any or score of young rectors known
prominently today
"Eidon Parr,' the great financier OF
the church, the prop and main stay, might
De easily spotted among our acouaint-
| ances, and Nelson Langmaid, the corpo-
ration attorney who could drive a coach
ana SIX through any statue Legislators
might make who is paid s.s1oo GOO a wear
Tor Keeping Eldon Parr out of jail.'' is a
most characteristic product
Dalton Street, with all of it's hideos
n.y. the home of vice and crime and pow
erty and woe. is to be found in any great
city of more than 5000 inhabitants. and
WIN oata our nero is introduced and be-
gins his work.
The Rev Mr. Holder has heen called
to the rich parish Of ST. Johns because
ne is. considered a. safe and sane mana
shepherd who will lead his sheen in the
old fashioned conventional path of re-
ligion.
Inc young rector makes friends easily
among his parishioners. but after a bit
he seems to become dissatisfied. worried
fearful that he is not making arv great
strides in his work
The poor eschew his church. while tba
rich take it for granted-along witb ali
the other luxurious commodities of their
lives.
Discomfort is very apparent within his
bosom and the smoldering unrest is soon
famed into a flame by a-girl-AIison
Parr, the daughter of Eldon Parr. the
rnainstay of the church, who will have
none of his money, but has gone to New
York to follow the profession Of land
scape gardening
While she is visiting her father the
young rector meets her, and she airs her
views of things she has thought out for
herself-things that seem to her wrong
and unreal. unjust.
During the summer the Rev. Mr.. Hod-
der does good deal of reading and think
Ing himself. putting his assistant in
charge of the church.
In the early autumn one OF his first SER
mons arouses a veritable hornets nest
out of the most peaceful congregation in
America as Langmaid expresses it.
Among others with whom the Rev Mr..
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THE INSIDE OF THE CUP"
BY Winston Churchill illustrated by
Howard Giles The Macmillan company.
publishers, New York.
In looking back over Mr.. Winston
Churchills splendid list of novels. "Rich-
ard Caryel.' THE Crisis" Mr. Crewe s
Career, "A Modern Chronicle" and 9TH
ers, It would seem that his most recent
story. THE Inside of the up is the sum
total of his snccess
1t is in fact the most commanding book
that this popular author has yet written.
1t is a rendering in the fashion of an
absorbing love story, some of the most
vital of the problems with which the
Christian church is today confronted and
yet after the publication of THE Inside
of the Cup" when it aroused so much
comment. Mr.. Churchill said in, an after
word.' the following:
Nothing could have been farther from
my mind than to pose a theologian.
and We're it not for one or two of the
letters have received. / should have
supposed that no reader could have
thought of making the accusation that
presumed to speak for any one except
myself. In book of this kind. the set
ting forth of personal view of religion
Is not only unavoidable. but necessary
since, ifsi wrote sincerely. Mr.. Holder 8
solution must coincide with my own-so
Tar as | have been able to work one out. :"
Mucn tnouSht ana care on MIR. Churc-
nil $ part have gone into it's making. 1t
is not what is known as religious novel;
nor is ii Intended as a criticism of any
faith or doctrine, but rather a dramatic
assembling of some of the forces now op-
Grating In the church and particularly
their actual and practical relation to the
life of the everyday man and woman. 1t
is an expression in fiction. in other words
of the principles of social service and the
attitude of the church toward them. those
principles and ideas in the spreading of
which in their entirely different fields DIR.
Rauschenbusch and Jane Adams have
done so much. 1t Is but another evidence
of an awakening of thoughtful people to
the need for better social service The
chief exponent of Mr.. Churchilrs theme
is a young minister who In the progress
of his work in large city in the middle
west undergoes complete transforma-
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shone forth and they saw in sight a
haven of rest at last
"rhey ought to name their home Ala
bama-Here We Rest" Mr.. Proper Thing
went on to say, as he flopped down again
into a comfortable chair, awaiting some
one to answer the bell
Since you are truth teller she sug-
gested, you go first when the door is
opened"
Good heavens! | see somebody coming
down the steps with a candle" said Mr..
Proper Thing. as he became impatient
and went to the front door and peeped in.
IT'S somebody with a candle. l tell you,
and that light was not from the library
or hallway at ALL"
You don't mean it," said his/wife.
1t was only too true.
Something tall and white and ghostly
looking was descending the staircase, and
could be easily discerned through the
frosted glass portals
ITS Mary in her nightie coming down
the steps to let Fred in suggested Mr..
Proper Thing as he hattened his nose
against the glass door as he peered
through.
More likely it's Fred in his pajamas
coming down to LET Mary in. She's prob
ably been out paying a neighborhood
call" said the other.
Il hope she finds somebody at home. =
he growled,
The door opened as thought after
thought seethed tornado-like through their
brains, and the slender maid In black
frock and white cap and apron held open
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by OllVer Onions; George II. Doran Co.,
publishers, New York
The Debit Account by Oliver Onions.
while not sequel to I'm Aecordance
with the Evidence" recently published
is sequential in time to it, In the earlier
work man usurps the privileges of law
IN passing sentence on another man. In
Ihe Debet Account his deed Justified
by circumstances nevertheless pnrsues
MN, and the story has the insight and re-
leniless fatality of Greek history.
without doubt Mr.. Onions has succeeded
In this remarkable book in writing one or
the very best stories of the day. a story
Vitally absorbing because of its absolute
originality.
The character of Jeffries is unique from
every standpoint, and his recital Of how
ne paid debt, having Its incipieney in
the midst of bank holiday outing M
lieath, with bosterous gaiety all around
ana the woman he loved nesting bv his
side, and the simple unexpected striking
OF Bengal match is graphic In the ex-
treme.
ihe shadow turks all through the ear
nest years of his married life and through
MS years of prosperity as we'll
Yet, though Jeffries himself declares
Ito man, mans law is OF more conse-
quence than God's.Y and that having
broken this law, however tustifiabIe. he
must suffer the reader cannot rest sat
isfled with this conclusion For SUM-
->~-~-~~~---~~-~~>~-~~-~
Continued on Next PngeD
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FRECkLE-FACE
Bun and Wind Bring Out Ugly spots,
A How to Remove Easily

I Here's a chance Miss Freckle-face, to
try remedy for freckles with the guar
lntee of reliable dealer that it will not
bost you penny unless it removes the
lreckles: while if it does give you a clear
complexion the expense is trihing.
Simply get an ounce of othine-double
ttrength--from your druggist and a
lew applications should show you
how easy it is to rid yourself of the
LONELY freckles and get . beautiful COM
piexion Rarely is more than one ounce
needed for the worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine. as this is the
prescription sold under guarantee OF
money back IL 1t fails to remove freckles.
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ever, his cunning and connivance, Barba-
RAJ estimate of him in the end is cor
rect for he is not all bad
In this way Blizzard becomes more hu-
man-as all the other characters are-and
the author makes them seem so real that
1t is hard to think anything of them, but
Just what he makes us think.
The New York underworld has many
a Blizzard In its midst. as the social
workers have found out long since
Particularly interesting is "The Penal
ty,h appearing it did upon the literary
horizon at the crucial moment when the
revelations in the Rosenthal murder in
New York and the Becker trial were
made known.
Truth is sometimes stranger than fic-
tion and to those who doubt it these flag
rant cases might be submitted.
The Penalty is a decisive. strong Vi
rulent story and is well worth reading
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Cup
Mr.. Churchill has awakened with this
book the conscience of many a church
member so long dormant and inert.
1t is distinct contrition to the thanking
religious world and to a cause that grows
more vital day by day.
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the door for the wide-eyed, speechless
couple
"Er-er-er-are Mr. and Mrs. and the
Misses ManniSin at home,r Mr.. Proper
Thing stammered.
mo. they have gone down town to the
moving picture show. but won't you come
in?' said the maid softly as she recog-
nized that they We're relatives.
1t took super-human effort for Mr..
Proper Thing TO decline the invitation,
for he was sore and tired and hungry and
thirsty and-mad-mad as a March hare.
No, thank you. Maggie" said Mrs.
Proper Thing, recovering herself suffi-
GENTLY to speak. we must be going.
Where in the Sam Hill are we bound
for next?' roared Mr.. Proper Thing. You
see how It Is; my cousins have got sense.
They've gone to the picture shows, in
stead of running about all over town pay
ing calls, and that's where I'm going right
this minute. Let's catch the next car to
town and hike. I'm not going to pay an
other call tonight IL nobody ever asks me
to eat with them again as long as l live'.
isn't 1t queer" said Mrs. Proper
ti'iSs as oiAp SNaecu III lno SAIecC
car, about people always telling you to
drop I'm to see them. that they are al
ways home in the evenings"
Not at ALL" said Mr.. Proper Thing. fu-
iious and worn out. "rhey do that be-
cause they don't want to see you Had
you ever thought about that7 They are
afraid You'll take them at their word, and
so they so out in self-defense..
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ePLcK EFT AND Els MEM

BY Lasalle Corbell Pickett (Mrs G. b.
Pickett. With 16 illustrations. j. b.
slippincott company, publishers PhIa-
delpha.
SO much has been said and written DUR
Ing the past few months about Gettys-
burg-aproposly, too--since the year Of
1913 is the 50th anniversary of the great
battle, that 1t would seem as IL there was
no more to be said.
Conspicuous among the notable books
that have appeared the one from the pen
of LaSalle corbell Pickett CMrs. G, d.
PicketD. now issued in new form, entitled
Pickett and His Men," is one of the
most complete and interesting of the
many accounts of the noted general and
his career.
Certainly one of the most spectacular
figures i'm the whole civil war was GEN
eral Pickett, whose historic charge at
Gettysburg excited the wonder of the
world, His widow, LaSalle Corbell Pick
EFT. has done remarkable piece of work
in Pickett and His Men,
1t is not so much a tribute to her dis
tnguished er-husband-though IL is
that-as 1t is an intimate recital of the
events preceding, during and following the
great battle. The descriptions are dram
attic and brilliant: the feeling is tender
ana poetic, and, as a piece of literary
work 1t contains the most noble descrip-
tion OF charge ever penned. The SOL
diers of both north and south will long
turn to this epic of Gettysburg not only
as the standard work upon the subject.
but also remarkably thrilling piece of
writing
THE SUMMER GIRLS AT SIX STAR
~ A
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lDOLEYSMAr1r1Y.Sl
PHILOSOPHY

Ole Miss, you hardly evah
hears Nv er Man desc days
dat goes into de Luv Game
wild Matrimonial Intentions,
but den no Man evan teks
his FUST GLASS wv
WINE wild de Intention wv
becomin' INTOXERCAT-
ED. NaW'm.
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THE DEBIT ACCOUNT

lery and coquetry, and who finally put
his love to the supreme test
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black belt We're typical of conditions i'm all
the area covered by the. operations OF the
hlan the book is practically a history Of
the social and political forces that created
the ku Klux Khan.
His work is so logical and level headed.
so simple and direct, that the narrative
Is almost painful in its cumulative effect
rolloWing this heaper up testimony one
Understands with perfect clearness why
there was Ku Klux Klan just what Il
had TO do, the appalling odds against
whleh 1t had to work. and how 1t con-
quered those odds.
IN MS preface Mr.. Damer refers TO him
self as one who was in the midst of
the struggle and close observer" His
description is justified by his book
Nhen the Ku klux Rode" is a fine ex-
an pie of historical writing, candid. dis
ia ssionate, logical intelligent more
adrolt revelation of the real life of the
ku kluN can not be imagined Hereafter
thefe ls no excuse for ignorance and
haznness on the subject This search
llght history is all that need be read.
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"A KENTUCKY cARpfNAI,Y

Hy JdIIes Ilane AIIen; The Macmillan
company. publishers. New York.
In a brand new dress the publishers are
sehding out Mr.. James Lane aliens
charming story "a Kentucky Cardinal
The book has been so widely read that
comment is unnecessary, but 1t NAV be
said EN- passant that it is narrative
told with naive simplicity In the first
person of how man who was devoted
to his fruits and flowers and birds came
70 fall in love with fair nelghbor, who
treated him al first with whimsical rail-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24


BY Eleanor Stuart Illustrated. L. G.
Page Co. publishers, Boston.
Any girl of any age who is fond of o,,t-
door life will appreciate this fascinaf,rs, =,
tale of Genevieve Hartleys summer va
cation house party on a Texas ranch
Genevieve and her friends are real girls
the kind that one would like to have In
ones own home, and there are a couple
of manly boys Introduced The good.times
Will be sa thoroughly enjoyed by readers
or the book as they We're by the charac-
ters who visited Texas In the story.
WHEN THE KU KLUX RIDE"
BY Eyre Damer; The Neale Publishing
Co., Publishers. New York
No political organization of eo,al ,oao-
nitnde and Importance has been SO grossly
misunderstood as the famous Kn krlnx
klan. An organization-oe hight better
say an institution-of the purest patrlotic
motives, 1t was variously maligned durine
its lifetime, and since has been constantly
misinterpreted Today onlv painstalxinr
students of post bellum history have an
adequate conception of its aims and mo-
tives, of the conditions which necessitated
1ts~or of the beneficent work n aocorh-
plsed To the rest the lxu Klux t,lan
IS mystery of vague outline, dramatic.
fascinating, Of which grotesquely caparl-
soned horses and black shrouded figures
are the only salient features
Mr.. Dramers new book on the subject
10 ndroit ana stimulating. 1t is hostory
OF the conditions that obtained IN the
Elack Belt for decade subsequent to
tile war Of the states. AS conditions in the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-09-28

testified in behalf Of the state Friday
afternoon. Oates said she came to
the penitentiary giving the name of
Miss Mary Z, Gordon. She talked to
the two prisoners about thirty min
utes, he believed
The prosecution was granted per
mission to offer as evidence Mrs. Reu-
ters' statement made in the county
attorneys office at Tulsa on the day
following the killing. BY this state
ment the state hopes to impeach the
defendants testimony in case she does
take the stand as she is quoted in it
as saying that Reuter- came home at
$40 p. m on the Saturday night be-
fore the shooting when several wit
nesses have testified that they saw
him down town until after II o'clock
1t also is alleged she even then
tried to shield her husbands mnrder-
ers as she described the midnight Wis
itor as a man weighing about 225 10
24O pounds, while witnesses says he
was unusually slim
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-09-28
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