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STELLA MARISs

BY William j. Locke; the John Lane
company, New York
II there is man alive today who can
delineate character and draw the most
wonderful living, breathing entities from
sickly, deformed humanity it is Mr.. Will
nam j. Locke, who paints pen pictures
with a master hand.
Gaze up on Septimus; look at that kind
ly cynic, Sir Marcus ordey; again be-
hold The Beloved vagabond," and then
cast about for Aristides Pujol, that ad-
mirable mountebank and cheat
With Stella Maris," we have COM
bnation of all these as to abnormal con-
ditions-a little sick girl who lies in her
room day and night, shut out from all
pleasure except the visits of her friends,
but with such "a happy, beauteous nature,
such pure, young heart that instead
of being called by her real name, "Stella
Blount," she is nicknamed stella Maris >"
Brave and true the girl comes into
your life as though she were an old
friend and not a girl out of a book at all
That's a way Mr. Locke has with his
heroes and heroines.
Stella Maris" has many devoted friends
III Slhic VI lIlt ldtL I1dI she mas never
lifted her head from her pillow in all
her life-a hopeless invalid she is.
All that one gimpses of her, as one
enters her room is Just a pair of frail
little arms, daintily curved neck, a
haunting face and a mass of dark hair
encircling il on the pillow like nim-
bus"
But with all this SHE is gay and merry
and happy with delicate ioyousness just
1Ecarnate, and she has the company of
her faithful loving friends and their SYM
pathy, of course.
One of these is John Tresea. a London
journalist, who has Il yirago of a wife
In jail for cruel treatment of child.
John Tresca has a frisnd, Walter Her.
old, and thug are both in love with Stella.
Stella, VINO is nothing more than
child in matters concerning the heart,
loves them both in return.
Into Tresca's life besides his vixenish
wife, who finally is released from jail
and pursues him with a wicked jealousy,
is another-unity Blake-the slum child,
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"THINGS. MUNDANE


As Observed by The Idle Reporter, -
Evan r. Chesterman. The Neale Pub
fishing Co, New York
A much married man-married to the
extent of 13 omnipresent children-a mar
ried man with sense of humor. the
humor that comes of a trustworthy diees-
ton and receipted bills. an excellent
vocabulary, and a wife with a vocabulary
equally excellent and 10 times more flexi-
ble-that sort of man is the hero of Ches-
termans Things Mundane" which he
signs with his mark. Take all these
good things-the omnipresent children, the
humor, the trustworthy digestion, tbs
excellent vocabulary. the brisk wife. and
her brisk vocabulary, and put '"rhc
Bunch on firm Virginia soil. and YOU
have fine family vaudeville. with special
ties too numerous to mention
There is the brisk wife the commander
in chief, equal to any emergency she may
create, and particularly gifted in creating
emergencies: the visiting grandfather
who holds down the job of oldest In
habitant more successfully than any mar
in Hanover county, the Thirteen" un-
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oCEASE TO WAR"

's-'''if ~ " 49,
A PLEA FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE
By J. G. Mayden Richard G. Badger,
the Gorham Press, Boston
J. c. Hayden in collection of poems
entitled, Cease to War has written
some very attractive verses.
Many of the poems are classic, and
will, no doubt. be remembered and
treasured in years to come by the
scholar and the poetically inclined
In a little preface to the verses the
author says:
For this little volume l claim no lit
erary merit / should not like to say
taat the verses contained herein con
stitute good poetry; neither do [ call
myself a good poet IN this strenuous
age of commercialism, one should care
fully avoid becoming known as seer
of visions and a dreamer of dreams.
I'm the past ages poets We're rever-
enced by their contemporaries, and
their verses We're ravenously read by
hosts of admirers. From the pen of
Andrew Fletcher we have these words .
L knew a very wise man that held
that If man were permitted to max e
ali the ballads. he need not care who
should make the laws of a nation 4
wise man who dared hold such an idea
In this, the twentieth century. would
be made to appear foolish thereby; for
he might sing until the waves of the
ocean became imbued with the SYM
phony and waited his melodies even
unto the uttermost parts of the earth
and his rythm would not penetrate
the sense of his fellow man. Horace
said: But if among, the lyric bards
you grant me a place, with crest ex-
allied | shall strike the stars Did
Horace live in our time, he might be
glad to hide his light under a bushel
"It is the opinion of the writer that
should the reincarnation of Homer occur
and the sublime bard himself take his
stand at the corner of Broadway and
Fifth avenue, and begin to sing a modern
Iliad of American valor, a policeman
would say, Move on, old man, no beg
ging allowed here
"Since il is my firm conviction that the
very masters of versification would find
small announcement now. it will be the
more readily understood why nothing is
expected by the author of such uneouth
rhyme as the contents of this book.
. But the thoughts we cannot bride
Force their way without the will "
Perhaps the most appealing of all the
poems and the one which refutes the
authors statement that he does not claim
to be a good poet, is ''rhe Mother Touch
the last. but one, in the collection.
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whom he adopted after maltreatment by
his wife.
She adores Treasca, ana with this COM
plicaton, Mr. Locke now proceeds to
deal.
out of 1t he weaves a most fascinating,
interesting story-always exqustely
beautiful and sentimental; never morbid
or irrational
The character painting by Mr.. Locke
is tremendous.
The Fleet Street Bayard, John Tresca;
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There's only one thing to do
Read 1t.
No mere ''reviewer' can do justice to
Stella Maris." for it is too big for
that, too splendid. too compelling.
WAR"
BY John Luther Long, illustrated by n.
c. Wyeth; the Bobbs Merrill company,
indianapolis
"All the world knows Madame Butter
fly" that tender beautiful Oriental story
of love and suffering. 1t is over a dec
ade since John Luther Long wrote it, and
this spring he has given us another and
even more beautiful story of love-this
time tale of the western word--War,
a romance OF the rebellion.
But it is not tale of shot and shell
and the cruel vicissitudes of battefields.
1t is not story of long, weary marches
or beleaguered cities 1t is not a tragedy,
nor yet wild paean of fiamboyant pa
triotism echoing with a call to arms or
the clashing of sabers. 1t is not a war
drama in all its pomp and paeeantry.
True there are stirring battle scenes
and incidents of unflinehfng heroism. yet
the story remains a touching romance of
the war between the states as its effects
y
der-a romance tenderly retold by quaint
old German, Stephen Vonner. IT is full
OF the pathos of a time that mingled
the sorrow of dire disappontments with
the consoling cheer of accomplishment.
1t is a drama of rural Maryland with
its ruddy hearths and rustic homesteads
the story of the love of two stalwart
northern brothers for the same beautiful,
imaginative geous southern girl,
a.. .F l.,
ones enemy.
Gripping as the story is, as the old,
white haired veteran unfolds it, it is al
ways relieved by the warm sunshine of
his gentle humor his wonderful feeling
and that simplicity which is the pinnacle
of art. One is held spellbound as he tells
of his two sons. David and Jonathan,
and their love for each other passing
the love of women of the dark-eyed
southern Evelyn and her great and
strange sacrifice for the southland; of
the enisting of the first company in the
village; of the glowing appeal of the
orator for the dark, sad-eyed man in
Washington." of hosts of blue and gray
hurry ing by; of the wedding on the eve
of battle; of the bloody fight in the lane.
The plot is the most surprlsing-one that
urges to skip and skim to the final un-
raveling, We're it not for the surprising
beauty with which the tale is told.
With the touch of a master painter the
author creates his settng-a picturesque
little village tucked peacefully away in
a corner of Maryland, close to the Penn
sylVania border. a community of quiet,
thoughtful, deep-feeling German folk. A
kindly glow of love and sympathy brings
comfort to the whole story and a warm
rush of tender feeling accompanies its
recitation by the grizzled old veteran.
And a the end there Is no more touch
ing picture in recent literature than that
of the patient, ever-hoping dark-eyed girl
with the dewy roses in her arms. wait
ing
Novels come and novels go, are herald
ed far and wide and die untimely deaths
but here is one that is no false alarm
1t is one of the tenderest and most beau
tifully written achievements in fiction
one that you will read, then reread and
cherish always.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11
1t is exquisitely dainty, beautiful.
The poem is reproduced below:
ruE MnruER roren-

l dream d / was a child in sweet repose
l slept. methought. upon my little bed,
When 10, a hand was laid upon my head,
The angel of my infancy arose:
Her face so fair-a face | loved to see
Was smiling fondy, radiant above;
And eyes so soft and blue and full of
love
Gazed down upon my features tendery.
I dreamd | was a child-nor understood
The look of love, the tenderness dis
played,
The gentle hand upon my temple laid
That soothed my fears and made my head
feel good.
That selfsame face of which I dream SO
much
Has softly soothed me in the after
years;
While OFT in slumbers linger baby fears
They still are routed by that mother
touch.
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seen for the greater part but influential
IN proportion to their youth and hunger:
and the husband and father, mystified
much OF the time inclined to laughter.
put usually laughing at the right mo-
ment and on the right side, and, lastly,
there Is Virginla-the inimitable Old Do
minion-lovable. provincial, everlastinglr
unique.
These sketches were originally printed
IN the old Richmond Dispatch and the
present Richmond Times Dispatch, and
tney nave to do. the author saws in
his preface, with what the poet Horace
calls res augusta domi-the narrowed cir
cumstances at home" Domestic in the
finest sense of the term. they are witty
Keen, natural. jaunty. They give the i'm
preston that if it's always sunshine
somewhere, that desirable Somewhere"
y the bit of Virginia that Chestermaa
nVes IN so unstudied and genial in his
laughter.
Get the book; know the Old Inhabitant
with his weather representations and his
wr'st-warmers; the commander in chief
VINO makes garden with the best carving
KNIFE; the always hungry then immedi-
ateiy afterward thirsty thirteen, and their
K1ndly biographer. 1t will make your
heart younger. your step lighter, and your
Judgment more charitable Now abideth
wit, insight, and humor, and the greatest
of these is humor.
POLLYANNA"
By Eleanor IT Porfar IIl,,str,t>S ~,
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fire prevention. Here's a. book about
it. containing the ideas of a man whe
was for years the best chief of the best
fife department in the world.
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"ROAST BEEF MEDIUM" by Edna
F'erber. with y Illustration by James
Montgomery Flagg Frederick A. Stokes
Co, New York
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THE COMBINED MAeE'
BY May Sinclair. Harper Brothers, Ne


York.
Into story which has for its setting
London certdom, and in its details pic
lures faithfully the small events Of oh
scure lives, May Sinclair has put an
extraordinary amount of the real poetry
OF human nature. London clerkdom is
illuminated hY the light that never was
tor is everywhere. as you hose to be-
lievel on sea or land. The story s scrupu-
lously true to life, and it is joyous for
it depicts genuine love, genuine purity
genuine unselfishness. None of TIE people
in 'The Combined Maze are in the least
intellectual, but neither are they dull, and
tile qualities that, apart from intellect
make life interesting and beautiful. shine
ont with a wonderful natural luster The
title refers primarily to "A complicated
figure chalked on the floor of the Poly
technic Gymnasum-a pattern<which. on
exhibition nights is traced by swiftly
running boys and girls. Secondarily, the
title signifies the joy, the swiftness. the
beauty, and the predestined complication
of ordinary life.
In the intricacies of the Combined
maze young John Randall Fulleymore
Ransome Granny for shorD runs with
Winnie Dymond, Between these two there
is no love affair-not quite. But their
companonship has the zest and tender
ness of love without passion, From the
beginning our hearts warm to Ranny. The
son of a down lat -the-heels and furtiVely
nebriate chemist, he has ideals and lives
up to them. lie detests, above all things
''flabbiness, and so he makes himself an
athlete. 1t cannot be said that morally
his ideal gets developed far beyond the
physical culture conception, but there is
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!, Louie Reese
| Geo. r. Piper :

IN him natural wholesomeness, an in
stinctive uprightness, of which physical
culture is the most conscious expression.
But in the main he is quite un-self-eon-
scious. 1t is for this reason that he Is
quite helpless when Winnie's friend violel
takes him In hand Seldom in fiction
have the two essentially different kinds of
sex appeal been so finely and deicately
contrasted In Violet. Ranny feels al
Turing mystery and vague excitement
Winnie gives him a SENSE of tenderness
and absurdity How is he to know which
is genuine? He doesn't, and with Violet
he yields to passion Then honorably and
naivey he insists upon marrying her or
course, he finds ultimately that he has
made a wretched mistake Violet has the
temperament of the woman essentially
selfish, essentially unmaternal, claiming
sympathy for herself always. hating the
trouble of children, surrounding herself
with a false lure Of femininity. So Ranny
finds. at last. to his sorrow, what Violet j
peculiar fascination really means. And
vet the wretchedness Of all this becomes
beautiful through RannNs pluck and
cheertulness, through Wnnie's uncon-
sciously unselfish love and friendship. or
course, it is inevitable that Violet should
leave her husband for another man. yet
RannN is so hurdened with debt that he
cannot obtain the divorce which she tells
him she will not oppose. It is inevitable
also that she should come back, all the
| more to be reckoned with because she has
acquired through suffering something in
the nature OF Il soul but the sordidness
of the situation gives rise to a fine pathos
IA pathos cheering Instead of depressing.
The Combined Maze" is a story frankly
| and minutely true to life. Vet anything
but dreary in its realism. Its sentiment,
utterly natural, wholesome, and genuine.
makes the tale inspiring.
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVER REVIEws
I.ATER.1
MOTOR BOATING FOR BOYS" BY
Charles q. Davis Illustrated. Harper
Brothers, New York
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stockton Mulford. L. c. Page & Co.
I M. F. McCarty
-~~

Boston.
Eleanor H. Porter's latest book. Polly
anna is called THE Glad Book
Isn't that an alluring titleH
1t seems to be true one, too Tor a
sweeter, more winsome, more lovely or
more attractive heroine has not been
written about in many moons, and the
word glad" describes her precisely.
With rare skill is the story woven and
with keen perception are the characters
delineated and certainly the sayings OF
"pollyanna" are as original and unique
as you'd find anywhere
Here are some of the bits of conVersa-
ton:
And I can be glad there isn't any look
ing glass here. too cause where there
isn't any glass | can't see my freckles.
"Dr. Chiffon. should think being doc
tor would be the very saddest KIND OF d
business there was.
The doctor turned in surprise.
=. 'Ciladdest.' when | see so much suf-
fering always, everywhere ] go?' he cried.
She nodded.
Il know; but you're helping it-don't
you see?-and of course you're glad 10
help it, And that makes you the glad
dest of any of us, all the time"
And you didn't break but one. You can
be GLAD 'twasn't two" Pollyanna was
warming to her task
We'll. If you aint the BEATEN for aStin
questions sighed the boy impatiently
Il have to be-" retorted Pollyanna
calmly, else | couldn't find out 81 thing
about you. II you'd talk more wouldn't t
talk much
And / was glad 7 didn't find any one
who owned it. too" she told her aunt in
happy confidence: cause / wanted to
bring il home all the time. | love litties.
knew you d be glad to let it live here
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the gay and self sacrificing mr.. Herold
the ptiful little Unity and the wonder
ful. marvellous Stella Maris
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FIVE YEARS on THE FIRING
LINE" By Rev ]. o. flanes, of the
North Alabama Conference The PUB
fishing House of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Nashville, Tenn.
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POLLYANNA~
BY Eleanor H. Porter. Illustrated by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

There's only one thing to do
Read it.
No mere reviewer can do justice to
stella Maris.' for it is too big for
that, too splendid, too compelling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11

VANISHING POINTS BY Alice
Brown. The Macmillan Co. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-11


And / can be glad there isn't any look
ing glass here, too, cause where there
isn't any glass | can't see my freckles.'
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Teachers Should Teach.

State Superintendent T. II. Har-
rio, in . circular letter to the teach
orc Of Louisiana. which w publish
in this issue. makes a timely sug-
COTTON to the teachers, which the
school boards Of tho parishes and
localities should require to BE- FOL-
lowed. Aftsr noting, the lack Of
progress in schools. rMr. Harris
says hs think the tsat.srs should
"rsally teach" the children. The
system Of expecting the children
TO do most Of their studying at
home 10 an injustice to parents
and children, and in many cases
il 10 . great nuisance. - the chill
drsn have. or should have helpful
work to do at home. - The Cslfax
Chronicle.
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NOTICE.

A meeting Of the stockholders OF the
BAYOU BOUILLON REAL ESTATE and
IMPROVEMENT CO.. LTD. will b held
a the Once Of the President Of said
Company. Robert Martin. ct st. Martin
VILE. La, on the 18th day Of January A.
d. 1914, at IL ocloch A. H.. for the pur-
poss Of elsctine . Board of Directors for
sad Company and TO attend to such
other matters - then may come up FOL
consideration.
is. MARTIN, Secretary
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NOTICE.

A meeting Of the Stockholders OF the
ATCHAFALAYA OIL & MINERAL CO..
LID, will b held at the Office Of the
President Of said Company. Robert Mar
tin. st st. Msitinville. La. on the 14th
day Of January A. D. 1914, at IL O'Clock
A. H., for the purpose Of elscting Board
Of Directors for said Company and to at
tend 70 such other matters - then may
come up for consideration.
is. MARTIN, Secretary
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For Sale

1I8 acres I mile from st.
Martinville on Railroad and
near derrick $45 per acre.
,S-acre farm, one mile from
St. Martinville. Bargain price.
One lot and house on Wash
ington street, good neighbor-
hood and nice location.
- acres z miles from town.
on road to Spanish lake, this
place is improved.
40 arpents, the place Of Me.
lancon just outside the town,
this place is improved, will sell
very cheap.
4 arpents near town, gooe
house, will sell at low price
Several lots in the Town o
St. Martinville, some with i'm
provements.
See Laizaire Bienvenu
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Mr.. Guy Guthridgs, field mana
ger OF the Southwest Louisiana
Development Bureau Of Lafayette
wss here this week In the interest
Of the organisation.
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SHERIFFS SALE.

COrmier aud Path
Central Hardwood Lumber Company
No. l05.363
State OF Louisiana, Parish OF Orleans.
Civil District Court.
By virtue OF writ Of seizure and sale
issued out of the Civil District Court,
in and for the Parish OF Orleans.
State of Louisiana, in the above en-
titled and numbered suit. dated the 1th
day Of November 1913!
have seized and will proceed to sell
at public auction to the last and high
est bidder at the front door of the Court
House, between the legal sale hours III
the Town of ST. Martinyille. on
Saturday December 20, 1918,
the following mentioned and described
property, tO-wit:
ONE PAIR AMERICAN MULES.
TWO SAW DUST CARTS.
Seized to satisfy the above writ.
Terms and cOnditions-cash.
Sheriff's office this 9Th day OF Pee
A. D. 1918.
WADE o. MARTIN, Sheriff
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Bishop Sessum Of the Episco-
pal Church will b here tomorrow
and will bold service at the Epis-
copal Church st thrss o'clock in
the afternoon.
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Alfalfa 10 ono OF the most valua-
bic crops to grow for livestock. All
kinds OF animals relish alfalfa and
there are few crops that produce
more feed per acre whore this Va
liable Iseums will grow. Now is
tho time to prepare your land for
spring sowing. Remember alfalfa
REQUIRES good preparation.