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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-01-29
Bound to Lose.
A fool man will blow that no.
body car boss him and then 60
and get married anyway.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Unwonted Role,

Unwonted Role.
Miss Helen Gould as hostess at a
waffle luncheon at the Women's ex-
change in New York appeared in the
new role Of a cynic.
"How many men," said one Of her
guests. lowe their success to their
wives"
"Yes." Miss Gould retorted, land
how many more owe their wives to
their success. buffalo Express.
Not Missing Anything.
"Great dinner, eh?"
"Yep."
"You are missing some Of the bril-.
liant repartee at the end of the table,"
"Never mind. I'm getting my share
OF the turkey. Washington Herald.
illustrated.
"Why do you call yourself a tonsorial
artist2"
TITS this way" explained the barber.
And then he went to illustrate with 4
few cuts.-Pittsburgh Post.
The sun., 1913-12-19

l:ufus Ellis. and he gave me an account of
visit h" made to New York with John
nncy Adams His story Interested me 80
.ch that ! wrote IL down when I wen,
me. br. Fills said 1T was IN ls@t
- occasion was the ffteth anniversary
the New York Historical Society. The
ssachusetts Historical Society sent n
nmltte". Mr. Adams being the oldes,
u pr Ellis the youngest member. At
- cars Mr.. charles Francis Adams ap-
AIRED and told br. Ellis that he had
led 20 persuade his father to take a
crvant. but tho old gentleman. then
early 80. replied, Il can take care Of
n'-sclf as we'll AS you can OF yourself
wont have servant" Charles Fran
Adams therefore asked I'r. Elns TO
unk after his father They wen, 10
'iu-k.rs on the BATTERY and had "A large.
AIRY room together. Mr. ADAMS would
ave no tre t,t was NoN.mb,rD. but in
> sted on having IN" window wide op.n
Nfter they were both In bed MIR Adams
would begin stories and narrntc all sorts
II experiences fun of fire and vigor ana
Dr Ellis said, most amusing. 80 that h.
had tu s'uN the sheet IN his mouth to
prevent himself from roaring with laugh
tor. After talking some time Mr. Adams
The sun., 1913-12-19

7 IN TINS way the boy touched Civilization.
n"tid III" human rull iyG kc',; hs .-,uii
''eHr Overcoming all obstacles U,. rfIlt-
he"n v" nmh' his Wy Will au Older
brother, john. to tn, d,~tric, =, uuoi FROM
That the upward c'iWh h.g lr. IN, nrutt,'s
Nnhl'N h'cnm, rich merchants $40 l.yuch-
burg, Va Vt John " .i''g~ death Sauil
Inherited slou. ."uD. aud t',u SIN a w.N
clear to ms'orisllzo his N!S:r.
'Th" Miller Manuel I.,i-,r :J,uuol &, tn.
outcome. To this schuol tr" in, cn'.dr,u
ot the poor white trash welcomed a,Id
understood. In 1873 tn. main luil,lna
Vas dedicated and tN,utN-uur boys adj
Wittcd In 1884 girls were received and
now there Is a total Of over 450. Here
these llt'lr people AZ" housed rrup.rlv
clothed and fed a'd given every at, an
tdrr Professions aud trades are fought
ana even the duh wittod hpy or gtrl of Tho
mountains has hls chance lla on" talent
II sought and when found j. utiigcd
TN" Miller school stands ,ikr 1, broad
gateway opening into the Promised Land.
but the lost chidtcu uf the hills would
never lind thsir Way to- tt. They had to
he reached Is other mcaus controlled in
other ways. Again one was raised up To-
lead others 10 the rescue From England
came man with u vision as rlear as
Samuel Millsr's. With n hackcruuud bf
culture ana refinement. sc'kiug health in
the now land but offering his services
because h'iuc II born leader hC could no'
stand Idle. l'tederirk " N,vc twenty
I'VE years ago accepted th" pastoratc Of
tiny church at Ivy Hill Va. and began
what proved to I've n wonderful work Nnt
content with III" service 10 rendered in
his own little parish, Mr., Ncve uu horse
| back or on foot found his way into thr
! dreariest lecssscs OF tho mountain. Ask
/ Ing for food and shelter in the poor
| homes he soon began to understand the
tt IN n.AS az . l,n
! confidence and affection, he was their
! champion and to-day stands Loyalty on
guard whenever danger arises out of
serious MISUNDERSTANDING OF thes. noun
! tain people,
| Never neglecting the work Of his own
church and people, Mr.. Neve--he is now
: archdeacon always a man of delicate
physique organized n system of schools
and chapel in the Ragged Mountains
| which in not only humanitarian to the
| highest degree but wonderfully coirpre-
! hensive of the peculiar needs of the peo-
pie. He has cleaned out many danger
| GUS spot hidden among the hills. and
brRvely confronted personal danger in
his efforts to make life safer for the
innocent. Naturally the work grew he
yond the human possibility Of even such
v devoted man rs MIR, Nevc Then he
sent his call down from the hills to the
cities of the North and South. In reply
came young college men fired with en-
thuiasm and trained women whose gen
I tie natures and yeHrning devotion mad.
their services Of untold value"
In the long time that Mrs. Comstoci,
spent In IN" Ragged Mountains ahe he
came familiar with the many supersti-
tions which characterize the people As
one instance she cites "a man who tied
a piece OF stick on the top of his head l.,
" strip of cloth In order 10 cure himself
- Ntt,av t,.e.
The sun., 1913-12-19

don, and - second edition has Just been
printed to meet the urgent demand. Mr..
Martin had planned 10 leave London for
New York on December Il, but - sudden
nervous breakdown due To overwork has
necessitated his canCell!ng all his plans
for the present
Win y Harben. author Of "rhe Desired
Woman" recently explained why lo
makes use of the crude frank types of
mountaineers In his novels in preference
to those OF ti" more sophisticated city
dwellers There IL no veil to character
40 thick as cOuVentionnlity," he notes
An. .hc mountain Georgians are ths
meet unmaSl;ed individuals | ever met,
They We're never so Interesting as now
when they are throwing Off the dogma
OF their forchcars and creating IA philoso-
ply for themselves"
Mrs. Cora Harris has left her retreat
at Pine Log, Ga. to spend a moro active
winter Sh" viii spend December N Nash
VILE and comes to Sew York In January
tn engage IN literary work Mrs Harris
takes great joy in her country home al
Pine Log "rhcr" ar" hundred acres of
forest and a hundred acres of meadow"
she says at night there is lonely.
very dim little star that shines abnvn tho
meadow as II II had a tear In Its eye
That Is mine too. II goes with the place,
| | think IL IL AN orphan star There are
no others near Il. You cannot see It at
| all u Sew York;"
Reginald Wright Kaufman arrived in
| New YORK this Year shortly after the
publication of hiss new novel "'The Spider =
| web" hy Mnffat, Yard n 60. l- Will
, pass III" major pnrt Of the winter, as
| usual, IN Nrw YORK and In tho spring will
80 with his wife to india, passing the lat
The sun., 1913-12-19

would say. Now IL is time to go to sleep
and ! am going TO say my prayers
shall say also the verse my mother taught
me when a child have never failed /,
:, peat II every night Of my life. | have
said II IN Holland. Prussia, Russia Eng
land. Washington and quincy. ! say il
ont loud always and don't munble it,
either" Then he would repeat In "A loud
clear voice:
"'"Now | lay me down to sleep
AT abou, ) \ NJ Mr. Adams would
arise AMI wood fr, being iaid would
grt from his trunk an old fashioned tirdcr
boN-he desrised the recently invented
lucifsr 'natrhes-ard would S'riko q Isl &.
kindle the FIRE and light his candle Tho.
h" would strip. place basin ot water ur
III" floor and sIuu2" himself V.rlruus,v
from head to foot. then. partially dressed
sIt down 10y the tro. plac" the E,hlc ou
IA knees and. holding the cuudle i'm uu.
hand, 'Nn"uni Psalm I'm the most Wig
ot 'us mdI'ri Ia bi Ellis
The sun., 1913-12-19
TELLS WHY SHE
WRITES OF PORE WHITES

:. 4 7 times II seems to me that there
n are bat thrc" classes in tn. world
mean the people who create
had conditions, thu>" who suiIci from
su,n e. d'lou> and tn, people vino strug.
el' - h'Iug about - better state uf Al.
fairs Says Harriet r comstu,h. hp.rE
ing Of IA" "puur whites in the southern
mountain districts These peonle hgur,
prominently IN Mis- tnmstvcks new
novel, "a Suu uf the INNS" Just pub
l>h"d 10y Doubleday. Page 4 TO
Regarding her interest In the poor
whites" Ms. cnmstock SAYS "rhoy are
the poorest people | ever saw In my life
and | have done som" settlement work ou
the East Side In New York and In ia,
poorer sections Of Bruoklyn too Thr
class of which 7 speak are defective both
mentally and physically, They do not
live. They just barely exist.
"of course there are all kinds in tn.
Ragged Mountains jus, as there a,c in
other districts, but the problem Of the
most wretched ones-that IS the most dra-
matte. They do not know tho first prin-
ciplcs Of living. Their diet is Impossible.
the houses are mere novels, and the re
suits of careless ntermarringc are ap.
parent In defective children on every
hand. or course there I. n vicious ele-
men' hut Il ~ negative rather than
positive. knew of one wretchcd house
wherein lived three women as the wives
OF one man. Hut II in more IA question
VI hving--of nutrition and work Not
only must they he taught to farm and tn
carry on trades. hut thoy must he taught
what tu eat and how 10 prepare IT, They
must he taught that their cabins need
windows and other funda mentals of SAM
tation
"And yet" she continued. "their pride
II one OF their most outstanding char
acteristics That is ono reason why they
are such an Interesting study. They are
full Of tho most unexpected contradic.
tions In character.
They cannot bc taken from theii
mountain country They are intensely
loyal to that and to each other And OF
! course their shyncss makes II all the NOR,
tragic. for they resent every ATTEMPT
to help.
you see they are descended from thu
best American stock. the early Virgins
settlers including Scotch. English ant
Irish, That II why the. presented such
! tremendous opportunities for n novel They
are no. az we often think ~ them. simpl,
Rodden, shiftlcss outcasts with nothing II
them Or back OF them to hold them up
They have all the possibilities for maklnI
good citizens and II only needs the rish
! Kind Of hclp to make them such"
Mrs. COfnstock WAS asked II any %
the chara acters In her book were draw
direct from life.
NO, direct from life." she answered
/ "for OF course the needs OF my story ha,
to come frst; but In the character o
SANDY ! had In mind Samuel Miller
founder OF the Miller Manual Labor Schoo
OF Albemarle county. Never did I rea,
u more dramatic story than the story D
Mr., MilleT's life and desperate struggle.
Just let me tell You something Of Nj
The sun., 1913-12-19

Vincent Van Gogh,' established u post
graduate course In mural painting. stained
glass, wood carving. po!ychrone sculpture
and other arts connected with the dcCora-
tion OF public buildings and costly
houses. II is akin to the schooling
which tho National Sculptors Society
has given for two years ana tho Archi-
t"ctural l.cagu" for considerably longer,
The management of the at"lier thus
started is in the hands Of Mise Dreier,
William Laurel Harris Arthur Crisp and
Miss Ida Proper, All inquiries should be
addressed to Miss Proper al % Fifth
avenue.
Neviu q, Winter, the author Of several
popular volumes on Mexico. Guatemala,
Chile. Argentina and Brazil. was one o!
tho principal speakers mt the Latin Am"ri-
can conference recently held at clark
University. Worcester, Mass, Two books
by Mr. Winter, recently published, are
The Russian Empire of To-day and
Yesterday" and POLAND of To-day and
YESTERDAY"
Byron A. Dunn. whose boys story
"s'orminy Vicksburs,' has just been
The sun., 1913-12-19
INTERESTING NEWS FRESH FROM BOOKLAND

ter part OF the ensuing summer In kash-
mir. where he will be the guest OF certain
native families with members of which he
became friendly a couple Of years ago In
England.
Cyril Harcourt. whose recent novel.
THE Worlds Daughter" WAS pronounced
one Of the most daring but delightful OF
British Library Association In company
with Hall Gaines "The Woman Thou
Gavcst Me- and Compton McKenzie's
sinister Street." has just had "A play
presented at the Comedy Theatre In Lon.
don entitled "a Place in the Sun" Mr..
Harcourt is himself In the cast.
Katherine Mynadier Daland. a Boston
girl at present living In Chicago and y
granddaughter of the late Causten
one of the seasons novelties published
by IIoughton Mifi'in Company This Is q
set of verses called "The Ballads of the
Be BaBoes' written by David Stevens a
coilabotator OF George w. Chadwick and
Victor Herbert.
Jules Guerin's 'HousetOps Of Nazareth"
has been awarded the Charles W. Beck
Jr, prize of sl00--the one award made
each year at the annual water color show
at the philadelphia Academy Of the Fine
Arts. The award IL bestowed each year
for the hest picture made In colors for
color reproduction in any American pub
lication. "liousetops or Nazareth was
reproduced In the colors of the original
canvas in the century Mdoosine OF May
1910. and later was made one OF the
eighteen pages In color In "Thc Holy
Land' III it's book form-a work on which
Jules Guerin and Robert Hichens collabo-
rated
Houore WiIlsic. author of "'rhe Heart
OF the Desert" has not found since such
earnest critics as the Western engineers
and cowboys to whom she read her novel
The sun., 1913-12-19
:, EWS OF AUTHORS
AND THEIR WORK

El,auut liaiiuwcu \hbou. in priva,' "fc
81. furayco tohuru. t.c wife of
I.uWsll. Mass. phy Siciau. turns for recr"-
'."u tl,n.st ,utlvely 10 outdoor i'e Sh'
Sc especially fond ~ hunting, ]" .ine
{ mis- and horseback riding.
Francis Cii.rson. musical genius ana
f.tbor ot .'rn. valley oi shadows. hhs
.Ir.yod i'I New No.k for thu irst time In
tN,uty-thico years. In spite of his long
t,sui.uc" m France" Russia ANA Eng
ll.I hr rctaiur his American citizenship
t.d uls American accent. Though he
a,,at his boS hood Oh the prair"s OF tho
N>St,sipui Valley he has played Tor
= jhor IN a Partisan salon of III" Second
Empire. was - friend OF AIeNaudlc l'u-
mas and Suily Prudhomnne. and when
20. toured tho capitals OF Europe playing
tor royalty and being entertained Nv
Y smnrck in Germany and 10y Alexander
u IN Russia
dramatization OF Thomas Hardy's
Tho Woodlanders' "as played at the
'r.,nt annual p'rtnrmar"" IN borch' St'r'
'..glaud \ i.oudun paper. commenting
.uul his standing with his townspeo-
ile said 'Iu point of fnc, the presence
g.. Thomas Wardy--a legend to the great
Norld-means practically nothing to tue
i.r Of dorchester. Its farmers, factors
.opkcercrs. keen. plump. practical m'h
vhp ave hard ~ nalls at bargain
...f' i' 'llF'li~flNtN N'l'' '''" -
.bomns IIaIdy as the son "f his ialh"r
.ud The brother Of his brother. They
'oow dnly that hc has made good
t-ug ont Of book Writing. Th"y re-
t.,.t h,in They are proud to know that
j.o world rings with his fame, But they
Wonder why
sine. E.bindranath Tagore has been
.varded the Nobc' prize for literature
ls American publishers have receive"
many requests for the poets works
rrt,n Tagore's name Is prefaced ny an
.iicytlve supposed to lndicat" his ma
'.oual,ty, as: Please send me COPY
& the Jewish writer's book "ltah-
.l." or, "tavc YOU got that RUSSIAN
tarores latest volume or. y WON'T
'.. a copy Of that Arab poets new VOL
t.lo OF verses" Rarely do they hit upon
OIL" roal nationality
irwin :. cobb, author Of "Mr. Trimm
il.. Flight and other Plights' mas Just
>, uIrued from three months tour OF
l.,glaud He visited Rudyard kiplins
arI oxuresses himself as much impressed
It Kipling's lack of side" his ap-
iru,,hablcness and humanity,
Lawrence u Saints complete coi'ec-
-'ut. ~ scanned glass drawings 10 TO 10
.%N hited at the Carnegie Institute VT
Technology in February Mr. SAINT IN
,.ru'hor with Hugh Arnold OF re-
,'pti" publ shed book entitled stained
G'ts. Of the Middle Ages ia England ana
] .rrc"
Nra Lionel Marks (osephIne Preston
rrHpud&l, whose latest comedy. Tine
NG.. e Gubhio." has just been published
h' lipughton Mifnin Company recently
., & reading from her work before
.pup girls AT Nassar College.
gorge A. birmingham, in private life
Cocoon 4 O. Iiaunay, sailed back to Eng
'ud Derenlhor =, attor n successful tour
Ia, ,,fn n lralnnu
The sun., 1913-12-19
MANY FAULTY RHYMES IN
VERSE THAT is IMMORTAL

"Or draw his failure from their abode,
tThcre they alike In trembling hope repose)
The bosom OF his Father and his God"
Perhaps the most hair raising poem
among the shorter thril'ers starts out
with an imperfect rhyme in the couplet:
"Fe. H. 70. FUN.
smell the blood OF an Euglishnran,'
To show tina, the poem is not meant to
be IA trivial olfactory skit the rest OF it
Is quoted:
"He he alive or he he dead
I'll grind his bones to make my bread"
a threnody Of which the wall has made
the wclkin Weep for generations unnum-
bercd has a rhyme that Is topographic
only. This has been permiss br In English
verse from the earliest times and was
regarded as beyond criticism also by the
literary dilcttanti OF the Western Ameri-
can plains. when the sign language was
the only universal medium Of expression.
In those days vi visible speech drunk
was an almost faultncss rhyme with
moon The example of topographic rhyme
in mind appears in the third and sixth
verses of the stanza:
old Mother Hubbard.
she went TO the cupboard
To get her poor dog bone.
But when she go, there
The cupboard was bare
And 50 the poor dog had none
There il a noteworthy example OF the
punch that may b. impaired to heroic
verso 10y placing the telling words at the
ends or the verses. after the classical
method. This specimen should be OF in
tercst to poets in the present period Of
universal peace. 1t shows how rhyme
can he employed not fur it's own sake,
but as an auxiliary. even though the form
and pronunciation of one of the rhyminl
words have to bc changed somewhat Tie
poem reads.
Thrice is he armd tha, hath his quarrel
just.
And four times hc that gets his blow IN
/ fust"
How different from these lapses from
accurate rhyming is the fidelity of tho
moving episodes ever vita agraphcd in verse
that could not die, In this instance n
perfect rhyme IL welded TO false Syntax
but the latter imp, Election is negligible
when passed hy poct of the first rank
foe did not Shakc cSp,arc say:
I'm max" assurance douh.y sure?
Eat nothing save :hc CONVICTION that
false rhymes were serious blcmishcs could
have made the other poet write.
John. John. thu rirprs son,
stole pie sui away he run
Yet IA contrast with this il another
immortal poem. hardly less agile in mol g.
meut in which the poet rlakcs no accoun,
OF nicely of rhl when 1t might rttaid
the swiftn.ss of The epic
"Hickery. dickcry doct
rho mouse ran up tho 'o,h:
The clock struck uuN
And down he coupe
! HI kerry. dickoty. uo,k
The sun., 1913-12-19

IN THE course of a recent conV ersa lon
of which tn" principal topic was
poetry critic without fsssa fell
g. talking about rhyme, and this il In
Substance what he said, reported with
considerable accuracy in the form Of in.
duy,t quotation:
+. the earlier days of poetry rhyme
~ts- p, garded as u fault TO be avoided II
rp-Siblc. 1t was despised as ragtime Is
spised In classical music and by mod
,rp followers OF the masters in the musi-
cal art. Homer in the "ilad" and Virgil
.u the ".Encid'' fought off rhyme with all
ihoir might and skill The modern Greeks
sn,ak In rhyme In this land because they
C4ut help IL when selling three cents
worth OF soup greens to an economical
housewife. and ths Roman OF to-day in
america talks in rhyme to the buyer OF
y I'VE cent bag of peanuts for the monkeys
'u central Park.
Rut il Is different in the English tongue.
q vines are sometimes hard to capture.
THcr, are practically no ease eudings'
OF nouns IN that language. and 1t il not
commonly considered that emphasis is i'm
rt'd 10 An expression by putting the
t'l'ug word at the end or at the begin
r.us of a verse in a stanxa or In con-
inuOus couplets.
Thyme seems TO be tho especial resort
Of the English poets Long before Shake
src;irc wrote complaint had been made
that the writings OF Indifferent authors
were neither rhyme nor reason" indicat-
Ing that even in those days rhyme was
s,u.c slight compensation for the absence
,f reason, AS IL is to-day In the works ~
many magazine poets. So firmly has this
notion become fixed that English poets
n"v are criticised for faulty rhymes
Il IN perhaps not too much to say that
tn beauty of Byron's farewell TO Tom
Moore was enhanced by its fau,tless
rhyme falling on the words that he
wished To emphasize. Thus BYRON took
advsntago of the classical mode OF em-
rhaSs Ia addition to the comparatively
modern aid OF rhyme.
Hut that many If not most of the i'm
mortal poems in the English language
have not suffered hecaus. they are faulty
IN rhyme can bo proved by few c!ta-
tons.
Ry far the most useful poem in tho
Iugish tongue Is niarred by faulty
rhyme In its most conspicuous and Inn
rortant passage. The fault is Of nature
that suggests not the dcV!l may care roCk-
l"sSness Of poetic genius nor liberal resort
90 poetic license. but II indicates rather
or the part Of the poet inability II detect
minor Yet considerable faults In rhyming
tn" passage reads.
Except In leap year; then is the time
When February hath twenty mine
IN immortal epic recouniiug n catas-
iropho that presumably resulted in tho
death of 30 per cent. OF the persons
involved and in the serious injury of the
other ~ p'r cent. has Il glarng fault
90 rhyme ~ the post Gilman. where It
sl"n upon al who finish reading the
ruem and lay 1t aside Vet the epic
h,s survived and viii 1--we forever. The
ltult appears IN tn" Suhioiu.d.
Tp set % pa: - water,
J,k toiI down
a.
The sun., 1913-12-19
ACCOUNT OF HOW JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS PRAYED

Senator Lodges interos, in history lcd
him to accumulate many frat hand stories
of historical characters. such rs this OF
John Quincy Adams. which add to the
interest OF his "Early Memories" tScrlb.
ner's):
"ln May, lsS2. I met Dr. U;eorge)
Ellis at the house OF his brother, DR.
The sun., 1913-12-19

published by Messrp. A. c. McClurg 4
Co.. WAS IA youthful country school
teacher when the war broke ont who
left his teaching to take up arms for the
Union. lie enlisted In the Ninth Regi-
ment. Indiana Infantry. was wounded at
ChickamAuRh and again at Nashville.
Tho latte: wound was serious enough to
incapacitate him for any further soldier
NIX In 1861 Mr.. Dunn entered Hillsdale
College, ana since his graduation has
held many public offices and owned ana
edited u number Of newspapers.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-05-22
TO THE PUBLIC.

For many months, ! the cen.
sure and abuse that could posi-
bly, be heaped upon IA mans head
has been heaped upon Ours, by
some who oppose the stock law,
Any person with a grain of in
telligence and Il thimbleful of
brains knows that we had moth.
inS to do with the stock law.
In all our life. we have never
held Il city office and hope we
never will.
The laws of ii city are made by
the officials elected for that pur-
pose, and those laws are enforc-
ed by other officials.
The city has had two stock law
elections.
The first election was ordered
before we even knew such a
thing was contemplated, and the
men who circulated the petition
asking for the election are little
Gods in the estimation of those
who abuse us most. When that
election was ordered we thought