Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-28

Faces like druHned lhiles ruJerfryt
Slipped h. s'vur: round:
red month cracked E'urLtI his boot
Like thorns IN a si1LEy srcaud.
Slaughter? Slaughter: 50 easy e. ."-ucd,
his work tha; be Thought 50 hard,
His eyes lit with hj"k"r Il hell,
He licked bis lips. ami j. tasted well;
And-onee, ne lad sickenpd u watch thcIo
An OK IN Tie cattle yard
Tor lust OF blood for lbs, n ulood
Ills greasy biuiccuu swung;
His fife butt sang III IN. ain
Md Md the things thar crushed ,rnea. o II 'hrre
Wore 4 cluster "t grapes IN t,e vino press.
y SaVor Of wiu- uh his tongue.
ThS poem is crowded with living pic
lures o. which This is IN example. The
whole bears the distinction of being
poetry. tine and noble poetry devoted to
the practical! uses of acknowledgements
propaganda and reform. Ii makes I'M
mediate appeal tn the senses ana the
blood as 10 amount OF abstract disqul-
sitIon O.. the horrors of war can ever do.
THE DEVILS GARDEN. By W. L.
maxwell, author of In Cotton
Wool. etc. Indianapolis: The Bcbbs-
This is ;hc sort Of sto.y That sets new
standards of workmanship and makes
new ratings among the books. Already
the later-day novels are stepping down
10 make room at the top for The Devil
is none other than the human heart.
And in this story :he particular plot of
the devils blowing and dntins Is the
heart of William Dale. Dale is OF the
English peasantry, stern and Sterling
fellow. OF parts so superior as to enable
him to pass out of his own class into
that of minor oificialdom. Daie's pretty
young wife, Mavis, whom lie loved so
tenderly and of whom he was So pro-
diglously proud, had. L girl, Grown
quite the lady in looks ard bearing by
way of some sort of upper servants
work in tie noble house OF the Right
Honorable Everard Barradine, landed
proprietor and great man of the country
side. This Is the soil. The first quarter
of this powerful story sets the devils
planting time. Within it. honest VIII
liam Dale, by the devils own naneuver
ing, discovered that the Right Honorable
Barradine had been IL good deal of Il
sultan. and that, years before the pretty
Mayis was of this sultaH's iarem. The
remaining three quarters of the story
harvests year by year the new character
of William Dale that gradually emerged
from this cruel situation, and the new
trains of disaster that spring from this
bitterly prolific soil. The story IS a ire
mendous searching of the heart OF a man
VINO. under an equaDie exterior, mad in
secret tended and cherished and multi
piled the agon- es and natreds 0f this
supreme affront to mans seif-pr!de. Anu
curious4y-or was II, rather. ineritaoly?-
the morstrous thing over which Dale had
stealthily brooded Tor years was the
very sin that finally rent him in turn.
Dale's way of self-redempti0n is of
piece with the man himself. This is
what one feels throughout the whole OF
this remarkable story. II is ali OF one
tragic piece. Mr.. Maxwell set no stage
fog the production of this tragedy. He
rehearsed no character Ia It's part lie
forced no issue. Rather than this. he
burrowed deep and watched and listened
and waited in the soul of William Dale.
Teen, in perfect seif-masteIy, h. made
Of himself clear and unobstructed
medium for the march Of this grim
nemesis of events. one critic calls this
4 terrible story. And such it is--ter-
rible as the potentialties of human ma
ture so Otter provc themselves to b..
Some hint that it is immoral" But
this is d term OF individual import. with
about as many meanings as there
persons using it, MI will agree, how
ever, that it is Il powerful story. artis-
tcally conceived and worked out IN "A
mastery technique. 1t is the kind of
story that makes about i!ine-tenths OF
Inc other stories .ook Ike lubbish.
"BROKE;'' the Man without a Dime.
BY Edwin =. Brown illustrated
from photographs Chicago: Browne
& Howell Company.
out in Denver ON i winter night not
~ Vel icilS dSo q VI ABOUT GlSnItefi
approached Mr.. Edwin Brown. the author
of this book, and asked him for the
price of a meal Such was the spark
that fired the train Of investigation upon
which this very touching and very stir
ring seri-~s U. records tests. Arrested and
quickened by Tie Incident. AIR Brown BE-
gan to take observations in his own city
tine city beautiful" as thc people of
IlenyaT hay
observations rounded up the disouieting
fact that u shifting army Of the unem-
ployed-a voorhees,, homeless, pcnniless
nnultitude--had settled upon the town, as
II settles, particularly IL the winter
months. upon every town. These obscr-
rations, too, disclosed the further fact
that among the manifold agencies or
sanized in Denver III behalf of this or
that Pet scheme of upli:t or r.liet none
was pointed upon any sustained con
structive plan for the care OF this fCck-
less host. Obviously. the next step Ia
the practical development OF this unfold
ing plan was an emergency home to he
built and sustained by the city in de-
cent and self-reSpectirs manner. for the
use Of the man without dime, but
upon whom nevertheless, the demands
for food and shelter continue, pressing
and pitless. And here began the itin-
erary to discover what other cities,
municipalities, are doing for the man who
Is broke" Himself disguised one of
THESE, biUWH ldISu OUT Oh MS oNu
town of Denver into many OF the consid-
cradle cities of the Union Here IN
frank and fair dealing fashion. he tells.
chapter by chapter, long story of civic
cllpabiity. 1t is u story that tells of
something akin to criminal cgrelessness
and one that discloseS too, municipal pol
icies which appear to be grossly stupid,
ignorant and cruel. Within the whole
range of the inVestiSation-north, south.
east and west-the municipal LODGING
house of New York city offers the single
evidence of civic self-interest in this re-
spect. or Of any intelligent civic sense OF
responsibility toward the unhoused and
unfed man or woman Mr.. Browns In
vestigation is sufficiently broad and cir
cumstantial to point this delinquency as
a general one. The study has, too. great
local significance and usefulness. About
thirty of our large cities are permitted to
see themselves i'll this mirror of plain
aud detailed revelation. For instance,
chapter 5-''Homeless: in the National
Cipitar'-gives a graphic picture of the
quality and workings OF the municipal
lodging house of Washington-a very i'm
infpre sting for q