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according to these writer's, Of torturing
persons while not being present, or of
appearing before them spectrally in va
rious disguises
1--WE can hear the doleful shrieks -
writes one authority, "of children and
servants tortured by invisible hands"
"Since the devil hath showed his book. -
says another. ruin hath stalked the
land" Another makes reference to 1.-The
diabolick' acts of which the devil has
been guilty through the medium of a
human being.
, There was a regular code used for the
detection of witches and it was the g'ud-
ing star of nearly all authorities. though
changed by them in some minor aspects.
William Perkins is credited by Cotton
Mather with having devised the modern
code. The Perkins code follows:
II. There are presumptfons which do at
least probably and conjecturally note one
to be a witch. These give occasion to
examination. vet are not sufficient causes
for conviction. Gases in court were
tried on the evidence presented)
I'll. If a man or woman be notoriously
DETAINED for a witch this yields strong
suspicion, vet one ought carefully to
look that the report be made by men
Of honesty and credit
III. If fellow witch or magician give
testimony of any person to be a witch
this indeed is not sufficient for condemna-
tion, but 1t is sufficient cause for a
straight investigation.
NV. If after cursing there followed
death. or. at least, some mischief for
witches are wont to practice their mis-
chievous act by cursing and banning.
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Flattered by the attentions OF a good
looking Egyptian officer. she consents TO
visit his sister in her palace as an act
of charity toward a recluse from society.
The sister" proves mythical and the ofii-
GER a jailer. young American engineer
whom she has briefly and somewhat in
formally met undertakes her rescue The
quest leads into the desert. and ultimate
ly all is well.
! Horace Tremlett. New York: John
Lane Company.
Christopher Brown during the tenn
at a water resort. imagiues that he has
fallen deeply in love with an actress who,
amused for time by his attentions.
finally tires of him and bids him go ahou.
his business. Christopher becomes de-
spondent. and his wife. now returned. is
worried over his condition. The sugges-
ton is made that he is suffering from q
| nervous ailment. and this grows into the
suspicion that his mind is unbalanced. a
theory which is fostered by the family
physician. Christopher makes one last
appeal to his inamorata and suffers con-
cnssion OF the brain as result OF his
encounter with the gentleman of her real
preference. On his return home he en-
deaFOrS TO account Tor MS pilSht nN ue-
| claring a lapse of memory. and this. ap-
| parently clinching the theory of insanity.
| leads to the provision of a man attendant
who guards his every movement. Finally
Christopher works out of his troubles by
escaping and completely proving his san
! ity with the good-natured assistance of
the young actress who Is meanw hile
married to the gentleman of her prefer
ence So all Is we'll in the Brown family
Mrs. Tremlett most amusingly sets forth
| in the course of this tale the extrava-
gances of a certain metaphysical school
| exponents of which endeavored to cure
Christopher Of his ills.
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OF the fine adventures of childhood. but
1t makes also a poetic and beautiful pic
ture of the prairie itself. and Of the
earlier prairie life.
STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN, THE
SECRET ROSE: ROSA ALCHEMTCA.
By w. B. Yeats, author of The
Land Of Hearts Desire" etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
This looks like volume Of prose stories
naissance about the ancient 1rishry. But
In feeling. in the light that the words
shed. In the way they step of to some
inner rhythym of their own and in the
fluid movement of the whole. each is a
beautiful poem. Tradition. legend. belief
flashes of history. glimpses of the mys-
terious invisible life of the land itself
come together here to embody the sor-
rows and the ecstasies'' Of the people.
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNGER son.
BY Edward John Trelawney Lon
don: g. Bell and Sons.
A splendid adventure, whose hero rush
es from hazard to hazard. with the read
er following breathless behind him. Love
war. fire and flood. the fury of the winds
John Trelawney thrives upon. the mon
strous things from which he emerges
with all the rewards and honors that
the kindest of destinies could contrive
whether these adventures are fiction
tinged with personal history. as they
claim to be. or whether they are all fic-
ton, as appears more likely, they sum
to an enthralling tale of daring deeds
Published ANONYMOUSLY in 1881, this ia
therless story was adopted by the greater
Dumas and housed with his collected
works. Restored finally to its legitimate
parent. it now has the deserved distinc-
ton of a place in the handy volume re-
issue of the Bohn libraries. 1t is a great
story Of adventure and a fine example OF
the story tellers art. An introduction
by II. N, Brailsford gives such an account
of the life of Edward John Trelawney as
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TO give color to the autobiographic clair
Of the adventures

TO give color to the autobiographic claim
OF the adventures.
THE PURPLE MIsTs. By F. e. Mills
Young. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
In her previous works Miss Mills Young
has shown an exceptional power Of pre-
senting the life Of South Africa. drawing
striking portraits Of men and women who
lead the peculiar life Of that frontier
edge of the world. In THE Purple Mists'
she tells another story. At successor to
Grit Lawless" and 'Myles Calthorpe.'
This is the love story Of a physician. who
while substituting for q friend in the
veldt country meets girl who Is living a
mlserably routine life on her brother-in-
laws farm Later. as a quixotic means
of solving a difficult situation, he marries
her. and then because neither knows how
to express the affection mutually felt they
drift apart and she does foolish things
and the way OF happiness is not found
until long afterward. when much misery
has been caused by misunderstanding
This is gripping story.
EAST OF THE SHADOWS. BY Mrs.
Dream Of Blue Roses" etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
Philippa Hartford goes to visit a friend
in rural England and in consequence Of
the illness Of a child who is away on a
visit Is left alone, save for the servants.
in the house. There, by a peculiar chance.
she encounters the uncle OF her host, who
has been in a state of suspended memory
for years, as a result Of a fall from q
horse He mistakes her for her own aunt,
with whom he had been deeply in love at
the time Of his accident. and who had,
unknown to him. failed him in his great
crisis So remarkable is the resemblance
and so complete his self-deception that as
a means of saving his life Philippa con-
sents to impersonate the woman he
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A Lost Customhouse.
From the Lowell Courier-C Citizen.

FROM the Lowell Courfef-Cltlzen.
The Lowell summer colony at Kenne-
bunkport, Me-. will miss the old custom
house this summer-that is. miss il in its
official capacity. After ia years of serv-
ice it has been abandoned and the port
officially abolished by the government.
and the building will now become a pub
lie library. A century ago there were
shipyards at the port, and many star ch
old vessel was fitted out there for a
cruise to distant lands. Customs duties
in 1923 were collected to the amount of
5000. and for a long time after there
was a respectable amount Of business.
even in competition with the growing
port of Portland. But of late years not
dollar has come in and the port had
literally died of old age. A few retired
sea captains, still living comfortably at
Kennebunk. will probably shake their
heads all summer at an ungratefui gov
ernment: but they belong to another age
the lost age of a proud and adventur-
Gus American marine.
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thinks she is and even agrees to an en-
gagement. He regains his strength and
practically his full mental vigor without
realizing the deception that is being low
ingly practiced. Meanwhile. from pity
her own sentiment turns to the strongest
affection. Finally he is tragically awak-
ened to a realization of the flight of
years and an understanding OF the We'll
meant deceit started by his own mistake.
The situation IS novel and an enhancing
story Is unfolded.
RED WRATH. BY John oxenham. New
York: John Lane Company.
This story begins out on the islands of
Chausey. not far from the French coast.
those peculiar granite fragments of the
earth's floor were rent upward by some
tremendous cataclysm in far ancient time.
1t deals with the passions and jealousies
and schemes of the granite cutters. mas
ters and men, and involves romance
that runs counter to stubborn prejudices
and hostilities. Then the scene shifts to
Paris during the commune Of the RED
wrath" that ragged over the Partisan cap
ital after the Franco-Prussian war a
young Chausey man. drafted in the navy.
finds himself in the thick of the Partisan
fighting. through no wish Of his own'
pursued by an impiacable enemy and re
| sourceful rival. Finally he Is imprisoned
and deported. by design. to his own gran
ite isidHo, Indoo ioi inc Iiiho iiA'o a " iooh
station. There the story ends. after ex-
citing adventures that make thrilling
reading to the last page.
THE PALACE OF DARKENED WIN
DOWS. By Mary Hastings Bradley,
author or THE Favor Of Kings"
illustrated by Edmund Frederick
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Mrs. Bradley deals here with the ad-
! ventures and dangers into which young
American girl runs when she steps from
the conventional path laid out for the
safe treadfng Of the tourist in Egypt,
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Norfolk Island pines, which at the pres
ent time live only in South America and
Australia; pine with the leaves in clus
ters of three as in the living pitch pine,
and a number OF cypresslike trees which
were once widely spread over the world,
but are now extinct. There was also
fan palm with very large leaves. which
was perhaps the remote ancestor of the
palmetto. Among the deciduous trees
there were wax berries Myrica) of two
kinds, walnuts. many willows with long,
narrow leaves, oaks of the type of the
living black oak. fig trees of many kinds,
and several magnolias Among the
smaller trees or shrubs there were soap
berries (Sapindus). bittersweet, sumac.
laurels and cinnamons nearest to forms
now confined to the old world. and three
kinds of eucalyptus. the living represent
atives Of which are now native to Aus
tralia The remote ancestors Of the per-
simmon were also present, as we'll as
number of other kinds that are without
vernacular names.
From the careful study of this ancient
dora which has been preserved in fossil
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| is a remarkable picture of war as a
great war would be carried on In the
present and the immediate future
THE RENAISSANCE OF MOTHER
HOOD. By Ellen Key, author Of
Love and Marriage" etc. Trans
lated from the Swedish by Anna E.
B. Fries New York: G. P. Putna ms
Sons.
With her customary clear thinking and
open statement Ellen Key here discusses
the various social means that may be,
that should be. employed, not only to
rescue motherhood from the general ig-
norance and indifference surrounding it,
but that should be used also to raise 1t
above the narrow and instructive devo-
tons of its beginnings. To whatever eX-
tent Ellen Key may encourage women
ana urge them to the achievement of
larger freedom. a fuller individual life.
at no time does she project them beyond
the home and the duties of motherhood
The home and children are womens great
contribution to the world. To the per-
lection of these must go the best ener-
gies Of her feelings and intelligence. This
writer gives short shrift to those who.
in order to secure economic freedom and
independence to women. advocate COM
munity homes and a sort Of glorified in
stitutional up-bringing for the children
of wage earning women. Miss Key goes
under these makeshifts of plan and out
lines definite education and training for
the oncoming mothers of the world. Sex
hygiene and eugenics are part of this
education. Proper lines of social service
to demonstrate the social bearing of
motherhood are a part of it. State PEN
sions for mothers is an adjunct of it. All
Of these measures are yet untried. At
best they are only in the experimental
stage But to Miss Key education of
the feelings and the Intelligence promises
the only adequate solution of this su-
preme question.
The first essay of this volume. "Wom-
en- and Morals is thoughtful study
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to be measured when compared with the
remote geologic age during which GER
tain of the ancestors of the California
giant tree were living along our At
lantic coast.
The ancient vegetation which grew in
South Carolina and Georgia during up
per Cretaceous and Eocene time-or. as
seoiosists state. at least several million
years aSo-has been made the subject
OF an :haustive investigation by Edward
Niiber Berry. d report on which has just
been published by the United States geo
logical survey as professional paper 81.
The earlier of these fossil fioras, that OF
the upper cretaceous. embraces nearly
one hundred species of wholly extinct
plants. and as the majority of them are
believed to have been trees or shrubs,
it is interesting to compare them with
the vegetation now living in the same
area
Trees Now Almost Extinct.
In addition to the sequoia or big
tree" now confined to the Pacific coast.
there were three kinds Of araucarlas or
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found only in the state Of Georgia, and is
relatively small, as it numbers only sew
enteen species.
All the species represent northward
migrants along the eocene seacoast from
equatorial America They include West
Indian palms. plants of the wonderful
mangrove swamps that skirt the tidal
shores in the tropics of both hemispheres,
and remains of the golden ferns whose
present-day descendants lead a grega-
rious existence In the coastal swamps of
the torrid zone. All these eocene plants
are types of the Florida keys. Antillean
islands, and Central American shores and
clearly indicate that in middle eocene
time the climate OF Georgia was much
warmer than it was either during the
upper cretaceous epoch or at present
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Poetry and Music.


Olcott. F. J.. comp. Storytelling Poems jYP-
Smith. L. R. Sixty Musical Games and Rerres-
| 5vv1o-wl2sst.
Picture Books.
Chapman. Walter. Du,chie Dong<. 1879. 1YB-
smith. e. B. The RaIlroad Book. JYB-sm53r.
Industrial Arts.
Fryer: Mrs. J e. The Mary Frances Sewing
shafer. D. c. Harper's beginning Electricity.
, ysE.iii ,.Ara1. 4 Il Harper. Book for Young Gar
Williams. Archibald. Things to Make. 5THY.
Travel.
Emery, NJ S. Real Children in Many Lands.
,ds, kalssI sIs. NJ. J. When Was Boy in Palestine
McNanas: Blanche. Gerard Our Little Belgian
Williamson. Margaret John and Betty's Irish
| History Visit. jG i2-W6'7.
Plays and Theatricals.
Busbee. W. y, Jolly Dialogues. JYD, Rss41
Irish. Marie. Patriotic Celebrations. JXZlrflp.
Merington Marguerite. Festival Plays jiD-
Perry. s. C. S. When Mother Lets Us Act.
shosmaLsr ,B1, BIsncas s, Colonial Plays for tho
pw.1fs. Msise JSDM,sss II sn'" White and The Seven
coe. Ida and Christie. A. ]. Story hour Read
&C; Gordon E. K. The Gordon Readers ,xR-
Grover. E. o. The Magnolia Primer. JxR-
G9l5mp.
R.qde ltsf,
Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends.
Beowulf Brave Beowulf. 1895. jYL-Biac.
Lang Andrew. Pretty tioldlocks.
Leamy. Edmund. The Fairy Minstrel If Gles-
Partridge, Mrs E. y; Glooseap the Great Chief
and Other Stories. JBu So IaIsg
Verso.
Fiction.
Adams Harrison. pseud. The Pioneer Bows OF
Adams. Harrison. pseud The Pioneer Boys Of
AltsheIer. J. 4. apache Gold.
Beach F. L. Roger Paulding sumner.
Biaisdeil, n T. Twilight Town
Brown. Z. A. Uncle Da,ids Bo.s
Burgess. T. W. The Boy Scouts Swif, River
Camp. W. c. Danny Fis:s
Curtis. A. T. A Little Maid of Province Town
Curtis A. T. Anne Nelson
Curtis. A. T The Little Runaways and Mother.
Curtis A. 7. The Outdoor chums.
Gould f. l.. Polly Prent.s Goes a-Nisiting.
Grinnell G b. Jack the Young cowboy.
HILL e. B. The Young Farmer.
Jewett. :. q. Play Day Stories.
Kilbourne c T. An Army Boy in The Philip
pines
I-ee. A. T.. A Senior Coed
Mcintyre ]. T. In Kentucky Witt Daniel
Boone.
Morrison W J. Willie Wyld Hunting Big
Otis, James. pseud BOY Scouts in Lumber
Camp.
Sahin f. l.. Treasure Mounta in
seaman: A. II. Mamsele of the Wilderness.
Spr-i. Johanna. Chel.
Stirling Yates. j-- A United States hidship-
man in the South Seas
Wilson J. F. Tad she,dons Fourth OF July.
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and very useful one. 1t shows with
historic and scientific accuracy how
women came into possession Of what Is
accepted as '.woman's nature" and "worn-
ans virtue These are commonly
looked upon as direct gifts from God In
proof of woman's sublin.ate and su-
per!or qualities. Here they are con-
vincingiy proved to be only the slow and
and behaviors to secure and prolong the
favor of the physically ADLER sex and
the personal well-being and safety ac-
, cruing from this favor.
A STEPDAUGHTER OF THE PRAIRIE.
By Margaret Lynn. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
This story. without question, belongs to
the few stories about children that could
pass an examination by the children
themselves. The world is full Of the best
of reasons why grown folks cannot write
about childhood in a way to convince or
interest anybody, least Of all those who
i've in that enchanted age. These multi
tudinous reasons can all be boiled down
to the single fact that they-children and
grown folks-live in worlds that are as
distinct and alien as heaven Is generally
supposed to be different from earth. At
some very rare now and then however.
there comes one who. heart and SOUL has
absorbed the spirit Of childhood past its
outcroWdlns o! supsequent years ana
events. Such a one. provided the gods
have given him the golden key of the
story hour and granted him its full and
beautiful! freedom, may tell a truly
heart holding tale of When 7 was a
little girl or when ! was a boy" Mar
garet Lynn is one Of these rare ones
This story of her early home the
prairie, of the play-world set up there by
her and her companions of how the
prairie looked to these children as the
days passed and the seasons changed.
and the years flew by. of how they came
to feel toward it and knew that 1t felt
toward them-all this makes not only one
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Aids to Literature.

From the London Chronicle.
The prospectus Of a London literary
bureau shows that plots Of love, humor-
GUS and sensational short stores are on
sale for Is each. Other lines are ideas
for humorous, interesting. instructive and
personal articles. IS each; jokes suitable
for Illustration, Is each: ideas for new
competitions, IS each; notes for speeches,
sermons and addresses on any subject. IS
per 100 words; and scenarios and syn
opses for plays IS per 100 words 4
bright man with such wares for sale
from Q kiosk in Fleet street might 90
brisk business In the dog days.
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EVIDENCES Of FORESTS
MILLIONS Of YEARS AGO
Scientists Enabled to Study Ancient
Vegetation Along the Atlantic
Seaboard.

BY a count Of the annual rings in the
trunk OF one OF the giant seduoias OF
California, 1t has been ascertained that
nearly 5000 years. or the major portion
Of recorded human history. has passed
across the stage since that tree was
seeding. But long as this period seems
when gauged by human achievement. it
Is fraction OF time almost too Small
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Beginning at the Bottom.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Nov. my boy. you'll have to start at
the bottom and work up.'
"All right, dad"
The best 1 can do Is to make you
fourth vice president Of our corporation" :"
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEW ADDITIONS TO THE chill
DREN'S ROOM.

This weeks list of recent additions TO
the Public Library consists of new books
to be found in the children department
cHILpREN'S BOOKS.
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Climate Milder Then.

The fossil plants indicate that there
was mild though not strictly tropical
climate, without marked seasonal changes
in fact, there is no evidence that frost
occurred. The rainfall was abundant, as
shown by the general character of the
flora, as well as by certain features OBJ
served on some Of the leaves and known
as the dripping points
The later or eocene dora has been
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form in the rocks. it has been possib,e to
draw certain tentative though apparently
reasonable conclusions as to the condi-
and Georgia when it was growine These
indicate that shallow seas extended in
land more than 100 miles from the nres-
ent Atlantic coast; that there was con-
siderable elevation and relief Of the Pied
mont area to the west; that the river
gradients were high and the streams
character: and that there were swamns
along the lower courses of the streams
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serious piety as any I can hear of under
heaven should be troubled SO with
witches 1 think It's no wonder: Where
will the devil show most malice but
where he is hated and hated most?"
The theory of witchcraft as outlined by
these ancient writer's is simple 1t ap-
pears that the devil finding certain spots
on the earth where the religion of the
people precluded the possibility of
temptation for evil decided to accom-
plish by force what he could not accom-
plish by moral suasion. To this end he
sent an army of deputy devils to aff1ic1
the populace in every possible way. New
England, Lancaster. England, and a
number of other places noted for their
godliness were visited by the invisible.
invading horde. The devils themselves
were incapable of doing physical damage
without the aid of human beings. So in
one way and another they formed cove
nants with certain benighted individuals
whereby the humans were to be possessed
of devils spirits.
A spectral book would then be produced
which could only he seen by the devil and
the person with whom he was dealing.
The name of the person would be signed
and the exercises. forthwith, would begin.
Somewhere in particular warm corner
of Gehenna these books were kept on file
SO that the chief devil might know ex-
actly who was working for him.
After the human being was turned to
witch he or she possessed the power.
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE SEEN AND UNSEEN AT STRAT-
FORD-ON-AVON: 4 Fantasy. by w.
D. Howells. author OF ato
Friends and Acquaintance, etc.
New York: Harper & Bros
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RX1 HHEN the froth of modern
W. fiction becomes tiresome,
NM the magazines pail and
w reading generally becomes
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Of the fine adventures of childhood. but
1t makes also a poetic and beautiful pic
ture Of the prairie itself. and Of the
earlier prairie life
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i: :; :: : !: !: !:
In hy a happy chance, Will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-03
Soto
Especial to Tir2es-Recorder.)

De SOTO, Ca, Dec. 3.-Our little
town has been unusually Social
during the past week. Mr.. ad Mrs. E.
s. Ferguson, ST., entertained large
,concourse of friends at a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner. The table was placed
under the trees near the sidewalk,
and had for a centerpiece beautiful
fern. A more beautiful table has
raredly been viewed with its immense
quantity of dainty viands. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferguson are lovely hosts, and
those who enjoyed their hospitality
We're Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ferguson, Jr,
and three children; Mr.. G. r. Fergu-
son and children, of Chokee; Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Ferguson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Ferguson and three children,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ferguson and two
children, Messrs. Claud and Emmett
Ferguson, Misses Mary, Mary Lizzie
and Rebecca Ferguson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ham West and little daughter, Mr..
Jim West, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Luke and
two daughters, Mr.. Frank James OF
Florida, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fewell and
three children, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Vorus'
Mr.. and Mrs. Eshton Howe and two
little daughters, Misses Sallie anu