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Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16
The Barber Shop

Gutsave Aug. Deuohler wishes Ia
announce to the people Of Pocahce~
tas and vicinity that he has opened
barber shop across the street isoz,
the moving picture theater and ,hzi
he Is an old practical barber nBi
can do your work m that lDc 10
your best Satisfaction. lie solios,a
herewith a liberal share Of ycuz
patronage. Bring your ohildBsn
also aud see how he can please ysn.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16
Show Friday Night

II you want to hear some good
music don't fail 70 hear the two
concerts gwen by the Hans Hanson
Band at $3.50 Fridayin front Of the
Palace Drug Store and 1880 IN
front Of the opera house. This
company is said to be a splendid
one. They will put on "IIans Han.
son" tomorrow, (Fnday) night
which Is a beautifully told story.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16

which Is a beautifully told story.
Uncle Perry Netlle and James
Favors were in Joncsboro the first
of the week.
S. NJ. White Of Holmes was in
Pocahontas from Saturday until
Monday.
james A. Dou'iss .Irl vlsited a,
the home OF j. k. Hancock Of New
Hope Friday night and Saturday.
Mrs. b. +. Bigger was with Pc.
cahontas friends the latter of las,
week.
Miss Ethel Dunn spent sand-y
with home folks. She Is teaching
at Biggers.
w. N. Stout of Peach Orchard
was in our city the latter part of
last week.
Geore Cooper Of Lorine spent Sat
urday and Sunday with Posahontas
relatives and friends.
G.. w. Lust came in Saturday
and had his address changed from
here to Imboden.
Born 10 Mr.. aud Mrs. J. r..
Shivley a fne baby boy last Sunday.
All parties getting along nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. b. Morrison
are rejoicing over the arrival Of a
fine baby boy.
V. X. Pringle, one of our drug.
gists, made'a business tripto Hoxie
Satu rday.
o. A. Lemmons and family at
tended the funeral of Riley Len
mons near Noland Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Sallee Of Mt
Mariah, Mo-, who have been visit
ing relatives here, returned u
their home Wednesday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16
NEW EDITOR fOR
POCAHONIAS TINES

A deal was made last week where
BY the Pocahontas Times nov has
Mr.. II. b. Dixon OF Lake Village
forts editor instead OF our home
bay. X. \. schoonoyer. Mr.. Dix
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16

Mrs. Will Graut, who has be~n
visiting relatives here. returned IA
her home in Newport.
Miss Ida DAVIS Of Hamil ~ vie
ting her sisters. M,raamer Wood
=. .s'''! ''e'' ss''s:'
Mrs. STEVE M~ce<Fy Of tbc Boy
country had business ia town tsss
Of the week.
J. 3. Eaton, an old pioneer of The
county, was on our streets Tuesday
lie is as jolly as hoy.
Pace Brothers bought 6ne paT
of mules from Frauk McIlroy iLis
week.
J. w. Mulloy of Reyno, attorney
at law, was looking after Iexsl
matters in town Tuesday.
DR.. w. X. Hamil OF Poeahossss
was here Monday and took Nr-
Hamilton to the hospital at siem-
phis. Walnut Ridge Blade
Pocahontas star herald., 1914-01-16

| OF newspaper
4 a doubt he
well.
Mr.. and Mrs.
Little Rock
are sorrow
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
CHRISTMAS CARDS

The usual wide choice of artistic
Christmas cards is issued by Z. ?. Dut
ton & Co this year. The messages
they bear of love and friendship, the
wishes they carry leave nothing to be
desired, and they arc couched in verse
Of all metres and rhymes. The fule
songs Of Merrie England are freely
drawn upon, Of course. as are, in the
pictures. the days Of baronial halls AMI
stage coaches. And there are others OF
Dutch children in wooden shoes o;
little girls peeping out Of the petals
Of flowers, comic cards-enough 20 SUIT
the tastes and needs OF all.
With the Christmas cards the cal
endars for the New Year make their
appearancc, ana Of these, too, the
Messrs. Dutton offer a wide choice
There is Shakespeare calendar, OF
course, and a Longfellow calendar
there are calendars with a text or a
great thought for each morning Of the
year TO come. There are MERRY
Thoughts" and Pearls Of Truth" and
calendars that are anthologies, and
still others illuminated like mediRval
missals. And there is Gay Dogs"
calendar which, by a brilliant stroke
includes birds of a feather, and q
Hunting Calendar" in which pink
coated, ruddy Englishmen ride 70
hounds through all the months of the
year,
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
St r1Artin's Fields From
"In D1ckenS'S London .? ?C1hap1eS
SCP1DNepG" SO1l0)

by the seventee4 e4th-century Venetian
am AMBASSADORS in their dispatches TO the
Grand Council; FLANDERS. where the
carillons ripple from Old spires sang
Dowden; Longfellow devoted poem
to the chimes Of Bruges; Robert Louis
Stevenson was charmed by this melody
of bells and yet, so Mr.. Rice informs
us. no general work on the carlton and
its music can be found anywhere in
any language. Two eighteenth-cent-
urv treatises in Dutch do not
count. Il was to supply this
want that he made his tour Of the
Netherlands and Belgium, and his book
is the result Its technical part appeals
to a special public, but its historic and
descriptive passages cannot fail TO re-
new happy memories in all who have
travelled in the Low Countries and lis
tened to the music of their church
towers. The numerous illustrations Of
these spires are most attractive They
range from Groningen, in the extreme
north of the Netherlands, to Antwerp.
Bruges and Louvain.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28

with electrical toys. He handily
prefaces his volume with a simple ex-
planation of the fundamentals Of
everyday electricity.
"Pick. Shovel and Pluck" by A.
Russell Bond New York: Mum & CO..
is another "how to" book, though cast
in the form Of stories. Like its au-
thor's with the Men Who Do
Things" it deals with modern engi-
neering, its problems and triumphs-
and its dangers. The conquests Of
the science dealt with here are, first
of all, the Panama Canal; then aque-
duct work, the raising Of wrecks, sub
way construction, the building Of the
Kcokuk dam, steel making, tunnelling
under rivers, bridge building, locomo-
tive engineering, and that most in
teresting of recent undertakings, the
wrecking of the first eel-construction
skyscraper. A most interesting chap
ter is that describing the way in
which engineering solved the mystery
OF the blowing up Of the Maine. In
his preface Mr. Bond gives long
list of prominent engineers as guar
antors of the reliability of his scien-
thc facts and of the truth of the
narrow escapes of which he tells.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
SOME HOLIDAY BOOKS
FOR YOUNG READERS
Andrew Langs Vacant Place-Tales of War by Land
and Sea--An Anthology of Battle-VictorieS
of Peace-Electricity and Engineering

which the discerning will accept with
out requiring further proof. These
brief biographies by Ariadre Gilbert
of great men who oyercame great
hardicaps iu thor path are. indeed,
rarely sympathetic. purposeIul with
out ever becoming didactic. The les
son OF courage and perseverance and
kindness is there. but it is made part
Of the romance the adventure of
struggling through Beethoven, incura-
bly, deaf. Charles Lambs kindly lie Of
sacrifice. Scotts struggle with his
financial difficulties, Robert Louis
Stevenson's brave feht. David Living
ston, Thackcray. Louis Pasteur, Phil
lips Brooks. ST. Gautens. Ayasslz. nm
creou, Washington irving, Edwin Booth
and Lincoln. the "1l. Jcrhorn OF Men
this is the company here asseno bed
Miss Gilbert has succeeded admirably
well This is literature for the young
at It's best
Emile Kin Baker, the author of a
volume of Stories Of Old Greece and
Rome" gives Us this year a book OF
"Stories from Northern Myths
the Morse mythology which should be
so much reqrer to US han that OF
the Mediterranean countries, but which,
for some reason or other. we still
neglect far too much in the educa-
tio- Of our children Waorer has made
one of its sagas familiar to all the
world. but there is 50 much more.
and il is all Of such gigantic proper
tions, 80 sturdy, so ruggedly daring
in It's flights. that books like this ore
cannot be sufficiently welcomed From
Nihheim and the Morse creation
myth the book progresses sep by
step TO the song of the Nibelungen,
to which its closing chapters are de-
voted
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
HOW TO" BOOKS.

H. G. Wells has foretold the dav, in
that millennium Of his. when every
man and woman will OF necessity be
mechanic in a very mechanical
world. The true mechanician. how
ever is born. not made. II is for
such, as they show the first traces of
their gift in boyhood. that Alfred p.
Morgan has written "The Boy Elec-
trician" (Lothrop. Lee & Shepard
Company, a book OF breathless in
terest TO some, but, no doubt, of no
interest whatever 70 other boys,
whose hearts may be set on carpen-
tering or music or medicine How
ever, hoy electrician is very handy
around the house nowadays, and will
be even more useful in the near fut-
ure, if all that Edison promises us
comes true. And he usually keeps
his word SO by all means let your
boy have this book If he shows a
taste for electricity. Under its in
struction he will be able to put lights
in dark closets, where the architect
and the builder and the landlord
should have put them, but did not;
and when you decide upon an electric
range there will be your own young
engineer TO solve your troubles
Another book on the same subject is
"Harpers Everyday Electricity" Har-
per & Bros.) by Don Cameron Shafer
the author of an earlier and very
successful Beginning Electricity" He
here describes the making and use
Of electrical apparatus, but also deals
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
LONDON AND BELGIUM
WITH PENCIL AND PEN
Mr.. Hopkinson Smiths Pilgrmages in Dickens Londor
-Rambles in Begiums Forest OF Arden
Steeple Music of the Low Countries.

, claimed his readiness to uphold the
honor Of the Pickwick Club Uniform
with his life. Jngle's affair with Dr.
Slammer Of the 9th Regiment, you
VIII remember.
Bridge and Nancy Skies, 70 81. Mar
tins In the Fields and the search Tor
Fn,Yv. and the fountain IN the tempe,
shrine Of the loves OF Ruth Pinch and
ro1n WestIock. and through Lincoln
Inn Fields. where Mr. Tulkingnorn -
and John Forster-lived, on 70 the s'te
~ The Narshalsea. toward the Thames.
where Lizzie Hexam rowed the Carer
Then look at Mr.. Gre~gIous's once
and 10 round out the trD. hying
yie,. 20 the Offices Of All the Year
Pound Mr. Smith bids US follow him
10 Westminster Abbey in his closing
chapter.
An interesting itinerary, never more
welcome than at this season OF the
wear, with which Dickens's name and
the spjrit of his labors are forever
linked The author-artist handles his
pen as ably as his charcoal. tie IS
rioht as to the medium that best bchts
London; and he is Of the fellowship
Of Dickensians.
The Identification of the forest Of
Ardennes in Belgium with Shake
/ speare's Garden Of Arden furn shes
Mr.. Edwards with the title for his
+ book on a region that will probably be
/ never again what il was up till the
/ outbreak Of the war-a paradise OIL
restful holidays and quaint survival
/ Of past centuries in the dress, the
manners and customs of its inhabi-
tants. "The .olk are like other peas
/ ants, worldly as Bretons every whit,
but less priggish, because they do not
: have sentimental tourists reminding
/ them that they are picturesque, and
putting them into wan pictures and
/ washy novels. Yet equally strange old
religious customs, of great antiquity,
are legion pilgrimaPes, kermesses.
/ healing springs and performing
statues link every hamlet with a hoary
/ past" Mr. Edwards has probably seen
/ The last of what survived Of all this.
He wanders through these forests,
along the windings of the Meuse, the
+ Orthe. Lesse and Semois, observing the
dailv life of village and town, and
/ gathering old legends by the way-the
/ Great tradition of the Four Sons Of
Avmon. the tale, a old, Of the bride
of Pepin d'Heristal-Plectruda, who
/ lived at the Castle OF Veve-Celles, and
for a kiss from whose liDs hunch-
back sold his soul 10 Satan. Then
+ there is history as it was made by the
/ Roar of the Ardennes-an episode
probably unknown to the author of
| "Ouentin Durward" And there are
cottage industries to be studied, and
labor fairs 20 be visited. like those in
martha" and "The Chimes Of Nor
mandy" in grand and minor opera
md nilcrimages TO be made This is a
/ charming picture of remote, peaceful
region before war stormed through ITS
/ forests. There are twenty-nine full
/ mage illustrations in Mr.. Edwards's
well-known manler. Six Of them are
/ i'm colors. The book IS beautifully
made.
I The cerillons of the Low Countries
and their music were commented upon
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28

Perhaps the most important question
Of the year in the field OF children's
books has been that OF a possible sue
cessor 70 the late Andrew Lang. o.
course, his Fairy Books have becoma
classics; they vii continue TO be read
in their poiychromatic multitude by
generation after generation Of ch ldren,
but even so. the young. like their cid
ers, always crave something new now
adays Mr. LarP's publishers an
nounced some time ago that they would
issue this year as a sort OF subst ute
for the lacking fairy boob. Henry New
bolts Book of the Blue sea- II d. s
with sea lighters, chiefly English, Oll
also with Farsagut. The tales OF ad-
venture It tells are based on fact lhey
cover the period from the wood SHIPS
and sails Of Nelson's day 10 ihe trans
ition to armor plate and heavy guns
during the Civil War. and Arctic eX-
ploration comes within their scope.
The heroes are mid sh.pmen not IN
vented by the author but real seameA
whose own records of the early years
of their careers have been drawn upo1.
The book is attractively illustrated IN
colors and black -and-white by Norman
wilkinson. Az for its fortunes, now
that il has been launched, they are in
the hands of the boys who viii read 1t.
In the selection Of its subject it bears,
however. no relation TO the riches OF
the worlds fancy when il was young,
which Andrew Lang retold so magically
well.
Since the memory Of Andrew Lang
has thus led US TO begin TINS survey OF
the seasons new books tor chlldren
with the mention OF warfare II may De
we'll TO add here "The Foys BOOK OF
Battles" (Houghton Miffiln Company.
which is an excellent piece OF Work OF
its class. II ranges from the ancient
Egyptians to an encounter between
German and a French aviator IN the
present war, and its tales are toId III
prose and verse by Thucydldes' Ivy
Caesar, Froissart, Drayton, scott MOI
lev. Tennyson, Schiller, Macaulay' &C.
tor Hugo, Thomas Campbell, Loia' Jon 4
TYLER Headley 1.-The Fight Between t ths
Serapis and the Bonhomme kicnard },
Holmes ("Grandmother's story OF
Bunker Hill"), Henry VI Stanley me
Battle of ShilohD, william iuekley
Meredith t"Farragut IN Mobile bay }
and many others. Gustav Frenssen Is
drawn upon for his description OF
hattie with Herreros IN south AREA
A Japanese staff officer furnishes IN Z,
description Of the attack upon toIl
Arthur. Phillip Gibbs that oi tne siege
of Adrianople. General Frencn' 5 re
treat from the Belgian frontier told IN
one of his dispatches, closes the book
Snecial mention must be made. how
ever Of John Buchan's story Of Their
mopvia. "The Lemnian." little mas
terniece far too little known. The Illus
trations are from famous paintings all
The vav from an artist Of the time OF
Pameses II to Detaille. An interesting
hook for old and young.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A Pictorial Life for Young
and Old.

wAsurNGr0N THE MAN OF ACTON.
O., Fr.d-r.c. Trevor H.M WIN ililsra-
ian. by Comte j. Ontroy DC freFi.le
,.Job'1 Large 6vo, pp. A'i, 3-' D.
Appleton Co.
SO far as ITS text Is concerned, this
is q book for older readers, but its
colored illustrations arc so strikingly
decorative in action and color that
younger people may well be interested.
The French artist it is plain, has stud
led the pictorial traditions OF our his
tory to some purpose. Certain 1t is
that his d.awirgs greet US with an air
of familiarity. whether il be 10 the Ike
ness Of the Father of HIS Country him.
self, OF 10 the scenes Of 0a tle. Of
colonial Virginia and at Mount Vernon
in the picture of the richest country
gentleman o. the America o. ms taY
overlooking the ploughing Of his wide
acres. There are twenty-seven OF these
double page plates, which have no mar
gins and therefore look like paintings
without their frames. The process by
which they have been reproduced ap-
parently has not subdued the orIglna!
br,lliancy of their colors in the least.
Mr.. Hill seeks to give picture IN
words of the man Washington really
was-not the plaster saint he has been
made out to have been by his earliest
biographers and their successors. lie
has relied chiefly upon the personal
records which Washington has left US
his journal and diaries, his orderly
books, his public papers and voluminous
private cores spondence.
But the pictures are the thing, at
least. at this season. They leave moth
ing 20 be desired in sharpness OF
outline, attention to detail and vivid
ness of contrast of coloring They are
certain to make a hit with our boys
and girls. After they have gone over
these illustrations again and again, and
remembered the stories they tell, they
NAV turn 70 Mr. Hil's text with new
interest in the story that TO Ameri-
cans young and ola never grows dull
an neye~ loses its interest.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
II srnrIFD PLACES.

N r.r-FN~.- r..u.E. Ey D. HopHrson
suu Ilsra- .. .--f.J1l -a"-,.''
ue .--.r --ls- a'. iD. 1". 4-'- '-@'''
-HE FOREST oE Arrrs w-ren ana pictured
u l--- " .a '
,AaMo>- o. H.LouM A>D IoL,Li-A'>n IA
i.ar Al.. la af "l ~"
I. ...a i-a. COMPANY
London is charcoal and charcoal is
london" says Nh Hopk.nson Smith
Charcoal alone can give their full value
20 the c.ty's wonderful velvet blacks
soft yapory skies and streaming wen.
washed streets. He proved -o us last
year what be can do with thls med um
10 his "Thacseray's London This sea
son he returns 20 as with no less
welcome portfolio Of drawings OF the
Loudoa OF Charles Dickens. II ls, NJ
points out In his preface, mot anotne'
book about Dickens. with illustrations
By the author. but book of .llustra
tiors wta some explanatory extracts
from Oh. Masters text, padded with
some experiences Of my own.
These experiences ere more thah
padding of course, since they led the
author 90 commune with English fei
loa gorsh.ppers, and TO the discovery
Of others 90 whom Dickens and All nis
creations mean nothing. There wa the
old patron Of the George and NuIture
who told him that during the zen
years he had dined there hardly day
had passed without some American
dropping 20 20 visit the place where MI
Pcawlcs put up after his discharge
from the Fleet. Mind you, he really
put up there. for "rot to believe thai
Sam Weller and Pecksnif and David
CopperfeI5. Peggotty, Little Dofrlt,
Nieswber. Tom Pinch and Oliver ana
all the res. Of them lived and moved
and had their being. would be IKE
doubtng that Santa Claus, Robinson
Ciusoe and Peter Pan ever lived.
And so we start with the PlckwicH
Club from .he George Inn, where Mt
Piekwck found Sam Weller, and waere
Miss Ward,e was overtaken by her
furious brother after her elopemen'
With Mr. Jingle Thence we pr ceed VIA
Lane street. where Bob Sawyer lived, on
70 Is Doughty street, where Dickens
wrote the last chapters of The PICK
g'ek Papers" Then on 20 the Bull al
Rochester where Mr. Winkle pro-
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
MACAULAY DE LUXE
A Superb Edition of His His
tory of England.

THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE
ACCESSION or JAMES II BY Lord
Mlcaulay. Edited 10y Charles Harding
Firth ~ A. In vols. syo. Macmillan
Company.
In the scope and the interest Of its
illustrations this sumptuous edition Of
Macaulay's history, Of which four vol
umes have now appeared, deserve es a
place of honor among the choicest pub
iications of the year. OF generous size,
with a well margined page and clear
type, these books offer yer. table por-
trait gallery of English history and a
print collection to boot. Every known
source has been drawn upon for the
embellish,aent Of this edition-public
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
BOSTON PASTAND PRESENT
The Picturesque and the
Beautiful Here at Home.

RAMBLEs AROUND OLD BOSTON. By
Edwin NJ Bacon. With drawings by Lester
G., Horribly. $40. pp. Val. 20. Boston,
Little. Brown Conn Iauy.
Boston is worthily represented in
word and picture IN our literature, but
there can be no question Of the nature
Of the welcome which should reward
the author and the illustrator Of this
delightful and handsome book. Ram
blers in foreign places we have had
many-in London and Edinburgh by
preference-but no rambler should be
more welcome TO Us IN this country
than Mr.. Bacon, who knows his old
Boston so well, and all its story and
lore, and who loves them as only Bos-
ton.an IN this country loves the city OF
his birth The town which the Puri-
tans founded still maintains, though
with increasing difficulty, its dlstluc-
ton as the most truly native American
CITY IN the nation. To take Us among
the survivals Of its beginnings, TO re-
construct on the way much that has
vanished Of its Topography and archl-
lecture as well as OF It's manners and
customs and ways Of governance, is the
purpose Of this book. which succeeds
in making the past live again in its
pages. The new Boston took old BOs-
ton in Lincolnshire for its name but
it took London for It's model The found
ers would have their capital town %
be 90 New England M q humble way
what London was TO old England. So
Boston was built, a likeness In fninia-
ture Of London:
As the founders and settlers
loved old-hom characteristics. and
would transplant them, as was
Iossible, 10 their new home, so we
find their earliest CROOKED little
streets" with old London names.
The taverns were named for old
London inns. The shop signs re-
peated old London symbols And
today. as we ramb.c about the
ehadowy precincts OF the Colony
Town. we chance dclectably here
and there upon q twisting street
vet holding its frst-given London
name-a London-like old court,
byway. alley; a Londonish foot
massage making short cut between
thoroughfares an arched way
through buildings in old London
style: an old, London fashioned
UNDERGROUND ptAo'eAE'
courts or one-time habltatlons,
suggestive Of smuggling days and
of romance.
Backward and forward we ramble
with our enthusiastic guide, lavish OF
his riches of curious informal on
from the Boston of Cotton Mather to
that of the Transcendalist Club, the
Boston even of Dr. Holmes and How
els and Bailey. Always the present
is linked to the vanished and the sur
yivinc past; most firmly perhaps
through that period of the middle of
the last century which was so unfor-
glyaby indifferent to the i,,d5 %Onamen.s rc mems
acts of vandal DETACHMENT and de-
struction in the name Of progress.
MIR Bacon has found in Mr. Hornby
a fellow-enthusiast, an artist IN love
with the picturesqueness of Boston
who. having the seeing eye, JOINS to II
a felicitous hand. His illustrations
arc a delight
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28

and private galleries and Libraries, on
the Continent as well as in the kind
dom. OF greatest value and adornmcnt
are the numerous reproductions in col
ors Of portraits By such men as Lely,
Kneller, Van Dyck and their famous
contemporar es; and, In addition to
these, there are hundreds Of portraits
Of celebrities in oiack-and-white. from
mezzotints after these masters, fro
miniatures. and the en2rayings which
were so numerous IN those days, and
which are so rare to-day, as collectors
well know.
Old views Of cities, towns and castles,
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
A YEARLY VISITOR
Mr.. Smiths New Contribution
to Holiday Joy.

THE EARLY LIFE OF Mr.. MAN REFoRD
NOAH. Hy Z. BOYD smith. illustrated In
color Boston The Houshion Mrun Company
Mr. Smith is our BCutet de Monvel.
Occasionally he gives a Puvis de
Chayannes -ouch to his work as well
We do not mean that he is initiative;
we merely wish TO emphasize by COM
parison the qualities which have
brought him popularity: he is a capital
illustrator and most entertaining
humorist. He devotes himself os.ensi-
bly, TO the entertainment Of CHILDREN, in
which he succeeds unfailingls but ever
since the appearance of his hrst book