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The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-10-09
Federal Deposits Withdrawn.

Observation-Disclosures up his
warning to national banks against
boarding money and restricting
credits, Secretary McAdoo yes.
terday ordered withdrawn SO.
O0O,OOO of the government funds
deposited in the agricultural
centers to aid in crop moving.
The money will be redeposited,
Mr.. McAdoo announced, in banks
which will employ it in the move
ment of crops and for the benefit
OF the business situation.
The banks from which the de-
poslts are withdrawn are not
mentioned. A treasury depart.
ment statement issued last night
said:
Secretary McAdoo recalled
from various banks throughout
the country which are maintain
ing excessive reserves S3,OOO,OOO
OF government deposits, to be
repaid to the treasury in two in
stallments on the 10 and 20 of
October respectively. These
funds will in the treasurer,s IS
discretion be redeposited in
banks throughout the country
which will employ them in the
movement of crops and for the
benefit of the business situation.
A city man recently visited his
country cousin" The man from
the city wished to explain the
joys of metropolitan life said:
I'VE have certainly been having
fun the last few days. Thursday
we autoed to the country club,
and golfed until dark, then troll
lied back to town and danced till
morning." The country cousin
was not to be stumped in the
least, so began telling some of
the pleasures of simple life: We
had a pretty good time here
too. One day we buggied out to
Uncle Ned's and went out to the
back lot we baseballed all that
afternoon. In the evening we
sneaked up into the attic and
pokered until morning." A stur-
dy old farmer who was listening,
not to be outdone, took up the
conversation at this point and
said: II was having some fun
about this time myself. l muled
to the cornfeld and gee -hawed
until sundown. Then l suppered
until dark, and piped until 9
o'clock, after which | bedsteaded
until the clock tived, after which
| breakfasted until it was time
to go muling again"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
TIE WOMAN OF FORTY.

HER LADYSHIP'S CONSCIENCE. BY
Ellen ThornYcroft Fowler. Emo. PIP.
$40. The George II. Doran Company.
Her ladyship is a spinster and in her
fortieth year. His lordship is twenty
eight. Therefore her conscience forbids
her to marry him, although they love
each other, and all their tastes and in
terests coincide. What is more, decided
to do her duty with all the seriousness
that is Of the essence Of her character,
she sets about finding him a suitable
wife, which means girl some years
his Junior. she is easily found, shall
low, frivolous, calculating. ambitious
little creature with nothing to recon-
mend her but her youth and beauty
with never q thought above position,
wealth. clothes and amusement. II Is
the story Of this marriage that Miss
Fowler tells, and of its consequences
as they react upon the conscience and
the feelings Of her ladyship, who, truth
10 tell. is at times almost too morbidly
good to be Of our age and generation.
Fortunately, she has very sensible
sister, a duchess 1--WE always move in
good circles in this authors books),
who says clever things and has clever
way Of saying them, after Miss Fowl
er's own clever habit. The story is in
teresting, but 1t evades the problem
nosited at its beginning with some in
sjstence, that of woman's seniority as
factor in love and marriage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
THE CENTURY,.

The new editor Of THE Century
continues TO develop the policy that
makes the magazine in many respects
a review as well. The contents of each
issue are as timely as they are varie-
gated. The first year of Mr.. wilson's
presidency has been celebrated, II one
may use the word, by publicists the
world over The man and his policies
have been thrown into strongest relief
by the period of assured power abroad
and urgent questions at home in which
his administration falls. A. Maurice
Low, an English journalist who knows
American conditions thoroughly. con
tributes to this number a review of the
Presidents first year which is worth
reading, the more so as IL presents an
interesting transatlantic view OF his
Mexican policy. Mere mention can be
made here of many other important ar
ticles in this issue, OF extracts from
Robins notebook, for instance; or
James Hunekers article on Music Of
1O-udy anu ID-nioiloNf WIN 10 'iN'N
w expressed opinion. II consider it
pathetic fallacy in criticism TO be
overshadowed by the fear that. be-
cause some of our critical predecessors
misjudged Wagner or Manet, we should
be too merciful to be critical TO our con-
temporaries" George Moore's "Shske -
speare and Balzac" appeals to us more
on the BalZacian than the Shakes
pearian side. To Frank NJ. Colby we
are indebted for a happy definition: "a
new thinker when studied closely.
seems TO be merely a man who does
not know what other people have al
ready thought" Pierre V. r. Keys
history OF the Century Opera under
taking up 10 date is informing as to
facts, it, perhaps, somewhat over enthu-
siestic as to immediate achievements.
James Lane Allen leads the fiction with
a sympathetic, admirably we'll written
story. There is the usual verse in
lighter and serious vein, and. among
the illustrations, mention must be made
not only Of Arthur Rackham's and
Thomas Shields Clarke's colorcd pict-
ures but also of an exceptionally good
Century colortone" OF painting by
Cecilia Beaux. Portrait study"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25

ADVENTURES OF THE INFALlIBLE
GODAHL. By Frederick Irving Ander-
son. illustrated. Emo. Pr. al. Inc
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Godahl. like Rafiies and Arsene
Lupin. is a gentleman criminal The
strangest of all the adventures In
which he figures opens the book be-
cause. literally he does not figure IN II
at all. A clever craftsman induces his
author 20 work out burglary in one
of his stories, and then. all dlftlcuities
solved carries it out according 10
Godahrs niodus operdndi This is a
clever invention. For the rest, no
crime is too daring or too complicated
for Godahl He robs the United states
Sub Treasury Of forty gallons of liquid
gold-here probability is stretched
rather far: he lights up all lower New
York at midnight in order 20 rifle ct
his ease the carefully selected safe OF
one ieweller: he solves an interna-
tional espionage scheme in connection
with the fertilization OF the Panama
Canal: in short. he performs the most
amazing feats with the insouclance Oh
one to whom the game itself mas as
much zest as its criminal rewards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
LEADING FEATURES
OF MAY MAGAZINES
Colonel Roosevels First Jaguar-A New Paradise TO
Observation-Disclosures Island in Chesapeake bay
An English View of MIR. Wilson,

aim is 10 turn out girls so far developed
mentally. and so trained and IN
structed, that they can make their own
choice in the world, can earn their
own livings if they wish or n they
must, can take man II one that SUITS
them offers. can turn all men away for
as long as they will. and still contrivs
for themselves a life OF activity and
employment. The new education aims
to give TO girls such an equipment as
will relieve them OF the need to marry
for q living. Arnold Benefits new
novel, The Price OF Love" is CON
tinued. The colored frontispiece IS 10y
n. c. Wyeth. Among the illustrations
mention should be made cf n wood en-
craving, by Henry Wolf, OF Cecilia
Beaux's Christina"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25

leading business man on shore with
disastrous results: Mrs. Cap'n Dan,
with a local social bee in her bonnet
Cap'n Dams daughter; and Azuba CHM,
their hired help for many years, the
wife of a mate on 4 tramp steamer,
whom. of course, she but seldom sees.
She need not work, she explains; she
kind of does it to keep busy; conse-
ouentIv she is mighty Independent.
Now. Cap'n Dan inherits a competence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
sCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE.

Where is Roosevelt, there is the
head Of the table -of-contents. The
second article OF the narrative OF his
tourney Ms "A Hunter Naturalist in the
Brazilian Wilderness opens this num-
her q, "Scribners" with all his GUS
torarv zest. He describes the jungle
and his first taguar hunt-a successru.
ono NJ course-he writes Of the man
eating piranha, fish with a pro-
nourced taste for human flesh; the
giant ant eater. a valiant fighter OF
man and beast: and other animals out
informs us that. whereas South Amer
lea has the most extensive ana iios'
varied avifauna OF all the continents
its mammalian fauna, although very
Interesting. is rather poor in NUMBER
~ snecies and individuals, and IN the
size Of the beasts. 1T possesses more
mammals that are unique and dlstlnc-
tive in tyne than does any other con-
t;nent save Australia; ana they are Vi
higher and much more varied types
than in Australia But there Is noun
ing approaching the majesty beauty
and swarming mass Of the mammalian
life of Africa and. in less degree ol
tropical Asia; indeed, it does not even
annroach the mammalian life or North
America and Northern Eurasia, poor
though this is compared with the seeth-
ING vitality Of tropical life in the Oiu
World The Light Cavalry or the
Sea- &c the well-found title Of an ar
ticle by Lieutenant Commander ~
Pratt Mannix, L. S. ~, on the torpe"o
aotiIla OF the North Atlantic Meet
uboee services are the same as those
norformed by light calvary on land.
With the approach of the summer sea-
SON comes Elizabeth Parkers paper on
"a New Field for Mountaineering III
,ho Canadian Northwest around MI.
Robson. with an account Oh the az
tivities Of the Alpine Club OF Cahaoa'
which we are informed, is a mos0
democratic organization, international
m it's membership, but intensely ma
tionaI in its purpose Of educating ca
radians to an appreciation OF their
mountain heritage. Professor Noou-
berrys North African travel papers
cone 70 IN enc IN this number. Ihey
uare unfinished in book form TINS week
h,, the Messrs. Scribner. WORK OF
travel worth cherishing for It's sehsi-
t;veness 10 the atmosphere Of the re-
pion. its peoples and their Religion
,rhoro &c q memoir of the late Charles
King for many years president OF COL
,,r,bia College-"A Gentleman or the
Ola SchooP-the father Of Nine. Wad-
dinpton. the schoolmste Of Byron, ana
an old New Yorker who knew WASH
ington Irving, Webster and Edwaro
Everett The Field Of Art is de-
voted 10 the notable contemporary
small American sculpture shown IN
recent Academy exhibition; the short
stories are by Georgia Wood Pang-
horn Gordon Hall Gerould, Katherine
Holland Brown and George T. Marsh
and a writer in THE Point OF we"
draws attention 70 the middle-aSed
TYNE Of somewhat "frumpy" woman 70
whose sterling qualities Arnold Zen
nett pavs tribute in Buried Alive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
d DOLLS HOUSE.

IDLE WIVES. BY James Oppenheim.
12mo Do. 426 The Century Company
MT Oppenheim sets out to tell the
story Of a twentieth century Ne"
York Dolls House." whose mistress
grows disconnected with the fruits or
her husbands success. She has chill
6ren: they are in the trained care Oh
capable governess. Her household
does not suffice to occupy her energy;
her husband Is too busy to bother much
about her. and her circle of other idle
wives exasperates her. In marrying
che had given up her career as pro-
bation officer. She IS at war WIN
circumstances that are to large eX-
tent OF her own making, but, wifehKe'
che concentrates all her resentment
against her husband. She grows en-
,hu,iastic over her brothers an
nounced marriage 10 an unmarried
mother: her busy half forbids the
couple his house. She defies ms
authority, he opines that he ought TO
heat her, and she feels, with a thrill
that she would be happy if no did But
he doesn't, for, he says, he is an Amer
lean husband. so she leaves the con-
tugai roof and takes refuge in a tene-
rncnt where she finds wife ana
mother who In made Just as unhappy
by poverty and drudgery as she Is by
Prosperity and idlcness. She rescues
g,rl from white slavery, and returns TO
n repentant husband. who surrenders
Internationally. There is a little or
everything in the story except a gram
NJ common sense in the wife.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
"ruE GREAT GALEOTC."

Echegaray's great play, the dramatic
classic Of modern Spain, has just been
issued as the third volume OF the
Drama League Series, in translation
bv Hannah Lynch. 1t was produced
in this country some years ago by
William Faversham, who used YER
sion made by MIR. Nirdlinger which
took considerable liberty with Eche-
garay's text. For the sake OF comic
relief Mr.. Nirdlinger introduced the
character of a British military at-
tach6 not found in the Spanish original
n was cleverly done-on the theory no
doubt, that otherwise tie American
public would not have accepted the
sombre drama-but il was not Echega =
ray. Miss Lynch. Of course mas foi-
lowed the original text
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
HARPER'S MAGAZINE.

There are several travel papers in
the May "Harper's," but the one which
is best OF all is that nearest home,
about Tangier Island, in Chesapeake
BAY. and it's isolated inhabitants; a
community which has existed for two
hundred years, and which has re-
NAMED more remote from the main
current Of American life than even the
Southern mountaineers. The story OF
the islands settlement. as told by j. NJ.
Church. outdoes that Of the famous sale
of Manhattan:
You gentlemen amt never heard how
Tangier got settled? II were by a man
from the Eastern Shore settlements, pach
in 1797-moren two hundred years aso:
The island were the home OF a trloe OF
Indians, and this here man, Post, got the
idee OF raisin stock on 1T. 80 ne runs
over and tells the Indians That the cor
onists are goin' to come ana massacre
them and they'd better get outen the
wav That scared the Indians, all right
and they sailed over to the western shore
of Virginny. But before they went, POHl
said. as the island wasn't Soin 10 be any
more use TO 'em, he'd buy II OIL thehl.
The chief agreed, so Post gave MN w.
old overcoats. and the island was ms.
Then ne brung over five families ana a
passed. o horses and cows.
Tangler Island has never had any
local government, and until after the
Civil War Virginia never bothered
about il. It's inhabitants vote the Re
publican ticket mechanically, habit
implanted in them by Northern clergy
men; Mr.. Church tells another good
story here. And as for doctors: Thar
never was a doctor here till SO. Most
of US lives till we're bout ready TO
blow away Cose thar's some aiiin'
off an on. but mostly it's old age It's
a poor place for a doctor-with only
fourteen hundred OF U.s." Richard lie
Galienne describes his visit TO Mistra'
only few years before hissdeath; and
Professor J. Russell Smith writes o,
the wonders of arid farming around
Sfax. in Tunis, with an average an
nual rainfall Of IS inches. The paper
has a direct bearing on our own arid
West. James Thompson Bixby, Phi. D.,
leaves a great problem very much
where he found il in "A-ter Life
What" Nine. de Recommendations
crone gives her impression Of Ibsen the
man. Socially, she says, he was a
wet blanket" L. 5. Martin. who Is
always worth reading. writes OF THE
Girl that Is to Be- The new educa-
ton for girls. he says. has no quarrel
with men. but it leaves them to make
their own arrangements. II does not
undertake 10 provide wives for them.
IL hothcrs with men very little. Its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
THE wHlRL OF NEW YORK.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY? A Novel.
BY Rupert Hughes. Illustrated l-'n''
PIP. Sill Harper Il Bros.
Fiction. we know. is criticism OF
life. Still. we need not take Mr.
Hughes's novel too seriously as a
criticism of the particular phase OF
contemporary existence with which II
deals. II is a picture, not an indlct-
ment. drawn by a realist with vivid
IMAGINATION and a prediction Tor
turgid description; and where he aban-
dons the rele Of impartial chronicler
and moralizos. it is TO defend and
Justify. not to condemn. The matroh
who tangoes all afternoon and even
ing. he points out with justice, may
spend her mornings in good works; and
as for the dancing craze, it is nara TO
explain to its enemies "how potentiy
custom and minute restraints permit
an innocent dalliance with the ma
torials of passion" The pictures when
MIR. Hughes draws Of this dalllance
are warmly colored, indeed. lie woulu
have the carpers understand that the
fortunate ones In the golden horseshoe
AZ the opera are often genuine music
lovers. awake at least to It's emotlonal
appeal. For, of course, it is the passion
of Tristan ard Isolde" that hrst
avallens a realization Of their own In
tho hearts of his hero and heroine. 1t
often happens thus in fiction nowadays.
This. then, is a story of New YORK
"society''-of the society OF Mrs. Whar-
ton and Robert w. Chambers, the So
cietv which grew out Of that of Julien
Gordon. Edgar Saltus and Mrs. Burton
Harrison. But, as we began by saying
one need not take the book too serl-
o,,el,, as a criticism Of life. II IS SEN
sational picture OF the season, AFTER
the manner of those annually shown at
the Paris salons. We see these rlch'
Uell- eroomed. restless, not particular
u. weU-mannered or well-bred people
., the avenue. at th6S ddnSGntS. at the
opera and at the early morning fo'-
ferries: up again at eight for their morn
ing ride in tine park-everywhere' IN
short. except at home, though we MIN
gle with them for a while at coun-
try house picnic out Of season S""o
servants and the usual conveniehces
NJ their pampered existence. AS lot
The Mot. that tells the tragedy OF an
rnsophisticated. penniless Southern
army man, fresh from the wilds or 'he
Pbilippines. and of most sophisticated
New York girl, too wise to accept inc
double yoke Of poverty and matrlmoh!'
vet not wise enough to refrain from
loving too well after she has married
zoo wisely. II is in the episode OF sus-
naree when this young woman Is ol-
vidad between love and worldly wlsdom'
that Mr.. Hughes is at his best lie
loves 10 put things strongly however
on s4ronelv as sometimes to CRATE upon
o,,r sensibilities. And when an author
does that. We are apt to suspect MI"
or an error Of taste, and even TO put
tho eusnicion into words, perhaps un-
Justly. Withal, this book seems 10 nave
,bo words best seller" stamped acrosS
its pages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25

educators and sociologists are now so
seriously preoccupied. Then Peter goes
to Adelaide 10 become a woman, and
there she sees, in normal environ
ment. the way Of love with men and
women, and with brain women,
which is the equivalent in the vocabu-
larry Of one Of them, for the modern
woman. The story is told in diary
form, not without skill. Peter is con-
fronted with the usual problem of
girl in her position, discovers the rea.
son OF her fathers misogyny, and ulti-
mately returns to her first love- whom
she had come to hate. The local color
is sufficiently strong to give tang OF
variety TO this antipodean variation or
a now most familiar theme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
FROM AUSTRALIA.

DETER PIPER. BY Doris Egerton
Pr LII hl' ONO, pp Si2. Philadelphia;
George ". Jacobs g. CO.
Peter is a girl who has been allowed
10 grow up as boy in the Australian
hacL blocks by her father, who IL
woman hater. When Peter mas
reached the age Of eighteen she re-
oI,2cs 10 her seemingly irreparapie
loss the danger of growing up IN isho-
-a,ca-- that danger with which our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
uRRENT AMERICAN
AND FOREIGN FICTION
a., Correspondents Picture of the Coming Struggle
Hanged Lives in Novel of New York
Three Women and Their Problems

for il is public opinion on both sides
of tho frontier that ends the carnage.
And in the formation and the increas-
ing compulsion Of that opinion Mr..
Palmer gives mis- heroine wider signif-
canoe as the representative Of modern
womanhood. Ii is not necessary 10 rec
ommend this book; it is sure to be read
widely and more widely az discussion
Of IL spreads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
CAPE GOD FOLKS.

cAp'N DAMS DAUGHTER. By Jo-
seph G. Lincoln illustrated. Emo PIP
$50. n. Appleton & Co
Mr.. Lincoln gives US only brief
glimpse OF Cape Cod in this new story
Of bis. but when he leaves 1t for other
scenes he takes his people win MIN
cpp'n Dan, who retired from the sea AT
bis wife's request and tried TO be a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25
Books 60 AUTHORS 8 REWEWS 80 COMMEND

and his spouse's social aspirations i'm
mediately soar to wider sphere. They
move to town, where the lady forth
with begins to get into deep water
whereas her husband feels stranded,
lonely and bewildered. 1t is then that
their daughter takes matters in hand
teaches her mother lesson, exposes
the insincerity of her new friends, foils
o fortune hunter. and generally puts
things shipshape again. Mr.. Lincoln
understands his people, and sympa-
thizes with them. His humor, ever
kindly, springs from knowledge oi
character. whence the pleasure invari-
ably given by his books.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-25

"The Case Of Mexico and the Policy
Of President Wilson" by Raphael de
Zayas Enriquez. the Mexican poet lau-
reate. was reviewed in these columns
fortnight ago. Another book on the
subject by a prominent Mexican, me
Nevican People: Their Struggle Tor
Freedom" by l.. Gutierrez de Lara ana
Edgcumb Pinchon. is now announced
for immediate publication by Double
dav Page g. Co. Senior de Lara is a
Maxican of DISTINGUISHED family and
a lawyer of prominence. He espouseu
the cause of the common people III
Mexico years ago, and has been one
of the leaders Of the revolution. Diaz
sentenced him 20 be shot, but ne es-
caned in the cab of locomotive. dis
argument is that the Mexican people
must settle their own difficulties WITH
ont intervention by the United states.
MAY sincIsir's New Book.
THE Return of the ProdigaL' a new
book by May Sinclair, is announced d!
the Macmillan Company for puolca-
tion on June II. The volume Will con-
tain several stories Of varying length
Two other announcements Of lmpor-
tant fiction made by this house are
Eden Phillpottss Faith Tresilion' Il
Glory Of a remote village in Cornwall
IN the early nineteenth century, ana 4
new volume of Jack Londons snort
stories The Strength Of the strong.
Ferrero on the High Cost OF Living.
In his forthcoming comparative study
of Ancient Rome and Modern Amer
lea" putin ~. Professor Guguemo
Ferrero Joints out how in the empire
as with us to-day, urbanization rathe"
than an increased production OF gold
or trusts. or tariffs. was the real cause
OF the rising cost Of living. the conn
trvside." writes the Italian historian
"has I'm the last half century been iett
too much to itself and agriculture mas
been too much neglected, exactly as pc
gan to be the case in the Roman I'm
pire nj the beginning Of the second
century Of the Christian era. II 10
easy TO guess what must be the nat
ural result of this lopsided arrange
ment. The cities grow bigger, indus
tries increase in number and in size;
the luxury and the needs OF the masses
crowded together in the cities, aug
ment on the other hand, there is no
nroportionate increase In The produc-
tiveness Of the land. And so the IN
crease in wealth is accompanied By an
increasing scarcity OF the fruits Of the
earth: and the things which serve to
clothe and feed us-cotton, linen, hemp,
wool. cereals. meat. egetables-nearly
oil rise in price much more than do
manufactured goods"
An American War Novel in Eng and.
Frederick Palmer's THE Last SHOT
&c to be published forthwith In England
by Chapman & Hall. 1T is not often
that an American novel IS thus distin-
euished. English publishers usually ar
ranging for the importation OF cgpies
OF the American edition In small guam
titles. or. at best, Of sheets prin'"d
from the American plates TO be bound
over there. Evidently great sale ~
cxpectcd In England for this study or
j tho urobabIe course OF the next war DC