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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Looking like a heather idol made
OF mud. Barney Oldfield drove his
Stutz into the fair grounds at
Phoenix. Ariz, winner of the 673-mile
automobile race from Los Angeles on
elapsed time. Louis Nikrent. No. 8.
was second; Beaudet. No. /, third.
Oldfelds time was %: Oh: So rs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Iowa Corporations.
There were 1,049 corporations form
ed in the state of Iowa during the
year ending Nov 8, 1914, according
to report made by w. s. Allen, Sec
rotary OF state. OF this number 95S
were Iowa concerns and.73 were form
ed in other states, filing copies OF ar
ticles here.
To Prevent Foot and Mouth Disease.
The State Veterinarian has given
out the following suggestions to the
cattle raisers Of Iowa, to assist in the
battle against the dread plague now
threatening the stockmen of the state.
Segregate cattle from infected
herds.
Keep cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses
from ranging on land or highways ira
versed by infected cattle.
Spray creosote and bichloride OF
lime on infected areas
Stay infected animals and bury
them in quick lime.
First Schools In Iowa.
It has been agreed that there were
schools and teachers in Iowa as early
as 1880, when Bergman Jennings
began to instruct in a modest way at
the Nashville settlement In Lee
county. That there were teachers in
active work in Burlington and Du-
buque before the Michigan statutes
were extended over the Iowa country
in 1884 is evidenced not only by eye
witnesses, but also by the written rec
ords. For example, among the early
settlers in Burlington one DR.. w. r.
Ross bears honorable mention.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Dismissal Asked BY state.
John Fletcher, assistant attorney
general, has filed motion to dis
miss the suit brought by the officials
OF Pocahontas county to recover $780,
900 held by the state as the proceeds
OF the sale OF the Rat and Swan lake
beds.
The state asserts that the court
has no jurisdiction. The state can
not be sued without its consent, 1t de-
clares. The department of justice
further sets out that Pocahontas coun-
ty has not produced evidence that 1t
owns the lake beds.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

After giving up all hope of ever be-
ing rescued alive, and entombed for
more than seventy hours in the work
ings Of the Brookside colliery. near
Pottsville. Pa, William Schriner and
William Evans, two coal miners, were
taken alive from the pit in which they
lay exhausted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

The Germans, rallying all along
their 'front.' drove the allies out of
Dixmude and Eloi. south of Ypres,
won distinct advantage at La Bas-
see and captured 5000 soldiers and q
score Of machine guns. Along the
Belgian coast, north of Newport. the
allies have reoccupied Lombertzyde.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

The casualties on both sides prob
ably were heavier than ever before in
engagements at the User. 1t is re-
ported that In one assault the Ger
mans cut down 5000 French. Ger.
mans are reported to have lost 10000
when they captured Dixmude.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19
Domestic

The first cases of foot and mouth
disease in Cuyahoga county were dis
covered at the Cleveland Union stock
yards. Twelve steers. shipped from
Shelbyville, Ind. to Cleveland pack
ing company, were found to be infect
ed with the disease. They were killed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

A dispatch from Odessa to Petrograd
says that the Turkish cruiser Gosben
was struck by a shell at water line
during the recent bombardment of the
Dardanelles by an allied Anglo-French
feet and was badly damaged. This Is
one of the cruisers taken over by Tur-
key from Germany at the outbreak of
. the war.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Passengers arriving at Portland,
Me-, from Halifax, N. s., state that
warlike activity has increased in that
city since the defeat of the British
squadron on the coast of Chile. This
is SO in both naval and military cir
cles. fR 3.tt
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-19

Iowa Farm Statistics.
The State Executive Council recent
ly conferred with the officials of the
department of agriculture regarding
the collection of farm statistics next
year. AS the state sensus will be
taken, the council has taken the duty
of collecting the crop statistics on
the agricultural department. To do
this the blanks as prepared will
serve, with the provisions for report
ing the number of hogs which die in
1914 Of hog cholera. and reporting the
number of silos in use in the state.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
WBookS
In Review

this number are the following: The
Rev. Frederic Campbell, Brookl'-- n.
Y; the Rev Joseph B. Baker, Gettys-
burg. Pa: Professor James Denney,
D. D., Glasgow, Scotland; the Rev.
T. B. McCorkindale, NJ. A, Lakefleld,
Ont
The Sermonic Literature reaches
highwater mark. 1t has sermons by
J. G. Simpson, D. D.. Canon of st.
Pauls London, England, on THE
School of Eternal Love-" the Rev.
John 5. Bunting. Macon, Ga, on THE
Opening of the Soul" the Rev. A. F.
Scott Pearson, Th.D.. Hamilton, Scot
land. ON Ambition" the Rev. Fred
erick F. Shannon, Brooklyn, n. Y, on
"Compensations of Discipleship;"
John hutchinson. DEL, DID,, Ok
ford. England. on THE Demand for
Perfection" Charles Edward Locke,
D. D., Los Angeles. Cal, on What Is
That in Thine Hand
Published monthly by Funk & Wag
nails Company. 354-960 Fourth ave-
nue., New York. IS a year.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28

Nischa Elman viii give his last
violin recital fer this season and pos
EIciy for several seasons 10 come in
Caynesse Hall on sunday afternoon.
.Asreh "a Al g o'clock Despite the
fza< that Mr.. Elman has been heard
1iqre frequently IN NeE York during
fH.s last I'VE years than any other re-
EVE1ed ElolIlis1- his drawing powers
kEssE ne signs Of diminishing. His
z4ssezrznce n the Metropolitan Opera
1ze.sse Or Sunday evening last again
efnphzsized The fact that he stands
acne among al violinists that the
general public want 70 pay their
1ncasx 10 hear
Nine Schumann-Heinck has re-
co5ersd from her recent indisposition
ard re-opened her tour n Hunting
ter, " Va. early this past week.
This afternoon she is giving her an
maui recital in Boston and from now
90, she viii be very busy filing en-
Eagements postponed Her Carnegie
Hall recital has been given up for
this season, there being no available
date at the hall which would fit in
with her tour at this part of the sea-
son. She viii. however, give her
BROOKLYN recital in the Academy of
Music on March 80 also a recital in
the University of New York on Uni
versity Heights on March 81.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
Sdrdis, City of
CrOeSlIS and the
Ancient Midas

There is a river which flows north
ward, eastward, and northward
again, finding it's hazardous way
through the rugged mountains of an
cient Lydia in Asia Minor Its
waters, now scant and limpid, now
voluminous and turbid, are poured
at length into a larger and more
sluggish stream, which, fed by
hundred other snow-born fountains
that descend from the almost per-.
petually snow-clad mountains on the
south, flows westward, in it's turn,
through a broad and fruitful plain,
and then through a narrow defile, to
lose itself and it's yellow hue at last
in the clear expanse of the Bay of
Smyrna, which at this point repre-
sents the Aegean sea.
The smaller river is the ancient
Pactolus-the gold bearing stream Of
classical legend and song-in which
mythical Midas washed to cleanse
himself of the golden touch" and
from which historical Croesus washed
his wealth by the simple process
known as placer mining. For Croesus
was no other than the last king of
the ancient Lydian nation, and the
Pactolus cut in halves the market
pidCt VI ilO itoo d Riiy thdi hooi us, Ills
capital.
The greater river was anciently the
Hermus. Beside its bank the armies
of Xerxes and of Alexander en-
camped. 1t made of the plain of
Lydia a great nations granary and
garden, but it did not appeal to the
poets and the builders of legends as
did it's little mountain arm with the
sands of gold. The snow capped
mountain was Tmolus to the Greeks.
Its rugged Businesses saw the birth
and youthful sports of Pan.
Thus, in few words, we may place
the setting of this story in the
ancient geographical chart, and in the
mythology and legends of the ancient
Greeks.
From "Sardis and the American
Excavations" by Howard Crosby
Butler in Scribner's.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
nomiletic Review.

Professor John II. Coulter, Phi. D.,
of the University of Chicago, begins
in the Homiletic Review for March
the first of a brief series of articles
on the attitude of Jesus in reference
to certain general conditions. The
topic dealt with in this number is on
The Attitude Of Jesus Toward Q
New Religious Movement and
should receive wide and careful at
tention by leaders in the church.
Can anything more be said than
has been said so often on the subject
Of faith and its meaning The an
swer may be found in a notable con-
tribution by the Rev. P. Gavan
Duffy. on Faith as Venture and Ex-
psctation.''
When We come into this world We
enlist under a black flag in a truce
less war. so far as our bodies are
concerned" SAYS Rev. Thomas Ar
thur Smoot of Norfolk, Va. in an
article of deep spiritual insight, en-
titled a Truceless War"
While denial of direct Influence
from Babylonia upon the Hebrew
Bible is steadily maintained by some,
one can not read far in Babylonian
ritual of praise and prayer apart, of
course. from polytheism and aside
from the incantations and magical
texts) without exclaiming-the atti-
tude. the turn of thought and phrase,
recall the Hebrew writings" says
Professor George W. Gilmore in his
interesting article on "Babylonia,
Psalms and lamentations" the second
in the series on the "Ethnic Scrip
tures.'
Among the other contributors to
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
ART OF PALAEOGRAPHY
CONQUERED BY A WOMAN
Wonderful Skill and Patience Shown by Miss Webb in Exam
piles Exhibited by the Newark Museum Assn.

| possible by the indirect method of
| blocking out the letters with a pencil
| and then filling in with ink.
1T is the purpose of the writings
displayed in this exhibit to show the
more distinctive and more beautiful
book hands of several centuries, be-
ginning with the fourth and ending
with the fifteenth. All of the examples
shown were written after Mr.. John
ston's method, free hand, with quill
pen and with no preliminary blocking
out.
OF Ancient Writing.
Nearly all the principal methods
of ancient writing may be d ivded
into square capitals, rounded CAPT
tails and cursiye letters, the square
capitals being termed simply CAPT.
tails, the rounded capitals, uncials and
the small letter, or such as had
changed their form during the crea-
ton of a running hand, minuscule.
Capitals are, strictly speaking, such
letters as retain the earliest settled
form of an alphabet, being generally
of such angular shapes as could con-
veniently be carved on wood or stone,
or engraved in metal, to be stamped
on coins. The earliest Latin manu-
scripts known are written entirely in
capitals, like inscriptions in metal or
marble. The uncial letters, as they
are termed, appear to have arisen as
writing on papyrus or vellum became
common, when many of the straight
lines of the capitals, in that kind of
writing, gradually acquired curved
form, to facilitate their more rapid
execution However this may be,
from the sixth to the ninth, or even
tenth century, these uncials or partly
rounded capitals prevail.
1.-THE modern minuscule, differing
from the ancient cursivs character,
appears to have arisen in the follow
ing manner: During the sixth and sew
enth centuries kind of transition
style prevailed in Italy, and some
other parts of Europe, the letters
composing which have been termed
semi uncials, which, in a further
transition, become more~like those of
the old Roman cursive. This man.
ner, when definitely formed, became
what is now termed the minuscule
manner; it began to prevail over
uncials in certain class of manu-
script about the eighth century, and
toward the tenth its general use was,
with few exceptions. established.
Alfred the Greats Psalter.
It is said to have been occasionally
used as early as the fifth century, but
/ am unable to cite an authentic
existing monument. The Psalter OF
Alfred the Great, written in the ninth
century, is in a small Roman cursive
hand which has induced Casley to
consider 1t the work of some italian
ecclesiastic.'
| Extract from Noel Humphreys
work ION the Origin and Progress OF
| the Art of Writing" in the Art OF
! Illuminating, by w. r. Tymms.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
The Story of
PhaedruS the
Slave Genius

THE Story of Phaedrus: How We
Got the Greatest Book in the World"
BY DR.. Newell Dwight Hills. With
and decorations in col
ors and in black and white.
This, the latest work of the pastor
of Plymouth Congregational Church,
both tells story of immense appeal
and beauty in thought and suggestion
and offers at the same time an inter
esting hypothesis. 1t is published by
the MacMillans. DR.. Hills has in
vaded to good purpose a field which,
strange to say, has been but little
used by fiction writers, and which is
tremendously rich in possibilities.
How were the early Christian
chronicles and books of the New Tes-
lament preserved through the years :?
This is the question which he
has asked himself and which he
answers in a narrative absorbing
from the start. The reader cares not
whether the facts are as the author
presents them; they might have been.
The principal character in the book
is Phaedrus literary slave.
How Christianity first touches him,
it's effect and the labor of love upon
which he ultimately enters and to
Which he gives his entire life is the
theme out of which DR.. Hills builds
a bit of literature that will knit his
many admirers closer to him and will
make him many new friends as well.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
Violin Lecture
RecifaIS i'm the
Public Schools

Mrs. Dora Becker Shaffer will give
her violin-lecture recital on 1.-THE De-
velopment of Violin Literature in the
North Seventh Street School on Mon
day, March 2, and in Morton Street
School on Friday night, March 6.
Henry M. Williamson will be at the
piano.
!. These recitals are under the aus
pices of the board of Education and
are free to the public.
l. Classic period. Contrapuntal form
and polyphonic treatment-Corelli,
1853 1913, La Folia; Tartini, 1692-1770.
Sonata G minor; Bach, 1685-1750, Flu
que; Handel, 16S5-1759. Arioso and
Preludium.
2. intermediate period. Develop
ment of the poetic and expressive
style-Haydn, 17S2-1SO9, Rondo; Mo-
Fart, 1756-1791, Minuett: Beethoven,
1770-1S27, Romance; Spohr, 17S4-1s59,
Adagio; Paganini, 1782-1840, Moses
Fantasia (on G string.
g. Modern period. Virtuoso and YER
satile style-Vieuxtemps, 1S2O-1sS1,
Polonaise; Leonard, 1S19-1890, duetto
(violin alone); Wieniawski, fS35-1SS0.
Mazourka; Brahms, 1888 1897, Joachim,
1881 1907, Hungarian dance; Sarasate,
1874 1908, Spanish dance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
OF
Beethoven
Rubbish
Sohoenberg, at the Parting of
the Ways, Not Yet Coming
Man in Music.

EOR the second time in England,
Herr Arnold Schoenberg's Five
Orchestral Pieces, Opus 16. have been
heard under the direction of the COM
poser himself.
An English musical critic. as a
means of intelligent comparison, re-
fers 10 the work of the Russian COM
{ poser StravinsSy, who, the critic de-
clares, follows lines of his own in
harmony. and who, to express his
peculiar views on religion and philos
sophy, uses music as a medium of
repression, though nothing could be
more unsuited for the purpose.
But, continues the aforesaid critic,
Stravinsky is mild in his innovations
in comparison with Schoenberg. The
latter has come to the parting of the
ways with diatonic harmony, while,
continues the critic. on matters of
form and thematic development he is
a law unto himself.
Herr Karl Linke, in an essay on
Schoenberg, says that 1.-THE rubbish of
centuries" must be removed before
We can listen properly to the COM
poseris later works.
It is enough to say here that not
many wcAld care to disturb this
Rubbish" and that to them the lines
ON which Bach, Beethoven and Wag-
neg achieved their wOndrous harmo-
MES and polyphonic triumphs are too
essential for substitution
{ For the present, then. at least, con-
cludes the critic, Schoenberg is a
voice crying in the wilderness.
But SchCenberg was not always so
uncompromisingly revolutionary. He
has now broken with the past, but
not from the beginning did he de-
cline to be bound by any law, Gus
tom or practice of his predecessors.
At first it might have been supposed
that there was a true spirit of in
dependence in the man, and that time
and the Christening effect of study
would check his extravaganza. But
such expectations were disappointed.
In one early work of Schoenberg's
a stirring sextet, the rhythmic spirit
and certain harmonies pointed to
modern influences. There were also
not few most expressive passages, f
some OF them consisting entirely of 4
diatonic harmonies. But the change f
IN the composers methods has come (
with great rapidity
IN all Schoenberg has composed t
about twenty works, and he is still
urder forty.
His present attitude may be only
q passing phase. and though now he
cannot be wholly and finally judged,
he has certainly not Yet convinced
the musical world that he is the
,pE1ing man
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28

The Evening Star last week pub
lished examples of the work of a
woman as an art photographer. This
week are shown on this page exam
pies of the skill OF a woman as a
photographer. The exposition of the
work of this woman-Miss Elizabeth
II. Webb-like the beautiful photo
graphs of Miss Alice Boughton, is in
the Free Public Library of Newark,
prepared under the auspices of the
Newark Museull Association.
Ruskin's Definition.
Ruskin says that Perfect illumina-
ton is only writing made lovely.
But to make writing itself
beautiful-to make the sweep of the
pen lovely-is the art of illumina-
ton
Taking such a definition as the
proper one to define handwriting, it
is, it appears, quite fitting that the
deft and, as an almost certain rule,
beautiful hand of a woman, should
be devoted to the task of TRANSCRIPT
ing ancient and wonderful specimens
of photography, all of the originals
being in great Libraries or in the
priceless collections of men of millions
who are connoisseurs.
The antiquity of the origin of the
art of handwriting spring not from
Photographic or hieroglyphic alpha
bette signs, is so great that scholars
have almost given up hope of def
nitely determining it, but such dates
as 5000 or 5000 years B. C. are sug-
gested.
I shall quote freely from the cat
alogue of the transcriptions of Miss
Webb to explain to the reader the
value of such an exposition in in
forming the public thus.
Art of Beautiful Writing.
Thus the catalogue prepared by Mr.
Dana, the librarian of the Newark
Free Library, says:
"Calligraph, the art of beautiful
writing, as it has been called, died
out with the invention of printing in
the fifteenth century. The first per-
son of modern times to revive it was
William Morris, who made a study
OF the most admired examples of the
best periods and used his knowledge
in the making of printed as well as
manuscript books
I'm recent years Edward Johnston,
of London, has further revived the
craft. He is teaching it by the direct
method instead of by the laborious
and indirect method of copying the
texts of old manuscripts. His theory
is that with the same tool which the
old writers used, a quill pen so cut
as to give strokes like those found in
old manuscripts, and by a careful
study of each stroke made in forming
letters and by long and patient prac-
tise, present-day writing can disclose
the same freedom and feeling, can be
as sensitive to the writer's power and
"a ~ ans he a
beauty as did the old.
.'These results are obviously i'm
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28

Mrs. Margaret l.. Woods. whose
Collected Poems" have just been
published by John Lane Company, is
the wife of DR.. Woods, who was mas
ter of Trinity College, oxford. An
American author writes: she came
down Holywell street to call on me
once in a carriage that the little
street would hardly hold between its
walls and when the distance to her
house was but a few rods l after
wards called on her in the college
and she talked to me on the sofa for
an hour in a literary Londonish dia-
lect that was utterly incomprehens-
ible to me- 1t was fun, however, to
hear and see her
"Soon after that they left oxford
to go to live in the Welsh mountains.
He resigned the place in oxford for
her sake, so that she might go where
she could better write. She wrote
some novels; then a volume of won
derful misty and mystical verse, quite
new in manner. l love it intensely"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
The Greatest Man.

The question who is the Greatest
Man in History" was answered re-
Gently by several prominent writer's
in the pages of the Boston Globe.
Bouck White, whose we'll known
book, "The Call of the Carpenter" is
shortly to be followed by a. sequel.
THE Carpenter and the Rich Man,
writes thus:
81 vote for Jesus as the greatest
man in history. Other men had
thrones and armies and splendor OF
family descent as the pedestal and
prop of their power; but my hero
wrought in a carpenters shop and
made it a fulcrum from which He
pried the round world out of its orbit
and raised it to higher issues
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28

This powerful and interesting story
deals with the so-called feminist
problem from fresh and convincing
angle. The chief character In tbs
story is girl who hesitates long b.
tween love and what she conceives
to be the larger duty. but eventually
finds a way to reconcile the two; but
the book is more than the story'of
single character. There are oth2-
women in the book whose lives take
different courses. There have been
few stories of this absorbing move
ment written from a fuller knowledge
of contemporary life and with "a
deeper insight into humanity.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-28
Hourhton- Mifiln postponements.

The Houghton-Mifflin Company an
nounce that the following books,
originally scheduled for publication
on February .2S, have been postponed
until early in March: Our Friend,
John Burroughs" by DIR. Clara Bar
rus;N 1.-THE Japanese Empire by t.
Philip Terry; Poems of Walter Con-
rad Arensberg; 1.-THE Passing of En-
pire," by II. Fielding Hall THE
First Step" by Eliza Orne White;
paul Verlaine,' by Wilfred Thorley;
Commodore George Hamilton Per-
kins, u. s. NJ; His Life and Letters"
by Carroll Storrs Alden; Lost Dia-
ries," by Maurice Barring, and I'm the
High Hills" a volume of short poems
by Maxwell Struthers Burt