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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-25
BERT's BURGLAR.
Copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure NswD.
paper Syndicate.)

Copyright. 1916, by the Mcclure lew
paper Syndicate.)
When Bert Harlan came home from
school on the last day of the session
he found his father busy unlocking
something In the front hall. The
thing was finally put together and
there 1t stood. a fine set OF old Jap.
anese armor.
The set was that Of some soldier
who had lived many hundred years
ago.. 1t was made Of brass and red
silk. with heavy leather trimmings.
and the h%eadpiece or helmet was u gor.
geous affair with a waving plume on
top.
Gee. but that's a peach!" laughed
Bert. 1T just about fits me. Here's q
battle sword that goes with it, and he
f1shed up a quaint old kind OF q
Ratchet from the bottom of the box,
In a few moments Mr.. Harlan had the
figure all mounted and standing at the
arms was held up by means of a wire
and in the hand was the shining
sword. After tea Mr.. Harlan and hia
wife went to the theater. II will not
be home before H." said he. on see
Ing Bert reading by the library lamp
SO take good care Of the house."
Don't worry" laughed Bert. with
OH0 w " ~
so hercely in the hall l should think 1t
would take a pretty brave man to
come In alone. Don't hurry will
read here till YOU come back"
Bert sat in the quiet room deep In
his book till after 10. Then he turned
But he could not sleep, for outside he
heard footsteps on h gravel walk.
Nearer and nearer the sound came,
then the sound Of steps softly tipping
on the porch till they reached the
door. Then Bert remembered that he
had forgotten to lock the door Quick
ly the steps entered, and he heard q
mans heavy breathing. So Bert made
a dive and crawled under the sofa.
thinking it best to watch how things
We're going on. The man came into
the room and switched on the electric
light; then he walked back into the
dining room and began to gather up
table cloth on the floor and tumbling
the knives. forks and spoons into it.
Ihen Inc robber went to the cabinet
IN the sitting room n took out some
valuable bits of antique jewelry, got
q pair of silver candlesticks from the
mantei and put a tiny gold statue
In with the other plumber. Bert saw
all this. but kept quiet. Yet when
Inc man Went on another trip to the
sitting room the boy darted out from
beneath the lounge into the dark hall.
He knew that the next move of the
mar would be to go for anything Of
value in the bedrooms. and he formed
a plan to trap the burglar nicely. So
he opened the sides OF the Japanese
armor and crept in it. 1t hid him com
pletely. blu through the eyeholes Of
the helmet he could see everything
the burglar did.
Just as Bert expected. the man pres
emily went upstairs and in a few min
utes began to descend. AS the bur.
~sx - y
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

These books should be read by all who
would know the worlds best literature and
life. The Bureau of Education therefore has
chosen them for its first course in reading,
and we have been very pleasantly surprised
to note that the majority of persons who have
evinced interest in this movement have IN
ouired particularly about the bibles and their
supplements, the literary masterpieces. We
have been of the opinion that tn; majority OF
people would find these selections little
heavy for their reading and would prefer the
works listed under the fiction heading. But
nearly every inquiry which has reached US
from adults has specified that the writer de-
sired particularly to familiarize himself with
the first two courses.
ITO every one who inquiries concerning the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

persons who have already evinced interest in
this movement apply themselves to the work
which we have mapped out the improvement
in the literary taste OF the country at large Will
be marked"
In discussing the first of these courses DR..
Claxton said: Among all the books OF the
world a few are so pre- eminent for content
and style that they deserve the right to be
called the great literary bibles the founda-
ton stones upon which rests the entire lit
erature of the world of whatever language or
age.
These are the Tliad' and ODYSSEY of
Homer, the Divine Comedy Of Dante, the
greater dramas of Shakespeare-'The Mer-
chant of Venice Macbeth Hamlet and
'Othelo'-and Goethes Faust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
Reading Gives Diplomas
oRaieNh Standard in America

course we send a blank, to be filled out ana
kept as a record in Washington, and list OF
the books Of the special courses designated.
We advise that the reading begin as soon as
possible and that, when possible, the books be
taken in the order named. But this is not
essential to the obtaining of the certificate OF
merit given by the government in lieu OF the
usual college or university diploma or degree
when the student completes the entire course
and submits satisfactory evidence OF having
read all the books on the first two lists within
three years from the time of joining the read
ing circle.
"The second course is intended as a supple
ment to the first and includes nine books:
Job, Isaiah, Deuteronomy, 'Prometheus Bound
of Kschyus,' Virgirs 'Eneid,' The Nibelun-
genlied, Cervantes's Don Quixote, num-
Der of plays by Moliere and Millions Para
disc Lost
"Completion of these two courses will firmly
ground the student in what are usually known
as the classics and will enable him the better
to appreciate the other and lighter reading to
be found in the other lists.
The reading course tor parents winch Is
under the direct supervision Of Miss Ellen {.
Lombard, secretary of the home educational
division. includes number Of books dealing
with problems OF everyday life in the home
The volumes on this list include books on
practical motherhood, marriage, development
OF children, care Of babies. domestic economy,
shelter and clothing domestic science and
number of the pamphlets and bulletins issued
by the Department OF Agriculture and dealing
with the canning and preserving OF fruits and
vegetables.
The boys course includes few of the more
exciting OF the books upon the lists OF Ameri-
can literature and worlds fiction, and in addi-
ton such books as Hans Brinker,' The Jungle
Book Westward Ho! biographies OF Lincoln,
Lee and Franklin addresses by Lincoln and
Washington, Cleveland Moffetts Careers OF
Danger and Daring and Bulhnchs Age OF
Chivalry' The careful perusal OF these books
will, we feel sure pay large dividends not only
upon the moral character OF the boy himself,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

IF we don't send back good story by cable
they'll want to know why we are here.
That accounts for all the silly melodrama l
have read as war news" l ventured
We'll, they will have it. The big fellows set
the pace Take W. KS story of the battle OF
Y He got it, every word, in the Savoy bar
without leaving England. AS for Willy B."
Che named famous war correspondent'O The
was never in Rheims at all. l met him fifteen
miles out trying to get away, and you know
his eyewitness story Of the first bombardment
and burning of Rheims? Honest!" The pair
once started gave me the inside of many
big war stories" gathered in barrooms, cafes,
railroad stations, many, many miles from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

scenes they were supposed to relate. saw
that much of what the public has been absorb
ing as authentic war correspondence" is
merely gossip dressed up cheaply with conven-
tional inventions.
They may give the American public what it
wants to read" sighed. But they are poor
novests they lack invention, and copy from
each other
"P. is the worst of the bunch" they con-
tinued. ~ think l can safely say that am the
only correspondent who ever had battery
fred for him." they mimcked. And they went
on with stories of the great Willy B., who
spnt uncomfortable days in Belgian prison
because his Uniform resembled too closely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

server had noticed no troop movements IN tie
opposite front They are Smelling ever m the
Argonne. Bots lie Pretre seems to be getting
it to-day'-that is about the extent OF exact
inforrra alton OF the outside which can be Cd
tanned at any one point of the vast front
It will take years really to know what mas
been going on this last year in military way,
and then much must be left in obscurity be-
cause the whole truth has been divided into SO
many small portions known to many different
men, hard to assemble. Yet i'll the way OF
human interest there has been vast deal OF
the best sort OF war stuff not in the eaoled
and written stories from newspaper CORE
spondents-more intimate and personal than
those. refer to the letters from the soldiers,
great many of which have found their way
into print in English and French, many Of them
individually literature in the raw, VITAL lifelike,
poignant, with marked absence Of the trite
features of the journalists story. have read
hundreds of these unprecedented records in
the French newspapers, and | recommend
them to any Americans really DESTROYS OF
knowing what war is like.
The French novelist Henri Bordeaux has
preserved two sets of these letters in couple
of magazine articles on the nature OF French
youth as revealed by this war. The letters tell
the stories of two young officers, twenty and
twenty-five years old, who had their first OK
perience of war last August. From time to
time, as they had the chance in their exhaust
ing days, they wrote home what was happen
ing to them on the retreat from Belgium, in
the battle OF the Marine, and later along the
Aisne. They are very simple and honest, these
letters to their homes, but they reveal char
acter, and also tell briefly and wildly what was
happening TO the individual soldier during the
terrible first days Of the war. One can realize
from their hurried words the agonies, the Ell
forts the fears of that first shock of war.
This war is great enough to command all the
truth that any man has in him, also all his hu-
nlility. quality in which the professional war
correspondent does not seem strong. Merely
seeing Things is not enough. Any life must be
lived to be understood. Only those who in
some active service have taken part in this war
drama can ever give an adequate account of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
The Best War Stuff Has Come
from the Pens of Soldiers,
Individually Literature i'm
the Raw, i'm the T Orm Of
Personal Letters TO
Their Loved Ones

the Paris agent of large newsgetting syndi-
cate. say with pride "P. and had narrow
squeak out in that observation post-a bullet
struck just between US" Then | understood
These two accomplished journalists were max
ing up their story, which. in slightly dihereht
versions would in few days jolt the languid
pulses of American readers at their breakfast
tables The next day the solitary bullet had
grown to hail of mitrailleuse. No doubt
before it got over the cable the myth had
grown into terrible battle in which we had
assisted" The last afternoon OF our stay at
the front we had emerged from the tresome
communication trench and were hling singly
down long valley over which German shells
were whistling into the wood beyond, as is
their wont at this hour of the day, when both
sides are stirring to get supplies, and men are
coming and going, and the batteries take up
the eternal hunt for the positions OF the enemy
What with the groups Of soldiers gathered
about their earth homes for the evening meal,
with the nnutter of distant thunder and the
whine of big shells overhead, the scene was
sufficiently large without the garnishment OF
cheap invention. But my two friends were
still at their myth making: IF that German
battery just dropped their range bit 1t
wouldn't be so comfortable getting back to the
cars" one said. 1T looks as if they might land
on the motors" the other suggested. Did you
hear that one? 1t was short-they are get
ting nearer Perhaps they've seen something.
So the game went on. Now l understand
how old legends were built up, Just like the
war news we read every morning. When we
were safely and comfortably installed IN the
waiting moto1car l began to chaff my two
newspaper friends or the myth they were con-
coctiag of our terrible adventures One said;
at would look differently to you if you had to
send several columns of cable stuff every few
days. must get 10000 words out OF this trip
to the front"
81 can't see Anything to cable about" pro-
tested Nothing like news has happened
where we have been these five days. We've
seen tremendous lot 1t has been wonderful,
all Of it, but no news"
They laughed pityingly at me. You don't
understand the game" they explained gently.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

that OF all English officer of another who
cabled the only story" Of an acroplane drill.
The car rolled on swiftly through little vii
lagos filed with resting soldiers from the
trenches. with motor and horse transport N
endless procession cavalry troop passed US
on the trot The chauffeur put on high speed
as we crossed an exposed hill top. Shells
grumbled behind us. an aeroplane circled the
sky above 1t seemed large savage, grand
enough for any enc just as it was, without one
shred of melodramatic invention.
After listening to these two experienced
journalists, after reading many OF the stories
from the front" | have come to the frm belief
that no correspondent or civilian writer has
witnessed any real battle of this war; has ever
assisted" in any real movement, trench battle,
open battle, stormng of town, ETC. They have
all faxed" more or less obviously.
The lines are we'll drawn about the Euro
pean prize fight. The correspondents have
not been able to wriggle through the first zone
of police and gems d'arme far from the fronts
UNLESS escorted by an officer, in which case
good care is taken that the civilian shall see no
real fighting. 1t is a secret war, as 1t has
been called. The authorities do not intend to
be bothered by the outside public. And they
are right War has outgrown that neutral
anomay the war correspondent. The front is
TO place for the reporter. He is in the way.
He is a nuisance. Even when it is safe
enough for you," staff officer explained,
your coming into the trenches even on calm
day like this is likely to attract attention. and
the troops get it after you have passed on. It's
hardly fair to them?' Certainly not.
Even if by accident the reporter should find
himself present during some action, he would
not know enough to know what it means, still
less what significance it had in relation with
the vast whole Even the commanding officers
at the front are astonishingly ignorant OF all
that goes on beyond their own little sectors.
They form singularly erroneous conclusions,
as when / was assured by a colonel that the
Germans were running out of ammunition be-
cause on his line they had temporarily slack
ened the bombardment, and again that the Ger
man lines were thin because certain OBJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

The Great Literary Bibles
The ''Iliad'' and Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth
Hamlet
"Othello'
Faust" (Goethe)
Masterpieces of Litera-
ture
Anna Karenina
With Fire and Sword
The Three Musketeers
Les Miserables
"Pere Goriot
Adam Bede'
"Clarissa Harlowe
David Copperheld
Guy Mannering
Henry Esmond
'lvanhoe
Lorna Doone
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Pride and Prejudice
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

The Bureau Of Education is at the head OF
this university OF literature, university where
the sole cost of tuition is to evince interest in
the lessons. university which confers certih-
Gates of merit in lieu of degrees and guaran-
tees that all students will receive Dement'S IN
direct ratio to their application
DR.. P. P. Claxton, Commissioner OF Educa-
ton. is the man who is at the head OF the
literature movement and from all indications
the course will be an exceptionally popular
one.
1--WE are receiving scores OF applications
every day from persons who desire to snare
in the benefits of our reading courses Dr.
CLAYTON told me when / inquired as to the re-
snonse which the movement was meeting with
"If the applications continue to come IN at
their present rate-and there is hardly day
that does not show an increase over the day
before-we shall be hard put TO handle all the
correspondence attached to the courses Tnu
Congress will have to make additional appro-
nr;ations for the betterment OF the literary
taste OF the people.
eft was in order to bring about this better
ment in the taste Of the reading pubic con-
t;nued Dr. Claxton, that the Bureau OF Edu-
cation decided to institute this series OF courses
IN literature At present we have ten divisions
of the main course mapped out. These are:
"The great literary bibles.
MASTERPIECES of the worlds literature
"A reading course for parents
miscellaneous reading for boys.
miscellaneous reading for girls.
Thirty books of great fiction.
"Some of the worlds heroes.
american literature.
Biography.
History.
"Seven of these courses have been COM
Melted and we are engaged in answering hun
dreds of queries concerning them. The other
three will be finished in a short time, and then
the government will be in position 10 do
most human thing-to tell persons OF every
age what they ought to read il they desire to
improve their minds. That OF course, IS the
urinary object OF this literary course, and we
firmly believe that if only a fraction OF ne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
Books Recommended by the Government

Robinson Crusoe"
Tale of Two Cities
"Cloister and the Hearth
Vanity Fair
Vicar of Wakefield"
"Romola
The Luck Of Roaring Camp
The Last Of the Mohicans
The Scarlet Letter
The Pilot
Treasure Island
American Literature
The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table
Two Years Before the Mast
Emerson Essays
Poe's Gold Bug
Henry James, The American
o. Henrys -Four Million
Ben Hur'
Tom Sawyer"
''iiuckleberry Finn
The Man Without a Country
The Marble Faun
Reign of Law"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

DR.. p. p. Ciaxton, Commissioner of
Education, Is in Charge of the Re-
Gently Inaugurated Course in Lifera-
ture.
but upon the future welfare OF the country a,
large.
THE girls course includes only one or two
of the books recommended for boys, but it
parallels the other course in that it advocates
the reading OF selected few of the worlds
masterpieces OF fiction and the more juvenile
of the American authors works. Alice in
Wonderland Little Women The Mill on
the Floss 'Evangeline, Helen Keller's story
of her life and four books dealing with house
furnishing, the preparation OF food and the
physical side of girlhood and womanhood arc
among the other books recommended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

Another time was peeping through loop
hole in trench on the crest Of hill at the
nesrest German position. Not fifty metres
away" an officer whispered. l was thinking
Of all tie eyes. German eyes, which were fixed
on our ditch. of all the murderous desires over
there behind that pile of sandbags so close to
us. and was also wondering just how long it
would be safe TO stare through the hole, yet
was too fascinated by the silence and the near
ness TO leave the spot when heard G., who is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

WYE were slipping along through the
W. muddy boyau, somewhere in the ia
w nous Bots Brule. The bare tree
trunks overhead had been stripped OF all toll
age during ten months Of constant shell and
rife fire. The narrow trench turned and
twisted with apparent aimlessness in and out
through this ravaged forest 1t seemed end
less We had been at it an hour already, with
heads prudently bent, for French trenches are
not made for men six feet high. With lncreas-
ing frequency came the soft ping or Hop OF
rife bullets striking stones or trees or the
sides Of the trench with certain quiet inten-
s;tv. They were evidence of the hidden enemy
somewhere beyond the coils OF this endless
ditch. II rained. too, which did not make the
going better, and all the time there was the
,yhir Of German shells shooting across into the
Scared wood behind and the sharp answer OF
the French seventy -fives"-it was war, as
much war as any civilian is likely to see on the
western front. where the lines are as carefully
roped off from spectators as prize hight. And
il had its great significance. was thinking OF
this enormous battle line Of FIVE hundred miles
on which two titanic wrestlers had struggled
for ten long. desperate months without either
one being able to push or throw the other
when NY attention was caught by low con-
versaton ahead of
Did you hear that bullet just back of me-"
P asked.
Which one?" l replied innocently. P. rep
resents a great metropolitan newspaper-he
was at the front for color" He looked at me
disgustedly. I did not know feature" when
saw it, or heard it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
By Robert Herrick

WYE were slipping along through Oh the IN
W. muddy boyau, somewhere IN the Ia
w nous Bots Brule. The bare tree
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-04-09

IN the great square would look Inc
IN a rage. He was between 'he p,o
nlo in a passion for retFibutloh al,' a
headless army that was suppoSeu "
charge across the frontier at oa"n.
"Tbe thing is sheer madness! nc
u;oa YES INSTRUMENTATION! III nave
u snnnressed! The army must go On
70 crafty public demand. III sno"
tho staff that they are not in the
saddle They'll obey orders.
He tried to get Lanstron on the long
distance. o.,,oa /"
"sorry but the chief has retired
answered the officer on duty sleepy
, an fact, all the rest of the stan nave
with orders that they are not TO DC
disturbed before ten"
Tell them that the premier 'he
head of the government, their com
mander, is speaking,"
Yes, sir. The orders not TO dIS'ufi
them are quite positive, and as u
Nor could not do SO except hy the'
orders as superiors. The chief, oelor'
retiring, however, repeated to me- IL
case any inquiry came from yon' ST
that there was nothing he couid au
N the staTs message to the natio
and the army. 1t is TO be gwen u III