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!, ing a studio in New York. Mr.. Mac
monnies has lately finished some Work X
that he was doing for the New YORK
public library. and it was, in part, ms
desire to see this properly placed which
brought him back from France, though
France is not cheerful place for
artists now.
Mr.. Macmonnies is the sculptor of the
statue of Nathan Hale, which stands
in City Hall Square, New York. and is
one of the finest portrait statues We
have in this country-a statue more
than tinged with romance. and one
which makes the passerby pause. His,
also. was the superb Columbian foun-
tain at the exposition in Buffalo, which
unfortunately has never been put in
permanent form, as well as numerous
well to have such artists return to
America to lend impetus. and perhaps
balance. to our progress in art.
THE exhibition set forth by the
Sketch Club in the Clarke galleries
is varied and colorfu1. The sketches are
IN dlnerent mediums-water colors, oils,
pastels. pencil and crayon and have
been made in many places. by the sea
and among the hills. Some, indeed, have
local interest. Miss Burdette is repre-
sented by celorful pictures of the steps
at the head of ed street when 1.-THE
rhododendrons were in bloom and by
a sketch made in the White House
grounds showing bit of the Executive
Mansion. Mrs. Leisenring contributes,
with other things. a very charming
transcription Of a city gateway looking
into a lovely sun-steeped garden. There
is no catalogue and the names of the
artists are by no means conspicuously
placed, but to one familiar with these
artists work Identification is not diff
cult.
The exhibition continues through the
present week.
TsHE exhibition of paintings and
u sketches by William H. Holmes at
the Moore Gallery is stimulating and
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was baby. Aunt Jean was her slave.
Her handsome father was her pride
and her pal. Under this set of cir
cumstances there was nothing sur
prising in the fact that at the very
last moment this whimsical young per-
son absolutely refused to go to Eu-
rope with grandfather and Aunt Jean,
declaring her determination at the
same time to go down and live with
Daddy" instead on Craigen street.
Now Craigen street is a slum corner of
East New York. where James Burke
lived for the sake of finding out a few
important things about folks who live
in the Craigen streets of all big cities.
With Amy and her father and old
Ellen settled here the story of "Burk-
eses Amy begins. The theme of this
engaging story is what the rough but
keen and friendly Craigen street did
to Amy Burke. granddaughter of the
great Alexander Guthrie. To have the
little 1nskys and Ovitches beating her
at every turn-at school, at play. in
any small enterprise set -going-was
blow to Amy Burke. But being of
the right stuff after all. in spite of
such prodigious spelling, Amy finally
rights herself up and forges ahead
with the best in manner that makes
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king. So far as the purposes of this
story are concerned. however. Hoods
soldering is merely the matter of a
captains uniform, a fact that contrib
utes distinctly to the successful busi-
ness of Don Juan-ing. Amy Dorset is
quite old enough to know better. She
is a woman of thirty-five. But it takes
good deal Of schooling to teach idle
women to know better about any num-
ber of very important things. So Amy
Dorset is the speaking likeness of a
grown woman behaving after the man.
ner of a girl in her teens under the
dominion of her first passion. 1t is the
frank and whole hearted devotion of
Cloudesley Dorset and Lawrence Crox-
ley to the cause of Amy's genuine we'll
being and Happiness that makes this
story, save for the bright manner of it's
sayings and the lifelike portrayal of its
characters. at all worth the readers
while. Birds Fountain" is merely the
name of the obscure place in which the
climax of this episode in the life of
Amy Dorset is reached. This is the
place in which she comes to-" so to
speak.
THE FAMOUSsCITIES OF IRELAND.
BY Stephen Gwynn. With illustra-
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it had there been but that one. This
is essentially worthy of note, for it is
as it should be. Suppose, some day,
some fragments of our cotemporary
sculpture are found, would they
worthily represent our culture? So did
the sculpture of the Greeces, but unless
standards deteriorat>, there are COM
paratively few of our present monu-
ments which, in fragmentary state,
headless or armless, would find inclu-
sion in collections of art.
Mr.. Bartlett also has recently COM
the public library in New York. These
represent Philosophy. Romance. Relfg-
ion. Poetry. Drama and History. The
first and the last are bearded meh, the
other four are women These figures,
while allegorical. are by no means
coldly classic. but in spirit and aspect
are essentially modern, and represent
not Greek goddesses. but the women
of today-women of all time.
Mr.. Bartlett has been commissioned
by one of the smaller colleges to exc
cute a statue of Alexander Hamilton,
a ommission which, on account of the
personality of the subject, was too al
Turing to be declined. even though Mr..
Bartlett has no fondness for the max
ing of portrait statues. This will
doubtless be modelled in his studio here.
FREDERICK MACMONNIEs has re-
turned to this country. after long
residence abroad, and is now occupy
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tional sentiment are combined in the
cover with its gilt tracings blazoned
on green.
WOOD AND STONE: Romance. BY
John Cowper Powys. author of
visions and Revisions." etc New
York: G. Arnold Shaw.
, The purpose underlying this narra-
tive is to open up. the suggestion that
the heart OF the outcast, OF the ILL.,
conditioned. of any one Of the victims
of fate, may be as interesting at least
as is the heart of the greatest of des-
tiny's favorites. To embody this sug-
Gestion in dramatic form the writer
weaves story into the fabric of life
IN corner of England. In pursuit of
ms purpose Mr. Powys gives the lead
ing parts in this story to variants of
the fll-constituted" class with which
ms thesis has to do. Less convention
aiized than their "betters' in the social
scale, these reveal with greater free
dom their real thoughts. their true
motives, their secret passions, COMFORT
ing themselves also in harmony with
TINS more open inner life. This is a
theme OF big promise, a theme which
more than one of the Russian writer's
mas brought TO triumphant fulfillment
MT. Powys. however, is not easy with
this subject He labors it, Until II
is Wen under way he is the essayist,
reluctant apparently to let the char
acters out of his restraining hand, re-
luctant to launch them upon the full
tloe OF dramatic action. While he is
thus delaying to swing them off, the
readers interest flags past complete
renewal. 4 brilliant essayist, Mr.
foWys has not succeeded. here at least,
In being an equally brilliant novelist.
LITTLE PIERRE AND BIG PETER. BY
Ruth Ogden, author of Little Home
spun, etc. illustrated in color by
Maria l.. Kirk. New York: Fred
erlck A. Stokes Company
This is an engaging story of friend
snip between little boy and a bic.
inan-one the son of an Alpine guide
the other famous American surgeon
SET in the beautiful Alpine country.
the story moves crisply along in the
characteristic work and play of that
region, with little Pierre and bie
Peter the center of all sorts of excit
ing experiences. The whimsical boy
lsnness OF Peter and the grave pre-
coclty OF Pierre bring the pair to a
common level of love and comradery
Long and serious talks between the
Two Dring out a fresh fund of captiyat
ing numor These, too. uncover also
very delicate and winning kind of syrn
pathv. Boys and girls. even those of
sIo"n-up age, will gather genuine
pleasure out of this bright and hannv
story.
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I offices comprising one large room,
measuring twenty-seven by seventeen
feet and two smaller ones, each
measuring fifteen by fourteen feet. all
with the same number Of rooms was
given over to the use of the attorney
general.
| According to the first Blue Book"
the total forces of the government at
that time numbered only 128. OF these,
the Treasury boasted seventy-five, the
| War Department, seventeen; the Navy
| Department, sixteen; the Post Office De-
| Dartment, ten, and the Department of
State, eight. The annual budget, in
cluding salaries of the heads of the
departments, totaled only $125,SS1, an
average of less than $1,000 per annum.
The pitiful salaries were not all of
the troubles of the early government
imakers. Bitter disappointments were
, in store for them, for what they
! had been given to understand they
wouIdNsee. on reaching the new capital.
and what actually met their eyes was
vastly different and probably most dis
lhearteninS.
| For many months. a sketch of the
city. as drawn by Maj. L'Enfant. fore
most man of his profession, had hung
behind the Speakers chair in the House
of Representatives in Philadelphia.
That sketch showed stately buildings,
broad avenues, handsome residences
in. short, a city beautifully complete
and completely beautiful.
But. sadly enough, that beauty
was all on paper. John Cotton
Smith of Massachusetts,, member of
the first House of Representatives
which sat in Washington. gives very
fair idea of his own and his colleagues
feelings on the subject. After de-
! scribing the city a wide stretch of
muddy desolation," he continues:
Nor was the desolation of the place
little augmented BY number of un-
finished edifices on an eminence, a
short distance from it, commenced by
an individual whose name they bore
but the state of whose funds COM
PEELED him to abandon them. not only
unfinished, but In a ruinous condition."
Gen. Washington, even in the dark
city's first birthday he wrote: Il pre-
dict that in time it will become the
foremost city of the country-not alone
lin usefulness but in beauty"
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ject. criticising the entire procedure
from first to last.
"Will it not be asked" he wrote
why are spectators to pocket SO
much money? Are not the commits
sioners as competent to make bar
gainso"
The actual removal of the govern
ment to Washington began June 15,
1900. it being deemed advisable to al
low ample time for transportation. 1t
was not a very formidable transfer
In an aged. yellow document, one of
the first residents of the city declares
that "a single packet sloop brought all
the office furniture of all the depart
ments, besides seven large boxes and
four or five smaller ones which con-
tanned all the archives Of those de-
partments. The vessel docked at the
foot of what is now 25th street.
The city. once reached, was not in
spiring. 1t boasted only about 5000
residents, and most of these were la
borers and, artisans. There were a
grand total of 1862 houses, 109 of brick
and 253 of frame. OF the proposed
public buildings. only one was ready
for occupancy.
For many weeks the government was
hard put to find a place to lay its
weary head. Only the north wing of
the Capitol had been completed. and
SO both houses of Congress had to meet
there. Furniture had been ordered in
abundance. but it was late in arriving.
The Presidents house was almost bare.
A building had been erected at the
southwest corner of the White House
grounds and had been originally in
tended as the home of the War Depart
ment. The Treasury Department then,
as now, was far and away the larger,
and so it promptly took over the build
ing for it's own use. The War Depart
ment finally succeeded in leasing a
building on the south side of pennsyl-
vania avenue between 21st and 22d
streets northwest.
The Post Office Department rented a
house for $500 per annum, at what is
now the corner of 9Th and e streets
northwest. A letter from one of the
clerks of the department. written
shortly after his akfival, describes the
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newspaper ridicule. Cartoons were
sent broadcast picturing the capital on
wheels. being hauled about by team
of scrawny mules.
Even when the present location was
almost settled upon there arose an
other hitch. Maryland. determined to
be the donor, passed resolution, on
December 20. 1888. presenting the gov
ernment with ten square miles OF her
territory. At the next session of the
Virginia legislature a similar resolu-
| tion was passed, presenting the same
| amount of territory OF the Old Do
minion.
Which to accept was then the ques-
was the ultimate in tact. Congress
decided to accept both, and July Is,
1890, authorized the President to ap-
, point three commissioners who were to
survey the land. mark 1t on into lots,
sell real estate and use proceeds In
erecting public buildings.
Thomas johnson and Daniel Carroll
OF Maryland and Daniel Stewart OF
Virginia were the three commissioners
chosen by the President; They were
| TO work Immediately. but their prog
ress was painfully slow.
Right at the beginning the entire
project threatened to collapse as re-
| suit Of injudicious real estate par
gaining. Foreseeing the future growth
of the city. Robert Morris. the first
great financier; James Greenleaf.l one
of the first residents of the city, and
John Nicholson of Virginia organized
ceeded to buy up vast quantities of
land which was sold to them at ridicu-
! lousy low figures on condition that
they improve every third lot OF their
| holdings with residences. The syndi-
cate paid for most of its land with
| notes, which they expected to meet by
| selling smaller portions of their hold
| ings at a good profit.
The profits were more than realized
SO much so, in fact, that George
| Washington, noting the purchase of
| lots by these men for $50 each and the
| disposal of the same. within twelve
| months, at $292.50 each, wrote a letter
! to Commissioner Carroll on the SUBJ
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,encouraring from two viewpoints
first, inherently, for the work is spiritea
and accomplished, and second, because
it is apparently being appreciated
there have been many purchasers
Wherever Mr.. Holmes has gone, Wner-
ever his scientific interests and duties
have led him. he has always taken win
him his color box and brushes ana re-
turned with fresh data and new I'm :
pressions swiftly but accurately recoru-
ed. 1t is these little pictures done en-
route which make the major portion n
of this exhibition. and they are ,nition iuit -,
interest and charm. This exhioitioh
will also continue until next sunday.
NET EDNESDAY evening Carroll BECK
wv with of New York will give
lecture here, under the auspieces OF the
washington Society of Fine Arts, on
versailles" This lecture. which Is the
second in the regular members course,
will be given in the auditorium OF the
National Museum and is to be Illus
|trated by Lumiere slides-photographs
made in color from the objects which
will show with remarkable beauty the
enchantment of this loveliest OF places.
Mr.. Beckwith is best known as
PAINTER of portraits. He is. however,
represented in our National Gallery by
a dramatic painting Of the statue OF
Napoleon keeping guard over Paris and
by a figure study entitled The Black
smith" He and Sargent were Fellow
students in the studio of Carolus Duran
in Paris and assisted him on his deco
rations for the Luxembourg Palace.
One of the reactionists of that day, he
is one of the conservatives OF today,
but his horizon is not limited and his
viewpoint is invariably that of the ar
tist.
THE winter exhibition of the Nation
u al Academy of Design opens this
week in the Fine Arts building, New
York The private view and reception
will be held Friday.
LEILA MECHLIN
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of human knowledge. Under this par
t1cular guidance he is constrained TO
throw away cherished traditions, to add
new elements, and this he does when
ever the case is clear for either re-
lection or acceptance. The outcome is
the clear essence of that with which
he set out. 1t is belief in God, dis
titled from an amazing clutter of SUI
perimposed theories and conjectures.
This fact Of getting down to the bed
rock of God himself, a thousand cher
ished non-essentials thrown away in
the process. makes of the book an in
valuable guide to such attitudes and
urgings and activities as lead straight
to the highest that the human can rea-
sonably hope to reach.
"Bt RkESES AMY" BY Julie NJ.
1.ippmann. author of Martha by
the-Day,' etc. Illustrated by Har-
riet Mead Olcott. New York: Henry
Holt and Company.
Amy Burke was a spoilt child. Her
grandfather, Alexander Guthrie, as rich
as Carnegie and as overbearing as a
potentate, when it came to Amy had
made a mat of himself for her to stand
on and scrub her shoes over, since she
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tions by Hugh Thomson. New York:
The Macmillan Company.

In these stay-at-home times the
mental traveller can desire no better
book-trip to Ireland than the author
provides in these attractive Journeys
to the chief cities Of that country.
Starting from Waterford. which had
it's Scandinavian beginning before the
first centuries had climbed to the thou
sand mark the way leads to Dundaih,
"a frontier town between lister anu
the rest of Ireland; to Galway. Whose
greatness is post-Norman TO ~
ny, with it's cathedral in which oiiNer We
Cromwell stabbed 500 horses 10 LIN
erick. Dublin. Cork, Belfast and other
cities; each described in a chapter Eren SO the he
luminative of it's history. from ~
mists of antiquity to the HOOD tios =.
present-day progress. that the oook as
a whole possesses the throo rcS ana s'oM of
Of a passing pageant in the mareh sssd ot
time To the text interest is addea
the value Of many sHns tsninss and eo
prsd niates that are genuine bits OF
art. Holiday attractiveness ana ma
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE-
GENTLY ADDED.

The following list, arranged by SUBJ
jects. includes some of the latest ad-
ditions to the Public Library.
The lists which appear in this column
each Sunday are reprinted at the end
of the month in the Iibrary-s monthly
bulletin. Copies of this may be OBJ
tanned Tree at the library or will be
sent by mail for Is cents a year.
cHILDREN's BOOKS.
Stories.
Bno,nn BBn1Wn, E z 4. 4 Arnolds Little Brother.
Carruth. Hayden. Tracks End.
Cobb; Cobb; B. B; and Ernest. Ario.
pprysdaie. William. The Fast Mail
Edgeworth. Maria. Simple Susan
Giishsist shsl,; r. B. Helen and the Fifth Cousins.
p.Rssas Tsfsss Ethel se'as0w0heo Camp Fire Girls.
Tassart. N. A. Beths Wonder r-winter.
Myths and Fairy Stories.
nc GhsndsE Katherine. In the Reign of coyose
Hardy NJ. f. Little Ti-wash. jRrs,.H.s
I, eaIaninan. A. s The Book OF the Sa-as. jYSs
keary. Annie: and keary. Eliza. Tic Heroes
OF Assard 1902. JYT.-Ka13.
Macsianus. seumas Donegal FAIRY s,opies
r.SloI' Naomi Aunt, pseud. Jewish Fairy Tales and
perrault; Charles. Fairy Tales.
Siiusr w; wi IL IL; n, ID; The Talking Thrush.
.-sid SINNER. G. \; ~ and E. L.. comps. The En-
Thomas. W. J. The Welsh Fairy Book.
History and Biography.
Birs BBiirkhead. Alice. Peter the Great jF54a- EsG4
Of p,I american Sailors. jE.aB57iL '''''s
From aisae, aasr,a 4; Fl and Ball E H. Short - rics
Farmer Farmer + '. Bay and Girl Meraes. :.i ji,rs;i
Moores. G W The Life on Of ro a,n ;,eo
Tor ,,rs9,s0 ls9ss and + Girls & ~ jEIasmoo.
renson for Boys and Girls. JEST i5ov.
ssS;sr s"sS; Estslie; Oliver clomwe:l. iE-cssro.
United % States sntsTnediate History of tine
- Smell +, J. Garibaldi and HIS ncd-sair,s. il,
S,apley, Mildred. Christopher Columbus. iE
stimnson, n: $; The Child's Book of American
Occupations.
,,iss Baehe: : F D. and /; F. When Mother Lets Us
,aes Beard iy;,.ss p Handicraft for outdoor Boys
,,,s Bu5ren, Mrs. {. F. B. The Fun of Cooking.
Carey. A. A. Scout Law in prsrtice iys.
y Hall. "A; 4; y, Homemade Toys for Girls and
=. Maedoneil Amce nice Historical Plays for Gill
\. Maedonell: Amiee; Historical Plays for Chill
,SSisdsSck. Ethel. -Four Plays for Children. 1919.
skinner Z, A NJ: and Lawrence L. y. Little
dramas Tor Primary Grades 1918 jyR-Sk36
IN Xerriii I A. Ii. Pets for Pleasure and PROFIT
Animals,
,Aitken, Z. H. Concerning Animals and Other
Matters. jO-Ai94. ~ A
Beard. A. B. The Beard Animals. jpG-Bssa
az EInshsh. Dousias A Book Of Nimble Beasts
G9lding Harry. ed. The Wonder Book of An
Tyrrell. Eleanor. How / Tanned the Wild
SQUIRRELS. jpG-T9S7h. ""
, w Wilkinson. Andrew. Plantation Stories. 10.
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CHILDREN's BOOKS.
Stories.

Brown. E. A. Arnold's Little Brother.
burton, {. T. Camp Bob's Hill.
Carruth. Hayden. Tracks End
Cobb. b. b. and Ernest Arlo
Drysdale. William. The Fast Mail.
Edgeworth; Maria. Simple Susan
Gtlchrist. r. Il. Helen and the Fifth cousir.
Maseheld. John. Martin Hyde
JvD-R633s lamp 'e "His
TaEsort, NJ. A Reil.s Wnndnr-,, -,,-ip,a-
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE WORLDS HIGHWAY. BY Nor
man Angel. author of The Great
Illusion" etc New York. George
II. Doran Company
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tional sentiment are combined in the
cover with its gilt tracings blazoned
on green.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-09-23
States Land Office, Haley, Idaho,

States Land Office, Haley, Idaho,
August II, 1915.
To Robert R. Ely of Edwardsburg,
Idaho, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that R. A.
Hughes who gives Ola, Idaho, as his
post-office address, did on July %,
1915, file in this office his duly zorro
borated application to contest and
secure the cancellation of your home
stead, Serial No. 01o919 made February
Is, 1912, for SEA NWA, Eh SWA
Section IA and NEA NWA Section %,
Township 81 North, Range ~ East,
Boise Meridian, and as grounds for his
contest he alleges that Robert R. Ely
has not complied with the Homestead
Laws of the U. s. in that he did not
establish residence upon said land
within six months from the date of en-
try thereof or at all, that he has not
at any time resided upon or cleared or
cultivated or improved said land or any
part thereof.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-09-23

Wander No. l, Wander No. 2, Wander
No. B, Wander No. 4, Wander No. 5,
Wander No. 6 and Wander No. 7 lode
mining claims, together constituting the
Wander or Wonder Group of Claims in
the Ten Mile Mining District, Idaho
County, State of Idaho, and authoriz-
ing him to make such sale upon contract
or bond for future sale with deed in
escrow, at private sale, for the reasons
and purposes therein set forth.
1t is ordered that all persons inter
ested in the estate of said decedent ap-
pear before the Probate Court on the
7th day of October, 1915, at the hour
of ten O'Clock a. M, at the court room
of said court, in Grangeville, Idaho
County, Idaho, to show cause why an
order should not be granted to said
administrator to sell the said interest
of said estate in the said real estate al
private sale, or to enter into pond or
contract for the future sale thereof !;
and that copy of this order be served