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By TANSY M'NAB

not seem to know what he wants to do,
and he doesn't do it. He talks. Society
is going to the dogs and he is burning
to lead it to salvation-and he talks.
Nero with his sense of humor, would
have fddled.
"The Research Magnificent" is in away
the climax of Mr.. Weiss political and
social thought and study. To an Ameri-
can it seems curious that he should pin
his faith for humanity to hero who by
instinct and training is kept aloof from
the life and toll and problems of the
great mass Of human kind. He makes
us wonder if some inherited awe of
the aristocrat, handed down from his
mother, who was housekeeper and lady's
maid in the houses of the great, has
orept up through his mind and clasped
& bandage of prejudice over his curious,
disillusioned eyes.
Mr.. Wells's later novels deal for the
most part with modern upper class lives.
They are thoughtful, vivid, passionate
books, setting forth Mr.. Weiss picture
Of humanity struggling in its chaos of
old conventions and restrictions and
ignorances, something trying to exist,
something sthed and inclosed, strug-
Cling to get through" He gives us
women who hang as dead weights upon
their husbands idealism or decline on
conventional marriages because their
lack of training has made them helpless
and afraid men who fight for their cre-
alive careers against the coiling serpents
of social necessity, and are overwhelmed.
1t is on the whole a tragic comedy.
though the tragedy is not always on the
surface.
AS novels these books are not as sue
ccssful as his earlier works. The char
acters are the goose that must lay the
golden egg Of The Story-and Mr.. Wells
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than classical, and he came to his work
thinking in terms of the future rather
than of the past, with the true scientists
!oathing of conventional shackles, grave
ward sentimentalities, wastage and mud
ding Il was already beginning to gee
the great problem Of mankind" says one
of his heroes, "as, indeed nothing more
than the magnification of the little prob
lens of myself, as problem of escape
from grooves, from prescriptions and
suspicious, precautions and ancient an
gers. For all Of us, as for each
of us, salvation is that"
1t is therefore natural that with al
his passionate interest in socialism and
machinery Mr.. Wells managed to pre-
serve his sense of humor about them
Never from the beginning did he allow
himself to believe that mechanical eco
nomic conception and mechanical inven-
lions could solve the problems of the
future.
Wis First Men in the Moon" is
satire on certain aspects of the social
istic state, and his moon socialists are as
inhuman as ants or bees. Specializa-
ton has gone so far among them that
certain types of machine-menders are
confined in jars and others are dwarfed
in childhood to fit them for delicate
work. Again, his invading Martians in
"The War of the Worlds" are simply
nth-power Prussians who have become
so dependent on machinery that they
are physically quite helpless.
His earliest books, those jolly and
startling romances wherein he takes us
to the moon and to the end Of time, in
which he introduces mermaids and an
gels and invisible men and Martians and
human giants, botray profound pessi
mism about the future. The MARKHAM
picture Of the time to come, with It's en-
shaved, debased and increasingly mar
ticulate workers and It's futile and
wastcful non-producers, separated by an
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insists on dissecting the goose. Some
times we cannot help feeling that Mr..
Weiss people, to change the metaphor,
are marionettes jerked about on the
strings of his ideas. This is especially
true of his more aristocratic women.
Mr.. Wells does not seem to be as thor
Cughly at home in the aristocratic soul
as Mr.. Galsworthy is.
1t is in his earlier novels, dealing with
the lives of little men, buffeted about in
a world of forces they cannot under
stand, that | think Mr.. Wells as an ar
fist is most successful H. c. Wells,
save for the grace of God, might have
been Mr.. Polly, the futile shopkeeper.
He might have been Hoopdriver or
Lewisham or Kipps. SO when he ap-
plies his far-visioning. imagination TO the
affairs of these little men they become
alive and significant. Mr.. Polly" is
cross-section of England and "Tono-
Bungay" is a cross-section of our mod
ern economic world of waste and blum
dering, of advertising and unrestricted
exploitation and pyramiding finance.
In "Tono- Bungay" the adventure into
high finance is made by way of fraudu-
lent patent medicine. "At the climax of
his Boom," says the narrator, my uncle
at the most sparing estimate must have
possessed in substance and credit about
two million pounds worth of property
to set off against his vague colossal liza
bilities. and from first to last he must
have had controlling influence in the
direction of thirty millions. This IRA
tional muddle of community in which
we live gave him that for sit
ting in room and scheming and telling
it lies. He created nothing, he invented
nothing, he economical nothing. can
not claim that a single one of the great
businesses we organized added any real
value to human life at ALL"
Up to the present time at least 1t looks
as II Mr.. Wells's genius as a writer of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17

THE MIRACLE MAN OF LETTERS.
TT G.. WELLS will be fifty years old
L. next Saturday. He has been
writing for twenty one years,
and his forty-ffth volume, "Mr. Drifting
Sees It Through novel of war times,
is announced for publication by Macmil-
Ian on Wednesday. Since 1895, when
Mr.. Wells burst into book producing
with two romantic tales, volume of
short stories and volume of CONVERSE
tional essays, not a single year hes
passed without the appearance Of a book
bearing his name In 1914, and again
in 1915, he came forward with four vol
umes. In productivity he has out
stripped the most prolific best sellers,
and in spite of the great volume of his
work virtually every book he has turned
out is a significant contribution to the
literature and thought of the time.
In these books Mr.. Weiss magma
ton has Jared to the uttermost bour-
carries of space and time. He has writ
ton a starry of the Stone Age and story
Of the End of the World He has Jour
neyed TO the Moon and drawn comets
into his pages and brought invaders
down from Mars. He has lured an angel
cut Of the fourth dimension and mer-
maid from the sea. He has drawn his
characters from the scum Of the eartt
and the highest places He has pro
duced lofty books of prophecy and books
Of nursery games for children. He has
given US some of the richest comedy and
slapstick farce in the language (such rs
Mr.. Polly's conflagration) and some Of
our finest poetic romance NOTABLY in
"The Sea Lady").
It was Mr. Wells who first really broke
away from the Victorian conception Of a
static society. Unless a society be born
again and again, unless 1t has the ccur-
age to scrap Ale WORKOUT machinery and
build itself up anew, according to Mr..
Wells, it Is damned. This thesis Of re-
newal and change has knit all his work
together.
His education was scientific rather
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I'm awfully glad to have met you.
hope we shall see you again.
Mr.. Him: -Awfully glad to nave
met you Hope we shall
Mrs. You: Goodby, Miss Wnkby.
We've all enjoyed your singing I'M
mensely and we must tell you so before
you go.
Mr. You Cooking at the cards on the
table in front Of him, then dropping
them like a hot plate for fear he has
done something rude): Yes, we must
er-tel you so before you go.
Mrs. Him: Really, Sunday evening
here won't seem like Sunday evening
without your daughters singing, Mrs.
Winkby.
Mrs. Winkby: I'm sure it's awfully
good of you to say so.
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SAYING GOODBY IN THE COUNTRY

noon. Never mind, I'll run up and get
them now.
(You and Him feel sinking sensa-
tom
Mrs. Winkby: No; I'll tell you what
III do. I'll leave them tomorrow morn
ing in your letter-box in the office so you
can get them when you come down to
breakfast.
him and You peril up little, and
open the parting smile another notch.)
Mrs. You: Yes; that will do nicely.
And you and your mother, Miss Winkby,
must come and see us some time. You
come in the afternoon and Mr.. Winkby
could come in time for dinner. I'll
write you and fix date.
Mrs. Him: Yes: and you must come
and see me, too. I'll be having some
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fiction reached its highest fruitOn IN
"Tono-Bungay" and "Mr. Polly" written
respectively in 1909 and 1910. In these
two books his thesis is so unobtruslvey
welded to his story that simple folk
who are not interested in satire OF
prophetic speculations can enjoy then
for the tale alone. Like his earlier 10
mances, they are rafting good stores
But for the speculative reader Mr.. Wen
has the art of making a little thing IL
the rumbling of Mr.. Pollys intestine
the symptom of grave arrangements
English civilization.
Mr.. Weiss new novel, "Mr. Brltllis
Sees II Through" should be peculiarly
interesting in giving hint of how ln'
war will affect his speculations on hu'
man affairs. The first shock Of the Wal
transformed Mr.. Wells from a cosnN
person to an Englishman. For ons
time he was so busy hating and cnllns
up Germany into small bits and hndns
st. Helena suitable for the Kaiser lnS.
he was entirely merged in the press =.
journalistic combatantS. His receA.
book of prophecy, What Is ConllDs'
indicated that he is about due 10 NV
into the solar system again, all w
stronger for his dip into horrible lea
ity, with new visions and fresher coz
ceptions. Those who feared that uN
Wells fount was beginning to run u!
will probably find that he has tapp"
new subterranean streams of though
Weiss great gift to us is that ne 70.
frightened our vision. He has not OD1
enlarged our horizons, but ne has snO,
us, with rare humor and tenderness w
great significance of little eXlS'ei''i
Hitherto scarcely noticed, close al '''.
He has explored the world with i''''
able curiosity and revealed it to US I'D
new spirit, a spirit, to quote Van W.
Brooks filled with all sorts OF pus,'
intimations OF a new beauty ana e''s
new religion to be generated OUT I"
new order of things that is o'N
glimpsed at present"
1.-THE World OF h @ W els" . book no
can afford 20 miss.
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talk By PeGry, Shackleton and DR..
C0Ok)
Miss Winkby Cr0cking back and forth
on her slipperS): Well, guess we won't
see you people in the morning, so III say
goodby now.
Mr.. Him: Why? You're going early
to morrow morning?
Mrs Him: You're going early?
Mrs. You: Going early?
Mr.. You (10eakIy bit dmtablU -
Early?
Mrs. Winkby: Yes, we're going down
on the 8:12.
(Cqrd game rises 10ith the same snap
and zest that theatre audience shOWS
mhen "The Star SpGngIed Banner" is
plGyed.)
Mrs. Him: Goodby, Mrs. Winkby.
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Mrs. Him: Not at all.
Mrs. YOU No, indeed.
Mr.. Him: l should say not
Mr.. You: - Say not.
Miss Winkby: Wouldn't it be per
fectlv fine if we could all get together
some time in the winter? Just Jolly
reunion, you know. The theatre or
something.
Everybody (1Cith Hairless eninus-
iaSm): Fine!
Mr.. Him: Let the ladies fix 1t up.
You usually exchange cards, don't you?
(Mr. YOu glareS across at Mr.. HIM
as much as to sag, What the bLdzes dtd
non start that for? But the thing IS
dOne.)
Mrs. Winkby: Why, of course. |
meant to give you our cards this after
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decorating done for while after
home, but when that is over
The Door: BAN!
Feet on hardwood floor: Rlo..
blomp, blomp, blomp!
Mr.. Winkby (oUner Of feet) w.
e-e-w! Too cold out there for NJ.
night.
Mrs. Winkby: Did they give You H..
extra blanket, Henry?
Mr.. Winkby: What extra blarL.,
Mrs. Winkby: WHAT extra blsDI.
Why, the one told you to ask tn. hon..
keeper for. Didn't you ask her,
Miss Winkby: Never mind. Moth.
TU ask her. If | stay here another NJ.
ute with nothing but this cape srsu,.
me flourish Of cape so as TO msk,,s
glitter | shall catch my death. ".
good night, folks.
Chorus: Good night, Miss WhS.
Good night. Nj.
Mrs. Winkby: Aren't men all ain,
| asked Mr.. Winkby to speak for IL.
blanket before dinner. Now. Faith,
when you have said goodby to these O.N
pie, do you suppose you could get som.
one to fill the hot water bag for me,
Mr.. Winkby; | guess so, if there,
any fire left in the kitchen. Well soM
by, people. See you next year, hone
Mrs. You: Oh, we're going to have
you and your wife and daughter over
some evening in the winter
Mrs. Him: A regular reunion, vr
know.
Mr.. Him: Talk over jolly old sun.
mer, you know.
Mr.. You looming across ,oith h,iv
thing that occurs to him): Wews.
joyed your daughters singing in.
mensely.
Miss Winkby 0rOm the scin):
Mother.
Mrs. Winkby: What is it, dear,
Miss Winkby: I've seen the house.
keeper and she says there are no
more blankets.
Mrs. Winkby: Well, of all things,
Henry, come upstairs with me and well
see if we can't find a blanket or a com.
Portable in one of the unoccupied rooms.
It's perfectly awful the way this place
is run. | suppose I'll end up by wear.
ing Mr.. Winkby's golf sweater to bed
the way | did last night. Well, once
again, goodby to you all.
Everybody: Goodby, Mrs. Winkbg
Goodby. BY.
("The Star-Spangled Banner" oy9,
the card game sits dorm again and re-
Sumes.)
Mrs. You: Who's deal was it? Did
anybody make it?
Mr.. You: Sure; | made it six blsn
kets. Don't you remember?
Mrs. Him: Billy, come to and get
that silly, vacant grin off your face. Do
you think you're still saying goodby 10
somebody?
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CCENE: Oh. we won't attempt to
- locate it; just a summer hotel or
inn at the fag-end of the season.
1t is night; dinner is over; it got dark
early and there are several hours to be
killed before one may go to bed without
causing remark. 1t is too cold to stay
outside and too warm to stay inside, so
A place is selected midway between the
door and the log-fre and card game
begins. The contestants for the empty
honors are Mr.. You, Mrs. You, Mr.. Him
and Mrs. Him. A couple of hands and
the drama begins:
A door: BAN!
Feet on the hardwood floor: Blomp,
blomp, blomp, blomp.
Voices (os at fuaeroU: B-z-z-z-z.
b z-z-z-z.
Mr.. Him: Who was it that came in
then? ~
Mrs. Him The Winllbys, think.
Mrs. You; Oh, yes; | understand
they're going home tomorrow.
(Enter, With measured tread, Mrs.
and Miss Wmkby)
Miss Winkby (,cho has nelO
shoulder cape Nth SpdngLes and doesn't
care aOho know it,: B-r-r-r-r, but it's
cold out on the porch tonight This
cape isn't any protection at all.
Mrs. Him: | believe you people are
going to leave us tomorrow.
Mrs. Winkby: Yes; we've come in to
say goodby. Dearest friends must
part. you know. Tomorrow night this
time we'll be in our own little home
When do you people leave?
Mrs. You: Why, we haven't quite
made up our minds yet, but it will be
either the last of this week or the first
part of the next. You see, We
Miss Winkby: Mother, | fancy I'll go
up. I'm so sleepy can hardly keep my
eyes OPEN And / think I've caught
cold. too.
Mrs. Winkby: l shouldn't be sur
prised with only that flimsy cape over
your shoulders. | guess I'll go up with
you, dear, even if it is only quarter to
nine. / asked for an extra blanket to-
night and if there's such thing in the
house perhaps we won't freeze to death
the way we did in our room last night.
(FoW minute intermiSSiOn for gen
erGl exchange of arctic experiences, the
ensemble sounding much like composite
The Republican journal., 1916-06-15

The hearing in the will case of the estate of
the late Henrietta C. Nichols of Searsport hs
been postponed to the session of the Probate
possible.
The Wales family of Massillon, Ohio, and
Norman White and family of BrookIine, Mass,
arrived by boat Wednesday morning and were
taken to Northport by special trip of the
Maine Transportation Co.'S auto.
Mrs ]. WiIbor Richardson, who was operat-
ed upon in the Waldo County General hospi-
tai about two weeks ago, was able to return
home June 9Th. Mr.. Richardson has taken
the Sherman cottage at Lake St. George, Lib
erty, for number of weeks, and with Mrs.
Richardson will spend his vacation there from
his duties as pastor of the Baptist church.
Fred Jewell of Norridge wock, general man.
ager of the Saco Valley Canning Co., was in
Belfast last Friday and is confident that de-
spite the backward season the farmers in this
vicinity will plant the acreage promised The
Portland Packing Co. has given up its Brooks
factory and the farmers of that town will
plant about 10 acres for the Belfast factory.
THE Music DEALERS CONVENTION. The
Maine Piano Dealers Association held their an
nual meeting in Belfast Tuesday with E. S.
Pitcher, chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee. The afternoon was spent with Mr..
Pitcher at the Battery, where a clambake was
served over which he visitors were more than
enthusiastic. The business session was held
at 80 in the Music Socety's hall when rep
resentatives were present from Portland, Au-
gusta. Waterville. Bangor and Foxcroft. Let
tiers of regret were received from several I'M
able to attend on account of the poor condi-
ton of the roads for autoing. D. E. Fabyan
of Boston and Jacob Schiller OF Philadelphia
were guests of the Association. TIE name
was changed to the Maine Music Traders As
ISOLATION. The following officers were elected:
President R. W. Hughes of Portland; vice
president, R. L. Wentworth of Waterville;
secretary and treasurer, George E. Geary of
Portland; executive committee, Frank Atwood
and M. A. Melvin of Bangor and John E. Kel-
Ter of Augusta. banquet at Jefferson &
Greer's restaurant followed at which Mayor
VIM. K. Keene was present. The principal
dish was Penobscot river salmon.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-15
A WOMAN'S WORK

sometimes reduces her strength to the
depths of weakness-her devotion to
household cares prevents sufficient
rest and recreation. Thousands of
women in this condition find SCOTS
Emulsion exactly what they need; it
is predigested body-food so medically
perfected that every drop yields direct
returns in Strengthening the organs
and tissues and in making healthy,
life-sustaining blood. SCOTS Emulsion
is devoid of alcohol or any harmful
drugs, and overcomes tiredness and
nervousness in a marvellous way.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-15

Its habit you have got into of walking on
the south side of Main street. A. A. howes &
Co.'s store and your daily supply of Cedulas
are so convenient-but you know its good
habit.
Evening journal., 1916-02-21
SAYS acid stomach
CAUSES Indigestion
Excess of hydrOchlOrlc acid SOurs the
food and forms gases.

Undigested food delayed in the
stomach decays. or rather, ferments
the same as food left in the open air.
SAYS noted authority. He also tells
us that Indigestion is caused by
Hyper-acidity, meaning, there is an
excess of hydrochloric acid in the
stomach which prevents complete di-
gestion and starts food fermentation.
Thus every thing eaten soups I'm the
stomach much like garbage sOurs in
a can. forming acrid fluids and gases
which initiate the stomach like a toy
balloon. Then we feel a heavy,
lumpy misery in the chest. we belch
nm gas. we eructate sour food or
have heartburn, flatulence, water
brash or nausea.
He tells us to lay aside all digestive
aids and instead, get from any phar-
macy four ounces of Jad Salts and
take a tablespoonful in a glass of wa
ter before breakfast and drink while
II is eifervescing and furthermore, to
continue this for a week While re-
lief follows. the first dose. il is i'm
portant 10 neutralize the acidity, re-
move the gas-msking mass, start the
liver. stimulate the kidneys and thus
promote a free flow of pure digestive
juices.
Jads Salts is inexpensive and is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice. combined with lithia and
sodium phosphate. This harmless
salts is used by thousands OF people
for stomach trouble with excellent
results.
Evening journal., 1916-02-21

of the Ga S5,252.50 was secured at
this service.
Many Converts Out
Saturday night was converts night at
the tabernacle. Half the seats in the
big building were occupied by the trail
htters." More than 0,OOo persons heard
the evangelist preach vigorous sermon
ON "rho Great Confession
Dr. Lyon spoke Of the great diff
Guilty the newly converted Christians
would no doubt experience in their
daily lives in living true TO their new
faith, as the unconverted would scoff
and seek to turn them aside from
their new life. He urged them each
10 be true and steadfast, letting the
world know that they were Chris
tians and not to be ashamed OF hav-
ing gained eternal life.
Following the sermon SO persons
shook the hand Of the evangelist. thus
protesting their desire to lead better
lives. Maynard Alexander again
proved himself an efficient pupil of
Professor Classes in directing the con-
gregation through the singing of one
OF the hymns. AZ the conclusion of
the evening service Or. Lyon called
the men OF the press tabernacle stan
10 the platform and presented to them
gold stick pins in appreciation of the
work done by them during the cam
paign. The men 10 receive the stick
pins were Leon Massey Wickersham
of the Morning News; Joseph u
wilkins. of the Every Evening. and
Arthur c. Davies. of the EVENING
JOURNAL
The Rev Robert II. Moon. mem
Der OF the party. left Wilmington las
evening for Peoria. H., where he vii
meet the ministers OF that place re
garding a campaign to follow the Spo
kane trip. The call to Peoria cam'
very unexpectedly to DR.. Lyon. ant
he al once dispatched his assistant 4
look over the ield
At the request Of the oo-oporntln'
ministers Of The Lyon Union Evango
listic Campaign and the colored min
listers of Wilmington. Dr. Milfor'
Hall Lyon Saturday afternoon preach
cd ON "The Battle With Booze" an'
1000 persons heard him.
The liquor business in general wa
given vigorous bangs and following
the thrusts the congregation rose q
their feet IN pledge that they woul'
Evening journal., 1916-02-21

He has instilled the love of Christ in
all our hearts.
The true worth of this campaign
cannot be measured by the number of
converts who have walked down these
aisles and taken a definite stand on
the side of right; il cannot be measur-
ed by the vast crowds that have an.
plauded his Efforts day and night
within this building.
"The influence OF his work is felt
Wherever you go In this city; il is felt
IN the stores. the factory. the shop.
the home and on the street. Men
acknowledge that this influence is up
on them They see the benefits OF this
pentecost which has come down and
which will continue to hover over this
city, long after he has departed from
our midst this marvellous influence
viii be felt. There will be no more
tolerance OF ungodliness: no more OF
this difference Of opinion and opposi-
tion to religion. The essentials of the
spiritual life will be paramount. and
there will be a hndlier feeling and
a more Christian-like spirit.
THE seed which he has sown will
not at once take root and spring forth.
but will gradually grow. and in the
years TO come q mighty harvest will
be reaped therefrom.
81 am sure that this city has taken
"a stride forward. You cannot nav
this man for the good he has done
here We will long be in his debt.
This Offering is not compensation
for his efforts. but il is an expression
Of appreciation for the service Of a
man who has thrown aside all other
means Of sustenance for himself and
for HE loved ones at home.
81 voice the sentiment OF this com.
munity. | know, when say this, and
am sure the people of Wilmington vii
stand by what l. right for man VIII,
has scattered such seeds OF goodness IL
our midst
The appearance of the distinguished
citizen in the pulpit. speaking words di
rect from the heart. seemed 10 toucl
every person in the audience lie spoR,
with difficulty. as it very deeply inn
, pressed with the incidence of the cam
paien.
Following Judge Gray'- address. th,
( Rev. Dr. l.. Franklin Smiley. pastor ol
West Presbyterian Church, took charu,