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A Poem in Prose

JOAN AND THE BABIES AND l. BY Cosmo
Hamilton 81. Boston: Little, Brown Co.
There is more poetry in Cosmo Hamllton's s
new book, Joan and the Babies and J."
than in many a volume of verse. Indeed,
the book is a romantic poem in prose.
1t is the brief story of lonely man and
o. lonely woman who discover at first sight
that they were made for each others COM
fort and companionship, They meet with
out an introduction as though they had
known each other always. There Is sug-
gestion that they were kindred spirits in
some previous existence, say in the time
of the Vikings. II Is a clean and beautiful
bit of sentiment projected upon the back
ground of a New England seashore resort.
1t would be as easy to tear it to bits as
to trample on a rose, but we ali know that
a rose is it's own excuse for being, and we
treat it accordingly. Thus will the dis
eliminating trSat Mr.. Hamlton's story
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In such straits that he had not the carfare
10 go TO her he went to the Bowery Mission
TO get paper and postage stamp so that
ne might write. He was a man without
conscience. The world to him was made up
OF selfish grafters He thought the mission
workers belonged to the same class But
when work was offered to him by a man
who approached him as he had never been
approached before he accepted It to his
own great surprise. He had never worked
before. He kept the job for three days
until the task for which he was. hired was
finished. He did not get drunk, but he
sought more work. He attended the meet
ings at the mission and heard a man tell
how he had maltreated his wife. That
night for the first time in his life he felt
regret for what he had done to the good
woman who had married him. Out of that
regret his moral nature began to develop
and after two stumbles on the way upward
he made home for her and earned an
honest livelihood and devoted his spare
time to helping men TO find the better way
to which he had been guided by a Power
the mastery of which he had discovered by
so curious an accident He is still worker
in the mission.
III this be not n miracle, then words must
have new meanings But it is the kind of
a miracle with which religious workers are
familiar. 1t might have happened earlier in
this case If our courts and prisons were
conducted for the purpose of saving men.
The little boy whom the St Louis Judge
mad kicked on his way downward might
have been saved If the Judge had been
blessed with a modicum of the milk of
human kindness. One of the purposes of
"The Wicked John Goode." in which the
tale is told. is to disclose the almost crimi-
nal stupidity with which sthe prisons and
reformatories have been conducted and still
are managed Indeed the book is one of the
most moving tracts on prison reform that
has come from the contemporary press
Thomas Mott Osborne has given it the seal
of his approval by writing an introduction
for II.
THE WICKED JOHN GOODE. BY Horace
Winthrop ScandlinG With introduction BY
Thomas Mott Osborne and epogue by the
Rev. J, c. Hamond, Superintendent Of the
Bowery Mission. New York: George II
Doran Company 81.
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is LIFE WORTH LIVING If
YOU ARE AFRAID TO LOSE 1T?
This Question Is Answered in st. John G.. Ervine's
New Novel That Reminds One
of DeMOrgan

kWERf mature patriot is wondering in
= these critical days how the young
men of America will act when confronted
by war. Will they respond willingly and
giady to the call of their country, as they
react TO the call of the natural instincts ?
VIII they feel that America is not worth
iiVing for IL 1t is not worth dying for, or
VIII they be "slackers"? viii there be
among them physical towards who will
ne great enough to take their fear in
their hands and cast 1t behind them, and
will there be men who will 90 into the
army and navy without a thought of what
great sacrifice they may be called upon
to make?
we are in fair way to have these
questions answered within the next few
months, as they have been answered in
England and France.
Much has been written of the effect of
war upon the youth on the other side of
the ocean. There are tragic pages in "Mr.
Britling Sees 1t Through" which throw
much light on the subject Those readers
who found "Mr. Britling" absorbing will
md st. John G.. Ervines new novel,
changing Winds" of compelling interest.
Mr. Wells dealt particularly with the
revolution in the thinking of grown man
and the father of family. "Mr. Britling"
is the British spirit 'personified. Mr.. Err
vine has dealt almost exclusively with
young men, starting with them as boys in
preparatory school, taking them
through college and bringing war upon
them just as they have begun successful
careers. His hero is a congenital coward.
The lad is afraid of the water. Death fills
his friends enlist he dreams of them
killed and mangled on the battlefield, and
wakes in horror at the thought that IL
was he and not they who had been killed.
But at last, under the stress Of strong
emotion, his spirit conquers his body and
he decides to offer himself for his country.
He has reached that state where he can
say with conviction that
Life isn't worth while IL one is afraid
to lose ia year or two more what
do they matter If job be shirked? IL
isn't the time one lives that matters
he went on, it's what one does in the
time.
This is the conclusion of the whole
matter. And a pretty fine conclusion, too
not new and not strange, but in accord.
ance with the experience of the race
since men first began to have ideals and
to believe that there is more to life than
simply filling the belly.
Changing Winds" is young mans
book. The young men in it are British
and Irish by accident of birth; but they
might have been Americans or French.
men or Germans. Yes, Germans, for in
spite of all the horrors that have come
to be known as Germany there Is
spirit and a soul in the Teuton that is
akin to the soul of all mankind. Mr.
Ervine's youths are human types at bot
tom. The environment in which he puts
them is of little matter. There are four
Of them who go through the volume from
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public domain Of the United States. In due
to do with the Siberian land Nicholas re-
piled:
I'VE intend to do with II what YOUR
great statesman, Mr. Grow did with the
time we shall give 1t to the people because
we are convinced that the homestead law
Is the most useful enactment ever placed on
the statute books of nations"
James T. Dubois, of Hallstead, in Mr..
GROWS old county, a journalist and dlplo-
maus,-his last public service was as min
lister to Colombia--has written a life of
the distinguished father Of the homestead
law. He was assisted by Gertrude S.
Mathews. Mr.. Dubois has devoted the
greater part Of his volume to a history of
the homestead legislation that preceded the
Grow law and to the fight which the South
made Tor the recognition of slavery In the
new territories and to the southern insis-
tence on the rights of the States to the pub.
lie domain. 1t was not until the South
seeded and its representatives were no
longer in Congress that 1t became possible
TO pass the act which has peopled the West
with men drawn there by the offer of a
homestead from the Government Mr. Du-
Bois has produced an admirably condensed
history OF the controversy over the land
question and the issues tied up with It.
Only single chapter u given to the
career of Mr.. Grow after he left Congress
In 1853. but for Pennsylvania this was a.
most interesting period. for in Mr. Crows
person was illustrated the evils of the boss
system In State politics. Grow had written
a letter to Simon Cameron. who was
Lincolns first Secretary of War. urging
MIN to take decisive action while it was
In his power and telling him that IL he did
not act soon he would be impotent before
he knew it. Cameron resented the implied
criticism and while Grow was still Speaker
or the House he had the Congressional dis
trlcts In the State so reappointed that
Grows district. made famous by David
Wilmot and honored by Wilmots sue
cessor became Democratic and Grow was
defeated for reelection. Fifteen years later
there was demand for Crows nomination
for the governorshp, but the Cameron
machine would have none of him In 1881
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town of a drunken Irish father and hard
working mother. He was one OF many
children His mother was too busy to give
him any teaching and his father saw him
on,y to beat him. He early developed into
liar and a thief-a thief, because that was
the only way he could get money to buy
CANDY. and a liar because he discovered
that was the only way he could escape
beating He did not know the difference
between right and wrong AT the age OF
eleven he ran away from home to escape
the brutality of his father. He stole rides
on railway trains and came In contact with
the thieves and buns who travel that way.
He was arrested in st. Louis for sleeping
in a harm and ordered out of town by the
Judge. who, In delivering this kind OF
sentence kicked him along on the way on
which he had started. Experienced thieves
trained him as a pickpocket. He became
gamhler and n drunkard because his asso-
ciates were drunkards and gamblers, He
was arrested and sentenced to reform
schools" and came out worse than he went
in. He went TO New YORK ana got on the
no,ice force. where he grated with the
worst of them, and was protected by the
noliticians whose game he played. He mar
ried good woman for the sole purpose OF
doing her out of $4,000 that she had saved
He took the money with no regrets, and
var,hled n away with the knowledge that
he could ret more somewhere else. His Of
ssnses became SO great that he resigned
from. the police force % escape aismissei
IL otole and was aoQteneee g 1ir4 y S'st g
-. ~; ~ yc2gy: < ' !! q b 4 J., " x
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Playthings of Fate

- man nan with the blind, unshakable faith
! iu ana a woman with the pure heart
n..n ~ iniant are The Children Of the
is.'. In the new novel of that title bv
1s.ssD Dodge' Once more Destiny is the
v,s.syng angel, the invinclble force which
~ 49, happiness and beauty from the hands
e;rn ose has preferred from the be-
s'smnns to destroy.
rer, man Harboro is clean, honest, intelli-
a. win a deep-rooted love of purity and
A. unQuestioning belief in the sweetness
=. "omen. The woman Sylvia is a charm-
ssi,. ristrui creature, who has tried to
hfs . msr snare of Joy and the color of
~. wen from the depths of sordid sin
~, en- useless, incredible father has
~ ner' Harboro.- knowing nothing of
~ MISERABLE past. marries her and reyeres
~ ney are deeply happy-Sylvia with
~. s@utiiui contentment of a restless soul
- nss al last found peace; Marlboro with
~. increasing love and reverence of the
eosss Nothing, 1t would seem, could
M. .oetween them. unless It might be
~ sntual!y. In the true manner OF fate,
~ does come between them. and
sAst moment the fabric of their hap
mo their dreams crumbles grad
.e.o onser dust This downward rush
~ 70 denouemsnt is developed hy
With the skill Of thoroughly good
M Dodge has handled his
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Lane thriliers The min character, one
Of the heroic men bred by England in war
time, is splendidly conceived and plausibly
characterized The heroine, too, is DEITY
limned. The problem involved Is one or
mating--and mismatng. 8S
The author has handled her material not
merely competently. but convincingly, and
has given realistic picture of England
transformed from the social and economic
conditions of the period precedent and SUI
sequent to the Boer war, when Saxondom
was at its ebb. as causticaly scored by
Rudyard kipling. 1t is a new England now,
a rejuvenated island and empire. physically
and spiritually, and Mrs Lowndes is one OF
the first to give picture of the recreation
in fiction.
LILA: Part of Her Life. BY Mrs BelIoo
Lowndes. si35. New York: George H
Doran Company. N,
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the members of the Legislature from more
than two-thrds Of the Republican, counties
were pledged to the election of Grow as
United states Senator, but the machine
was stu relentless in its opposition. Its
candidate was the late Henry r. oliver Of
Pittsburgh. There was n deadlock and
Johh l. Mitchell. of Toga, was chosen
as compromise candidate only to turn
on the machine within two wears and defeat
Beaver for the governorship and elect
fattison Mr.. Dubois makes brief mention
or these Incidents doubtless for the reason
mat he wishes his book to be a homestead
Jaw manual As such II will serve the
Puipo'e very we'll g. w ~.
% SHA A; GROW, Father Of the Homestead d
Mathews. TIustrateJ a. IT, y, Vet Iuuu IS., % .
Houghton Miffin Company "'
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beginning to end the like of which might
De round in any of the American colleges.
Their talk is at first the crude immature
Qlk of inexperience lightened up by
f1ashes of intuition such as delight all
men who deal much with youth, because
or its revelation of awakening compre.
hension of the significance of human ex.
periences II the young men in the
American colleges do not devour the
book 1t VIII be for the reason that the
men charged with their education do not
call their attention to it and impress upon
them its value as a document which will
help them to understand themselves.
1t Is young woman's book as well, for
1t exhibits young men and their ways Of
thought In a manner seldom equaled.
There is a frankness in the discussions
to which young women are never treated
and OF which they know nothing unless
they chance to hear young men talking
freely among themselves where they
have no fear of being overheard The
female youth can learn from 1t what the
male youth is like when he is speaking
out what is really in his mind.
1t Is book for fathers and mothers
as well as young people, for there is a
fond father In it and a heroic mother.
Mr.. Ervine has entered into the heart
OF motherhood when he makes a widow
whose only son has enlisted say:
I feel proud and afraid. I'm glad
that Ninian has Joined.
think | should hate 1t IL he hadn't
and yet | wish, too, that
that he weren't in it. am
not much Of patriot. Henry. / love
my son more than l love my country.
I've never been able to understand
those women one reads about who offer
their sons gladly. don't offer Ninan
gladly. / offer him that's
all. l know that men have to defend
their country, and love England and
I'm proud to he English but
when I've said all that, it's very little
When remember that l love Ninian.
l suppose that that's n selfish thing to
say but don't care whether
1t is or not
AS the hero is Irish. Mr.. Ervine has
much to say about Ireland and the Irish
question. AS he is Protestant his bias
need not be further explained. Many of
the things which he makes his charac.
ters say will be offensive to the Roman
Catholics, and some of them will be pleas.
ing. His characterizations Of English
and Irish statesmen and literary men
he mentions them by names-are pene.
trating ,and entertaining. OF Chesterton,
for instance, he says that his lecture
would have been funny if it could have
been heard, but he laughed so heartily
at his jokes as he saw them approaching
that he forgot to make them. Wells was
deprecating and almost inarticuate as he
told of the Importance of the novelist.
And so on with half dozen other great
names.
The book has many Of the qualities
which have made VIII DeMorgan's writ
ing Famous, and if I mistake not it is
bound to be popular
GEORGE w. DOUGLAS
CHANGING WINDS. By St John G. Eryine
sloo' New York. The Macmillan Company.
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Major Charles w. Gordon, of the Forty
third Canadian Infantry. of Winnipeg
known to the world as Ralph Connor, now
elst, brought cheers from 100 ministers
at the luncheon of the Clergy Club the other
day by telling them that he soon hoped to
see the Stars and Stripes waving over the
trenches in France.
THE men in the trenches all look up to
America" he said I'VE will all be glad
when we see the troops of the United States
on the fighting line"
The luncheon was held in the Fifth Ave.
nue. Building, and was attended by clergy.
men of many denominations Major Cor.
don is in this country on a special mission
from the British War Office, and will re-
turn shortly to his regiment in Flanders
Publishing a book of verse. says Don
Marquis. is like dropping rose leaf into a
canyon and waiting to hear the echo
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New Saxondom in a Nov

The great war serves as the sombsr ~
craft for the stage in the first act Of -
Belloc Lowndes's new novel. The n1
meets the woman In the gloom Of natar
midnight on a military train, darkened a.
military reasons as a precaution asairu
zeppelins.
The book is one of constant surprises, 4
drama of situations rather than one q
characterzations and psychology. II =
conducted as sequence of surprises an
suspenses until the denouement that d
tragic. Inclined though 1t is to the me1cH
dramatic. it is not Of the type Of DruT1
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WILL ORGANIZE NEW CHURCH

uasoiine Gus" chauffeur evangelist. will
~, rpsn new church tomorrow night in Tabor
- au, oss olney avenue. 1t will be known
Me wesley Reformed Methodist Church,
4. Ma'ougn the work of the evangelist, wh,
s,.a a, Titchenell many members of the
conv.e trade and workers have been
S Sme he started. which was during RilI,,
~ ,Si'uay Va visit to this city, he has devoted
N. a,s spare time to evangelistic work. and
~. opsnlng OF the new church is a direct re-
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PRESIDENTS WAR CALL
!. WITH SUNDAY LEDGER
Elght-Page Supplement Will
Also Contain Resolution and
Patriotic Songs

. PRESIDENT Wilson's great speech before
-Soneress last Monday will be published in
ssupplement form and distributed free with
"morrows Public Ledger This will offer
: rare opportunity to obtain this address
PROBABLY the greatest delivered by an Amer
- sn president since Lincoln's speech at
Ssuyspurg-in form in which it may be
"operV preserved for future generations.
MOI only will the Presidents speech be
se,, s. put there will be in this e,ght-pag
Csp'e.neht Cnru tne war resolution adopted by
Songress ful-page portrait of the Presi
ss"l, pictures of the Capitol and of scenes
wartime preparedness measures under
80 Inc surest way to make certain of
'aihihg this supplement is to order now.
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MOVING STORY OF A
MODERN MIRACLE
How a Grating New York Po-
liceman Was Transformed
Into Decent Citizen

Whoever is in doubt whether miracles
can happen has the evidence at hand to re-
solve his uncertainties into certainties II
he will only study it. They are happening
every day. A record is made of some Of
them and others occur where only a small
group takes notice OF them. Here is the
story of a modern miracle
A boy was born in western mining
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Raymond, or Life and Death" Sir OIL
YER Lodges remarkable account of the COM
munications believed to have been received
by the members of his family from his son
Raymond (killed at the front over a year
ago), is now in its seventh large edition
Apparently the interest in "Spiritualism" 10
increasing rather than decreasing in this
country.
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Must Keep Auto License Tags Clean

NORRISTOWN. Pa, April EVERY au-
tomobilist who goes through Norristown
next Sunday with dirty license tags will be
stopped and compelled to wash them under
the supervision Of a policeman. This method
Of enforcing the automobile law. which pro-
vides for a clean license tag, has been de-
cided upon by Chief of Police Fellman.
Evening star., 1917-10-31
BUREAU REPORTS RECORD
OCTOBER TEMPERATURE
Official Showing This Morning Low
est Ever Registered-Cold Wave
Reaches Crest.

The lowest temperature ever expert
enced in Washington in October was re-
corded at the weather bureau this
morning, when official thermometers
showed a reading of 261a degrees.
A return to more normal tempera-
lures, however, was promised today by
the weather man, who declared that il
would be a little warmer day by day,
until, by the end of the week. normal
fall weather would be at hand.
At o'clock this morning thermo-
meters showed 29 degrees. and by noon
1t had warmed up considerably. Clear
weather is looked for, no rain or snow
being expected.
The cold wave In the eastern part of
the country reached its crest this morn
ing, with temperatures equal to or
lower than the previous October cold
weather record. 1t will continue cold
tonight, but there will be general
rise in temperature Thursday east of
the Mississippi river, although it will
grow only slightly warmer. weather
bureau officials today said.
The cold wave had reached the Allan
tic coast districts today, extending as
far south as northern Florida. 1t made
q record for October cold in many
places. Frost was forecast as prob
able tonight in the south and east gulf
states.
Evening star., 1917-10-31
DIED.

MARIE J. Il RALMER LflsAii ln.e 1s 1sridsej. beloved
rn.., wife Of ,l Harvey I bamer nu.,,. 10 .+r.c,
northeast. on Saturday. November 8. at $50
am; Requiem mass at st. Martins Church al
8 o'clock. Relatives and friends invited. In
terment (private) at Mount olivet cemetery. e
BAUER. On Tuesday. October 80. 1917. at AIS
of Amelia Bauer. in the seventy fifth year OF
his age.
his late residence. 4S 81 street northwest;
thence to st. Aloysius Church, where solemn
fsHusm mass, mass will be said Relatoes Hoe and and
Florida papers please copy.) i
BOOTH. Departed this life Tuesday. oetobe.
80. 1917, at pm., after a long and painful
illness. MAGGIE BOOTH. beloved daughter Of
NJ Combaslner. She leaves to mourn her loss
four sisters and two brothers and a host of
friends.
Funeral Thursday. November I, at Il am. from
the chapel Of Moon & Gaskins 2236 18th street
northwest, corner of Florida avenue. In
terment Payne's cemetery.
DURHAM. On Monday. October 20. 1917. at
6:35 pm. at Sibley Hospital. ANNIE NJ.
widow Of Capt. James R. Durham. in her
Funeral services will be held at her residence,
1889 North Capitol street. Thursday. Novem-
Der l. at pm Iptesment aprivnssel ns ,,h,. at AZ.
papers please copy.)
K
Pm, at his residence, 2212 Champlain avenue.
ALFRED H.. beloved husband Of Lena Gray.
Funeral from the James Bros undertaking es-
tablishment, 10Th and streets northwest, on
Friday, November ., at pm.
DANIELS. On Tuesday October 80, 1917, at
$40 PM, at the residence Of her daughter.
616 n street southwest. SUSAN A.. widow of
the late Farquier Daniels, in the seventy-ninth
year Of her age.
Notice Of funeral later.
KcCATHRAN. On Sunday, October %. 1917. at
IL p.m., at his residence. 718 North Carolina
avenue southeast. FRANCIS G.. beloved hus-
band Of Annie L. McCathran.
Asleep in Jesus.
Funeral from his late residence Thursday. No
vember I, at pm. Relatives and friends in
vited to attend. Interment at Congressional
cemetery. 81
xcCATHRAN. Special meeting Of Martha Chap.
ter. No. 4. o. b. g.. will be held Thursday at
/ pm. in chapter room for the purpose Of at
cIs ss q. MccATHRAN. ' By order Of worthy
matron. MARIAN W. McCATHRAN, Sec.
pARMENTER. On Tuesday, October en-; 90; 1917.
Of the late Henry II. Parmenter. mother Of
Mrs Charles E. Berry.
Funeral from the late residence. 1920 Park road:
Arlington.
QUEEN. On Tuesday, October 80. 1917. at 9:2o
east, cast BENJAMfN 81 FRENCH. beloved son ono, Of
the late John Randolph and Margaret Queen.
in the seyenty-second year OF his age
Funeral services will be held on Thursday,
November l. at pm. Interinent in Con-
gressional cemetery.
RANNIE. On Tuesday. October 80. 1917 at 9
pm, at the Homeopathic Hospital, MARY
RANNIE, wife of the late ". Il. Rannie.
Interment in Nashville. Tenn.