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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Slang

\ NVERY little while it behooves some
u one to review the latest develop
ments in the department of slang.
Slang, to be effective, must be scrupulously
up to the minute, and therefore, since its
will is also the winds will, no one can
formulate in advance what the trend of
slang will be any more than one can tabu-
late catalogue of slang which shall re-
main permanently comprehensive.
THE Atlanta Constitution" offers an in
teresting sketch of contemporary slang as
related to and growing out of the war:
Cultured folk, those particularly aesthetic
in their lingual tastes and ultra-precise in
speech, who three years ago gasped at a
loose expression, to-day find themselves I'M
consciously and unrufIed not only passing
over without criticism the common phrases
of the street, but falling into the use of slang
themselves.
at CRATES upon the refined sensibilties of
the stickler for correct grammar not a whit
more to do his bit to-day than it did three
years ago to perform his duty to his coun-
try. And to-day he scorns the slacker'-a
derided product of this WARMTH even
greater vehemence and far more sincerity
than he ever did the 'shirker of obligation
"And, after all, il is doubtful il the prog
ress that has been made would have been
possible without the freer use Of words and
terms and phrases which are peculiarly ex-
pressive rather than elegant, and which con-
vey meaning to everybody, high or low, which
slang certainly does"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

joke about her. What I'm telling you is the
see my way to get out of the fix I'll be in
when my mother comes here this day to see
her boy in his glory, and she after thinking
all the time it was against the English was
fighting!
Sir Pearce-Do you mean to say you told
her such a monstrous falsehood as that you
were fighting in the German army?
OFlaherty-I never told her one word
that wasn't the truth and nothing but the
truth. told her ! was going to fight for
the French and for the Russians; and sure,
who ever heard Of the French or the Rus
slams doing anything to the English but
fighting them? That was how it was, sir.
And sure the poor woman kissed me and
went about the house singing in her old
cracky voice that the French was on the say,
and they'd be here without delay, and the
Orange would decay, says the Shan Van
Vocht.
Sir Pearce Sitting down again, exhausted
by his feelings)-Well, l never could have
believed this. Never. What do you suppose
will happen when she finds QUIT
OFlaherty-She mustn't find out. It's not
that she'd half kill me, as big as am and as
brave as am. It's that I'm fond of her, and
can't bring myself to break the heart in her.
You may think it queer that man should be
fond Of his mother, sir, and she having beat
him from the time he could feel to the time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
He Would Spell Out All
Polysyllabic Words

"Years of dictation had apparently taught
him that il was unsafe TO leave the spelling
of any polysyllabic word to chance. He took
pains to pronounce each pronounceable let
ter; he always spelt out homophonous words,
no matter how clear the meaning in the gwen
instance might be, and he never left any
punctuation mark unuttered except some
times by inadvertence that important point,
the full stop.
an short, he wisely and safely assumed
dense ignorance on the part of his human
medium of expression, and l can remember
even feeling slightly aggrieved on the very
first morning of dictation by his careful
smelling out of The Newcomes, to which
he added for my benefit that it was name
written in one word and was the title of
novel by Thackeray.
"At the time when I began TO work for
him ne had arrived at a stage at which the
click Of the Remington machine acted as
positive spur. He found it much less easy
10 work TO the accompaniment Of any other
make of typewriter than the one he was used
to-other kinds sounded different notes; and
it was almost impossibly disconcertng for
him to dictate to something that made no
responsive sound at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Current War Poetry

They speak you fair, do gentlemen,
But not more fair or free
Than my young son, who's just the one
His father used to be;
And when ! said he med be killed
He angers up at me,
Come young lads first!'
For he's no lad that hides his mind
An he's no lad that feigns;
An while he spoke my heart came back
As easy of its pains
As when his father courted me
Along the scented lanes
Come young lads first!
A woman has her love Git is
Her glory and her CROWN
Which many waters cannot quench
An the great floods cannot drown
But men have that which passes love
When they.hear the bugles blown
Come young lads first!
An so the BARN sucked
Goes now in khaki drest;
SO young is he that he med be
Still coy from my breast;
An marches with his chin up
an his chest out like the rest
Come young lads first!
From War Poems, by X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

him to support his arms on it, he rested his
head in mis- hands and audibly pursued the
fugitive"
From the obligation of earning a liveli-
hood or of worrying over inability to do so
Henry James was throughout his life en-
tirely free. His present biographer says:
"The lives Of men Of genius have too often
resolved themselves into a desperate strug-
gle between inner and outer necessity Their
temperamental need TO express what is in
them has been pitted against the need 70
make money, the need TO be a satisfactory
husband and father, the need 10 compromise
with the claims of neglected body and an
overworked brain for rest and refreshment.
"The economic basis Of life is recognized
in this country in so gentlemanly and un-
obtrusive manner that it sometimes seems
TO escape attention altogether and biogra-
piers and novelists alike leave us wondering
how their interesting subjects managed to
live The people Of Henry James's own
novels exist, for the most part, on unmen-
toned incomes, which are at least ample for
the provision Of opportunities for enjoying
travel and leisure, for visiting in expensive
country houses and for making suitably clad
Appearances in the best society.
"The pursuit Of riches beyond that neces.
sary minimum is certainly branded as wrong,
by implication IL not by open admission. By
that sin fall many Of the worldly, predatory
actors In his dramas, however splendidly they
may blaze on their descent. The whole course
Of his life showed him TO be without the
least faint Of the sordid passion. But. like
his finer creations, he never lacked liberty
that rested on an income sufficient TO crafty
his taste for life OF impressions and ap.
breeistions"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Come Young Lads First

CERGEANT went a-walking
u WI ribbons in his cap.
"Ho-ho," says he, "his Majesty
Wants just another chap.
An as It's plain, for married men
He no more cares a rap,
Come young lads first!"
Wherefore the BARN sucked
Goes now in khaki drest;
So young is he that he med be
Still cozy from my breast;
But he marches with his chin up
An his chest out, like the rest
Come young lads first!
Old Squire says, "Oh, yes; oh, yes;
Twill do him worlds of good;
An parson says that losing BARNS,
If rightly understood,
Is blessed, an tits sweet, he says,
For tn King to shed your blood
Come young lads first!
"Abram," he says, gave Isaac,
AS writ in Holy Word,
An Mary broke the precious box
At the feet of our dear Lord;
So you must give your boy" he says,
"To carry England's sword,
Come young lads frst!" a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Red Cross Spirit Speaks

HI KNEEL behind the soldiers trench,
L ! walk mid shambles' smear ant
stencil,
The dead mourn;
bear the stretcher and bend
Der Fritz and Pierre and Jack to mend
What shells have torn.
81 go wherever men may dare,
! go wherever woman's care
And love can live;
Wherever strength and skill can bring
Surcease 10 human suffering,
Or solace give.
81 am your pennies and your pounds;
! am your bodies on their rounds
Of pain affair;
I am you, doing what you would
If you were only where you could
Your avatar.
1.-THE cross which on my arm | wear,
The flag which Ger my breast | bear,
Is but the sign
OF what you'd sacrifice for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
OF wars red line
John H. Finley, in National Geographic
Mogazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Why Women Can't
Compose Great Music
GEORGE TRUMBULL
LADD, in the July number of TIE
Yale Review" undertakes the aR

LADD, in the July number Of "Ths
Yale Review" undertakes the sp
rarently unchivalrous task of proving that
women, the solid clientele of the Managers
of opera houses and concert halls, lack The
native ability to express their feelings ia
the permanent form of musical hero
glyphics.
But among the composers of real music
the fair sex shines by its almost complete
absence. There is scarcely a handful Of
women who can make a brave show Of
claim to place in the second rank OF The
worlds composers.
Even Gustave Ferrari, the gallant bog
rapher, in Groyes's Dictionary of Music
and Musicians" of Nine Chaminadss
productions, is forced to sum up his iuds'
ment in these terms: Notwithstanding
real charm and clever writing Of manyd
her works, they do net rise above the svss
Of agreeable salon music"
Now, music is certainly Of all the srh
much the best adapted to express and %
stir promptly and powerfully all kinds Of
human passions and emotions. But does
not woman share with man every chars-
ter and shade of feeling which belongs %
the common human nature? CertamV.
And in not a few respects her lifs
feeling is richer and more delicate sho
sensitive than is that of her male con-
panion.
Music, the great music, however, AIMS
only 10 express the passion and emotions
which are most elemental and fundame.'
tai, thes feelings shared in common VIZ
the race, and not the sentiments peeul''
to poor me-"
Further, il is the seduction Of chesP'
won applause; the fear of being un''"
ventional; the Secret--or avowed-rei0's'
to face criticism; the inability to lock =
the thing in an objective and impersos'
way and to sink the individual m
ideal; it is these hindrances to the NV.
excellent artistic achievement agA"s
which the will must set itself and rem.'-
infexibly set. Well, of the two sexes W
strength and stubbornness of the male ~.
is much better adapted to hold the spur
on its course, whether the end be tins'
feat or final triumph.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
"Chats" About the Characters
Preceded Actual Composition

"His method of writing what may be called
full-length novels was different and extreme
~ interesting He liked to break ground
by talking TO himself day by day about the
characters and the construction. until the
whole thing was clearly before his minds
eye. This preliminary talking-oat of the
scheme was, Of course, duly recorded by the
typewriter.
"He had always, as ne so often affirmed,
'dramatized' his material, and he tended more
and more, think, to prehgure his tales as
staged dramatic see the whole thing in
acts and scenes, with the persons Of the
drama making their observed entrances and
exits. These scenes he worked out until he
knew so much about the action that he could
begin on the actual writing Of the novei-a
process that have seen described, incor-
rectly, as a redctation from first draft
II was really nothing Of the kind.
Gle did not enlarge and amplify rough
sketch of his novels after the manner OF
Balzac His method might better be com
pared with Zolas habit of writing long let
ters 10 himself about the characters in his
next book until they became alive enough
for him 10 begin a novel about them. The
thirty thousand words or so Of typewritten
scheme dictated by Henry James contained
none of the phraseology Of the novel he was
going 20 write from IL. II was really Just
an ample scenario for the proposed drama.
Il was also an extraordinary record OF in
spiration, for I doubt II any writer has ever
been more fully conscious OF each step along
the path Of illumination or given more ar
ticulate utterance 70 the whole process Of
this experience.
"For the two volumes Of memories, "A Small
Boy and Others and Notes Of Son and
Brother he dictated no PRELIMINARY notes.
lie plunged straight into the stream of the
mast without a doubt or a hesitation. The
reading over each morning OF the pages writ
ten the day before was all the stimulus
needed 70 start him on fresh effort to
render adequately the depth and the deli
eaey Of his early impressions.
"After about an hour Of conscious effort
he would often be caught on rising wave
Of inspiration and would get up from his
armchair and pace up and down the room
,oundIng out his periods in tones Of resonant
a,,uranee. He was then beyond the reach
Of uneonnected sights or sounds. Hosts OF
eat,-a tribe usually routed at the hrst cry
with shouts Of execration might wall out
aid. the window; phslannes Of dread motor
ears bearing ineursive visitors might moot
=. his door, He was imperyIous TO them
~The only thing that could arrest him was
N. escape Of the word he wanted TO use.
when that had gone he paused, he left on
Walking abb ut the room, and, standing by 4
bnokesss q behimnsy piece t"1 enough Tor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Henry James
NEW and quite graphic picture Of
the late Henry James at work is

A NEW and quite graphic picture Of
~ the late Henry James at work is
furnished by Theodore Bosanquet,
for several years the distinguished writer's
amanuensis. Writing in "The Fortnightly
Review" she observes:
1.-The duties began each morning at quar-
ter past ten, when l pushed up the inner
latch ingeniously attached to the big brass
knocker Of the front door of Lamb House
and walked straight upstairs to the little
square green-panelled room where Henry
James worked on winter mornings.
at was a perfect room for winter, small
enough to be comfortably warm on the cold
est days and catching every ray of the gentle
south coast sunshine through wide south
ward window. There was a smaller window
for the afternoon sun, doubly glazed against
the force of the westerly gales. Three tall
bookcases and two big desks and an easy
chair took a heavy toll of the available space,
but left enough uncumbered floor for q
restricted amount of the pacing about that
was conducive to literary composition.
ION warm summer days Henry James pre-
ferred working in the big, light garden
room,' where there was longer stretch for
DECENTRALIZATION and where the main window
overlooked the little cobbled street that
curved past his front door. He liked to be
able to see whatever might be taking place
in the street, or sometimes to hail passing
friend; he enjoyed watching motor cars pant
up the sharp little hill and turn down tow
ard the Mermaid Inn. The sight of one
could always be counted on to draw from
him some vigorous expression of anazement,
admiration or horror for the complications
Of an age that had produced such annihila'
tors of protective distance.
"The hours between breakfast and lunch
con, from about half-past ten to quarter
TO two, were the, only ones that Henry James
liked to spend at fresh creative work. He
seldom made the effort in the evening unless
he was very hard pressed to finish something.
But every sort of work that was not so
wholly strain on the imagination he did in
the evening, including all the exhausting Ia
bor Of proOfreading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
The Charge of the Light BrinA

HALF a league, half league,
IL Half league onward,
All in the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigade.
Charge for the guns he said:
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigadep
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had Numbered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front Of them
Volley'd and Numbered:
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws Of death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the lines they broh
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and Numbered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so we'll
Came through the jaws Of death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left Of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
Oh the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they madel
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
THE GLASGOW U R

or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default, for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This action involves the title to the
following described lands, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) of block twenty coy
of the townsite of Glasgow, Montana.
according to the plat thereof on file
and of record in the office Of the clerk
and recorder Of Valley county, Mon
tana. said plat having been filed for
record April Ia, 1897.
The nature Of the relief sought by
the plaintiff is as follows:
That the defendants may be re-
quired to set forth the nature of their
claims to the above described prop
erty, and that all adverse claims of
defendants may be determined by a
decree of this court, and that by said
decree it be determined and ~adjudged
that the defendants have no estate or
interest whatever in and to said above
described lands, and that the title of
plaintiff is good and valid, and that
the defendants be forever enjoined and
debarred from asserting any right or
claim whatever in and to said above
described lands, adverse to plaintiff,
and for such other and further relief
as the court might deem meet and
agreeable to equity and for it's costs
and disbursements in this action.
Witness my hand and seal of said
court. this 9Th day of February, 1917.
OSCAR S. CUTTING,
Clerk of the Above Entitled Court
(Seal.)
PARKER & MURPHY,
Attorneys for the Plaintiff.
Glasgow, Montana
(Feb. 16-6t)
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
ORDINANCE NO. 1877.

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SIGNS.
Be 1t Ordained by the City Council of the City of Glasgow, Montana:
Section /. No person shall erect or maintain any sign of any kind
or material, nor any wooden awning, excepting as hereinafter provided, that
shall extend into or upon or project over any sidewalk, street n alley of
said city, o. than three feet.
Section 2. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent
any person from hanging v n across any street or sidewalk any flag or
banner, OF any legal or public holiday.
Nor shall it be o construed a IS to prevent any society or organization
from hanging its flags o. banners on any day of any convention or public
gathering Of such society or organization. Provided, that 40 such flag or
banner shall at any time extend over any street, alley or sidewalk 10 that
the same shall come within twenty feet Of the roadbed thereof.
Section 3. Any person violating any Of the provisions Of this ordi-
nance shall, upon conviction thereof, before the municipal court of said city,
be punished by a fine of not exceeding fifty ($50OO) dollars, and may be
imprisoned until such fine is paid, not exceeding sixty (6) days.
Section 4. Every sign, or other structure erected or maintained con-
trary to the provisions of this ordinance is hereby declared to be a public
nuisance.
Any officer of the police Of said city may remove o. abate the same
without any other warrant of authority than this ordinance
Section s. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its publication.
in which respect it shall take effect sixty (60) days after publication.
Passed by the city council of the city Of Glasgow, this 2th day of
February, 1917.
Attest: MILO HUMMEI, City Clerk. F. F. KENT, Mayor.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
ALIAS SUMMONS

In the District Court of the Seven
teenth Judicial District of the State
of Montana, in and for the County
of Valley.
Glasgow Loan and Investment Com
pany, a corporation, Plaintiff,
Kate Augusta Addington, William
Arlington, Wellman c.. Beede,
Annie Beede, Fred Wagar, Rhoda
Beede, and all persons, unknown,
claiming or who might claim any
right, title, estate or interest in,
or lien or encumbrance upon the
real property described in the
complaint, or any thereof, ad-
ers to plaintiffs ownership, or
thereto, whether such claim or
possible claim be present or con-
tingent, including any claim Or
possible claim of dover, inchoate
or accrued, Defendants
liam Arlington, Fred Wagar and Rho.
da Beede, and to all other persons
unknown, claiming, or who might
claim, any right, title, estate, or inter
est in, or lien or encumbrance upon
the real property described in the
complaint, or any thereof, adverse te
plaintiffs ownership, or any clouc
upon plaintiffs title thereto, whether
such claim or possible claim be pres.
ent or contingent, including any claim
or possible claim of dover, inchoate
or accrued, Greeting:
You are hereby summoned to an.
swer the complaint in this actor
which is filed in the Office of the clerk
of this court, a copy of which is here.
with served upon you, and to file your
answer and serve a copy thereof upor
the plaintiffs attorney within twenty
days after the service of this sum
mons, exclusive of the day of service
and in case of your failure to appear
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the Justice Court Of Glasgow
township, State Of Montana, Coun-
ty of Valley, before c. ". Kampfer,
Justice of the Peace, Lott Watts,
Plaintiff, versus Guy Wheaton, De-
PENDANT.
The State of Montana to the above
named defendant, greeting:
You are hereby summoned to be
and appear before me, C. w. Kampfer,
a justice of the peace in and for the
county of Valley, at my office in
Glasgow, on the 7th day of April, A.
D., 1917, at 2 o'clock p. m. Of said
day, then and there to make answer to
the complaint above named plaintiff in
a certain action to recover the sum of
Nine and 50/10O dollars and the costs
of this action for board and room fur
nished defendant by plaintiff at Glas-
Cow, Montana, from January 9th to
February 9Th, 1917; and if you fail
to appear and answer as above re-
quired, judgment will be taken against
you according to the complaint.
Given under my hand this 14th day
of March, A. D. 1917.
C. w. HAMPER,
46-4t-chg. Justice of the Peace.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-16
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the Justice Court of Glasgow
township, State of Montana, County
of Valley, before C. w. Kampfer,
Justice Of the Peace, Lott Watts,
Plaintiff, versus James Mcneil, De-
PENDANT.
The State of Montana TO the above
named Defendant, greeting:
You are hereby summoned to be and
appear before me, C. ". kampfer, a
justice justice Of the Hs;,lp, peace D. in ia and of for the ne
Glasgow, on the 9TH day os April, A.
D.. 1917, at 2 o'clock p. nj. Of said
Gay, then and there to max, answer to
the complaint of the above named
plaintiff in a certain action to re
cover the sum of Twenty-Five and
rc/10c dollars and the costs of this
action for board and room. furnished
defendant by the plaintiff at Glasgow,