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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

independence it was paramount. The
often cantankerous diversity of state
governments and their usually can
in which they agreed-compassed above
tankerous thwarting of the feeble VIII
of the national Congress-the one thing
all other things the failure of the Con-
federation. In the drafting of the Con
stjtution the relation between the ma
tional and state governments caused
vast concern, and it was the cruX Of
the conflict in the campaign for ratlh-
cation. But the Constitution did not
settle the problem. At the admission
of Louisiana the question of state
rights took the foremost place among
all our problems, when Massachu-
sets proclaimed and Mississippi re-
buked the doctrine of secession. The
same question remained foremost for
half a century. and, though it was then
partly disposed of by the Civil War; 1t
still survives with great energy, as
witness the controversies over state
rights and international treaties on
the Pacific Coast, over the shipment OF
liquor into prohibition states, and
various other political issues of this
day.
But Professor Holcombe's fine vol.
ume is not solely nor chiefly devoted
to that phase of the general subject.
He concerns himself more with the
origin, development and practical work
ings of the various state governmental
systems. For, as many states as there
were at the beginning, so many diff
ferent systems were there then; and
as many new states as have been
afnr
been created. No two agree. They
differ in executive, legislative and jul
dicial methods. Their systems of taxa
ton, their marriage and divorce laws,
their terms of office for Governors;
their times of meeting of the legisla-
lures, their methods of choosing state
officers, are all but infinitely varied.
Nor are the differences due to char
acter or locality. States side by side
and alike in composition differ most
widely. New York elects seven state
officers, and New Jersey only one. OF
the thirty-fve different causes for d.
vorce, no two states recognize the
same, and while Kentucky recognizes
fifteen, South Carolina recognizes none
at all. The tax rate in Minnesota IS
1885 and in Iowa S4.27 head. Such
examples of diversity might be indef-
initely multiplied.
The work before US deals not so
much with these details as with the
fundamental principles of state gov
eminent from which they arise. The
electorate. the political parties, the
conduct of elections, the legislatures
executives and courts, constitutional
conventions, direct legislation by the
o1actoratae auI 4ha nutloOk fOf
changes in the direction Of commission
government, socialism, the Oregon
plan, etc, are all carefully considered
in a way which makes the book valua
Bile either for sustained study or FOL
casual and occasional reference. A
notably complete photography anC
analytical index complete work which
will take rank as a standard authority
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Memories Of Sixty Years of Public Lite-f1ow
Our Forty-Eight States Are Governed
Verses of Optimism

TO his two favorite political hobbies,
free trade and civil service reform:
This is we'll, because in speaking OF
these he could well add to the apt
legend from Sallust which adorns his
title page the words of Virgil:
QHae9uc ipSe miserrimG tHdi,
Et quorum pars magma tai;
though he would not say "miserrima"!
His intense interest in those subjects
invests with interest for the reader all
that he says about them, even the most
matter-of fact bits of record.
Though Mr.. Wheeler must have
known several other Presidents, he de-
votes chapter of personal recollec-
tons to only three. They are Cleve-
land. Mckinley and Roosevelt, three
men about as diverse in characteristics
and temperament as any three that
ever occupied the White House. 1t is
easy for any one who knows Mr.. Wheel
err 70 tell at once with which of them
he was most in sympathy, and with
which he-hsd most points of conflict.
Yet all unconseiously he pays TO HIM
self. TO his own breadth of vision and
catholcity of spirit, the highest OF
tributes, in revealing his earnest APP
probation of the fine qualities of all
three. The estimate which a man of
his peculiar positiveness of likes and
dislikes makes of three so positive and
so radically different men is certainly
to be regarded with much interest.
II is with a buoyant and optimistic
spirit that Mr.. Wheeler sums up the
progress of the nation during the sixty
years of his review. No mere ldtddtor
tempoTis acti he. Though he appre-
ciates the important men with whom he
was associated in former years, and
though he perceives the errors and
evils in social and public life at the
present time, he knows that the world
has made vast progress and he has
faith TO believe that progress will con-
tinue and that the Republic will over
come its faults. 1t is thus volume
of information, of interest, and of in
SEPARATION which he has given us as one
of the fruits of a career of exceptional
length, activity and usefulness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
Jerry the Policernan-Mr. Hewletts New oaga-A De-
tectve Story of the Wharf.-The White People
of the Scottish Mists

with cIsiryoyance or with phantoms or
with both. Perhaps there are those
who will contend that the two are one
At any rate, it is a mystery tale or the
Scottish mists and Of the white peo,,
ple" who seem to abide in them ana
who are visible to only few specially
gifted eyes. The theme is not new, nor
indeed is any other in this wor ked out
world. but il is perennially fascinating,
and Mrs. Burnett has worked it out
with freshness of appealing sympathy
which is very winning.
The story of the tiny chatelaine OF
Muircarrie begins with a mysterious
little girl playmate, brought to her by
the mist-wraith folk who are Invisible
TO all eyes but hers, and ends with
lover, who proves 20 be one of the
"white people,; and with her realiza-
ton that because of the strange cir
cumstances Of her birth she is one or
those who "see"-who see things hid
den from others sight. 1t is a beauti-
full tale. beautifully told. with sugges-
tons of the unseen which grip the
heart and will linger in the memory.
A TALE OF TROUBLED SOULS
SOULS REsURGENT By Marion Hamilton Cartsr.
Charles Scf1bneTs sons
Dora Feruseth's father, a prosperous
Wyoming ranchman, left an amazing
will in "Souls Resurgent," by Marion
Hamilton Carter. Though she was only
in her senior year in college. he made
Dora executrix and heir of his big
ranch, naming her as guardian OF her
grown brother and her little sister and
giving her control over her mothers
affairs. He wanted Dora 70 carry out
his plans for the formation Of a COM
munistic settlement.
Dora had been in the East for ten
years at school and college. She had
not even gone home for her fathers
funeral. When she did return, after
graduation. the crude Western life was
a great shock TO her. She found her
mother a weak. slipshod person and
her brother and little sister ignorant
and undisciplincd. Her first breakfast
was a trial. On the table, covered with
a smeary oilcloth, stood the debris Of
the ranch hands meal, and cats were
fighting over the remains. Her mother,
"a slattern, half-dressed, not yet
washed and combed, her bare feet
thrust into loose, old slippers" was
frying fish.
Dora was not a good sport. She
didn't make the best of things. She
had high ideals, but apparently instead
of helping her they tended TO make her
unhappy. She assures us that she had
never tasted spirituous liquor" which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

In one hours reading of THE LITERARY
DIGEST each week, you may get clear under
standing Of what is happening in all parts of the
globe. You may sit in your easy chair at home
while your mind travels to all countries. Whether
you are interested in the war politics. exploration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
HOW STATES ARE RULED
An Admirable Manual of Amer
lean State Governments

STATE GOVERNMENT II THE UNITED STATES
nv Arthur y Holcombe, assistant professor OF
Togs-ument IN Harvard University. syo, pp. I'LL
igs The Macmillan Company.
This is a good work on great SUP
iect. Indeed, the subject is one of the
very greatest in all the domestic poll
tics and problems of the American Re
public. At the very beginning of our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
BIRD STUDIES

Colonel John Dryden Kuser, one Of
the foremost promoters of sportsman
ship and the conservation OF game IN
New Jersey, has written volume on
"The Way 10 Study Birds" which the
Putnams will publish next month. II
will be an interesting manual of in
formation concerning fifty or more Of
the most important varieties Of birds,
and will be richly illustrated in color
by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

and discovery in the Arctics, or elsewhere; IN sci
ence. invention and manufacture in America OF
Europe, in business and commerce in the NORTH,
South, East or West, you will find all subjects
ably treated and graphically pictured in TINS care
fully edited weekly magazine of the worlds news
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

by }. L. Duckroee
A human comedy of the type that
pleases throughout It's quite the
bast book yet written by the author
af DOWN OUR STREET.
Net $l.35
TIE ADVENTURES OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
TWO WAR BOOKS

Robert H. Mcbride & Co. announce
for publication Turkey, Greece and
the Great Powers" and wilhelm
Hohenzollcrn, the Man and the Kaiser
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
BOOKS AND AUTHORS-REV1EWS AND W.

ia communicable, and the author assures
ma that she had never been KISSED
which Is perhaps unfortunate She
uantad 10 read John Stuart Mill IN ner
room in the evening, and her mother
wanted her to read East Lynne aloud
20 her and the farmhands. Life IN tne
house was Just one wrangle AFTER an
other They were all unpleasant per
sons. A.. d;a-
sipation. He got tangled up with osu
voung woman, and eventually she sent
him a letter telling him that he was
about 10 become q father. Dora, OF tne
high ideals, insisted that he marry the
creature. 1t was silly counsel to give
without investigating the young wom-
ans story. Posey Burnham, compan-
ionable horse thief, subsequently
boosted his suspicion that he was the
real father. Eric killad Posey. and the
knowledge of his crime suddenly trans
formed Dora into a real sister and
human being. She went out at night
with Eric and helped him bury the evil
dences of the murder-an act that
seems more immoral than being kissed.
One is sorry for all the persons IN
the story. and especially for Dora. Az
times we suspected that her moral high
links were primarily the result Of sell
lishness and the complete absence OF
any sense of humor. On the whole, the
book is study Of conflicting natures,
done with considerable power.
BY THE GRACE OF CURLY"
THE MAN NEXT DOOR BY Emerson HOugb.
UIu,tratsI By VIII Grefe. l2mo. pp. $40. ID.
Applaon & 90.
A good, clean story. this, Of advent
ure, action, complications through
Misunderstanding, and wholesome ro-
nance which eliminates in all around
happiness. There is much racy
humor and quaint philosophy in it,
particularly on the part of the re-
sourceful and loyal "Curly," who tells
the tale. 1t is in Western cattle range
dialect, but it is the genuine dialect,
such as real. live men use, and not
the fearful and wonderful stuff which
too many writers evolve out of their
inner consciousness, and which never
in fact fell or could fall from mortal
lips. The four dainty illustrations,
too, are pictures of real human be-
ings, interested in the doings which
are related in the story, and not lay
figures posing in attitudes and bear
ing expressions far removed from
anything in the book.
There is no problem" in it; there
e ,rtrriapt pSychOlOOV. There Is
nothing but wholesome human nat
ure. and the motives, acts and achieve
ments of normal human beings with
red blood in their hearts; nothing in
it, that is to say, except the very
things which ought to be there to
make it in the best sense of that
painfully perverted and overworked
phrase, human interest story" We
pity the reader who does not find it
Of genuine and absorbing interest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17
WRAITHS OF THE MIST

THE WHITE PEOPLE. By Francs Hcdsson Bur
nett with illustrations BY Elizabeth Shipper
Green. l2mo. ~. ~. Harper n Bros.
II might be question whether Mrs.
Burnett's dainty little romance deals
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-14
Lovely White Skin!
Strain lemon juice we'll before
mixing and massage face,
neck, arms, hands.

BY all means. girls. prepare lemon
lotion to keep Your skin flexible and
younc looking You will soon realize
that true loneliness does not mean the
powdery-look or waxen colorlessness
of some hothouse flower. but is typi-
fed By the velvety softnoss of your
skin. Your peach like complexion and
rosy white hands
At the cost Of a small jar of ordinary
cold cream enc can prepare full
quarter pint of the most wonderful
lemon skin sottener and complexion
beautifier. BY squeezing the juice of
two fresh lemons into bottle con-
tanning three ounces of orchard white
Care should be taken to strain the
Juice through a fine cloth so no lemon
pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep
fresh for months. Every woman
knows that lemon juice is used to
bleach and remove such blemishes as
freckles, sallowness and tan, and is the
ideal skin softener, smoothener and
beautifier.
Just try it, Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and make
grant lotion ard massage it daily into
the face, neck. arms and hands 1t
should naturally help to whiten soft
en-, freshen and bring out the roses and
hidden beauty of any skin. 1t is sim
ply marvellous to smoother rough, red
handS-Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-14
Too Much Food

in Summer means clogged
liver and sluggish brain; too
little food means dabby
muscles and starved nerves.
The man on the job must
keep his brain clear and his
muscles responsive. The
way to do this is to eat
Shredded Wheat Biscuit,
the food that contains every
thing in the whole wheat
grain preparedin adigestible
form, including the outer
bran coat which is so useful
in keeping the alinentary
canal clean and healthy.
Two or three of these crisp,
little brown loaves Of whole
wheat with milk make a
nourishing, Strengthening
meal. Ready cooked and
ready to serve. Made at
Niagara Falls. N. Y.
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a DEPENDABLE MEDICINE

Lydia Z, Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is a dependable root and herb
medicine. It has made a place for it
self amone the grca, mass Of people,
because thousands Of sick women have
tried il and proved that it will accom-
pish al that is claimed for it. Moth
ing untavorahlc can honestly be said
about il. 1t does not contain iniuri-
Gus drugs. 1t is a root and herb rem
edy founded upon a physicians pre-
scription. and is manufactured for a
specific purpose. That it accomplishes
this purpose is proved by thousands
and thousands Of convincing testi-
monials.--.tdv.
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Ballots for Both
Pine Tree State
Shall Maine Lead?

Do the men of Maine, who will vote
the special election on Sept. 10. realize
that in the midst of this world war sew
eral countries have considered it expe-
dent to pause long enough to enfran-
chise their women?
Great Britain has pledged suffrage for
women before the next British election.
Russian women have already voted.
France has promised women the vote.
Canada has granted suffrage in three
fourths of it's territory within year and
the Premier has promised vote for all
women before the next Dominion cleo
ton. Political leaders in Italy, Rou-
mania, and even Prussia have within a
few weeks past demanded action on this
question from their Parliaments
And do the men realize that since jan
In the United States, North Dakota. Ohio,
Indiana, Rhode Island, Michigan and Ne
braska have been added to the IL women
suffrage states by giving the Presidential
vote to women; that Vermont has grant
ed municipal suffrage; and that Arkansas
has broken the ranks Of the Solid South
and given primary suffrage to women?
1t is believed that the men of Maine will
not wait for the tragedies of war to prove
that the country belongs to both men and
women. 1t is the womens country as
we'll as the mems, and women will sup
port it most effectively in peace and in
war if they are given the ballot.
To defend the nation all it's resources
are needed Women must be modified
equally with men. AS a measure Of pre-
paredness il is hoped that the men Of
Maine will give the women of Maine the
ballot. If the world is to be made safe
for democracy" America can do nothing
better at this time than to remove those
bars which prevent nearly one-half of the
American people from enjoying the full
est political rights worthy of good citi-
zens.
These are serious times and the women
will be called upon to make great sacri-
fees and to bear heavy burdens in carry
ing the war to a successful conclusion.
This crisis has opened the eyes Of mil
lions to the fact that women should have
voice in the government. The time has
ocn1c for the realization Of this fact and
may Maine be the first State in New Eng
land to give to its women the vote, thus
living u to Its motto, Maine Leads"
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COMING EVENTS

Aug. 1N-1s-Rchmond Campmeeting
Aug 1I-20-Empire Grove Methodist
Campmeeting, East Poland
Aug 1+-Reunion of 18th Maine, Port
land.
Aug. 15-Oliver Hill School reunion, Gar
land.
Aug ls-Brackett family reunion, Au-
burn Grange hall.
Aug l6-Bracke Family Reunion, Au-
burn Grange Hall.
aug l3-2i-Summer school of Religious
Education Pittsfield.
Aug. 7-27-Campmeetng, East Liver
more.
Aug. o-2s-Methodist campmeeting,
North Arson.
Aug. a2-Pierce family reunion, Island
Park.
Aug. 22-2s-Maine Undertakers Associa-
ton. Augusta.
Aug 25.-knox and Waldo Pomona
Oranges, joint session, Burkettville.
Aug. 2S-31-Biennial Supreme convention.
Foresters of America.
Sept. 4-5-Maine Association Of County
Commissioners, Rockland.
Aug. IS 31-National Convention Fores-
tiers of America Portland.
Aug. 2e.-Pennell reunion, Grange hall,
Bar Mills.
Aug. 29-Twentieth Maine Reunion, To-
gus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-14
YOU CATCH COLD
QUICKER IF YOUR
STOMACH IS UPSET

You will develop any illness more cas-
lily when your food is not properly diges-
ted, and when the natural functions are
disturbed. A cold in the earliest stages
should never be neglected, as serious
illness may result. tits we'll to get early
to bed. to have the body we'll warmed,
and very important to have the bowels
move freely. There is no better or safer
remedy to use at the beginning of cold
than the true Il. F." Atwood's
Medicine.-Twoto four teaspoonfulsina
cup Of hot water will quickly relieve con-
gestion, carry off the imperiectlydige
food, and help to ward of further trouble.
IS cents at any dealers. II you have
never used this medicine, ask US for .
free sample. Il. F." MEDICINE Co..
Portland, Maine.
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A Glorious Trinity.

In an Ohio town is colored man
whose last name is Washington.
Heaven has blest him with three
sons.
When the first son arrived the father
named him George Washington In
due time the second son came. Natu-
rally he was christened Booker Wash
ington. When the third man child
was born his parent was at a loss, at
first for a name for him. Finally,
though. he hit on suitable selection.
The third son, if he lives, will go
through life as Spokane Washington.
Saturday Evening Post.
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affairs and have no interest in the
broader affairs that affect all COM
n1unities?
- The anti suffrage writer does not
know the average woman" if he
thinks she would vote morality for
HER community and immortality for
that of her sister.
But the supreme fallacy of the above
quoted lies in the presumption that
when a woman marries she is dead as
world influence, while her husband
is unaffected. If marriage increases
feminine responsibilities, so it should
increase the masculine in equal degree.
If it does not, then manhood should
not be trusted with the conduct of af-
fairs.
The average woman" as the mother
of three or four children" has sew
eral-fold responsibility in community
affairs over her status as single,
business woman. That responsibility
must be telt for the highest interests
Of the race. Any other reasoning is
dodge and a service for evil influences.
We call upon the husband and the
brother and the son of the average
woman TO remember their manhood
CT Sept. 10. Be fair to her, and call
her to her place as a tangible influence
tor good.
If woman does not want to vote, as
claimed by some pretenders, then she
should he shown her duty and held to
il
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Steamer Islander

Leaves Augusta every day at 10 A, j;
HalloweN con signaD, 7.13; Gardiner 49,
South Gardiner Con signaD, $50 Cedar
Grove, sos; Richmond, $40; Bath $40
Arrives Boothbay Harbor about ll9o.
Return, leaves Boothbay Harbor every
day at 100 P NJ; Bath 3.15. Stops at
Richmond Cedar Grove and south Gardl-
ner on signal; Gardiner; Hallowell on
signal. Arrives at Augusta about b
@ clock z. Walter NJ. Sa born Angus
ia; Fran S Wingate. Hallowen, W. L.
Tozier, Gardiner; Agents.
mayl6dtf
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As They Tell II in Upper Michigan

As They Tell Il in Upper Michigan
(Draft correspondence of the oo'
Times)
At the home of the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Arnott, "heie
the pearl of sunshine ever rests, nao
the honor to greet the happy occasion
of an affectionate marriage between
MIR. David Morrow of Donaldson anu
Miss Pearl Arnott of Drafter. Wed'
nesday afternoon. The Rev. ATchf
hald >. Kerr performed the ceremoM
with the new and ever increasihs
Presbyterian order, pronounced "
all most effective. After the man
congratulations of large circle
friends from the city and other pom"
who were glad to be here to witness
the notable event, and who had con,
siderable trouble to push their wa!
forward to shake hands with the man
who was fortunate enough to posses.
merchandise to buy the pearl whos'
price Is above rubies. The TlInes
joins in hearty congratulations. aons
with friends for long life and pros
rerity.
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Hallowell, Gardiner and So. Gardiner; 3.ul
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wick, Rockland. Portland, Boston; DO T.
H.. Hallowell, Gardner and So. Gardner
SIS r. NJ, local to Portland, connects
there for New York and Washington;
10 20 +. NJ, Lewiston. Bath, Portland,
Boston. Sundays 800 and lo.2z \ M, o.4z
New York; and 1910 l.. NJ. cortland ana
Going EAsT-1o2 A NJ. Bangor, ST.
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morning at la A NJ does not connect
beyond Bangor; 3.27 \. NJ, for Watervl.ie,
Bangor, Bar Harbor. Calais; SO A. NJ
local to Moosehead Lake tVla Oakianu)'
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local to Belfast, Bangor ana Skowhesan'
1910 noon. Waterville. Bangor. 3. q A X;
h. Bar Harhor. Calais. st. JQhn ana
Halifax; 245 +. NJ, express to Natervllle'
thence local to Bangor and Matta"an-
keac. 7.20 Z. NJ, Watervll!e, SkoWheean
and Bangor sundays 32' y NJ, io OF
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lowell and Gardiner only 405 L. NJ. Gar
diner lly 800 A. NJ. daily.
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d. c. Dou lass. Gen'l Mgr, Port ard, Me.