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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-14
GROWING HOGS.

For hog to be profitable he must
be kept growing from birth to mar
keting age. He cannot be profitable
unless he is healthy. He can always
be in a proft-producing condition if
he is fed B. A. Thomas Hog Powder.
We positively tell you that this rem
edy prevents cholera, removes worms
and cures thumps. If the powder
does not make good, we will Wall
Brothers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-14

Abruzi rye for sale. Dawson Trad
ing Co.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29
New MEXICO.

New MEXICO.
"The foreman who made this part of
the world did sort Of Loose job. The
country is of large. open work con-
struction and pretty badly scattered.
It's about all Smountains and mesa.
Mesa means land that isn't either prai-
rie or desert. 1t is a little overdone as
prairie and underdone as desert-sort
of betWixt and between as it were. In
the mountains they prospect for all
kinds of precious and useful metals.
Then they organize mining companies,
put big double page advertisements in
the newspapers and sell stock to the
suckers, which lies around until after
thu buyer is dead and it is then listed
as non-negotiable assets. But once in
SO often, that is maby once in 1,1C0
times, they make big strike. Then
the promoters go to work and freeze
out the small investors and proceed to
get rich
"When this part of the world was in
its infancy it suffered all the eruptve
diseases common to childhood. The
evidence still remains that it was badly
broken out The eruptions have all
healed but the face of nature is badly
SCARED. Lots of the mountains used
to be volcanoes, but they are regular
|. w. VS. now, not working any more.
But before they took out their red
cards they must have been on the job
like lot of Irish section men, scat
tering rock and lava and natural hard
ware of various kinds pretty much all
over the landscape.
You've heard tell of the country of
magnificent distances. Well, this is it
all right. It's nothing to see hundred
miles-and then not see anything. The
open country is given over to stock
raising, and, believe me, must be some
lonesome job, specially for the women
folks. - Herald of the Well Courtry.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

The Independent Family some time
ago gave up The idea of Turkey for
Thanksgiving, and had mouths fixed for
roast beef, but thanks to the thought
fulness of F, @. Imboden, we will feast
on Fresh Pork Roast instead. In lieu
of sweet potatoes to accompany the
pork, We have a "sweet potato" squash
from the farm of Henry Houston,
which is a splendid substitute. Thanks
to our friends, we will fare we'll on this
Thanksgiving Day.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Road Overseer Stubbefield of Estan-
cia, accompanied by Willie Elgin, was
here yesterday, and in company with
DR.. Amble and w, R. 0. Orme, went
out on the Mesa southeast of town, to
inspect the road, especially the canon
just this side of the Mesa, which re-
quires bridging, preparatory to taking
S cps toward making the crossing pas
sable,
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mrs. Boyton caught glimpse of her
young son going to the library one af-
ternoon concealing something behind
him. Upon investigation, she disccv-
cred he had q new porous plaster which
he had found in the medicine closet.
''Why Edmund" said the mother,
what in the world are you going to do
with that plaster?"
81 am going to see what tune it will
play or the pianola, mother" replied
the boy
From the Thanksgiving Puck.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Miss Fannie Eaton was stricken by a
feinting spellon Sunday night, while at
church, probably due to overexertion in
cranking a Ford She was taken to
the Commercial Hotel, where medical
aid was summoned. She improved
sufficiently to be taken home on Mon
day evening.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Harry Dills came over from Belen
Saturday morning to spend the Thanks
giving holidays with his father on the
farm southwest of Mountainair.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

A. G. Parker Of Mountainair, was
here last Saturday on business. He
states that his part Of the state is
enjoying reasonable prosperity this
fall. House Pioneer News.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mrs. Agnes R. Kubena has about re-
covered from an attack of indigestion,
from which she suffered Sunday night,
while attending services in Mountainair.
For a while she was very ill, but was
able to go home and secured medicine
for himself.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

County Superintendent c. L. Burt
went to Santa Fe on Friday of last
week to attend the State Teachers
Association. Mr. Burt has held the
position Of treasurer of the organization
for some time.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

7. L. Capt came in the first of the
week, and left again Tuesday for San
Andres mountains, where he is inter-
ested in mining claims. He will return
shortly to remove his family to Rincon,
where they will reside.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mr.. Peters who has a homestead
north of the Manzano Grant, came in
Friday to lock after his holdings. He
has been gone some four years, but ex-
poets to make this his home now.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

The stork has been in the Mountainair
vicinity again, leaving a boy at the
Frank Schmitz home south of town, on
Sunday night, and one at the George
Hamilton home north of town on Mon
day night
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Montrose McEachern claims that the
best boy in the county had come to
make his home with the McEachern's,
last Thursday. The mother and boy are
doing well, and Macs friends are watch
ing him.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

M. B. Fuller left Monday morning
for California, where he expects to
make his future home, in hopes that the
lower altitude will prove beneficial to
him. Mrs, Fuller has been on the coast
for some weeks.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Black: He's young lawyer, and
desperately in love!
White: Yes, he enters an appear
ance at the girls home three nights a
week, pleads his case. receives an ad-
verse decision, and then appeals again
From the Thanksgiving Puck.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

N. S. Rose went to Albuquerque
Monday evening for visit with his
family. He has been helping D. W.
10th, the painter for a week here.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Ira Bacon, travelling representative
of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., with
headquarters at New Orleans, was a
Mountainair business visitor yesterday.
He went from here to Albuquerque to
eat turkey with his family today.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

MIR. and Mrs. L. c. Lindsey are pre-
pairing to return to Ada, Oklahoma, to
take care of their property there. The
son, who was looking after things there,
has volunteered for federal service and
is at San Antonio, awaiting orders to
go elsewhere.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mrs. Kriegcr expected to leave last
night for her old home in Ada, Okla
homa, having become homesick for old
friends and surroundings.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mr. and Mrs J. f. Wallace returned
Wednesday from Mountainair. House
Pioneer News.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mrs. Irene Williams and children, Of
S:holle, has spent several days this
week visiting the Lee family here.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Mrs. Elizabeth T. Brooks came in
Tuesday evening from her home at Co.
meZ, Texas.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

B. B. Spencer was down from East
view last Saturday on business.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

j. G. SciVally, who lives near Willard,
was business visitor in Mountainair
yesterday.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

County Agent Strong was in Mount
ainair yesterday on official business.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

H. c. Moseley came down from his
mountain home near EastvieW Monday
on business.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

Rev. Jose Gauthier, parish priest at
Manzano, was Mountainair visitor
yesterday.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29
New Mexico

The following spasm also was turned
in by one of the patients at st. Joseph
sanatOIium.
The Mountainair independent., 1917-11-29

on business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
Announcements
Forthcoming Volumes and News
of the World of Books

The Century Company will publish
in September Holworthy Halls eight
Golf stories. "Dormie One and Other
Stories; Mary X. Parkman's Heroes
Of To-day" and HHeroines Of Service
and Gelett BURGESS Mrs. Hopes Hus.
band"
Alfred A. Knopf announces "a
Chaste Man." novel by Louis viii
kinson.
f. P. Dutton & Co. will presently
issue another edition Of the Wagner
Macdonald Anson "Epics and Romances
Of the Middle Ages which was a JOY
to readers of a generation ago and
which has been priced above price by
those capable of approaching such
treasure. They will also issue Fitz-
water Wray's English translation Of
Henri Barbusse's "Under Fire"
Doubleday, Page & Co. will this fall
publish Peter b. Kyne's webster
Mans Man" and volume by Stewart
Edward White. Both those authors
have been commissioned as captains in
the National California Field Artillery
The Thomas Y. Crowel Company will
issue a Luxembourg edition" Of Dana's
1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" with
numerous Photographic illustrations
Their list also comprises women War
Workers" by Gilbert Stone, with a
preface by Lady Jellicoe, and "The
Moderns," by John Freeman, a criti-
cism of some Of the foremost modern
writer's
Robert J. Shores will publish in Sep.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
Supping Full of Horrors

LISfEHOUsE NIGHTS By Thomas Burke l2mo
limo ID. Bill Robert " Mcbride Co
Mr.. H. G.. Wells is quoted as saying
that he has nowhere seen anything. like
adequate praise for "the romantic force
and beauty" Of this book. No; and he
will not see il. You cannot well praise
things which do not exist, and neither
romance nor beauty exists in this vol
ume. Force, yes. But 1t IS the force
of the nakedest naturalism, not ro-
manticism. AS for beauty. you may as
we'll speak of the bitheness and merri-
ment of the morgue. Let US rid our
minds of cant. and have regard for the
meaning Of the words which we use.
Realism is not romanticism, and ugli-
ness is not beauty.
The title of the work is abundantiy
significant. Limehouse rs one OF the
most hideous slums of London. These
Limehouse Nights are filled with hlth
and obscenity and blasphemy and vlo-
lence and crime. True, there are IN
terspersed some touches OF sweetness
and purity and virtue; but these serve
as mere foils TO emphasize the ire
deemable horror of the ma or motives.
As a portrayal Of the darkest side or
life in the darkest quarter OF the
worlds metropolis it is masterpiece
For graphic and dramatic force IT ~
scarcely TO be surpassed. IL rivals lola
a. his best-or worst. For what IT is,
we cheerfully give it highest com
mendation. But let us not pirate about
romantic beauty" in a picture OF de-
generates grovelling in the gutter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
The Tricks Of the Track

THE SPORT or KINGS b Arthur Slneis
Roche Illustrated by ArtnTr J. Keller 4-iAJ
DID, 32I The Bcbb, Merrill Company.
The perennial interest in thorough
bred horse racing which survives me
reproach of poolrooms and bookmaNng
and defies the rivalry Of speed-me.di
motor maniacs. resppears in this y.yld
and spirited tale. written by man
who knows his theme. One Of the most
famous racing scenes in English liter
ature is that in Ouids's Under Two
Flags" concerning the technical cor
rectness Of which volumes have been
written pro and contra. No line is
likely to be written in challenge OF me
lifelikeness of Mr. Keller's scenes
whether they be those on the track or
elsewhere. The racing, the intrlgueS
Of stall and paddock, the controversies
of the judges box and all the rest are
depicted with authority as indisputable
as the fascination Of the tale is grip
ping. The love sentiment, which runs
like a golden thread through the story.
is delicately and sympathetically han
died. and is never permitted to become
either mawkish or obtrusive. II IS on
the whole, one of the best sporting
novels the highest sense Of that
phrase-that we have read for years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
How Men Fight
Scenes Of the War Among
Various People

THE FIGHTING MEN By Alden BROOKS. limo.
ID SO2 Charles scribrer's Sons.
These half-dozen chapters are great
ly TO be priced, for no fewer thar
three different and specific reasons.
One is, for their brilliancy as dra-
matte narratives. In conception, see
mario and general execution they rank
among the best bits of short story
writing that we have seen for many
a day. The second reason Is, for what
we believe 70 be their realistically
truthful portrayal Of the manner n
which this war is being waged, par.
ticularly in the british savagery OF
the Huns.
But the third reason. and best, IT,,
for the subtle insight with which the
author penetrates, and the deft skin
with which he discloses, the militant
psychology of the men of the various
armies and nations. He tells US OF a
Belgian, a Partisan. three Russians,
an American, an Englishman and a
Prussian, and in each case he presents
so perfect character study OF inc
very soul Of his subject that we fee!
an almost uncanny sensation OF having
penetrated wibhin forbidden bounds.
No book which we have seen gives a
more convincing analysis ard portrayal
Of the peoples who are az war, and OF
how they think. and feel, and hope, ana
suffer and endure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18

committee the danger Of giving the
American fighting man S33 month 70
mend while French and British sol
diers. with whom the Americans VIII
fraternize. will have only fraction OIL
that amount.
General John J. Pershing was quoted
by Judge Mack as having sent woro
that 50 or SO a month was sufnclent
spending money for the American sol
dieTs.
Mack Quotes Pershing
90 am authorized 10 say that for
General Pershing." Judge Mack SAID.
"A man who talked to General
Pershing not more than two weeks ago
brought back that word" go,
Insurance actuaries attacked the bill
m several grounds. They pointed out
the danger of forcing men TO save a
part of their monthly pay. and said
that IL was a dangerous infringement
an nersonal liberties. Insurance, men
aIso attacked the government pRn as
unsafe. and said that it would cost
the government so much as to make
il impracticable.
George +. Ide, chairman OF the IN
surance committee appointed by Secre-
tarv McAdoo TO make a report on the
Administration bill. told the committee
that ne and his colleagues favored the
principle Of compensation and indem-
pitv for soldiers and sailors, but the
terms should be known in advance, so
tbcv could be made a part of the
enlisted mans contract. He urged care
in the preparation of the plan, and
"wise, methodical and economical adj
ministration.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18

not at all sure that they are right
If they do, however, turn to what we
NAV term-with apologies-the mid
die class" they too often make their
portrayals of il mere travestles. Inc
most extravagant, distorted, unratu-
raj and impossible pictures of life that
we have seen in the fiction books have
been those which purported to be OF
those average men and women who are
most familiar to US all and who make
up the overwhelming majority OF the
American nation.
Mrs. Norris has not thus erred. We
can find from first to last not one false
touch, either in drawing or in color.
Nowhere is the light too brillian or
the shadow too dark. Nowhere Is
there a false bit Of color, or blending
Of tints. Even the perverse Malcolm
Monroe himself is perfectly true to
life. The same is TO be said OF the
speech and conduct of all the people.
They are made TO talk just as people
do talk, and TO act just as people do
act: until, if it were not for thus IN
clining TO the fault which moment
ago we we're deploring, we should be
tempted 20 wonder if the cinemato-
graph and the dictaphone had not been
mustered into use as adjuncts to the
composition of the book.
To this let us add that there is moth
ing in the book that ssvors Of morbid
pathology. There are no sex problems,
no unclean intrigues. There is sin,
Of course. and there is suffering: see
ing that it is a tale of human life.
But all is wholesome, straightforward,
aboveboard. There is not one char
acter in it-no, not even the priggish
father nor the Maynard husband who
does not Justly command some degree
of human sympathy. As for Martie her
self, in her neglected but ambitious
girIhood, in her woful burden bearing
as wife and mother, in her resistance to
temptation, in her sweet forgivingness,
and in her final serene though sacri-
fetal triumph-to have created her IS
to have made a distinguished achieve
ment in art. and to have enriched
| American literature with an imperish-
! able figure.
The novel is a masterpiece. II is
the best thing that Mrs. Norris has
I thus far written. 1t is one of the best
| half-dozen works of fiction Of the pres
ent year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
Alleged Blackmailer
Held for Grand Jury
Tractor Company Head Testi-
fees Man Attempted Extor-
ton Under Mann Act

William Baer Ewing, president OF
the Ford Tractor Company. OF Min
neapolis. .old under oath yesterday be-
fore United States Commissioner
Hitchcock how two men tired TO
brighten him with threats of prosecu-
ton under the Mann act into giving
them $4,000. The hearing was on the
case Of Edward L. Kelly, or Hollahan,
one of the alleged blackmailers; the
other, Daniel Finn, alias Doherty,, is
under $500 bail and was not at the
preliminary examination. Kelly was
held for the grand jury, 81, A.
Mr.. Ewing, whose family - on the
Pacific Cast, is living in the apart
ment of Mrs. Irene Taylor, at 2l0 west
Ninetieth Street. He said that the two
men called on him on Monday evening
and one showed gilt badge ~ GU
know the Mann white slave law was
the answer Mr.. Ewing said they mace
when he inquired as to the object OF
their visit. II
At their invitation, Ewing said, all
three left the house and discussed the
situation on bench at Riverside Drive
and Eighty-ninth Street.
81 asked them what it was worth to
hush up the matter" said Ewing, and
they told me that as | was a pretty
good sort of a little fellow they would
not go hard with me and $4,000 would
do" 49,.
The next morning Mr.. Ewing was
consulting with his attorney and the
Federal authorities, but he kept an APP
pointment with the pair on Wednesday,
taking along marked bills and some de-
tectives.
Pasquale Pignuolo, an agent OF the
Departm INT Of Justice, testified to md
ine the shield which was used with
such momentary success and said 1t
was a deruty sheriff's shield issued by
the late julius Hamburger.
On cross-examination Mr.. Ewing
said that he had known his landlady
in Minneapolis and that she was livins
in New York when he arrived. he ano
other officers of the tractor company
are under indictment by the Federal
grand Jury for alleged illegalities II
stock selling methods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
of Fighting Men
A Student in Arms Aoa;n

keys sprightly and u.,.,.
sketches is worthy OF the first I, ~
we like Il better than the first ba.e
IN its autobiOgraphical fracmsnv,..' ~s'
indeed IN many places elsevhe,e :, ~
veals more OF the man hlmss,, =
confirms US in enrolling MIN Wei ,T
Seeger and Victor Chapman az. az A !s
other brave, bright spirit. wbo ~ 4. y, y
war have given "the las, fuIl ~ - ny
OF devotion 10 the cause Of hnS -,sA
and freedom. The book portray v,H. !. I
of the spiritual than Of tbs ,a a0a
material experiences Of ne ma, f.' \,
trench, though Of the latter -. "a "
no lack; az witness a biz
Months Rejection: " ~
These rats are the Inh -
dugout Swarms with then ,.n'
night they ate half my bitgi,, gag
a good part Of Timothy's Sea az
| shall leave the sapgs ' iN9sA
tonight, 70 see # that keen, - 90 ..
away. "sn
Last night the rat. ,r.s :, -.
the candle, and very nearly A., !.
on FIRE. ~
But most OF the book /, su.A -,
the expression OF noble spiritn,r.l
which no appreciative nina co" IVY
without being higly inspired "a 49,
braYer. purer life. ''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-18
Woman Triumphant
Kathleen Norris s Masterpiece OF
Middle Class" Life

NARTIE THE UNCONoUERED ny
Kathleen Norris illustrated. limo PIP
$40. Doubleday. Page & Co.
We dislike to speak of the middle
class" or of any class in America.
Yet the word expresses fact which
can otherwise be expressed only
through awkward circumlocutlon; and
since the fact is not in itself neces-
sarily offensive, il should be possible
10 use the convenient word without
offence. But L there be those upon
whose sensibilities it irremedisbly
Jars, let US say that the novel before
us portrays life among Americans who
are neither very rich nor very poor,
neither ultra fashionable nor uncouth
and squalid.
In portraying such life Mrs. Norris
enters a field at once the most fecund
and the most neglected. Too much
our novelists turn for themes TO the
social extremes. They reckon that the
great majority Of readers like to hear
Of the doings of the upper ten or
else find morbid pleasure in hear
ing Of the mseries and vices Of the
submerged tenth; in which we are