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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12


wi shame-facsd way in which the
~ n Great American People, now
that the United States is at war,
try-and fail-to sing their national an
them. 1t has been admitted that no one
knows the words. But the result is equally
inarticulate when the words are printed on
the programme, as they were at the re-
cent series of Civic Concerts. Aleister
Crowley, in the current issue of Vanity
Fair" offers saner explanation. His
view of the rationale of the matter
follows:
America has a tremendous tune-one Of
, the most stirring ever written Now credited
beyond doubt to John Stafford Smith, Glou-
cester, 1850, London 1903 melody we'll
known in this country during Revolutionary
days, when various texts were sung to it,
But Francis Scott Key September IA, 1919
wrote in the then highly popular Tilt of
| Know ye the land where the cypress and
myrtle are emblems Of deeds that are done
in their cime?' and he spoiled the whole
thing-and over and over again--by putting
in long syllable where he most needed q
short one.
40. say can you see by the dawn's early
light is al! right but for 'dawn's early which
has to be pronounced 'dawnsiy' if it is to be
properly sung. %, say can you see at the
dawn Of the light would 90 perfectly. This
is not very bad place; an effort will take
you over it; but worse follows. Whose broad
stripes and bright stars is six long syllables.
Whose stripes and whose stars is a little
better; but the whose is always too long,
especially before double or triple consonant.
Sing it % standard of stars or % banner of
stars and there would be no difficulty
Again, the line ending half conceals, half
discloses' asks too much of the breath. You
have to sing '-ceals, half discl' in the same
time as you would take to sing 'daintily.'
GAS it blows, covers up or discloses' is a
good deal easier.
what swollen-tongue feeling one gets in
trying to sing even Their blood has washed
out their foul footsteps pollution Always
the same trouble Of too many consonants. Try
The boss has amended the bad resolution and
it might be appointed for use in Tammany
Hall as Democratic rallying song.
"Some ching OF the sort occurs in nearly
every lire Of this blessed hymn of ours, but
the best choral steeplechaser ever foaled is
bound to come down over the Heaven-r rescued
land fence. 'Vnr and d. are not happy
combinations for the people who objected to
the Russian offensive because it obliged
them 10 try to say Przemysl. Heavenly land
is bit nearer the mark. This is not to say
that heavenly is the right word to use; it is
not the word, as matter of fact, that I
should use. And surely 1t is better to wait
for a commission from the President TO set
this whole tumble right. Quite enough now
for US to amend the sound without attention
to the sense!
"Observe that even 'star-spsngled' itself is
a little difficult, especially before banner
! 'Rsp' and 'ngl' and 'db' constitute formid.
able network Of barbed wire entanglemsnts
for most voices. 'Star-bestrewn' would be a
little better, but not much. t'Spsngled' is a
dreadfully tnselly word, suggesting a circus,
anyhow Probably there isn't perfect word
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

Thus much see.-But there's a spot
That's hidden from mine eyes.
Behind the ruin'd church it lies,
Where gaping Uaults, beneath the maze,
Hare made dreadful kind of care;
And there before the cauerns mouth
A dark and stdgnamt pool IS spread,
SO silent and so still!
I saw 1t last / TIL pale moonlight;
And could think that shapes uncouth
Crept from that cave at dead OF night
With ghoulish stealth, to feast their fill
Upon the pale and huddled dead!
Yet now,
HAPPY, beneath this warm sunlight,
Even that fearsome pool is bright
Under the cavern's brow!
So outward-fair, that few might guess
The secret of its loathsomeness,
Nor know what nameless things are done
There, with the setting of the sum-
e. A. Wodehouse I'D Lieut.. Scot
Guards) in Fortnightly Revie,c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

see from here the path by which we came
The tumbled soil, the shatter'd trees are
there:
And there, in desolation sleeping,
Almost too pitiful for weeping,
The little village--once the home of men
Aye, the whole scene is there,
AS desperate in its abandonment,
AS melancholy-wild and savage-bare
As then:-but somehow in this warm,
bright air
1t all seems different!
The same and yet know it not!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

TITS a very commonplace thing to say
that Fame comes most often in the
footsteps of Death. Perhaps it is the
diffusion of intelligence that has changed
ell that; at any rate, it is true in modern
times that few potentially big figures OF
literature get through an entire lifetime
without some notice from the hunters of
new sensations. There are exceptions, of
course, and Samuel Butler was one OF
them. Not the Samuel Butler who wrote
"Hudibras," which is mentioned in all the
textbooks but which doubtless few persons
Ger read. 1t is another Butler who con-
Germs this writing Butler who died in
1902 in much the same circumstances as
that sweet lady of whom Wordsworth
wrote-"And few could know when Lucy
ceased to be-"
Despite all this strange obscurity, the
name of Samuel Butler has become the
shining centre of what might almost be
called a new literary cult. There are few
now even among the second rank of OBJ
servers who are not able to give the names
of everything Butler wrote without once
including "Hudibras," though it is Will
lam Lyon Phelps who confesses to a re-
version to that volume when he first heard
Buffers name.
1.-THE encyclopedias have little to say
Il about him--even the Britannica,
which somewhere now bears the charge Of
propaganda for English culture. How
ever, it does tell that he went to Cam
bridge; that he was intended for the
church, but that his opinions were too
much for the intention, so he sailed to New
Zealand and made a modest competence
raising sheep-a competence which in
quite the most approved literary manner
he later lost in bad investments. But the
New Zealand memories were destined to
live on and later formed the basis for one
of Buffers best known satires, "Erewhon, "
an ironic picture of England, but it is
"The Way Of All Flesh" which has left
the greatest impression on the literary
minded of to-day, due no doubt to the in
dignant reminder that Shaw gave the
ignorant in his preface to Major Bar
bara":
at drives one almost to despair Of Eng
lish literature when one sees so extraordi-
nary a study of English life as Buffers
posthumous Way of All Flesh making so
little impression that when, some years
later, produce plays in which Buffers ex-
.-=ordinarily fresh, free and future piercing
suggestions have an obvious share am met
with nothing but vague cacklings about
Ibsen and Nietzsehe. Really, the
English do not deserve TO have great men,"
.tyr~HE WAY OF ALL FLESH" is prob
i ably the model on which most young
English noveists, such as Coningsby Daw-
son, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh Walpole,
J. ID. Beresford and w. l.. George, have
produced stories Of youthful reaction
against some phases Of their life and
spiritual evolution in the slums Of London.
But what distinguishes Butler is lacking
in most Of his unprofessing followers: an
attack, that Is no less terrific for being
subtle and hidden, on the hypocrisy Of the
Church and Of certain types OF virtuous
people in England. Butler taught Shaw
the manner Of IL, byt for all the brilliancy
of the discipline il is possible 10 find an in
tsllectual enjoyment in the disguised ridi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

1>HE recent death of j. w. Water
house, R. A., has been keenly felt
- in art circles, where he had achieved
position Of positive and highly indi-
vidual distinction. 1t is pointed out that
while many brushes of the period may be
more robust and assertive, more forcible
in their manner of stating convictions,
none of them possesses quite the Subtle
sympathy" of the brush now relinquished
quite its "sensitiveness and tender
appeal"
The personality of this painter is spoken
of as being as attractive as it was eXcep-
tional-"a personality which quite posi-
bly, many people were unable to under
stand, but which to many others had a
particular fascination" This is the opin-
ion of a writer, A. L. Baldry, in "The In
ternational Studio" who continues:
"Artistically he (Mr. Waterhouse) belonged
to world of his own creation, and he peo-
pied this world with type of humanity that
was very rightly related to its surroundings
These beings, the product of his fancy, lived
in an atmosphere of romance and kept strict
ly aoof from the materialism of modern ex-
istence; they were invested with an air of
dainty melancholy, which, however, was not
allowed to degenerate into morbidity, and
they roamed dangerously through shady
groves or in fields starred with flowers. No
hint of stress or struggle, no Earring note Of
violent emotion, broke the quiet of this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
WALTER SCOTT, Scottish poet
. and novelist, was born at Edinburgh
~ on the 18th of August, l77l-146

and novelist, was born at Edinburgh
~ on the 18th of August, l77l-146
years ago. In his own fragmentary biog-
raphy he gave his pedigree, as follows;
"My birth WAS neither distinguished nor
sordid. According to the prejudiees Of my
country. it was esteemed gentle, as was
connected, though remotely, with ancient
families on both my fathers and mothers
side. NV fathers grandfather was Walter
Scott, well-known by the name OF Beardie'
He was the second son Of Walter Scott hrst
laird of Raeburn, who was the third son OF
Sir William Scott and the grandson OF WAL
ter Scott, commonly called in tradition Aud
Watt of Harden. | am, therefore, lineally
descended from that ancient chieftain and
from his fair dame, the Flower OF Var
William Mimic, in his biographical
sketch of Sir Walter Scott, says:
at was as a poet that he first made MS
literary reputation. The Lay of the Last
Minstrel appeared in January, 1905, and at
once became widely popular. 1t sold more
rapidly than poem had ever sold before.
The success Of the Lay decided
finally that literature was to be the nam
business of SCOTS life. The Lady
of the Lake MAY, 1870 was received with
enthusiasm. 1t made the Perthshire high
lands fashionable for tourists and raised
the post-horse duty in Scotland Scott died
in Tweedsside at Abbotsford on the 2lst OF
September, 1882.
Besides being poet and noveilst' ne was
sheriff deputy Of Selkirkshire, clerk OF ses-
sions, hospital laird, publisher and printer
and miscellaneous man of letters His writ
ines include ballads, poems, the Waverley
novels. TRANSACTIONS and Life OF Napo'
LEON"
A portion of the first canto OF SCOTS
celebrated Lady of the Lake" is here re-
produced:
The Lady of the Lake
THE CHASE
vr>HE stag at eve had drunk his fill,
L Where danced the moon on Monans
rill,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

world; it was a place apart in which life
moved placidly and followed a peaceful
course, and in which dream people played
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

The
Battlefield of The Marine
4 Year Aiter
Bv ALLEN TUCKER
ELAGS tit the field.
Il Flags, flags and flags;
Blouing straight ont IN the bright uindi
Blouirg straight out Over The green Srdve;;;
Blolirg straight out BY The uhge crosses
The feds rest
The sheep craze.
The birds fly yellow in.o The level ,un,
And the flags, the flags blow. 'traight, om.
Blue, ,Ulite and red.
Straight 10 the East,
Straight against the foe,
Gay. free, and fierce
Wnh the terrible defiance ofihe dead
Dseors''asi BY Hugh F0r,H
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

4 PLEA for the support OF pres
n day American artists by apprep
l. n tive patronage is made by Bsn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

"A NANY people have remarked the
N shame-facsd way in which the
\ Great American People, now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
The Lady of the Lake
THE CHASE

~HE stag at eve had drunk his fill,
l Where danced the moon on Monan's
rill,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
oATARRH CANNOT BE CURED

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the
disease. Catarrh is a blood or con-
stitutional disease, and in order to
cure it you must take intern re
NEEDLES. HALLS Catar rh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly
upon the blood and mucous sur
face. Hall's Catarrh Cure is mot a
quick medicine. 1t was prescribed
by ONE of the best physicians in
this country for years and is a
regular pre- scription. 1t is compos-
ed of the best tonics known, COM
bined, with the best blood purifi-
ers, acting directly ON the mucous
! surfaces. The perfect combination
of the two ingredients is what pro
duces such wonderful results in
curing catarrh Send for testimon-
ials, free.
Take Halls Family PILE for con-
stipation. eqa.,s n,a
f. J. CHENEY and CO., Props,
Toledo. o. Sold by Druggists
price 75c.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
WAR AND WOOL.
The all controlling influence

The all controlling influence of
war continues.
The inevitable has, of course hap
p.ned. HE attempt to- subtract
three from two in the wool sup
ply OF the world has brought it's
answer in minus one.
The wool Clip CT 1916 sold for
60 to- Csc. per secured pound, but
the fleece on the sheep now run
nills around din the snCw of Cur
wool growing Sc ties has been sold
to dealers under contract for de-
livery next June on the secured
basis of 81 90 per pound or more.
The United States uses 600,O00,-
900 pounds OF wool per annum..
The clip of the United States he,:
decreased i'm five years from 1885,
900, 600 to $4,000 pounds. THE
clips OF Australia, Argentine, and
New Zealand have decreased, the
clip OF all the countries at Wni
has almost disappeared; twenty mil
lion men at War use five to ten
dimes as, mutlh wool as usual, and
can't exist without it. And there
is no substitute.
III the War continues for even
one more year, it will not be q
question of price, but OF wool All
any price, and there is always tho
possibility of this country being
forced to actual preparedness
hitch would necessitate taking fol
the army such wool as is now il
the mills for their general trade.
England has an embargo ON WOO
from 'lucme ard all her colonies
We are dependent ON South Ameri
ga for more than half our supply
and must bid against the necessi
ties of War for every pound WI
get.
So long as the War continues
clothing must climb in price b.
leaps and bounds. and what seems
outrag eously high this season, ap
pears a lost opportunity next sea
son.
] The question naturally arises
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

there is always the danger, NO mat
ter how remote it may SEEM that
sopneI Act of a desperate, combatant
m|ay force this country into the
war almost over might. Every mer-
chant should husband his profits
from, present exceptional business
conditions and place himself in the
strongest possible financial position
instead of diverting profits into ex-
pa.nding his fixed charges or for
outside speculation.
Whenever the time comes that
with our sources of information we
feel that 1t is time to- begin reducs-
ing commitments, we shall issue "a
report to that effect
The War is such a predominating
Influence in clothing values, and
the recent peace talk has SO con-
centrated everyone's attention, on
the possible effects of peace that
We have devoted this report exclu-
siVely to the subject, but this
country is literally Intoxicated
With prosperity and the wise mer-
chant is one who recognizes that
comparison of prices with those OF
the past is a waste .of time and
that the astute American people APP
preciate conditions, want good, we'll
made clothing and are willing and
able to pay a fair price for what
they want.
Do not speculate or accentuate,
the shortage by ordering more than
your seasons trade demands, but
don't hesitate to buy your full re-
quirements from manufacturers in
whom you have confidence. !.
Il Washington Wooden Mills Co. Inc.
i Fredericksburg, Virginia. "
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
BUYS THE MAJESTIC

Tuesday afternoon deal was
completed whereby G. w. McNary,
who has been operating the Majtsic
in this city for the past several
months, disposed of the same to H.
/. Miller, OF Cameron, Missouri. Mr.
Miller has been in the movie bust
ness for number OF years and
understands the business from
every angle. He has maldd Ia. suc-
cess of the business in the town
where he comes from and we pre-
dict that he will give Griswold one
OF the best moving picture shows
of amy place in this part of the
state. He expects ito make a num-
Der of changes in the, manage
ment of the place and wall en-
deavor to give Giriswold the very
best there lis He will have some
thing toy say TO the people through
the columns of the American IL lit
rle later--GIiswold American
Mr. McNary will be remembered
by the people of Extra as the
proprietor off the Extra Cream Sta
ton, previous to his purchase of
t!liis show. We have not heard of
Mr.. McNary's intentions for the
future.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
CADDOCN STECIkER
WRESTLE AT OMAHA

1t has been announced that Joe
Stecker of Dodge Center, Nebraska
and Earl Caddcck OF Anita, Iowa,
have been matched for finish
wrestling match to decide the
heavy weight title to be held in
Omaha, April 9th. Frank Gotch has
announced that he will look after
the training of Caddock from now
till the day OF the match. Gene
Malady will promote the match.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
BIRTHDAY PARTY At
MISS HELEN NELSON'S

Miss Helena Nelson celebrated
her nineteenth birthday anniver-
sary last Sunday by entertaining a
large number of her friends at
the home of her parents John
Nielsen and wife. A feast was in
dulged in after which a very good
time was had. They all returned
to their homes late in the evening.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Suppose the war should end? We
know it must end sometime, and
God grant that it may be SOON,
buI whenever nit ends the follow
ing facts must prevail:
LIST. The world will have MO re-
serve supply of wool.
End All the world Except pos
sibly the United States) will have
bare counters.
3rd. The countries now at war
will begin their renaissance.
4th A large part of twenty
million men must discard their tat
tered, vermin infested uniforms for
civilians clothes.
5th. England, France, Germany,
Austria and Belgium will leap at
each others throats in the great
est Commercial War of history to
recover the markets of the world
and the gold that has been DRAIN
ed from them.
9Th. The demand for raw wool
and cotton will be Unsuitable, be-
cause 1t takes nearly as much raw
stock to start up a mill as it nor
mally buys in six months.
7th After am armistic is agreed
upon, it will take surely two
months to appoint the peace
Com missiones from all the couu-
tries at War and get them to a
central meeting place. After they
| meet, six months would be a
short time in which to agree up
on the details involved in the
boundaries of all the countries at
War, to say nothing of indemnities
and guarantees of future peace.
S,th. No man can return to the
factory until everything is definite
ly settled, but every factory own
er will seek raw materials at any
Price
i Our deductions from the forego-
ilg are:
list. That no matter how high
wool and cotton sell during the
War, they will Sell much higher
During the year following am arm
istiice
End. That it will be more than
sia months after fighting ceases
mn apfit Sfa> Of 10th
landed here, and, consequently, al
least a year before clothing from
same could reach the consumer.
3rdi That this gives the mer
chant at least a full year after al
: armistice lis reached i'm which tx
liquidate, during which time WOO
r and cotton will sell at the ht ghes
l prices ever known, and provide
situation in which stocks can be
! liqldidated at a profit.
Based upon tthe logic OF the fore
going. we unIhesitatingly advise re
/, failers to buy their full require
ments for the coming season.
g While the foregoing is the logica
deduction. We wish to emphasiz,
!, the fact that we are directly af
y lectqd by the War, and no ont
9 can foresee with any certainty th,
+ result of continual use of seven
: ty-fiye mtllion dollars day spen
in destroying lives and counties
- '-iler millions OF property. an
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Henry Daugaard and sister,
Mary, and the Misses Myrtle and
Martha Jensen attended the meet
ing in Brayton, Hast Sunday. I
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

P. A lessen vent to- AtlanMka
last Saturday to attend the Mis-
sion Meetings which was being held
at the Danish Lutheran Church in
that city. He returned home the
first of the week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

christy Knudson passed thru
town last Sunday with an auto
load of young ladies. Hurrah for
Christy. -.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Jake Warner has placed an or
der FOB a Ford car with the a
gent at Audubon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

H. P Petersen and wife were at
tending the Mission Meetings in
Atlantic, last Friday. at which the
Reverends Svensen of Jacksonville,
and 'Gertsen of Council Bluffs,
wsre speakers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Victor Olsen left for Ohio, las
Week to work in tire factory.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Martin Jensen and family, resid-
ing near Poplar. are qurantined
with scarlet fever at the home
of Mrs. Jensen's parenA Mr. and
Mrs Anton Seimersen, in this city
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
HAMLIN
9. 81 81 49,

Tom Goodwin and Eva Hayes were
visitors at his parents home Sun
day.
p. NJ. Christensen and family
visited at the p M. Petersen home
sunday,
George Struthers sawed wood for
Fred Campbell and James. Hood,
last Friday.
John Root is building new hog
house. Harry Rabe is doing the
work. .....,
John Phipp sold bunch of hogs
to our buyer HAST week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
FOR SALE

Horses and Brood Sows, head of
good young broke horses, 20 head
of Duroc Jersey Sows.
Ierbert Thielen, Brayton, Iowa.
Phone Extra l9E24 MIS- pd
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

When Mark Twain, in his early
days, was editor of Missouri news
paper. a superstitious subscriber
wrote> to him saying that he had
found a spider in his paper and
ask ed him whether that was sign
of good luck or bad The humor-
list wrote him this answer and
printed it: "Old Subscriber: Find
ing a spider in your paper was
neither good luck or bad luck for
you. The spider was merely look
ing over our paper to- see which
merchant is not advertising SO
that he can go to that store, spin
his web across the door and lead
a life OF undisturbed peace ever
ahterward." Baraga, Michigan
journal - ~
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Julius Christensen purchased j
B Nelson's Ford one day last week
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

Mrs. A. w Harvey is a very sick
lady at this writing. Wednesday
she lay for eight hours in a stu
por. La grippe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
Wanted

x good heavy boned Chester white
Boar, yearling about $50 pounds.
James Jensen, Route 4 Extra
Phone % on % Anita. 1wk pd.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15

i have on hand supply OF hog
time to get yours. N. L Beck
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-03-15
FOR SALE OR TRADE

One German Coach Stallion, four
years cid, weight fourteen hundred
pounds.
Mar. 20 Nick Mertes