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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31

recruiting commission now in tn"
United States His two scars were
received in the Battle of Ladysmith.
When he was accepted he posed for
this photograph ot the recruitine
station
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31
Taking Cathartics Every
Day for Weeks Don't
Cure Stomach Trouble

Fh'y do not eliminate the poisonous iilc
ACcretiunS from the system 50 declares a
leading Chicago stomach Specialist. Often
Gall Stones. Cancer and Ulcers Of the
stomach and intestlues. tnto intpicatiOn.
yellow .Iouudice. Appendicitis and other
dangerous ailments are the consequences
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy Is the ideal pre-
scrl7uoD for Stomach, Liver and Intcsti.
nal ailments. II has restored millions. one
dos" viii prove thar II will help you
Mayrs WoT6erfIl Remedy IS for sale by
Pendleton Drug Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31
GRAIN STANDARDS UNIFORM.
state Conforms to Federal Codes By
Boards Action.

Tacoma, Jlly 26.-Washington state
grain standards were made uniform
here today with those adopted by the
government by the state grain COM
mission. There has been confusion
heretofore owing to conflicting stand
ards between the federal code AMI
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31
Otis sPRAGUE DIES.

SEATTLE. JULY 3O.-Otis SpraGlIr
agent for the TranscOntincntlI Pas
sen2eT Association .gas found dead
Ut his desk this morning Death wa,
due To heart failure.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31
JAPANESE DESTROYFRs
SINK \ SJRNINRINF

TOKYO. July 3O.-JapaHese d.
strOyers i'm the Mediterranean. con
voying British transports. sank an al :
tacking submarine. it is announced.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31
BETTER THAN 1T WAS

IN NE of the most hopeful
VI signs in the Russian stu
alton is that fighting is
on between the forces of the
new republic and Germany. 1t
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31

Francis J. Heney, the California
attorney. who may be the selection Of
President Wilson to probe specula-
ton in foodstuffs
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-07-31

those of the different states, and 1t is
for this reason that the action was
taken.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
Saved by a Wreck

II wasn't really wreck that saved the
Bradleys, but fire, They were young
married people who had begun life modestly
ana then prospered. They let thcir ex-
penscs Increase little faster than their
income. They bought house that cost
twice as much as they knew they ought
To- pay and they were drawn into the social
life about them Bills piled up. The hus-
band and wife drftcd apart. There were
rocks ahead. Then the FIRE came and re-
duCed living to its fundamentals place to
sleep and food and clothing and the family
life began again. This is Kathleen Norris s
new story, "Undertow." which ran serially
in the Ladies' Home JouInel under the title
of Holly Court" II deals with the prob
lem that confronts many American families
which have not the decision of character To
live their own lives in their own way re-
gardless of what their friends may think.
Mrs Norris has told her tale with skill and
insight. Many persons will recognize the
delightful residence park on Long Island
Sound in which the final chapters are laid.
and many more will recognize themselves
in the Drad'eys,
rNnERTOw. BY Kathleen Norris. author Of
'Nothcr" sl2j. Garden city; Doubleday
Page Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
THE STORY'OF A
.WONDROUS DAY
Interesting Experiences of a
Young Woman Between Two
Breakfast Times

Romance dances and skips through Good
Morning, Rosamond" one of the most de-
lightful books that has come from the press
this spring. Its author Is Constance Lindsay
skinner poet, playwright and journalist.
who has proved that she is also a novelist
of rare gifts. The scene of the story is
an English country village Of the kind Mrs.
Gaskell described in Crawford" If the
book itself does not become a classic after
the manner of Mrs. Gaskells famous tale,
1t will not be for lack of merit. The
heroine. Rosamond. is farmers daughter
who married an English gentleman three
times her age. He left her a widow after
less than two years of welded life. and she
could enjoy his fortune so long as she con-
tinued to live In the village and maintain his
house In which he had gathered large
collection of antiques. The story opens
when she Is about twenty-three years old
and a widow of four years standing. Her
maids, inherited along with the estate, are
called away one morning at breakfast time
by the Illness Uf their mother and she Is
left a,one In the house for the first time.
II Is summer and she decides to enjoy one
wondrous day In her own way. The spirit
of romance stirs In her young heart and
she longs for its qualification But nothing
ever happens in Roseborough." She dons
one of her gayest gowns.sa survival from
the first years of her married life, and sets
out to seek adventure. She gets 1t with
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
A Cape Cod Girl in Florence

Aside from being a volume that to its final
chapter holds ones interest and stimulates
his admiration Gertrude Halls new book
Aurora the Magnificent" gives an intimate
picture of life in Florence that will send
the mind of previous visitors to it, barking
back along pleasant channels of remem.
brance.
The author knows Florence intimately
and loves 1t we'll Her father and mother.
who were musicians Travelled extensively
on concert tours. The daughter. although
born in America was sent to Florence to
school at the age of seven She remained
there for sixteen years. before she came
back to America, but frequently revsits the
scene of her school.day activities.
Her new book deals with Cape Cod
woman of the wholesome type, . set down
in Florence, among an Anglo american
group Of persons who today would be desig-
mated as the super high-brow set. Eminent
ly sophisticated and self-satisncd persons
they were. and the young Aurora shocks
them into violent contortons of the eyebrows
by having a mind of her own, buying what
she likes instead of what she is expecte ed
to think she likes: having "A sense of humor
and being perfectly natural. Worst of all
she falls in love-and with Gerald Fame.
an artist. Now an artist In love with any
thing but his art was an utterly impos-
sible person to Aurora's acquaintances
Finally Aurora and Gerald eope and are
married. Follows many pages of con-
versational speculation on the part Of
friends about the miseries of love in a
garret, crackers and cheese, and one thing
and another
But If the reader is wise he will believe
them to be happy, for how would two such
creatures as they be anything else. The
entire delineation of their characters
throughout the book shows that.
AURORA. THE NlAGNIFICENT. BY Gertruds
Hall. 81 40. New York: The Century Com
pany.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

whole school of polyanna- -Rebecca at
Sunnybrook- Farm Anne of Green G Gables
fiction makes me tired 1t is fit only Cor
schoolgirls"
The Lady looked up at him with an ex-
preston of amused tolerance.
'You tell me-" he went on. that five
hundred ministers preached sermons about
Contrary Mary written by this Bailey
woman, who has put forth another of the
same kind. Well. all l have to say is that
when five hundred ministers preach about
book let it alone
s'T know of a Book that more than five
hundred ministers have preached about"
the Lady remarked gently. do you let
that alone, too?'
Ames .blushed and looked ashamed.
II don't mean that. But this sort Of
stuff is all so commonplace and old
fashioned There is no originality in it,
and no facing of the hard, brutal facts
Of iife'
Yet hundreds of thousands of persons
books said |. There must be a reason.
This is fact that needs some explana-
tion' We cannot indict our fellow men
Unfortunately. Is it not possible that
these books are truer to the best things
In life than those which you call 'origi-
nar?,How many thousand years ago did
. the Wise Man say there was nothing new
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

three proposals of marriage before the
evening. but the amorous swains are i'm
possible from her point of view, and the
evening opens with the longing still unsatis-
fed. Then things began to happen. Before
morning she Is betrothed to a hero as ro-
mantle as the heart of a. girl could desire.
and the wonderful day which began so un-
happily ends with the singing of the morn
ing birds and the cleaning of the sun as Il
gilds the landscape on which she looks The
story is told with consummate literary art.
1t Is joyous and buoyant. scintllant and
sarcastic, cynical and sympathetic. Rosa
mond.is a heroine to make glad the heart.
The book is likely to be read on every
summer hotel piazza this year and next
year and in the years to come, 1t is Miss
SINNERS first novel, If she can write more
as entertaining she will have an assured
place among the lovers of good reading.
"GoOD MORNING, ROSAMoNDr' BY Con-
stance Lindsay skinner. Illustrated by
Thomas Fogarty. sl.35 Garden City: Dou-
bleday Page Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
Vivid War Pictures

When stephen Crane wrote The Rel
Badge Of Courage" telling how war affected
a single soldier men who had been to war
wondered how he could have imagined the
thing so truly. The merit Of Cranes achieve
ment lay in the fact that he succeeded in
making his hero a type of all soldiers Cap.
tain Philippe Millet, of the French army
has given us a picture of actual war in hls
book, Comrades In Arms" that has some
of the qualities of Cranes fiction. He has
described the English officer and private In
action by picking out dozen or more indi-
vidual cases and telling how the men be-
haved in quarters and under fire. He has
written simply and directly. as a military
man should, but II he had studied the art
of writing with the best French masters
he could not have produced a more satisfy
ing or n more informing book. Nothing that
has come from the battlenelds gives a better
idea Of what is happening there than this
group of graphic studies. He takes death
and destruction as coolly as the fighting
men whom he describes. 1t is one Of the
hazards of the game. The interesting thing
is how men react in their new surroundings
Captain Millet tells us this.
COMRADES III ARMS. BY Captain Philippe
Millct, Translated by Lady Frazer, With an
Introduction by ]. st. Boe Strachey. New
York: George II. Doran Company u.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
Our Canadian Neighbors

In these times when we think not only in
terms of ourselves, hut also In terms Of
those who are our Allies, IT Is rather COM
forting to know that Canadians are so much
the same as we are. SO In reading up the
Hin and over one is introduced to Il set
of small town folk very like those of our
own northeastern communities; the same
kind Of school teacher. the same kind of
well-meaning, curous-mindcd. gossipy land
lady, TIE same kind of youngsters, and, OF
course. the same kind Of love-makng.
The story is well done, though not
especially original \ successful city doc
tor tramps away in search Of good heal,N
for himself; meets a charming girl, learns
a village doctor has a practice for sale
buys it, encounters the ghost of a youthful
love affair. prepares to do the manly
thing is saved by chance and, in the end,
GS things should be. love triumphS. True,
the story is trte, but its working out is
nevertheless interesting. There is q really
good study of a wOmans secret addiction
TO dope" that is by no means the least part
of the story
UP THE HILL AND OVER. By Isabel Eccle-
stone Mackay New York: George III. Doran
COMPANY, 81
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
THE FRUITAGE
OF FRIENDSHIP
Even Under Unfavorable Condi-
tions 1t Sometimes Is Mar
riage and Happiness

Friendship! mysterious cement of the
SOUL sweetener of life, solder of society"
The eighteenth century poet who rhapso-
dies on the quality held in loftiest esteem
by so ancient a writer as the Psamist him.
self would doubtless have found in the
relationship established between two girl
art students introduced to the reader in
the opening chapter of sIrs. Mary Hallock
Foote'S latest novel the full measure of his
temperamental fancy. For sheer devoted
ness 1t would be hard to discover In this
modern. workaday world of ours anything
SURPRISING the sacrifice of youth and COM
fort made by Edith Bonham for the loved
memory of a companion of her student days
The latter becomes the bride of saturnine,
cod-blooded personal least he is made
to appear a gloomy sort of chap until to-
ward the end Of the tale. when II turns
out that Edith has entirely misunderstood
the nature of the man. Indeed she gladly
becomes his second wife, the first having
died right after Edith had agreed in friend
ships name to leave her happy home In
New York and go to the far West as COVER
ness of the little daughter of the seemingly
il.assorted couple Having promised
Nanny. her girlhood chum. to take the child
under her wing, Edith sturdily stands by
her pledge, and makes her home under the
roof of the bereaved widower. in the wilds
man to her nordinate affection for the
memory of the departed. The discomforts
she undergoes during her stay In region
entirely the opposite of the artistic environ
ment Of her girlhood and college days are
enough to appall any nature not super
human, say like those of Damon and l'yth-
las or any feminine types of that historic
pair. Not the least of her woes is an
offer of marriage from her bette noir a few
months after the burial of his frst spouse,
Edith's darling friend, Nanny, and the
father of the little innocent.
Any one familiar with the emotional
power the imaginative knowledge of life,
and suggestive manner of story telling that
have made Mrs. Foote's writings popular
needs not to be told that in the develop
ment of a simple plot she has woven
tale we'll filled with romance and not devoid
of human appeal. 1t might perhaps, be
wished that she had succeeded In injecting
at least modcum of humor into a few
of the scenes there Is SO much that Is semi
tragic or at least extremely tense. The
book is literally without laugh, hardly
smile, from cover to cover. and the last
| chapter, or "epilogue," might as well have
been omitted, since the writer goes out of
her way to condemn the Administration at
Washington forS its "quibbling neutrality"
toward the European war, This criticism,
coming at this particular time. seems oddly
out OF place, and one can hardly help Won
dering why the author lugged in the war
at all, after she had finished her story.
EDITH BONHAM. By Mary Haliock Foote,
$3.50 Boston; Houghton Mifhin Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
A WOman'S Job

An unusually capable and understanding
young woman with interesting gray hair
is Jan, heroine of l.. Allen Harker's divert
ing novel, Jan and Her job" Diversion
is frankly the purpose of Mrs. Harkers
book and as such it admirably succeeds.
Jan is little more natural and "A good deal
more normal than the average light fiction
heroine, and her job is genuine test of
her character. demanding the employment
of all her instincts of sympathy and tact.
Two fascinating children are no incon-
siderable item of the job, and their disso-
lutte father is another difficult detail The
story carries two love threads, wound
around two unusually real men of the type
favored by all English writer's. and Jan
and Meg, the latter charming red d-haired
sprite who can perform in many practical
fields with amazing efficiency. The story
ends in August. 1914. and. needless to say
leaves its readers wondering whether the
two nice men have ever gotten back to the
two nice girls.
JAN AND HER JOB BY 7. Allen Harker. New
York: Charles Scrbner's Sons S1.35
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
rs. AND YOU'LL FORGET THE OTHER
The Old-Fashioned Philosophy Retains Its Popu-
larity Because 1t Is Founded on Truth.
Prophet of Optimism

nHE Lady sat in a low rocking chair
i w,th a bit of linen in her hands and
.one colored silks in her lap. She was
q. .sbioning a rose to decorate the white
fabric. Now and then she would hold it
n arms length to discover whether she
Gas getting the proper effect. Doctor
McFabre was watching her with that
,lsased interest which all men display
:, sight of woman engaged in a dis
,inctly feminine occupation. His nephew,
Cabot. Ames, Harvard, '16. was striding
an and down with fine show Of indig-
nation, While well. / was maliciously
proddng them on,
I'VE had been talking about green
nook with poppy blossoms and leaves EN-
hossed on the front cover that Jay on my
desk.
"Yoi may read your sugary books If
vou want to-" he was saying, "but the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
The America of Mr.. Bryan

America is so many-slded THAT a man
can find here about what he looks for
Ridgwell Culom, an Englishman. has writ
ten a novel, THE Son of His Father" which
exploits a phase of American character
that those who have swallowed all the
mouthngs of Mr. Bryan are wont to say is
typical of the whole. 1t is the story of an
adventure in fortune seeking In which
neither honor nor honesty finds any place.
In order to win the money needed to pay his
debts the son OF a railroad president is
made to kidnap his own father and hold
him until by the use of forged dispatches
the son is enabled to start land boom
abound a new town site touched by the line
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
A Good Bedtime Story

The good old-fashioned child's story Of
how gentleness and kindness overcome
sefshness and greed retains its popularity.
An excellent example of this kind Of a tale
Is "Rocschen and the Wicked Magpie," by
Evaleen stein, which the Lothrop. Lee d
Shepard Company. of Boston, has just
published. with illustrations by l.. ]. Bridg-
man. Its scene is in the Austrian Tyro1
and it's basis is the custom of a lordly
family to keep a magpie in cage as a
punishment for the act of bird of tho
same kind 200 years before. Roeschen Is
a little girl who pities the captive, and
ultimately causes the baron to abandon the
custom of his ancestors and also to treat
the peasants on his estate with kindly con.
sideration. 1t is a good bedtime story for
the little folk.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
She Dodges the Turns

What wicked men there are in the world
But they could not turn California Baird
from "The Straight Road" (wrltten anonym-
ously) and so through 356 pages of the
book she shudders at their suggestions, re-
pulses their advances and on the 356th page
places her arms around the neck of Philip
Stanley the idol of her school days The
wicked, fade into memory and the course of
true love- contrary to custom, begins to
run smooth. All of which goes to show that
"Heavink will pertec the woiking goil.'p
In the first chapter California takes her
four-year-old son, steals out of the house
before the arrival of the milkman, collects
$11 from a grocer and goes out into the
cruel world to seek job and divorce.
But she does not know what trouble awaits
her. for the right at the station is man who
thinks California should love him. He says
as much. and so fusters the girl that she
misses her train.
And life, for her, is full of just such
adventures as this. One man after another
seems to believe, because of her aloneness,
she needs the stort of protection that Is
distasteful. But they can't fool California.
She sticks to the straight and narrow path
without even getting dizzy by looking over
the edge. Even the philosophy of Eugenia
Chandler. young woman who later ends
her life by running afoul of the Mann act
falls to shake her determination TO be good
One of the bright spots in the story Is
Boy" the four-year-old son Of California,
and whose real name is John Boyce Baird
Ones sympathies are apt to run more to the
child than to its mother.
The various incidents in the book have
been presented many times before, both on
and off the stage. The author. evidently, Is
interested In the labor situation by the man.
ner in which the /. w. w. riot of the hop
pickers is pictured. California has sought
refuge among these, after the Vaccinations
Of man have deprived her of position.
But the tale ends all right, and "Callie"
and Philip are happy, after years of sep.
aration because Philips mother, a naughty
woman. had higher social ambitions for her
son than to have him form an alliance with
the daughter of an improvident ranch
owner
THE STRAIGHT ROAD. Illustrated by C. e.
Chambers $3.50 New York; George II.
Doran Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

good story to entertain yourself with
you would better read 1t. There is young
novelist in 1t who reminds me of you;
that is, before he comes under the in.
huence of Mistress Anne, and she shows
him how to write real story. While
you are about 1t you might read half a
dozen other popular books. and make
an interesting essay on the psychology of
best sellers. 1t might be helpful to you
II you intend to write novel"
GEORGE w. DOUGLAS.
MISTRESS ANNE by Temple Bailey author
Of Contrary Mary" Illustrated by +. NauN
Wilson. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Com
pany sl.35
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cations of character aud knowledge neccs-
sary for success. And, in addition, 1t con-
tains brief but excellent review of the
naval history of the country and dis
closure of the failure of the American poll
tcians to appreciate the Importance of
that preparedness which had been pointed
out from the beginning by men who under
stood the peril that lay in the path of n
nation Indifferent to sea power
II the book could he put in the pre-.
scribed courses of reading in the high
schools and colleges for the'neX ten years
it would create n public sentiment that
would force Congress % adopt a naval
policy based upon sound Aatcsmanship In
the meantime 1t ought to be urged upon
the attention of all those WIN are indif-
ferent to the subject of national prepared
ness or who think that navy can be i'm
provised when an emergency confronts us.
FUNDAMENTALS OF NAVAL SERVICE. by
Commander Yates Stirling. T. s. ~ Phila-
delphia; J. B. Lippincott Company. 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. the author of
The Hornets Nest" her latest book. Is
one of that group of authors: Helen r.
Martin. Anne Douglas Sedgwick, John and
Henry Bennett. Charles Carey Waddell.
lessee Lynch Williams and Burton Steven
son. who all began. as one of them said.
to write 100 years ago in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Their mothers were friends. belonging to
that older generation which stamped upon
the quaint old town on the Scioto River
the air Of formality and repose its chief
characteristics. yet stimulated In their chill
drs9 ~ ~ ~ aavor q living. A -.
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of his fathers railroad and clear up enough
to make him even with the world. The son
justifies his course by pretending that It Is
the way of the world which his own father
has pursued In making his fortune. The
crimes of high finance are visited on one of
its practitioners Mr.. Culom has written a
story of commercial piracy that as a mere
story is as exciting as any tale of the buc-
cancers of the Spanish Main.
THE SON OF HIS FATHER. by Ridgwell Cul-
lom. author of The Night Riders" IL
lustrated by Douglas Ducr. Sl.35 Phiadel-
pha: George w. Jacobs & Co.