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make comparison of these two casual set .rces
from Mrs Humphrey Ward book, which contains
thousands of other equally interesting; things and
is, indeed, a most valuable and suggestive sum-
mary Of the later Victorian time. But 90 not
think that my casual comparison is altogether
barren one, for it happens to hit OF two of the de-
'ermining types of that time.
Langs Lighter Touch.
Andrew Lang and Mrs HUNGARY Ward are
two characteristic notes of the end of the nine
teenth century; and because the fJrmcr was more
lightly struck it much too lightly regarded.
Lang was man who had name Of treating seri-
GUS things In trifing way, but l still think that
this is better than treating trfng things in a seri-
GUS way. And with all respect to Mrs. Humphrey
Ward and the late King Antioclims | will venture
to call his majesty trifng thing in such a cause
as that between Renan and Rome
Lang had Il light touch with his ghosts and saw
ages for they are shy birds aud easily scared into
silence or disappearance; but he WIS much nearer
to the life of them than the German or Germanised
professors who arrive on the scene with a heavy
apparatus of telescopes and guns He knew that
the harmed are only toerable while they can laugh
at Arstophanes in the middle of lecturing on him;
he knew the Importance Of not being earnest.
The Critical Standard Should Be Truth,
and Not the Tastes of the Critic
The test of all true criticism is whether tie
thing criticised is being compared with the truth
or only compared with the critic. J have a right
to call a dandy if he is really more ,lressy
than a man ought to be; but not because he is
more dressy than am
What is the matter with Mrs Huml,hry Ward
and her world is that it did not compare orthO-
doxy with heathenism that is, with humanity. 1t
did not study orthodoxy's fitness for the main
trend of mankind With all its murders and ghost
stories. 1t only compared orthodoxy with its own
heresy, with the temporary tone Of rather snOb
bish society under Queen Victoria.
Lang who was 50 much lighter also much
deeper; IN so far as he was a sceptic he scep-
teal about everything, including the other scep-
tics He could question Renan as we'll as Rome;
and it is worthy of this freer spirit that his last
great work was the overthrow of Remains greatest
disciple-the chivalrous championship of a French
heroine against the simpering patronage of
French critic, of the idealism of historic France
against the pessimism of AnatOle France
For the book about Joan Of Are was TIE end OF
the School of Renan; and the ice of its irony
turned to water when it touched the fame OF
Rouen. C. K. CHEsTERToN.
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Humour and the Higher Criticism

had discoyered) that the Book of Daniel was writ
ten pnder AntiochuS Epiphanes
A murder might convince the more sensitive of
the existence Of sin it would probably convince the
most railroads.&c. of the existence of death
A duel might at least convince man of the ex-
iStcnce of the fear of death, which is denied by
many modern writers. A ghost would certainly
convey delicate suggestion of something beyond
death, of which the modern writer's would really
and seriously disapprove; and even the savage
could often be relied on for a social introduction
to he ghost
=, But short of raising the ghost OF Antcchus
Epiphancs few of us have the ghost of r0tion Of
what he was, or whether his evidence about Daniel
would be reliable or not. He is rot man, dead
or alive, as is the ghost the savage. He is
name, Il date. detail among q thousand details
about which the professors are necessarily making
theories, necessarily making bunders, incessantly
correcting the plumbers and incesSantly correcting
the corrections.
Just How Many Times Wrong Makes Man
Forever Right?
1t is really most illogical 20 treat criticism as
permanently right because it progressively finds
itself wrong. 1t is still more foolish TO trust it
upon one point in preference tc>sone,hing found
10 be Trustworthy on many points.
TO test the case fairly we must suppose man
to have found st. Sulpice rghs that whole round
of life which Lang suggested; all that is called rO
rance and is in truth reality. lie finds for in
stance that it knows the difference between a
lnCrc duel and mere murder; an essential point
Of Christian common sense
lie finds # knows the differ :nce between ghost
and mere turnip-ghost, or between man and a
mere suncrman. lie finds il k:oWS the difference
between a savage and cvilised man even if the
savage boasts about his scel and his social or
1,niHaiiOn.
Suppose man does think thai certain philOs-
ooh, {. vcrs life in this fashion, f he then abandons
it for one dsputabc detail he i, by no means act
me like a philosopher.
If he reverSes all he has JUDGED right because of
the date of Daniel he is by no means Daniel come
to Judgment.
The Puritan fanatic who renOunces all he calls
Popery as deviltry is far more enlightened man.
1t is more rational to reproach the Pope with An
tichrist than with Antiochus. And when we weigh
the whole growth Of Greek Christianity against
tie name of an old Greek king, there is in the
world more witness to Epiphany than to Epi-
planes.
1t is but arbitrary and accidental. Of course to
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I HAVE been reading but have no intention
l. of reviewing, Mrs Humphry Wards inter-
esting memoirs A Writer'S Recohecti0ns, pub
lished by MesSrS. Collins New York Harper &
Brothers. $6) I could not criticsc it fairly, be-
cause of formidable combination Of difficulties
because ] respect and do not Sympathise.
should be forced to be mild about the defects
because know I should be unjust to the merits.
Ny attitude may be well summed up in the
words which Mrs Ward herself quotes from An
drew Lang on the subject of Robert ELsmerc. An
drew Lang wrote, with the picturesque common
sense so characteristic of him: "You know he is
not my sort (at least unless you have ghost,
murder duel and some savages)."
Ghosts VS.. German Professors.
This precisely describes my own taste IN fiction.
But it also describes my own taste in philosophy
AID even theology.
Ghosts, murders ducls and savages seem to me
not only of more artistic but of more metaphysical
interest than the German professors and church
deans who figure in Mrs. Humphry Wards liter
AZURE and life The Higher Criticism seems to me
much lower than the lowest creation of the sort that
Lang liked.
Remains Voyage.
For instance Mrs. Ward writes: Keenan, in
deed, left the Church thirty years earlier because
he came 10 see with certainty that the Book Of
Daniel was written under Antiochus EpiphanrS.
and not when his teachers at ST. Sulpice said it
was written
I doubt whether Renan was quite so stupid as all
that: should say he left the Church because his
whole mind had changed and chilled with an elc-
mental scepticsm; because the fine ironc French
intellect, in his particular type, had already set
sail on that voyage of vain discoveries which was
TO end not at the Islands Of the BcSt but at the
Island of the Pengulns.
That is to say, the few Frenchmen who followed
it were to be quite as much Disseminated about tins
world as about the other world
Things That Change the World for Us
And Things That Do Not.
But nv point in the present comparison is this,
that there is much more real for any change
of faith in the objects mentioned by Lang than IN
the considerations attributed to Renan.
II might be very sensible, | think for man 10
alter his view of the whole world because he had
seen ghost or committed murder, or fought
duel or even been admitted into sociable relations
with savage 1t would be amazingly silly am
certain. for him to alter his view OF the whoie
world because he had discovered Cor thought he
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El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
STOCKMEN SELLING
DEAD COWS HIDES
PLAINS cATTLEMEn REALIZING
COIN FROM ANIMALS KILLED
DURING RECENT BILLIARDS..

Plains cattlemen who lost many
livestock during the recent blizzard,
are selling the hides of the dead ami
mails and are finding it is bringing in
considerable money. The Carlsbad
Argus says. fa
Hide buyers are circulating over
the country buying everything to be
found, and paying big prices. As the
cattle seemed to die in punches, being
found huddled together in corners, the
saving Of the hides is an easier matter
than when they are scattered over
wide areas"
Livestock men In the Clayton dis
trict of Union county are selling hides,
too. The News says:
MANY lcowmen in this district are
utilizing an Improbable asset, namely,
beef hides. The New Fur House ship
ped 21S hides to market Wednesday,
and have another 100 In stock now.
The price on dry hides is dropping,
being under 80 cents on quotations Sc
cured today. The owners Of the fur
and hide house are now figuring on a
purchase of 1000 hides from one outfit
alone"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
DIFFICULTY AT MADRID
MINES NOT SETTLED
coNFEBENcE WITH FUEL ADJ
MlNiSTRAToR FRuiTLESS AND
CONTROVERSY WILL BE TAKEN
TO GARFIELD

albuquerque. N. M, Feb. lee
forts to reach an agreement by the
representatives of the miners AMI
the owners of the Albuquerque and
Cerrillos Coal company mines at
Madrid failed yesterday after a con-
ference in the office of State Fuel
Administration w. c. Mcdonald. IT
was decided to refer the point at is.
sue to the national fuel administra-
tor, Or. Garfield. The difference be-
tween the men and their employers
Is said to be over the naming OF
the check weighman. The company
objected to a man the employees in
sisted on naming.
There is said to have been a shut
down at the Madrid mines Thursday
but work was resumed on Friday,
after arrangements had been made
for the conference.
The miners were represented at
the conference by James F. Moran,
OF Pueblo, Colo, district head of the
United Mine Workers, and Leo p.
Calvin, state organizer. George Kase-
man, head Of the company, and Capt.
vi c. Reid, counsel, represent the
mine owners.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
ROY TESTING OUT HER.
OIL possibilities
CITIZENS ORGANIZE COMPANY TO
INVESTIGATE PETROLEUM IN.
DlcATIoNsi IN VICINITY. snaAi

Roy, N. M, Feb. l2-A number OF
live citizens Of Roy have organized
the Roy Development company which
will employ an expert ~geologist to
Investigate the indications Of oil in
the vicinity. A fund of 1920 has
been raised for the purpose. II oil
prospects are found, leases will be
taken and drilling arranged for.
The new Masonic hall is nearing
completion. The Masonic club has
a lease on the entire second floor,
with the option of buying. The
building will be occupied about May
/. n
The ladies gave a dance recently
and made enough money to buy 4
stove for the community hall.
Preliminary work for the Catholic
church and school has been begun.
The grounds were donated by +. Al.
Roy and Mrs. Matilda Roy, and the
sisters have $4,000 for their school.
The new addition to the Plumlee
hospital is rapidly nearing complies
ton. 1t viii double the size Of the
institution and be equipped with
steam heat and electricity.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
Lm|CK-KAISER CLUB
IN DEADLY EARNEST
UNIQUE EDDY COUNTY oRGANlZA-
TON BEING PERFECTED; FOL-
LOWS kENOSHA PLAN

Organization |of a Lick-the-Kaise
club in Carlsbad is progressing, and 1t
will have a membership all over Eddy
county. The organization win have
as its main object the attaining of a
more equal division of subscriptions
to the various funds raised to assist
the government in the prosecution OF
the war, F. G. Tracy, chairman of
the Eddy county council of defense,
presided at the organization meeting
and appointed a resident of each pre-
cinct to form. an auxiliary club, all to
be united under the county club at
Carlsbad.
w. A. Poore was appointed as chair
maj of the Carlsbad precinct; j. l..
Williams of the Malaga precinct, L.
Arthur of the Loving precinct, w.
w. Cation for Otis, M. p. Skeen for
Artesia, G. II. Sellmeyer for Lakewood.
S. l.. Humphreys for Dayton, Hugh
Gage for Hope, Nelson Doering for
Cottonwood and w. r. Shattuck for
Carlsbad's action Is similar TO that
taken in Albuquerque, where the
Kenosha plan has been adopted under
which the raising of money for various
war purposes will be systematized.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
.TUCUMCAR| 400MS;
CELEBRATES PROGRESS
WITH BIG BANQUET
Marks Beginning Of Community DeyeI.
opment on Large Ecale; $250,oo0
Worth Of Building in Prospect.
PROMINENT MEN TO
ADDRESS The BOOSTERS.

Tucumcari. N. M, Feb. l2.-Lincoin's
birthday is the occasion for a big pa
triotic and town boosting banquet to
be held in Tucumcari tonight. The
town is celebrating the beginning of
community development on an unusual
scale. The coming months will Wit
ness the erection OF $250,OOO worth Of
new buildings, including a new station
to be built by the Rock Island and El
Paso and Southwestern railroads. A
big campaign for a bigger and better
city will be launched tonight by the
chamber of commerce. Plans already
have been made, and over 65 citizens
recently dined together while arrang-
ing the preliminaries. The chamber
intends to assist in the development
of the surrounding country.
Several of the officials Of the Ell
Paso and Southwestern railroad have
accepted invitations to the dinner.
Among them will be Judge w. A. Haw-
kins of Eel Paso, who win speak on
"The Railroads Part in the Develop
ment Of Eastern New Mexico
Former Governor w. c. Mcdonald
OF Carrizozo will speak on THE State
of New Mexico" L. C. Boyle, former
attorney general of Kansas, will talk
on Reorganization as a Means Of De-
velopment," and "a Modern Chamber
of Commerce" win be the subject Of
an address by c. S. Kirkpatrick OF.
New York City.
President T. A, Muirhead of the
chamber OF commerce will explain the
plans of the new organization and will
introduce Harry II. McElroy, who will
preside as toastmaster.
J. p. German, president Of the Rock
Island railroad, has written a letter to
B. Hamilton, campaign manager, in
which he expressed regret at his in
to be present at the meeting,
but stated that he is greatly Interested
In the work Of organization mere.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
Fl. Bayard Capacity
Is to Be Doubled

Silver City N. M, Feb. 12.-Or-
ders have been received from WASH
ington for the immediate construc-
tion of improvements which will
more than double the capacity of the
Fort Bayard army hospital. The in
stitution will become a 1500-bed unit.
The orders call for the construction
of SO new buildings, including a 800
bed hospital. Recently orders were
received for increases, but these
we're changed and the capacity still
further increased.
The Fort Bayard dairy is to be
doubled in capacity within the near
future. The capacity of the dairy at
present is'100 COWS and it is planned
to increase the capacity to 200 cows,
making it one of the largest diaries
in the entire southwest.
The increase in dairy equipment is
occasioned by the increase in the
number of patients which Fort Bay
ard is screduled to accommodate as
soon as the new hospital buildings
are completed.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
and Thaws in
Northern Taos County
Make Much Trouble

Costilla, N. NJ, Feb. S.-The snow
of last month came SO suddenly and
was so deep that several autos we're
stranded in the roads about hero.
Some were pulled out during the
week following the storm, by farm
ers with their heavy teams, not a
few earning the price Of a new pillow
thereby. The thaw of yesterday,
which came suddenly, released the
other machines and turned a trick
upon the freighters hauling from
the depot at Jaroso to points south.
These men have been able to haul
upon bob sleds, very heavy loads,
about twice the load they usually
haul in a freight wagon, but the
thaw caught several and now several
heavy loaded sleds are to be seen
along the road to the depot, stuck on
bare ground. This morning, how
ever, another snow is falling which
promises to release the loads.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
Has
M G n X nittcrS;
Both Experts


Almagordo has Two men who
are expert knitterA gid who are
turning out numerous articles for
the Red Cross. They are brave
men and conscientious, too, as
they are npt afraid of the search
ing eye of the camera Some men
might be ashamed to see their
pictures published to the world
while engaged in knitting, but
these two patriots of the needle
posed for the Alamogordo News
while busily fashioning socks from
the Red Cross yarn. G. s. Brown
and w. l.. Void are the male knit
tiers, and they have won them
selves so much favorable comment
that some of the other Alamogordo
men are reported to be getting
jealous. They partially nullified
their growing popularity, however,
by offering to teach the Alamo
gordo women anything they wish
ed to know about knitting. The
ladies' seemed to think, according
to report, that no man could show
them how to do anything, least
wise knit.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
ELECTRICIANS
ARE ENTERTAINED

Silver City. N. M. Feb. 12.-The
fourth annual session of the New
Mexico Electrical association began
yesterday with a good attendance
In addition to an excellent program
dealing with problems faced by the
public service corporations and their
employees during the war. there VIII
be numerous entertainment features.
A banquet will be held Tuesday
evening in the Elks club rooms, fol-
lowed by a moving picture show ex-
clusively for the electrical men and
their invited guests. Wednesday
morning, the visitors will be taken
on a motor trip to the surrounding
camps inspecting the mining proper
ties and huge power plants Of the
PhelpslDodge company at Tyrone
and the Chino Copper company at
Hurley and Santa Rita.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
NAMES AND ADDRESSES
OF BURIED VICTIMS.

Washington, Feb. 13.-The home ad
dress of the American soldiers buried
on the Scottish coast, taken from thu
Associated Press list of those unac
counted for, as checked up with TIKI
Tuscania's passenger list, follows:
In some instances the spelling frOh-
the Scotch seaport does not agree witt
the official passenger list,)
HERMAN, I. W., probably Fred w,
of Lincoln Nebraska.
REEDER, Luther b., Broadus, Tex
KEEWAN, VILLAIN, Sand Springs
Tex.
ROBERTS, Lewis, Natchez, Tex.
cAoSPER, Orwell N, Milwaukee
Wis,
DUFFY, Everett H., Sloan Springs
Mo.
JOHNSON VIM, R., Metamora
Mich.
PAGE, Henry H., Saratoga, Tex.
WEST, Clayton b., Baxter Springs
Tex.
FUTILE, Terry, Elgin, Ore.
BROWN, Walter L. Pera, Va.
SHORT, Clarence W., Willsboro, Pa
BUTLER, Raymond, New Richmond
Wis.
ZIMMERMAN, George v, New Ro
chelle, N. Y.
EDWARDS, John, Butte, Mont.
REINHARDT, George A. Jefferson
Wis. II
CRELLIN, Walter, Virginia, MINI.
BENNETT, Wm. G. Rogers, Ark.
SWANSON, Charles -. Rothschild
Wis.
NORM. VIM. p. Portland, Ore.
JENKINS, Clyde G., Coallinga; Cal
HURST, Raymond T, Pocasset
Okla.
LEWToN, Theodore B., Forest
Grove, Ore.
BESNER, Herbert G., Saginaw, Mich
WEEKS, Bert O., Modesto, Cal.
SPEIDEL, Henry s., New York City
RENTON, David G., North Bend
Wash.
B WAGNER, julius, Stamford, Cam.
TRAGESER, VIM. L., Cottonwood
MINI.
lbICARI, Alto, Eureka, Cal.
STEVENS, Percy A. dist spelled
name Stephens) Bend. Ore. i
WRIGHT, VIM. W., Bismarck, Okla
COOK. Marcus b., Como, Mont.
BJORK. George Nelson, Helena. Ore
JOHNSON, John7C., Big Falls. MINI
ST. CLAIR. Thos, g., Junction, Tex
COLLINS, Arthur w, Appleby, Tex
LANKENAU, Theodore d San Fran
cisco, Gal.
uHEspInR, John w, Lucas, Wash
GLOVER (Not Grover), Gerald X.
HepewelI. va.
BRUNO (NOT Burns) Frank, New
York City. aU7 of 3a0g3t1i
TALLEY (Not Tully) Milton, Union
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
Deming s Town Row
Ended; Mayor Will
Push Anti Vice Work
LEE CALDWELL is NAMED CHIEF
OF POLICE AND SANITARY AND
HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ARE
TO BE FORMED

Deming, N. M, Feb. 11.-Mayor
M. A. Nordhaus of Deming will con
tinue in office, despite his recent att
tempt to resign. The mayor has
won his fight for the cleaning ont
of all vice in the city, and, with
a new cfief of police, Lee Caldwell,
a former deputy sheriff, will take
up the task at once. The council
has given the police committee, vi
which the mayor is a member, full
power in the selection or discharge
of officers. Some time ago MIR.
Nordhaus presented his resignation
which the council refused to act up
on, laying it on the table until a
later meeting: at the same time the
chief Of police resigned. The mayor
and city officials, since reaching IN
agreement, have decided to take pre-
cautions for the betterment Of the
city's health as we'll as its morals
and those of the Camp Cody soldiers.
A health and sanitary department
founded on the most scientific
methods will be put to work at
once.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
SEPARATE PEACE


~ AA1AaA = RAV T
greet 1t profoundly but there is no use
in crying peace when there is no
peace.
"These terms were examined care
fully and were examined with a real
desire to find something in them
which indicated the central powers
were prepared to come somewhere
near a basis of agreement and l con
fess the examination of these two
speeches proved profoundly disappoint-
ing to those who we're sincerely anx-
ious to find any real and genuine de.
sire for peace in them.
But the governments do not recede
in the least from the statement of war
aims they already have made. Until
there is some better proof than is sup
piled by the speeches OF the statesmen
Of the central powers that they are
prepared to consider them 1t win be
our regrettable duty to continue MAX
ing all preparations necessary in or.
der to establish international rights
Premier Lloyd-George then turned TO
the question Of Versailles conference
and said he was not prepared to en-
large upon the extended duties of that
body. He said it was giving no milf
tary information to say that until the
present year the allies had had a pre-
ponderance on the western front and
no attack upon the Germans could
bring to bear on the British or French
armies could not have been dealt with
In the main by the reserves Of the re-
spective armies.
THAT situation is entirely changed"
he said. "If we had not dealt with
that situation we should have been
guilty of gross dereliction OF duty
REFUSES DETAILS.
Contrasting previous councils with
that at Versailles, the premier emphas
sized the fact that Versailles, the civ
ilian and military members were sit
ting together-the prime minister, the
commanders in chief and the chiefs of
staff of three countries. The discus
sion was absolutely free and there was
complete unanitnity reported. There
vas no division Of opinion upon I'M
resolution arrived at. Il must speak
cautiously" the premier continued,
because military decisions are involv-
To give away such information
(%concerning the enlargement of the
duties OF the Versailles ~council) is
treason beyond description and | de-
cline to do 1t. There is no army whose
security more depends on these de-
cisions being carried out than the Brit
ish army"
Some commotion was caused in the
house by the premier's refusal to give
more details Of the Versailles confer
In conclusion Premier Lloyd
George said that IF the house and the
country are dissatisfied with the con.
duct Of the war and if they think
there is any government that can con.
duct it better, 1t was their business
to put the other government into pow
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-14
Wood Chopping Gets
Into Hazardous Occu-
patton Classification

Wood chopping is a dangerous oc-
cupatlon in New Mexico, as is shown
by the fact thai two men suffered in
juries to their eyes during the past
week which may cost them serious
impairment of vision. Rev. F. w.
Pratt, Of Carlsbad was strtick by a
flying piece of wood which broke his
spectacles and drove a piece Of glass
into his eye. He is in Roswell re-
ceiving treatment. e. M. Spencer, Of
the Chaves County Abstract com
pany, of Roswell, was hit in tile
eye by a splinter.