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The Washington herald., 1918-09-09

The charge d'araires of Great
Britain and Mrs. CoIviIle Barclay
have returned to Washington from
Chicago, where they spent most of
last week. They went for the Labor
Day celebration. and remained to
help in the establishment Of a war
exposition.
The Washington herald., 1918-09-09

Nine. Ekengren, wife Of the Minis
ter from Sweden. who has been
spending the summer at Martha's
Vineyard with her two little girls. is
expected back in Washington today
or tomorrow
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

without great artillery preparation
are fruitless and most costly.
The German artillery fire is report
ed to be weak indicating that the en-
envy has not yet been able to move
his big guns across the barren reg
ion between st. Quentin and Albert
II Divisions in Line.
Seventy-seven German divisions are
on the battle line waiting for the
guns before attempting another 81
gantic effort to reach Amiens. North
of the Somme. they are 40 divisions
while 81 are on the line between the
Somme and Chauny. And it is known
that the German guns have not all
been moved forward.
Meanwhile, the allied armies under
General Foch are making ready not
only to counter another German blow
which the enemy must make or con
cede defeat, but probably also for a
counter offensive. American troops
not unlikely will participate in the
approaching renewal of heavy fight
ing along most of the line, as more
than 100000 are moving toward the
battle lines. Some unseasoned Amer.
lean units will be placed side by side
with hardened British and French vet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Wissler Will Be Speaker
at Conference of I Teachers

w. O. Wissler, head of the history
department of the Richmond high
school, will be one of the speakers at
the spring meeting Of the history sec
ton of the Indiana State Teachers
association, to be held in Indianapolis
April IL and 13. Mr.. Wissler will read
a paper on the teaching of current his
tory, with special reference to the
war.
The program of the meeting OF MIS-
tory teachers this year has been given
over entirely to the war. Prof. &. b.
Coleman of Butler college will talk
Saturday on 1.-The Stakes in the War,
and short talks will be given by B. +.
Connelley of the South Bend high
school and Prof F. s. Bogardus OF the
Indiana State Normal school.
At the opening session Friday even
ing Capt. R. H. Mowbray OF Culver
Military academy. and Dean Smaller
Mathews of the Divinity school OF Chi
cago university will be the speakers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Helped Him in
A Weeks Time
Practically Well of Rheuma-
tism Since Taking New
Tanlac Radium Treatment.

When E. E. Sammons, $3.50 Wood
burn avenue, Evanston, Cincinnati,
started taking Tanlac Rheumatism
Treatment week ago he was down
in bed and had been for six weeks.
Today he is up and around; doesn't
suffer any at all from rheumatism
pains. and says he is going back to
work soon. He gives Tanlac Rheuma-
tism Treatment all the credit for his
remarkable improvement.
"My rheumatism got so bad that
had to quit work and the last six
weeks haven't even been able to get
out of bed" said Mr.. Summons 81
had aches and pains and twinges all
over my body. The pains were worse
in my left side. Theys start in my
hip and run down my leg.
81 tried everything but nothing
helped me.
II read in the papers about TanIac
rheumatism Treatment and sent my
wife for a bottle. That was just a
week ago today and in just one week
Tanlac Rheumatism has improved me
so much that I'm out of bed; all the
aches and pains and twinges have
disappeared entirely, and my limbs
don't hurt me a bit any more.
"The radium emanations In Tanlac
certainly do the work. I'm practic-
ally we'll man and I surely want to
recommend this medicine to everybody
suffering from rheumatism"
If you suffer from rheumatism get
Ttnlac Rheumatism Treatment today
and get real medicine for this dread
ed complaint You can get Tanlac
Rheumatic Treatment at Quigley's
Drug Stores.-Adv
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
HAGERSTOWN, IND.

HAGERSTOWN, April 1.-The Wo-
mans History club met Monday AFTER
noon with Mrs. Sarah Bell at her home
on North Perry street. The program
was rendered as follows: Responses;
Musical notes: Music, Victrola; 1.-THE
Significance of the Symphony Mrs.
Anthony Hover; "The Effect OF Me-
chanical Instruments Upon Musical
Education, Mrs. William H. Porter;
1.-THE Fly in the Ointment" Mrs Ellen
Allen. Mrs Julia Coffman went to
Richmond Saturday. -. Mrs. william
Graham of Dayton, and Mrs. Walker
Kidwell Of Centerville, were guests OF
relatives here Friday. .... The local
Masonic lodge conferred the Master
Mason degree on Forest Macy, Byram
Macy and Harry Macy, three brothers,
who reside five miles north of town.
Saturday A banquet was served at
six o'clock There was degree work
Saturday Afternoon and Saturday night
Visitors were present from nearby
lodges Clarence Poland and family
motored from their home In Fort
Wayne Saturday to Newcastle, where
thew were guests over night of his
parents. They were accompanied to
this place on Sunday by his mother.
Mrs. Charles f. Poland, Arthur Poland,
Virgil Poland and Robert Haler and
took supper with Mrs. Sarah Bell.
Miss Esther Porter visited in lnd1-
annapolis Sunday. -. Misses Josephine
Small and Josephine Foyst went to
Newcastle Saturday to be guests OF
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leavell
went to Anderson Saturday night to
be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Brown
Burns. Mrs. Sallie Mclntire and sis
ter, Mrs. Daniel Houser, returned to
their home here Saturday night after
attending the funeral of the latter's
son-in-law, Sylvester Shaffer on Thurs
day. A number of other relatives and
friends from this place also went to
Muncie on account of Mr.. Skaters
death. . Burn Stewart. who came to
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Grafton Stewart. became i'll with the
measles Sunday, and was unable to
return to indianapolis, where is law
student, until Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.
w. O. Jones entertained at dinner
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs Theodore Shat
fer, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rinehart
and Mrs Mary May. Mrs. Charles
Teetor will visit her son, Lothian
Teetor, at the Great Lakes Training
Station, on his twenty-frst birthday.
Friday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
LIVE STOCK PRICES
INDIANAPOLIS, April 2-Hogs-
Receipts, 1880. higher.

INDIANAPOLIS, April Clogs
Receipts, 1880. higher.
Cattle-Receipts. 1000. steady.
Calves-Receipts. $50, steady.
Sheep-Receipts. 200. steady.
and up, $13.50@14.25; good to choice
common to medium steers, 1900 and
up, $12.50@13.00; good to choice steers
to medium steers, 1,150 to 1880,
$9.OO@10.O0. $11.OO@11.50; fair to med
ium yearlings. $97a4 1900.
Heifers and Cows-GoOd to choice
heifers, $1,000 1900; common to fair
heifers, $8.OO@9.75; good to choice
cows. $4,000 1900; fair to medium
heifers, $10.0G@1O75 fair to medium
cows. $7.75@s.75; Gamers and cutters.
$6.50@7.5O.
Bulls and Calves-Good to prime ex-
port bulls. $10.00@11.OO: good to
choice butcher bulls. s9.50@1O.50;
common to fair bulls, $7.5O@9.25;
common to best veal calves, $4,000
$3.50; common to best heavy calves.
$S.O0@11.OO; stock calves. $3.50 to $50
pounds, $500 1O5O;g good to choice
lights, $4,000 1915.
Stockers and Feeding Cattle-Good
to choice steers. 700 pounds and up.
$4,000 11.G0; common to fair steers.
under 700 pounds. $9.00@$1O.0O; good
to choice steers, under 700 pounds,
$9.60@1O50; common to fair steers,
under 100 pounds. $8.50@9.50; medium
to good heifers. $7.50@9.00; medium
to good feeding cows, $7.0O@S.5O;
springers, S7.0O@S.50.
Hogs Best heavies, s1765@1S.0O;
medium and mixed. $17.75 q 1915;
good to choice lights. $500 q 1925;
common to medium lights. $3.50 a
$500: roughs and packers. $500 a
$3.50; light pigs, $1350@16.5O; best
pigs $1675@17.25; bulk Of sales. $17.s5
@$1S.15.
Sheep and Lambs-Good to choice
yearlings. s12.00@13.50; common to
fair yearlings, $11.0O12.75; good to
choice sheep. $11.50@12.50; bucks 100
pounds, $9.OO@10.0O; good to choice
breeding ewes. $1,000 @14.OO; com.
mon to medium spring lambs. $4,000
1925: good to choice spring lambs,
$17.5O@19.O0.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Always Recommends
This Kidney Medicine
To His Patrons

My first suggestion to my customers
in need of kidney Or liver medicine
is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. because
believe it is splendid preparation
and those who have used it are salts
fed with results obtained and speak
very highly of it. Swamp-Root has
kept up its high standing for more
than twenty years in this trade and
it's value is universally acknowledged.
Very truly yours.
JOHN G.. FRATZ, Pharmacist
S. w. Cor. Barr and Baymiller SITS.
Nov. 4, 1916. Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

Grams. according to a decision an
nounced in London.
The Germans are reported to be
massing troops before Albert, where
their attacks we're beaten back by the
British Monday. The British com
mand looks for heavy German efforts
north of the Somme where it is be
lieved the enemy has most of his
fighting forces, but where there has
been no marked activity since the re
pulse at Arras Thursday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Camoulflage Beer Sold
Here for Last Two Weeks

Camouflage beer is said to have been
the brew handed an unsuspecting pub
lie for the last few days. It is said
that several Richmond bar rooms have
been serving brand of near beer
for the past few weeks. and that their
customers have been unable to detect
the difference.
The test was made, so the story
goes, to learn whether or not there
might be demand for the camou-
flage article when the sale of the real
stuff is no longer permitted
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
FRUIT & VEGETABLES
Corrected Daily BY Essemeyers)
Corrected Daily by Eggemeyers)
VEGETABLES
SELLING PRICES

Wax beans, 35 cents per pound
asparagus, 15c bunch; new cabbage
10c h.; brussels sprouts, CSC; greer
beans, Csc per h.; carrots, to sc ID.
spring carrots, 15c bunch; spring beets
10c bunch; old cabbage, to SC lb.
cauliflower 15@25c head; dollhouse Gu
cumber zoe; egg plants Is to Zoe; koh
lrabi 10c bunch; leaf lettuce zoe pei
pound; head lettuce, 3Oc Id. trimmed;
zoe per pound, untrimmed; French en-
dive, Coo h.: leak. loo bunch: mush.
rooms, 90c pound; onions, 3 cents pei
pound; Spanish onions, Sc per pound (;
new potatoes. 10c per pound: shallots,
Sc bunch; young onions. &c bunch !;
oyster plant, 10c bunch; parsley, sc
bunch; mangoes, &c each; radishes
sc bunch; spinach 15c per h.; toms
soc per pound; turnips to 5 cents
per pound: water cress, sc per bunch: ;
celery cabbage, 10 per pound; arti.
chokes, 20 each: celery, s. 10 and 15c:
bunch; parsnips sc per h.; potatoes,
$3.50 lao per bushel; Jersey sweets,
1Oc per pound; rhubarb. 10c bunch;
green peas, 35c lb.; kahl, 10c lb.
FRUITS
Apples 3 to SC per pound; grape
fruit s to 10c; cranberries Csc per
pound; lemons 40c per doz.; bananas
&c per pound; lines 3Oc per doz. :
pomegranates. TO 10c each; oranges,
40c to Coo doz.; pineapples, zoe each.
MISCELLANEOUS
New Shellbarks, 10c per h.; black
walnuts, to sc per pound; eggs 35c
per doz.; strawberries 30c per quart;
butter. creamery, SIC; country, 45c
per pound; sassafras. 5c@10c per
bunch.
PRODUCE
Corrected Daily by Eggemeyer
& Sons.)
Butter. CSC; eggs, soc; potatoes,
new, 81.
Onions. yellow, $1.75@2.OO per 100
lbs; white $1.75@2.O0 per 1O0-lb. sack
onion sets, 15c per lb.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Butter-Creamery whole milk extra
45c, centralized extra, 421ac, do firsts
40c, do seconds, 39c, fancy dairy
&c, packing stock No 1 29c, No 2 Csc
Eggs-Prime firsts, loss Off 33c;
firsts, &c; ordinary firsts, gle: sec
onds, soc; goose eggs, Toe; duck
eSSS, oOC.
Poultry-Broilers under 2 lbs, 4Oc;
fryers over 2 lbs. 35c; roasting 4 lbs
and over, 35c; roOsters, 25c; stays,
3Oc; hen turkeys, lbs. and over, 3Oc;
toms young 10 lbs. and over, soc; do
old Is lbs. and over, Csc; culls 10c:
white ducks, lbs. and over, 32c; col
ored do 30c; geese choice full feath-
err, 23c; do medium, 21c; guineas 81
per dozen.
Apples - Pippins s55066 per brl
Ben Davis $4@5, Ganos $4.75@5.25
per brl, Jonathan $2.25@25O per box,
Baldwin $5@5.50. Greetings $6@6.5O.
Rome Beauty $6@7 per bril-
Beets-Home-grown $15O@1.75 per
bush, Florida $2.5O@3 per crate.
Onions-Yellow 50@75c per 1OO-lb.
sack, white $1.25@1.50. Spanish SIG
1.25 per crate.
Potatoes-Wisconsin $1.5O@1.75 per
100 pound sack; home grown, $1.75@
2.25 per 100 pound sack
Potatoes-Wisconsin, s1.75@1.S5 per
crate.
Sweet potatoes-Nancy Hall, s2.150
2.25 per hamper.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

CHICAGO, H.. April 2.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts $4,000; market strong; bulk OF
sales $17.15@17.7o; lights s17:20 @
$3.50; mixed s16:75 q 1880; heavy,
s161061750 so; rough 16.10916.4O; pigs
s1225@16.60.
Cattle - Receipts 10000; market is
strong; steers s9.S5014.90; stockers
and feeders, $S.70911S5; cows and
heifers, $65O612.25; calves $lO.50916,
Sheep Receipts 5000: market is
strong; sheep $12@17; lambs $15500
$2O15.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
War Mothers Asked to
Make Contribution Soon

Members Of the organization of War
Mothers are asked to have in their
contribution toward the Liberty Bond
to be purchased by the organization,
by Friday, April 5. Members of the
committees are expecting to canvas
the members, but in cases where
someone has not been reached by the
committee she is asked to bring in
her quota toward the bond.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

NEW YORK. April 2. - Closins
quotations on the New York Stocl
Exchange follow:
American Can. 40A.
American Locomotive, 61A.
American Beet Sugar, rs.
American Smelter, 77ss.
Anaconda, 631s.
Atchison, S3A.
Bethlehem Steel bid, 775s
Canadian Pacific, 1865.
Chesapeake and Ohio, 55&.
Great Northern Pfd., 80,
New York Central, 50.
No. Pacific, S4A.
So. Pacific, S2ss.
Pennsylvania, 44A.
u. S. Steel Com, 89&.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
PRODUCE MARKET

CHICAGO, April 2.-Butter Market
Unchanged
Eggs--Receipts 3S,S67 cases; mar
ket higher: firsts 34A @34A; lowest
33H.
Live Poultry--Roosters unchanged
Potato Market - Unchanged; re
ceipts, 35 cars.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Letter to
Dr.. kilmer e. Co.,
BinohamtOn. NJ. v.

Prove What Swamp-Root Will Go For
You
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. for a sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone You
will also receive booklet of valua BILE
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder When writing, be sure
and mention the Richmond Palladium.
Medium and large size bottle for sale
at all drug stores.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
LOCAL QUOTATIONS

Corrected Daily by omer G Whelan.)
Paying-Oats, 90c; new corn. 81 IS
a $3.50; rye, $500 a $2.25; straw.
$500 ton.
Selling-Cotton seed meal, $500 a
ton. $500 a cwt: tankage, $4,000 ton.
$4.75 a cwt; oil meal, $63.5O a ton.
1925 cwt.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
EAST BUFFALO. April Cattle

EAST BUFFALO. April Cattle
Receipts $50, steady. Calves-Re-
ceipts 800, easier, s7.00@1950.
Hogs-Receipts 3,4O0, slow; heavy.
s17.5O@1sOO; mixed $1S25 q 1880;
Workers $1840@1s,60; light Workers.
$500 @ 1925: pigs $1775 @ 1900;
roughs s1575@16.O0; stays $1,000 q
$14O0.
Sheep and Lambs - Receipts, 1000,
steady to strong; lambs $15.00@2O40:
yearlings $1400617.50; wethers $3.50
616.OO: ewes $70091450; mixed
sheep, $1475@15.25.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

PITTSBURGH, April 2.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts 1000; market higher; heavies,
$1801S25; heavy Workers $lS65@
$3.50: light Workers $1S.1O@1S.4O
pigs s17.75@18.0O.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 500;
market higher; top sheep $13.25; top
lambs $16.75.
Calves Receipts 200; market is
steady; $500.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

Two hundred and nine years ago the
province of New York put closed sea-
son upon deer, partridge, quail. wild
turkeys and heath hen.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
Two Billion Dollars More
Loaned to Great Britain
(By Associated Press)

(By ASsOcfateC PresSJ
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Credit to
the allies in the last year were raised
today to more than 5,000,000,000 by
loan of s20O,0O0,000 to Great Britain.
That nations total credit from the
United States now are $2,720, 100000,
and all the allies, S., 100000.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

There are more than 100000 Afri-
cans among the 100000 people in
Brazil, and many of them the crudest
type OF negro on the American hemis-
phere.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

ELECTION CLOSES
STOCK EXCHANGE

CHICAGO, April 2.--On account of
the election here today there will be
no grain market, as the stock exchange
is closed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

The war will end only after you
personally have supported the cause
don't wait till you are solicited. Buy
a third Liberty Loan Bond issue to-
day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02

CINCINNATI, April . Hoge-Re-
ceipts $500; market steady.
Cattle - Receipts, 700.
Calves Market steady.
Sheep - Receipts 100; market
steady; $6@11.
Lambs - Market steady; $12@15.5O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-02
BOTH SIDES

Icontinued From Page One.
brai, St. Quentin and La Fere. the
German command apparently has
learned that massed infantry attacks
The sun., 1918-12-29
BY BARRETT H. CLARK.

THE death of Edmond Rostand sig
Il nifes something more than the loss
of poet and dramatist Of distinction. |
an sure that to many OF Us it means
Joss of more personal nature. R"Stand
WIS not a writer of the self -effaclng sort;
hc was personality familiar to the whole
world. For over twenty years his career
WAS shrewdly and on the whole well cx-
plotted through the press, and his home
and family, his habits and dress, were
made known with unfaihng regularity.
His picturesque home, perchcd in the foot
hills of the Pyrenees, his flower beds and
rich gardens were a fitting background
for the existence Of such a poet There
grew up about him in the public con
sciousncss an almost legendary romance.
The performance Of CYrdi4O de Ber-
qerac in 1897 spread ROstands fame to
the corners of the earth. Before that
time he had written only four or five com
paratively unimpOrtant romantic plays.
and | doubt whether Les RondSesques
and La Princesse LOintaine would nave
enjoyed their popularity had ii not been
for CyrGno.
Cyrdno Touched a chord in the heart of
humanity; there was something unlyer
sally appealing in that figure that seemed
to einbOdy al that was chivalrou- and ru-
mantle in the French character. Tie celeb
,ity of the play was due Ilcihcr to thu
poetry nor the theatrical skill. bat to the
character Of the central figure. The very
masnilicsncc and bravado of the man l.
disarming; his splendid indifference 10 The
material world is captivating. tyiano Is
the embodiment of our reprcs-ed ideals,
thooe foolish ideals that We all cherish;
CyraHo IS oar hero.
In L4igl0H, which was produced three
years later, the poet 5 "hero" Is a pathetic
weakling; his noble aspirations alone sayr
him from contempt. Indeed Ia" is no hero
at all The Due de Reich-:adt cyokes
nothing but pity and perhaps Il sense OF
the tragedy of his father. Napoleon.
L'Iiq'on lacks the sustained yigor and
nnnrhalant freedom OF the earlier play
1t Is great failure.
Rosiand, the feted, the successful. the
famous and the youngest mcmh,r Of the
French Academy-was one of tho>' rare
spirits who seem untouched by the nd
vance, Of managers and the temptations
of publishers. 1t was ten yrars before he
offered his next play to the world. and tn"
poems he wrote III the meanwhile might
he collected between the covers Of thin
volume
Back in the early years of the new cen
tury it WAS whispered that Ro,tani WAS
at work on new play. Two or three
wears later it was given out that The play
was 10 he called ChGn'ecIrr, the cl,afartrrs
"a which were TO be the inhabitants OF -
barnyard. Coquclin, who created the role
of CJranO, was to interpret Chanterler,
the cock When the play was announced
to be near completion Coqirin died, and
the poet set to work revising his text.
Lucien Guitry was selected eventually a
The sun., 1918-12-29

the only other actor capable Of playing the
part and CE0Hfecler was formally an
nOunced for productions. But once again
the performances were postponed; various
reasons were offered, until press and pub
lie, wcaried with waiting and eternal ex-
cuses, waved impatient
| well remember an irnncal attack on
Rostand appearing IN one of the Paris
newspapers Il few months before the pre-
mere. The writer offered with profuSe de-
tails what purported To be an interview
with NJ. Rostaud, who was described as
refusing to allow his script 10 90 to the
manager until lac had corrected the
punctuation of Two lines, i task which re-
qJlired a months time.
Chaniecler was at last performed at the
Porte Saint Martin in the winter of 1910.
The expectations aroused by wears of
newspaper cuumCut were bound to be
dashed by the actual performance. ChGRic-
cler was moreover declared ~ the pub
lie and by most Of the critics as too la
bored, too clever and not a'littlc obscure.
That this poetic satire failed tO arouse
the enthusiasm of the publc-even of the
French public, to whom ii was pariicu-
larry addressed hardly surprising. I
am inclined to think that ROstand spent
too much time over IT. and should not
wonder at learning that the first draft of
the play, it there Wa, one, i frcsher and
mana p,rpfapa.,,,- 4b,,, tl.. G,,, bal ,,r,J
net. it Is too rcpleir with double and
triple meanings, rer0ndii" allusioHS. in
yolyed and fantastic passages. Ii Is too
obviously the ,,uit Of close linking and
long reflection. And yet IT Is full of
striking and pervadin" beauty. 4 beauty
of language and OF form beauty Of
thought and OF sentiment II Is spirit
ually more profound than either CUrdno
de Bergerdc or Tl'g'cH. But spiritual
beauty and felicity of expression are not
IN themselves sufficient TO save a play or
TO render it II lasting JOY to the world
ChGniecler may be read in the DAYS to
come, but 1t will never occupy the same
place in the estimation of the world as
CyrGBO.
Cyraao is youth and romance, and Cy-
rGnO may we'll last * long as there are
lovers of that France that gave birth TO
D'Artagnan and his companions
In the rather conventional world of the
modern theatre, peopiod by the set types
Of our rigid society and sci within the
Framework Of the modern play Rostand's
art is unique. Ro-taud was noble excep-
ton. He kept aloof for the most part
from the traditions, good and evil, of the
theatre of his day; by 50 doing he pre-
served free spirit that dallied in the
realms Of gold, a spirit which extended
beyond the frontiers OF his own land,
bringing that land closer to the heart of
the rest of the world
And thai Is the reason, | think, why
Ro5tand occupies Il secure place in the
hearts of every one to whom romance is
not yet dead
The sun., 1918-12-29

Fleming Fl. Revell. president of Elem
ing II. Rcveli Company, is sailing to
spend two months or more, in Europe, and
will probably 60 first to Switzerland.