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New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Some Fine .Juvenilia
For Boys and Girls and About
Peace and War

ro II ustrased Largo lamo, @y pp nana a5s e.
The 1"throp. Ice q Shepard Company.
AMyEnICA's DAUGHTER. by ncna l. Hslsey.
I,dnstTa'c Large lsmo pp. 400. The Lohrop.
TIE SILVER CACHE OF THE pAwNEE. pv
The Lolllrop. Leo & shepard Company. '' -'''
DAVE PORTER UNDER FIRE by Edward
STA TSinra'Gmcyer Illustrated Large l2mo. pp. sos
Inc Lothrop. Lee d Shepard Company.
TIE WONDER OF WAR ON LAND AND SEA.
Emo pp so. The Lolhrop. Lee 4 shcpasd e1as
Company.
The first of this commendable quin-
tct Is another of Miss Browns charm
ing stories Of girl life at homo and
at school, marked throughout with nat
ural, unaffected, youthful spirit, both
Joyous and scdatc. There are touches
OF sentiment, of pathos and tragedy
and of tho war, all treated with fine
taste and invested with gripping in
terest. The illustrations, also, by John
Goss, arc excellent.
Miss Halscy's volume also deals with
schoolgirl life, largely on an advent
urous vacation, in which personal ro-
nance and sentiment are associated
with the cultivation of patriotism in a
story which would not be unintercsting
to adults as we'll as to girls in their
midtccns. The illustrations, by Miss
Mana French Pickford, arc capitally
done
"rhc Silver Cache Of the Pawnee" is
obviously an Indian tale, and perusal
shows it to belong to the profuse, but
always welcome, literature of the old
Santc Ec Trail. 1t has all the excite
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Wells, Famol, Oppenheim-
Other Masters of Fiction
By Willis Fletcher johnson

rhant truth in the refrain of the time
Worn sentimental ditty that "thcrc's
nothing half so sweet in lifc"--nor as
dramatic, nor as thrilling. in fiction or
IN play as we'll as in actual lifc-"as
loves young dream"
That is what this unnamed author
gives us, in something like apotheosis.
We have a boy. all but spoiled bv a
shallow, selfish mother and a wayward
father. and girl growing in unfit cir
cumstances like a white violet in a
bog; clean. natural, pure, rod bloodcd
children; loving at first sight with a
love that neither temptation can Sc
duce nor oppression crush; because Of
malign antecedents and environments
they are swept into the furnace of
thoughtless sin and suffering; and they
finally emerge as true metal, purified
and tempered. Incidentally, they arc
surrounded by a numerous company,
not ono Of whom is supcrhuous, repre-
sentative of almost every type Of man
and woman in the world
1t Is an epic. 1t is a comcdic
humane and tragcdie humane, too
III single volume. 1t contains u por-
trayal of heroic young manhood such
as VIC have not seen surpassed in all
our range Of fiction. The girl is the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Wayfarers
The Romance of a Man and a
Woman on the Tramp

trated by George Wright l9mo. pp. 394
Charles Scribner's Sons
To make an essentially sordid theme
not only inotfensivc but really attrac-
tive, without in the least apologizing
for its sordidness, must be accounted
triumph of literary art; and it is
that which Mr.. Dodge has achieved.
A beautiful young woman, a former
factory girl, grew tired Of eight house
keeping" in a single room with the
worthless crook who had taken her
without ceremony as his common law
wife" SO she ran away, tramptng the
roads with varied adventures, until one
night, camping in the open, she met a
man who also had taken to wander
er's life. Thereafter they tramped to-
gethcr, chiefly as husband and wife,
but in name only; until through a
sense of duty she returns to the city
and to the "home" she had deserted;
death of her common law husband" in
some criminal exploit. The reader
may imagine the sequel in her mar
riage to the companion of her way
faring.
Very different, that, from society"
novel. Yet with all its rags and dirt,
and all its "situations" which Mrs.
Grundy would consider hopelessly COM
promising, and its people whom the
fashionable world really could not
recognize, it is an absorbingly inter
esting book, and is more elevating than
degrading in tone. Through all her
extraordinary adventures the woman
maintains fine quality of womanli-
ness, and the comrade Of her tramping
is equally manly. The author is at
times trifle prolix, even tedious, in
unnecessary descriptions, but in gen
eral he writes with admirable discre-
ton. taste and charm; and he has
produced a book which will be read
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Morbid Problernatizing

JOAN AND PETER BY n. c. Wells. l2mo. pp.
594. Tho Macmillan Company
The trouble with MIR. Wells is that,
like Pooh Bah, he was born snccring.
Also he was born with a passion for
have something which people may adj
mire for its brilliance, but which they
can never love for its human heart.
or the immense clevcrncss of this book
there can be no question. Never has
Mr.. Wells employed the English Ian
guagc with more consummatc skill. He
scarcely wish to apply the blue pencil
to even the most proliX and inconse
qucntial passages. But while we would
not for moment suggest that he is
lnslncere on a single point, we must
say that if he had wished to write
book which would impress the reader
with an overwhelming sense of the
sacrifice Of sincerity to sheer smart
ness it would have been impossible for
even him to do it more masterfully and
convlncingly than it is done in Joan
and Peter
The story of an education" is the
authors sub-titular description Of the
novel. 1t is more than ordinarily
accurate description, though as in
many other cases the description itself
needs definition. The "education"
which the two phenomenally i'll
broughtup children receive is chiefly
relevant to more or less morbid seXU-
ality and to those socialistic fads
which have long been dear to Mr..
Wells's heart. 1t has much to do with
what the author characteristically calls
that tiddling pettiness of sexual mis-
behavior which we call vice.; after
sleeping himself in which the real hero
of the book-Oswald, not Peter-cries
in dissatisfaction, "If this is sin, then
God help the Devil" Another typical
Wellsian hero. after congratulating
Joan on being an illegitimate child,
which he regards as 'the grandest
thing" exclaims: "When l reflect that
I, alas! was born in loveless holy we'd
lock | grit my teeth" The great war is
dragged in, and discussion Of British
politics affords an opportunity for say
ing that "thc creator Of Answers and
Comic Cuts ruled The Times and
sat in the House of Lords"
Joan and Peter really turn out fairly
we'll at the end, mating and perhaps
marrying. But after sitting through
594 pages of scintillating verbal pyro-
technics we are compelled to wonder if
there is anything or anybody in all
the world-always excepting Mr.. H. G.
Wells-of which Mr.. H. G. Wells ap-
proves and in which he really believes.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21

with much interest and which will
leave a pleasant impress upon the
readers mind.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
An Epic Of Youth
With Manhood Triumphant
Over Sin and Folly

WILD ArrLrS. BY the author Of The STRAIGHT
S,a6 Illustrated by c. T.. Chambers limo
pr Sas. The George II. poran Company.
1t is not easy to write of such book
as this for fear that, with all possible
sobriety and restraint, the reviewer
will involuntarily say something which
will seem extravagant. "A boys will"
sang our uncrowned laureate, sis the
winds will, and the thoughts of youth
are long, long thoughts.' A true
romance of youth, Of what VIC might
call early youth, is immcasurably the
most enhancing in the world, appeal
ing irresistibly TO elder years with the
subtle magic Of that which is forever
lost. The intrigucs. the passions of more
expert age may have sophisticated
fascination for those who can imagine
spontaneity where there is none. But
there is. after ali, eternal and trium-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Military and Patriotic
Poetry and Prose-Domestic and
Foreign

Joe Mitchell Chapple has written
and published (Chapple Publishing
Company, Boston) a we'll illustrated
8vo entitled "We'll Stick to the Fin
lsh,' concerning his observations along
the Western front from Flanders to
the Alps; replete with pertinent in
lormation and shrewd comment.
Lieutenant II. C. Ramsey, U. S. n,
has prepared an admirable work on
Elementary Naval Ordnance and Gun
nery' illustrated, l2mo, Little, Brown
x Co). which should be of the great
est possible value to naval reserve of
hccr5 and to those who are studying
to become officers in the navy.
Private Charles Divine irl "Citv
Ways and Company Streets" (Svo Mof-
tat, Yard e. Coz has written some
spirited camp ballads and some charm
ing idyls of both city and country;
with much less of free verse" eccen-
tricity than of the true spirit of the
poet.
Sergeant John Pierre Roche, also, has
written some genuine poetry in his
"Rimcs in Olive Drab' G2mo, Robert
NJ. Mcbride e. Co.. which we wish had
not been printed in ink quite so pain
full to the eye. Some cabaret performer
would make "ten-strikc" by reciting
at the height OF the evening his "To
Crowd in a Cabaret"
Gentleman at Arms" by Centurion"
a British army captain who has
served in Francois a compilation of
a score of spirited and graphic tales
of actual experience on the battle
front. G2mo, Doubleday. Page & Co..
"Fields and Battlefields," by "No.
$3.50" (12mo, Robert NJ Mcbride &
Co.., tells of observations and expert
cnces just behind the lines, in the
field hospitals thronged with wounded
and dying.
Frances Nimmo Greene has compiled
in "My Country's Voice" illustrated,
12mo, Charles Scribner's Sons) numer-
Gus memorable passages in prose and
verse, from many sources, narrative,
hortatory and declaratory, expressive
Of American patriotic sentiment in
peace and war.
Wilbur F. Gordy in "Abraham Lin
coin" illustrated, Svo, Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons) endeavors with some sue
cess to give to young readers life
like account of the great Presidents
career, from childhood to martyrdonn
In "Our Patriots" the same author (il-
lustrated, 12mo, Charles Scribner's
Sons) gives brief and pithy accounts
of great incidents in the lives Of
famous American patriots, producing
volume of much instruction and in
spiration for the young.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21

FEDERAL POWER: ITS GROWTH AND NECES-
SITY. By Henry Litchheld West. l2ino. pp.
2lo The George II. Doran Company
1t has been one of the ironies of
American history that the old conflict
between state rights and national SOW
creignty has been influenced in favor
of the latter under the dominance Of
the very party which is traditionally
committed to the support OF the for
mer, until now, under Democratic Ad-
ministration, people are beginning to
wonder if there is really anything at
all left of state rights. In the little
volume before US Mr.. West traces very
briefly the history of the conflict from
the beginning, and then dwells with de-
tail upon the immense increase of ma
tional authority which has occurred in
recent years. This movement, he
thinks, was inevitable and necessary,
and he looks for its further growth.
In order to countcract any evils which
might otherwise arise from strongly
centralized government, he would have
the members of the Cabinet sit in Con-
gress and be responsible to it, after
the British and French fashion
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21

ment of adventure and strenuous &C
tion that belongs to Indian stories
without the exaggeration which has
ly illustrated by Harold James Cue.
Mr.. Stratemeyer gives us another of
his interesting Dave Porter Series"
his hero cover there" doing
his gallant bit in France for humanity
against the Hun. 1t is a wholesome,
inspiring tale, true to life and to po-
litical and military conditions, with a
growing touch of sentiment, since
Dave" is now old enough to be in love.
The illustrations by r. Emmett Owen
are very good.
DR.. Rolt-Whecler has produced q
book which will give not only boys but
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Gentleman. Not Spy

The nsn5a zEprELlNS & &PAssENGEn By F. Pnillips
Taylor. l2mo pp. 3li. Little Brown & Co.
Maderstrom was too much a Swede
to be German and too much gentle
man to be q spy-though, indeed, some
gentlemen have been successful spies;
and we are not sure that it was par
ticularly gentlemanly to make love to
the wife of the man he was trying to
spy upon. But Sir Henry was a great
deal too much for him at every turn
and so fooled him as to turn his would
be spying back against Germany with
prodigious results. Meantime Lady
Cranston got we'll over her momentary
and quite innocent lapse and recog-
nized her husband for hero instead
of Stacker, and everything came out
happily in the end. We are glad to
regard it as one of the best of Mr..
Oppenheim's many works. 1t has
large measure of the characteristic in
tcrest of his adventurous tales and
will certainly be read through by every
one who begins it,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
The Decline of State Rights

FEDERAL POWER: ITS GROWTH AND NECEs-
SITY. By Henry Litchhed West. l2Ino. pp
2lo. The George II. Doran Company.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Old Friends Again

CHEERFUL-BY REQUEST BY Edna Ferber
l2mo, PIP. 366 Doubleday. Page & Co.
In these dozen collected tales we
meet several dozen old friends; not
necessarily individuals, but types with
whom Miss Ferber has made us fa-
miliar, and they talk the same talk
and act the same acts that we have
known before. There is no strenu-
osity, there are no shouting and
tumult." But let us not therefore
assume that there is no interest. In
every breaker of the surf, in every
autumn landscape, in every sunset
vision we see old friends, old colors !;
yet their witchery is perennial. Be-
cause Miss Ferber does draw life and
it's actors truly, her art never grows
stale, and we can confidently welcome
these old friends with their old tricks
and manners, assured that we shall
find in them all the old charm.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21

American Book Company to print it
superb reproductions of Tennic's orig
inal and quite Incompatible illustra-
tons.
"Happy Tales for Story Time" by
T. l.. and A. NJ. Skinner, is delightful
book of tales for small children, hand
somely illustrated, in 12mo, PIP. 1870,
published by the same house as the
foregoing and worthy of place among
educational works.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Public Affairs of Weight
Educational and Iuvenilia

adults as we'll singularly accurate
and graphic conception Of the war and
the ways in which it is waged, pre-
scnted in the form Of spirited, fas-
cinating narrative. centring on the
Miracle of the Marne. 1t is a work
worthy of a permanent place in the
literature Of the great war, and it is
enriched with a profusion of illustra-
tlors largely from official war photo
graphs
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20
Free Patriotic
Concert Monday

A free patriotic concert in the Inter
est Of the War Savings stamp cam.
paign will be given az the First w. Z.
church OF this city on Monday. June
"A. at $50 o'ciocK. w. D. Darlington
will he the soloist on this occasion
md Henry S. Lively viii deliver a
short address in tic interest OF the
campaign Fifteen hundred conpli-
meatarv tickets have been issued
though anybody is welcome whether
they have q ticket or not and no ad-
mission will be charged.
Mr harrington returned a few days
ego from Columbus. Ohio. where to-
gether with his father, Alfred r Bar
riastcn, Of Columbus. he gave a con
cert at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe,
Ohio. and assisted y.l the annual
1ratorio production az the Ohio state
University. The Columbus Gazette
end The Columbus Evening Post each
gave highly flattcrins and compiimon-
tary notices OF both ercnts in which
both the Barrutgon5 were featured as
eOlglet.. Artistic ana varied programs
we're given at both affairs.
Since reaching here Mr.. harrington
received a letter of thanks from the
officials Of the National War WORK
council Of the Y. H. c. a. under whose
direction the concert at Camp Sher-
man was given; also cOngratul2iing
lin, ON five success of the entertain
ment which was rated as among the
best ever given ct the camp and re-
oucstiag him % return there in the
worry near future for another entertain
ment.
The entertainment OF next Monday
promises TO be a splendid one AID the
public is invited to turn out for the
affair.
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FairmOnt Boys To
Go Into Service

George z. Miller. Jr,. order number
9Os. one OF the men scheduled to leave
this city next Wednesday, for Camp
Lee, Va, has received orders FOR his
induction into the coast artillery. This
win make st necessary FOR one Of the
eight alternates 70 entrain. Because
OF vacancies q will be necessary for
both George Marlgccio and Charles
Fox. the first two al,ernetes 10 70 with
the contingent leaving next Wedne5-
day.
o. 6 Toothman will leave tonight
for Camp Joseph h. Johnson, where he
viii enter the Cuartermaster's depart
ment. Toothmal received on order
for induction from the chief OF the de-
partment.
Loren Vance Summers will leave
this city next Wednesday with the con-
tingent Of draftce5 going 10 Camp Lee,
We. Summers order number is 1915
end he Is not iccludcd IN the draft call.
Summers made q request 70 the local
draft board that he be indicted into
the service ahead OF his turn.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20
Saw U-Bcat OF the
CarOlinaS Saturday
(By AssaciaLel Pressl

A GULF PORT, June 2O.-A coast.
wise passenger steamship which an.
rived here late Yesterday reported en-.
counte-irg a German submarine last
Saturday off the coast Of South Caro-
lima. The steamer made good her es-
cape because Of superior steam and
her wireless calls for help which ap-
parently led the submcrsible to give
up the chase
Officers Of the steamer SIGHTED the
submarine rs # came to the surface
less than 4 mile Gwav. The raider
started for the ship at the sane time
diving. The steamer Immediately be.
ban a ziz zas course and wien the
submarine came 70 the surface again
it was nearer but as the steamer
forged ahead and, began working her
wireless the submarine drcopcl
astarn and was not seen again,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20
MOOSE Plan Bis
SPECIAL Session
Last Big Class Of Candida
ties To Be Initiated at =.
That Time.

Fairnont Lodge, ., Loyal Order Of
Moose. l2et evening initiated twenty
candidates and received fifteen appli.
cants for membership.
All tickets must be returned by mem
bers before June 80 for the two bene.
fits which were held several weeks
Ego.
Today Ray D. Harden. secretary Of
the lodge, hast s5ucd the following Cir
cul2r letter:
or Sunday. June 30, there will be .
special meeting held az Cunningham
Lcll, opposite the court house, at 1870
D. m. for the purpose Of initiating our
las big class during this dispensat.cn
which will close on July II. Anyone
bringing in application viii receive
SlCO Tor evory paid application turned
in ana initiated.
Enclosed find some application
blanks. and we think every member
can secure one applicant This would
hClD cur membership very much.
At the present time we have l,ljO
members and 3l5 applications on file
Il you know o. any applicant who has
turned in his blank please have him
come 90 this meeting or any Wedaos.
day night meeting.
Cluksburg Lodge no - has l,55s
members. ard we want to make oars
over 1900. Yor can bring a new ap.
9,cant and have him initiated at this
special meetin gon June 80.
Yours fer 600 members by July Il.
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HIGH railroad
Continued from page onc)

tho coal, o. married and the father
of owe Child"
Tho Tra1or Coal company, Of
Cons run, has sold 90 J. W. Preston
and a-roc'1,as o. Jamestown. Pa, who
took possession Wednesday Of this
week.
Tho Jersey Central Railroad re.
Mct 5 tafl %, Ta.rmont district
coal laar-d.y after shutting Off on
Ibis rcriaD for ten days That railroad
VIII take The output Of eight or nine
mines In northern West Virginia.
New Report System.
The HelcB'5 Run and Bingamon
branches Of the Western Maryland rail
road are now supplied with cars from
the Mouorg1h division Of the Balt-
more and Ohio and the reports Of
those mines are handled the same as
Other mines in the Fairmont district.
Heretofore the Western Maryland has
had specially assigned cars sent here
by that lire Of railroad
A new system Of reports went into
oi-ec. in the vicinity Of Fairmont to-
day which win spread to the entire
region as rapidly as possible. The re-
po.te will help The operators as they
gll Ae ready Of access at the office
o. the Central West Virginia Coal
C0cr1 .1rs' -ociaficn and will great
-v o1 tic Be!.mlrc and Ohio railroad
g.. .re at C~0 ION as 70 will relieve
Che necessity OF canvaes,ng the re-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20
Injured FIRST DAY
At work N weeks
H. F. Mason Fell From Box
Today and DislOcated
SIS Ankle. 4.

II = Mason. OF this city, fell from
a box on which he was standing this
morning engaged in work at the Mo-
longeh glass plant and broke his
ankle. He went to Fairmont hospital
where the ankle was set and placed
ia a cGst. MIR Mason had only recent
ly recovered from an attack Of small
pox tho quarantine having only been
lifted for a short time and today was
his fist day at work since his illness.
The accident occurred while Mr.. Ma
son was aiding a fellow workman in
lifting a heavy piece OF timber. The
tipped on which he was standing and
he sustained the injury.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20
Government Wants
Coal QuestiOnnaires

WASHINGTON, June 2O.--An ap.
peal TO all industrial concerns using
SEQ tons or more OF coal annually to
be prompt in filing the QUESTIONABLE
thct has been sent to them was issued
today by the fuel administration. The
queSuonr;Hre will be used in determin.
ing what industries are entitled 70 be
placed on III, preference list and re.
ceive coal allowances. The admins.
tration states it can assure the nee.
essary coal only TO those plants which
return the report promptly.
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Last Day For Annual
County Assessment

To-day is the last day for the county
asses9J; 10 receive assessments.
The board OF equalization sits for
twenty-five days during July, com.
mcncing on Monday, July ]. IN TIE
county court room. This afords every
property owner an opportunity to sec
that they are properly assessed. II
they fail they cannot appeal frcm the
assessment and there Is no opportun.
ifv for r. refund
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Express Companies
Now Ask For Raises
CBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. June 2O.-The In.
ter-state Commerce Commission today
handed down an order refusing to
grant the express companies applica.
ton for ten per cent. increase in rates
and few minutes later withdrew the
order without explanation.
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Delivered Address Mrs. y. R. C..
Morrow, Of the Normal achcr. faculty.
delivered an address last niga- q. TIE
First Presbyterian church on the sub.
jecL Keeping The Home Fires Pe-a.
ing The address which was da..y.
cred first before the Normal --f1o,
student body and repeated by rerr-st
made a second favorable impression
on her audience.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20

ca: Uut the picture on oil four sides
Then carefully fold dotted line It's
entire length. Then dotted line and
90 on. Fold each section underneath
accurately. When completed turn over
and you1l fad a surprising result
Save the pictures.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-20

Getting Red Cross Training - ,rrs.
Ire Smith leaves tomorrow for Rich.
mond, Va, where she will take the Red
Cross training course in Home ser.
vice work for the Fairmont chapter.
Several weeks ago Mrs. p. ". Cculer
went TO Washington to take the course
for tie local chapter but after reach.
ing there decided TO enter government
work thus necessitating ano,Lc. volua-
teer for the work.
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cs3ary to avoid t.c shes
this summer.
The daring Gu; OF the models PIC.
tured today makes them seem not I'M.
appropriate Off wearing in the seclu.
sion OF ones personal apartments. The
Skirted costume with 0houlderst-aps