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Musical lPh0emix--

the Golden Stairs" sung by Walter Van Brunt, is another favorite classic in Edison records, as is F'reida Hempels glorious Ava Maria" one of the best known renderings of one of the worlds masterpieces.
 "Dixieland Memories" collection of aid songs of the old south, is an- other Edison number that is popular everywhere In war numbers Edison is scoring d distinct success in Bins BiuG. Bingem On the Rhine"
 Religious numbers continue to be well represented in Edison lists, among the best being Lead Kindly Light and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought"
 Columbia
 In all the tributes to the Red Cross nurse there is none more beautiful than The Rose Of No Mans Land. |" one of the best sellers in late Colum- bia records. It is delightful melody. and is sure 10 be appreciated hy tho American soldier boy. over Wonder Where the Lilies Blow sung by Henry Burr. is also a dainty and won- dertul number, containing glorious tribute to France. The two come to-. eethcr. and both are deserving of a place in any music cabinet
 Til We Meet Again" duet by Campbell and Burr and Dreaming of Home. Sweet Home" by the Sterling Trio. are two other or the best and ost popular light numbers in the Co., llmhia lists. The two songs appeal 10 a sentiment in every heart.
 , Irving Kaufman sings pleasing and Imaginable number for the Columbia in "Oh, Susie. Behave" which comes on the reverse side of Al Johnson's hit from "Slnbad -I Wonder Why She Kept on Saying Si-Si- Senor."
Arizona republican., 1919-02-09

INCREASED PRICES of books are becoming the bore of the retail trade. Nearly every mail from the east con- tains notices of advanced prices on re- gently published books. Publishers are frantically proclaiming the increased prices they have to pay for vellum. board, muslin. glue, thread. ink, paste tape, wire, lining paper and labor. In- creases of as much as 300 per cent in material are observed. Labor alone it is claimed has advanced from 33 per cent to 10J per cent, and even more in some instances. Cotton string. alone. shows an unusual rise of from r cents to 70 cents.
 And this has had it's effect upon the retail selling price of books. Here are a few instances:
 The Gilded Man was s1.50; now
 s160.
 Free and Other Stories was
 s1.50: now s175.
 Sister, Carrie was sl.5O: now
 s1.90.
 Miss Minerva and William Green
 Hill was (once) 50 cents. now
 s125.
 And, that's not all. They are still going up.
 JANUARY BEST SELLERS, as an nounced by McClurgs for January are as follows: Fiction
 A Daughter of the Land, by Gene Stratton Porter. The Four Horsemen of the Apo calypso. by Y. Blasco Ibanez. The Winds of Chance, by Rex Beach. War Books | America in France, by Maj. Frederick Palmer. And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight. by Floyd Gibbons. Ambassador Morgenthau's story,
 by Henry Morgenthau.
 NEW BOOKS ARRIVED in Phoeniy
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Edison

Manuel omaino. Edison artist. is rapidly winning bis way into the hearts Of tho approciativc musical public with two old songs that are luubly appealing in his rendering one
 e already nationally known. "Mammy's Little Cold Black Rose" end almost everyone likes it The other. "lf Had All fhe World and its Gold" is if any thing. better and Is also far from un- tuowu to the public. Climbing Up
Arizona republican., 1919-02-09
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS. Tn,

NEW LIBRARY BOOKS. These books will he put into circulation at Phoenix Public Library tomorrow:
 Fiction
 Deserter. by R. H. Davis.
 Apren-strings. by Eleanor Gates. Blown Tn by the Draft, by Frazier Hunt
 Zella Sees Herself. by A. A. Knopf Wonderful Adventures. of Nils. by Selma Lagerlof
 My Airman over There.
 Tree of Heaven. by May Sinclair. My Doctor Dog. by Ed A. Steiner. House With the Mezzanine, and Other Stories. by Anton Tchekoff. Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West. Non-fcton
 Brahma- -Darsa nam, by Sri Amanda Acharya. Short History of the U. $. Navy, by Capt Geo. R. Clark and others. Italian Grammar, by C. H. Grand gent.
 Wartime Breads and Cakes. by Amy l.. Handy. 1 "Crumps," bv Louis Keene. ! Minstrel in France. by Harry Lauder. | Sense of Pain and Pleasure. Henry l T. Moore.
 Book Of Camping, by A. Hyatt Yer Till.
 War Nurses Diary. i Analytic Geometry and Principles Of Algebra, by Alex. Ziwet and L. A. Hop kins.
 A CHINESE POET. In "A Lute of Jade" a little collection of poems from the classical poets of China published | by E. r. Dutton X Co, there is this ! Dream of Spring written about 75C A. D. by one Of the masters of poetic art in the golden age of Chinese l poetry:
 Last night within my chambers gloom some vague light breath ot
 spring Came wandering and whispering ant
 bade my soul take wing. "A hundred moonlit miles away tn
 Chiang crept to sea; o keeper of my heart. I came b.
 Chiang's ford to thee. Tt fingered but moments space
 that dream of spring, and died; Yet as my head the pillows pressed
 my soul had found thy side. "Oh, Chiang Mans a hundred mile'
Arizona republican., 1919-02-09
DORIAN BOOKS COMING. Y

DORIAN BOOKS COMING. The following general reading matter will be published for the month of Feb ruary by George H. DOran company. Eating in Two or Three Languages by Irwin S. Cobb: Ten Years Near the German Frontier by Dr. Maurice Francis Egan; American Labor and the War, by Samuel Gompers; "Christopher. by Sir Oliver Lodge;
 The Riddle of Nearer Asia by Basil Mathews; The American Hunting Dog by Warren H. Miller. and The Book of Lincoln" by Mary Wright Davis.
 LORD DUNSANY, the Irish play wright and soldier is now in this country. He is on a lecture tour that
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yet in a moments space we flown away to Chiang Nan and touched a dreaming face"
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The lack of perspective that many years give. Twenty years from now, a Roosevelt biography may he written with some philosophic relation to Roosevelt's indelible impression upon the fabric of history during the days of his active life. It is wonderful name he has bequeathed to the nation. It is splendidly comprehensive mind that must he in keeping for the task. No man of literary genius, however tall he may have grown. is yet too great to tell the world to come the story of the varied achievements of this one great man that has passed from among us
 BEST TEN AMERICAN BOOKS. Edward J. O'Briens summary of 1918 of the best ten American books of short stories for that year, will sur prise a great many habitual readers. Here is the list: Can Such Things Be Bierce; In the Midst of Life, Bierce, The Flying Teuton, Brown; John OMay, Burt; Gold and Iron. Herges- heimer; Long Ever Ago, Hughes; Gas light Sonatas, Hurst; Lands End. Steele; A Gray Dream, WolcOtt, and The Scarcrow, Worser.
 By the same authority, five Ameri- can magazines, for a period of four years, easily outclass all the others in the number of distinctive short stories published. Harper's Magazine leads it's nearest competitor by 49 stories. The list is as follows:
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WANTED 800 PARENTS TO BUY MEMBERSHIPS FOR THEIR BOYS IN THE PHOENIN ASSOCIATION THIS WEEK [
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will last several months. His visit will undoubtedly stimulate a greatly grow ing interest in his literary work. Prac- tica1ly all that Lord Dunsany has writ ten has appeared in American editions,
 BEYOND LIFE" has nothing to do with spiritualism. Many thought it had. In announcing this unique book by James Branch Cabell. the publisher, Robert NJ Mcbride X Co, states that
 it is a volume of closely connected essays upon books and human affairs. The book is filled with an irony that will probably appear perverse to many people, but which is certain to pro yoke wide and heated controversy.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-09

ROOSEVELT BIOGRAPHY. It was most expected that there should ap pear. immediately after his recent death. almost numberless more or less authentic and sufficient biographies and autobiogrsphies of Theodore Roosevelt. In the daily newspapers magazines, weeklies and syndicated periodicals, not less than a dozen are being currently published. But. who is the towering genius in America that will furnish us with such master piece as the biography of John Hay Who will measure up to the literary excellence of Washington Irving's life of George Washington? The man in this country, no doubt. best capable Of producing such an enduring work of art is Henry C. Lodge. United States senator from Massachusetts. d man of letters. and most intimate friend of Roosevelt's during the event ful part of his life. William H. Taft is scarcely equal to the task. lacking that romanticism. without which the story Of Roosevelt would be barren.
 Through the magnificent memorial association recently organized, chan nels for research will undoubtedly be provided, and some man magnificently equal to the task will be discovered. One grave handicap will harass him.
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LITERATURE AND ART
 Conducted by LEW HEAD -

are few, with many ordered and on the way. Those announced as here are: Desert of Wheat, by Zane Grey.
 Nillon's Poems, translated by John Payne
 Beyond Life, by James Branch Caben
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28

proper means OF popularizing the
community center has not been
found.
DIR. Downes, like many of the pro-
gressive thinkers of the country, is
so firmly convinced of the good that
could come out of school house
community centers, properly con-
Quoted. that he intends to go thor
oughly into the plan the coming
year. He will have at his disposal
the two new junior high schools,
each of which has large auditor
ium,> gymnasium and bathing facili-
ties, and adding to these attractions
the opportunity for night study he
will be in good position to offer in
ducements to community center at
tendance that should not fail to
draw.
Eventually we shall have COM
munity centers of another sort
community clubs, If you will-main-
tained by the municipality and con-
Quoted by the members, member
ship being dependent upon the pay
ment of a merely nominal fee, suf-
ficient to take away the element of
charity and make those enjoying
the club privileges feel that they
are paying their way. But until
the community reaches that stage
of education, the school houses
must suffice and at all events al
ways can be made to serve purposes
beyond those to which they are now
put. DR.. Downes' experiment will
be watched with interest. The sue
cess of it would mean much in the
life of Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
He Left Me Dreams

Un memory of ]. w. H., despatch
bearer in Rainbow Division, killed
in action in France.)
He left me dreams, bright, starry
shafts. unbroken,
Rose decked and sweet, as sign
posts down the years;
A wreath of gallant memories for a
To Irvine within the tribute of my
tears.
His songs were sheafs of triumph,
proud, unbending,
A glory unforgetable, to trace
Upon my 1ife-my children's lives
nor ending,
But, like Dawn's sacred flame, for
ever blending
With Honor sprung from Loves
high place.
The sunsets ruddy kiss, the moons
brave wonder,
In merry messages he sent to me;
His words were silver bells amid
the thunder
OF death commissioned guns across
the sea.
He left me Faith and Hope and
smiles immortal,
And thoughts that flung stern chal-
lenges to Wrong;
A Knight-he fought, and stormed
the Tyrant's portal,
His deeds like seeds shall flower
into Song.
The Nights cool whisper, when the
Dawn is waking,
And ghostly hands unclasp, yet
clasp again.
He knew; and drank, like wine, for
spirits shaking
The melancholy music of the Rain.
He left no gold, he sent no earthly
treasure,
His sacrifice is hidden deep from
fame,
Forsaking home and friends and
peace and pleasure,
He left me Love in Friendships
hallowed name.
j. Corson Miller, in the Forum,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
Heine Sees Napoleon

When I think of the great en-
peror (Napoleon), all in my men,
ory again becomes summer, green
and golden. A long avenue of lin
dens rises blooming around, on the
leafy twigs sit singing nightingales,
the waterfall ruStles, flowers are
growing from full round beds,
dreamily nodding their fair heads.
I am speaking of the Court
Garden of Dusseldorf, where often
lay upon the bank, and piously lis
tened there when NJ. LIE Grand told
of the warlike feats of the great
emperor. beating meanwhile the
marches which were drummed dur
ing the deeds, so that / saw and
heard all to the life. saw the
passage over the Simplon, the en-
peror in advance and his brave
grenadiers climbing on behind him..
I saw the emperor with flag
in hand on the bridge of Lodi
saw the emperor in his gray cloak
at Marengo-I saw the emperor
mounted in the Battle of the Pyra-
mids, naught around save powder,
smoke and Mamelukes-I saw the
emperor in the battle of Austerlitz.
I saw, I heard the Battle
of Jena
But what were my feelings when
] saw with my own eyes,
him the emperor.
1t was exactly in the avenue of
the court garden at Dusseldorf. AS
/ pressed through the gaping crowd,
thinking of the doughty deeds and
battles which Monsieur LIE Grand
had drummed to me, my heart beat
the general march" And
the emperor with his cortege rode
directly down the avenue.
The emperor wore his invisible
green uniform and the little world
renowned hat. He rode a white pal
frey, which stepped with such calm
pride, so confidently, so nobly.
The emperor sat carelessly, almost
lazily, holding with one hand his
rein and with the other good ma
turedly patting the neck of the
horse. A smile which
warmed and tranquilized every heart
fitted over the lips-and yet all
knew that those lips needed but to
whistle, ct la Prusse n'existait plus.
The brow was not so clear
the phantoms of future battle were
nesting there.
The emperor rode calmly straight
through the avenue; no policeman
stopped him; behind, his cortege
rode proudly, loaded with gold ana
ornaments the trumpets
neoIed and the multitude
cried with a thousand voices. Es
Iebe der Kaiser!" Long live the en-
peror) Heinrich Heine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER SEVENTEEN

"A few days ago I got to talking
about our American artillery during
the Spanish-American War and the
Philippine Insurrection," said Col
onel ]. B. Kemper, of the Army Re-
cruiting Station, 325 Market Street,
Harrisburg. THAT reminds me OF
some figures that came in from
Washington showing the difference
between those guns that we thought
so wonderful and the guns of to-day.
For example, the field pieces used
up to the start of the Civil War were
smooth bore guns with maximum
range of 1870 yards, little less
than a mile. About that time they
started rifling the barrels of cannon
and the range promptly increased
to $3.50 yards or two miles and a
quarter. Next came the crude
breech-loading rifled guns we used
up to 1900. Their maximum range
was about 5000 yards or three and
a half miles. The guns that came
into use then were what were called
quick firers with fixed ammunition,
that is they made big cartridge cases
and put the shell in the case so that
the entire cartridge was simply an
over-grown rifle or pistol cartridge.
Until that was done they loaded the
shell into the cannon and then the
powder, making two separate opera
tions. The latest type quick firers,
such as were used during the late
war had a maximum range of $500
yards, or about five miles. Now
comes an interesting tidbit: When
we got into the World War we got
to experimenting. You all remem-
ber the change in automobile bodies
when the 'streamline' type body
came in. Well, that is just what
they started doing with shells. We
experimental and experimental and
finally evolved a real streamline line
shell, and to everyone's surprise that
new type gave about $500 yards
more range or about $4,000 yards
(seven miles,. Can you believe it?
Merely changing the shape of the
she'll gave it two miles more range.
Among the other changes has been
the loading of the shell with high
explosive of black powder. The old
fashioned shell contained about half
pound of black powder as a burst
ing charge, whereas the new three
inch shell (75 millimeters) has one
and three quarter pounds of high ex-
plosive. Further the high explosive
is approximately eight times as
powerful as the black powder, so the
| burst of the rs shell is about twenty
eight times as violent as the burst
of the old fashioned shelf. And as
the rs fires with ease twenty times
as fast as the old gun it is no wonder
the returning Doughboy says that
Artillery fire is sure hell"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
The Passing of an Art

it first got into the fighting in
Europe. He was the pre-eminent
character in the affairs of the Nat
ional Guard of the country and it
was through him that Congress and
the War Department gave recog-
intion to the National Guard as part
of the first line of defense of the
country. That his Judgment was
good is evidenced by the splendid
record of the National Guardsmen
in the war with Germany and es-
pecially by the National Guard of
Pennsylvania.
General Stewart died suddenly
on his birthday. September II, 1917,
when he was SO years of age and on
the very day when the last organiza-
ton of the National Guard left the
State to go to war. The sentiment
in favor of erecting memorial
statute to his memory was crystal
liZed at Camp Hancock, and the var
ious organizations of the Guard con-
tributed towards the fund used for
the bronze figure. Not only did the
officers who knew him best con-
tribute, but all other officers and
many privates gave their mites.
1.-THE selection of a sculptor and
the erection of the statute were
placed in my hands and L choSe a
prominent Philadelphia sculptor,
Otto Sweizer, who has made numer-
Gus similar memorials and whose
works stand on many battlefields.
He has an international reputation
as a sculptor"
The bronze was cast by Bureau
Brothers. of Philadelphia, who have
made the memorials for many pub
lie parks and whose work is repre-
sented many times on the battlefield
of Gettysburg. The figure and base
weigh 1900 pounds,
The figure was modelled by .Sculp-
tor Sweizer. only after he had been
furnished scores of photographs OF
the late Adjutant General and
photographers had made many COM
posite photographs of these pictures
General Beary, who is shorter tnah
General Stewart, posed several times
in the uniform of Brigadier Gen
eral
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
After q Rainy Day

rJudd M. Lewis in Houston Postl
Tta streets are wet that lead to
home across the dripping
town, -. .ho
The asphalt mirrors back the
lights, and still the ram
comes down!
The cutters overflow, ana scroose
~ up little newsboys- call,
And stiiI. aslant against the DUSK,
the cleaning raindrops 1all'
And in the windows OF lar
kept indoors by the ram,
rho little children wait and press
their noses to the pane
Aa Itch for father to come nome
anu aiong the dripping street
Then he will hear their Cries VI
ioy and dancing feet.
And they will rush to meet MN
and rush to fling vide the
door,
And they will hold his rain-wet
hands and snuggle with de-
light.
And ali of their unhappiness De
flown into the night;
And he will press his rain-wet
cheeks against their dear
checks, and they
Will be glad for the night Ihat
comes behind the rainy day.
And mother will call them to where
the tables all alight-
Earth's little homes are homes IN
deed upon a rainy night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28

The bronze statute of the late
Adjutant General Thomas ]. Stewart
who was executive officer and chief
of staff of the military forces of
Pennsylvania longer than any man
who ever held the office, will be un-
veiled in the rotunda of the State
Capitol on Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The statute, which was
placed in position some time ago
and which is now covered by the
largest flag in Harrisburg, measur-
ing "a by 36 feet, was the gift to the
State of officers and men of the
National Guard and of the Keystone
Division, which was formed of the
organized militia of the State so long
directed by the General. The funds
were raised by subscription after the
war began.
Many men associated with the
General in military matters and in
the G. A. r., of which he was nat
ional commander, will attend. Busi-
ness in the Capitol will be suspended
during the afternoon.
Major General William G. Price,
Jr., of Chester, commander of the
new Guard, will make the presenta-
ton address in the rotunda and Ad-
jutant General Frank D. Beary will
accept it. Chaplain H. N. Bassler,
of the 112th infantry and former
chaplain of the Eighth Pennsyl-
vania, will offer prayer and make a
few remarks on the General. The
Capitol orchestra, composed of at
taches of the State government, will
furnish music and there will be sing
ing.
The statute is nine feet high and
is mounted on a pedestal with allie
gorical figures. 1t shows the General
in dress uniform, the likeness being
of the officer about 1908.
Tribute to General.
General Beary in speaking of the
statute to-day said: General
Stewart, more than any other man
in the county, was instrumental in
making the National Guard an es-
tablished fact and in bringing it up
to standard of efficiency that has
been well recognized since the days
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
HuI1or in a Dictionary

[From Christian Science Monitor1
Johnson's Dictionary, says the
latest writer on the life of Mr.. Bos-
wells "illustrious- friend" often ex-
pressed his personal prejudices and
point of view. He enjoyed having
a "dig" at Scotland, and so when he
defined "oats" he wrote, "a grain
which in England is generally Civ
en- to horses, but in Scotland sup
ports the people" In defining
'lexicographer," he looked humor-
ously at himself, and set down "a
maker of dictionaries, a harmless
drudge;" and Grub street he de-
scribed as "the name of a street in
London, much inhabited by writer's
of small histories, dictionaries and
temporary poems" And his defin-
ition of network" as anything re-
ticulated or decussated at equal dis
tances, with interstices between the
intersections" became famous as a
definition needing more definitions
to define it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28
SETTING AN EXAMPLE

-HE boroughs of Central Penn
sylvania are setting an example
- of progressiveness that Harris
burg will have difficulty in match
ing if they keep it up. Their ac-
tivities extend from model school
house construction to housing de-
velopments, and now comes Man
helm with a $65,OOO street improve
ment program.
1t has been said of Pennsylvania
towns that the automobilist knows
the moment he crosses the boundary
line of one of them, by the poor con-
dition of the highway, but Mannheim
it not of that sort. Millersburg In
Dauphin county, Mechanicsburg'
Carlisle and other progressive COM
munities have spent large sums on
street paving and are the better Tor
it. and the Lancaster county town
will not regret the large expenditure
it is about to make.
/. A man is judged by his shoes'
Somebody has said, and a borough
by the condition of its streets.