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Two Books for Lovers
of Mystery Stories
By HARRY ESTY DOUNCE.

THE Virginisn reviewed detective
l. story: "Can y'u guess the muir
derer, or is the author too smart for y'ue
Well, he was too smart for me, but it
didn't worry me none"
We need not go with him in disparaging
all such fiction. An honestly good letec
tive story is valuable thing. But he did
put his finger on the sine qua non; the
reader should be kept guessing. And then
I, for one, prefer characters who are
credible human beings. That is the great
merit of the Sherlock Holmes tales. AS
reasoner Holmes himself is pret=nss. But
rs q character he is or ut one time was
worth while, and almost every one he
dealt with, including the honest Watson,
was drawn with an agreeable human
touch. I wish Mrs. Rinehart would write
some more detective stories!
The author of The Mystery Of the Sum-
mer-Hoase, a fiat and stupid title, has
made efforts to satisfy tastes like mine
in characterization. His detective Is
live, and begins well, and two or three
other people are sketched in way that
reminded me, family, Of Frank Dandy.
And he is wise in choosing what might be
called normal murder instead of an at
tack of the fantasies or the seientifcs.
After the loathsome Craig Kennedy yarns
any author is to be thanked for that And
up to certain point he keeps me guess
ing He might have done it to the end if
he had not thrown in quite so many bald
hints, and turned the detective aside on a
scent child would know as false IF
fond Of detective stories, and not too fas-
tidious for your own good. you will find
The Mystery a means Of passing an even
ing. At the point where the old maid
narrator finds Sergeant Crisp's gimlet eve
unsnpportable and begs him to turn it
off and he mournfully Apologies that he
has made resolutions TO remember to be
more human, but 'there is no improve
ment' and his is a loathsome profession,
You may think of Gilbert and Sullivan.
The adventures of Jimmie Dale, Of
which second batch is now published, are
rafting bad stories. I wonder who reads
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them. They are too well written for devo-
tees Of Nick Carter and too useless for
any one else. This Fifth avenue clubman-
burglar, alias a dope fiend artist, alias
yegg turned stool pigeon, alias the mys-
ferrous genius of crime (interchanging
these roles with a makeup box on half
minutes notice., disporting himself in a
village loungers dream of New York
"underworld," where everybody but he
turns out when killed or arrested to be
somebody else, where "ottomatticks"
(Penrod's spelling) are thrust into all
faces at every turn, where mysterious
notes of warning are laced with dots and
hiatuses-
And yet any amount Of ability goes
into the manufacture Of Jimmie Dale. Mr..
Packard can write, and, discounting
dashes and exclamation points and other
cheap tricks for keeping up fever, he
really has the priceless gift of telling q
complex dramatic story with speed and
force. He could do ninety times better
than Jimmie Dale if he liked.
And so I innocently wonder why he
doesn't like. If he wants to make money
easily, why not devote that copious gim-
crack inventiveness to writing for the
screenf But if he prefers to write yarns,
is there no one to tell him that the varest
yarn will hold all the genuine art You will
put into it, and that the more you put in
the better the product paysf 1 don't dote
on society burglars" but if we must have
them in fiction, want mine as well turned
ont as Raf1es, who coined money. Every
one who can like Jimmie Dale liked, or
could have liked, Raffles, but not every
one who liked Rallies will have patience
with Jimmie Dale.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SUMMER
HOUSE. BY HORACE HUTCHINSON.
George II. Doran Comnany. $3.50.
ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE. BY
FRANK l.. PACKARD. George H. Doran
Company. $1.50.
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"Home Made Beverages"
\ Home Made Beverages Albert A.

y Home Made BcrerugeS Ai0er A.
l. Hopkins has written something more
than u cook book supplement or q bar
tenders guide. AS he says in his preface,
he hope, that the volume will appeal at
once to the pros and the ants, "for hsrein
will be found everything from strong
wine to lemonade" A whole chapter is
devoted to cider, concerning the chemistry
of which there appears to be a remark
able curiosity in certain quarters, and an
other chapter to wine making. The gentle
but unregenerate ruE"ny may fird solace
In the paragraph which tells how to make
imitation sherry wine from new cider and
honey The soft side of the book is care
fully done; for example, there are three
pages on the construction of sundaes. The
author, who is on the Scientific American
staff. goes deeply into the laboratory end
of the game.
HOME MADE BEVERAGES. By albert
A. HOPKINS. New York: Scientific Amer
lean Publishing Company. $l.25.
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1.-THE Second Bullet"

INHE author of The Second Bullet in
= PRODUCES the reader on page to
the mysterious and beautiful Mrs. Harris
horne, rushes her through suspicion and
love affairs for thirty pages and then
shows her dead on the floor of her small
but perfectly appointed house, with a
"sinister dark stain" on her corsage and
a small, blunt nosed revolver beside her.
The weapon is a relief, for it is the first
mystery story in long while wherein
the victim-unless taken off with a
strange Oriental poison-hasn't been shot
up with an automatic pistol. This, how
ever, is beside the issue. Mrs. Hartshorne
is dead, and there are $50 pages to go. OF
course the author prepared for this by
having two or three characters who were
jealous of the lady.
When we mention some of the chapter
headings it will be seen that this is a regu-
lar mystery book: Questions; 4 String Of
Pearls; The Cartridge Shell; Lies; Where
Death Lurked; The Warning; The Face
at the Window; The Torn Card; The
Knock Upon the Door and Jacques Benoit
Laughs Last. The plot is as complicated
as league covenant.
THE SECOND BULLET. By R0RERr ORR
CHIPPERFIEI.D. Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co.
$3.50.
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w corning style in fiction, Mr..
James Lane Allen said: "The second re-
auisite-next to an abundant classic vo-
cabulary-is an ear for music, and no one
can teach an ear for music. All the
learned professors in the United States
who are busily and uselessly engaged in
teaching the young English style should
begin by giving them an, ear for music.
Style is music. There are few natural
musicians and few stylists"
All of which, positive and dogmatic as
it seems, is but the expression Of ill-con-
sidered personal opinion. l am not as
yet convinced that style-such a dressing
up of words as Mr.. Allen uses-is Of
prime Importance in the novel. Indeed
there be some who believe that Meredith
concerned himself too deeply in the turn
Of phrase-that Henry James rather OBJ
scured his thought in an unqualified ex-
ercise of modifying clauses-that the SIM
plieity of ordinary speech is to be desired
above the painted beauty Of conscious
playing for effect.
Writing of Baizac in 1899, Mr.. Arthur
Symons said: 81 have often considered
whether, in the novel, perfect form is
good, or even possible thing, if the novel
is to be what Balzae made it, history added
to poetry. A novelist with style will not
look at life with an entirely naked vision.
He sees through eolored glasses. HUI
man life and human manners are too
various, too moving, to be brought into
the fxity Of quite formal order. There
will come a moment, constantly, when
style must suffer or the closeness and
c!earness Of narration must be sacrificed,
some minute exception of action or
psychology must lose its natural place or
its full emphasis. Balzae, with his rapid
and accommodating mind, without the pa.
tienec of selection and without the desire
to selec. where selection means leaving
out something good in itself, if not good
in its place, never hesitates, and his paren-.
thesis comes in. And often it is into these
parentheses that he puts the profoundest
part of his thought. :"
Mr.. Allen 1.-THE beauty of whose prose
has been praised by all to whom the green.
of stagrant pools is rather lovelier than
the shppeless and changing rush Of noun.
tain streams) has forced his dreams into
a mould of form that dwarfs the reflection
of life to a miniature painted from a
mirror. Style, indeed! Mr.. Allen should
know that one-half of humanity is nat
urally musieal-he has but to go to
dance hall and watch the perfect time of
the dancers, to listen to a darby singing
in the cornfeld-and that stylists are as
abundant as blackberries in June.
Style7 It is fast becoming the bane
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was the ruin Of Mr.. Hergesheimcr's Jara
Head, which lies buried beneath a weight
of polished and decorated sentences, mo-
tionless, the mummy of romance 1t is
the curse of present day verse
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Of American letters. It is the spoil of
Mr.. Francis Hackett as a critie-Mr.
Hackett who, could he care as much for
what he says as for his way of saying it,
might be reckoned among the great. Ii
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
"Words, Words, Words"
By GEORGE GORDON.

to me some time ago con-
w corning style in fiction, Mr..
-. ALL. na;l. ttTna .ononI m
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27


utcs the COS, N living hnn riscn res
per cent since 1919, and the amount
necessary to hiring the average wages
on mine workere ~ 10 this point ~ the
tfasfnt time is ~ per cent
INCREASED ABOVE
LIVING COSTS
Embellishments heretofore made
since 1918 were such aai 10 give GER
tain claasca Of mine workers an aver
nEc increase In excess " the increase
in the cost Of living ana CERTAIN others
Hn average increase below tho increane
w the coat of living This form of re-
adjustment was made IN order 20 cr-
thhiish OF preserve certain relative has.
es in the mining industry do not
thlnk thlH condition however ought 90
result ~ giving a. mine workers as a
whole. ana ia consequence irunoainr
upon thu piihl'c total average lncrea 80
IN excess OF the total average lncreaac
Ia the cost OF living because. IN this
course ~ adopted tho result would be
that the total Increased burden placed
upon tho mining industry viii b. FAR
N cNccnF % the Increase In tho cost OF
Twink II this principle We're applied
IN industries generally " ~ obvious that
the rcsplts ~ cost would hp paaacd
along 70 tho general ruhlic ana the in
creased waeee would increase IN n ran
~ spiral taking ns minimum tho per
centarc Of increase In the cost of Nv.
Inc.
IN The Tong rim thlr would adj
many nrw md serious h,irdena 40 ~,
cost or living OF tho entire puhIic ana
would fAll moro iniuriously m.,n tho
wnrt nr rluggNe than upon amy other
COVE PNMFNT TO ''''''7'
CONTROL PRICES
" 'eer's 20 mo Tint no reasonable
way 30 deul with this aitnatlon ~ ~
Flfe TO the lndnstr, nr 70 whnio nm NJ.
'i"Eh increase rom nlrnsur1fc with no
h' t.''-' ~ the cc-t or living and mo-,
~ thai amount OF increase he nnpor
,"neu IN accordance with the ware
nases that arc acceptable To tho ~,
p'olera and the etnployea
,,.u, 1,n'roI or prices by the government
va, ne maintained for the present
Sohn L. Lewis. acting preetden, -,
.he United Mine Workers an Am"r,c.
~1s ,.str, when tho meeting with DR.
,,s. ',ielu hrolSeup that THE miners vii
crease ~ WIN WtBr IN
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

made ll eNrh chac fof the McAicnn rov .
ltnwcnt tiwaNa nnHcfNca respect fot
foreign laws, and does not claim chat
MnAiranq abroad should uccup, hr.
cause thtN ARE MeNieana. positinn ~
exception or pfiyNege
Neither ~ the United atatra nor Ia
MeNiro ran q citiern ON trial be frcrt
nN an executive order. anO lt would ho
airHnrr % an American citizen in Nta-
ifo should have moro Rights than he
wcnld have in hlH own country
arruwicwitofN cnW -spanrtlucmfwyr
Tho government ~ McNicu hka,s lac
oanuot concyde to American citlsona
more rights than McNicAns cnioy Ia tho
United Stairs
The American government seems 20
uhor under THE conviction uf tho nhso /.
hate innucuncn " MIR Ienkns. in spite
so Pc fast That The Case IN IN progress
~ investigation Tho Mexican govern
mont without trying Go claim that Mr.
Jenkins IA guilty, confines Itself 10 s,ih
mhtmN thu foregoing considerations
90 thc United SiAtoa permitting ltaelf
ie hope that thc dcparmcn % aac Win
poespvnc ite Judgment until the courts
nave handed down their DECISIONS with
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

tho better That was s,z years ago
and ! am stin here and am a well
strong woman, and I owe my life 10
cardui. had only taken half ths
bottle when began 20 feel better.
The misery In my side got ress. =. Y
continued right on taking the Cardui
until had taken three bottles and =
did not need any more for was we'll
and never felt better In my iIfs.. I
have never had any trouble from that
day 10 this"
DO you suffer from headache. back.
ache, pains In sides. or other asscom.
forts. each month"; Or do you fsai
weak. nervous and fasgedoutl II 20.
give cardul. the wonsns tonic. y
trial II
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
CALLED HER FAMILY
To HER BEDSIDE


Royse city. rex--Nrs. Mary XII.
msn. Of this place. Gays; after the
birth OF my little girl. my side com.
menced 70 hurt me l had TO 80 back
to bed. We called the doctor. re
created ne. but / 90, no better. !
got worse and worse untii tho misery
was rnbearable. Il was In bed Tor
three months and suffered such agony
that I was Just drawn up In a knot.
told my husband 81 he would set
me bottle OF Cardui would try It
commenced taking It. however, that
evening I called my family about
ma for I knew I could not last
ssax Gays saassa I bad 3 change ior
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
No Communication
a. Washington.
liN The A asOrlnie.l itrars

WARRINGTON Nov. &C.. state de-
partmvnt officials I, was said tonight,
had not received communication Of
amy sort from the eMAieau aovorument
bearing on the Jenkins caac and would
not comment on press dispatches IN
which Hiiarlo Medina Under secretary
vf foreign nfrnirs Tor the CartRnxa gov
ornmenI announced the reply OF his
government to the recent note from the
United States demanding the release ~
the American Consular agent
II wae considered iileiy that no &C
ton would be taken Until the OIL
rinl Abatement n received. IN which
event an Immediate seneioh % the cabl
net VIII likely be called 10 consider Il
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living ana for me weighted average OF
ware Increases According TO these ~
utos the cost ~ living hnH riaon 7eS
per cent aimee 1919. and the amount
necessary to hiring the average wages
or mine workcre up 10 this point ~ the
tf9sent time is "a ncr cent
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
GARFIELD PROPOSES A
WAGE. ADVANCE TO
COAL MINERS.

tcontinucd from pare .. first sectionl
conference OF mincds and operators fol-
lows.
"On the a{th inst. announced that
the public must not be asked 20 pRy
more than u "a now nayln for ccai IN
less Il IN necessary 90 do go In order a.
provide reasonable wages TO the mine
workers and n reasonable profit 10 the
operators. Careful investigation forceH
mo 90 the conclusion that IN accordance
with this and the other principles rot
forth on the 2tth instant the public
ought not be required 10 pay any Ia %
lrna - In coil nrIcnn nj fhIn tItn..
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

the assurance that IN the hosoma ~
Mexican Judges there doun not he thp
teaifc 20 iuiurc or peinccutc Mn Jen-
KIM but rather that they arc possessed
~ a genuine dcaifc 90 proceed accord
INK 60 luailco.
4 take tho occasion, etc.
tSlsncd "ili.AiuO MEDINA"
The only text o. the rOply received
here Was IN Spanish a representative
ff,m the Mexican consulate general
banded a COPY " the spanish Version u
the ineas without comment
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Or. Garfield said az the meeting
that the lowest wages paid 10 miners
was {475 day and that working goo
days year, the minimum average
annual return amounted 20 1850 That
sum. no added ELS "a little higher than
wages In other employment. md this
lH without considering the - per cent
increase"
william Green. secretary 81 tho
United Mine Workers. asked N $3.50
WIS sufficient 60 maintain American
standards Of living
'"rhnt depends on circumstance"
DR. Garfield snid. There nre very
few who get more than $50 "a month.
won't admit That decent Ameri-
ga standard isn't permitted"
PHI r. pcnnu. operator OF Terre
iiauto. Ind. said the 10 per ccfs IN
crease would more than absorb the
margin u profit OF the Indiana minos
this wear
"How are those mines to continue
operation he asked DR. Garfield
replied that under a falling market Of
demand the high cost % operation
mines would have 10 close or else have
TO operate al a loss, Mnny Of those
mines. Mr.. penns said, represent the
labor and sacrifice ~ mons lives. OF
again and the government must not
make demand that puts mon ont OF
business
Operators Voice
Strong Opposition.
To pay higher wages than the pro-
posed scale would make miners a n
yorcd class. and would result in the
payment BY the public Of an enor-
nous fund 90 q minority" rr. Garfield
said replying 90 questions OF the
United Mine Workers
Sneh n situation, LNr. Garfield added
does not differ fron nat Of cor
ooration that attempts % add 10 its
proflts NJ the expense OF tho few.
Dr. Garfield explained that he was
not trying 60 dictate TO the wage scale
committee what II should do but that
he was prepared 10 say that regardless
OF the amount Of wage advance agreed
TO by the opern tors and miners, the
public would not be called ON to pay
mara fo,. ifa Ceql
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

Phone 325 Real Early This Morning
for Table Reservations for
Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner.
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
siAJ.,e la, ~ zssfias
Qusrt~ry srr~rtx
Are Tsbulatcd.
'eseni ncrot,rNon -+,rsa Nv

lhe present negotiation ~truAa nv
Itself but Il IL far from dlspoaing .of
the fundamental controversy between
operators and mine workers That
controversy is bound 10 be n contin-
uing ono. as matters now stand. II
involves living conditions and condi-
tons In the mines. "a well as wages
and profits, and the general relation
between operators and mine workers.
Therefore, TO aid in applying the
principles which have governed us, and
which should govern IN reaching con
clusious In the future, IL IN urged that
permanent consultative body, with
purely advisory powers, be set up
consisting or the secretary OF the IN
terior as chairman ana ~ an equa |
number OF representatives, OF operators
and of the mine workers chosen In
such manner az they may each deter
mine from time 20 time In order that
the data necessary for the consldcra
ton ~ this consultative body may at
all timeH be- available. IL Is urged that
the congress mako provision for COLI
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
Caldwell Building
Nears Completion

r. II Caldwell has practically com
pleted the remodellng OF his building
and il filling his orders with new
goods the old stock still on hands liz
being offered at right prices.
Mr.. Caldwell says that he ~ giving
especial attention 10 power farming
machinery and truck transportation
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
PNMFNT To
CONTROL pRIcEe
MINERS ATTEMPT
10 JEER lNrREAor

=. number OF miners nttemptcd IA ,o,r
.ne now ware scale AlexnnJer tro,,'o,
president Of the Kansas miners nrs,a,, ,
N",'on characterized Il r. an "lns,,it.,
fight II out" 'e ""u
ri. Nhen the Joint conference with DIR
N'I lleid adjourned late tonight tho srh-
h'"' committee ~ miners and opern
.oIH Went INTO executive session TO dis
cusq the governments abatement -,
fncts" Lewis announced tbo. ~
M u ..-..lLl.I
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
MORE COAL WAS
NEEDED FOR WAR

The prices fixed hy the government
on coal were calculated 20 increase
production FOR war purposes Coat was
hnsic and tho increase IN production
was Imperative Tho operators are
now III receipt OF margins which were
necessary 10 effect that increase or
production. but which are larger than
are required under present conditions.
Il wa estimated that the production
needed for 1918 was 600. 600 900 tons.
the estimate for 1919 f. 500 00n 600 tons
"Applying tho principles set forth IN
paragraph two of the statements OF No
Ncmber -, whom tho average increas-
es IN wages since 1918 for the various
classes ~ mine workers are deducted
from the increase IN the cost OF living
since that time we arrive ~ the amount
~ additional increases IN wages justi-
fable Mt tho present ume
Il have takoa Ga trves N mo bur
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

locting definite aud Trustworthy lnfor-
nation concerning the conl and coke
Industry and for the tnbulation Of tho
some Ia quarterly reports, showing
I'D Production, distribution. ator.
age ~ stocln ~ coal aud coke
"(2)--'rho cost % production and
distribution and Of maintaining suit
able stocks. ana amy other data con
corning the industry deemed ncces-
aary.
"tg)--The cost ~ living IN the sew
crnl coal fields.
zoo The selling prices and profits
obtained by the operators. middlcmcu
and retail dealers.
"(s) Export requirements and the
conditions limiting them
"rho settlemcnt " the present con
troVerey on the wage aud price basis
above Indicated must be considered
on tho wage ana price baHiH above in
Dictated must be considered in tste light
uf the PROPOSAL 60 set up this pcrmnn
ont. consultative body While ~ VIII
not have powers ~ decision 10 VIII
hardly seem possible to q reasonable
man that In tho nght % IT'S conclu-
eionH. dcmnndH for cxorbilant profits
or unreasonable wages can be HucceHa-
fully maintained or that conditions
unfayorable % the American standard
" living wall bc tolerated
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27

Indications do not point to an immediate
decline in prices.
Our stocks are complete, and our service
is better than ever
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-26
OUrFTELDERs HEAD CLUBs.

There seems TO be a tendency to
make outfielders captains" this year,
as instance, George Whitfield, Harry
Hooper, Zack Wheat, Iris Speaker.
and so on. But what's a team cap
tain anyway, but a little salary bonus2