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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-11-13
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-11-13
Makes Six Cents a Year.

London. "Proiteering," laughed
Horsham councillors when it was an
nounced that the municipal water
works had made a net profit Of three
cents on the half year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-11-13

Mrs. Raymond Robins, president Of
the National Women's Trade Union
league, is making preparations for the
reception Of delegates representing
women workers of ten foreign coun-
tries on their way to participate in the
International Congress of Working
Women.
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penny of Top Hill Trail"

THE frontispiece Of Penny Of Top
l. HiH Trail, by Belle Kanaris Mani
ates who wrote Amarilly Of Clothes-Line
Alley, is the work of Philip Lyford, and
reproduced in color it has been used as
the jacket of the book. The picture is Of
a young birl looking Western ranchman
squarely in the face. Her head is thrown
back, her face is anxious and half defiant,
half resolute. Her right hand, little
lifted, is closed tightly. The eyes and
mouth are intent and set; but the white
throat is pathetic. You don't see the
mans profile very clearly and perhaps it
is as well. To the man, the girl who con
fronts him is professional theif-yes, a
pickpocket.
Nearly all the story-it's short novel
is in conversation. Very uneven con-
versation for the most part; which means
that it is sometimes happily worded and
sometimes distressingly worded. But
much of our daily talk won't bear putting
on paper, being hopelessly cheap in print.
The book reads easily and swiftly and
will be liked by lot of people from the
first chapter, in which 10 Gary meets
lonely girl in Chicago resort to the last,
in which an entirely different pair confess
their love.
The interest of the story is first the in
terest that almost everybody feels in
young and pretty girl "alone in the world
and rather terrifcally up against it. And
secondly, there's mystery element. Will
the bad Penny turn out to be a good
Pennyf And when is Penny Gold
piecef The surprise is well concealed and
shall be sacred here. Even those. who
peruse many, many stories of the kind
and who are insensible to the emotional
side of such narratives can derive salts
faction from the book We will warn them
that they ought to get on the scent in the
second chapter, and we will wager them
that they don't.
PENNY OF TOP HILL TRAIL. By BELLE
KANARIs MANDATES. Chicago: Reilly &
Lee Company. $1.35.
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Prescribing for Peace
BY EDWARD N. TEALL.

THERE have been and still are
l. many "only possible" peaces.
Frederic c. Howe's rests upon an economic
idealism. 1t is at the other extreme of
well filled range from that of the advo-
Gates of peace by force.
DR.. Howe performed the last act of his
auctorial labors, the signing Of the
preface, on the first day of last Novem-
Der, a week or so before the armistice.
The battle Of Paris is therefore not in his
book. The maneuvres of Marshals LLOYD
George and Clcmenceau and the strategy
of Grand Marshal Wilson are not SUBJ
jected to review.
DR.. Howe photographs the world be-
fore the war. He analyses Germany's
motives; separating the economic from
the purely military. as much as they can
be separated. He shows how the Teuton
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
"'The Cabin" by Ibanez

THE novel called in the English trans
Il lation The Cabin, by Vicente
Blasco Ibaiiez, author of The -Four Horse
men of the apocalypse, was first put out
in this country in 1917 by Alfred A.
Knopf, the publisher. Better than any
thing we can say about it is the comment
of William Dean Howells, which we re-
produce below. 1t occurs in Mr.. Howelrs
preface to the new edition Of Ibanez's The
ShadOU of the Cathedral:
"Ibanez began" says Mr.. Howells, ''to
write fiction of the naturalistic type and
of Zolaistic coloring which his Spanish
critics find rather stronger than have
myself seen it. Every young writer forms
himself upon some older writer; nobody
begins master; but Ibanez became master
while he was yet no doubt practising a
prentice hand; yet | do not feel very
strongly the Zolaistic influence in his first
novel, La Barrdcd, or The Cabin, which
paints peasant life in the region of Valen-
ella, studied at first hand and probably
from personal knowledge. 1t is not very
spacious scheme, but in its narrow field
it is strictly a novela de costumbres, or
novel of manners, as we used to call the
kind. Ibafez has in fact never written
anything but novels of manners and La
Barrdca pictures a neighborhood where
stranger takes up waste tract of land
and tries to make home for himself and
family. This makes enemies of all his
neighbo1s, who after an interval Of pity
for the newcomer in the loss of one of his
children return to their cruelty and rem
der the place impossible to him. 1t is a
tragedy such as naturalisin alone can stage
and give the effect of life. have read
few things so touching as this tale of COM
monest experience which seems as true to
the suffering and defeat of the newcomers
as to the stupid inhumanity of the neigh
bors who join, under the lead Of the
evilest among them, in driving the
strangers away; in fact l know nothing
parallel to it, certainly nothing in English;
perhaps The House With the Green Shut
tiers breathes as great an anguish"
THE CABIN. By VICENTE BLAsco IRANss.
Alfred A. Knopf. s1.se.
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conspiracy for place and power had pro-
gressed up to the time when the Sarajevo
assassination furnished the desired pre-
text for removing Serbia as blockade
to the completion of the central project Of
the Bagdad railway. And he does it with
most commendable vigor and clarity
The thing that people seek in all the
regiments of "only possible peace books
is constructive programme. DIR. Howe
does not dodge the test. Let down the
bars! Open the highways. Stop exploita-
ton! Let an international power be es-
tablished in control Of the troubled Bal
kans! ..
Every honest and intelligent essay at
an effective prescription for the cure OF
world collie is commendable. DR.. Howe
writes with admirable honesty and I'M
questionable intelligence. His logic has
the merit of working to clear conclu-
sion: that economic interests rule the
world, command armies and have more
power than written constitutions. This is
a definite contribution TO the great cam
paign not so much perhaps of education
as of illumination. When the people see
clearly they will choose wisely"
THE ONLY POSSIBLE PEACE. BY FRED-
ERIC C. HOWE Charles Scribner s Soma
$3.50.
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"Too Fat to Fight"

THE new style is to put the story in
l. the movies before you bring it out
as book. Innocently unaware of this
devhsh practice one of our staff review
ing Sir Gilbert Parker's Wild Youth on
the front page of Books and the Book
World discussed the tale from the point
Of view of its film possibilities, which he
allowed to be very great. The result was
letters from Boston, Chicago and way sta
tions advising US that Wild Youth in We
don't know how many reels had been all
about the country. 1t was emphatcally
one on US.
Rex Beach's Too Fat to Fight first ap-
peared in the Cosmopolitan magazine or
in the films, we wont assert which, and
has now come out as a booklet. 1t is the
story of Norman Dalrymple, who bought
a one way ticket to Plattsburg and then
had to buy another ticket away from there
because, as q man at the scales said, 1.-TWO
eighty-fve isn't weight; it's telephone
number" Norman finally got in Y. NJ.
C. A. work after first being sorrowfulIy
rejected by board of white whiskers, Of
whom the author records: "One glance
told Dimples (alias Norman) that they
knew a lot about God" They were
shocked to find Dimples had played cards
for money.
It's too late for Too Fat to Fight to
serve one purpose for which it was OBJ
viously written, but it is by no means too
late to enjoy it as a good yarn. The book
has the engaging pictures made for the
magazine publication of the tale by T. D.
Skidmore.
TOO FAT TO FIGHT. BY REX BEACH.
Harper & Brothers. 60 cents.
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some The reverse. AcnneQ ADOuuanS a
Simple Act Of Piety is admirable In its
analysis of the Chinese mind and well de-
serves second publication. But in con-
trast to that another study in Oriental
psychology, George Gilberts In Maalmain
Ferer,odrd, strikes one as being artificial,
written by one who has mtrely read up on
the East.
Mr.. 0'Brien's expressed fondness for the
legend causes him to give disproportion-
ate praise to more than one story of that
type, as last year he rather over stressed
the folk-tale. Wilbur Daniel Steele's The
DdrE Hour, is a commendable piece of
work, but it is not a short story, being
merely a conversation concerning the war.
1t has no plot and arrives at no eonclu-
sion. Arthur Johnson's The Visit Of the
Master eompels admiration, as all of Mr..
Johnson's work is of finished quality;
but such story as The Toast to Forty
fire, by William Dudley Policy, seems out
of place beside it. The Open Window, by
Charles Caldwell Dobie, is strange story,
but the one following it, Blind Vision, by
Mary Mitchell Freddy, is strained and
unconvincing.
There are many who cannot share Mr..
O'Brien's. admiration for certain writers,
such as Edwina Stantont Babcock, for in
stance, though the story of hers to which
he gives place of honor this year seems
more deserving than was the case last year.
1t seems strange to see a narrative like
George Humphreys The Fathers Hand re-
printed and no praise given to any of
Harriet Welles's very artistic work, for
example. Of course no iwo persons would
agree on list of the best twenty or forty
or ten stories, which fact only suggests
the inappropriateness OF so emphatic a
title, where the preferences Of one person
alone are considered. Mr.. O'Brien is gen.
erous rather than critical in praise of
some of the writers he discusses, but then
very one has his own enthusiasts at which
others may wonder.
The biographical an photographed
material included in the volume must have
taken endless pains to bring together and
is Of considerable value TO those interested
in present day fiction. The lists of stories
and story collections published during the
year, the biographical facts concerning
authors, and the list of magazines using
short stories, contain puch helpful in
formation. The list Of articles and re-
views dealing with stories is good so far
as it goes, but is manifestly incomplete.
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1918.
Edited by EDWARD J. O'BRIEN. Small,
Maynard & Co. SLIGO.
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Best Short Stories of 1919
Bv DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH.

EDWARD j.. O'BRIEN, in a volume
H. entitled The Best Short Stories Of
1918, publishes the results of his study
Of the American story output for the past
year. The story must be growing shorter,
if one nay judge by the decrease in size
of this years handbook over last, for APP
proximately $50 pages less are required to
print twenty stories than for the same
number in 1917.
Some Of the selections are excellent and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
1.-The Real Dope"
By HARRY ESTY DOUNcE

THE moment you can stop laughing
l. and look at him with clear eyes
YOU perceive that Jack keefe, the only
and original Busher and illiterate letter
w-iter-at least the only one of his par
ticnlar ilk worth READINGS the most con-
temptible character ever given real life
in our fiction. This great big swelled-
headed, loud-mouthed, tight-waddical,
childish yellow boob-he might be called
a Study if one were feeling hifalutin, but
Mr. Lardner has never had TO waste any
mere time in studying" Jack Keefsm
than he wastes before his typewriter in
studying the keyboard-is as unsympa-
thetic as Fagin, in his own way. And
publisher would tell you that the remark
able thing about him is that, being I'M
sympathetic, he is also bowling success.
Which only goes to show how much
publishers wisdom is worth.
Keefe is so real, so complete and so
las the jacket writer has correctly
elaimed) so universal, that he might be
your next neighbor. He might be any
zones next neighbor, in London or Paris
or Shanghai as well as in Chicago. He
happens to wear American baseball uni
form or khaki, and to speak one Ameri-
gan vernacalar. A psychologist perhaps
would pronounce him typical case Of
adult infantilism; there never is any
knowing what psychologists will do. Mr..
Lardner, if he had to associate with him
instead of writing about him, would call
him harder names. And so would you.
For there is no doubt that this kind of
humorous portraiture is both done and
appreciated from a savage department
of our natures. Mark Twain was always
doing it, and privately always berating
'the damned human race" The Busher
letters are rich in a genuine and spon-
taneous humor, but the humor is equally
mellow and genial with fuming nitric acid.
All this when you have stopped laughing
AS has been said before.
The new collection Of Busher letters,
dsted from training camps and from the
front, does not quite hold up to the earlier
Bushnr tandard. Mr.. Lardner' "fast 1"
isa little wild and slow. He may have
been hampered by some sense of incon-
gruity. AT all events he is wise enough
to take Keefe no further than quiet sec
tor and to extricate him and bring him
home as early as he can.
To employ a frazzled characterization
once more and yet once more, there are
two or three episodes in The Real Dope
which suggest the Busher's creator drop
ping into the dreadful bush league of the
Busher's imitators. But if Jack Keefe
wants to initiate Lardner he has perfect
right to do Titus differing in our opin-
ion from Mr.. H. c. Witwer and some
nineteen other bushoids.
THE REAL DOPE. BY RING W. LARDNER.
Bobbs- Merrill Company. $l.25.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25

Before the war Germany furnished nearly
ell the machinery for the pulp factories
in Russia.
There is a good market In Jamaica for
motor trucks OF both the light delivery
type and the larger type for heavy hauling.
During 1918 only 21s OF the 800 brick
works OF Norway were in operation. The
production was 8l3 100000 bricks and a.
900, 900 tiles compared with about ESQ.,
600 900 bricks and 10 900. 900 tiles In 1917
The Swedish Railway Board has sub
mitted a report relative TO the establish
ment Of daily connections between Sweden
and England by steam ferry line be-
tween Goteborg and harbor on the
Humber either Hull or birmingham.
It is estimated that the total value OF
imports OF leather betting into Argentina
will exceed $500, 900 and OF cotton betting
5000, 900 annually. Most OF the betting OF
all kinds comes from Great Britain. al
though the United States has gained in this
item.
The bulletin issued by tho Ministry Of
Agriculture for Egypt says that the onion
crop Is an average one. but that its mar
kcting has bean rendered almost impossible
through the lack OF the usual facilities for
transport. There will be a consldera Bile
Tors OF crop.
The American embassy at Madrid. Spain,
has been informed that the Government
has abandoned tho project Of construct
ing a direct railway from Alseciras to the
French frontier. This railway was in
tended to form a link In the proposed
Pa ris-Dakar line.
The drug market OF Japan Is reported
TO be very unsteady, but those iDterested
in this industry state that this condition
is only temporary, as the buying season
Is approaching and transactions in small
quantities are reported daily Boric acid
and borax are particularly active.
The question OF tho increase OF wages
In Belgium is perhaps more important
than in almost any other country, owing
20 the remarkable. change In llving condi-
lions. A recent othcial investigation Of
conditions now prevailing In fourteen ~
tho Industries shows that Workmen are de-
mandinF an Increase OF f-ow - 90 lOC
per cent IN wages while employer arr
ready 20 oTer approximately 50 per
cent. increase
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25
Passing Of Black Face Minstr elsy.

The death Is reported from Cali
fornia Of GEORGE PRIMROSE, who dur
ing his more than fifty years on the
American stage was considered one Of
the most successful of the "black
face" minstrels. PRIMROSE was per-
haps the last survivor Of the old style
song and dance man. He was IA
vorite with New York minstrel going
audiences more than quarter Of a
century ago, when black face enter
tainments were at the height Of their
popularity, and through his yearly
tours OF the larger cities of the coun-
try he won much the same favor
throughout the United States.
But the peculiar form Of entertain
ment In which PRIMROSE excelled had
had its day years before his death.
There Is now in existence not sim
gle big combination Of black face
artists such as made up the old time
minstrel show. The wonderful drops
for the opening act, the high silk hats
and long drab overcoats for the "un-
paral!eled daily street PROFESSIONS
the banjos, bones and tambourlnes of
the end men went into storage years
ago. The entertainers, the sweet
voiced tenors the negro comedians,
and the buck and wing and the Jig
dancers have largely become desert
ers to the vaudeville stage. PRIMROSE
was one Of the last to give up, but
he spent several years either MS an
individual entertainer or as the d.
rector of dancing team before his
retirement from the stage.
Minstrelsy has done Its full share
in making the world forget Its cares
and troubles; il enlisted in its ser
vice at some time in their career
many men who afterward became
Americas foremost comedians. So
distinguished an actor as JOSEPH JET
FERsoN was not averse to expressing
Indebtedness to his early burnt cork
days" as training for the success he
later attained.
Vaudeville has been the greatest
gamer by the decay of black min
strelsy: but there are still old timers
who will question If the modern the
atregoers have been wholly benefited
by the change
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25
POPE'S OWN CHOIR
TO TOUR AMERICA
First Time Singers Have Ever
Left Rome.

BY special permission of Pope Bere-
dict the pontifical choir. composed Of
seventy voices OF the Sistine and three
patriarchal basilica cholrs, will visit
America and Canada for a concert tour
this fall. The event is without precedent
in the history % the Roman Catholic
Church owing TO the rule heretofore
maintained to permit the choir to ap-
pear only at the Vatican and before tina
Roman public
The tour was arranged by James
Shevlin. president OF the 81 Gregory
Society of this city, who has been in
Rome several months. 1t Is said that
the Pope received the suggestion warmly
and lent his personal announcement to
the tour, impartng his blessing to Mgr
Raeffaele Casimiro Casimiri the Conduc-
tor. and to Mr.. Shevlin
The choir will sail a.out August and
Ixiu -siIG-ts -arsL- cnIcnIt Lii. g. =
soon after Labor Day. Mgr. Casjmirl.
who will direct the concerts personally,
is canon ~ 81. John Latersn director Of
the pont!ical Lateran Chapel and head
ma ter anS director OF composition ~
the Schola Cantorum, Tho singers arc
from Sistine Chapel. st. Peters Rasllica
st. John Lateran and tho pontifical
school of higher sacred music.
limited NUMBER OF concerts are now
being booked in this country and Can
ada. The programme will consist ~
selections from Palestrina, Nittorio and
Marenzio, with thirty-six numbers, In
Guiding several solos. An America
concert was given July 10 before Pope
Benedict, Ave Cardinals. the America n
Ambassador and q number OF prelstes
OF the papal court.
Announcement OF the tour was made
yesterday by Theodore Mitchell. Long
acre Building,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25
The League q Failure in the Only Two
Test Cases.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: 1t
Is Indeed encouraging to note that feel
ing against the League of Nations in the
Senate is growing sufficiently to make
the issue hopeful for our fair country and
that the feeling Of hesitancy growing out
Of more or less laudable general dis
like to embarass the Administration is
rapidly diminishing.
In the two instances that may we'll be
cited as test cases this league has amply
shown Its ineffectiveness. not to say its
utter lack Of the very principles on which
1t is supposed 10 have been founded For
example:
IFS proponents made a big noise about
the right OF self-detsrmlnation OF nations.
Behold Italian Fiume forced, against Its
expressed will and desire, to pledge its
allegiance to Italy's erstwhile enemy. now
conveniently masquerading under the
new name Czecho- Slovakia!
1t is furthermore held by the authors
Of this league plan that It will obviate
future wars by insisting on the policy Of
Justice for all and malice toward none"
Behold the first fruit of this beneficent
policy. the Shantung outraged
In the face OF these two fragrant ex-
amples Of injustice, which I believe are
the only ones that have so far come be-
fore the league, what arguments can
possibly be advanced to convince a think
ing and fair minded people that this
league Is good or necessary or that II can
be effective in anything other than in de-
stroying utterly the safeguards OF Jus
nd 70 hot xiat0 An
what could possibly deter an American
Senate from rejecting the document out
right IL II is not permitted TO make the
reservations and amendments necessary
TO protect our own country at least from
the workings OF its inane dicta?
for one am sincerely hopeful that the
American Senate-both Democratic and
Republican Senators-will in the last
analysis forget the dignity Of persons
and uphold the dignity Of our nation. AS
a member of the American Defence So
ciety attended a meeting held under Its
auspices at Carnegie Hall a few months
ago at which one of the Senators was a
speaker. II remember correctly II was
Senator Harding OF Ohio.
He said many splendid things. but
there were Just two words that l took
away with me and have repeated TO my
self time and again when things seemed
to me to be moving too slowly in the
right direction. The Senator In referring
to the enforced comparative inactivity OF
Congress- said in effect: 81 know we are
not very popular body just now. but
you just watch u.s.
know the Senator meant what he said
and l know also that I am not the only
one who has been and still is watching
hopefully and trustingly--the doings Of
that august body. in whose hands the
fate OF our beloved America now lies.
BROOKLYN, July "a. NJ. 8.
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the honorary degrees are expected to
wear the appropriate academic cos
tune for the particular degree to be
conferred. In this country 1t Is usu-
ally black gown with a colored
hood and mortar board cap with
a tassel. There was an agreeable
variation at Cambridge on Wednes-
day In the matter of headgear. In
lieu Of the familiar mortar board Gen
erDl PERsH1NG wore a cap of soft
velvet, loosely made, such as London
freemen wore In the Middle Ages,
which must have been vastly more
becoming than the stiff lines Of our
traditional mortar board.
II there Is to be any ceremonial at
all In such matters 1t should be made
as impressive, attractive and artistic
as possible. Our good friend NIcHo-
LAS MURRAY BUTLER, president Of Co
lumbia University, may deem 1t worth
while to look into this matter Of Cam
bridge caps for the recipients of hon
orary degrees before the next com.
mencement day rolls round
Meanwhile all patriotic Americans
salute, with honor, General JOHN ].
PERsHING, LII. D.!