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The Newark journal., 1919-11-20

EE~5 HE most important feature
 M about Mosul which is begin
 ming to show the beneficial ef
 fleets of British control, is its geographical situation. Mosul is the meeting point of roads and caravan routes from everywhere. They wind in through the mountain passes and over the rocky highland from Diar- bekr and Bitlis, across the great des- #ert from Aleppo and over the sands from Persia and Bagdad Its very name, indeed, from the Arabic Al Mousii. "the place of connection, tells it's story. And as with roads and car avan routes, so fl will be. some time again in the future in the matter of railways, when the famous Bagdad line Is completed, says the Christian Science Monitor. At present Ger many's great effort falls short of Mo sul by many miles in the west and in the south, and the eramshaekle city, as it has been irreverently cations on the road and the caravan route as it has done through the ages,
 Of all the cities in the Turkish em- pire, as one writer has well said of if, perhaps Mosul is the one that has been least touched by western civili- zation. Built on ground that once was q suburb of Nineveh, it stands on the western bank of the Tigris. looking across at the mounds which are all that remain of the glories of the capi- tal of ancient Assyria. Nineveh has a history that stretches throughout [ period nearly two thousand years long ending with the fall of the en- Rire of Sennacherib about the year GOO B. c. From that time until Lay ard unveiled the palaces of Ashur- hanipal and Sennacherib. and un- earthed the literary chamber contain. ing the famous deluge tablet the ru- ins of Nineyeh for 2,500 long years Aave slept undistuYbed. As for Mosul itself. 1t is particularly mentioned in all history since the Arab conquest and it is a checLered history indeed for it suffered pillage at the hands of Tamerlane was besieged by Nadir Shah. and endure9 host of other vi- eisSitufipS
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
When Hubby Displayed Tact.

Wife-"PIease match this piece of silk for me before you come homo" :" Husbaad-"At the counter where that pretty little blonde serves? The one with the soulful eyes and Wife. "No. You're too tired to shop for me when your days work is done, dear. On second thought I won't bother you."
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20

The science of bell casting has been praeticed in one English foundry for nearly $50 years.
 Under favorable conditions the steel mills of the United States are capa- hle of an aggregate production gf 60. on.si00 gross tons a year.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
Road BuiIdinu Rocks.

In building roads the rocks selected should possess three qualities Hard uess to resist wear; toughness to resist fracture; and binding power to ce- ment rock fragments.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
SCRAPS

!a period of one year TA4 packs of nifying cards were entered in the sta tinnery account of the national house af representatives and paid for out of He contingent fund.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
Mosui's Many Storss.

The old town with it's strangely narrow streets. even for the east, is surrounded by a half-ruined wall. built in modern times as protection against the Shammar Arabs. Every one remarks on the narrow streets of Mosul. on its white, crumhling houses, on the gypsum dust which falls con stantly from the walls over everything, and upon the storlls Indeed the storks of Mosul are apparently its most remarkable feature.
 Discussing the matter one authority tells how, in the cool of the evening. the citizens of Mosul share their houSetops with innumerable storks, who build their ragged nests on the highest places in utter disregard of the laws of gravity Four great, pre- noSt erous specimens of the species stood. in tue carly morning, on a wal beside the room where he was, he con finnes. and lie dimly realized tha' they were performing their morning toilet They took no notice of him Buf T loud noise like someone rattlin: stick in T wooden bucket attracted his attention. Then somebody els' with another bucket made simila noise in q different key. and he won aereil what in the world couid they b doing to the buckets. Then it dawne' upon him that half the population 0 Mosul must be rattling buckets, fo the sound came from far and neal fnint CT loud according to distance and in hundred different keys. The come 2 loud rattle close beside hin 4'NsIthin nine feet of him. he says "stee6 ; solemn sterl. the toilet oTeI his attitude of graceful balance on on
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
Good Roads Will Be Better.

Good roads will be better when they no longer cross railroad tracks at grade.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
Why Jce Left Home.

Dear Joe-Come home. Forgive and forget. I have destroyed the book of war recipes.-yiolet." ."-Tit-Eits.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20
Scene in Mosul,

leg. The noise which I had heard from all over the city came straight from his beak, the hollow upper and lower halves of which he was striking together with incredible rGpldity."
 In the Razaars and Square.
 The bazaars of Mosul are not the attractive places they might be ex- pected to be in q city of so much traf- fie. As William Warfield says in his book, 'rhe Gate of Asia they are rarely roofcd. and are furnished only with the commoncst wares. The shop keepers are generally Christians but there are many Arabs. Garden pred uce is often sold in the squares in open markets, and at any time vendors may be seen talking in the streets, with eggs or cucumbers in n basket, while the mosque courtyards are favored places for Sweetmeat sellers. who dis play Turkish delight on scalloped copper trays The bazaars radiate from a picturesque q square quite near the bridge, which is the center of the town. To the south and southwest are tho drapers. shoemal;ers and har- ness makers; to the northwest the grcengrocers. while the potters and dealers in hardware arc to be found in narrow stores opening on street that runs 10 the north.
 As to the square itself. it is, of course, one of the famous meeting l places of Mosul. Here the caravans are gathered together, and their own gallery of coffee shop, while the i mueteers stroll about the crowded place or lounge among bales cove d with brown and white striped sack cloth, These men are almost alwaSs Kurds those from the southern and eastern tribes dressed in tunics, zop- ave jackets and turbans. They wear baggy trousers reaching to their feet. which are covered with brogucs of heavy hemp or raWhide.
 Site of Ancient Nlneveh
 For many people the great attrac- ton Of visit to Mosul. the most in accessible place in the sultan's domin- ion, lies across the famous bridge of boats" al the other side of the Tlgris where the huge, formless mounds rle- ing up out Of the sand, mark the site of the ancient city Of Eineveh. Any attempt to tell the story of Nineveh would involve a journey back to the very beginning of things. Later As syrian writers declare with confidence that it's story run back as matter of course to the creation of the world, but, aS matter of fact. the first firm ground in the midst of tradition iS reached about the year 2200 E. (. That wonderfully vivid period in Nineveh's history with which the world, cSpe- cially recently. has become familiar. lies between the ninth and sixth cen turies E. c. In this period the reign i of Sennacherib is of course by far the most important.
 Nineveh, however, depended entire l iy for it's greatness and power upon the conquering spirit of its rulers and
 the military glory and powers of its
 armies, and when these were ultimate.
 ly defeated the city fell, never to rise again. and it's very site was quickly forgotten among the nations.
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20

p-E~a HE most important feature M about Mosul which is begin
 ming to show the beneficial ef
The Newark journal., 1919-11-20

The bronze statue presented by the city of De Gfasse, France. iu hencr Of the L. <. $ Seattle, the flagship of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, the first American Warship to escort our tfans- ports to France.
The sun., 1919-02-23

short of the ultimate, in place of which
he proffers jingling Swinburnity.
Of course in this volume as everywhere
the Helmet Makers sorrows have their
asterisky hiatus, and of course Fat Mar
got had to be left out. In her case never
see why the general public cannot be
trusted with good rendering of the En-
vol; it is the most powerful single thing in
VillOn, and unless 1 remember wrongly,
holds nothing worse than "brothel,' word
of which even Mr.. Sumner doubtless ap-
proves when used as Villon does, in due
remorse.
Payne, being an Englishman of the Cos
to the '90s, pothers through one mild par
agraph over Margot. He is too honest to
try to explain her away. But what on
earth does it matterf The man who holds
Villon to ethics holds the wrong poet by
the ear
To The Womdn Question 1 am sorry
not to have unqualified compliments to
pay. 1 didn't envy its editor his job. He
had to make excerpts from numerous and
various recognized writer's upon woman.
The idea was to represent not so much
authorities as significant points of view.
But the product was foredoomed to sug-
gest tabloid information for busy people
on burning topie-Half Hours With the
Best Feminists, so to speak. 1t is quaint
assemblage; Nietzsehe two stalls from
Maeterlinck and three from Mr. w. L.
George.
Others present las we say when we re-
port tedious dinner) are Loves Diekin-
son, W. Ward Fowler, NJ A; Elsie Clews
Parsons, Mary Wollstonecroft (sensibly
represented by a historical account in
stead of any of the Vindieat;on); Edward
Westermarck, Lester Ward, Stendhal,
Mill, Wells, Ellen Key, Edward Csrpen-
ter, ]. Welton, NJ. A.; Laura Marholm,
Rebeeca West and Havelock Ellis.
Ths editor explains that sundry writers
wouldn't lend him what he wanted of their
works. He omits the Schopenhauer es-
The sun., 1919-02-23
Darling Definitions !.
BY BENJAMIN DE cASSERES. 81

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSEkES. -
DL0T-A web from which the adven-
i turess will be unable to extricate
herself.
Reader.-In a publishing house a per-
son who knows what the publisher wants.
Denouement.-The obvious made still
more 80.
Triangle-Three hearts that beat as
two.
A thing of booty is toy forever.
Eugenist: Il care not who makes my
eountry's laws if can mar the children"
Music is the movie of the ears.
Henry James's later books were all
rubber stamped: Dictated but not read"
Epigrams: Ideas with bobbed hair.
France! May the shadow of the vi1fs-
yards never grow less!
In the Department Store of Ideals the
cynic is the floor detective.
Our bodies are cocktail shakers in the
iron grip of Destiny.
Whatever is perfect is in a museum.
The sun., 1919-02-23

devotion to Ciceronian cadenees. There
is more to his style than this.
Why not test him, by way of change,
for that intense and compelling nervous
quality common to the pens of typewriters
Of most statesmen whose writings, for
writings own sake, are admiredf
Style apart: it is odd, but the President
really does his best writing offhand and
for minor occasions. When he means to
write his best he writes his stateliest, and
that is different thing. The closes of the
formal addresses on occasions of grave
Neutrality-suspicious. which unquestionably
he has felt with all his soul-read some
how like matter expected to be translated
by the schoolboys of some future age from
our then to be dead language. Against
them l would set the little talk in the
church at Carlisle, which of course "pro-
ceeded" too late to catch this book. As
writing it is worth everything that is there.
DAnnunzio is not an author ODE "rep-
resented" by one book or by half a dozen.
As choice among the novels The Flame
of Life is good. As an initiation for new
American readers it does fairly illustrate
his gorgeousness and the quivering hot
sensuality in which he is unapproaehed, but
without too great obtrusion of those at
tributes which some people call ''decadent"
who have no idea what it means. The
translation is Kassandra Vivaria's. / can
not be wise about it for do not read
italian, thus being at the mercy of dam
nunziatory friends with their "Ah, but if
you could know him in the originalw At
least this translator does well finished
work.
To recoup On romance languages: John
Payne's is probably the best English par
aphrase of all of Villon; it is certainly an
honest one, which is more than there might
be to say for another more inspired and
less frequently pedestrian. Providence
not having given Us tongue to sing bal
ladies' (some very pretty poetry to the con-
trary Notwithstanding am not sure l
should not prefer my Villon Engished in
good opposite prose set like free verse.
But l happen to read his French, so the
tentative preference may be unfair.
And yet if We had, for instance, illimit-
able latitudes of rhymes, it would still be
a serious question that genuine essence of
Villon could be held in paraphrasing.
Even as such things go he is peculiarly
non-transferable. To save your life you
can't get him, not even tolerable sub
stitute for him, something Gust as good
The rogue in his archaic dress eludes your
clutch. Rossetti did get one refrain and
then made nice bonbon of the mater
ials Of the balance. Swinburne the viz
tuoso in two or three cases got everything
The sun., 1919-02-23
By HARRY ESTY DOUNCE.

4 EDITIONS to the modern library
1 \ must 60 far to reach more friendly
hands than deal with four of them here.
Nevertheless your reporter is expiring OF
curiosity about the principle on which
these good little books are dressed. In
lead blue leather come TRANSACTIONS,
mostly Payne's, of Villon, and sort of
involuntary symposium of writers on The
Woman Question. And in pleasant green
come DAnnunzio's Fuoco and and
Woodrow Wilson's Selected Addresses aud
State Papers!
Now what, automatically or otherwise,
has the Old Helmet Maker in common
with John Stuart Mill and ELLEN Key?
Which are the subtle affinities between the
yoluptuous lvricism of the President and
the lucid but arstere fluency of the first
of living Italian men of letters? l may be
getting the latter two pens and their quail
ties confused. But those green covers mix
a body up. Is there coloring principle,
or did it Just happen SOL If it did 1t must
never, never happen again.
The sheaf of Wilson is strikingly down
to date. 1t appeared in the middle Of
January, and the last thing in it is the ad-
dress to Congress made on the eve OF the
Presidents sailing for EuroDe. The choice
of editor is striking, too; he Is Albert
Bushnell Hart, who, as always, has done
a sincere, discerning job. He explains
that there was space only for third of
.the full text of the public materials pro-
ceeding from Woodrow Wilson" since the
first Inauguration, which seems reason
able; but he somehow gets in everything
YOU are likely to care TO have in handy
form.
Of the President as writer the stock
things to say are two; if you hold front
new in the Wilson church, he's master Of
style and language If you stand outside
heaying rocks at the apse, then he's a
rhetorieian-a term which, used as an in
suit, has no definite standard meaning.
Your reporter sternly declines to be a
partisan. Nor does he mean to put his
oar into the overdone discussion Of the
Presidents literary style. If you do, then
pray for the sake of life's shortness note
these preeepts. Quit harping upon "May
I not" and CORDIALLY and sincerely"
Mayor Hylan has just used both in one
tasty sentence. Quit dilating on the Pres
ident's long periods-the strings Of that's
which rival The House That Jack Built;
the postponements of not only to come
punched with the but also; the terminal
propositions. All are perfectly good ex-
pedients for the sake of ease and flow.
Never mind about his ehaste but always
accurate choice of words; never mind his
The sun., 1919-02-23
Lyrics From the Chinese,
by Robert Nichols


by Robert Nichols
My thanks due to Arthur Whaley and to Philip
Heseltine for literal translaons of these poems from
which the present renderings have been composed.
R. NJ B. n, 1918.
l. On the Hillside.
(Tang Period, A. ID. CTS 90j.)
Upon the northern hillside turfed tombs lie row on row.
Past ten thousand ages in autumns long ago,
Day and night the bthe songs and city bells beat
clear:
Tonight the pines long murmur is all the-sound hear
l. II. Separation
(Tang Period.)
Beyond the long white the moon hangs round and
low;
Under the terrace arches the murmuring waters flow
The moOn dipping westward Tomorrow flood will STAIN
But waters flowing eastward, how can ye come again?
III. LiPo, His Catch Upon Being More Drunken
Than Ever.
(Li-PO, 4. d. 7OG-76j)
How doth this further bowl enhance
My present drunken jollity:
Every motion turns to dance
Every words pure poetryl
~. Poem u7de by Po-cbw to the honor of
an old fashioned harp of his and in detestation
of the prevailing fashion for new tangled
barbarian Instruments of music.
(Po-Chm, A. D. 772-s46)
Fashioned from hardwood of Tung this ancient harp
that love,
And buried darby within lie tunes of ancient time
Old tunes, broken and plain, lacking such faneies as
move
The sun., 1919-02-23

say as Sophomore" which omission is all
right, though he could have found more
penetrating adjective. But he omits
Weininger as a curiosity" If two or
three writer's included deserve it, Wein-
niger certainly does. I confess / cannot
imagine how Mr.. George gets in at all.
Fowler, NJ. A., obliges by describing
woman's position in Rome An edifying
and delightful person; he "learns with re
greet" that Cleopatra sojuorned in Cssar's
suburban villa.
WILLOWS POEMS. WOODROW WILL
SONS SELECTED ADDRESSES AND
STATE PAPERS. THE WOMAN CUES
TION. THE FLAME OF LIFE. BIZ
GABRIELLE D'ANNUNzIo. Additions to The
Modern Library. Boni & Liveright. Each,
20 cents.
The sun., 1919-02-23
Poems by Robert Nichols and Zoe Atkins

Here In my room
And be wakeful and aware
OF their magic
Rather than send them away.
Rather than send you away
| will let your love
Bring me unrest forever;
l will let it take from me
The Indifference of my yesterdays,
The peace of my tO-morows;
The humor and philosophy
That l have tonight myself
In the tranquility of loneliness;
And the pleasant habits
Of long friendship,
And the difficult habits, hard learned,
Of the work that mounts
Toward achievement.
All these l could have kept,
With their pale richness
And certain comfort,
In my slumbering life
Had / not awakened
To the perilously sweet sting
OF the Rose of your love
And the white Narcissus
OF your beauty.
The sun., 1919-02-23
To-dayis jingle jinglers of song, todays jugglejus
gers Of rme

Today's jingle jingers of song to-days jugge- jug
glers of rhine.
From out the long jade stops the polished greenness has
long time faded,
litteDof palld dust powders the frail red strings
Ruin and steahy mould its splitting heart have invaded
Though, if the chords be plueked, voice icy and
throttled yet sings.
But even-O for you-the loved strings I will not
touch,
And could you catch may be- the tune my hands
would beget.
Why harp, is thy beauty quenched9 For that fools of
to-day such
They would shrilf down a Chang flute clutch Chius
quirkng fageolet.
Y. The Exile
(Origin not stated
IN. B-Tbe moon in Chinese poetry is much asso-
cated with the idea of space of tme being brdged by
the influence of Chang 0, the moon goddess
Thrice far from home slumbered To- my room
Filled with gradual food of ghostly spendour q. .
raised my head: at first that cold shine seemed
The withered breakino of another dawn;
Yet walked, knew it was the thus shone.
Then turned face unto the darkened wall,
For from afar my homeland called to me.
The sun., 1919-02-23
Interlopers
By Roscoe Brunbaush.

Twas odd the garden should have grown,
Among old friends and true,
A gorgeous plant no one had sown- :
A stranger no one knew.
Here, too, child with wistful face
Looks forth on alien lands,
A vagrant flower out Of place
That no one understands
The sun., 1919-02-23
Rose and Narcissus

BY Zoe Atkins.
I cannot sleep
Because the flowers
Vex and arouse me
With the delicate sting
OF their sweetness;
But l will keep them
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-22

grasp, the purpose and character O.
the. father. Far from being some
thing strange and unbelievable, Coz
is the most obvious and intimate fac
in the universe and no one car
escape him and his purposes"
At the Presbyterian Church.
Twenty-six new members were re
ceived into the church at the service
yesterday morning. Seven of these
were received by letter from other
churches, the others upon confession
of faith. Fourteen were baptized
! The Lords supper will be celebrated
next Sabbath morning and other
members are to be received at that
time.
There will be Vesper service on
Christmas day at the church at 500
p. M. The choir is preparing a
splendid musical program for the oc-
casion. This will be one of the most
attractive services of the church
year.
The Sunday school gave Christ
man program at the hour Of evening
o1ship last night. The children took
their parts well and a good program
was presented A christmas offer
ing of eighty-five dollars was given
for our missionary work in Bible
lends.
At the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Yesterday was splendid day
Eleven adults we're baptized and
twenty three We're received into
membership, In spite of the fact that
there were large numbers of students
gone home, the Sunday school was
APO. The school at Joel is coming up,
there being sixty at that place. There
were fine congregations both morning,
and evening and at all of the places.
preached for the pastor. The sermon
In the morning DR.. W.. A. Allen
was helpful and inspiring. In the
evening the pastor preached "a
Christmas message. This Monday
morning there comes the inspiring
news that our church is to have $780,
600 from the centenary money during
1920. We have not received the de-
tails as yet but we hope that this
means a new temple before, very
much time elapses.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-22

IRENE of agnosticism he had every
respect for. Indeed the man who
struck out boldly for dim and dist
ant truth, and who was loyal to all
he knew of it while he struggled to
know more, was destined to find God
in the end, however dangerous or de-
vious his convictions might be at the
outset. Reason reveals God," Mr..
Bridge argued. ''The ignorant mind
might see in the forest nothing but
chaos, muddle, decay and keep blindly
struggling through. But chemist,
physicist, biologist will leach see,
according to the line of facts he is
studying. a definite order, a system
of adaptation, finely discriminating
intelligent process. You cannot avoid
j. S. Mills conclusion that the uni
verse reveals unity of will. What
we observe in physical nature is true
also of man. Man in his social inter
relations is evolving according to a
certain far end; he can not do just
as he likes; every action brings upon
him from the universe reaction.
Even in the apparent chaos of the
world today certain cosmic purpose
is being worked out and all mems
policies and schemes are as definitely
subject to the law of the universe as
is an atom of matter" The speaker
then proceeded to show that whatever
rs ulted. fron4 tbs frat. aif1se must
first of all been involved in that first
cause and if man, the climax of evo-
luton, was the final result of endless
ages of upward struggle, mans es-
sential nature was to be found the
first cause. In other words that God
was essentially personal, according to
The real meaning of that term. God
loves, God wills, God knows. NBut
we must not separate this supreme
from the universe: he is
in it and it expresses him. Jesus
Christ is God in that he expresses in
q life and form we can understand,
the love, the will, and the knowledge
Of the creator The child needs not
only fathers love, but the intimate
of another child. Thus
Jesus is the child among the children
Of men to express in terms they can