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Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

LOST-One black yearling heifer
branded IS" on left hip and ear;
marked with overbit out of each
ear. Also one red yearling heifer,
probably branded IS" with bar un-
derneath, on left hip, and ear
marked as the black. Have been
missing since Jan. IS, 1919, from
Rinkleib ranch south of Writings
Crossing. H. Rinklieb, r. F. d..
2, Ell Centre, or H. p Hill, Heber.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

MAKE a ~ ton truck with your
Ford; Giant attachment; Timken
bearings and chrome vanadium
steel throughout. Price $400 at
tached and ready for use. lmpe-
rial Valley Motor Co., southwest
corner State and Sixth. Phone 60.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

PANAMA HOTEL, GAO Main street
Everything new and best. Centrally
located. Terms 10 permanents. New
management. Mrs. D. Doty.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

FOR SALE-"75" Holt caterpillar in
first class condition. Will demon
strate. Apply at Hogue-K Kellogg
Co., Beaumont.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08
Miscellaneous

RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS. w. L
Oden, Star Route, Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

,STRAYED OR STOLEN-Black
5-year-old mare, 1000 lbs; also
saddle and bride. Notify Sheriff
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08
Sewing Machines

SEWING MACHINES and Phono-
graphs repaired by expert. Hick-
man, GOA Main. Work guaranteed.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08
Osteopathic Physicians

DIR. j. F. FONCANNON, osteopathic
physician, Ell Centre National Bank
bldg. Phone 199-W.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08
Auto Repairs

CONSOLE BROS, FORD REPAIR
Shop. Ford engines overhauled for
$40. All work guaranteed. Money
refunded if not satisfactory. 5ll
Broadway.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-08

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
On Infant Mortality.

There are two secrets of the best seller. One re-
sides in the book ITSELF the other rests in the
of its exploitation One is inherent the other is cir
cumstantial. One is partly comfortable by the pub
Usher, the other is wholly SO.
Since book possessing certain qualities in
sufficient degree will sell heavily anyway it is
human nature to hunt ceaselessly for this thing
which will triumph over every sort of handicap and
obstacle
But it is lazy way to do 1t is not good business
1t cannot ultimately pay.
The successful book publisher of the future is
going to be the publisher who works for 100 per
cent. sale on all his books. When he gets book
with an internal factor which would make it best
seller anyway it will simply mean that he will have
to exert himself markedly less to get 100 per cent
result He will have such best sellers and will make
large sums of money with them, but they will be
incidents and not epocha events for practically all
his books will be good sellers
Before we go on to a discussion of the internal
factor of the best seller we want to stress once more
and constructivey and SUCCESSFULLY the post natal
attention it should receive.
The first year and the second summer are fatal
to far too many books as well as humans And
this is true despite the differences between the two
If 100000 copies represent the 100 per cent sale
of a given volume, you may declare that it makes
no difference whether that sale is attained in six
months or six years. From the business standpoint
of quick turnover six months is a dozen times
better, you may argue; and if interest on invested
money be thought of as compounding the apparent
difference in favor of the six months sale is still
more striking.
This would perhaps be true if the authors next
book could invariably be ready at the end of the
SIX months period. Other ifs will occur to those
with some knowledge of the publishing business
and a moderate capacity for reflection.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17

it is presented to the public the ubquy of copies
for sale-dctermines its actual audience
3. The internal factor can make best seller of
book with almost no help from the external factor
but cannot give it 100 per cent. sale.
a. The external factor cannot make big seller
where the internal factor is not of the right sort
but it can always give 100 per cent. sale.
5. The internal factor is only partly in the pub
lishers CONTROL the external factor is entirely
trollable by the publisher
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
THE LAW OF THE DUST

By Daniel Henderson.
TIME, with your pen in the past,
Il Time, with your scrolls that run
Back of the birth of man,
Back to the Primal One,
What is the word you mold
Out of the ash of star,
Out of crumbled creed,
Out of the clay of czarf
Miters and sceptres rust
Crushed are consuerors spears!
Armies and nations lie
Dead in the moldering years!
Layer on layer of life
Died in the cinders and shale-
What will our wise men know
When they decipher your talef
Came the whisper of Time:
"This is the future key:
These worlds bloomed-and are dust
So your world will BEL
Copyright, 1919, by Daniel Henderson
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
THE WEDDING OF THE FLEETS.
AMERICA TO BRITAIN.

AMERICA TO BRITAIN.
BY Daniel Henderson.
d RITAIN, yours is the birthright
~ OF fog and gale and sea
Never the flowing tide outruns
The. reach of your destiny!
Yet from your ocean mother
Likewise came my stock!
Drake and Raleigh within me
Led me to Plymouth Rock!
What if my planet rises
Here in the West, apartf
Mine is your Kettle vision!
Mine is your Saxon heart!
Came the hour of your peril!
God. how you leapt and defed
Hate that poisoned the roadways,,
Death that hid in the tide!
Strained my ships at their moorlngs!
Rose my admiral's cry:
"Send us to fight by our brothers!
Sender our souls will die u
Then were our squadrons welded!
There in the spume and mist
Crushing the common danger!
Pledging the deathless tryst!
This is our law, o Britain
What we have. joined shall be
Blent on the face of the waters
Till God shall dry the sea!
Whittier our mandates lead US,
Whittier our keels may run,
British and Yankee sailors
A world apart-are one.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
THE SECRET OF THE BEST SELLER

I'VE spoke here last week of the external fac
wv tor in the making of a best selling book
There is an external factor quite surely as there
is an internal factor in the success of every best
seller of whatever sort The tendency Of everybody
who gives any attention to the subject but particu
larly the book publisher is to study the internal
factor almost to the exclusion of the other. What
you naturally ask yourself the qualities in this
book that have made it sell so remarkably
The internal factor is important. Its Importance,
doubtless, cannot be overrated. But it is not the
whole affair. Before go further let US lay down
some general principles that are not often formu-
lated clearly enough even in the minds of those to
whom they import most.
Five Fixed Facts.
i. The internal factor-certan qualities of the
book itsalf-predetermin its possible audience.
2. The external factor-the extent to which it is
brought TO public attention, the manner in which
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
THE BEST OF THEIR KIND.

The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset
Vaughan. Candid novel of genius. "There
are few men to whom love is the most i'm
portant thing in the world, and they are
not very interesting ones"
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea-, by Vicente Blasco
Ibanez. German submarine warfare in the
Mediterranean. A novel as tremendous as
his The Four Horsenen of the A apocalypse
Ramsey MiIholland. by Booth Harrington. An
American boyhood matured into manhood
by the events of 1918.
The Young ViSiters, by Daisy Ashford. A
-nine-year-olds novel of a social climber.
NoTE: Other titles will be added from week to
week. The number will never exceed twelve. To
this end, titles may be dropped after one or more
listings but may reappear, displacing more recent
books. The test is specific interest, sort of in
tellectual equivalent of specific gravity. We will
not try to books of the greatest interest to the
greatest number solely, but books of the most vio-
lent interest TO any considerable number of read
ers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
A PATAGoNIAN SHEEP-HERDER.

By Muna Lee.
II is son has grown out of his knowing;
His wife, her eyes on the Cornish sands,
Weeps for him quietly, yet could not bear it
If he came stranger from alien lands
Life is the sum of things about him;
The sheep, the ombu, the thistles head high,
The lonely limitless sea colored pampas;
Even the war has passed him by.
England is like dream half forgotten,
The sound of its language is strange in his ears
Strange and uncouth the speech of the guaeos
And faces and voices are all that he fears
Copyright, 1919, by Mrs. Luis MuilOz Marin
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
MANCHESTER

Alfred futile of Londonderry was
in town recently
Mrs. Mary Botfo d is visiting rela-
tIyes in Bennington.
Several from town attended
dance in East Dorset, recently.
MS. Alden Bryant has returned
from a visit with friends in Troy, n.
Y.
Charles Way OF South SALISBURY
was recent guest of friends in
town.
J. S. Brush has returned from Ben
nington where he has been sending a
few days.
Miss Campbell of Colorado is visit.
ing at the home Of Judge and Mrs.
Munson.
Frank Rowe of Middlebury is
sending a few days with his brothe,
C.. B. Rove,
Kenneth Fal man of Springfield.
Mass, is spending his Christmas va
cation in town.
Miss Sophia Bebee was recent
guest of her sister Mrs. Gilbert Bro
ply of East Dorset
Miss Mildred Cressey OF Arlington
is spending few days with her
cousin, Mrs. r. B. Gleason.
Misses Edna Graves and Gertrude
.nington where he has been spending a
days vacation at their homes here.
Miss NJ. Louise Wyman of New
York city is spending a few days with
her parents DR. and Mrs, e. L. Wy
man.
The community was shocked to
learn of the sudden death of Norman
Gibson on Friday Mr. Gibson had
been in i'll health for some time, but
was about his farm duties as usual.
The funeral was held at his home on
Sunday afternoon at o'clock. A
wide circle of friends extend sym
athy to the family in their bereave-
ment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Tswn and Village Told
Briefly fer Busy Readers

Walter Bamford of New York city
is spending few days at his home.
Miss Edna Way of South Shafts.
bury spent a few days in town recent
~.
Ernest LUCENT of New York is
sending few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lugene.
Lost--Brown Spaniel dog. Lame
in right hind leg. Finder please noti-
fly Dan Fitzgerald, Telephone office.
ADV.
Wallace Venable, principal of the
high school at Jeffe rsonville, is pass
ing the holiday recess at his home
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. John futile and daugh
ters also Miss Ellen Tuttle spent a
few days with relatives in London
derry, recently,
The Y. NJ. c. A. will be open to the
public from to o'clock New Years
Day afternoon and all friends of the
institution are invited to call.
FIR day, Bessie Barriscale in Her
Purchase P. ice" and a Fox comedy
The Schoolhouse Scandal, Harte
Theatre. Adm. &C. and IL c. Adv
! Mr.. and Mrs. A Satter are enterr
tanning Mrs. S. W. Greenberg and
son, Victor of Passaic, n ]. Mrs.
Satter is a daughte. If Mrs. Green
berg.
New Years Day Elsie Ferguson in
"Tae Marriage Price" a Paramount.
Arto. aft special and famous Mack
Sonnet comedy, Harte Theatre, Adm,
&c. and lie Adv.
The Y. NJ c. A. Diamonds will play
the Company NJ seconds at Hoosick
Falls Thursday night. This team de-
feated the Diamonds two weeks ago
tby score of 25 to IS.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
NORTH BENNINGTON

The supper at the Baptist church
on January LIST is for the members OF
the church and their families.
Make this another big night at Bank
Hall Theatre. Como and laugh at
the Happy Hooigan" cartoon and
the bright and lively Yitagraph comedy
and then settle down in your seat for
seven reels of solid enjoyment OF
Sahara" the great drama of the des
ert, Louise Glaum Is at her best in
this wonderful production and you
need have no fear but that you will
have thrills enough to keep you a
wake. First show promptly at seven
fifteen and second show at nine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
NAWs Of the Tswn and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Airs. Luther r. Graves is passing
the holidays at her former home,
Philadelphia,
The World An&me" big special at
traction at Library Theatre today and
tomorow.-Adv.
Don't fail TO see Mrs. Ruggles at
the Baptist Church tonight Come
and enjoy q good laugh.
A tremendous production in
thrilling parts, THE World Aflame"
Library Theatre today and tomorrow.
ADV.
The Kings Daughters will meet
with Mrs: f. w. Goodall at her home
On Main street Friday afternoon at
O'Clock.
Mrs. Nellie Stone, who has been i'll
for several days, has been taken to
the Putnam Memorial hospital for
treatment.
Alice Joyce in THE Winchester
Woman" and chapter No. of THE
Black Secret Harte Theatre today
Adm. &c. and lie Adv.
The Woodmen will hold special
meeting Friday eve Jan. 2, for initia'
ton OF candidates. All interested
members are requested to DE present.
Henry Ostrander, formerly employed
laundry truck, began work this week
a. delivery clerk at the w. 8. Boynton
grocery store.
Everyone Is invited to attend the
meeting OF the Women Voters
League which will be held in the Ii
brary Friday evening beginning at
1880 o'clock.
What Writing Reveals is shown in
THE Winchester Woman" and chap
ter No. 8 of "The Black Secret fea.
turing Pearl White. Adm. &C. and
lie. Adv.
All high school students and alumni
please do not forget the high school
dance given by the athletic association
In the high school hall on January list
at eight o'clock.
A high school dance? Sure. The
athletic association is in charge fol
a second time and that surely means
coed time for all. Don't forget that
alumni, are invited and a good crowd
is expected.
Allsstudents and alumni of the high
school are cordially invited to the
high school dance on Thursday night
January 1st This is an athletic as
sociation dance and you all know
what that means,
Special! Special! Special, Para
mount Aircraft production starring
Elsie Ferguson in The Marriage
Price" and one of the famous Mack
Sennett comedies, Harte Theatre to-
morrow. Adm. &c. and lie. Adv.
"A meeting of the H. w Putnam
Hose company will be held in their
rooms on River street Thursday eve,
ming, Jan. /. All members are ear
nestly requested to be present as
BUSINESS. Of importance is to be tran.
sacted.
Clarence w Hobbs, who has been
visiting for several days at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Potter, has re.
turned to Worcester. Mrs Hobbs and
daughters, Marion and Dorothy, viii
remain here until Monday Mrs
Hobbs is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Potter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
- LoouIar Mr. strspakY

The ceolbratlon, aided and abetted
by liquid spirits, started early in the
Strepsl5y home. Everything went
along finely and pleasantly. and a
pleasant time was being had BY ALL
when in a moment of hilarity Strep'
sky pulled his wifes left leg over his
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
fair.

Perkins bitches up Locke's bay mare
Up to Woodstock he does 90
After his brother, who butchers So
That kills the pigs and cleans the feet
And does the butching up so neat.
So after this the men won't worry
About their bptchering done in a hur-
ry.
Next December just watch out
And you will see Perkins starting out
-Felchylle news in W. Standard
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
WOOD HeApouARrERs

Established in Chicago Hotel with
William c. Proctor in Charge.
Chicago Dec. 30.-HeadQuarters Of
the organization promoting the candi-
dacy of Major General Leonard Wood
for the Republican presidential nom
ination yesterday was established at
the Cong ess hotel.
William c. Proctor OF Cincinnati
took charge of the campaign
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

show. lobe thinks the show has been
a great help to his eyesI-Aurora Adj
vertiser.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

Sam Smith bought a quarters worth
Of sugar yesterday and lost it until
he got ready to so to dinner then he
went after a match in his vest pocket
and there it was.-Slloam Springs
Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
ouIok. Watson. the eastor oNI

Leonard Lane is pretty sick with
rheumatism and locked bowels at this
writing.-Black Oak item in Braymer
Bee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
And He Fen with a Dull Thud

From a novel-"She spoke earnest
ly, excitedly; eagerly he hung upon
her words. Then her voice broke"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

A woman of Norwich ~ Y, slept
for so days and was finally awakened
by playing a record on a photograph.
News item.
Ez a says a neighbor of his is any-
out to find out what record it was so
he can try it out on his young hopeful
these dark mornings.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

v. c. wrItese 81 am G. years old,
in good health. Would Ike to ask you
what is the cause of large pugs below
my eyes, mostly the left eye?"-
Health column in Manchester Union.
This must be worse than whelps on
the legs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
ProbabIy a Crochet party.

Miss Della Hook will entertain the
ladies' of the Willing Workers Friday
fternoon.-Felchyille item.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

The chestnut blight has done-preat
damage in the eastern United States
in the last decade.--Agricultural Bull
letin,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
A Flying Trip.

Miss Iva Kite arrived Monday from
Washington, D. C.-Braymer Bee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

What Mild Winter We Are Having
The bride was sowned in white
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

A hen in Kansas City sold foi
$4,000 This must be the one that
laid the last eggs we bought
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

knee and broke lt.-News item in
Boston News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
Who Remembers

The old-fashioned boy who wanted
a bicycle instead Of an automobiles
Eg.
In 1885, Who remembers the old
fashioned boy who wanted a Ford in
stead of a l2-cylinder limousine?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

Poems You May Have Missed
Every winter when it's brightest AND
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
oolng from Bad to Worse

London dispatch: Skirts short. al
so stockings.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

chrysanthemums and autumn leaves
formed the decorations.-lgin (II)
News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

The BRIDES gown was OF taupe
satin immed with seal beads-Rut-
land Herald
Nearseal?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

Ezra says the meansest man no
knows is the one in his neighborhood
that passed on last-year's Christ
mas p -esent OF a cork screw to one
Of his friends.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
RECENT GAS ATTACKS

Clippings and Other Debris From the
Snort Column of the
Bratteporo Reforner.
There Are No Still Small Boys
And still small boys will receive
toy cannon and tin soldiers as Christ
mas gifts-New York Sun.
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Tcbe Vanderpool is back from La
bedo where he has been attening a
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

A Providence Man Attacks his wife
with Scissors! Headline in papers.
Must have. been a very snIppy affair.
-MorrisYille Messenger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
Tho Sweet Things.

Senator's Ramsdel and Gray Of Lou
isiana gave away tive-pound bags of
sugar to each of their BROTHER sena-
tors Christmas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
Another Novel Accident.

She let her eyes fall But in a mo-
nient the gallant lieutenant caught
them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31
Her arm hung Imply BY her side,

Her arm hung Imply by her side,
She looked disturbed, undigngfed.
One eve was black, the other red.
A dark blue welt was on her head
Eut on her face was joyful flush
Shed saved ten cents in Christina
rush.
Elk.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-31

What II It Should Strike
This Column.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-17
You Do More Wnrk.

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The Mena weekly star., 1919-07-17
"R.''
 Notice to Confirm Tax Title.

Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned claims title to the following described tract of land situate in Polk County, Arkansas, to-wit: SEA- Sec. IT, T. S., R. 29 w., by virtue of a Clerks Deed Of Tax Sale executed and delivered to him by Will Alexander, Clerk of the County Court of Polk County, Arkansas, dated June 15, 1917, which deed was executed pursu- ant to sale of said lands by the Collector for Polk County, Arkansas, begun and publicly held on the 14th day of June, 1915, at which sale the undersigned became the purchaser of the above described lands. That the undersigned will present his petition to the Chancery Court of Polk Coun- ty, Arkansas, at it's next regular Oc- tober term, 1919, praying that his title to the lands above described be quieted and confirmed Now, there fore, all persons who can set up any right to said lands so purchased in consequence of any informality or ir- regularity connected with such sale, are hereby warned and called upon to do so, in said Chancery Court at it's next October term, 1919.
 Dated on this 25th day of June, 1919.
 l. L. REED. Adv.--1st pub. July 8.
 Last pub. Aug. 2, 1919.