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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
Letters of
Harry James Smith"

By CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE
nNE Of the heaviest losses which this
~ country suffered during the war
was that Of the gifted young dramatist,
Harry James Smith, whose Letters have
just been published by Houghton MifHin
Company. Many Of Us, even among the
most enthusiastic admirers Of Mrs. Bump
ssead-Leish and The Tailor Made Man,
viii here gain our first definite informa-
ton as to the life and death Of their
young author. The. letters show an un-
usually courageous spirit and a wealth
Of wit in perfectly easy and human way.
We are convinced that whatever Mr.
Smith had been about he would have
written good letters, but as q matter of
fact be was always planning and &C
complaining interesting things. Among
the best, rs Is often the ease, are those
recorded failures Of which be had many.
During the early years he was constantly
chafng under routine work and longing
for Q chanos at the creative work which
was his passion. As Instructor in West
em university he writes;
Il feel that I am really almost throw
ing away the year-just work, work, work
and never q chance 10 think or TO cultivate
my soul or to write o line or verse or
prose. At the end Of the year / shall be
just where I-was at the beginning, only
older and SKINNER and more disagreeable
and less enthusiastic"
There follows his decision to give up
the newly acquired profession and hunt
employment in New York. Gwen if it is
sweeping out restaurants 1 shall still have
some hours for writing and thinking /
venture to believe that 1 am more or less
foolish, but that is part of the fatal at
fraction Of the scheme"
Within year the break has been made
and we have the gayest and most char
acteristic letter following a six weeks
hunt for job.
II cannot break news gently, ! blurt it
out IN the first mouthful I've had a
story accepted by the atlantic Monthly,
and that's absolutely the. first bit of good
luck I've ever had It Is GOOD luck though,
isn't itf And feel prodigiously clever to
have landed a thing there Of all places for
a beginner"
1t is not only good news that he breaks
in gay fashion. Witness letter written
after the production of BIackbirds, one
Of the many failures which followed his
first success, Mrs. Bampstead-Leigh, and
his second, The Tailor Made Man:
"The critics pouneed on BldckJirdS in
the most wantonly fcrocious, blood
thirsty manner, tearing ii into shreds and
laughing as the feathers flew. If critics
can kill, we are DEAD: Yesterday / was
sick with chagrin: but to-day 1 am al
most myself again. OF course 1 must
sick by the show for the present The
pubic love Il and we ssill expect 10 get
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
Just Ready
THE
SOCIETY OF NATIONS

Its Past, Present and Possible Future. By
7. ]. LAWRENCE, Ii. d. Formerly Pro-
fessor of International Law, Univ. Of Chicago.
zos Pages. Net, SI.so-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
REPUBLIC OF NATIONS
The GREAT EUROPEAN
TREATIES

OF The Nineteenth Century, edited by
CAKES and MOWAT. 4I6 Pages. Net, s. 40.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
PENNAGRADE OIL AND GAS COM.
PANY WILL SUPPLY LOUIS
VILE WITH NATU-
RAJ GAS.

The Pennagrade Oil & Gas Com
pany, which has a fifteen year con-
tract with the Louisville Gas and
Electric Company to furnish them
with a minimum of 100000
cubic feet of gas per year, promises
to become one of the largest Of the
companies with Eastern Kentucky
holdings.
The property of the Pennagrade
Oil & Gas Company consists of about
$4,000 acres principally located in
the known gas belt in Floyd & Knox
Counties, with leasholds also in the
oil and gas producing territories OF
Magofin, Perry, Letcher and other
adjoining counties.
At present the Pennagrade Oil &
Gas Company has 100000 cubic
feet of gas daily above ground and
five drilling rigs in the field. All
that separates the city Of Louisville
with their gas fields at the present
time is the construction OF twenty
six mile pipe line, which taps the
main line of the Louisville Gas and
Electric Company. Surveyors the
already working on this pipe line
and all possible action will be expe-
dited, as the company's contract with
the Louisville Gas & Electric Com
pany, calls for gas In Louisville by
September LIST, 1919.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-If You Know Dr..
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret of keeping young is to feel
young - to do this you must watch your
liver and bowels - there's no need of
having a sallow complexion - dark rings
under your eyes - pimples - a bilious
look in your face - dull eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent of all sickness comes from in
active bowels and liver. =
DR.. Edwards, a well-known physician
in Ohio. perfected vegetable com.
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels, which he gave &c
his patients for years.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the substi.
tute for calomel, are gentle in their action
yet always effective. They bring about
that exuberance of spirit, that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed by
everyone, by toning up the liver and clear
ing the system of impurities
You will know DR.. Edwards Olive Tab
lets by their olive color. l0c and 25c PEI
box All druggists.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY GLEE
CLUB AT HIGH SCHOOL
TONIGHT.

The Mems Glee Club from the Uni
versity of Kentucky at Lexington,
will appear at the City School audi
forum, in this city tonight, Friday,
April 25 The Glee Club consists of
twenty-five splendid musicians, un-
der the leadership of Prof. Carl Lam
bert, of Redpath Chautauqua fame.
The teachers and pupils are working
hard to make this the biggest sue
cess of anything they have under
taken this season.
The net proceeds from this enter
tainment will be used to beautify the
City School grounds and to add to
the school and Fairgrounds equip
ment. In this evening of story and
song there will be something to suit
every taste. Come out and help an
both the main floor and the balcony.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29

If I were farmer would keep at
hand few reliable medicines for
minor ailments that are not so seri-
GUS as to require the attention Of
physician, such as Chamberlain's
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy for
bowel complaints.
Chamberlain's Eminent for sprains
and bruises and rheumatic pains.
Chamberlafn's Tablets for stomach
troubles, biliousness and constipa-
ton.
By having these articles at hand 1t
would often save the trouble OF a trip
to town In the busiest season or In
the night, and would enable me to
treat slight ailments as soon as they
appear, and thereby avoid the more
serious diseases that so often follow.
(adv-apriD
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
Nv. GRIFFTTH'S SUPREME TRI-
UMPH, HEARTS OF THE
WORLD"

Hearts of the World" the SUI
preme triumph of d. w. Griffith, to
be presented at the Grand Opera
House, Monday. May s, afternoon
and night, inaugurates a new era in
the realm of screen drama. In New
York, Boston and Chicago this new
Griffith masterpiece has created a
positive sensation, even eclipsing the
master producers two productions,
The Birth Of a Nation" and "Intol-
erance."
In this, his latest achievement,
Mr.. Griffith did not attempt to create
and stage gigantic battle scenes and
pageantry, but actually used the
present, the greatest of all wars as
background for the filming of a SIM
pie but compelling story OF tremend-
Gus human interest, story OF love
and sacrifice.
Hearts of the World shows the
happy. peaceful life of the people Of
a small French village before the
grim horror war reared its ugly head
over the horizon. The causes that
led up to the war are shown; the
meeting of the British Parliament on
the eventful night when vote was
cast for war; the session of the
French Senate voting upon declara-
ton of war; the session of the cab
met awaiting the fatal hour when
the ultimatum to Germany would ex-
pire. These scenes come as a pre-
lude; then the great drama begins
the German hordes enter France.
In taking the battle picture fol-
Hearts of the World" Mr.. Griffith
had the assistance and cooperation
Of the British and French War Offices
and both he and his company of play
ers which include Lillian and Doro'
thy Gish, Robert Harron, George
Fawcett and Master Ben Alexander
were constantly within range of the
German guns and were often com
PEELED to seek safety in British
trenches on the western front. 1t i:
the opinion of all who have seer
Hearts Of the World that Mr.. Grit
fifth has outdone his own bes
achievements and has established {
new artistic record that will be diff
cult to equal, if indeed such thing
is possible.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
DON'T SCOLD, MOTHER!
THE CROSS CHILD is
BILIOUS, FEVERISH
Look At Tongue! If Coated, Clean
Little Stomach, Liver,
Bowels.

Don't scold your fretful, peevish
child. See if tongue is coated; this is
a sure sign its little stomach, liver
and bowels are clogged with sour
waste.
When listless, pale, feverish, full
of cold, breath bad, throat sore,
doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally,
has stomach-ache, indigestion, d1ar-
rhoea, give a teaspoonful of cali
fornia Syrup of Figs" and in few
hours all the foul waste, the sour
bile and fermenting food passes out
of the bowels and you have a well
and playful child again. Children
love this harmless fruit laxative
and mothers can rest easy after CIV
ing it, because it never fails to make
their little "insides" clean and
sweet.
Keep it handy, mother! A little
given to-day saves a sick child To-
morrow, but get the genuine. ASK
your druggist for bottle OF call
fornia Syrup of Figs" which has di-
reetions for babies, children OF all
ages and for grown-ups plainly
nrinted on the bottle. Remember
there are counterfeits sold here, SO
surely look and see that yours Is
made by the California Fig Syrup
Company" Hand back with con-
tempt any other fig syrup.
'0''' (adv)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
WORK PLEASURE
FOR HER NOW
Says Everybody Bothered Like She
Was Should Give Meritone
Trial.

Before taking Meritone my health
was so bad that 1 didn't feel like do
ing my work at ALL" said Mrs. Carrie
Crow, of 749 West Main street, Lex
ington, KY, "but it is a pleasure to
me now"
For whole year / was bothered
with my kidneys. I was so restless
at night that I would hardly sleep
and I got so nervous that the least
noise would get me excited. My
back hurt me all the time.
Appetite Poor.
MY appetite was very poor and
my stomach was in bad condition
also.
my health was run down so that
my work got to be burden.
Finally, I started taking Meri-
tone and l am happy to say that it
has put my kidneys back in fine con-
dition and I can sleep soundly all
through the night.
my appetite is great and can eat
anything without any pain or trouble
from my stomach afterward.
MY work is a pleasure to me now
Everybody bothered like I was
should give Meritone a trial"
Meritone, the tonic of real merit
is sold exclusively by G. S. Warden
& Son.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29

The former Kaiser says that ne
has some friends in America still.
Yes, but they are very still.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29

We should have a little more
thought of the Easter spirit ana III
tie less about the Easter hat.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
License Ordinance City of Paris, Ky.
May 1.1e1e. to Aprn 80, 1920

BE TT ORDAINED Board
Paris,
quired privileges
occupations professions
1919 ending 1920, providing penalties viola
ton thereof
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29
An Ordinance.
CITY HALL PARIS, KY, April "a, 1919.

License Ordinance City Of Paris, KY.
May I. 1919. to Aprii 80, 1920
BE TT ORDAINED Board City
Kentucky hereby imposed and re-
qud privileges engaging
occupations beginning May
1919 and ending April 3d. 1920 and providing
ton thereof:
operating business per 90
following calling Auctioneer, $500
conducting Auction day $500
For operating an Ambulance, 1900
Automobile sale supplies
conducting Agency. year ... 5000
Supplies per
1900
For operating Automobile Truck under ~ ton pe wear 50
conducting
Billiard Table 5000
operating than Billiard Pool Table for each ad
dional year 1000
operating Bowling Alley
operating Butcher Shop per year ........... $500
conducting the business Bill Poster per year $500
For conducting Bakery 1900
operating Broom Factory, 1000
Selling 1000
Selling Observation-Disclosures. 1900
conducting Barber Shop, chair 500
conducting Shop additional chair
per year $50
For conducting Blacksmith Shop, 1900
Creamery .............. 5000
year 1900
Candy Factory, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $500
For 5000
Show, Observation-Disclosures.
5000
For conducting the business Of Cleaning Dyng Clothing
conducting Observation-Disclosures.
For conducting Dance, where subscription admission
For CONDUCTING the business Of Express Company per 5000
Electric $500
For conducting Florist Agent
For the business of furniture per
operating year NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
For conducting 500
For conducting Feed Sale Stable $500
For selling Gasoline Lubricating
per year 100000
conducting business per year
conducting the business Hacking $500
For conducting Hotel American $500
operating Stable per year 500
For operating 1000
For conducting
Company per year 5000
Business
conducting Business Fire. Agent Com
conducting Business Health or Casualty each
Agent Company 1000
For conducting Insurance Business Short Term each Agent
conducting Glass Agent
1900
conducting Insurance Business Surety Bonding each
Agent r....................... 1000
selling 1000
year 1000
1900
For operating Livery Transfer business:
each 500
each one-horse vehicle 800
For each twohorse transfer 1000
For each onehorse transfer 500
persons
automobile capacity and
seven persons per year ............. 1000
For automobile auto seating capacity
persons per year observation-disclosures.
1900
conducting
operating Lunch
streets,
$500
$3.50
1000
$500
For acting Monuments,
cemetery work. per year .........
1000
5000
Pedding Fruit day
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-04-29

o Or" ,
and the 50
praecins Dentistry person per year
praccing Medicine.
For paccns the Profession ofoeopah $500
For praccing the Profession of ocuss optomett
For praeing the Profession of Law each per year $500
praccing Profession
o. Of OF
Hypnotism Magnetic or Divine Healing Faith Cure
Clairvoyancy ..........................5
...........-.... $500
For conducting Real Estate Agency, $500
Warehouse
a Clothing
Fol conducting of Clothing
conducting per $500
For conducting Furnish
conducting Groceries, by per year
Groceries, wholesale
conducting Millinery. 1900
conducting
of
For conducting Store for sale Books Stationery 1000
conducting Store for sale of Paints Oils $500
For conducting Store for sale of Hardware
For conducting Store for sale of Furniture per year 1900
conducting Store for Racket Goods $500
For conducting Store for sale of &C. 1oc and Csc Articles
For conducting Store for sale of Jewelry per year $500
conducting Agency
For 1s a Hsas Sausage: pc; yea; $500 500
For conducting Skating 5000
soliciting
selling Musical
For s ss ss's Secondhand Goods pc. yea; s 1900
operating Shooting Gallery
For operating Soda FOUNTAIN for business Of selling Soda Water
Ice Cream Soft Drinks containing Alcohol $500
For operating stand for of Soft Drinks containing
ar......................:.s
streets. containing Alcohol.
operating Repairing Shop per year ........ 1000
For selling Oil Investment Stock
operating
For Soliciting Subscriptions Periodical
Offering any premium gift where solicitor engaged
In contest
For Soliciting Orders Selling
Chlidren's Clothing Shoes Ito made elsewhere IN
Paris Kentucky, per year ................. 10000
For same per week $500
For day 1900
conducting Selling Goods Wares Mchan
disc of Any Kind in the City periods
twelve months and without having intended
to conduct such business permanently
10000
Any
for period of less than twelve months shah deemed
to conducted and snail
liable said license tax and subject to the penalty herna
ter imposed for doing business without license.
conducting business
For conducting Tobacco Warehouse for loose leaf sales each
operating Tobacco Reyg plant each per year 1900
For operating Telephone Exchange 5000
For conducting the business
For conducting the business of UphOlseing Working
For operating wagon Cart or Dray drawn by one horse for the
purpose of hire delivery 500
horses
Of hire delivery
For conducting Wall
kind which
or blinds to full view the which
provided however
OF
soft drinks containing alcohol
Dance Hail. Restaurant and provided further
shall granted sell
at any place in the City of Paris except Main Street between
street and Tenth Street. and on Tenth Street between
Louisville Nashville Depot
section with Tenth Street and Louisville Nashville Railroad
shall
profession
fifty
for each onense and each sale which made without
any place of
business wherein soft drinks of kind containing
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11
SLIGHT DROP IN PRICES.

Though consumers can see no difference as
yet, it is gratifying to learn of a slight drop in
wholesale prices during the first two months of
the new year. marked decreases in the two
months" says the Monthly Labor Review for
March of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, took
place in several of the commodity groups, food,
ETC., dropping from 2O7 to 2O4, cloths and clothing
from 246 to 231, and metal products from 1873
to 172." Smaller decreases are shown in farm
products, fuel, lighting and lumber, while there
is no change in house furnishings and "miscellan-
eous' increased from 204 to FOG.
Among important articles whose wholesale
prices averaged less in January than in December
are mentioned cotton, corn, hides, tobacco, butter,
cheese, eggs, lard, corn meal, bacon, hams, cotton
and wooden goods, cattle, sheep, peanuts, poultry
and potatoes. To the long and only slightly COM
forting showing is added the superfluous and COM
ical-moderate remark that "whiskey averaged
higher in price J"
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11
'THE THANKSGIVING LOAN"

The Victory Loan, last of the popular subscrip-
tons to the Governments securities, is beginning
to be called the THANKSGIVING Loan" and it is
a name we'll fitting it.
When one pauses, in his reading of the daily
paper, to compare wartorn Europe with peaceful
America. he sees:
RUSSIA-Her people starving in the streets
and robbery and riot running wild.
GERMANY-Torn by revolution, her cities
hotbeds of murder and pillage, even the victor
ious armies welcomed as q protection from the
revolutionists.
POLAND-A land accustomed to the iron
hand of despotic rulers, yet now grooming beneath
greater horrors than she had ever known.
FRANCE-Victorious and joyous, but with
her fairest provinces devastated, her cities de-
stroyed, with hardly a home which has not lost
father or son or brother.
And then
Our home land, with the boys returning, with
business booming, with crops plentiful. There is
no starvation in our country; there IS little dire
distress. There are many gold stars on the SER
vice flags, it is true, but our losses were small in
proportion to the number of the boys who sailed
overseas to risk all.
Isn't this worth a special Thanksgiving Day,
a spring Thanksgiving?
And isn't the best of living thanks that prac-
teal form which digs into the pocket and says:
"Uncle Sam, well done. And here's the cash
to pay the bills for bringing peace.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11
WHO O

The New York Sun of March 81 publishes an
anonymous letter from a soldier of the American
Expedltlonary Forces that could be proftably
republished in every newspaper of this country.
In general it is a warning that the American pub
lie will get a 'black picture of just about every
thlng from many of our returning soldiers, for
the simple reason that the American people are
constitutional knockers" and the soldiers for the
most part are not exceptions. eff there is a
prominent American characteristic" writes this
observant doughboy, lit is knocking. And the
next prominent characteristic is Dragging: When
we have a sympathetic audience, we knock, when
1t isn't so sympathetic or has claims of it's own,
we brag. Returning soldiers coming to a SYM
pathetic audience-home folks-knock, and the
Americans here do the same among themselves.
But let a German open his trap, just to ask a
question, for instance, and you would not believe
that the same people are talking"
The average doughboy fights bravely and is
enormously proud of his country and its army,
but when he has nothing else to do, true to his
birthright, he will sit and "knock'-the govern
ment, the war management, the French people,
everything under the sun, even America, 'fby the
hour" The writer of this remarkable letter says
he understands the stories of returning American
soldiers and admits that he himself expects to do
some knocking when he comes home, for "there
have been things to criticize" Nevertheless, he
asserts that the work of the American war ma
chine in France "has been great from start to fin
ish," and that he knows so because his line of duty
gave him exceptional opportunity for observa-'
tion.- 1t is true that the soldiers have had "hard
trials" but corresponding to every kick there is
to brag about"
And the triumphant issue of the great effort
inspires him. He regards the victory he 'sprayed|
for as the Judgment of God on the work of the
devl'-concluding: There are evil ways among!
the ~victors, there are faults among the allied
and nations. But the sum total of them
IS nothing compared to the work of the satanic
Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey
all crooked. all lustful, all prosecutors of others
land their own peoples) and all licked"
IE@ -
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Paris may be as gay as ever, as report says,
but there is mighty little gayety in the stuff Am
erican correspondents are cabling home. -s~
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

at takes a lifetime to build up a paper" the
Clarksdale Register wisely remarks. It takes
money, time and talent, and not only hard work,
but labor properly directed to make a newspaper
a success.-Vicksburg Evening Post.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Though no longer fighting, it's seldom you can
pick up a paper without reading of the killing of
American a%viators.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Fixing a date and then knocking the peace
conference for not making it good is another re-
prehensible Paris habit.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Possibly the difficulty in finding a monde
structable material upon which to write the peace
treaty has been responsible for some of the delay.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

John d. can be counted on to root for substi-
tuting gasoline for electricity on trolley and street
railway lines.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Shooting the shoots of public sentimen is al
ready beginning to eliminate would-be Presiden-
tial candidates.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

and demand has been shelved by the new profit
GERS decree-the greater the supply of grub the
higher the price.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Beware trying to get something for nothing
few efforts are more demoralizing or less prof
liable.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

Yep, the more we know of conditions In Eu-
rope the better the good old U. S. A. looks.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-11

1t would in a sense be a relief if Mexican rev.
olutionists would finish some of the things they
start.