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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24
KANSANS GET ID. S. C.
Medals to George Hopkins, Burlin-
game, and George Condit, Troy

Washington, May 23.-Award of the
distinguished service cross has been
made, General Pershing notified the
war department, to the following Of
ficers and men for extraordinary
heroism IN action
Capt. Roland r. Reinholdt. St.
Louis, Mo; Sergts. Hobart L. Miller,
Kansas City, Mo; George A. Hopkins,
Burlingame, Kan; George w. Condit,
Troy Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24

Waco, Tex, May 24.-Miss Lucy
Wendland, 81, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
leaped from fourth story window in
the Metropole hotel here at o'clock
this morning. She died shortly after
ward in a hospital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24

Chicago-AmOng the striking things in
ChicagO-7OO city employees. They plan to
force an increase in salaries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

piano, stopped and crouching, like a
captive tiger, and, fiercely grasping
his violin, played like madman.
"This deformed creature had
really the temperament of an artist.
What thrills of grief and anger,
what spasms of revolt he knew how
to introduce into the most common
place waltzes.
ION her side, the dancer seemed
obsessed by the passion of the vio-
llnlst. Intoxicated by that hypnotic
rhythm, she became filled with ex-
altation, leaped and bounded like a
bacchante and seemed enveloped in
a Dionysiac flame.
That evocation of antique
beauty was so little in keeping with
her short skirt and her low cut cor
sage that the same thought came to
all Of U.S."
You wanted to see this beauti-
full person dance in the nude. Saw
1t frankly. 1t was only natural"
AT first she refused with vehe-
mence. But she had to resign herself
TO It, That evening, before passing
into the neighboring room where
she was to unrobe, she asked us as
favor to dismiss her companion,
who, an outsider in the discussion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

remained leaning against his music
stand and threw chances at US filled
with execration.
Suppress the violin. Extinguish
the fame which animated so su-
perbly that sensitive body! We
would not consent. However, in
the end, we made one concession to
this singular sense of modesty. We
brought in screen and opened it
near the piano. Behind it we placed
the violinist.
"Then the surgeon general seats
himself at the piano and plays a
muff1ed prelude while the dancer
enters softly, holding to her neck
with her two hands a muslin dress
ing gown. The violin begins, in
minor key, sort of czardas, with
something in it more poignant,
more heart-breaking than usual.
Presently the robe drops and the
woman energies, fine and luminous,
like Venus. rising from the sea-
Eyes, it is true. Only woman
of Latin race knows how to carry
off nudity with elegance"
"She made striking success;
but there was about her sort of
melancholy candor, naughty re-
serve, which impressed US not a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

heavy villain as the fat knight from
the circus clown. Contrasted with ~.
overworked masquerader that the ponu-
lar writer of to-day offers as n,aus
lple representative of foreign spy
'Fosco' is a classic. We feel that h.
Is man who would be persona grats
IN diplomatic circles, and not the var
nished bounder in the faultless att;r.
of our magazine illustrations, who h,.
inhabited the polychromatic periodics,
during our late disturbance.
Mrs. Catherick in the same story !.
also dellneated with a grimly vivid
pen. This latter is a darkling study q,
an elderly lady of lurid antecedent.
who in the seclusion of an English vii.
lage is holding the fort against locs,
public opinion. The raw newness q,
the dreary little town, the 'glutinous
brightness of the furniture in the dis.
NAL parlor of the quondam Jezebel.
her CHASTITY pretensions to social rec
ognition, all serve to invest the chapter
with the durably sinister atmosphere
the author so we'll knew how to COM
mand.
What fine mystery story is The
Moonstone'! With what d fine sense
of romance does the author blend thu
warp and wool of the Orient and the
West in the weaving of his complicated
plot! How much more credible is the
human Sergeant Cuff, who relieves the
tedium of thief catching with the cul-
tivation of roses, than any of the L.
gions of capering imitators Of the
inimitable Holmes
collins has been the subject of a
good deal of callow disparagement, but
he pursued a difficult art with i'm
mense skill, and with distinction Of
style that gives his subject matter in
creased interest. Although he may not
take full rank with those greater art
lists of his time, he is at least entitled
to honorable mention, and little niche
Of his own in the temple of fame as an
incompatible story-teller. The themes
he worked with, which in other hands
might have been made glaring and SEN
sational, he adorned with a singular
refinement and reticence, and we have
to thank him as one whose magic pen
has beguiled US of much WEAKNESS, and
in whom dwelt the true spirit of ro-
nance"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

piano and to play fandangoes, fla
mencas and tarantellas, which the
french girl executed without much
spirit, but, on the whole, in a very
acceptable fashion.
"She didn't exhibit herself thus
without repugnance. She had even
attempted to resist. But the sur
geon general knew how to force her
to yield to his peremptory argu-
ments. Indeed, that wasn't very
difficult, for the unfortunate Great
ure was facing starvation"
"The devil. What had her pref
erences to do with it? She was.
after all, prisoner of war;"
Certainly, certainly, your excel
lency. Her comrade-he, also. was
our prisoner.
Nevertheless, for long time it
was impossible to get him to plav
for US. Threats, corporal punish
ment, privations, could not over
come his obstinacy. Finally the
surgeon general discovered the wav
to break his spirit. He kept him
locked away from his alteration.
The gnome supported this separa-
ton for eight days. On the ninth
he capitulated. And thereafter each
evening ne took his place beside the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
ferlng from a severe case of typhoid

ferlng from severe case of typhoid
fever.
Out of curiosity, the surgeon
general goes. The patient seems to
nm to be very pretty. He treats
her and cures her. He learns at the
same time that she is a Partisan
and that she dances at Montmartre
She was travelling with dozen sing
ers and musicians who were piv-
ing performances at Lille, when she
was taken i'll. On our sudden an
proach her comrades fed, abandon
ing her to fever, misery and death.
One alone among them had STAYED
behind with hcr-this starvedlook-
ing gnome, the violinist of the
troupe.
Evidently he was in love with
her. Certainly he didn't love US,
and he must have been reduced TO
extremities before he sought the aid
of German doctor.
when the patient became con-
valescent and gradually recovered
her strength the surgeon general
took it into his head to make her
dance. Nearly every evening he as
sembled us at his house after dinner.
and then, in that restricted circle, it
pleased him to seat himself at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
TIL OF BARON Won FRANKENSTEIN

little. When she danced it was a
picture. Her beautiful figure,
which her illness had refined, moved
freely and with suppleness under
the clear light, following the dis
ordered passion and plaintive Ian
guishments Of the violin. Her
arms, impeccable in their lines, ex-
tended or recurved harmoniously.
"Then suddenly the screen falls
with crash. The puny gamin we
knew stands erect and livid, his eyes
maddened and threatening. Lifting
piece of massive bronze which
stood beside him on a little table, he
brings it down with such violence
on the head of Surgeon General Won
Frankenstein that our unfortunate
chief collapses and expires on the
keyboard, the blood running from
his nose, his mouth and his ears.
"Then, without a word, with a
cold rage, we arm ourselves with
anything we can lay our hands on
chairs, pokers, bottles of champagne
and fall on the assassin. At first
he fights back furiously. But soon
he crumples up in his turn, crushed.
bleeding, his teeth broken, his face
swollen-a horrible sight to see. He
was dead"
And the woman? She had faint
ed with terror, undoubtedly?
mo, your excellency. She de-
Tended the frightful gnome and
cried:
"'He did right. Bunch of ban
dts! Bunch of banditsv
ut was necessary to call four
men from neighboring police sta
ton to get her into her clothes and
carry her to Jail"
"And them"
The next day she was con-
demned to death for completely in
the murder and was shot at the
Journal gate"
THAT was only justice; but it
didn't bring poor Frankenstein back
to life."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Picking a Bone With
Scenario Buyers
Charming Pollock says quantity and not quality
is wanted first Of all by those who swing the
destiny of the movies q

taste in the film business is traceable
to the lack of education on the part
of the men who are the producers,
and he says:
"Like Mark Swan, he found that
they bought only the worst, the most
obvious and commonplace, of my prod
ucts' Why? Look over the arbiters!
Do you think graduated furriers and
jewellers and cloth-spongers and dry
goods dealers from Oshkosh are the
best judges of dramatic literature
Is it likely that the critic who bids a
subordinate get into communication
with that man Dickens knows where
to 60 or what he's got when he gets
it? Or is it more likely that his taste
in fiction will continue to be the taste
of the furrier and jeweller and cloth
sponger and drygoods dealer7 You'll
stuff for the MOVIES says Mr.. Mack.
All right charge you with accept
ing it,"
Answering the charge that men
must make special study to write
for the screen, the writer remarks:
"'You won't learn the business
Learn . writing from
whom? Our magazine stuff we sub
nit to jury of our peers-to educated
and cultured men Of literary training.
Our plays we read to David Belasco.
or George Cohan, or Winchell Smith.
or Henry Miller, and they tell you,
with some authority, what is wrong
Not so your scenario editor. He tells
you this is not picture stuff and YOU
ponder, and you worry, and your ego is
hurt, and what you consider your good
judgment Is warped. Then he buys
the story you thought least of
and suddenly you see the light. That
story is stupid, bromide, obvious.
anyway, what Is there to learn?
What fundamental differences between
photostory and any other kind Of a
story, or a photoplay and any other
kind of a play? What variances of
technique that an ordinarily intelligent
man, with some talent for writing and
some training, couldn't master in
month?
Thomas Dixon, with much expert
ence, says in a week. Rex Beach.
with more, confesses that famous d.
rector told him "a scenario I'd prepared
after two hours study Of the method
was the best he'd ever seen. This lob,
like every other writing job, is a mat
ter of literary skill and narrative and
dramatic instinct, and that is Just what
the hacks haven't got. and can't &C
quire. Mutual understanding is es-
sential, and you or / certainly under
stand their photoplays better than they
understand our plays we may not
know your game as you know it, adds
Mr.. Mack, but it's your game that's
wrong! You buy play, but you make
a picture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
THE DEATH OF
FRANKENSTEIN!
We were on garrison
duty together at Cologne


We were on garrison
duty together at Cologne
in the days of our
youth. He was then surgeon of the
Second Uhlans, in which / had lust
been made riding instructor. So he
is dead-he, too? But where? And
when?"
"Since the beginning Of the war,
your excellency He died at Lille.
He was killed before my eyes-and
in a manner the least glorious and
the most deplorablev'
Glow so? An accident? Tell me
about it, Mr.. Assistant Surgeon,
while you dress my wound"
at was in the autumn of 1914.
In that conquered city we led JOY
Gus life, with the indulgence of the
general in command. The BOOTY was
colossal. The wine cellars we're ex-
cellent. We thought we were on the
verge Of decisive result-the CAPT
ure of Calais or of Dunkirk. And
each day we celebrated the victory
which we expected on the morrow
"Frankenstein must have gone
into that with all his heart. Did he
still love as much as ever ballet
dancers and dressmakers' models?"
Exactly so,your excellency. Sur
geon General Baron Won Frank
enstcin had been attracted by a bal
let girl--a danseuse, as the French
say. 1t happened this way:
A few days after our entry into
Lille, he sees arriving at his house
the occupied a very beautiful house
IN the Rue de Solferino) a boy an
parently about fifteen years old.
puny and poorly clad, who bcgs him
10 come to the top floor Of house
near by to treat young woman suf-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

10 r. literature in these COM
pick days" asks S. J..
Rosenbaum in "Tha
Stratford Journal" And he goes on.
simplifying the point raised by this
question:
THAT Is, do books occupy the emf
nent position among those who read
for pleasure that they did, say, a half
century ago? No doubt, people seek
mental relaxation and amusement to-
day IN ways that our forebears knew
not of, and perhaps the spectators of
the movies find Monte Cristo' or
Les Miserables' easier of digestion in
this tabloid form than if taken directly
from the tones of the masters.
But great deal is lost in these
concentrated essences. We lose the
masters style; we lose the story-tell-
er's relish for his own tale--for who
can deny that the artist takes pleasure
in his own wares? We are feeding on
husks; the kernel is within, not on the
boards.
ut is related that when The Woman
in White was in course of serial pub
LEGATION crowds assembled in front of
the Office of the publishers eager to
obtain the latest instalment hot from
the press. Perhaps in our sophisticated
age we have outgrown many of the de-
vices of suspended interest. Our daily
chapters of fiction in the evening pa
pers have tempered the old zest for the
continuation and our jaded appettes
will not respond to the oft-repeated
dish. But in taking stock of Wilkie
Collins, it must not be supposed that
his unbounded contemporary popu-
larity was based merely on bald tricks
OF construction. He wrote and achieved
success in too great a company to have
been mere monger of literary tinsel
True, his plots are exceedingly elabo-
etimes overweight Some of
the pseudo scientific episodes in The
Moonstone,' for instance, are scarcely
plausible; but such is his skill in ham
ding his fragile material that on
first perusal one gives it ready Gre
dence. In such deadly earnest does he
intone his fantastic narrative that the
fascinated reader, willy nilly, must go
with him to the end
collins was the literary melodram-
atist par excellence. But his melo-
drama is not the crude, Grass concoc-
ton Of the penny dreadful press, nor
yet that of the movie scenario. He
has too much grace, too much dexterity,
with his pen dripping gore. He creates
atmosphere and gives US descriptive
color with rare effect and artistry. If
at times he is artificial he never lacks
taste, nor attempts to paint the lily or
gid refined gold. His plots are dove
tailed with such elaborate nicely that
Charles Reade said of him, For lit
erary ingenuity in building up plot
and investing it with my story give me
dear old Wilkie Collins against the
world
buC Colllnss claims as novelist OF
power are not altogether confined to
action and situation. Although his
professed purpose was to hold interest
by these means, he was too good an art
list to do so with the manikins of the
hack. If Count Fosco' in The Woman
in White is turgid he is not unreal.
He is sort of repellent Falstaf, and
as far removed from the conventional
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
By Jean Besliere
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Gargoyles
A Comedy of DISPOSITIONS
By AMY LOWELL

(From the authors book, "Pict-
ures of the Floating World" to be
issued IN October; reprinted here
from "Reedy's Mirror.")
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Taking Stock of
Wilkie Collins
''He wrote and achieved success IN too ...
company to have been a mere monger of
literary tinsel''

k AVE we really popular
10 r. literature in these COM
pick days." asks S. j.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

| J
T\HIMBLE-RIG on village green,
Snake charmers under blue
tent
Winding drugged- bellies
through thin arms.
Hiss
Of yellow and magenta shawl
On a platform
! Above trombones.
Tree lights
Drip cockatoos Of color
On broadcast shoulders,
Dead eyes swim to a silver Ash.
Gluttonous hands tear at apron strings.
Reach at the red side Of an apple,
Slide under ice-foes,
And waltz clear through to the tropics
To sit among cocoanuts
And caress Dubious negresses with
loquats in their hair.
A violin scorching on ar F-sharp exit,
Stamp.
Stop.
Hayricks, and painting,
Noon roses guessed under calico
A budded thorn-bush swinging
Against smoke-dawn.
Hot pressing on sweet straw,
Laughs like whales foundering sero.s
air circles,
Wallows of smoothness.
Loose muscles dissolved upon lip-
brushings,
Languid fluctuations,
Sleep oozing over wet flesh,
Cooling under the broad end of an
angled shadow.
Absurd side-wiggle Of geese before
elephants;
gold leopard snarls at a white
donkey;
Panther-purrs arouse childhood to an
edge of contortion:
Trumpets brawl beneath an oscillation
of green baiioons
Why blow apple blossoms into wind
dust?
Why drop a butterfly down the throat
of a pig?
Timid shrinkings of a scarlet-runner
bean
From pumpkin roughnesses.
Preposterous clamor of cook for 9
tulip.
If your flesh is cold
Warm it on teapots
And let them be of Dresden china
with coreopsis snarled in the handle.
Horse bargainings do not become
temples,
And sarabands are not danced on tea
trays of German silver.
Thin drums flatten the uprightness Of
distance,
A fading of drums shows lilac on the
fallen beech leaves.
Emptiness Of drums.
Nothing.
Burr Of rising moon.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02
HOW
RHEUMATISM
BEGINS

The excruciating agonies Of rheuma..
liam are usually the result of failure OF
che Kidneys to expel poisons from tho
system. If the irritation of these uric
acid crystals is allowed to continue, In
eursble bladder or kidney disease may
result. Attend to it at once. Don't
resort to temporary relief. The sick
kidneys must be restored to health BY
the use Of some sterling remedy which
Wfl prevent return of the disease.
Get some GOLD MEDAL Haarlem
on Capsules immediately. They have
brought back the joys Of life to count
less thousands of sufferers from rheu-
mstism, lame back, lumbago, sciatica,
gali stones, gravel and other affections
Of the kidneys, liver, stomach, bladder
md allied organs.
They will attack the poisons at once,
clear out the kidneys and urinary tract
cd the soothing healing oils and herbs
wil restore the infamed tissues and
organs to normal health.
All others are limitations. Ask for
GOLD MEDAL and be sure the name
GOLD MEDAL is on the box. Three
sises, at all good druggists.-Adv.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02
TEXAS BOY HOME AFTER
six YEARS IN GERMANY

After six years Of isolation In Ger
many, a3-year-old Herbert Seidel
reached Paris on his way to Fort
Bliss, Texas, where he will rejoin his
mother and sister The boy had been
living with his grandmother in Sax
ony. He has completely forgotten the
English language, but 10 still loyal
American and anxious to 60 to tho
United States.
Herbert is the son Of Color Sergeant
Carl Seidel, who is with the 14th
American brigade in France. Ser
geant Seidel asked the American Red
Cross to repatriate his son and after
months of negotiations through Brig
adler General George H. Harris of
the interalIied commission for the re-
patriation of war prisoners at Berlin,
the German government consented to
permit the child to leave. after the
surrender of all his food cards and
the presentation of papers establish
ing the fact that he was born In the
United States.
Lieutenant George Dunaben Of the
American peace commission staff,
brought the boy from Berlin to Paris
and turned him over to the Red Cross,
which will send the lad to the United
States Immediately. The boy was
wearing q German army cap and a
suit made from a mans discarded
garment He said he had enough to
eat in Germany, but showed great
enthusiasm over American chocolate.
which he had not tasted for several
years.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02
CLUBS OF THE
WORLD WILL HOLD CONvEN-
TON IN SEPTEMBER.
TO MEET IN new ORLEANS
To Have Exhibits and Hold Open
Meetings For Purpose of Showing
Benefits OF Advertising To
Growth of Business.
New Orleans

New Orleans
Demonstrating how advertising
pays its board" for any business
will be a feature of the victory"
convention of the Associated Adver-
Using Clubs of the World in New
Orleans September 21-25, upon which
members of the convention board are
spending large part Of their time.
F. w. Ellsworth, director general,
said.
Many a business man would use
advertising If he knew how to start
Mr. Ellsworth said. But so many
are under the impression that in or
der to start they must make a very
large outlay and run big risk.
the New Orleans convention will
show in practical form how it is log
icsI for business house to start N
a small way in relation to total sales
and to make advertising pay for
itself as 1t goes on and sales in
crease. Exhibits will demonstrate
tust how advertisers have started
and made their advertising pay"
Headquarters offices Of the adver-
Using clubs in New York have
planned to make the advertising con-
vention helpful in brass tack
way" to the business man who wants
to make judicious use of advertising.
According to a recent announce
ment business men not actual men,
bers Of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World, but attending
the convention with delegations from
their cities will be given the oppor-
tunity of attending all meetings OF
the convention and profting by the
sessions on equal terms with mem
bers.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02

The Abbeville section was visited
recently by a violent thunderstorm.
accompanied by very heavy rain.
which was needed for the cane and
corn During the storm lightning
struck the barn on the farm of H. c.
Ewing near here and while the build
ing was not injured the thunderbolt
killed several horses, mules, hogs
and poultry, causing loss of upward
of $1,000.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02

and my troubles caused by that weak.
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who suffer as did should try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
Mrs. JAS. RoHRBERG, go Knapp St.,
N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Women who suffer from any form Of
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Inflammation, liberation, irregularities.
backache, headaches, nervousness or
"the blues" should accept Mrs. Rohr.
berg's suggestion and give Lydia f
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound .
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For over forty years it has been
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mysterious complications write for
advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-08-02
FOR SUMMER COLDS

Nothing gives quicker relief than
yaeher-B Balm.
It Is harmless, and also relieves
Nervous Headache quickly. and any
superficial Inflammation in a short
time.
Try It for Mumps, Hay Fever, or any
pain
II you cannot buy 1t locally, send
for Free Sample, and Agents terms,
or send SOC stamps for 2 25c tubes.
Avoid limitations.
Il. w. VACHER, inc, New Orleans.
h.-Adv.