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The Press., 1919-08-14

NOTICE.-Now is good time to have l\ your Quilts Carpets, Rugs or anyt hing that is washable, done at the stafford springs tn"n,,.,, 32tf
The Press., 1919-08-14

TINO RENT for the Summer-My cottage l at Crystal Lake, Inquire of Mrs Boyer
 +2W17 "JACK" WHITE.
The Press., 1919-08-14

EOR RSALE-Two registered well mark
 T ed yearng Herero.d bulls. CORNELL GREEN & SON, South N Ellington, Conn. 2W17
The Press., 1919-08-14

NOW is the time that Having Machine lN ry Is wanted We have In slock several new Deerinp Mowers several second. hand mow CTS or both Deering and other makes Horse kakes Feeders, etc, .. r. BRADWAf & SONS, West stafford. l%
The Press., 1919-08-14

TOR SALE-A fine farm, situated one ! mile from town. Eighty acres. good ood, horse, cows, pigs, chickens, a good barn. Crops all planted Ow ner will divide one-half Of crop. Must vacaIe at once.
 1Stf P. J. MURRAY SON, Tel. 2S-2.
The Press., 1919-08-14

N ANTED-Man and woman to work W at the Stafford Laundry.
The Press., 1919-08-14

HAVING purchased new truck, will ! \ sell my horse at a Dargain-sS0 ,.,,,,
 FISH MARKET,
The Press., 1919-08-14

EOR SALE-New Milch Cow, 3 years l old Also Airedale dog. house broken Some White Leghorn Pullets from Storrs Col lege stock. HENRY DEPEAU, Stafford
The Press., 1919-08-14

FOR SALE-19l6 Harley Davidson II Motorcycle, three speeds, electric lights with 1918 side car in good condition. T. Il SMITH, Stafford springs, Box 3S6. '4wlS
The Press., 1919-08-14

' OST-A large white cat with few lI yellow spots. yellow eyes, double front paws; name ripple Reward, if returned to JENNIE CHURCH, Wilmington Hill.
The Press., 1919-08-14

PASS are biting. Let's go. Boats to ID let. FRED BARTLETT, Crawford Farm. MaShapauy.
The Press., 1919-08-14

EOR SALE-Two milch COWS. Want ! to sell my horse. or will trade for another one. Would like to buy standing grass or rent farm or pasturage Tor one or two heads. tall on STANLEY NYCZAl, New tity, StaHor 'Vlile, near the Cooley place. lOlI
The Press., 1919-08-14

TOR SALE. Good dwelling property lN in desirable locations Almost any pari T town. Farms, orchard, pasture and good OIL Near stafford Springs Good business block, center of Main street. P j. MURRAY x SON, Conyerse Building, Tel 2S-2.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
FIRST STEEL TANKER
BE LAUNCHED NOV. s
VESSELS ARE BEING BUILT AT
TERRY YARDS.

Savannah, Sept. 25-The launching
OF the first of the 7,500-ton steel tank
ers which are being built by the Terry
Shipbuilding Corporation for the Unit
ed States shipping board will take
place November s, it was announced
yesterday This will probably be
memorable day ON the water front and
in shipping circles of Savannah, as it
will mark the launching of the first
steel tanker at this place.
No formal announcement has yet
been made, but the occasion will like
ly be CONSPICUOUS by speaking and
other ceremonies. The hour for the
launching has not been, set. The
launching was planned to take place
some time ago, but was delayed be-
cause of some change that was being
made in the model of some of the ma
chinery. No previous date for the oc-
casion was announced. The launching
of the othe rvessels will follow in reg
ular sequence soon after the first.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
JEWELRY DISPLAY WAS
STOLEN FROM WINDOW
STORE ON WHITAKER STREET
VISITED BY PROFESSIONAL
LlFTERS.

Savannah, Sept. 25.-Jewelry valued
at nearly $1,000 was stolen from the
display window of the jewelry store
of Evans ]. Thomas, 124 Whitaker
street. some time Tuesday night. The
robbery was discovered shortly after
daybreak yesterday, but as yet no
trace has been found of the robbers.
Two small holes were broken in the
lower corners of large plate glass
window by the thieves. who took the
entire display except several pieces of
heavy cut glass. The police believe
the robbery was done by PROFESSIONALS
who left the city Immediately.
The window was dressed by Mr..
Thomas last Monday and he said yes
terday that no large diamond rings
weer stolen. He asserted that he did
not know the exact value of the stolen
jewelry, but would approximate
$1,000. The missing articles included
gold pins, cameo brooches, wrist
watches and lavallieres.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

OLD SHoES-We buy and sell oud
shoes and do all kinds of shoe re-
pairing while you wait. All work
guaranteed to satisfy. TWTNE SHOE
HOSPITAL, next door to Kylee Drug
Store, IL. ave. 9-22-2st
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

RUNAWAY BoY--John Walter John
son, ~ year old colored boy ran away
Tuesday evening. His parents will
appreciate any information as to his
whereabouts. Sam Johnson, G. B..
whatley's farm. 9-24-3t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

A Japanese naval officers chemi-
cal process waterproofs a tough ma
tive paper so it can be used for many
purposes usually requiring textile fab
RIGS on leather.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

LoST-New tain hand grip between
Cordele and Ashburn on National
Highway Thursday morning. Finder
please notify L. P. Taylor, Fort Valley,
Ga. 9-25-6t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

24ib FLOUR s1.so;-6 Chero Cola,
for rs c. Cash only. j. ]. Burge Gro.
Co. Cor Eight st. and IL Ave Phone. Is
s-17-26
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

WANTED TO BuY-Second hand
Chattanooga Cane mill. Write or see
W Fl. Scott. Rt C. Crodele, Ga. 9-25-3t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

WANTED-Three or four furnish or
unfurn;shed rooms In good ,ocation
for house keeping. Ans cfo patch.
s-22-St
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

gold necklace with
round locket. Reward. Phone 290
9-26-9t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

FOR RENT-One room, furnished or
unfurnished. Close in. Phone BIT.
9-24-1t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

LOsT-Red Irish setter, male. Re
ward for information. Carl Common.
sI2SSt.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

FOR SALE OR SWAP-One Buick
1918 model seven passenger 5 new
Goodyear Cord tires new top, looks
brand new, runs as good as Buick can
possibly run Bargain. Cordele Steam
vul Co. Phone 229 915-6t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

TAKEN uP-Out of my corn field
white listed sow and 10 pigs. Owner
please call for them at once. DR.. P.
L. Williams. 9-2S-3
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

wANTED-Three rooms or house of
four or five rooms. Phone 5S2 1926 st
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
SMITH AND GRESHAM

Or. BYRON DANIELS-Practice
limited to the office IN treatment of
diseases of the stomach, and other
branches Of internal medicine
His equipment for treatments is
most modern and includes such meth.
DDS as X.Ray, various electric treat
ments, vibration, electric light. super
heated hot air. needle, sprays and
Scottish douche baths.
Harmon Building, CordeIe, Georgia.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

WANTED Lone thousands old junk.
cars S. M. Watson & Co The Hide
& Junk Men, Cordele, Ga. S-28,26
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, CordeIe Union Depot.
The following schedule figures pub
lished as information and not guaran-
teed:
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

FOR sALE-Six year old mule, about
1000 pounds, bargain. Also 5 fine sows
IL pigs and one male hog, some
thoroughbred Durocs and pillow tools.
R. D. B. Taylor.
9.4-25
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

LoST-Ring set with small stone.
Returned to Dispatch and receive
reward. 9-21-3t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

FOR sALE-Six room house with
four lots, corner Seventh street and
Second Avenue. ]. w. Fulgham,
Macon, Ga. 9-11.26t
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

WARNING-All persons are warned
against hunting, or fishing or other
wise trespassing on lands of DR.. War
rem Williams estate S. f. Holland.
9-15-12t.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26

patch.
9-22--3t
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
c. o S S iip
Gilbert Cannan in New York

"Whcn people ask me why I am in
New York" says Gilbert Canaan, who
arrived in America about the tme his
"Pink Roses" was brought out by
George II. Doran Company, II tell them
that l came here for a rest cure. And
l am getting it. A soldier or banker
or publisher may intelligibly go into
the country or a nursing home for the
soothing of his nerves. But for soli-
tary, sedentary author like myself, who
for ten years has sat still in contem-
plation of the universe, nothing could
be better than New York, and if had
any money to lose (Which I haven't)
l can imagine myself finding the most
perfect rest in three months on Wall
Street. Meanwhile, without going to
that extremity, l do pretty we'll, never
knowing where the days adventures
are going to lead to, and all the time
making acquaintance and friends with
America. After all, there is no such
rest as Matchmaking friends and dis
covering new points Of view. Indeed,
as a novelist 1t is much more my bust
ness to discover other peoples points
of view than to insist upon my own.
don't find myself interesting, though
| hope for other people to find me as
interesting as I find them, and GER
tainly can't hope for America to like
me as much as | like America"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Its Best the Field of Biographical Sketches

as was not the prescribed way, when
suddenly he was spied by mine host,
who was instructing some one IN the
swift one minute or less system. Now
he eyed tho operation narrowly for
few seconds, then came over and ex-
claimed:
"'Wash your toes, can't your Wash
your toes! Can't you wash your
tocs?
"The skilled gentleman, realizing
that he was now living under very diff
fcrent conditions from those to which
he was accustomed, reached down and
began to rub the tops Of his toes, but
without any desire,. apparently, to
widen the operation.
"'Here' called the host, this time
much more sharply, 4 said, wash your
them! Don't you know how to wash
your toes yet? You're old enough,
Wash under 'em!'
"'Certainly l know how to wash my
toes,' replied the other irritably and
strengthening up, and what's more, I'd
like you to know that l am a gentle
man.
"'Wcll, then, if you're a gentleman
how to wash your toes. Wash 'em md
don't talk back!'
"'Oh. hell!' fumcd the other. This
is positively outrageous I'll leave the
place, by George!'
every WE'LL rejoined Culhane, only
before you go you'll have to wash your
toesn"
Dresser was tremendously impressed
by Culhanc. There was something
epic in this one time peasant farmers
son, scullion, waiter, bouncer, rubber
down, policeman, soldier. wrestler and
trainer, who had won through q be-
wildering career to a theory of life as
restrained and stole as that of the
Greeks. He was sixty at the time
Dresser met him at the sanatorium
where his lavish brother had sent him
to recuperate after some psychical dis
turbance. "In his cowled dressing
gown he looked more like some great
monk or fighting abbot Of the medieval
years than trainer"
The Mighty Rourke" is one of the
finest things in the book. Here
Dresser proves that realism is not all
astrngent and bitter. There is q real,
sweetness in this sketch Of an Irish fore
man.
There are artistic sins and to spare
in "Twelve Men" The first sketch in
the book, that of the newspaper artist,
shows not the slightest sense of Sc
another finally blots out the picture.
But at their best these things trans
cend pictorial values. They have an
immense subcutaneous vitality. These
twelve men are eedimensional. They
prove that realism is something more
than a new treatment of surfaces.
From the Life" is self-conscious
with selection. Like the new stage
setting, it groups and lights and colors
with bold and original effects, but it
has in it as much of realism as a stage
doorway leading into the wings.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Among Those Present
War

War
OUT OF THE RUINS. BY George b.
Ford. Published by Tho Century Com
pany. New York.
An account, by an American who has
been actively engaged in reconstruction
work, of the devastation wrought by
the Germans in France and Belgium.
AFRICA AND THE WAR. BY Benta-
min Brawey. Published by Durieio
& Co, New York
discussion of the future fate of
Africa and its relation to the problem
of the negro in the United States
cELEBRATED ;IIs5N2sA SPIES AND FAMOUS
MYsTEFlEs NJ ,!dsRda .asto eT THE 3,,j GREAT WAR.
Page Company, Boston.
Stories of some of the mysteries of
the war by we'll known author Of de-
tective fiction.
EASTERN NIGHTS AND FLIGHTS. BY
Alan Bott Published by Doubleday.
Page & Co. New York.
Adventures of an aviator who es
capped after being shot down in Turkish
territory.
GREEN LADIES' BY w. Douglas New
Ne" New York. aI''''''N W H. Npp'e'0" q Co..
romance whose scene is laid on an
English country estate.
Biography
THE TRUE LAFAYETTE BY George
Morgnn Published by J. b. Lippin-
cotl s Co. Philadel phia.
biography of the great French
man in the True Histories and Biog-
raphes' series.
Juveniles
ONLY HENRIETTA BY Leila n R,ch-
ARDS. Published by the Page Company
Another girls story by the author Of
the popular Blue Bonnet series.
THE REFUGEE FAMILY. Bv Fls,,,a
Camp Garfield Published by Harcourt
Brace & Howe, New York
The story of French family during
:he German occupation Of Northern
France told for girls.
Miscellaneous
DAYS GONE DRY BY Frederiols Laval.
published by the Bobbs- Merrill Connarv
Indianapolis H"''
A vivid description of the horrors of
prohibition, with illustrations by Gaar
Williams. N""i
THE JACKDAw OF RHEIMS From, ON.
IInsolasoy Legends. Published by the
Houghton- Mifhin Company. New YORK
and Boston. AoiN
A medieval legendary tale with
Illustrations by George Wharton Ed.
wards.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
By Rebecca Drucker

The coincidence that two examples
Of q fiction form rare in American
writing meet in single season makes
comparison of them inevitable. There
is vast distance of technique and ap-
proach between Theodore Dreiser's
"Twelve Men" and Harvey O'Higginss
"From the Life" but they meet on the
common ground that both are sketches
in which the romance Of incident is
subordinated to that of character. They
are biographies shot through with the
colors of fiction. Both Dresser and
O'Higgins nave been caught by the
romance of personality. They have run
their hands over the irregular contours
of character and have tried to trap
scribe with some exactness the feel. Of
it under their hands. The technical
distinction may be made that Dreiser's
portraits are accurate biographical
sketches lightly disguised as fiction,
and that O'Higgins's sketches are tic-
ton lightly disguised as biographical
sketches. Three or four Of Dreiscr's
twelve men are inadequately covered
by half-hearted incognito, but the
bold, easily recognizable, outlines OF
men who have been public figures show
through clearly. OHiggins, if he has
drawn his figures from actual famous
people, has made them cleverly COM
posite-so that only a momentary
shred, a CLEAN of recognition of pos
sible original, shows through. But
these ape, after all, superficial and un-
important Observation-Disclosures only
to those who cultivate this sort of be-
nd-thc-scencs sophistication. The
great majority will not know or care
how they measure up to the original;
the most easily recognizable of Drei-
ser's originals is already Il shadowy
and mythical figure The realistic
force of these portraits is not in what
they capture Of likeness. but in the
state of mind that projected them.
They are, in fact, only symbols of the
artists capacity for seeing life widely
and deeply and exactly.
Harvey O'Higgins is an experienced
keen eye for the minutae Of life He
draws the skin of reality with a close,
firm texture. Flesh is not always pink
to him. 1t Is often SCARED and shape
less and discolored. But having drawn
small local sections with earnest care
having drawn heads and limbs and
clothing with concentrated exactness
he loses sight Of the whole gesture of
realism. The true stories that lie be-
hind the blank little paragraphs from
"Who's Who," with which most of the
sketches are prefaced, are finally made
up Of the obvious contrasts and ironies
of the fctionst And he tacks to the
fctonist's wind Of sentimentaity.
There is the first sketch-that of the
successful popular author. The coleul
de rose stories that have made him his
fortune had their origin in tragic
and sordid meeting with waif, a half
mad girl whom he picked up as one
might stray dog and brought to the
garret that two might starve as cheap
ly as one. Those absurd Elizabethar
romances that have made him his for
tune we're written to afford her ar
escape from the stress of living and
on them, he and she built up d 4uccess-
full plan of life, whose motivation wa
an escape from living. There is no irony
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Moon Pool
F antastic Adventures
In Mysterious Island

TILE MOON POOL. BY A. Merritt. G.
p. Putnam's Sons, New York.
The author gives free scope to
vivid and unrestrained imagination in
this story of mysterious South Sea
Island, inhabited by monsters of every
description. In the center of the ISL
and IS the moon pool, from which a
dazzling and devouring creature is
sues at night in search of victims. A
heterogeneous band of explorers, an
fessor, Portuguese sailor, an Irish
adventurer and d Scandinavian sea
captain, search the innermost re-
cesses of the moon pool and its sur
rounding cavernS in search of friends
who have been carried off by the mon
ster.
The explorers encounter innumerable
startling adventures: strange beings,
neither beasts nor men, rise up on
every hand to confound them, and all
the laws of nature are consistently set
at naught on the marvellous island.
The authors invention is quite mex
haustible, and the weird fascination
Of the tale is maintained to the end
when there is a veritable battle of Ar
mageddon between the various mys-
terious powers which inhabit the
island.
The story is somewhat unnecessarily
complicated by long passages Of sci
entiic theory which the author per-
sists in introducing, although the re-
markable happenings Of the novel defy
all scientific analysis. But this is a
minor defect in a story which should
possess a wide appeal through the
breathless excitement of its narrative
and the wildly fantastic character of
its descriptive passages.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Ecstasy
Finely Wrought Novel by Louis Couperus
Displays Shimmering Beauty of Style
ECSTASY. ny Louis Couperus.
Mead s. Co, New York.

Mead & Co, New York.
Louis Couperus cannot be readily
classified in the conventional jargon of
the critical market place. His style is
precious and finely wrought, and he
possesses something of Henry James's
art of wrapping up the stark emotions
of his characters in curious fabrics,
carefully spun out of psychological OBJ
servation. But he is more Of poet
than James; his writing is simpler and
intrinsically more beautiful.
Carnivorous lovers of redblooded fc-
tion with an abundance of action will
find Ecstasy" quite an9mic and dis
tinctly unsatisfying. Indeed, at first
glance the plot of the novel appears
pitifully thin and inadequate. Nothing
but few scenes from Dutch bourgeois
life; love affair between man and
woman that comes to a curiously un-
satisfactory termination, neither happy
nor distinctly tragic; good deal Of
brooding introspecton and mysticism.
Out of such stuff it seems difficult, if
not impossible, to build story of COM
pellng power.
Yet there is subtle magic about
the book that fascinates the reader in
spite of himself. It's most obvious ele-
ment of attraction is the quiet beauty
ol tHe AutnOr SCyle, 0ollcately
tinted beauty that suggests nothing so
much as evanescent white clouds float
ing gently over the horizon on a calm
summer day. The following passage,
describing the playing of dreamy,
imaginative boy. illustrates the SHIN
mering charm of Couperus at his best:
"He found the full, pure chords as
by intuition; through the sobbing of
the sounds ran the same musical figure.
higher and higher, with silver feet of
purity, following the curve of crystal
rainbows lightly spanned on high;
reaching the topmost point Of the arch
1t struck a cry, this time in very
drunkenness, out into tho major, throw
ing up wide arms in gladness to
heavens of intangible blue Then it
was like souls of men, which first live
and suffer and utter their complaint
and then die, to glitter in forms OF
light, whose long wings spring from
their pure shoulders in sheets of sill
YER radiance; they trip one behind the
other over the rainbows, over the
bridges Of glass, blue and rose and yell
low; and there come more and more
kindreds and nations Of souls; they
hurry their silver feet, they press
across the rainbow, they laugh and
sing and push one another; in their
jostling their wings clash together,
scattering silver down"
Couperus is master in depicting
half-formed thoughts, vague, inchoate
dreams and emotions. He never ex-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Steyenson's Anniversary

November ID was Robert Louis Stew
enson's sixty-ninth birthday. At Sar-
anac Lake the Stevenson Society COM
memorated the occasion with simple
exercises held ut the lodgings the
Stevensons occupied during their
Saranac stay. The rooms we're ar
ranged for the occasion exactly as they
appeared during the R. l.. S. tenancy.
Intimate relics-things that Stevenson
stool, reading lamp-were all restored,
thanks to years of diligent effort on
the part Of the societys members, and
set once more in their accustomed
places The only exception was in the
case Of the famous r. l.. S. skates.
Louis kept these--quitc reasonably
in the closet. The other day, though,
they were promoted to the living
wall.
The Stevenson Society plans to make
permanent literary shrine of the r.
l.. S. lodgings at Saranac. Long ago
the advisability of this was indicated
by Clayton Hamilton in his now ac-
ceptedly standard volume "On the
Trail Of Stevenson"
"The six and q half months of his
residence in the Adirondacks consti-
tute the most productive period of
Stevenson's career in the United
States,' Mr.. Hamilton says
Among the essays written here were
"The Lantern Bearers" "a Christmas 8
Sermon" and "Pulvis ct Umbra," for
each one of which Stevenson received
$500 from "Scribners' magazine" Here
also, Mr.. Hamilton tells us, the entire
plot of "The Master of Ballantrae" was
conceived. The story was not written
till later, at Honolulu, but it was the
scenery of Saranac, Mr.. Hamilton de-
clares, which directly inspired the final
chapters of that grim tale.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Fiction

GREEN LADIES. BY w. Douglas New
ton Published by D. Appleton & Co,
New York.
romance whose scene is laid on an
English country estate.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
"The Young Visiters"

"The Boston Daily and Sunday Post"
by special arrangement with the pub
fishers Of "The Young Visiters,"
George II. Doran Company, have Sc
cured the exclusive New England pub
lication rights of Daisy Ashford s
story, whose authorship has been as
much disputed as the league of nations.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The Story of Jesus

"The Story of Jesus complied and
edited by Ethel Nathalie Dana, which
was announced for December pubica-
tion by the Marshall Jones Company,
will not be issued until January, owing
to a delay in xeceiving from England
and Italy the last of the forty hand
colored reproductions OF the paintings
by Italian Primitives, which are to be
done in color.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
Rupert Brooke

A lecture by Walter de la Mare on
Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual
Imagination" will shortly be published
for the Woodberry Society by Har
court, Brace & Howe. The lecture was
delivered before the society on Mr.. de
la Mares recent visit to America and
summarizes Brooke's position as an
artist.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-29
The New Map of Asia

The Century Company announces
the publication of the second edition
of "The New Map Of Asia" by Dr..
was originally published in September