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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
ASHLEY

George Smith and Family have the
sympathy of their many friends in
this vicinity. Mrs. Smith was a
faithful wife, a loving mother, kind
friend and neighbor and will be great
ly missed by all who knew her.
Mrs. John Anderson spent last
week Tuesday with Mrs. Frank Ras-
mussen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Brown enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Louis jerks last
Tuesday.
Miss Anna Brown visited at Walter
Fisk's last week.
Mrs. H. M. Lawrence of Grattan is
reported better.
Rev. Ellis expects to move his lum-
Der mill next week in the Shotwell
timber.
A Valentine social will be held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Whit
tenbauch Friday evening, Feb. ii.
Picnic supper Of sandwiches, cake,
pickles and coffee. All invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Clifford spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Cliff
ford.
Mrs. Russell Slayton was called to
Minnesota by the death of her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Allchins and son
ate Sunday dinner with Mr.. and Mrs,
A. Allchin.
Mrs. Frank Rasmussen spent part
CT last week with DR.. Roller and fam
lily at Grand Rapids.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Luscomb spent
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Storey.
Mrs. Robert Wood and sons, Perry
jerks and Frank Rasmussen ate DIM
ner with Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Nc
Arthur Thursday.
Ladies, be sure and register before
Feb. IL or you cannot vote; do not
hesitate because of your age as thew
only wish to know if you are over
II years of age.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
Freight Wreck at Portland.

When two cars OF loaded stock
came together at Portland Tuesday
night, 81 head Of stock 20 calves,
6 cattle. 1s hogs and SHEEP we're
killed, q great many more injured so
that they had to be killed and a num-
Der Of animals go away and nave not
cs 1T been found. The accident
happened about IL o'clock rues .ay
Il hit on TIE hill just this side 90 Port
land. The train crew left the main
part Of the train standing up on the
top of the hill and went down after a
car loaded with stock by Portland
parties that day. AS they were
backing up to couple On to the train
again, the main part of the train
started down the hill, crashing into
the heavily loaded double-decked car
of livestock. Both cars which came
together were loaded with livestock
and when they telescoped the slaugh-
ter w.. something terrible and the
CRIES Of the injured and dying ami
mails could be heard for long dis
lance of.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
EAST Disco

Miss Reva Sussex spent over SUI
day with her sister, Mrs. Burt Whip
PIE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Dickerson
spent Tuesday with their son Orlo
of Fenwick.
Jim Miller, who has been visiting
the Rowleys returned home Friday.
Green's Aid meets with Mrs. Don
Dean Wednesday, Feb. IL. All come.
Quite few of this vicinity attend
ed the I. o. 0. F. dance given Friday
night.
Little Gale Spencer of Bedding is
spending a few days with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sussex.
George Curtis spent Sunday with
friends in Orleans.
Miss Leta Spanogle Of Greenvillc
was the ,over-Sunday guest of her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Post.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
EUREKA

Miss Minnie LeValley of Grand
Rapids, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Lyst
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Zeig-
Ter and family were visitors at F. r.
LeValley's Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Sommerfeldt spent
Sunday with Nancy Hodges.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Clifford and
SON, Cole, ate Sunday dinner with Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Clifford.
Mrs. Merrill Nash and daughter.
lone, spent the weekend with her
brother, Clyde Jennings and family
at Stanton.
Visitors at Fred Nash's Sunday:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cronk, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Taylor and son, James, Mr..
and Mrs. Maurice Nash and family
and Merrill Nash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Jewell spent
Sunday at Fred Sommerfeldt's.
Mrs Alfred Wilde entertained the
January Birthday club Thursday, Jan
80 in honor of her birthday. Those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Swartzlof, Mr.. and Mrs. o. z. Nc.
Donald, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Swartzlof, Mr.. and Mrs. John Long.
street, Mrs. Claude Longstreet, Mrs
Mary Mcdonald, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L
Emer OF Waukegan, H., Mrs. Chas
Burkholder and Mrs. c. C. Bitter O.
Greenville.
Miss Gladys Orvis spent Saturda,
and Sunday with friends In Greenville
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Harrison anC
SON, Harold, Mrs. Claude Hoover ant
Irene spent Sunday with Albert Har
rison and family.
Mrs. Fred Sommerfeldt spent Sun
day afternoon with Mrs. Perry Scout
| en-
Merrill Nash was pleasantly sur
prised Saturday evening when a par
ty OF IL men came in to spend tn,
evening with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harrison spen
Sunday. afternoon with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Schrade,. and fam
lily.
Mrs. Albert James and children
spent the week end with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Sturgeon O
Greenville.
Mrs. John Longstreet entertaines
the January Birthday club on Sunday
Feb. with dinner party, % beinf
present. Out of town guests wer,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Elmer of Wauke
gan, Ill.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

A. H. Guernsey returned home this
evening from Lansing where he had
been. to attend the beekeepers' con-
vntion and visited his granddaughter,
Mrs. Jessie Beam while there.
Henry Tingley helped l.. Krick to
fix his well and pump, Thursday.
Mrs. Isaac Bates and Mrs. Levi
Knick went to Beldmg Thursday.
Mrs. Bates was the guest of her
daughter and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Mcpherson and children and
other relatives and friends while Mrs.
Krick visited her children in Brink,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Krick and child
rem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Leach and
daughter took supper with Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Snow Thursday, also Sat-
urday Mrs. Isaac Bates visited her
sister and brother-in-law Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Hall of Chadwick.
Mrs. Levi Krick visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Stowell Smith of Chadwick Sat
urday and called on Mr.. and Mrs. Hite
Hall. Mr.. Hall had several German
souvenirs to show the ladies which
were very interesting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fay Conklin and
brother, Barnham Bates of Ionia
were Sunday dinner guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Bates.
Monday dinner guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Krick were Mr..
and Mrs. H. G. Tingley, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. B. Prescott and A. III. Guernsey.
The dinner was given in honor Of Levi
Krick and A II. Guernsey.
Charles Hile was Saturday even
ing guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Krick.
George Hanes of Barryton was a
week end guest Of relatives and
friends in this vicinity and at Ionia.
Miss Neva Holcomb of Ionia was
a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dey Holcomb
Sunday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
NORTH ORLEANS

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hagadorn were
callers at Fred Olger's Sunday.
Ira Parker buzzed wood for Chas
Albert Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Yves. Shippy spent
Sunday. with Mrs. Shippy's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Whitford near
Long Lake.
Mrs. r. d. Slaybaugh Of Mason
City, Iowa, is visiting her father and
family, Albert Rich of Long Lake and
Other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Albert Rich and Mrs. r. d.
Slaybaugh called on Mrs. Fred Oh
ger Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Olger called on Mrs. Leon
Rich in Bedding Monday afternoon.
A very pleasant party was held
at Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Rich's home,
near Fenwick Sunday, the occasion
being Mrs. Rich's birthday and 3S
were present at dinner. Mrs. Rich
was presented with a motor wash ng
machine as a token Of their remem-
brance.
Otto Pretzel of Fowler is visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pref
eel near Long Lake.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

The regular meeting of Venus
chapter, No. 1877, o. z. s., will be
held Feb. Is. Dinner at noon. Bust
ness meeting called at 2 o'clock.
Miss Catherine Cannon spent the
week end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM Cannon
Pat Norton, who has been in failing
health for some time past was moved
in the ambulance to the hospital in
Grand RAPIDS Saturday.
Elwood Casner passed away at his
home Saturday, Feb. 1, after lin
gering illness Of several months. The
funeral was held Tuesday at Grattan
M. E. church, Rev. Sheneman officiat-
ing. The family have the sympathy
of the entire community.
Edna Weller entertained Marion
and Bernice Brownell Sunday after
noon.
Ambrose Spencer and family of
Bedding and Noble Spencer and fam
lily were Sunday guests of DR.. and
Mrs G. M. Spencer.
Hazel Borden and friends of Grand
Miss Edna BrownefI who is teaching
er's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Bor-
den.
Mrs. James Donovan and Mrs.
Frank Donovan spent Thursday with
Mrs. Harlie Weller.
Miss Edna Bronell who is teaching
at Cedar Springs spent Saturday and
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Brownell.
Merritt Norton of Grand Rapids
spent Saturday and Sunday with rel
atives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stokes Of Green
Vile are guests of their daughter,
Mrs. Don Donovan
Mrs. Dan Dixon of Ada is spending
few days with her son, James Dixon
and family.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
KEENE

(Too Late Fer Last Week.
Next aid society meeting at Keene
Grange hall Feb. 5.
w. Higgins called on Mrs. Sadie
Hopkins Monday afternoon.
Mrs. N. E. Higgins called at Jas.
Hopkins Sunday, also Grant Higgins
from Camp Custer.
Geo. Hart vailed on M. d. Hull Sun
day forenoon.
M. d. Hull and wife and George
Hart took dinner at w. Higgins Sun
day.
Grant Higgins came home from
Camp Custer Saturday night. He
had his discharge.
A. Sparks spent Sunday at his
home in Belding.
Vivian Martin at the Empress Mon
day, Feb. 10 in "Unclaimed Goods. "
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Phillips Of Brink
were Sunday guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo Tower.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Condor visited
the formers sister, Mrs. Frank Til
lotson and family on Smoky Row on
Sunday.
Irving Hansen Of Bedding was q
guest of Merrill Peterson Wednesday
night.
Over Sunday visitors at Clayton
Bakers were Mr.. and Mrs. Ira John
son and -aughter and Mildred Snyder
of Bedding.
Mrs. Alice Peterson spent Thursday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Wise in Beld-
ing.
Sunday visitors at Karl Cowles'
were Mr.. and Mrs. James Spencer,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dean and child
rem.
Mrs. Hugo Casper and son, Dom
aid, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Mast and son,
Charles were visitors at Edward
Cowles' Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Tower were Sun
day evening callers at Jesse Mast's.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
BUSHNELL

Miss Jennie Soule is very seriously
i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Wilson visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hopkins Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fendie were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Larsen.
Miss Leila and Elmer Bush spent
over Sunday with their brother,
Floyd Bush and family of near Beld-
ing.
Mrs. Orla Galloup returned from
Grand Rapids Saturday. Miss Beulah
Reeves Of Stanton is helping her with
her house work.
Mrs. Lydia Sprague and family
spent Sunday at Lamont Soules'.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Bush were Sunday
callers at Orla Galloup's.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
ORLEANS SCHOOL NOTES


or-in-chief-Grace Anderson.
Assistant Editors - Mildred
Flanagan.
Ella and Hazel Zero and Josephine
Sherwood have returned to school
after an absence of over a month.
There are Fl pupils in the primary
room.
Arneth Christensen wears a band
age over his eye. He injured the
eye while skating,
Veva Morgan received a mark Of
100 in arithmetic test; Hazel Selleck
90 in geography and 90 in hygiene.
Sylvia Hoyt read, "How We Hunt
ed a Mouse" in chapel Wednesday.
Hattybelle Gleason and Trina Row
ley visited school Wednesday.
Mildred Flanagan and Leon Wood
are back in school.
Ruth Piper, Sylvia froyt and Mar
ion York did not have to take finals
in the 9th grade
Dorothy Selleck get 100 in spelling
test this month.
Story of My Life.
/ was a piece of coal. One day
some men came down into the ground
to dig for me and my brothers and
sisters. One of the men picked me
up. am seven inches long and four
inches wide. After these men had
left, some others came and put us
in a big yard. One day a man came
and took me away in a wagon and
was thrown down into the cellar. At
last was put into the furnace. 1t
was frightfully warm in there. In
few days he TOOK me out to the
ash pile. Then my big sister was
brought out and she made the ash
pile Sc large that l was pushed off
the side. written by Lyle Clark,
fifth grade.)
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
CHADWICK

Mrs. Forest Chadwick went to Ionia
Tuesday to spend few days with her
daughter, Mrs. Ben Banhagle of Ionia.
Miss Elva Wheeler has a new piano.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Tooley spent
Sunday with their son, Bert Toolev
in Belding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Mason of Ionia
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Mason.
Clifford Edmonds of st. Louis
spent a few days with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edmonds.
Mrs. Sylvia Garfield and Miss Reva
Bolster spent Friday afternoon with
Mrs. Will Wheeler.
Miss Esther Treynor spent FRIDAY
night and Saturday with her aunt
Mrs. Dave Treynor of Orleans.
Miss Elva Wheeler spent SATURDAY.
forenoon with Miss Reva Bolster.
Mrs. Emerson Tooley spent Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. Gene Ed
monds.
Glenn Pierce of Grand Rapids and
Miss Reva Bolster spent SUNDAY with
Mrs. Will Wheeler.
Mrs. VIM. Wheeler called on her
son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson
Marshall.
Vivian Martin at the Empress Mon
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
ORLEANS METHODIST CIR
CUT
r. v. BirdsalI, Pastor

Orleans Ladies' Aid society will
serve dinner in the church basement
Thursday, Feb. 13.
The church offers a home to every
discouraged soul. If you make q
mistake, the good Loro is always
ready to forgive and bless you. The
church does not claim to be perfect
but does claim to receive and help
every needy soul who will come.
Dildine's Sunday evening services
are proving helpful and you had bet.
ter get behind and boost.
Prayer meetings are being held in
Easton preparatory to a revival cam
paign.
The Missionary department of the
Sunday school is doing great things
for the kingdom of God.
Orleans Epworth league will be held
next Sunday by Mrs. Glazier. Topic
"Leaven of Freedom at Work in In.
dia."
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

Jim Antcliff and family Of Belding
were Sunday guests of his father,
VIM. Antcliff.
Blanche Farrar called on Leona
Bush Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. VIM. Antcliff called on her
daughter in Bedding Sunday evening.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
Portland Baptists Considerate.

Tie Baptists of Portland recently
raised the salary of their pastor and
in addition thereto bought a row
automobile for him to use in the
church work. The postor is a new
man on the job but his work during
his short residence with the Portland
people has been such that they were
glad to get together and voluntarily
raise his salary.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

"H. C. H., Liberty" and "Black
Seal" cigars will please you. Try
them.-Adv. It
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

May Allison in "The Testing of Mil
dred Vane" Saturday night at the
Empress.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

Vivian Martin at the Empress Mon
day, Feb. 10 in Unclaimed Goods"
The sun., 1919-02-23
Living Bayonets"

have used the name of God in connection
with their military campaigns during the
recent hostilities it would seem the better
taste for the rest of US to leave the Deity
out Of all reckonings about the war.
The letters reek of culture" and there
are times when that quality in life bor-
ders on the vulgar. Here it strikes one
fall in the face, leaving most disagree
able effect of snobbishness. We recall one
story that brings out this feeling to the
full. 1t is that of Lieut.. Dawson going
to dinner at the American Officers Club
in London. Among the guests was Lord
Chaplin of whom we read: "Lord Chaplin
is a splendid type of old fashioned eour-
tier with great, kindly, bloodhound face.
He had ensigns and officers Of whatsoever
rank brought to him and spoke to them
with the fine, manly quality of the true
bred aristoerat 1t was amusing to see
the breezy American boys quite unembar-
raised, most of them unaware Of Lord .
Chaplin's political eminence, exchanging
views in the friendliest of fashions, while
the old gentleman, keeping seated, leaning
forward on his stick with one hand rest
ing attentively on young fellows arm,
expressed his warm appreciation of Amer
iea's eagerness." We like to fancy that
Lord Chaplin would be very much embar-
raised by this picture, and we are certain
that the American ''ensigns and officers Of
whatsoever rank would not.
LIVING BAYONETS: A RECORD OF
THE LAST PUSH. By CoNINGsBY DAv-
SON. John Lane Company. SIPS.
The sun., 1919-02-23
"Gregg2; An Ironical Novel
By GRANT M. OVERTON.

THE first few pages Of Fleta Camp
L bell 'Springer's novel Gregg are
decidedly irritating. She has as her SUBJ
ject the frinermost character Of one man
(who is not introduced until Chapter
III. and she makes an awkward start in
the late Henry James manner. Never
mind; or, rather, mind not too much
There is meat for you little further
on. You'd better not quit with the celery
stalks. Once started the book moves with
clarity and precision to its goal. It is an
ironieal novel; highly So. It is perfectly
done and achieves no small amount of its
success by the very dramatic incidents in
the very last pages. Dramatic, We say;
we don't mean that any one kills any one
else. We mean that one woman comes
and looks upon portrait of her son with
out in the least grasping the fact that the
painters brush was dipped In sulphuric
acid. We mean that still afterward-it is
the last thing in the another woman
OF much more than ordinary insight fails
to see behind the mask of the man she
once loved. 1t is not as If she still loved
him; long, long before she had thought
herself completely disillusioned about him.
That she should be fooled in death as she
was not fooled (for long, at any rate) in
life is the climax of as mordant and merci-
less and true narrative as we have read
In a twelvemonth
A book of distinction this. Those who
do not care for the drama Of peoples
minds and emotions have no business with
it; but those to whom the life of the spirit
is the only thing of permanence in be-
wildering worfd-they must not pass
Gregg by. 1t is exactly novel ON the
order of George Meredith's The Egoist,
If that masterpiece was nothing in your
hfe-oh, very well; if it mattered, Gregg
is the book for you.
The ultimate audience for this story of
a man whose upbringing was one long
suppression and whose career was one long
connoisseurship, whose inarticulateness
was not the curtain before a splendid soul,
whose fair was for perfection and who
never apprehended that life. is series Of
imperfections and immortality the reward
The sun., 1919-02-23

FLETA CAMPBELL SPRINGER
author Of "GREGG

of struggle and defeat-the ultimate
audience, We say, for this fine novel should
be in the tens Of thousands. People be-
come aware of such story slowly. People
once aware can no more be restrained
from telling others about it than they can
be restrained from breathing. And these
few words are merely to try to let you de-
eide if Gregg is your kind of story. If
it isn't, never mind; if it is, you will DO
grateful for having your attention called
to this novel without a hero-exeept in
the eyes of those who misread him.
GREGG. BY FLETA CAMPBELL SPRINGER.
Harper & Brothers. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-02-23

THE jacket of Lieut.. Coningsby Daw-
L sons latest volume Of collected let
tiers, which is called Liring Bayonsts: A
Record Of The Last Pash, states that this
book '4tells for the first time the story of
what the advent of the Americans on the
western front meant to the French poilus
and the British Tommies" and also de-
clares it to be Lieut.. Dawson's biggest
book-the most complete, burning and
phophetic utterance which has been pro-
duced by the Judgment Day, which is now
ended"
Frankly, after reading the letters these
words strike us as misleading and rather
profane. Scarcely forty pages of the text
is given to the Americans, and of the i'm
preston their coming made on the French
and British soldiers the reader catches only
the faintest traces; for Lieut.. Dawson is
too thoroughly the insular Briton in spirit
to think anything of importance beyond
his own world. AS for its prophetic ut
terances, that is simply highfalutin bosh.
Your real soldier holds no such bitter
enmities as does this civilian temporarily
in soldiers clothes; and nothing could be
further from a soldiers way Of thinking
than the dictum with which this book ends.
1t reads: "God has given the Allies task
to accomplish; He has made us His ayen-
gers that, when our work is ended, He
may create o new heaven upon earth"
No one but very young man would take
it upon himself to interpret for US what
Gods purposes are. And in, view Of the
shocking manner In which the Germans
The sun., 1919-02-23
"The Bargain True"
\ IALBRO hartley, author of Tho

NALBRO hartley, author of Tho
Y Bargain True, is woman, and her
book is about another woman, Dale Adds.
Upon Dale was laid the burden of the ro-
mantle affair between Mira Boechat,
French, dancer, very beautiful and very
wicked, and Lord Adds, twenty-five years
her senior and married to a woman his
own age and trife bowlegged. In other
words, Dale was the child of that beauti-
full and wicked dancer and Lord Adds.
She was left to inhabit Worlds End, the
spot selected by her mother for deter
mined pining away after the death of her
lover. But she wanted to get back to the
beginning of the world, and so the story
opens. Worlds End, by the way, will be
remembered as the name given by Amelie
Rives to an estate which in turn gives title
to her novel.
Miss BARLEY writes of Dale's tempta-
tons, her struggle, her defeat, aid the
final twist of the boomerang, which so
often saves loves life. The book is IN
example of that clever sentimentality
which leads us to sit up half the night
reading book which our better Judgment
urges us to throw away. It has just
enough character to prevent its going out
utterly in pale flame of romance. As it
deals with DaIe's hesitation between her
two lovers, the one young, strong, sound
Of heart and soul; the other ravaged by a
gay and evil life, but possessed of devil
ish charm, it is a fine piece of work; as it
stoops to the Dale girl, John Giant, comfy
type of love making, which we can only
describe as drool, it becomes one of those
hideously heart melting, best selling af-
fairs which cause some of US to tremble
for the safety of the race and others to
clap their hands in ravished admiration.
No one can fail to admire the success in
the first case with which Miss BARLEY
keeps her readers IN the dark as to the
final development Of the plot. At least
four times the average reader will feel q
proud sense of having OWNED the out
come, only 20 be hurled back upon his last
decision and fooled at the very end. The
degree of admiration in the second case
will depend upon how good business
man, or morn likely how good business
woman, you ere. II you have proper re-
gard for the sale of book, it is impossi-
Bile to begrudge IN author Miss Bartley's
stock In trade.
THE BAHQAIN TRUE. BY NALRRo RARs.
LIZ. Small, Maynard D Co. t1.5o.