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ly accentuated people that come into
 her life from first to last. no one will
 deny, I fancy, that the book Is fas-
 cinating-and valuable study or
 what it is the fashion to call cross
 section of life. One may wish that
 she had planted herselfish, subtle.
 sighting mother-the most valuable
 character in the book-with any one of her insufferable relatives. where the , punishment would have been mutual and in the nature of poetic justice. and fared forth to live her own life in the real world. But then the great point in the book would have been sacri- lsficed. So we gladly accept her as we have her finally; still young,> pretty and charming at the age of AZ, her mother buried (and most of her reia- tives), launched and swimming With long, firm strokes in the precarious sea of literary London. Secretly cherish the hope and belief that Jimmy, also young and strong-for has he not lived the outdoor life of bushman Tn Australia ?-and cleared of his un- speakable crime. will return to Lon don and marry her. That is too mucn to expect from Miss Sinciairs brand of realism, but those things do happen in life. if not in books. and ve are each privileged to finish story Tn our own way after the author mas done with it.
 dislike being trite. but Mary Oliver" is a book that you cannot put down. I sat up all night with It. l fancy A good many thousands Will sit un with it in the next few months. .rNAaINY'S WHITE FOLKS"
 Rv Emma Speed Sampson. Frontisplecs hv Irwin Meyers The Reilly Lee com rany. publishers Chicaso.
 The life and laughter and romance O. the sunny southland are to be found ir l this new novel by Mrs. Sampson. The story centers around Esther-the golden. | haired little founding whom Providence placed on Doc Andy's doorstep. and wh I rev into radiant yovng womanhooI 1 ant the novel is more than Esther l story. It is Mammy's story, too-"Na'n,- nv" the delightful old autocrat of Dcs ', Andv's kitchen who had mo use fer fire, niaeers what set up ter be the elzal q ! her darling Esther Nowhere in recen' American fiction is there to be found ? ,-ore sympathetic and faithful picture q l this vanishing type of the old south. Tn l, light hearted humor that made the au. l .hor's "Btlly and the Major" so great 2 success, Eliminates this new story
 t..SANCTUS. SPIRITUS X COMPANY ! Fy Edwari & S.esrer George IL Doras
 eompanv publishers. New York city.
 I Tn "Sanctus. Spiritus & Company" tn
 author of aWith the Immigrant Trail'
 has told the life story of youth whs
 suffered intensely in the little pocket O
 jTshe world in which he was born, a ra cia \ compound in which Slav and Magyar
 l sr~-sn, Rrman;an and Hebrew bIooi
 sra ms remain unasSim'iate5 aud con
 a7,-.< al war. Sane ps. Hp,r5tass& Clu, <pany arc a Roman Catholic rrsesta a Cal
 >in.ss:c landowner aan Jew. distilie
 of fansus plum brandy. They are oil
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honorable mention, untn this twentieth
 century.
 Webster suggested something besides
 cheese.
 There is more in name than Shake
 speare ever dreamed of
 Young vandergrift was lawyers clerk at 12. The environs of Liberty Hall. Philadelphia, his principal hab- fiat for a twelfthmonth or so. As a lowyer's clerk he served only a par tial apprenticeship. He was too seri- ous to ever become a lawyer or a lex icographer Your everyday clown is l more serious than the ordinary law yer
 So the young man just had to take up 1 clownship. Though the call of the cheese was strong within hifs. | MT. Van always takes his cheese seri- ously And he is serious upon numer- GUS other subjects: politics, prohibit | tion, milk, cows.
 It is for this reason that when the outsider meets him he forms the i'm pression that he has .Aery sober mind No doubt he has an analytical mind and is thoughtful; but to his intimates I he is always the comedian. When the | interviewer meets MT. Billy B. Van for l the first time. he always takes him seriously know I did. and how he f laughed at me! He strikes you as be- ing anything but funny, and somehow you must just trust him humorously | It is purely psychological | You just subconsciously catch the comedy spirit of MT. Biny B. Van. In wardly you are laughing at him al l the time, but you do not realize it. l My friend MT. Billy B. Van may ] talk about cheese and milk to his lis i teners, and seem grave, just as the dig
 gers of graves in Hamlet" and stil he is funny, as are the gravediggers
 With the sore throat. the headache
 the toothache. he would be funny!
 When he takes a glass of hot mill
 he is funny. Ard he takes the hot mill
 S65 times year; refusing anythins
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light sea
 On the shore that looks toward Itha--
 Lest .the wind should bring to hi. /
 breath of days gone by,
 Of the beauty and the sorrow of his madness that was {. ... K
 Peace to him and his, o Zeus! I ask no
 more of thee
 Peace upon that home in Ithaca. , Amelia Josephine Burr has done so much beautiful work that she needs no introduction to the reading public. This is her sixth book of verse and she has written may lyricai dramas which were published privately.
 During the war Miss Burr did eanteen
 work at Camp Merritt, which is near her home in Englewood, N. J. She also travelled around as an entertainer, giv- ing readings and rccitals in camps all through the eastern part of the United States.
 Miss Burr sailed from New York for an extended visit to Europe just before the publication of Hearts Awake" JOHN DEAN or TORONTO" By Herbert Jenkins. George H. Doran Company. Publishers, New York City. This comedy of Whitehall by the author of "Bindie' tells how John Dene, a Canadian business man, goes to Eng land with an invention which will revo- lutionize naval warfare He makes no attempt to conceal his contempt for all things British; but he is patriot and refuses to accept "a red cent for an invention that he could sell for millions. His directness and unconventional meth l ods embarrass and bewilder the officials of Whitehall.
 l Suddenly John Dene disappears, and the whole world is amazed at an offer of $20000 reward for news of him/Scot- land Yard is paralyzed and disorganized by tons of letters and thousands or cal lers all offering false clews to his whers- abouts. Week after week passes, and John Dene might never have been found l had not Dorothy West his secretary, mt upon plan which led to his rescue The recital of John Dene's conquest over the admiralty and a certain young l, iady's conquest over John Dene IS 1ui' of humor and breezy witticisuis. Herbert Jenkins, the author or tns famius ''Bindle" books which have been 1 translated into several foreign languages i is the manaeing director of the pun'iSn. 1 ing house of Herbert Jenkins, Ltd, ol London.
 l The fact that busy publisher finds time snatched from his unample leisure 1 to write frequent books. and that ms books are generally in the best seiiihs class, is interesting. Mir. Jenkins IS wei i known in America by virtue oI ms
 articles which have appeared in Anne Il
 can magazines.
 1 Mary Oliyer's life as skstcheds Tn
 rapid series of episodes. progressive ! anu cumulative. leaves you with the 1 Impression of having watched her TOT 1 45 years through the wrong end oi an opera glass; in which you have
 cen h.r remotely but with good
 measure of distlnctness, She never
 comes anywhere near ss close as thu
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men who have combated religious, rasia
 and national prejudices, and each has me
 the tragedy of defeat. America, as . pos | sible hope for the realization of bette1 days, comes to them through the herd of this story, who was forced to leav<
 his native country because of his pre
 nounced pro-Slavism, but he meets hi defeat in an industrial town of the mid dle west. at the time when national apirfV ! is tested by the war. and is driven baea to his own country. The author is possessed of an Accuza4e knowledge of the lives of these, the least known, of the Slavic people and Nof the| conditions which they have to meet irl America. With realism and humor h. has interwoven love story that is sym holistic and full of pathos. It is . booil which binds America to the great prUbaenl which Sanctus, Spiritus & Company ard ! beginning to solve anew. walking with, undininished faith over the ruins of tl1e| old world. | Edward A. Steiner was born in <he| | Czecho-Slovak republic, 8 years be6orel the birth of that state, in little viii lage which is the scene of this storyl Like the hero in his story. he was obliged
 to leave his home to avoid . conflict with the officials, and he came to thc 1 United States where he began his ca reer by pressing coats on the lower east side of New York. From there, by suc- cessive stages, he attained to profes- sor's chair at middle western urdver- l sity, which he still holds. In addition to l this new novel he is the author of 1s wcll-known books. including his famoux biography of Tolstoi. | TROLLING WITH THE rROUPERS. By Margaret Mayo. George H. Doran company, publishers. New York city. Margaret Mayos shock troupe was one | If the units of the overseas league formed about year ago by Winthrop Ames and ! ames Forbes. w l The last three months engagement of he league ended on the day of the ar1ni- /! ,tice, but Miss Mayo and the other menr- Aers of the league played right up to he German lines and in the Argonne ter .itory during the last great offensive.
 | Her book is the recital of her expe- r:ences. and she has put into it all the emotion. humor and brillance which have
 made her successful as playwright
 When the call came for volunteers tc
 70 to France to cheer the soleierp oi
 America many of our leading artisso rad. fly availed themselves of this oppsgtnnit,
 Tor service. Among those fiVt to gt as Margaret Mayo, than whom there
 s no more fascinating personality. This ls her own narrative of the adventures o1 1erself and her troupe told with emo ton anl hamcr and brili:ance.
 Miss Mayo makes this very real and
 nitrate picture of the lives of soldiers
 and the conditions in France at the ent i n the var. It Is a record of courage land cheer long to be cherished by those
 to whom Miss Mayo minist cred
 l.
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MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE' Y May Sinclair. The Macmillan com

By May Sinclair. The Macmillan com
 pany, publishers New York city
 Many reviews have been written about May Sinclair's new book, Mary Olivier: a Life,' and among the many interesting ones is that of Gertrude Atherton, contemporary whose fame in the literary world is equal to that or fhe author of Mary Olivier"
 Gertrude Atherton covers every angle of the w6nderful book and among other things she says of it:
 Saint Beuve, in a fit of humility, to which the great are liable, wrote once that if man gave his entire life to
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ed with nervous prostration. "-Mrs. J. CHRISTIAN, i93 Oak Street, Bingham ton, New York.
 The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from nervous prostration, displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tion, irregularities, periodic pains, back ache, bearing down feeling, flatulency, indigestion and dizziness. Lydia E.. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the standard remedy for female ills.
 If there are any complications about which you need advice write in con 6dence to Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn. Mass
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conception. They are likable or de- testable, according to the readers point of view-once more the futility of crit icism-but I cheris ha private belief that Miss Sinclair has been at pains to specialize in the detestable. It cer- tainly gives enormous scope to her talent.
 "MY LITTLE BIT"
 By Marie Coreili. George H. Doran Com , pany, Publishers, New York City, Marie Corelli's book of essays, My Little Bit,'' includes the vigorous and outspoken articles she contributed to the press during the war. and two that were first published before the war, The Great Unrest" drastic indict- ment of modern social developments, and Savage Glory which shrewdiy fore saw the catastrophe that came upcn us in August, 1914. You may or may not agree with Miss Corelli's views on the eml ncipation of women, the failure of the churches,~ and the divers political and general, questions that have exer- cised the public mind in these latter years, but they help to make My Little Bit'' live and interesting book
 The volume is characterized by a fine scorn of individual deceit and hypocrisy and it's wise and witty criticisms of various governmental policies.
 Marie Corelli is the author of The Young Diana,' Innocent and .'The Life Everlasting" She says in the preface to My Little Bit: "I was glad to offer the free service of my pen whenever such service was desired. or considered useful, just as would have been give. had I been man, to fight voluntarily for Great Britain. without any thought of other recompense than of the personal pride and joy such action would have given me-
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There were s,ssi .5o2 farms reported ns the last decennial census, valued at mc7 than si0.C0o. .c0o00o. The l9a0 census is 7 pected to show more than 100000 farm
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mind was gloomy, |could see no light on anything, could not |work and could not have anyone to see me, Doctors med fcine did not help me hnd Lydia P. Pink
 h a ms Vegetable Compound was re-
 commended. 1 took Ii t a n d a m no W
 w e II. I recom-
 mapd if fo all aMicf.
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NERVOUS
 PROSTRATION
Mrs. J. Christman Proved
 That Lydia E. Pinkham's ! Vegetable Compound is a
 Remedy for this Trouble. .

Binghamton, N. Y.-'T was in very nervous condition for over a year.. my
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HEARTS AWAKE

By Amelia Josephine Burr. George H.
 Doran Company. Publishers, New York
 City.
 Hearts Awake" Amelia Josephine Burrs latest book, is marked for it's rythmic quality, for it's unaffected sense Of beauty and for that vision of life which perceives the spirit beneath the clay Her lyrics are full of the ex- periences that come fresh to every zen eration because life holds for everyone the same eternal dreams and aspira- tions, the same desires and influences.
 There are many themes which have touched Miss Burr's imagination and sympathy of the visible and the invisible world and she has made their signifi- canoe articulate with compelling loveli- ness. In Hearts Awake her lyrics are equally fine whether she strikes jocund note. as in "Romany Gold. There's crackle of brown on the leafs
 crisp edge
 And the goldenrod blooms have begun to
 feather. We're two jolly vagabonds under a halse
 By the dusty road together
 Or rises to serene heights Of beauty in "calypso'':
 Never will I walk again beside the twi.
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00 S7HEN it was announced that Nm\U "The Rainbow Girr' was com ATt| ing to make a visit to Bir-
 mingham said I to myself.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
PALMER READY
 TOPROSECUTE
 GOAL CHARGES
[Republlcan A. P. Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON, Nov. G. Attorney General Palmer announced tonight that the department of justice would be represented by c. B. Ames. former assistant to the attorney general, at the inquiry on Monday at Indianapolis
 by Federal Judge Anderson into the attorney generals connection with the soft coal cases. The announcement followed a conference between Mir. Palmer and members of his staff, which lasted all afternoon and at which all data bearing on the coal cases was reviewed.
 The government is prepared, MT.
 Palmer said, to proceed with the pros- ecution of the cases now pending be- fore Judge Anderson He made no di- rect reference, however, to Judge AIi- derson's proposed inquiry, althoug n the departments interest in the affair will be taken care of by Mir. Ames. It was in connection with <he con- spiracy cases which are set for trial on Monday and the resignation of Dan w. Simms. special prosecutor, that
 Judge Anderson determined to insti- tute an investigation of reasons for the alleged suppression" of evidence which the government had against the defendants. MT. Palmer has stated
 on several occasions that he had in structed federal attorneys in the coal l cases not to use the evidence against the defendants which was used against them in the injunction proceedings during the bituminous coal strike last winter.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
Mark Twain Is
 Given Niche In Hall Of Fame

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Following q custom more or less formally observed through all the centuries since the works of Anaxagoras were relegatec to the top shelf to IT ake room for those of Aesop, the electors of the New York university nall of fame yester- day announced the dedication of a niche to Mark Twain,s Noah Webster, after consideration was not admitted.
 Along with the great humorist, whose ''Huckleberry Finn" and "Innocents Abroad and hundred other light hearted tales have endeared themselves to the American reader. five other famous men and one woman were ac- corded places in the colonnade sur mounting University Heights and Overlooking the Hudson River" They were James Buchanan Fades, engineer; Patrick Henry, patriot and statesman i; William Thomas Green Morton, physi- elan; August Saint-Gaudens, sculptor; Roger Williams, preacher and founder of the state of Rhode Island and Alice Freeman Palmer, teacher.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07

Mrs. Harding also waved a greeting to every crowd and at every stop there were cheers for the next first lady of the land. Flowers and other gifts were handed up to her at several stops as she leaned out of the window shaking hands with all those within reach.
 The number who gathered along the path of the special train was a sur prise to those on board. Mir. Harding advisers having declined to make pub lie his itinerary and also having ar ' ranged to avoid local stops in order to give him a thorough rest. The news travelled ahead. however. and as soon as he saw the first wayside gather ing the president elect himself insisted that it, would be unfair to run past the waiting crowds without a word of greeting
 MT. Harding also announced during the day that he had agreed to break up his 12-day stay at Point Isabel, Texas, by delivering an address in Brownsville, % miles away. on next Thursday. Armistice Day. He will speak under the auspices of the Amer ican legion. but detailed arrangements have not yet been made.
 Mir. Harding's train, which left Ma rion at 7:30 this morning. will make a practically continuous run to its des- tination. A stop of half an hour was made tonight at St. Louis and tomor- row there will be layover of equal length at San Antonio. but most of the way it is the intention to travel on a fast trip.
 At St. Louis the greater part of the crowd that greeted Mir. Harding was neid behind the iron gates leading int the areaway at Union station, so the president -elect left his car and spoke from a stool placed against the gates. In the course of his address he ex- pressed satisfaction at the results of the election in Missouri, which went overwhelmingly Republican. Tn none of his rear platform speeches during the day did Mir Harding touch di- rectly on the issues of the campaign. but he called several of his audiences to witness that he was preaching the same doctrine now as when he was a candidate for office. When he re- ferred at Paris. Ill., to his campaign i ing, lady in the crowd shouted: Tt was a clean can1paiRn" [" and he
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
I FARMERS DEMAND
 MEMBERSHIP IN
 GRAIN EXCHANGE
Republican A. p. Leased wlre1

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.--Request that the federal trade commission and the att torney general or other public au- thority be called on to take necessary steps to open grain exchanges of the country to membership of cooperative companies unless the exchanges act themselves was made in 8 resolution adopted today at an executive session of the farmers marketing committee. The resolution follows:
 Whereas, the principal grain ex- changes of the United States bar CO., operative companies that distribute their profits in proportion with the volume of business handled, from par ticipating in the buying and sellisg of farm products; and whereas, the same prevents producers from collectively selling their own products on the mar kets of the country, thereby creating monopoly which is not in harmony with the spirit of American institu- tions.
 Therefore, be it resolved, that we call upon the federal trade commission the attorney general or other public authority to take such steps as may be necessary to open the said markets to the membership of cooperative com panies unless the grain exchanges shall voluntarily do the same al once"
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
Louisior1d GiUen
 Wild Life Refuge
 or 85,OOO Acres
Republican A. p. Leased WIrel

NEW YORK. Nov 6.-The Rocke- feller foundation tonight announced a gift to the state of Louisiana of the 5000 acre Grand Chenir wild life refuge, purchased from individual holders in 1914 and since under super vision of the Louisiana department of conservation.
 The tract. in Cameron and Nermilion parishes, Louisiana, was bought as a contribution to the -countrys wild life preservation. In presenting it to the state the foundation divested itself of any interest in it, but stipulated cer- tain conditions to guarantee it's ef- fective maintenance as perpetual wild life preserve. Louisiana accepted.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
Jogo-SIaU Troops Will Occupy Serb
 Territory Today

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Jugo- SlaV troops will occupy tomorrow terri tories ceded to the kingdom of the Serbs, Greats and Slovenes under the treaty with Bulgaria, according to ad- vices received from Belgrade today at the Jugo Slav agency here. These in
 clude the towns of Tsaribrod and Brossiligrad. and the district of Strou- mitza and territories on the right bank of the River Timok The message said immediate steps for repatriation of all remaining Bulgarian prisoners of war had been ordered.
Arizona republican., 1920-11-07
Ontario Minister Kills Inn Keeper
 In Whiskey Raid
Republican A. ?. Leased WIrel

WINDSOR, Ont, Nov. 6.-Whether Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Sand wieh and a leader of prohibition en- forcement agents along the border, must stand trial for the staying early today of Beverly Tumble, an inn pro- prietor, was to be determined by the result of a corcner's inquest which was still in session at a late hour tonight. Crown Attorney Rodd announced he would not take action against the min ister-license inspector until the cor oner's jury had returned a verdict.
 In a statement to police. Spracklin claimed he shot Tumble in self de- fense. and his version of the raid of Trumble's place was corroborated by three other officers who were wit nesses. TrumbIe's widow. with sev- eral friends who were called to testify, however. declared Tumble was un- armed. Local police who made an in- vestigation said they had been unable to find the pistol Spraklin claims the dead man had drawn upon him.