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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

All bootleg is bad, but some is worse
than others.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

About the only thing left for those
without coal to do is to pray for an
early spring.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

Next TO substitute for coal a num-
Der will be wishing for a HOPELESS
process.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

The only perfect tax is one which
the other fellow pays.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

Everything on the Adriatic is set
tied except D'Annunzio.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

General Wrangel Is a tolerably good
escaper. at any rate.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

The golden rule was invented for
others.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

England is said to view with alarm
the growth of the rouging habit by
women and girls. In time II will rise
10 the level Of amusement. as with
MS.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

The high cost of living has attack
ed romance In Burma, where the price
of wives has gone up.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

Happiness consists in the minds
contentments.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31

Open winters are all right in their
way, but open summers are better.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-31
Explained.

what is biting remark?
Il suppose it is the kind you throw
In a persons teeth"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Carnegie's Story By Himself
ABOUT AUTHOR RS

his ianguagv - vcry much like that Of Philip
0tbbs In Now II Can Be Told" His narra-
tive turns with easy motions from Gladstone
10 Roosevelt from Herbert Spencer and
Matthew Arnold TO Blaine and Josh Billings.
The greater and lesser celebrities Of tho
iron age" constitute very full portrait
gallery. but II is with little shock that the
absence Is noted OF any reference 10 Uncle
John" Fritz, IN whose honor with his warm
cooperation the great engineering societies
OF America founded a gold medal. Nor IL
there any reference TO another personal
TREND a world-famous telegrapher like HIM
self, Thomas A. Edison We LOOK In vain
also for the names OF trusted financial adj
visers like Mr.. Robert a. Franks, or such an
educational collaboration as DR. John H. Fin
ley. Curiously enough. there il no merton
OF his 'pestiferous smplified spelling" or
his generous support of II. One wonders
whether II ne had lived he would not have
employed II in this very book, and regrets
IN vain that as one more victim Of the great
war he was not allowed to finish what his
competent editor, DR.. John G. Van Dyke
describes as "a very memorable record-per-
haps the like of which we shall not look
upon again"
AS matter of fact, the bulk of Mr.. Car
negies literary work. in all of which he took
great delight, is autobiograph to which as
a felictous finale this Is keystone and cap
stone Additional to what is now given or
is found in THE Gospel Of Wealth." or
Round the World" or IAN American Four
INLAND in Britain there still remain to be
studied under this new illumination, as
glimpses Of his unique career, many adj
dresses and speeches not vet brought to-
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The war comes in. Charlotte and her
friend Gwinnie and DR.. Sutton and John
take over a field ambulance given by Johns
father, motor car manufacturer. Against
the background OF the retreat in Belgium
the veneers are ruthlessly stripped off. The
Romantic, who has gone out talking of
courage and honor and danger and sacrifice
and the hidden things that decent men ex-
emplify but do not talk of, is weighed and
found wanting. When the crucial moments
come when conversation is not wanted nor
even very real enthusiasm but nerve and
the grip to stick, the Romantic Is shown I'D.
When his ambulance Is In a tight place,
when there are wounded to be rescued from
dangerous outpost, when they arc caught
in the last trickle Of a retreating army,
again and again he lies ana shirks and funks.
Though he Is immune To memory" those
around him are not. He. in his own mind
awakens daily with a clean slate and starts
again to get his thrills" out of their work
and his own romantic situation. OF course,
his pretty house of cards comes tumbling
about his ears In his warped resentment
and chagrin that he cannot play up to his
own picture Of himself the Romantic turns
against Charlotte, who has lied to save him
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gether available. man could hardly
endow great new institutions, add to the
resources of old ones. bestow funds or
buildings on 500 educational bodies, create
some 1850 libraries and give away nearly
5000 church organs without making a few
speeches, and Mr.. Carnegie was "A good pub
lie speaker. after dinner or before. More
over. he scored a new record" having when
the count was last taken, no fewer than
fifty-four freedoms Of cities. OF which in
1905 he received six in six successive days,
each requiring a little oratory. AND Mr..
Carneg1e's eloquence could break out In I'M
expected directions. when he chose the
staid Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh
as recipient Of an admirable and exhaustive
address THE Negro In America" All
this memorabilia is barely limited at In the
volume. but might well have been added to
tho photography. Later editions might also
include sorely needed supplement in the
shape of list of the Carnegie gifts. about
some Of which the story. Is strangely dumb.
For example, there is no reference TO the
ornate new Lotos Club or to the stately
United Engineering Building in New York
city, chosen the scene of the memorial
exercises last April. Even Mr.. Elhu Root in
delivering the GRAFTON then omitted any ref
erence to the place itself, although II In a
scientific centre Of unsurpassed usefulness,
"a home for you ALL" as Carnegie put It, of
some forty engineering and technical socie- I
ties with professional membership Of over
$4,000 and an unequalled technical library /
upon which his bust looks down In benignity (
and serene approval.
The volume Is adorned with several ex-
cellent half tones: but II ever book should /
be eraced with steel plates it is this.
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How to Live in To-day's London

orance of my appearance In London a decade
ago Think of being remembered for ten
years! How could ] have become discon-
certed over people who hao still within
them, among them, such charming grace
and kindness?
1t is hard to get away from an author like
this to mere subject matter The book really
does carry between its iridescent wings a
body of information. Mrs. Hale asked one
OF her domestic experiments WIN had ex-
pressed preference for work In factories
what difference il made where she worked,
adding You're the same girl"
GLADYS was standing by the table eating
the crumbs on the cloth in lieu 81 brushing
them up You're the same girl all right but
we amt got no standing Kitchen works
work in kitchen and factory Job IL a
business
"This alarming refusal to return TO do
nestle service has caused the sobor
minded men and women of Great Britain to
treat with the domestic problem as thought
fully as with the other huge labor conditions
arranging with them hours for work
as definite as those in factory. Hostels
are being established that they may not
live in II they do not want to: uniforms are
taking the place Of caps and aprons. Maids
are sent In by the hour at tenpence twenty
cents) an hour. and at Highgate club has
been opened which all Of England L. watch
ing"
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fatherly regard for It. since no one suggested
IT to me. AS far as know, 1t never had
been thought of; hence it is emphatically
my ain BARN." One brother Scot dor,iciled
in America invited him, through an appeal
TO his love of fishing, to join in a plan to
restock the exhausted streams Of old Scot
land, SO that other barefooted Andras and
JAMES could ply the rod without poaching
But carnegie fiared up almost angrily in
sarcastic refusal; there were too many
reckless fules" over there now, ana he
would not help to increase the number.
Akin to this was a proposition, equally
beehive In every American schoolhouse as
an irresistible means of instructing the chill
grotesque and futile that he should put a
dren In thrift and industry.
The value of a good autobiography consists
essentially of two elements-what the man
reveals of himself and what he has to tell
about his contemporaries. Mr.. Carnegie in
the course of his long association with large
affairs made the acquaintance of nearly all
the leading men of his times, and his pages
TEEN and CLEAN with racy anecdotes of those
with whom he was on intimate terms of per-
sonal neutrality-suspicious. captains of in
dustry, authors, editors, artists, educators.
lawyers. soldiers. though of the last group
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biography, and proved that few advances
OF the human mind were alien to this titanic
producer of a nations iron and steel. He
surprised me once with the remark that as
an old railroad man he wanted to know all
about the progress Of the electric locorno-
tive. In response to his eager catechizing
L told him all l knew, confcssng | had
predicted that by the time at which we were
talking all the trains in New England,
which had no coal, would be running by
electric energy, derived largely from water
power. He laughed encouragingly: "Weel,
Martin, it's fine thing for young men to
prophesy, but they shouldn't fix dates" At
another time he inquired about aerial navi-
cation, and l ventured to suggest a gift in
aid of a certain aviation fund. He admitted
his interest. but evaded the issue cannily
by averring that he could not conscien-
tously take money he had made out of steel
rails to promote an agency whose success
involved the abolition of rail mills. His
ready sympathy brought him many weird
suggestions for spending money-it would
be amusing to see list Of them In fact.
he lays claim In this autobiography to
originality In only one of his great bcnefac-
tions-the splendid Hero Fund. II cherish a
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and who has loved him. He betrays her
trust In blind endeavor to discredit her
with the other members OF the corps when
he realizes that she Is aware of his craven
Sinking.
And then he Is killed, shot dead In the
back by the faithful servant Of wounded
Belgian captain whom he had deserted I'm
a tight place. Eventually "Sharlie" Is made
to understand, and through. understand
Ing perhaps to forgive. since in loving the
beautiful outside Of the man she had really
been seeing the driving force OF power In
him struggling through degeneracy.
Still impressionistic is Miss Snclair's style
though less volumlnously so than in the
remarkable MARY Olivier" With picturesque
phrases Instead of sentences she paints her
vignettes. After few slight shocks her
method seems curiously right though Il
would be well for any beginner aping her
style 30 remember that she knew her anat-
omy, her compos'tion. her 90, ar according
20 the old 90 before she started on her
new techni<
One stnhs :. % Miss sinolair.s new book
with sigh Of Joy. as IL to say. Here again,
after many days and many digressions by
tn wAysids. hare h some one who knows
NV - vxftsi"
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Hale Harper d Brothers.
\ FRS. HALE has proved in her travel
MI books that she who runs may not
only read but write the truth about
a land swiftly traversed. In this latest rec
ord she proves the power to convey the sense
of motion even when she settles down. "
The possessive IS" In her title Is true She
truly lives in London, becomes a house
holder. makes London her town and the read.
ers. That same radiant power of communi-
eating life-her own life and the life of thu
theme-is asserted here as it has been in her
books Of travel. But this is no tourist s
guide.
The ostensible theme Of the book is the
running of a small household In the condi-
tons Of an English city. The authors friend
said to her. You're not going to set the
world aflre with your discoveries in London,
but you might solve one question that would
help one woman to keep one hired girl one
week." Well, that was an incentive EVIL
IDENTIFY, and she did that.
The fact is one reads book like this once
begun, for the fun Of reading. 1t gives the
effect OF good talk. intimate without vul-
garity, personal without egotism Humor
informs the turn of flying phrase, as in
the glimpse Of "a woman of forty standing
with reluctant feet which pointed toward
fifty; or Of the good looking officer hang
Ing over blond miss whose permanent
wave was ruling Britannia in strict defiance
OF the stirring chorus of the British navy"
Or one Is admitted thus TO her secret mis-
givings as to great fundamental principles OF
literary style:
Il think of the English writer now In
vogue. She has no subject and no predicate
In her sentences Sometimes an adjective or
an adverb form her whole paragraph. Once
l believed she was crazy. But she Is not.
But / must not write like her. I'm an
American and could not get away with it.
l have not suffered as these people have. l
must try from now on to have a subject
and predicate"
The general condition Of cold houses
makes one shiver through many pages Cen
trail heating is the exception. The author
visited house whore " waa said a great
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finds the American occupation justifiable In
view of the condition of the island republic.
The authors record of his visit to the
Virgin Islands. our most recently acquired
possessions, also will be of particular inter.
est to American readers In spite of the fact
that Mr.. F'ranck pays little compliment to
the bargaining sense Of the Government that
purchased these liabilities at a huge figure
i have yet to find." he writes, ANY one
who knows just why we bought the Virgin
Islands, still less why we paid $25, 600 900 for
them They are not worth forty cents to
us or any one else remarked navy man
engaged in governing them"
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~ New Year greeting OF 1918. in which.
speah1na OF the worlds "unsolved
enigma" Internal ional peace, he said: Il
venture the prediction that negotiations Will
soon be resumed under most favorable con-
ditions between Britain, France and Amer
ica-Germany gladly cooperating before.
In such holy cause there can be such
word as fail" In her preface to this fas-
cinating autobiography Mrs. Carnegie tells
how its writing was brought TO a tragic end
the following year, closing abruptly with the
passages In which Mr.. Carnegie recorded
"reminiscences of Kaiser William and en-
couraging conversations with him as to
world peace. The last paragraph on the last
page is an agonized cry of disappointment,
an involuntary ejaculation of "Et tn.
Brute!" as the pen that had noted these
noble hopes fell from unnerved fingers "Op-
timist as he was,'' says his devoted wife,
"the world disaster was too much. His heart
was broken"
Let us be thankful that these vivid pages
survive with their simple, direct story and
unaffected revelation of the soul life and
inner springs of action of one who, In view
of the nature magnitude and scope of his
varied benefactions, must be characterized
as the greatest philanthropst Of all time.
The successful bobbin boy of Dunferrnline,
the steel king of Pittsburg, was indeed a
prodigy, and it is always interesting to hear
prodgies talk of themselves, be they babes
or billionaires, Opals or Carnegies. Lord
Nathan M. Rothschild tersely summed UP
the social economic evolution of the nine
teenth century when he said: "One of the
most remarkable phenomena Of our time is
the fact that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie should
in the brief period of one generation have
amassed a fortune exceeding in size that Of
all the Rothschilds combined which they
have been century in accumulating.' But
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31

ENEni LAY AMERICANS. By Henry Seidel
Candy. Century Company
THIS Is book for the American who
wants to know what he thinks. Since
the war we have all been much con-
fused in minds as to what we believe
and where we are heading and what we want
to do about 1t. Mr. Candy contributes for
the clearing OF our ideas some descriptive
essays on the characteristics Of the VARIOUS
common American types.
His first chapter contains an Illuminating
distinction between the radical-conservative
whose sympathies are radical but whose
tastes are conservative who Is a partisan
OF all progressive ideas but has no idea of
becoming one with the proletariat, and the
conservative liberal who takes the radical
ism of our Revolutionary ancestors. now
safely crystalized In our laws and customs.
and stands pat on that. He remarks here
ana In later chapter on the strong ten
dency OF the latter class to be completely
radical In their handling of material affairs.
they are the business men who scrap old
methods without qualm and reorganize
whole world Of business overnight
The chapter on conservative America deals
principally with the traditional nature of
our education u system. We are says the
author, coddled people, either by the ele-
meHtary schools. which let us through with
sort OF ritual smattering of knowledge. or
by the higher institutions which cram the
student with predigested traditional learn
Ing. AS he says: They can live happily
only IN life where ideas never exceed the
college sixty per cent Of compiexity n
wvrld where one reads the news and skips
the editorials; goes TO musical comedies but
onits the plays. talks business, sports and
politics. but never economies, social welfare
and craftsmanship" All our American ideals
Oh the past are taught "as dead idealism
unrelated TO the facts of the present.
Mr. Candy discusses American idealism
ana Its curious behavior during and since
the war. He says Il includes two unrelated
eleneDts-the Puritan sense of the necessity
OF willing the right and the common sense
preached 80 successfully by Benjamin
Franklin. Latterly these two inherited ten
denotes have separated 80 tina, I'VE can
stand on our moral foot or our business
foot but usually we alternate"
In this chapter on religion Mr.. Candy dis
tinguishes four classes of Americans--the
ethical enthusiasts and reformerx who live
by words; the seekers the traditionalists
ana the great mass of the Indifferent. IL
Is In the latter class that he finds the nm
answered question of the future, whether
they have under the surface a germ of relIp-
ious life which will suffice to save the race
Literature which In this country has de-
veloped along two lines of an appeal to the
best-as with Emerson--and OF an appeal
to the universal-as In Bret Harte-is now
threatened with the loss of both these
schools through the withdrawal of great
minds into specialized scholarship and the
vulgarfzation Of the literature Of common
life. The danger Mr.. Candy sees n. 10
that new literature OF cosmopolitanism will
take possession of the field before we have
ripensd truly American body Of writings
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poet had lived out the last years OF his life
so comfortable that he had done no work
within Its walls. This appealed to me- II I
round the house TO be as she represented L.
TOO, could give up work and refuse to leave
Its pleasant confines until tho constable car
ried me out and deposited me In 33 bus.
YET after ten minutes within its Icy con-
lines one would have thought The poet could
there have produced his most passionate
lyrics, II they had to be born out of misery. Z"
Mrs. Hale went to London to take part
IN play. Though housekeeping Is her main
theme. there are echoes OF the stage, always
humanized by the hopes and fears OF a
woman to whom every kind of living from
hanging curtain to creating a character,
10 an adventure She tells OF the plays frst
night and Of tho talisman she worei
1T was q silver shawl pin that onos upon
q time Bonnie Prince Charlie had sivcn 10
Flora Macdonald The English family who
had possessed IL fur many years were In the
habit a sending II TO various man and
women OF the theatre 70 give them calm
courage through a premiere David Garrick
Is said to have worn 1t, Mrs Sarah siddons.
Beerbohm Tree, Forbes Robertson,e our own
Doris keene In Romance and law. and
surely least II was offered ma In ramem-
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BOOK REVIEW S
The Lover Of Peace Died Broken Hearted.
His Hero Fund Favorite Benefaction

is IL not phenomenon equally extraordinary
that such colossal riches-say $3.50 900 600
should again have been distributed by their
master with the air of one weary OF mere
wealth and the generous zeal Of q lover OF
his kind ardent for adventures In altruismf
The story OF Mr.. Carnegie's career has been
told often that even In detail II IL known
to thu public; but hero 10 the personal color
ing and essence. an amazingly frank dis
cussfon Of Intimate matters. from an out
spoken American citizen, whose Scottish
blood raised, however, no barriers of cautious
reticence. Mark Twain listening 10 euiogies
OF Carnegie at banquet Of engineers and
steel makers criticised the compliments on
the ground that they must be embarrassing
because he knows what is inside of him, and
that II you look AT the other side Of his char
acter you would find something that would
bear censure." Mark objected to the "ficti-
tious Innocence scintilating" on Mr.. Car
negie's face. II he had never committed
a crime In his life. and then fell foul OF him
because OF tho misery he had inflicted on
mankind In his pestiferous simplif1ed SPELL
ing" That Mr.. Carnegie gives here in his
naive autobiography fair measure Of his
defects. of his vanities not less than his
virtues. Is the outstanding merit Of this
book, wherein a literal badge Of courage
he wears his heart upon his sleeve. Another
supreme worker in metal, the old blackguard
Ce.lini. has shown that thus to occupy the
confessional in the public eye may be to turn
it into a pillory.
One enjoys In this book not only first
hand narrative Of striking events in Amer
lean history through seventy stirring, MEM
cradle years. by an authority with consid-
cradle literary ability, but an abundance
of shrewd, kindly. Illuminating comment
Little escaped Carnegie's Unsuitable human
n nh
sophie equity in discussing them Although
he was not keen on art. music was little else
than i hobby. while literature was a pas
sion; and great library affected him to
reverential admiration. His own library
evidenced tastes freely avowed in this auto
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Bernard Baruch on
Making Germany Pay

THE MAKING OF THE PREPARATION
AND ECONOMIC SECTIONS OF THE
TREATY. BY Bernard M. Baruch. Har-
per & Bros
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A Freudian Motive in Fiction

THE ROMANTIC. BY May Sinclair Mac
milan Company
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Our Island
Dependencies

ROAMING THROUGH THE WEST INDIES
BY Harry A. Franck The Century Comparv
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AN AMERICANS LONDON. BY Louise Closer
Hale. Harper & Brothers
A IRIS. HALE has proved in her travel
MI books that she who runs may no.
only read but write the truth about
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Reviewed by
EDWIN Fl. BLANCHARD.

EADEItS who have followed Harry A.
n Franck In his roamings from the van
tage point Of an easy chair will ey
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW CAR
NEGIE Houghton, Muffin Company.

THOMAS COMMERFORD MARTIN.
IN EFORE mo lies Andrew Carneg1e's
~ New Year greeting OF 1918. In which.
SPEAKING of the worlds "unsolved