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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-17
USE OF CAVALRY IN BATTLE
Roman and Greek Characters Were
Formidable Foemen-German Tribes
Oisdained the Saddle.

In the old days when the Romans
and Greeks fought furious battles. the
charioteers drove their cars in all di-
iectiOns. hurled their javelins. and by
the din and clatter of horses and
wheels commonly threw the ranks Of
the enemy into disorder. and. making
their way among the squadrons of the
enemy's cavalry. leaped down from
their chariots and fought on foot. The
charioteers then withdrew. little by
little, from the fight, and placed their
chariots in such way that if they
were hard pressed they could readily
retreat to their own side. Thus i'm bat
tie they afforded the mobility of cav
airy with the steadiness of infantry.
Daily practice enabled them to pull up
their horses when going at full speed
on steep slope, or run out on the
pole and stand on the yoke, and to get
nimbly back into the chariot.
With the Introduction of cavalry in
the later iron age came larger horses,
out their use for this purpose. seems to
have been restricted to isolated areas.
There is no doubt that the west Ger
man tribes, as late as the campaign OF
Caesar i'm Gaul. used only the shaggy
pony. 1t is said in cavalry actions they
held it dissfaceful and slothful to use
any kind of saddle. and instead OF
charging in squadrons they dismounted
and fought on foot. As far as England
is concerned, the art of riding seems to
have been introduced by the Normans.
The Saxons appear TO have been but
Indifferent horsemen.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-06-17
DISTRICT NO. 9
Walter Rand sundayed at home.

Walter Rand Sundayed at home.
Mrs. John Howard drove to Hover
Saturday.
Last weeks rain was a great boon
to- the ranchers.
j. S. Kennett was in Kennewick last
Tuesday on business.
H. P. Hastings is planning to COM
bine for E. Carman.
Mrs. M. Wysong proved up" on
her homestead Tuesday.
Mr.. Glitter and family of Palouse,
moved this week to their ranch.
Mrs. Earl Burdette and children
visited Mrs. John Howard last We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Iva Rand attended the Royal
Neighbor convention in Pasco last
Thursday evening.
Ruth, Edward and Cecil Rand were
house guests at the John l.. Cochran
home Thursday night.
John Howard went to Spokane Fri
day for repairs for the oil-engine late
ly sold to be shipped to Alberta.
Messrs. Peterson, Mooney and Gil
bert were dinner guests at the w. o.
Meals home last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Rand received word from her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Latimer, for
merly of this place, but lately Of Pla-
"a, that they had bought modern
house and small acreage at Vera and
would soon be at home to their friends
there.
The 39x phone line was out of COM
mission several days last week, owing
to the wire being down in the north
end. North end subscribers, accord
ing to the rules of the line, should have
repaired it but they failing to make
GOOD Messrs. Meals and Cochran
drove some ten miles to put up the
wire.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Desert Adventure
The Search for a Lost and
Captive Race.
HAROLD LAMB has added tos 4,

n -AA>O~D A%Aiu ID mas aGQed to- fh5
number of good adventure stor,s.
with Marching Sands" (Appleton,
The scene of the tale is the Desert :,
Cobb, which is located in Central Al.
west of China, east of Afphani.,a,
north Of India, south of Siberia. and ),
remote from civilization as any n,.o,
could we'll be. 1t is to this region Thai
Captain Gray, a former United Stat.
army officer, sets out, with an Orisnta
linguist as a companion. in search of
white race which scientists believe :.
exist, concealed somewhere in the Cohy
shifting sands.
Gray reaches Sungan. the CITY Of n.
lost race, after series Of thrilling ,d
ventures and hairbreadth escapes y.
finds the city jealousy guarded h,
Chinese soldiers and by leper colonu
designed to prevent strangers from en-.
tering or the inhabitants from leayina
Despite the difficulties of getting in an,
the still greater difficulties Of rettins
out, Gray visits the city and escapes IL
safety, carrying off an English eir
whom he won in single combat witt
one of the chiefs Of Sungan.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
BY Rebecca Drucker

~ NE fancies Mr.. Compton Mac
~ kenzie wholeheartedly subscrib-
ing to the entire Credo of the
young British novelsts One fancies
him ardently resolved to handle life
in the wan, introspective spirit that it
enjoins. One feels that he longs
tiercely to be subjective and psyche
logical with the most prematurely aged
of them-and yet he has never really
succeeded in capturing the sedentary
manner of modern British novels. Some
thing irrepressible in him leaps to en-
gage itself with the vigorous external
movement of life, with the physical
humor of it, Fate. having made Comp
ton Mackenzie one of the Younger
Novelists, has left it to him to make
the adjustment between his tempera-
ment and the literary fashion Of his
day, and the marks of that struggle
are all over his pages.
For undoubtedly Mr.. Mackenzie
shares with the rest of humanity the
desire to be what he is not Sylvia s
long seasons of introspectiveness
Mchae's preciousness, probably coin
eide with Mr. Mackenzie's phases of
dramatizing himself as an austere and
detached observer of life. But the tug
of an acute responsiveness to the
physical aspects Of life tears again and
again through these distractions. The
fact of the matter is that Mr.. Macken-
zie has a fatal susceptibility to the
world of the flesh, to its amazing va
riety and charm, to the interests of its
scenes and the enormously amusing
oddity of its humanity-that he is in
capable of the segregations which the
modern process Of the novel demands
That is why he is driven in the ac-
complishment of Sylvia's spiritual self
realization TO seven-league leaps of
physical adventure. This flight around
the globe is not so much Sylvia Scar
lett blown about bv her destiny as
Compton Mackenzie flying before his
temperament
In "Poor Relations" Compton Mac
kenzie has given up the effort to strug-
gle against his particular current. He
has abandoned himself to the full tide
Of his predictions, and the result is
something SO high spirited, so rich in
humor and understanding, so human
and SO delightful that one is inclined
to hail it as the best novel that has
come out of England in a long time
Significantly, too. he has scrapped
Sylvia and Michael Fame and all the
rest of those febrile creatures of Sin
ister Street, and emerges on the other
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
A Battling Crime

NTATALlE sUMNER LINCOLN
~ scatters P plentiful supply of
false clews and misleading cvi-
dence throughout her new detective
story, "Thc Red Seal" (Appleton).
Jimmie Turnbull, bank cashier, dies
suddenly Of heart failure. A medical
examination reveals the fact that his
death was caused by the effects Of a
powerful drug.
The author proceeds to fasten the
suspicion Of the crime upon one person
after another. Each chapter brings to
light some new circumstances which
change the readers guess as to the
identity Of the criminal. Even poor
Mr.. Turnbull himself is not spared, for
certain facts indicate the possibility of
suicide
But, although the reader may b,
tempted to give up the pursuit of the
much complicated mystery as hopeless,
Harry Kent, the hero, perscveres in his
search for the criminal And finally
ms patience and energy are rewarded
by discovering that no murder at all
has been committed, but that a clever
forger and contortionist has succeeded
in keeping the official and unofficial
forces of the Inv at bay. Miss Lincoln
has lost none of her old ability to at
tract and hold the fascinated attention
of her readers.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

~ queried Marie, as she
peered at the reviewers
typewriter.
The reviewer nodded by wav Of simu-
lating industry and tore the first sheet
Of his copy from the platcn.
""There are some good stories in
"Snake- Bite" (Doran),'" read Marie.
She tossed the sheet on the desk
"Can't YOU think up better begin
ming than that" she demanded. "Of
course, Hichens tells the stories well
enough, but I didn't like the title story
at all"
"That's not criticism," murmured the
reviewer.
Don't be academic" scolded Marie
81 can't quite swallow this tale of an
gerous trip across the desert merely to
make love to another mans wife He
could have done that much moro con-
veniently and just as safely at home,
don't you think %
IL am not an authority on that sub
ject," said the reviewer
"And then the other man, a doctor,
let snake bite him. added Marie
"You know what Arthur Guiterman
said about 1lichcns's Bella Donna =
y wish to God lion bit her' That's
how feel about that milionairc!"
"The atmosphere's exceptionally we'll
DONE" protested the reviewer.
"Of course!' retorted Marie Hes
a better desert maker than almost any
one going. And there's one really first
class story in the lot. The Nomad.' 1t
reminds me Of de Maupassant. And
The Lost Faith and The Hindu arc
two absorbing psychic stories. Please
say that they're absorhing.'
II hate to refuse you anything" said
the reviewer, as firmly as one may
speak in the radiant presence Of Marie.
"but | won't call any stories absorb
ing, arresting, intriguing or com
pelling"
"That's what they are, anyhow"
maintained Marie "And The Lighted
Candle is almost as good, except that
Hichens doesn't seem to have been able
to find satisfactory ending for it. lie
even apologies for the indefinite con-
clusion. The last story, The Two
Fears seems to have been written as
propaganda for recruiting or something
like that, and it might just as we'll have
been left out"
The reviewer nodded assent. and
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
F ails at Anaemic Pose
Compton Mackenzie Writes a Red-Blooded
Novel in Spite of Himself

side of the tunnel, not only with a new
set of people, but a new prospect as
we'll.
This is the strain that has not been
felt in English novels since Dickens
this deep JUNCTION for the physical as
poets of living. Like Dickens, Macken-
zie is so surely aware Of human nature
that he can exploit it in eccentricity.
And with poor Relations" the English
novel returns after its erratic wander
ings into the realms of science, psv-
chology and politics to the business of
telling tale. 1t is. after all, the busi-
ness of a novel to tell story-and this
one, ending with Touchwood's rescue
from his family by his secretary, is
quite beautifully and neatly complete.
These poor relations who cluster
about the successful dramatist, John
Touchwood, who so eloQuently. decry
ms success and so avidly avail them
selves of it, are creatures intensely
favored with idiosyncrasy. They are
grotesque, yet intensely real. They
and John Touchwood, the soft-headed
soft-hearted bachelor of forty, who is
rldlculously romantic about his silly
family and his rococo historical
dramas, are conjured up out of the
same unreflective relish for life. Mac
kenzie has uneashed all those impulses
that he had to check when he stepped
so gingerly among the psychological
brlc-a-brac of the modern noel. He
has given himself up to the wild ex-
travagance. the boisterous farcical hu
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
moments With Mark Twain"

Moments with Mark Twain" col !.
lection Of Mark Twain's epigrammatic
philosophy compiled by Albert Bige-
low Paine, is to be issued soon by the
Harpers. Mr.. Paine, who is the author
Of "The Biography of Mark Twain" and
Boys Life of Mark Twain" culled wit
and wisdom from all of his writings
for this book. moments with Mark
Twain" will be issued in the form of
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
New Stories By Robert Hichens T
Marie Finds "Snake Bite" and Its Companion
Tales Absorbing

placed another sheet of copy in his
machine.
The technical problems presented
in these stories'-- continued Marie,
but the reviewer intercepted the
charming intruder
"Who's reviewing this book" he in
quired as politely as possible
Marie smiled on him graciously.
"You are, of course" she answered.
"Im just telling what the book is like y
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Who Is George Colmore?
The Author of
THE THUNDERBOLT
Is 1t q Man or q Woman?

If virility, directness, precision
and perfect literary finish are quail
ties which only men possess, then
there is no reason to doubt that the
author is really what his name indi-
Gates. But there is something about
the women characters in "The
Thunderbolt," such sure knowl-
edge of them in all their peculari-
ties, in the big and little things
which make up their lives, that we
doubt whether any one but wom-
an could have written the novel.
But no matter, it is a powerful
story, and you would no more want
to miss it than miss Jane Austen's
"Pride and Prejudice" if you had
lived at the time when that book
made its appearance.
"'The Thunderbolt' is certainly
the most remarkable piece of mod
ern fiction the present writer has
!ead during the last five years. -
London Nation.
- mo. cloth. S1.9O.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
New Crop of Novels Springs Up With the Crocuses

NOR, the relish for eccentric hmm
character that he loves.
But Mackenzie has, after all, not hes,
a modern novelist in vain. To thu :.
gained sense Of the tangible reality q.
living he.has bEouxh the modern's A., I.
ear for undertones. his realistic n.s
ceptions, his unsentimentalitv. n.
English novel is coming on. new er.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
lbanez Uses Threadbare Theme
woman Triumphant Bid for Popularity
Galsworthy Urges Love of Beauty

where I am lying By the rampant
markings on its chalk and grass, it has
surely served as an encampment. Tie
beauty Of day and night, the lark's
song, the sweet-scented growing things,
the rapture Of health, and of pure air,
the majesty Of the stars, and the glad
ness Of sunlight, of song and dance and
simple friendliness, have never been
enough for men. We crave our turbu-
lent fate. Can wars, then, ever cease !?
Look in mems faces. read their writ
ings, and beneath masks and hypocrisies
note the restless creeping Of the tiger
spirit! There has never been anything
to prevent the millennium except the ma
ture Of the human being. There are not
enough lovers Of beauty among men. 1t
all comes back to that. Not enough who
want the green hill far away-who nat
urally hate disharmony, and the greed,
ugliness, restlessness, cruelty which are
its parents and children.
"Will there ever be more lovers of
beauty in proportion to those who are
Indifferent to beauty? Who shall an
swer that question? Yet. on the answer
depends peace. Men may have a mint
of sterling qualities vigorous, ad-
venturous. brave. upright and self-sac-
rificing; be preachers and teachers. keen,
cool-headed, just, industrious--if they
have not the love Of beauty, they will
still be making wars. Man is a fighting
animal, with a. sense of the ridiculous
enough to know that he is fool to fight.
but not sense of the sublime enough 70
stop him"
Of the recent novels which we have
read, we recommend "The Outlaw" by
Maurice Hewlett; The Secret Battle, y
by A. P. Herbert, and "Where Angels
Fear to Tread" by E. NJ. Forster
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

"A (Dutton), we are moved to
wonder how any canvas of
nude woman ever gets safely to the
walls of gallery. Again and again in
play and in novel we have watched the
scene in which some infuriated woman
slashed the picture to pieces while the
agonized artist uttered shrill cries of
to her work of destruction because she
is the person represented on the canvas,
and again her wrath may be because
she isn't. The motive varies, but the
other details of the scene are tradi-
tional
Since woman Triumphant" is largely
built around the destruction of a nude,
it may be imagined that Blasco Ibanez
has employed a conventional plot in his
new novel. The modesty of Josephine
was at fault. She could not bear that
her husband should paint nudes even
though she were the model. To her
they were horrible. "A decent painter
does not think of them. What would all
her friends say? There were many
pretty things to paint in the world"
In other words, "Woman Triumphant"
deals with the conflict between the soul
of an artist and a philistine who revolts
at the glorification Of the flesh. To this
hard worked theme Ibanez brings flashes
of brilliant writing and sound tech
nique. but he possesses no enduring
quality to lift it above the commonplace.
1t is a dull book. One cannot escape
feeling the resemblance between IbaTez
and Renovales. the painter of whom he
writes. Renovales was a man Of un-
doubted gifts, but he could never escape
from the thrall Of manufacturing a mar
ketabe product He was a slave to his
own popularity Ibanez gained his first
success in this country without aiming
at it, Now he seems content with no
such indirect method
We do not know just how faithful is
the translation by Hayward Keniston,
though, by the translator's own explana-
ton, he has absolutely distorted the title
given to the book. He explains in his
preface: "The title of this novel in the
original. La Maja Desnuda' ('The Nude
Maja), is also the name of one Of the
most famous pictures of the great Span
ish painter Francisco Goya
"The word maja has no exact equiva-
lent in English or in any Of the mod
ern languages. Literally, it means be-
decked,' Snowy 'gaudily attired,' 'fashy,'
dazzling. ETC., and it was applied at the
end of the eighteenth century and at
the beginning of the nineteenth to a
certain class of gay women of the lower
strata of Madrid society notorious for
their love of dancing and their fondness
for exhibiting themselves conspicuously
at bullfights and all popular celebra-
tons"
Just how any Of this contributes to
the title "Woman Triumphant" is diff
cult to understand Lacking any knowl-
edge of the original Spanish, we are not
able to say whether or not the trans
lator has been faithful in one or two
startling passages later in the book. For
instance, we are curious to know whether
1baHez actually referred to the father Of
his hero as "rube," which is the word
employed by the translator with apollo
getc quotes. Again, the reader is some
what surprised to come upon such a
scrap of conversation as the one in
which one Spaniard asks another:
Didn't she kid you for wearing that
dazzling new tie?"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

In "A Green Hill Far Away" Gals
worthy Expresses his conception Of
way out for the world.
And yet" ne writes, "the green
hill where dwell beauty and kindine.s.
is still far away. Will it ever be nearer?
Men hays fought even on this green bill
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
BY Haywood Broun

A FTER reading "Woman Tri-
~ \umphant," by Blasco lbanez
~ (Dutton), we are moved to
won1or how anv canvaa Of a
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

And just for good measure it is only
fair to say that at least one sketch from
the collection called Recorded" is a
gorgeous piece Of writing which may
we'll be classified with the best things
which Galsworthy has done 1t is a
simple and unadorned report Of a con-
versation with soldier in railroad
train, and it serves to prove again, if it
ever needed proving, that anybody who
can see things which are happening
round about him and set tn em down with
any degree of judgment and accuracy
has no need to bother his head with max
ing up tales, for they will never be half
80 exciting and moving.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

"Tatterdemalion," collection Of short
stories by John Galsworthy, published
by Scribner's, is interesting chiefly
as a record of how we'll Mr.. Galsworthy
kept his head during terrific ordeal.
Followers and disciples Of Galsworthy
may we'll take a pride in the book, even
if he has written much better on other
occasions. 1t serves to show that the
neutral spirit which has irritated many
readers of his plays and novels is no
mere Indifference, but really passionate
love of fair play. Mr.. Galsworthy could
be fair, even to Germans, at time when
that feat was not possible to more than
six or seven men in all the world. He
was able to support the war heartily and
effectively and at the same time fight
with all his might the gospel of blind
hate. The book suffers great deal
from the fact that most of it is heavily
tlngcd with conscious propaganda In
many cases Mr.. Galsworthy has not been
able to give a message and tell a story
at the same time without having one or
the other suffer Usually, he has chosen
to let the story suffer. We are inclined
to think that in most cases the game was
worth the candle. OF course. there is
no surplus of the true flame for nara
tive which Galsworthy has brought into
the world now and again, but the short
age of clear headed and decent faith in
all mankind is even more acute, and we
think, therefore, that "Tatterdemalion"
is a collection to which even the most
captious may take off their hats.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
A Brazilian Novel
Picture of a Mans Search
for Utopia

BRAZILIAN product that is
quite worthy of American con,
sumption is "Canaan" (Four
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Marie Finds

ARE you reviewing
ID hsss,t , ,.. nisNs".,'
queried Marie, as she
peered at the reviewers
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

n 1ATALlE SUMNER LINCOLN
scatters :. plentiful supply of
false clews and misleading cvi-
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
THOMAS SELTZER

Five West Fiftieth Street.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-10-14
Pine County
Farm News
Elitesl by Fred s. Idtse, Manager
Pine County Farm
Bureau.


The Farm Bureau membership
drive started with nine solicitors
in as many townships on Monday
afternoon. October 4th. BY Sat
urday night. at the end of one
weeks work. 568 members had
been secured.
Partridge and Pokegama town
ships take the Lead in number OF
Farm Bureau members.
Partridge and Pokegama fin
ished the week with 100 mem
bers each. However, first honors
thus far must go to Partridge
township inasmuch as out of LOG
farmers visited, 100 signed up for
the Farm Bureau. In Pokegama
out of 1913 farmers visited. 1OO
members were secured.
Brookpark has a good. strong
membership, securing 80 mem.
bers out of Sc farmers visited.
The result in other towns can.
vassed was as follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-10-14

en-. This work was not done by
an expert. and it is known who
was at the bottom of the affair,
unless the items taken are re.
turned it is pretty sure that
some one will get a few months
free. board. There has been
more or less Of this kind Of work
going on for the past few
monthS in the day time and il
is about time something was be.
ing done TO teach some Of those
fellows that they should leave
things alone that they do not
pay for A word to the wise
should be sufficient. Brook
Park Banner.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-10-14

An Independent Order Of Odd
Fellows lodge was organized in
Askov Friday afternoon when
the state Grand Master and state
Grand Secretary were in Askov
to swear i'm a number of |. O.
O. F. members here. There are
about forty l. o. o. F. members
in hskov belonging to different
locals. Most Of them will low
transfer to the Askov local.
Saturday evening the first re-
gular |. 0. o. F. meeting was
held in the d. B. S. hall and II
new members were initiated. an
initiating or degree team Of IS
men came up from Minneapolis
to perform the work Of initiating
the new members. A large num-
Der of |. O. O. F. visitors from
Pine City. Hinckley. Sandstone,
Duluth and Moose Lake were
present to see the fine work OF
the Minneapolis degree team
All in all there were about a
hundred and fifty visitors and
they were a good lively bunch. =
freely passing charged" cigars
About 60 came up on the sever
O'Clock train and these were
served fine supper at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Eriksen
Many of the visitors departed or
the midnight train and were jus.
as full of pep" and life wher
they left as when they came.
The regular |. O. o. F.. meet.
ings will be held in Askov every
Thursday evening, commencing
tonight.