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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03
9 morning a, 1880 o'clock on her

this morning at 1880 o'clock on her
return trip.
This week tie Verne Swain is down
the river taking large crowds out each
evening on a moonlight ride. She will
return to this city Sunday morning 10
make two trips. in the afternoon ana
evening.
registered nine feet and stationary.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03
M'CLUSKEY MOVES

The w. 0. McClusky Produce Com
pany has moved into their new loca-
ton at 1921 MIN street. The repairs
to the building are about complete. The
building was formerly occupied by tho
Strinmetz Company The former rooms
of the McCluskey company have been
aiken over BY the Moundsvillc Produce
Company.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03
wKEHLINarrEs HoNoREp.

According to word reaching this city
local LutheranS are honored at the com
mencement exercises ut WittenberE col
leg" at Springfield. Ohio. Wheeling Is
represented by about twelve Wftten-
hersars. pr. T.. G.. Howard OF the First
Lutheran church and Rev. Ralph Harsh
man of the .EdKcwood Lutheran church
were included in the speakers program.
buy WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

An appeal from the decision Of Squire
Corrigan in tho suit OF Harry Yost VS.
Edward Gocddle was filed In circuit
court yesterday. Squire Corrigan rem
dered u verdict In favor OF the plaintiff
for S6S.l6. principal and interest the
outgrowth OF an automobile accident
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

Owing TO the fact that Prosecuting
Attorney Carl q. BaChmun is quaran-
tined at his home at WoOdsdalc Oh &C
count OF scarlet fevrr. and that Prose
cutting Attorney H. a. Mckee WAS com
PEELED to be out of the city. Judge Alan
II. Robinson IN criminal court yesterday
continued the case of William Linden.
charged with criminal assault upon a
yonng girl. until Monday morning.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

The city has a force OF men working
on Market street north Of Twelfth on
repairing some OF the bad holes which
have been causing truck drivers consid-
cradle trouble.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03
HERE AND THERE
Items Of Interest TO Local People
About Wheeling People, Societies
and Organizations.

The Bernhardt Clothing company Of
this city arc having a show case erect
ed on Market street In front OF the
Basic restaurant
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

1t
assured fact that Summer garments of SIX Will IND their way
result
time in there when Silk Sale
overwhelmingly complete The least
the novelties; the American European
Chinese and Japan patterned and
of and kind
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

II. b Seybold. successful candidat,.
for Republican nomination for Justice
Of the peace In Washington, spent
$3.50 in his campaign. according to his
expense account filed In county Cour
yesterday. a. J. Schultz and Charles
Scihert. candidates for the same crricr
in Webster and Trladelph!a dlstrict.r.
respectively. spent nothing
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

The Ohio county comm issioncrs. with
Clerk II. C. Underwood. spent Wednes-
day afternoon at the county homo max
Ing the bl-weekly audit and inspection
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-03

BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Opals, Swans, Panthers and Marv
"Bedouins by James Hunelzer, Speaks Now
and Again of Miss Mary Garden

from an operatic manager walls Of an
guish because of her close barrain;ns
over q contract; in word. n suner-
| woman"
Mr.. Huneker's most recent volume Of
essays is often marked by a disposi-
tion to make words do too much. MANY
of the essays represent work done for
daily newspapers, and they were written
by man who was determined that
his views of the world of music and
letters should be not one whit less ex-
citing than the story of the second half
of the Harvard Princeton football
game or the latest turn of events in
Russia. This is virtue or vice. as
you choose. We incline to the former
opinion. Mr.. Huneker is thoroughly
contentious throughout, but always in
tcresting. He has done more careful
and more finished work, but even when
the marks of haste and effort are ap
parent there is also evidence of a
nimble mind and colorful eloouence.
We ought to add in regard to the
criticisms of Mary Garden that what
Mr. Huneker says about her perform
ance as Jean in "The Juggler" is not to
be disputed. 1t does not fit into our
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

will enjoy them more reading them
out there. Try it, won't you? Mean-
time | shall write letter."
"Ah, my dear MASTER" said the
ex-pupil, coming back into the salon
few minutes later. ~ have had
an adventure. Who lives over you?
Here is the rose that was thrown
down to me-"
He showed fresh rose, the color
of fire and Of the dawn.
WHO gave you that?" asked the
Master, turning pale.
II don't know. saw onlv a
hand up there, over my head-the
most beautiful hand in the world
But this flower was meant for you.
perhaps?"
"No, my friend, no. No flowers
are any longer meant for me.
Nevertheless, will you permit me to
smell it? How fragrant it is! I
will keep petal, young man. I
have no idea who lives overhead.
But the mountains! Look at the
mountains! Don't they look like
rose-colored stairways-the stair
ways of heaven?"
Three days later. not being able
to restrain his curiosity any longer,
NJ. Reginacq asked the valet:
What is the number Of the
suite just over us?''
"184, monsieur"
"Who occupies 184?"
Nobody, monsieur. There was
an invalid there for three months
young girl. But she died the day
before yesterday"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

poem or story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Then she sets out to tell the story Of
her life. Driven from her home by
the unsympathetic attitude of her
family she passes through a series of
adventures in which the spiritual ele-
ment generally predominates over the
physical. There is a curious fieshless
unreality about her narrative. Even
when she describes the most normal
actions contact with another world
never seems very far distant.
The heroine is abnormally sensitive
to the atmosphere of houses, to color
effects, to anything that may possess
certain psychcal Significance. She
possesses an extraordinary intuitive
faculty, and she is usually able to an.
prehend tragic occurrences at the mo-
ment they take place. Readers with
2 taste for the eerie and the mysteri-
Gus will doubtless derive considerable
enjoyment from Miss Newton's story.
which is characterized by some of the
qualities that make up the fascination
OF Algernon Blackwood. On the other
hand, those of US who have more fleshlv
minds. may find the authors style
somewhat too tenuous and obscure
may grow a trifle weary of a story
built up out of "such stuff as dreams
are made on"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
elias ou Know Mary Garden Did ou Know She as This

country editor there is large prom
lso. Mr.. Forman traces with great skill
the revolt which rises in the heart OF
the young man who has been assigned
to follow in the footsteps Of his father
snd become small-town journalist.
Thsre is much that is telling in the
manner in which the author traces for
US the reaction of the country boy to
Harvard, and New York, and love, and
other large and eternal institutions.
hut then the story develops into some
thing different At the halfway point
1t turns from any study of character
except somewhat conventional pic
ture of remorse, and begins to be a
novel of adventure and adventuresses.
Perhaps our disappointment was keener
than that Of the average reader, for
we have been longing for a first class
novel of newspaper life, and for time
we thought that "Fire of Youth" might
be it.
AS an adventure story it is readable
and entertaining, but not distinguished.
1t is no better and no worse than
twenty novels which will be received
this year. However, again we confess
a bias. We are more enthralled by re-
pCrters than rubies.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

I he to show them to a young girl
who adored him? Was that the
vision which could make her forget,
in Paradise, the concerts of the
angels? How absurd!
M. Reginacq turned away Some
one knocked at his door. The visi-
tor entered.
Good evening, Master. Do
disturb you?"
"Not at ALL Sit down. I am
very glad to see you"
Reginacq had recognized at once
one of his former pupils. He was
a robust man of forty, a passing
guest at Pau. While they talked
the composer studied the pupil. The
latter's face was still fresh and
handsome, his hair full, his eye
bright, his body as graceful as a
Corinthian column.
"How beautiful the mountains are
this EVENING"" said the. caller, glanc
ing through the window.
Aren't they?"
Then, with a little sigh, NJ. Reginacq
went on. his voice trembling:
"Go and look at them, my young
friend! Go out on the balcony and
watch the sun set. Take this book
along. There are some charming
verses in it about the Pyrenees. You
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
By Haywood Broun

- EFORE the days of prohibition
u one simple path to fame lay
before every newspaper man.
We never knew any hard
thinking reporter whose friends did
not wag their heads sorrowfury and
-smark that, He would be the best
:, the business if he could only
keen sober" That path to glory is
raw closed and the only condition in
.sv profession which approximates it
in any way exists on the operate
.,sge where personable woman is in
variably hailed as great actress if
only she sings badly enough.
OF course, it would be folly to deny
.hst Mary Garden is an effective per-
former in certain types of opera. Any
.binc that Theda Bara can do Mary
ean do better. No more thrilling vamp
ever strobe across screen or stage.
But. with the exception of a single
,;le. she has never displayed in ali her
.epertory a fair for anything but
simple seduction.
We do not pretend to be open minded
on tire art OF Mary Garden. We have
CUT story and we intend 10 stick to it.
Viewed from our own bias, James
Huneker seems as partisan as a shower
hath whenever he writes q paragraph,
4 page or chapter about Mary Gar
den. He is all scalding steam to our
eyes when he writes of Mary. "And in
the new opera Mary Garden is the
supreme exemplar. She sounds the
complex modern note. She does not
represent, she evokes. She sings and
she acts, and the densely woven web is
impossible to disentangle. Her Gaelic
temperament is Of an Intensity; she is
white not, human dynamo with sud
den little rctortions that betray ten
der, sensitive soul. through the bril-
lant, hard she'll OF an emerald per-
sonality; she is also the opal, with it's
ehameleonic hues.
Bat Mary is more than that. In an
other chapter Of "Bedouins" (Scrib-
rer's) We learn that she is "a condor.
an eagle, peacock, nightingale, a
panther, a society dame, gallery of
moving pictures, a siren, an indomta-
bic fighter. human woman with "a
heart as big as house, lover OF
sport, an electric personality, and
esnny Scotch lassie who can force
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
/AMES HUNEKER, author Of "Bedouns" published bu
Charles Scribners Sons
New Novel by William ]. Locke
Hero of 1.-The House of Baltazar" Extravagant
in His Devotion

Is not an impossible one, provided we
hrst accept the validity of an eighteen
years exile in China. Baltazar, in his
effort to live nobly and to prop up
what even Locke fails to recognize as
a weak will, has meted out so manv ex-
travagant punishments to himself that
1t is now second nature. However, the
fulfilment of the vow is partially de-
pendent on the unreasoning obedience
and moral cowa ardice of a Chinaman.
and Locke's portrayal of Quong Ho is
outlandish.
The war finally shakes Baltazar out
of abstract mathematics; plunges him
into grim realities. The various civil
ian aspects of the great war, which
ordinarily make rather dry reading,
gain amazing piquancy seen through
the startled eyes of Baltazar. The war
adds further interest to the book by
ushering in a long lost son, and Bal
tazar in his attitude toward Godfrey
is naive, sentimental, tremendously
loyal; in fact. quite charming, in the
true Lockian manner.
"The House of Baltazar" is by no
means lacking in interest, but it is far
less than Locke's best. The usual
charm and riotous humor are creeping
out of his style and leaving it bit
heavy. The hero falls too short Of
both realism and romance, and, in spite
of his waywardness and personality,
we close the annals of John Baltazar
with our imaginations unkindled.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

posers, M. Reginacq had received
letters expressing more or less
pointedly the devotion Of their
writer's. But none had affected him
so much as this one. In spite of his
ordinary skepticism, he was inclined
to believe in it's sincerity. He didn't
hesitate.
"I'll do it," he said to himself.
"Ill show myself on the balcony.
Poor girl! If it is hoax, what does
that matter? l would rather take
chance on being made ridiculous than
on being inhuman. But I don't
think there is any hoax in this. I
have a premonition which never
fails"
M. Reginacq looked at the Pyre-
nees. They were beginning to grow
rose colored. In few minutes the
sun would set, and, without doubt,
she who wrote the letter would peer
from behind curtain or put her
head out of some window of the
big hotel.
He passed into his dressing room
and glanced into the mirror. What
did he see in it? What he saw every
day: a bald, wrinkled old man,
round shouldered, with straggly
gray beard. He carried all the
marks Of his sixty-eight years. Was
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

they can stir in the heart of an
adolescent who is gifted with little
imagination? Do you understand
that love, guided by you, descends
and then turns back again toward
you?
"Pardon me! I have read some
where that young consumptives burn
with more ardent fire before affairs
at which they cannot long worship.
am a consumptive. l am con-
demned. Specialists sent me to Pau
this autumn. But the. climate Of
Pau, the physicians of Pau and even
this panorama Of Pau which, Of it.
self, ought to work miracles, can do
nothing for me. have reached the
end Of the little pathway in which
fate wished that I should make a
few steps, and in two or three days,
undoubtedly
master, let me express my wish /:
I don't want to go without having
seen you.
81 live here at Pau in the same
hotel with you. / read in the news
paper that you had arrived day be-
fore yesterday. Since then this de-
sire has pursued me: To see you, to
know what you look like. To get a
glimpse of the forehead from which
so many chefs-d'euyre have sprung,
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
By Rebecca Drucker

ENlUS itself il np more rare
-. than an adequaze novel about
~ genius. Perhaps only one. car
beget the other. Neverthe.
less, writer's Of lesser gifts continue
to be drawn to test their strength on
this subject.
Miss Singmaster, in her novel, Basil
Everman" (Houghton- Mifflin Company,
skirts the main difficulty by not at
tempting a life study. Her man Of
genius who gives her book its name
is a ghost, an influence, a figure seen
by reflection twenty years after he
has died obscurely and untimely.
Until he is suddenly discovered and
trumpeted for immortality by a dis
corning literary clique he has lived
only in the memory Of bitter elder
sister who has brooded over the sins
his strange temperament led him to
commit against the small town conven-
tions of their family. 1t is her fate
to see genius flame up again in her
son. Her struggle to save him from
such tragic failure to the righteous
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

XX presented to him by one Of
his female admirers, M
Reginacq opened the last
envelope in his afternoon mail. He
found this letter:
master: beg Of you to read this
letter through and to be indulgent
to the unknown correspondent who
has ventured to send it to you. i
am about to die, and to die loving
you. Yes, before God, who is recall
ing me to Himself, l swear that l
love you and that / have never loved
any one but you. On the threshold
of death I feel none Of that shame
which prevents we'll bred women
from making such avowals. More
over, / am certain that you will
never see me and that encourages
me to confession which, under any
other circumstances, l would recog-
nize as out Of place and eyen ridlcu-
lous.
81 am twenty-one years old. My
mother was a social entertainer, a
singer, often praised in the Paris
newspapers. She sang your COM
positions at many fashionable gath
erings. You were her favorite COM
poser. can say, Master, that I
grew up to the sound Of your music.
/ know. it almost by heart. 1t con-
soled me in my childish troubles. 1t
stimulated me in my girlish efforts.
Do you know, Master, what admira-
ton, pleasure and respectful curl
osity melodies like yours can create,
and, later, whats passionate feeling
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

of the body tenanted by heart
which rules over mine.
master, I believe that death will
give me a respite of forty eight
hours more. Will you appear for a
few minutes on your balcony at sun
set, when the Pyrenees are most
beautiful, when they seem like
rose-colored stairs to heaven and en-
courage the dying to climb them?
I shall look at you without showing
myself, for l am now only the
shadow Of a living being, and I don't
want to affect you with the sight
of premature decline. l shall look at
you. shall fill my eyes with your
image; and, in Paradise, if God
judges me worthy to enter there, the
memory of that vision, O great
musician, will be sweeter to me than
the concerts of the angels.
"Will you do this? You say yes,
don't you? So that l may depart
happy. My soul embraces yours.
"a WOMAN.
$50 that l may be sure it is you,
/ ask you to appear on the balcony
with book in your hand. Thanks,
Master! l shall tell God how good
you are"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
HHE HOUSE OF BAL
TAzAR" (John Lane), by
William T 1octe SC tho

TAZAR" (John Lane), by
William j. Locke, is the
history of what the au-
thor calls "a disconnected dynamo" his
strength, his weaknesses, how he
"hltched on to the war and bucked it
up Locke creates the rather fantas-
tic psychology of John Baltazar and
leaves most Of the analysis to a per-
picked public. Baltazar has the neces-
sary characteristics of a Locke hero.
lie Is, for instance, the rare sort of
genius that recognizes the Importance
of other lives; his creative instinct is
not satisfied with the abstract, but
seeks the human outlet Of molding a
character, and, Of course, he loves with
an undying ardor. Like the Beloved
Vagabond, difficult love affair drives
him into self-exile and transforms his
emotional life into one of RETROSPECT
tion. Unlike Paragot however, he does
not deteriorate, but, on the contrary
his mental activities grow even more
intense after the emotional cyclone
SO far. John Baltazar is fully as real. if
not as interesting, as the romantic
vagabond. The latter is an artist. an
abnormal romanticist, who requires
self expression, but whose self-expres-
sion under emotional stress turns NOR
bidly from constructive channels. Bal
tazar, on the other hand, is essentially
constructive genius and healthy
normal man. His exile, however, is
a far more drastic and unnatural one
than that Of Paragot. He not only
buries himself in China, but cuts off
all communications with England for
eighteen years. This is carrying eccen-
tricity too far; it is also another evil
dence of Locke's unique conception of
romantic love. With all his extrav-
agances there is some ething annmic and
unnatural about the Lockian grand pas
possessive instinct too strong within
him to sacrifice his love for social po-
sition or fair name of the object of his
devotion, and, incidentally, tries to
kill the thing he loves with Kindness
Grant that Baltazar is passionately in
love and that he is man of alert in
telligence and the nature of his exile
becomes utterly preposterous.
Baltazar is ignorant Of the two years
of the war as the result of vow to
isolate himself from the affairs of Eng
land for three years. The vow itself
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
A Psychic Novel
Spirit World Enters Into
Alma Newton's Tale
THE world of sense and the worlc

"HE world of sense and the world
of spirit are often merged in
Alma Newton's new story, "a
Jewel in the Sand" (Dufield). The
occult influence that is perceptble in
the authors earlier works, "The Blue
String and "Memories," is extremely
pronounced; and the reader may some
times wonder whether he is reading
novel or a record of psychical ex-
periences.
The book is written somewhat in the
form of an autobiography. The hero
inc is introduced with a few somber
and mysterious touches that suggest
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
A Novel About Genius
Elsie Singmasters Story Better in Conception
Than in Execution

not. she sees the drama, but not the
processes of it. She is sentimental.
and ali the tyranny and tiresome med
ding Of singularly harsh and narrow
woman must appear noble because done
in the name of motherhood.
This and superfuous mystery
about the paternity and legitimacy OF
the heroine make story Of uneven
quality. 1t does not reach the dis
tinction for which it aims. But the
aim itself, in American writing, is
something of & distinction
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
DR.. Goricar's Book Read by Wilson

Just before President Wilson sailed
for Paris to attend the peace confer
ence he was given a ver,- few docu-
ments which General Churchill, head of
the Intelligence Department of the
United States Army, considered it es-
sential that he should read. Among
these was DR.. Goricar's book. "The In
side Story of Austro- German Intrigue"
which is soon to be published by
Doubleday, Page & Co. The book, then
in manuscript, was given to Mr.. Wilson
aboard the George Washington.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Harper Publications

Harper & Brothers announce that
they will publish Immediately "a
World Remaking," by Clarence W. Bar
ron; present and Past Banking in
Mexico" by Walter Flavius McCaleb;
"Lightnin'," by Frank Bacon
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
"Duds" on the Screen

"Duds," Henry c. Rowland's novel
which, was recently published by the
Harpers, has just been put on the
screen. "Duds' is the story of Ger
man loot-smuggling combine, and Of
how Captain Phineas Piunkett. U. S. A..
better known as Phoebe" broke it up
with the opposition of one beautiful
woman and the aid Of another.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

directors complain, however, that it
is more tedious and diflcult to drama
tie his work than those of any other
author, because of the concise style
of express on and brevity Of speech of
which O. Henry was master.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

s.EIRE OF YOUTH" by Henry James
Forman Gittle- Brown), gives an
early promise which seems to us unful
filled 1t begins as a novel of the second
generation in the newspaper world. In
this story of the career of the son of
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
o. Henry Hard to Film

0. Henry's stories have proved so
full of dramatic possibilities that the
Vitagraph Company is now producing
them at the rate of two month. The
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

ness she understands makes the theme
of the story.
1t is theme for psychologist
one, too, willing to- break literary
ground in the realistic treatment OF
motherhood. That Miss Singmaster il
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

theory. Here, at least, there is ten
derness. and sweetness, and magma
tion. We cannot account for it. We
can only say that it is one of those
things. The stage is full of accidents.
For all we know Theda Bara might be
able to play Peter Pan.