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Attention Moose

Regular meetings will be held
beginning with the 6rst of the
year every first and third Mon
day of each mocth a the Yeo-
man hall, West Bayhad street.
Your attendance is desired at
each meeting.
e. Schultheis, Secy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-01

Arnold johnson. who is employed
at Duluth, visited with friends aud
relatives here over Christmas.
Mrs. Adeil,ert Lee and daughter
Eleanor and Miss Eva Moreau oi
Duluth have been visiting in the
city during the past week At the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Lee.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-01
Methodist Episcopal Church
d. w. Davis. Pastor.

Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Mrs.
F. T. Beers Supt. Public wor-
ship 100 a. m. Epworth
League TOO p. m. Christmas
program and tree Wednesday
evening at 7::SS9,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-01

Arnold lhorsby, Harry Swanson
and Louis Summer6el0 left the first
OF the week for Flint, MSch where
they expect 70 work for ths pnP Poot
Engineering company,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Shepherd Of Downs
A Workmanlike Novel by
6. M. A. Peake

HLl OF THE DOWNS, BY c. NJ. A.
II Peake (Doran), is a novel that
bears on its jacket the acclaim
Of such substantial British publica-
tions az The LonGon Mercury and The
Times. 1t is good. workmnnlike piece
Of work. 1t rises to no flashes OF brill
lance, but it draws sobeyly sus-
tanned and we'll imagined character.
Eli Buckle was a shepherd, the son
of many generations Of shepherds Of
the Wessex downs. in which had been
bred deep capacity for contemp pla-
tion. During all his youth he broodcd
aloof1y and waited for spiritual rev.
elation, and that seemed to come 10
him when he fell in love with the girl
Mary. When she died a year later in
childbirth darkness closed on him
again--and he set out to wander over
the face of the earth, choosing the
wide spaces, places where his sou,
might breathe. He went to sea and
learned the exigent reveings and al
ventures Of the sailors life, he wan
dered over the Or:ant, drifted into
ranch life in Canada, and everywhere
he approached curiously and studied
faith in many forms. When finally
alter many years he came to harbo1
again on his Wessex downs, completing
his orbit, in his granifather's house
he had evolved sort Of spiritual c n
tent for himself--a faith compounded
of the mysticism of the East and that
of the man who has lived much aionc
with nature.
Not always are the people Of Eli of
the Downs hree-dimensonal, not al
waya do they come to LIE out Of the
authors imagination, but in spite OF f
little vagueness there is always app.r-
ent a distinction of Intention and de-
sign. Eli Of the Downs is first move
"a which one may justiisb bly, hang
few hopes for the future.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Shuffled Souls
Miss Barclay Writes Weird
Story of Reincarnation

4 T THIS moment there is one
n question we desire to ask: Was
Florence Barclay serious or de-
lirious when she wrote Returned Empty
(Putnam) The book is weird mix
ture Of claptrap, virginia. ecstasies Of
the past century mode in fiction and
neo-psychic reincarnation throbs of the
mysticism Of to-day. :. 1t is both me-
chanical and vaporous in structure. con-
trolled by the formula of the Victorian
Of the lowest rung and the nebuloua
thesis Of the modern emotionalist on the
uncertain top of the ladder.
Mrs. Barclay has her old bag Of trickc
at her elbow. Her heroine clasped her
hands and aszed wildly at the stars,
Out Of the bag, pop, comes this: "The
wind moaned and shrieked through the
pines. The sea roared in the distance.
Behind the house, All owl hooted like a
lost soul in agony" Seven pages later
the hero mutters, Good God, let ma
keep my reason!" Bag yields the fol-
lowing: "Midnight sounded slowly from
a distant belfry. The old clock in the
corne7 whrred its warning, and struck
tho hour. Lady Tintage took up her
jeWs case. He rose. His knees shook.
Ae fe't queer and dizzy SO do we.
But it is the swimming Of the hero
o. Returned Empty that fills US with 4
grea. white awe. His first stunt to stun
US Is MS proving q Janus-like ability to
start from a given fixed point and swim
from it into the rising sun at a. M,
and into the sunset at .. m. We feel
queer and dizzy" again. And this
natatorial acrobat does things that make
Duke Kahanamoku, Norman Ross and
Ethelda Bleibtrey look like toy dolls in
the water. He goes down, down to the
bottom n fifty fathoms Of water 900
feet while fat fish flop him in the face,
to come up gasping and settle down to
steady breast stroke A man who had
touched weeds and mud in depths so
tremendous would, if he came up alive
(and ne wouldn't, turn over on his hack
and float until life began to trickle back
into lungs aud heart Stunt No. @.
Luke, or Nigel as he approaches shore
while swimming, fears the current,
"takes a deep breath, dives and disap-
pears,' to swim in under water. Any
tyro in the sea knows that a man swi1ns
"high" when coming in to land over ar
undertow. He doesn't go down into it..
Aside from its banalities of emotion
alism, and Returned Empty is as rich
in them as busy bush is with blue
berries, there is kernel Of originality
in the novels plot. A waif, a boy in a
founding asylum, grows to manhood.
goes on hike, steals up to III open
window Of q palatial mansion, sees a
beauteous woman within, is seen by her.
is summoned to enter, is told that he is
her long dead husband rcincarnate. AS
quite natural result, he runs out to
the beach determined on swimming un
til he browns. Woman centers telescope
on him, counts the hairs on his head
furlongs away, wills him to return. He
returns. Oh-what's the use Of this
review, anyway?
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
In Red Russia
Soviet Regime Severely
Condemned

IS > CATO ended every speech
"A with the words DeIenda est
Carthage, even so now should
eTery patriotic British citizen and
every honest thinking man begin and
end his day. begin and end every i'm
portant piece of business, with the
words, Down with the Bolsheviki'
This sentence conveys very accurate
~ the spicit Of John Pollock's work,
The Bolshevk Adventure Dutton). The
author. an Englishnan, who spent a
number Of months in Russia under
various DISCUSSES after The Boshevik
Revolution. goes beyond the sternest
critics of the So1ict regime n the vele-
mercc OF his denuncia tons According
70 Mr Pollock the l}olshevik actually
desired TO bring about the starvation of
the Russian G RS n order to consoli-
date their power. he accuses the Rus
sian Reds OF practicing the nationaliza-
ton Of women, OF acting as German
agent. o. Systematically violating ali
the laws Of l!eecncy and humanity upon
every poss.c.e opportunity.
Mr.. Pollocl's hook was written in
1910. and some Of his prophecies about
.he. speedy downfall Of Lenine and
Trotzky hare rot been verified by the
Subsequent course Of events. Ho asserts
over and over again that the majority
of the Russian people hoped for the
.needy coming OF British troops to de-
'er rham tom Bolshevik tyranny. Cir
cumstaucea lave persistently thwarted
tha consulnm 4tcn Of this desire.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
In the House Of Lynch
Leonard Merrick's Latest Book a Melo.
dramatic Effort

of young Englishman, poor artist
who falls in love with a New York
heiress, the daughter of the notorious
stock manipulation, Lynch. He is too
proud to ask her to marry him, but
with the characteristic enterprise Of
he will have none of her fathers
tainted wealth-not though all their
friends think him mad and quixotic.
Not only will he not touch any of her
fathers money, but he forbds the girl
to do SO. Then they 70 off to touching
poverty in London's Bohemia. Through
all their trials not once does he weaken,
and finally his wife, feeling that to
be a good and true wife she must share
his conviction, decided that she must
renounce her wealth for good. She
has two children, she is illhtted to
cope with poverty, but to keep her hus-
bands love she gives to charity every
penny Of the forty millions that her
ia ather leaves her Just then, providen-
tally, her husband paints picture
that makes him famous, so she is re-
warded by having her husbands hon
est wealth in place of her fathers
tainted money.
This is all intensely sentimental and
intensely humorless. One is reminded
that Merrick was once an actor by the
absurd and stilted speeches-though n
no other sort Of speech would fit such
absurd and stiIted situations as these.
Now and then there is the Merrick
grace of phrase. The charwoman re-
lated her misfortunes, (which had been
chiefly matrimonial, and partly alco-
holic." But more often the converss-
tion is like this:
''I find the methods Of such trust
rs yours, sir, as devoid of Christianity
and patriotism and sympathy as the
methods of the primeval aces when
Might was Right. And I object to 6
fortune massed by plumber, b. whole
sale trickery, and perjury and cor
ruption bv bribing a Press 20 spread
lies broadcast for tho snare of the
life-earnings of thousands ard the III
iquitous enrichment"-- and so on.
and so on
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Aondon's Latest BOOK

1T is pity that Jack London's iasS
book should have been such a poor
thing as Hearts Of Three Macmillan j,
and it is still more to be regretted that
in a foreword he should have expressed
pride in it. All it is is a "movie"
thriller Of the most famboyant kind. 1t
seems that for the money that there wa
in it London struck bargain By whiei,
Charles Goddard was 20 write the
scenario for movie" serial, the epi-
sodes of which as completed were to be
sent to London, who was in his turn TO
make them into novel 10 be published
on the magazine pages Of a syndicate o.
newspapers. The result was just what
might be expected, a story Of utterly
impossible happenings acted By crea-
tions who never could have lived.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14


and arrived artists combin-
ing to rescue from obscurity
a young fellow-artist7 How it shames
the cynics What proof Of the cx-
istence Of noble freemAsonry among
British artists of an august freedom
from the common jealousies of com
mon men!
When J. NJ. Barrie with many pretty
words of showmanshp, sent aloft the
gay-colored balloon Of Leonard Mer-
rick's Conrad in Quest of His Youth
(in the special authors edition issued
by Dutton), we clapped our hands and
marveled that so buoyant a thing had
been kept to earth SO long. Since then
at precise intervals a great man has
stepped forward and with few enthu-
siastic phrases has sent another Mer-
rick novel soaring, until the sky is full
of them and the whole range of hyper
bolc is exhausted. The speeches have
grown a little set, the eye wearies-
after all, none Of them was as bright
and gay Rs Conrad-save the unspon-
sored While Paris Laughed.
But by now it would seem to be a
point Of esteem with famous British
writers to be invited to patronize Leon
ard Merrick. II. G. Wells, W. J. Locke
Sir Arthur Pinero and Maurice Hew-
lett-a strangely assorted companion
ship. but no gathering of British lions
would be complete without G. X. Ches-
terton. For little while one WAS
alarmed that the supply Of old Mer-
rick novels had given out, but some
one leaned far over into the trunk and
brought out The House of Lynch from
its deepest recesses.
G. X. Chesterton has written gra-
cious and genial piece, trif1e formal,
as If Nj Chesterton were attending
the dedicatory exercises in frock
coat and a high hat-but entirely
charming. And The House Of Lynch
comes out Of it's long confinement, a
little Debated. There is no escaping
the fact that it is not rs buoyant az
some of the others. 1t tells the story
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Caius Gracious: AClassical Traqedv
story of Inflated Ancient Reformer Told in an
Unusual Form

DIN GREGORY, the author.
and Horace Liveright, the
publisher of the tive-act
- tragedy, Caius Gracious, are
18th candidates for the literary Croix
!. Cuerre. For never since tho day
- shakespeare has play write.
= English metrical verse aroused
.,r appreciable measure of popular
.s.husiasm. It has become conven-
.,on Of Anglo Saxon literary criticism
,.,t metric drama is almost a hope
Vas form of composition. Yet the
r,shty Greek tragedies always inspire
.~u,stion; and the work Of Goethe,
s.A;;ler. Hugo and Rostand shows that
zen in modern times heroic themes
ran be most adequately rendered
,Aroush the stately medium Of metri-
cal verse.
Forgetting for tho moment its
rseyliar form one finds in Caius
c.scchus drama of vivid color,
marked psychological insight and COM
seliing power. Some Of the pictures
~ Roman life in the second century
3. C. challenge comparison with the
bss. descriptive passages in Quo
vsdis and The Last Days of
pompeii The central figure, Grac-
chus, sttains quite heroic proportions
in his hopeless struggle to free his
country from the tyranny of the
ustricians. The author perhaps de-
usrts slightly from historical accuracy
in depicting Calus as an extreme
paciast, who was willing to see all
bis plans ruined rather than shed csc
drop Of Roman blood. By this device,
however, he enhances the dignity and
beauty Of Gracchus's death.
Class War in Ancient Rome
throughout the play the author dis
plays q very clear comprehension of
the social forces which account for the
career and death of Caius, and of his
BROTHER, Tiberius. Toward the end of
the second century B. C.. the wealthy
and sristocratic classes had attained q
position OF overwhelming power in the
Roman state. They monopolized great
tracts of land; and they reaped rich
harvest from the plunder of the newly
conquered provinces. The formerly in
dependent farmers and city workers
were driven into poverty and servitude
ty the competition OF of The hordes
Of slaves who poured into Italy after
each victory of the Roman armies.
Nberius Gracious attempted to I'M
rsove conditions by distributing land
to the soldiers and workers and curb
ing the power of the wealthy; he was
murdered by a patrician mob. His
Younger brother, Ceius, the hero of
Mr. Gregory's play, followed in his
footsteps and eventually shared his
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Stories of the Red Blood Type
Three Novels That Deal in Adventures on Sea
and Land
and Land

would be among those TO answer 4ucn
an advertisement. The captain ands
himself facing situations which call
for coolness and a considerable knowl-
edge of jiu-jitsu. As we take it, no
villain in B. modern c'ective story eX-
poets to be thrown by Decide ntai '>yest-
ling methods. If he is not downct hy
iiu-jitsu, he knows that ne is ,ieprng
in hopelessly old-fashioned romance.
The captains adversary is a ,-.an
of versatility in the matter Of crimes,
DISCUSSES and cruelty. His modest snl-
btion is to bring the English govern
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
The Emperor of Elanl
THE EMPEROR OF ELAN, by Fl. G..
- Dwight doubleday PAGE e. Co.)

IAG EM EktOh Of Ella vi, Dy II. G.
Dwight Doubleday, Page g. Co...
is collection Of Mr.. Dwight's short
stories that have already been published
in various magazines. 1t is the last one
in the collection that gives ats name TO
the book and this one the author tells
us, was included in The Best Short
Stories of 1917. Hence, we can go on
to the others, leaving The Emperor Of
Elan rs already having received suffi-
cent praise. And for the others we can
say that while they are somewhat un-
even, they are all readable, but it is
somewhat Of a mystery why Like
Michael" and "Henrietta Stackpole Re-
Giviva" should have been chosen to lead
the collection. They are far from the
best in the book. Acting on the prin-
ciplc of putting the best foot foremost
The Emperor Of Elan that gives the
title should also have led.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
A Gloomy Prophet

" "HERE is a pessimistic note in
The Taint in Politics, published
by Dodd, Mead e. Co. as the
work Of "a we'll known British au-
thor" The book bears the significant
subtitle: A Study in the Evolution
of Parliamentary Corruption. The
author traces the sources of weakness
and dishonesty in political life from
the Middle Ages to the present time,
laying special stress upon the political
systems of England and America. In
conclusion he pleads for a more in
dependent and courageous attitude on
the part of the individual voter.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
ory Writes Vivid Metric Drama of Roman Life

literature. And his work has far moro
to commend it than the originality Of
ita form. 1t is n pulsating. heroic,
human drama of extraordinary in
tensity, projected against an extremelv
rich background. Theodore Dresser
sponsors the play in an enthusiastic
introduction.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

Mead a. 20.
w ED blood in litera ture is no new
~ thing. Nor is its proportion
declining, judging from the
great output Of books that de-
pend chiefly upon the quality Of action.
The strange part of it all is that, when
so many writers are doing action litera-
ture, so few bring any sort of art to the
telling. 1t seems to be accepted among
the craft, apparently, that if it is a
red blood story that is being written,
something dashed off in pot-boiler fash
ion will please the public best.
Many such siap-dash books succeed, Of
course, or they would not be written in
such quantities. but one cannot help
believing that the public will welcome
All action story that combines artistic
writing with briskness Of plot. Not
that such story seems to be in the
ofiing just now, but some day it is going
to breeze along and set pace that will
make the brethren Of the rapid fire pens
mend their ways
The Western adventure story is one Of
the best fields TO try the talents Of
writers who can lift the red blood story
out OF the commonplace, and yet observe
what has happened to it since Owen
Wister demonstrated its possibilities.
Man to Man, by Jackson Gregory, has
he -hCi o{Fac \; ;cJ, l,rc h1o
toned. Steve Packard comes home after
years of seafaring and assumes control
of his fathers ranch. Steve's grand
father, HellRoaring Packard, has made
borhood, particularly by Teresa Temple
daughter Of & ranchman who has been
done" by the patriarch of the hero 3
house. Terry" as she is called, is
supposed to have Spanish blood in her
veins, but the names she calls Steve at
the outset OF the book are not Cast;lian
They are "lummox," "sn.nrty," crook ,
"sneak" and various other titles, which
do not breathe the poetry of the wide
outdoors.
But, in spite Of Terry's tendency tc
hurl nncomplimentary adjectives at the
hero, it is felt that she will capitulate
handsomely to an offer Of marriage al
the last, which she does. after she has
gone into partn ership with Steve il
beating out Grandsire Packard, whe
turns out to be not such an unamiable
hell-roarer after all when one gets al
his real feelings toward his grandson
There are fist fights, gun fighta {
cattle stampede and other things tina
make red blood Western stories
sought by motion picture producers
Incidentally, though it is not the au
thor's fault, the frontispiece shows
lot Of long-horn steers being trailed-
and the long-horn disappeared from
the West many years before the adven
of the autom mobiles which honk through
this romance.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
LIFE

by DIT. Sc KGE VORONOFF
Possibly the most revolution
ary medical discovery ever made
is presented in this book:-that
our vitality, vigour and very lives
depend upon certain small glands,
and that these glands can be re-
placed surgically when worn out,
thereby expanding the life of man
to its natural term of 12o or l40
years. 1t opens the door to new
hope and happiness.
On sale at ali bookstores, $3.50
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New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

AS truly as Shakespeare 4 s. X
has thoughts and PHILOSOPHERS of his own to
:othe in urgent words is wha. the Mem
York World says of "Caius Gracious"
BY Odin Gregory. All booksellers. Bon
I L.iverish', Publishers, New York. 81 net.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

II ULLDOG DRUMMOND, by Cyril
ID McNeile, who inscribes "sapper"
after his name, does not 20 far
toward raising the standard of the de-
tective story, in which field the writ
ers Of red blood fiction have every pos
sible latitude
The hero, Captain Hugh Drummond,
finds peace SO dull that he tries the
expedent of inserting an advertise
mcnt in his favorite newspaper, invit-
ing diversion, Legitimate if possible; ;
but crime, if Of a comparatively hu-
morous description, no objection" Of
course, girl, and a beautiful girl,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

MAN 70 NAN BY jackson Gregory.
Published by Charles Scr!bners Sons.
BULL DOG DRuMMOND. BY Cyril Nc
nellie. Published by George II. Doran
Company.
ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN SEAS. By
George Forbes. Published BY Dodd,
Mead e. Co.
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ment groveling and at the game time
to put million pounds sterling In
mis- own pockets. His one weakness,
which proves his undoing, is a habit
OF beating a tattoo on his knee with
MS left hand. The captain faces many
dangers, including a cobra swung be-
fore door. An American millionaire
is described as chewing gum without
cessation and being "tall, gaunt and
speaking with nasal twanC." from
which it is assumed that the author,
though English, has been much among
us.
a DvENTURES IN SOUTHERN
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challenge to Conrad-but it
isn't. The author. George Forbes, has
strung together series of narratives
which are supposed to chronicle the
adventures Of Peter Ecoores Van Blu,
who meets with rare excitement on
Journeys Of discovery with Dirk Har-
tog, sixteenth century navigator.
There are borrowings which at least
are made from standard and popular
sources. The story Of the Ruby Noun
tains and the Valley of Serpents
sounds like a rewriting of some of the
adventures of Sindhad. The journey in
canoe through the tunnel to the
| Male and Female Islands sounds like
Allan Quatermain. There are ship
wrecks, mutinies and adventures
among cannibals, sea serpents and
crocodiles, the whole being set down
somewhat in the style Of Hakluyt and
Vaudeville.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14

ED blood in literature is no new
thing. Nor is its proportion
declining, judging from tn
great output Of books that de
New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
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wv by the spectacle Of older
and arrived artists combin-
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A Most Interesting Experiment
Mr.. Gregory may fairly be said to
have broken ground in a new and most
interesting experiment in American