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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-12

From off the steep
He too kthe leap,
And you ask me why ne did it? I'm
surprised!
You are thinking of the proverb
"Love is bfnd;"
Or you think her quite resistless, il
| you're kind.
But in either case you're wrong;
Both his sight and will were strong;
The good advice
He needed twice;
But, Alas, the second look was cast be-
hind! -Ivey PEBBLES
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-12
JINGLES.

There was young man named Ned,
Who just before going to bed,
Ate very much cheese that was
Dutch,
And when he awoke he was dead.
There was young girl named Perk-
ms,
Who, just simple dotted on gherkins;
In spite of advice, she ate so much
spice,
That it picked her internal workins.
There was a young man from Chicago,
Who wanted to see buzz saw go;
He put down his face very close to
the place,
And the doctor said, "where did his
jaw go?"
There was an old maid in Peru,
Who, thirty-one languages knew
With one pair of lungs she worked
thirty-two tongues,
1 don't wonder she's single, do you?
A tutor who footed the flute,
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot,
Said the two to the tutor, as it
harder to toet,
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
MY object in writing this rhyme,
Was to give you beautiful chime;
To let my mind soar, to reigns galore,
Which helps me to pass of the time.
T. P. M.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-12
STRIKE Is CALLED
BY RAILROAD MEN.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 5.--A strike
Of $4,000 members of the Brother
hood OF Maintenance Of Way En-
ployes and Railway Shop Laborers
was called fer Tuesday, February II
at meeting Of the general chairman
Of the Brotherhood here today.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-12
Chased!

siYou should look before you leap" the
sage advised
To the man upon the brink the vanE
devised.
And he saw her open arms,
As SIZE beaconed with her charms,
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Sc Ofrece.

Sc oFRECE: ell mejor carbon vegetal
en- "a cantidad que Sc desee. Tambier
lena de la mejor calidad y cinco casaS
de MADEIRA situadas en- Puerta de Tie
ira Y Santurce. Rentan $500 mensuales
Agapito Miranda. San Agustin No. 76.
Puerta de TERRA, tel6fono 727 verde
NECEsITAMoS TN agente en- cada pue
BIO. En- ell negocio de retratos, marcos.
medallones, joyeria con retratos, insig
MAS de logias, sociedades. Tabletas Nal
ther, etc. Para informes, Julio Vaz-
quez telefono 1889, Box l42, Puerta
de TERRA.
Sc soLICITA coLocAcIoN para un
joven vendedor active, con conocimien
tos de Teneduria de Libros, Ingles J
Mecanografia. Buenas referencias. Di
riiase al apartado 269, San Juan.
p. r.
PERDIDA.- Una cartera color
negro con valores v tarjeta de iden-
tificaci0n, en- caro- del Condado en-
tire la Plaza Baldorioty la Parada
IL.
Sc gratifcara al que la entreguc
en- esta imprenta.
dovEN MECANoGRAFo, con dos amos
de estudios comerciales y experiencia
en- Bancos desea colocarse. Pida infor.
mes al tel6fOnO 7s9 rOjO, San Juan.
TENEDOR DE LIBR0S Y CO
RRESPONSAL en- Espanol Ingles
con once amos de experiencia, ofrece
sus servicios., Pida informes al tele-
fono 7S9 rojo, San Juan.
TAQUIGRAFA, en- Espanol In
g.es, con dos amos de practica en- Off
cinas, desea colocarse. Lame al te-
lefono 789 roio, San Juan.
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Sc alquIa.

HABITACIoN AMUEBLADA: Joven
de buenas referencias y costumbres, dc
sea una habitaci6n. Necesariamente de
be Ser limpia y con bastante ventila
ci6n. Prefero que sea en- Miramar, Sar
turce Condado. Dirijase a &c" Ell
MUNDO.
s~-~e~@-r~
Sc DESEAN inmcdiatamente pa
ia matrimonio sin ninos, dos habita-
clones frecas en- casa de familia res
petablc. Dirijase rs" Ell MUNDO.
MUNDO.
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HAYNES de cinco pasajeros, en- buen
estado, por $1,000. Familia que Sc au-
senta. Apartado 761, San Juan.
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COlOcaciOnes.

TENEDoR DE LIBRos: Joven de co
nocimientos modernos y buena letrs. Sc
solicita para casa importante de cOmi-
stones de San Juan. apartado 761.
Sc NEcEsITAN sRTAs. que deseen
aprender a hacer sombreros. Nosotros
pagaremos su aprendisaje. Sues. de Jose
Cid. San Francisco 80. Fabrica de Som
breros.
oCURRID BoRDADoRAS lBuenos pre-
clos SO pagan en- santurce, parada "A,
calle Lola. De la esquina Sur oeste del
parque la segunda casa. M. T. Schubert
Sc NEcEsITAN bordadoras expertas y
una schorita que sepa hacer disefos pa
ra Blusas Dirijase Glassberg, Luna 61,
San Juan. 12
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Vendemos Cintas para toda marca
de maquinas de escribir.-OJEDA
BROS, San Jose No. 6. Advt.
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DIcoIoNARIo MEDIco para nurses
por Rosa A. Gonzalez, R. N. De venta
en- casa de Real HermanOs, Tanca /.
San Juan.
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Pida sus cintas por correo para ma
quinas de escribir 0JEDA BROS,
San Jose No. 6. Advt.
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DIRECTORIO PROFESSIONAL
MEDICOS
ORA. JosEFINA v1LLAFANE

Especialmente Enfermedades de sefloras
y Partos
CONSULTAS DE 2 q 4 P. n.
Gale del Parque 81. Parada IS.
Tel6fonc 617 Negro
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Sc Yende.

Sc vENDE una magninca residencia
en- sl condado, Avenida Magdalena. In
formaran "Porto Rico Commercial Cor
poration". Tel. 0sO-252, San Juan.
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MUEBEs.-Rafael Margarida, Fabri-
cante Importador. Sc compran nue.
blss usados Muebles para alquiler. vi
site "LoS NoVIoS", Salvador
Bran "A. Telefono 95. Apartado 273.
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DIR. LUIS A. SALIVA

Medico Cirujano, Pharmaceutical, Bac-
teri6logo del Institute Rockefeller, Nue.
va York. Ex-catedratico de Bacteriolo-
gfa de La Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Laboratorio de Anansis Clinico y
Bacteriol6gico. Medicina General
Horas de consulta:-De q 10 A. N.
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
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Sc cornpra.

co1IRRo:-Tres pasajes de primera en-
ctiAlquier vapor que salga en- Agosto
septiembre. 1920. Hago buena gratii-
eacion Ilame al Telef. 4 1 l, San
Juan, 0 al Telcf. 3, verde santurce.
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SELL0S:-Envie % centavos en- seIlos
de coyreo usables americanos y recibira
100 ssllos do todas las parties del mundo
incluyendo: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile.
Mejico, etc, etc. ie
Dirfjass a @. R. GONZALEZ, 2l
Wilson Ave, santurce, RuSrto Rico.
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EN- PUERTA DE TERRA, calle san
Agustin NO. 76, parada 6 ] y, Sc ven
don: I'm lote dc veinte docenas mache-
tes Perrillos Y Morunos; un lote tazas
escudillas; un lote fuentes loza, un prem
dedor electrico; seis butacas de Viena;
un escritorio de tapa corrediza; doce
latas cresol creolina; una vidriera
para anuncios; un caro- vidriera y dos
caias de hierro para caudales. En- la
misma casa informaran.
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Sc vENDE un piano alta calidad de la
famosa marca Weber, en- muy buen
estado. Preeio $500. Gale San Justo,
3s altos.
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tccntintia en- la pagina AZ
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FLoREs.-se venden gardenias. In
formaran telefono 423 negro, Santurce.
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Napoleon's Memory for Names.

Really Dood observers are very rare.
Napoleon pretended TO recall epery
face he had looked upon once. This
has become legendary. but II Is not
quite so. He confused all the names.
One day he sees certain face In a
dcputdtion and thinks that he recoo-
nises IT, IL lods scholar aoho qcds
,UeH knolcn In that dap, named Ameil-
hon. The follotcing dialogue takes
place: Aren't you AnctllonS" yes,
sire, Ameilhon." Librarian Of Sdtnte-
Gene1icpe" yes, sire, of the Ar
senal" "Continudtor of the History
OF the Ottoman Empire'f" Yes, sire,
Of the History of the Loto Empire"
After ichich Ameiihon, enchanted 1cith
the honor, toent of. declaring every
tchere most emphdticduy: THE EN-
peror Is amazing. He knotcs every
htng."-From Remy De Gourmont's
'Philosophic Nights in Paris" John
w. Luce & Coz
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
Four Just Men
And the Law
THE FOUR JUST MEN. BY Edgar
Wallace. Boston: Small, Maynard &

THE FOUR JUST MEN. BY Edgar
Wallace. Boston: Small, Maynard &
Co.
Mr.. Wallace may now take his place
among the best writer's of mystery and
detective stories. Green Rust" was an
interesting yarn that came out of the
war. His latest, THE Four Just Men,"
who became three and then four again,
is the story of men who took upon
themselves the adjusting OF the wrongs
of mankind and womankind. and an
enormous international complication.
Although the police of many nations
were doing everything in their power
to thwart them, they worked secretly
to unravel and settle in the right way
for the police the complications that
arose from the aforesaid complication.
Working by sheer intellect the four
men-intelligent and we'll versed on
science, law and invention. with
enough money to back up these at
tributes-carried on a war against
crime and criminals all In the interest
of human justice. II you think for a
moment that we have given away the
story you will find you are greatly
mistaken and will thank the author
for two or three nights well spent.
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Cosno Hamilton.

above suspicion, had the dead past
been absolutely dead. But il couldn't
die without one grand. glorious fare
well in Bills New York apartment.
Through a miscue of the fates, Miss
Respectable chose the hour when the
party was getting well under way to
drop in and surprise Bill. 1t was a day
or so before the wedding. Martha stood
for a moment peering into. the den
VIII IRE Bill was playing host, but she
didn't go in. Bill hadn't seen her.
On the morning of the wedding
Teddy meets Martha as she is sneak
ing from the Wainwright home, afraid
to face life with Bill after her peep
into the Blue Room. On a deserted
back porch is threshed out the ques-
ton of whether she shall sacrifice her
self to her pride or, giving all to love,
let the dead past bury its dead and go
through with the ceremony.
Jedburgh, putting aside his own life
dreams of love in a cottage with a Miss
Respectable, pleads the cause of the
erring chum in scene of intense emo
ton, and the question is solved
The Blue Room" may, as its pub
fishers claim for it, be a powerful
plea for the single standard of mo-
rality." 1t is more likely to impress
the reader as a powerful plea for the
double standard. Too, too, easily does
Bill get Off, too attractively is the life
in his apartment pictured and too
pleasant the companionship of the little
sea waif, Susy Hatch.
And pathetic figure indeed is the
idealistic, conventional and excellent
Jedburgh. who, with the recent wall of
Martha, ITS unfair, it's unfair" ring
ing In his ears, steps "out into the
sun"-the wedding ceremony over.
one might almost wish the wholly
adorable and equally pathetic Susy
Hatch were out there waiting for him.
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Irish Dyck
A Prose-Verse Review by
EDWIN Carly RANCK.
No DEFENCE. BY Gilbert Parker. j. ]
Iippincott Companv

No DEFENCE. By Gilbert Parker ]. b.
Lppincott Company.
T TERE IS Victorian romance !;
IT here are swords that flash
and glance; here is Gil
bert Parker feeding you on
thrills; here is gallant Dyck Cal
houn; here is love beneath the
moon; here are plots and counter
plots and clash of wills. Here is
Sheila in her bloom, Turing Dyck
to prison doom. and he suffers
shame to guard her from distress ;
but this fighting Irishman, like
another D'Artagnan, wins his
freedom after further storm and
stress. There is fighting on the
seas, even in the West Indies, and
Dyck is now with mutineers al
lied, but when French and Brit
iSh fight on the seas with all their
might, why, it's Irish Dyck whose
vessel turns the tide. Then Sir
Gilbert, for your pleasure, has
Dyck hunt for sunken treasure.
AS for Sheila--well, you know he
won Z forsake her. In a manner
quite surprising Dyck next quells
a slave uprising-and it happens
on the island of Jamaica. Then
our brave Dyck wins his Sheila---
no, he doesn't have TO steal her,
for she's willing now to be his
blushing bride. So they bury all
their hates, come TO these United
States--and we leave him with
the lady by his sida
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Reviewed by
BEATRICE WASHBURN.

Theodore Dresser, who has under
taken TO introduce Odin Gregory's
poetic drama. never does anything half
way, and when he starts out by COM
pairing MIR. Gregory's Furies to the
F'uries of Eschylus. much to the det-
thing should be done about it. Dresser
does not fiatter the American reader
by a statement like this:
Eliminate Sheridan's works. and
what English play is there that has
survived the test of even a century?
But why does this condition main
tain?
THE answer suggests itself
"Puritanism-the inspiration of the
period of Oliver Cromwel1-dedicated
itself to the murder of the soul of
English poetry by the unsparing use
of can't The effect Of this drab poison
continued through the Restoration. 1t
crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrims.
and 1t is with us to-day. 1t was in
evitable that thereafter English ge-
MUS, when it did manifest itself, should
do so in the ode rather than in the
sonnet. We had Milton in the middle
of the seventeenth century. And then
we had Bunyan. Cant, regnant and
triumphant, held aloft the whining
church hymn as the greatest thing
in poesy; and a people blinded by its
own dust-throwing celebrated the ex-
tinction of free literature as a great
moral victory"
Be that as it may there is no ques-
ton that Odin Gregory has written a
very stirring drama. Again we quote
Mr.. Dresser:
'Essaying the Roman world, and an
Interpretation of the humanist mood,
he sees pleb and patrician, courtesan
and lady, slave and lord, in the true
relation of each to the other.
'And he paints them as he sees them.
He refuses to believe that the prov
ince of literature. or of poetry, is to
deal only with piffle. He refuses to
accept the dictum of the authorities
that the mission of modern literature
Is to serve asa sort of sublimated
movie His characters are no mere
lay figures, induced to action by the
more or less artful, but always obvious,
pulling of strings Each of his per-
sonages lives breathes and moves as
do the men and women of our own
time. 1t Is refreshing to note that the
play is not propaganda. The tempta-
ton to subvert the muse to such pur-
poses is very strong. Even the d.
vina 'Commedia' we are told. was writ
ten in support of a political faction.
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Susy and Teddy
Paw the Bill
THE BLUE ROOM BY cosrno Ham
ilton. Little. Brown q CO.
Reviewed by HUGH LEAMY.

Reviewed by HUGH LEAMY.
Mr. Hamilton's latest is the story of
young Bill Mortimer, son OF the erst-
while bon Utvdnt, Commodore Morti-
mer. and how young Bill. returning from
the war. found distasteful the sowing
of wild oats that previously had
claimed his attention.
Bill had pretty we'll frolicked his way
through life before the big scrap came,
and he had a past that was hardly the
best recommendation in the world
when ne sought the good grsces of
Martha Wainwright-"Miss Respect
able" Martha didn't know about that,
however, and that's where the story
comes in.
chum had Bill, a British flying
corps man named Teddy Jedburgh.
Now, Teddy's past was irreproachable,
and consequently when the two fell in
love with Martha Teddy felt 1t was a
bit unfair. but he stood by Bill. aiding
his cause Loyalty. keeping to himself
what he knew of the Blue Room in
Bits life-house.
1t is written that into the Blue Room
thou shalt not look, and things would
have gone along right smoothly, with
the reformed Bill well on his way to be-
come the husband of Martha and quite
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"Odin Gregory has achieved a
big, arresting thing Rugged and
ruthless utterance Of the truth" is what
Eduin Markham says of "Caius Grac-
chus," by Odin Gregory. All book
sellers. Boni & Liveright, Publishers,
New York. 81 net.
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Art and Love

BROKEN COLOUR. BY Harold Oil.
son. John Lane Company.
To have only one leg is no handicap
to the hero of an English novel just
now. In fact, If he is a returned SOL
der his oneleggedness is an advantage,
as the young artist soldier of this story
learned when the fierce dog attacked
him and bit his wooden leg. Nor did
the girl mind it. But this hero's chief
trouble was that he wanted to be an
artist. and his rich grandfather pre-
ferred to make a business man of him
"a theme that is not strikingly novel
but is well handled here. to the making
of a mildly pleasant tale. ending in the
achievement of both the girl and an
artistic career.
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Realistic Drama From Classic Tale

cAIUs GRACIOUS. A Tragedy. By
Odin 0regory. Introduction by Theo-
dore Dreiser. Boni 4 LiveriYht
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;nces from the time of their severance
from France until their restoration.
Among the other subjects discussed
in the book are The Peace Conference
and Rights of Minorities." Jewish
Social Research in the United States"
and under records of events for the
year $3.50 we have the general events
OF both the United States and foreign
countries of interest to Jews. Another
important part of this volume Is the
statistical data showing the population
of the Jews of the world and specifi-
cally in the United States. with sta
tistics on immigration into the United
States and Canada.
Capt. c. H. Alison, noted English
golf architect and coauthor with Mr..
H. S. Colt of Golf Architecture"
(Scribners). is now in this country for
a few months stay. 1t may be fore"
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Jewish History
and Statistics

THE AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR
BOOK 1851. Edited by Harry Schnei-
derman. Philadelphia: Jewish Publ
cation Society OF America.
Although many articles in this vol
ume deal with matters OF n normal
and peace time character IL Is not alb
solutely devoid of references to the
recent world war One of the most i'm
portant changes in the map of Europe
being tho return of Alsace- Lorraine to
France. NJ. Sylvan Half has pictured
tho life Of the Jews Of the two prov
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and the 'Furies' of Eschylus. to which
I shall refer later on. was worked out
to bolster up the Areopagus."
The faults are for the most part
technical ones. such as ending a line
in a proposition or not ending 1t at
all. Such expressions as he'd,
we've" and similar elisions are used
too often. But as a historian and a
realist Mr.. Gregory leaves little to
be desired. We cannot but feel that
the iambic pentameter is a very beau
tifu form of art-one which should
be approached with all reverence and
attention to details. and we miss. too
the feeling of mysticism that seems to
have been an essential element Of life
in classic periods. Gregory's Furies
ladies we had been brought UP to be-
lieve in, but raher like three bitter
and irritable old harridans.
The story of the GraCchi, their de-
votion to the state and their ultimate
betrayal by their own people makes
one of the most dramatic pages of
Roman history. Mr. Gregory has
brought it up to date or, rather. has
universalized It so that we might be
witnessing a passage at arms between
the Democratic and the Republican
party. His portrayal of Licinia, the
wife of Gracious, is a convincing rep
resentation of noble hearted woman
of two thousand years ago.
The character drawings are excel
lent-even the minor characters are
so individual that they can never be
mistaken for one another, rare ex-
cellence in dramatic productions.
Every one says exactly what he means
and there is little beating about the
bush-almost too little. in fact-in
some of the remarks of Lydia the
courtesan and of Caius Fannius the
consul. and his advice to his son. The
ephemeral emotion of the crowd, now
loyal to Gracious and in another in
slant won over to Opimius, Is so typi-
cal of any group OF people listening
to two speakers that it is almost too
true for comfort.
The fifth act, which Mr.. Dresser is
so keen about, does not seem to us
to hit the mark at all. Nowhere is
there that sense of predestination-
that anticipation Of doom and of the
futility of human life which Shake
speare conveys in six words ringing
through julius C9sar-"Cesar, beware
the Ides of March," Caius Gracious
dies the death of a brave Roman, but
he should not be permitted to converse
with the shade of Father Tiber after
ward--it is too much of an anti
climax. But whether or not Odin
Gregory registers as a poet there is
no question that he has written a
moving play, one that ought to be
successful on any stage.
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Knut Hansun of Norway, for
mer street car conductor, who
has been awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature for 1920
Saving Mexico

is MEXICO WORTH SAVING? By
George Agnew Chamberlain. Bobbs-
Merrill Company.