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The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-11-17

bed. "He got news down there on the
main road by pony express on its way
to st. Louis. I'll bet there's been
panic In the East. He's awake and
the others are still dreamin'."
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-11-17
Lost.

Stella-Dld she lose her heart?
Bella-Yes, she wants it returned
with one question asked.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-11-17
CHAPTER XIX.

Wherein Is One Of the Many Private
Panies Which Followed the Bursting
Of the Bubble Of Speculation.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-11-17

world before you settle down. II will
help you to be sure to know yourself
little better and to be sure Of what
you want to do"
II think that l know myself fairly
WELL" he answered. "There are so
many better men who want to marry
you! shall go away with q great
fear in me-"
"There are no better men," she an.
swered. "When you get back we shall
see what comes of our little romance.
Meanwhile I'm going to pray for you"
"And l for you" he said as he fol-
lowed her into the house. where the
older people sat waiting for them.
Harry gave the papers TO BIN to be
signed and attested and forwarded
to Mr.. Stuart in Springfield.
On their way to the hotel Samson
said TO Harry:
81 don't believe BIN is going to be
carried away by any Of these high
flyers. She's getting 10 be q very
sensible person. Poor Jack has caught
the plague. He has invested in land,
Thinks 1t will make him rich. He's
in poor health, tOo-kidney trouble
and BIN has a baby with al the rest,
Ia beautiful boy. went upstairs and
saw him asleep In his cradle. Looks
like her. Hair as yellow as gold. light
complexion. blue eyes. handsome as
a picture"
That night, in the once OF the City
hotel. they found Mr.. Lionel Davis In
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COrelli'S World of Mystery

that he tarry till / come, what is that
to thee? So. as we read, the rumor
went forth that John was the one
Disciple for whom there should be no
death And now-to go on with the
legend$it is believed by many that
deep in the as yet unexplored depths
Of the deserts of Egypt-miles and
miles over rolling sand waves which
once formed the bed of vast ocean
there stands great city whose roofs
and towers are seemingly of brass;
city barricaded and built in by walls
% brass and guarded by gates of brass.
Here dwells a race apart-a race of
beautiful human creatures who have
discovered the secret of perpetual
youth and immortality on this earth.
They have seen the centuries come
and go-the fight of time touches
them not-they only await the day
when the whole world will be free to
them-that world to come which is
not made for the many but for the
few All the discoveries of our mod
ern science are known to them-our
inventions are their common every
day appliances-on the wings of air
ana rays or nght they hear and know
all that goes on in every country. Our
wars and politics are no more to them
than the wars and politics of ants in
ant hills: they have passed beyond al
trivialities such as these. They have
discovered the secret of lifes true en-
joyment and-they enjoy!"
There are many more wonders I'm the
volume. But why should we tell you
about the airship trip to the heart
of the deserts of Egypts? OF the earth
quake in California and the airships
trip there? OF the outcome of Manella' S
love for Seaton? OF the talks between
the priest and Morgana? OF the final
trip of the airship? No! That is for
you to read, TO wonder over. to peep al
the last pages OF the book in an en-
deavor to learn the ultimate climax
of the lives of those FIVE beings before
you have read half way through.
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And when? How long must l wait
watch, absorb, steep, ripen?"
Love is the key to his life and art.
When he found no final personal salts
faction, he turned the current OF
power into poetry. He had loved in
youth-and lost. Lincoln had a SINH
lar experience, and the two great
Americans are represented as talking
1t over together.
You are thinking" said Lincoln,
that in some such fashion, with the
aid of some such friendly example,
you might have been able to construct
n happiness similar to mine.
Walt. 1t Is an every day sort of hap
piness, working happiness, as one
would say; practicable is the phrase
think employed on the stage to
describe such sets and scene shifts
as are not merely background but car,
be used-a door you can walk through
n door that is not merely painted on
the backdrop. is a practicable door
In a world where a good deal
is simply painted on the backdrop
found a practicable door. That is my
married happiness"
Walt never found that kind. Per-
haps he could not and do the work
he had to do.
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EhO Killed Snow Gregory?

o. JUDGMENT. BY Edgar Wal
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
ICK o. JUDGMENT! Poor old
Jack o. Judgment. How he
frightened us! How he thrilled
How he kept us in suspense and
sing! And when we learned all
him. who he was, and his object
such disguise. we forgave him;
fsympathized with him. And when
ne crucial moment came, when the
motive for his disguise had been full
filled and Col. Dan. Boundary had
died at his hands and he himself was
about to follow on his heels, Jack o.
Judgment told his story to his young
subordinate. But you must give me
your word you will never tell" he
asked his friend. and Stafford promised.
Like Stafford, who promised to re-
main silent, we have promised those
concerned not to disclose the secret
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Officer Murphy
Heard a Shot!

THE SHERIDAN ROAD MYSTERY.
BY Paul and Mabel Thorne. Dodd.
Mead q Co.
~ N the fifteenth line OF the text
of this story the reader is
awakened from the somnolent
mood created by the early morning at
mosphere of the scene in Sheridan
road with the italicized sentence: "Just
then Policeman Murphy heard a shoti'
From that moment there is nothing
sleepy about this criminal tale Of the
Thornes. The reader gets action all
the way: From Marsh the mysterious;
from Detective Sergeant Dave Morgan
OF the Chicago police force; from the
counterfeiter and murderer who is the
chief figure in the mystery. And II
Jane Atwood does not furnish positive
action In one way she does in another
by the tender effect she has on Marsh.
But this is primarily a novel of action
and mystery. and in those two aims
IL is an unqualified success. The
Thornes evidently decided they were
going 10 be original in the denouement
of their plot. II not in it's opening
scene, and this they achieved By hav-
ing the body of the murdered man
found In a place that Poe might have
envied.
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HurnOr From HarnSun

the flames of youth. But he Is pretty
shrewd sort of moth in his way, and
knows that Ii is we'll to prepare for
winter and the dark days. The Quixotic
dreamer becomes a serious business
man, and is in a fair way to bring
his dreams TO realization as the book
ends.
The Characterization is excellent.
Trader Mack, the great man of the
place, the small towns glass of fash
ion, who feels that his prestige is
waning because money has been stolen
from him; the pastor and his lady. the
sailors, the fishermen and the village
Romeos and Juliets-all are delightful
in their way. AS always in Hamsun
one gets wonderful description, done
very simply. This, for instance, gives
the very feel of the short, brilliant
Norwegian summer THE nights were
too brilliant and full of sun. 1t was
the weather for dreams; for little
fluttering quests Of the heart. Young
folks walked the roads by night, sing
ing and waving branches of willow.
And from every rocky islet came the
calling of BIRDS"
And this for autumn: Autumn was
setting in; the wind rushing through
the woods, the sea yellow and cold,
and a great awakening of stars in the
sky"
There is nothing dour or darkly
Scandinavian about "Dreamers." 1t is
like play of sunlight about a noun
tain top. HOIGER CAHILL.
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either, and il we did, we could never
would never-ask to be forgiven.
1t all started with the finding of
young man called Snow Gregory in
gutter, and he was dead before the
policeman on duty in Waterloo road
who heard the shots came upon the
scene. His associates had named him
Snow" Gregory because he was a
dope fiend, and cocaine is occasionally
referred to as snow by its votaries.
When they searched his clothes they
found nothing except a little tin box
of white powder, which proved to be
cocaine, and a playing card-the jack
of clubs. But try as they might the
police could not discover why and at
whose hands Gregory had died. After
the jury had returned a verdict of
'wilful murder. against some person
or persons unknown" the case was
placed in the records, where it seemed
likely to remain with the rest of those
never to be solved mysteries that con-
front the police.
Three months after the murder of
Snow" Gregory, Col. Dan Boundary
received letter. He found within
soiled and stained playing card, the
knave of clubs. He saw writing on
the margin of the card, and. twisting
IL sideways, read Jack o. Judgment"
Nothing more.
Boundary, by the way was what
we might call a law abiding thief-a
man who transacted business in such
n fashion that the police could never
bring him to justice. He never failed
to cover his tracks. He purchased
mills, estates, and other businesses
far below their net value and always
at the figure laid down by himself.
But after Dan Boundary received
the mysterious card and others that
followed simultaneously he began to
quake with fear. Jack o. Judgment
was even daring enough to visit him
in his home. Then piece by piece
you are led into many mysterious
doings. You learn a great deal. And
you puzzle and wonder who and what
kind of person this Jack o. Judgment
Is. But you keep on reading. Is Jack
o. Judgment Hanson7 you ask your
self. Is 1t Maisie White who is playing
the part? Is IL Lolie Marsh? Is It
Stafford King, the detective? But no.
In the end you learn, as we have,
you've been on the wrong tack all the
time.
Edgar Wallace has written a good
story. II has kept you In mental mo-
ton until the mystery is cleared. You
have been held like a pendulum and
swung back and forth through space
and in place of the usual "tick-tockl
Ill 1t 4. y
Who is he?" Suspense is an awful
thingi But then It sells booksl
JAMES A. QU1GNEY.
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

DREAMERS. Translated from the Nor
wegian of Knut Hamsun by w. W..
Worster Alfred A. knopf.
IT HIS book should dispose. once
for all, of those critics who
say that Hamsun is lacking in
humor. 1t is written in vein of the
most delightfully."- intimate comedy and
satire without trace of bitterness.
Hamsun knows these people with their
little quirks and drolleries. and he let's
you feel In every line that he is one
of them. They are people that he
understands and loves well. these fish
ermen of Norway. He knows their
little vainnesses and idiosyncrasies
their simplicity. and their rugged
strength, and he tells of them in a
playful and kindly humorous way.
The plot of "Dreamers" is very
slight. almost musical comedy plot
but It serves as a frame upon which
to spin the delightful hamsunsk com
ment on things, and for the play of
life and character in Norwegian fish,
ing village. Hamsun always has a wild,
Quixotic fellow about to keep things
interesting. This time it is Telegraph
Rolandsen. roisterer. lovemaker and
inventor. Rolandsen is a wild. fan
tastical dreamer, a moth flying around
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Sardine Sellers Son
Sovereign's Shadow

THE VILLA OF THE PEACOCK. BY
Richard Dehan. George II. Doran
Company.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

THE SHERIDAN ROAD MYSTERY.
BY Paul and Mabel Thorne Dodd,
Mead q Co.
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Walt Whitman Hero of a Novel

THE ANSwERER: A Novel from the
Life of Walt Whitman. BY Grant
Overton. Harcourt. Brace & Co.
H HIS book shows Whitman grow
ing like tree out of Ameri-
= can soil. He is In way the
whole story, yet the rest of his time
is there with him.
The novel ought to be in all the
nineteenth century literature and his
tory courses of schools, colleges and
reading clubs. But that fact takes
away nothing from its appeal to the
Individual Whitmanite. Naturally the
presentation of the central figure gives
the narrative at times character un-
common in fiction. Yet how many
stories with nothing but plot to COM
mend them can offer pages so thrilling
as those in which Walt faces the hus-
Orleans? The man is a trained duel
list. And he has gang with him to
finish any job that proves too hard
for him. Walt IS unarmed. But this
is the way he answers Raoul's threat:
kill me? Doubtless you think so!
At a proper time, eh? Why. what
time could be more proper than the
present? Go-or come-right ahead.
Here / am; here have been now for
several convenient moments. If / am
a little difficult. why. there is your
tot 1,nt have
killed me you can finish killing him"
--motioning toward ODonoju. you
can then kill your wife; you can kill
the doctor when he comes. One by
one, or a dozen at a time, you can kill
any. others. Kill? You damned fool!
What can you kill? One man against
the world! Why, if threw you down
the staircase to that pack Of vermin
they'd tear you limb from limb; you've
taught them to kill! Shucks! Get
out"
1t is like the crack of a whip in a
cage of lions.
Yet as achievements of the creative
Imagination there are finer things.
The letter of Margaret Fuller telling
OF her experience in Rome is so es-
sentially true to character that no
doubt many readers will try to find it
in her biographies. 1t isn't there, but
it might have been.
OF course much of the very language
Of this book is taken from Whitman's
own writings or from Traubers report
OF their conversations. But so beauti-
fully is the whole recreated that only
by reference to originals could one
tell the authority. But whatever the
source, it all leads the reader closer
to Whitman. poet and human being.
Here Is his analysis of his own devel-
opment, in answer to a question:
why ask me that? Do you want
me to confess I don't know? I've
thought of so many things; they don't
At. Or l don't fit them. Ever since I
was a youngster I've scribbled, writ
. ten. Trash, trash! I'VE tried to write
verse. It's worthless; isn't even third
tie verse. I've talked. lectured. That
lsn't any good, either. Sometimes
pix there amt anything; but as soon
quit thinking, go outdoors. see
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THE VILLA OF THE PEACOCK. BY
Richard Dehan. George II. Doran
Company.
HE seven short stories in this
volume have widely varied
themes. From the first, and
the longest story. the book gains it's
name. This deals with that freak Of
nature which occasionally is met-two
boys. the young royalty and the shop
Keepers heir. who are as alike as
two peas. Until the King was grown
and married, the mixing up of the
sardine merchants son, Don Enrique,
with the monarch was looked upon
as nothing very serious. But when
the King married and Don Enrique
acquired a bad reputation, then IL had
to be stopped. Don Enrique was ex-
He'd In Paris he led a gay life. but
there a testing remark of the King of
Donda regarding him threw Don En-
rique into anarchy. From then on we
deal with anarchists who plot to de-
stroy the King and place his double
on the throne. The solution is very
amusing.
''Dorotea ct Cie." the third story, Is
by far the best It's scenes and climax
are weird and dramatic. while imagi-
nation runs riot through it's pages.
Next TO that we enjoyed THE Silver
Birch" in which a young girl en-
bodies the secret of charm and solves
the mystery of grace. calm as a for
est lake, stately as a silver pheasant,
graceful as a silver birch. the loveliest
and most graceful thing of ALL"
THE Formula Of Brantin" is Of the
invention of drug which cures drug
and alcoholic fiends and makes them
immune from the effects of their par
ticular failing. THE Slug's Court
ship" is Of rural England--a love story
in which man and woman find the
mates they have sought, and THE
Extraordinary Adventures of an Au-
tomobile" is far from extraordinary as
a story.
Brand whitlock, former Ambassador
to Belgium and author OF Belgium"
CAppleton). has recently had con-
ferred on him the title OF Honorary
Member of the Grand Serment des
Arbalatriers de Saint Georges" a dig
nifty of ancient tradition. as Brussels
papers point out.
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EDNA FERBER

A. the New York Tribun Th bard wreath OF laurel hurs
Edna Ferber's book, The Girls"
"She achieve
which
a individuals. These not moulded, but created"
L. Mencken (the Baltimore Sun
stands brilliantly from the everyday Of American fiction
the Chicago Daily Netcs
The Girls Miss Ferber has done her best and effective work.
New York Times. Congratulations TO Edna Ferbarr
Butcher he Chicago Ttbun 1t
of the word human. 1t is the human the human
Percy Hammond: Miss Feber takes closely
her characters that almost abashed"
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How Funny 1t Is,
Also, How Sad!

THE CIRCLE. BY w. Somerset
Vaughan. George III. Doran Com
pany.
w THEN a man has said so many
W true and tragic, brilliant and
bitter things so perfectly as
Mr.. Vaughan has in this play, which
is both a literary masterpiece and
Broadway moneymaker, it would seem
a rather futile gesture to add any Sec
ondary comment. But Vaughan stirs
one to self-expression, futile or not:
the magic "Circle" must be reviewed
1t Is difficult to say anything about
this play which will entirely disregard
its presentation in the theatre. Hav-
ing read it before it's production, one
smiles and says: How clever" Wit
Messing performance. one laughs a
good deal and says: How funny"
Upon rereading the book, however, the
lines are no longer black upon white,
but subtly tinged with the color of
human voices; one is more than a lit
tie inclined to weep and say: How
sad."
''The Circle" is a very sad play, with
.
epfgrammatic company is not desper-
ately tragic? Poor. silly Lady Kitty
Well, her unhappiness has been widely
exploited. And Porteous? "A grumpy,
sodden old fellow with false teeth"
Buffoons are always sad. Give, the
cynical, with his whiplash speeches
and his feline voice. He speaks for
himself, too.
You think" says Give in a mo-
ment of honesty, I'm a cruel, cynical
old man. Why, when I think of what
she was, If l didn't laugh at what she
has become l should cry"
The foolish young lovers, so brave
and sure Of their love- so needless of
the ancient ruin before their youthful
eyes! Elizabeth and Tedde, they make
one sad. Yet there is something about
them that gives one confidence they
will make a go of 1t anyhow. They
face life squarely, they fool neither
other people nor themselves. No sub
terfuges for them, no notes speared on
pincushions. no dramatic poses of any
sort. Simply, they love each other and
have the courage to deal a blow for
that love. The greatest courage Of all.
that which is strong enough to hurt
some one else to get what one needs
How many lives have been wrecked
because that courage was not there!
Yes, they are sad, all of them. But
how glamourously sad, how pictur-
esquely tragic. The things one can
imagine about them all--Kitty's past
Elizabeth's future! The things Hughie
might have been and the things Teddie
will be. The wickednesses of Give.
There remains only Arnold, the
earnest minded. purposeful young hus-
band, who married to have home and
also because he didn't want to be
bothered with sex and all that sort of
thing" His is the real tragedy, be-
cause his is the nothingness. No
glamour about Arnold, nothing pictur-
esque about him. When his father was
deserted he resigned from Parliament
and set about becoming an authority
en- pretty women under twenty-five.
But Arnold is different. He will re-
sign from Parliament and become an
authority on Old English furniture.
There is a feeling that Arnold will
not suffer very long. His pain will
soon be over because he will lose con-
tact with life Could anything be more
dreadful than that? oh. how greatly
Arnold's tragedy overshadows all the
others!
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people, sights, and mlngle with per-
sons. begin to live again; feel red
blooded, inexpressibly excited, eager;
have the strong sense that ! am meant
for all this and that something good
something positive will yet come out
of 1t all, be expressed by me or
through me, it doesn't matter which.
Maybe in action maybe in both words
and action blending. Which. which :?
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The Girls
NJ
A Novel

about Thrift
four her niece and namesae Loe spster thwo
Lces and namesake Charley eighteen
half led by this to exai aghast story about old madsr
right Perhaps though after ALL could call
Charlotte old maid perhaps the
demand complete retracton Of the termr'
Middletown transcript., 1921-02-26

SHERIFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
writ of Ais. Lev. Fac. to me di-
rected, will be exposed to Public Sale
at the Court House. Southeast Corner
of Eleventh and King Streets. Civ
of Wilmington, New Castle County.
Delaware.
ON MONDAY.
THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH. 1921
at g. 30 O'Clock, A M.
the following described Real Estate. viz.
ALL that certain lot or piece of land
situate in the City of Wilmington afore-
said and bounded and described as fol-
lows. to-wit: Beginning at point IN
the westerly side of Walnut street he
tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets at
the distance of forty-five feet soutberlv
from the southerly side of Twelfth
street. thence westerly parallel to
Twelfth street one hundred feet tn the
easterly side of Elizabeth street, thence
bv the said easterly side of Elizabeth
street southerly thirty feet to a stake;
thence easterly parallel to Twelfth
street one hundred feet to the aforesaid
westerly side of Walnut street and
thence thereby northerly thirty feet to
the pace of Beginning. Be the con-
tents thereof what they may.
Seized and taken in execution as the
of John w. Bird, Admins
traitor d. b. n. c. t. a. of Daniel B. An.
derson and Isaac R. Brown. Admins.
traitor of Isabella Anderson, deceased
and It's, and to oe sold bv
JOSEPH H. GOULD. Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, Del.
February 19, 1921.
Middletown transcript., 1921-02-26

SHERlFF'S SALE-BY VIRTUE OF
q writ of Lev Fac. to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale at the
Court House, Southeast Corner of
Eleventh and King Streets, City of
Wilmington, New Castle County,
ON THURSDAY,
THE Sd DAY OF MARCH, 1921
at 10 o'clock, A. M,
the following described Real Estate, viz:
ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel
of land, with the dwelling house, known
as No. 318 East Sixth street, thereon
erected, situate in the City of Whining
ton, County of New Castle and State
of Delaware, bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
Beginning at corner on the souther-
ly side of Sixth street at the distance
of one hundred and twenty-seven feet
from the westerly side of Poplar street;
thence southerly and parallel with Pop
lar street, one hundred and one feet to
the graveyard, thence along the grave
yard west fifteen feet six inches and
parallel with Sixth street to corner of
land now or formerly of Frederick
Leonard; and thence with said land
north, one hundred and one feet and
parallel with Poplar street to the said
southerly side of Sixth street; thence
down sixth street fifteen feet six
inches to the place of Beginning. Be
the contents thereof what they may.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of William b. Sullivan (singIe
NAM, Mortgagor, and to be sold by
JOSEPH H. GOULD, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Wilmington, DEL,
February 10, 1921.