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The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
MEMS TRAVELLING EX-
PENSES ARE EXEMPTED

The Mail is in receipt of informa-
tion from Collector of Internal Re-
venue Alfred Franklin, for Arizona,
that under a recent decision made by
the Commissioner, travelling man is
entitled to deduct his expense while
away from home which is in excess
of his expense at home. This would
apply to railroad men. Heretofore
this deduction has not been allowed
railroad men and the present ruling
comes as very pleasant piece of
news to the many living in Winslow
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
RAILROAD NOTES

Store Department Helper Charles
Eastman and wife leave shortly for
Prescott for visit
Engineer w. F. Geiger and wife
are among those who will spend a
few days with friends at Prescott,
shortly.
Mrs. A. A. Garduno, wife of Head
Car Inspector Garduno, has been call
ed to Gallup on account of illness.
Division Chairman John Grafton
OF the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
leaves shortly for Flagstaff and Hol-
brook on business trips.
Conductor E. A. Houghton has Sc
cured leave of absence and has
left for San Francisco for a visit. He
will return via San Diego and other
points on the coast.
Brakeman A. M. Hicks was week
end visitor at the Grand Canyon.
Baggageman j. B. McHood of the
station forces was a business visitor
In Holbrook the past week.
Brakeman Charles McCauIey and
wife are visiting trends at Holbrook
this week
Brakeman H. McGaham is week
end visitor at Williams.
Trainmaster w. P. Arntz has re-
turned from visit with his family
at San Francisco.
Fireman r. N. McNally leaves
shortly for Prescott for a brief visit.
Fireman W. r. Miller is spending
the week end at the Grand Canyon.
Last Saturday the Santa Office
Basketball team was defeated by the
Prescott team in a hard fought bat
tie. A return game at Winslow is
expected shortly.
Mrs. L. A. Mabie and son, Master
Lewis, family of Bridge and Build
ing Foreman Mabie is spending the
week end at Albuquerque.
Mrs. j. B. Probus, wife of General
Car Foreman Probus, has been call
ed to Williams on account of Illness
Mrs. L. B. Parke, wife of Fireman
Parke, is visiting friends at Ash Fork
this week.
Fireman J. H. Pierson has left for
Albuquerque for visit with friends.
Conductor E. Piper has left for
Los Angeles where he will spend
several days visiting friends.
Brakeman Pierre Parrish has taken
la few days leave and is spending
his vacation at the Grand Canyon.
Brakeman C. Rennix leaves shortly
for Albuquerque for few days visit
Conductor P. A. Sawyer and wife
are visiting trends at Holbrook this
week
Mrs. E. ]. Tilson, wife of Conductor
Tilson, is in the city from Albuquer-
que this week visiting friends.
Brakeman F. l.. Wade and wife
leave shortly for vacation trip with
relatives at Kansas City. They will
return via Denver.
Engineer R. L Walcott and wife
leave shortly for a vacation trip in
the east. They will visit relatives
at Fort Wayne. Indiana, and Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Night Chief Dispatcher George
Cummings, who has been in the hos
pital in Los Angeles for several days
is repoated considerably improved
and it is expected that he will return
for duty shortly
Train No. 2 Wednesday had two
cars of Chinese who are en- route
from the Orient to Cuba via Key
West. These coolies will work in the
rice fields there. The cars were ac-
companied by the usual number of
guards and sanitary inspectors.
Mrs. w. A. Haley, wife of Former
Division Accountant Haley, leaves
this week for Los Angeles, where
they will make their future home.
Mr.. Haley has been transferred TO
the Valuation Department at that
point.
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
RECLAMATION ENCYCLOPEDIA

George H. Maxwell, director of the
National Reclamation Association, is
spending most of his time in WASH
lngton where he Is walking encyclo-
pedla for members of congress who
are interested in irrigation. Mr..
Maxwell is one of the nations most
prominent irrigation experts and ed
ucators and has done much for Ari-
zona and has some expanding ideas
OF the value of the waste waters of
the Colorado river for both power
and irrigation purposes.
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
BUILDING NOTES

F. l.. Harry is remodeling his
home
0. Schleuter starts building two
houses.
Kosuka Ohara, Santa Fe round
house employe, is building a home in
Kleindienst Addition near the round
house.
c. V. Curry starts modern home
in Hicks Addition.
Eli Hosler's $4,000 residence on
Aspinwall Avenue is nearing COM
pletion.
G. C. Hall, of the Hall Lumber
Company, will move his family to
Winslow on the 18th instant and will
make his permanent home here.
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
FOR GOOD ROADS

The 249 organized counties of
Texas last year voted more than
$100000,000 of good road bonds. Of
this immense total more than $780,
100000 was voted in north Texas
alone-including the oil fields OF
northern and central-west Texas.
Of the amount raised Dallas county
contributed $6,500,000 and practical
ly al of the counties surrounded it
voted heavy issues. i
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04
INCOME TAX MAN HERE

H. E. Elder, deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue, is. here and will be
at the City Hall until the 10th inst.
to assist he taxpayers in preparing
their 1921 Income Tax Returns.
The Winslow mail., 1921-02-04

And now Willard says he is going
about regaining his title in a busi-
ness like way and Dempsey will un-
doubtedly retain it in about the same
way
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

convict whose rival has finished his
trick" first and may carry off his
girl, or about paralyzed old lady
whose nerve overmatches the too
jerky assaults of diamond hunters.
He Is not always convincing. but he
always attracts your attention and
holds it; and If some of the details Of
his work seem left rough and without
the finish which he bestows upon GER
tain subjective passages, you are apt
to accept the parenthesis of neglect
as evidence of his concentration upon
the crux of his tale.
Even this may be a more generous
view than the author deserves, since
he is to be criticised directly for writ
ing his stories as If in obedience to
his own whim in detail rather than
with proper recognition of and respect
for balance and probability and liter
ary proportion. But for all that, they
are always interesting and refreshing
enough in their turbid spontaneity and
gush from a full spring. How this
highly respectable young man comes
to know so much, and so carelessly
about some OF the most dangerous and
reprehensible traits and lapses in hu-
man nature is, perhaps. no business
OF the reader or the reviewer. But if
one credit all his effects to the power
and vitality of his imagination, one
must conclude he would be apt to find
any truth-seen through anybody's
lenses but his own-unbearably dull
OF the eleven tales in this book, the
title story, "The Velvet Black" shows
most clearly it may be, the writer's
fancy for a tour de force. For some
twenty pages he carries on his drama
in the pitchy darkness of bedroom
where a burglar and a young woman
match their wits until her husband ap-
pears and joins the shooting party in
the velvety gloom, Cimmerian and un-
relieved save by the red streaks of
fire from pistol barrels.
To keep interest sustained at so high
a pitch and strained a tension is an
achievement, such as 1t is; it is some"
episode, but 1t doesn't make much OF
story. Even the rather common
place of a fathers revenge upon a
villain whom he had hunted through
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Reviewed by JOSEPH GOULD.
THE FLoCKMASTER OF POISON
CREEK. BY @. w. ogden. Chicago :
A. c. McClurg & Co.

In this story of man who sought
to become rich through guarding the
flocks of another man the hero. John
Mackenzie. drew a parallel between
himself and Jacob serving for Rachel.
Human nature has changed so little
that the same essential situation re-
occurs Ian life and I'm fiction, and this
book is somehow reminiscent of Field
ing's masterpiece. 1t is the book which
Fielding would have written IL he had
borrowed Eggleston's Hoosier sshool-
master for his hero. Although the
style is much inferior, Mr.. Ogden has
compressed the breezes of all out
doors into his book. and his characters
seem more alive than most of those
we find in printed pages.
IL the hero is not led astray by the
temptations of the flesh as Tom Jones
was, this discrepancy is compensated
for by the matrimonial adventures of
Dad Frazer, who was as loquacious as
Partridge. Tim Sullivan might well be
akin TO bluff Squire Western, and his
daughter has all the attractivenese OF
the fair Sophie. Malcolm Reid, the
villain, is surely a descendant Of Blifil
in his hypocrisy. The reader can al
most hear the bleat Of the lambs as
he reads this story. for the author Is
apparently enamored of the simple.
quiet shepherd life, unmarked by any
incidents except life and death strug-
gle with some rival every twenty-four
hours This Is the way It looked TO
Mackenzie. meditating on his adven-
lures one night:
AS he sat and weighed the argu-
ment for and against the sheep busi-
ness, the calling of hockmaster began
20 take on the color of romantic at
traction which had not been apparent
to him before. In his way every flock
master was hero. infiexible against
the unreckoned forces which rose con-
tinuaIly TO discourage him. This was
true as he long had realized, of n man
who plants in the soil, risking the
large part of his capital Of labor year
by year. But the sheepman's risks
were greater. his courage immensely
superior to that of the tiller OF the
soil. One storm might take his flock
down to the last head, leaving him
nothing to start on again but his
courage and his hope.
Mackenzie was immensely cheered
by his reasoning the sheep business
into the romantic and heroic class.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

on the same island as a member of
the United States Army, the two of
them are thrown together in the ter
rible fight that marks the climax of
the action. 1t is an exciting moment
when the few white men are treaoh-
erously attacked by large band of
numbering natives. However. one
guesses that the author arranged the
fight in order to give Ramon, the less
hardy lover a chance to show his
splendid mettle. Why would four in
telligent men all go to sleep by their
campfire when they knew that un-
friendly natives were hanging around?
Perhaps just there lies the weakness
of the book-in more than one way
1t does not ring true. Four hours
after Victoriano has arrived on the
island he is chatting f1uently with the
natives in their own tongue. The au-
thor often fails to carry over to the
reader the impressions he wants to
create, such as an overwhelming sense
of beauty, a psychic perception of
lurking danger, a sense of awe before
the vast forces of nature. Sometimes
one wonders whether Mr.. Dodge or
his characters ever experienced such
sensations themselves. At other times
one guesses that Mr.. Dodge has
glimpsed beauty and truth more than
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Reviewed by
DOROTHY BROMLEY.

Tawi-Tawi. These words spell
South Sea enchantment; they echo
the gentle tapping of lazy tropical
waters; they paint a picture of dusky,
1.-THE maidens dancing strange dances
in shady groves; they suggest a
drama of native hatreds and loyal
ties: they carry you off to far away
peaceful shores, where the din OF
"the maddipg crowd is never heard.
So 1t was with decided jolt that the
reviewer landed on a border ranch,
where the story was undoubtedly be-
ginning, despite the alluring promise
of it's title. Furthermore, there soon
appears the eternal triangle, the
sine qua non of so much fiction writ
ten to-day. Alas for any South Sea
adventures! But In this case the
complexities of the triangle drive the
two men out into the wide world, and
the accommodating goddess of chance
sets them both down, one little
later than the other to be sure. on the
identical island in the South Seas. 1t
all happens because the girl cannot
decide which man she loves. SO for
purposes OF introspection she sends
them away for a year. They are two
men of course diametrically opposed
in nature both to be admired, so that
the story comes very near to having
two heroes.
However. it is not the characters
that interest the reader most In this
book. 1t Is the action, which gains
headway as soon as Victoriano, the
big, strong lover, man of the plains,
reaches San Francisco and becomes
innocently involved in a murder by
a sea captain. who subsequently car
ries him away in his ship. Later he
finds himself on a South Sea island.
There his life becomes still more ex-
citing, even though he wins the
friendship and trust of the native
ruler and his people. But figure his
CONSERVATION when he discovers that
the only other white man on the ISL
and has been mysteriously spirited
away; or his frightful predicament
when a bloodlusty zealot or crazy man
attacks him just as he is recovering
from n ravishing fever.
After his rival. Ramon. has landed
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
SHORT STORIES
WITH CRIMINAL
BACKGROUNDS

THE VELVET BLACK. BY Richard
Washburn Child E. P. Dutton & Co
In whatever stratum Of society Mr..
Child sets the stage of his stories he
is able to convey the impression not
only of having been born there him.
self but that 1t had been the habitat
of his father and grandfather. He is
familiar with all the surroundings and
knows which doors will not shut, and
what the religious references of the
servants are. In short, he makes you
feel he is Indigenous.
In an earlier volume of short stories
of life in county towns in the middle
West he knew all about the neighbor-
hoods, and didn't trouble about Main
street. He took the roofs off the
houses; in some of them the occur
rences were of no wondrous import
ance; in others curious things hap
pened. About all of them Mr.. Child
ratified along like an indiscreet MEM
Der of the family, and didn't repeat
himself, at that
Within a year or two this highly
talented writer has given us a story
about a beautiful woman and three
men who wanted to marry her, but
who all disappeared mysteriously. In
this field Mr.. Child's battery was much
more rapid fire than that Of the in
dustrious Mr.. Oppenheim, for instance,
and he did it with swift dexterity. and
never seemed to exert himself; 1t was
as though he had spun the yarn in
an odd half hour one Sunday after
noon with his right hand tied behind
his back. Something of the exasperat-
ing knowitallness of the youthful
Kipling glitters out of his stories, yet
one may note that-perhaps from
the trouble to polish his tales; he is
a lapidary, of sorts. and knows how
TO cut his stones expertly, but he will
not bother with the emery.
In the present volume of short
stories, almost all of which are en-
acted by members of the criminal
classes, and all of which are ccrcerned
with the most violent emotions and
has still the air of being entirely at
home in his scenery, whether he is
writing about a burglar. or a .mur-
derous old Chinese politician who lives
on a shelf of rock deep in the country,
far up the Han River, or a jealous
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
TO THE WOOD THRUSH
Bv ROBERT CARY.

Long had / walked in vain the
woodland wild,
A sacred Sabbath after vesper
bell,
Ere mid the oaks it fluted, and,
searching well,
found the bird that hailed an
evening mild.
Far from the SNUG world happily
exiled
Often / hear him to the wood
nymphs tell
His pearliest beads at sundown,
and of hell
No word, since earth and heaven
are reconciled.
o wood thrush, bard of all the
answering thrushes,
Is thine vision of the Heb
ridesY
The cranesbill, robin $ plantain
and the rushes
Through which l trod, the sky
and every breeze
That, with the sun, robs scent
from wild rose bushes
Delightedly must hear thee in
the treesl
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
This shepherdWasnOt sheepish

Here were allurements Of whit h he had
dreamed. to be equalled only by the
calling of the sea, and not by any
other pursuit on land at ALL A man
who appreciated the subtle shadings of
life could draw a great deal of en-
joyment and self-pride out of the
business Of flockmaster. II was one
OF the most ancient pursuits of man.
Abraham was a hockmaster: maybe
Adam.
But for all the new comfort he had
found n the calling he had adopted
Mackenzie was plagued by a restless,
broken sleep when he composed him
self among the hillside shrubs above
the sheep A vague sense of some-
thing impending held him from rest.
II was present over his senses like a
veil of drifting smoke through his shall
low sleep. Twice he moved his bed,
with the caution of some haunted
beast many times he started n his
sleep. clutching like a falling man. to
sit up alert and instantly awake.
There was something In the very ten
sion OF the night silence that warned
him to be on the watch. 1t was not
until long after midnight that he re-
laxed his straining. uneasy vigil. and
stretched himself to unvexed sleep. He
could steal an hour or two from the
sheep in the early morning, he told
himself. as he felt the sweet restful-
ness of sumber sweeping over him:
the helpless creatures would remain on
the bedding ground long aftcl sunrise
IL he did not wake. waiting for him to
come and set them about the great
business of their lives They hadn't
sense enough 10 range out and feed
themselves without the direction OF
mans guiding hand"
And 30 he goes to sleep, But the
reader doesn't.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

once. but that as yet he has not
learned the fine art of translating
them.
To return to the story, as well as to
Texas The two suitors come back
to the girl; Of course one is lucky
and the other bears his cross. or Tawi-
Tawi. which is disclosed to be not only
the name of an island, but a symbol,
meaning II bear my cross" That is
quite different from our first inter
probation of those liquid syllables. II
Is fact that the best part of the book
Is a picture OF South Sea life. but
one which adds no new details and Is
without the charm that lures the civil
lizcd white man to the South Seas.
Perhaps the lack of charm may be
explained by the fact that the much
talked Of beautiful native women
play no part in the story. The only
woman that counts Is the girl back IN
Texas. who never once arouses us. In
more than one way Mr.. Dodge does
not make the most of the possibilities
Of his story.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

Resource" are ingenuities in human
rascality; I'm Dancing Shadows" shows
disposition to lash a runaway idea
over the back and send 1t riderless
and careering down the worlds street
and see what will happen; it makes
good reading, but the tale seems to
have been thought out as it went
along This impression recurs more
than once in the course of the very
entertaining bookful of Mr. Child's
contributions to the literature of COM
mandment breaking. He has no pro-
fessional formula like a Conan Doyle
or Hornung or Oppenheim; he just
goes at 1t and fires EN- off.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
The Book Factory

subway lullaby. 1t is to be called THE
3erceuse from Jostlin'."
My bid for the publicity campaign
| on OVERNIGHT, the hair restorer,
is accepted. I knew it would be. My
price is fair and my plan for the cam
paign is original-literary publicity
Quotations from the great poets and a
general note of refinement. Those who
say that a writer compromises when
he does publicity or advertising are
all wrong. 1t is possible to write
copy that has literary value. I proved
this last year when l wrote some CIR
culars for another company and had
the pleasure of hearing a member of
the firm refer to them as liter ature.
Friday I begin work on '"rhe Pub
lisher's Opera" The hit of the show
will be a song called Buy Book a
Week. My plan is TO get the pub
fishers to produce it, I've never met
any of them, but | hear they're rich
people.
Saturday. l work out in detail my
literary hair tonic campaign.
tTo be continued.)
A circular that has come to our no.
tice reads: I'm choosing a gift for
the young man or young woman
about to leave school or college moth
ing more fitting than a book can be
found"
And if YOU can't afford to buy books
turn reviewer and hand out review
copies. That's what we're going to
do. June is dangerously near.
Speaking of the eternal fitness of
things, we note from a Little Brown
announcement that THE Gallant
Rogue" a novel dealing with the ad-
ventures of Canardin. an audacious
rogue. who roved at large in the days
Of the great King Louis" is by Bur-
ton Kline, formerly with the Boston
Transcript and now a free lance.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

little feud tucked away somewhere
and 1t makes exciting reading while 1t
lasts and leaves a sigh of relief at its
ending.
But Charles Neville Buck has a
new one In his "The Roof Tree" With
the planting of love token. little
walnut tree. away back in Revolution
ary days. Dorothy Parrish sowed the
seeds of feud around which story
grew. Two hundred years after the
planting Of the tree Kenneth Thorn
ton, a refugee from Tennessee, saw
and loved Dorothy Harper. a direct
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

the world is done with more effect.
But, OF course. the set scenery was
visible In the latter story what hap
pened In the dark was subjective per-
force. But the intensity and concen-
tration hammered into Identified
must be recognized as a bit of work
manship.
The rather nexpected--almost too
romantic--turn at the end of THE
Nightingale" may indicate the authors
willingness to be whimsical, just to
show that he hadn't lost himself in his
story, but could still stand outside and
play tricks with his people. "A Whiff
of Heliotrope" and An Experiment in
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

descendant of the Dorothy Parrish Of
Revolutionary days. BY the feud codes
of the mountains the modern Dorothy
was not for him. But Kenneth was
not to be outdone Triumphing over
threats and dangers he won the girl,
married her and became the leader Of
her clan.
Ancient hatreds broke forth anew
and the feud which had been buried
for generations ragged again in the
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Love token resulted in feud

THE ROOF TREE. BY Charles Neville
Buck Doubleday, Page & Co.
Feuds may have been a menace to
the community, State and country in
and about the mountainous regions of
the South. But they have always made
interesting themes for fiction, and, as
some one said, somewhere. sometime,
There is always room for one more"
A novel with a setting in the Cumber-
land Mountains is bound to have it's
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

mountains. But under the leadership
of Thornton the little community in
the Cumberlands turns it's back for
ever upon the lawlessness and primi-
tive justice of its ancient codes. Mr.
Buck has through his former novels.
interpreted the Southern mountaineer
romantic and fast vanishing type
i'm American life. He knows the Ken
lucky mountains and their people
kindly and hospitable to friends. yet
suspicious to outsiders, and believing
in a personal justice which admin
listers its own law.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

Grant Ovcrton. author Of World
without End" doubleday. Page) is
TO marry on June ! the person to
whom his book is dedicated This Is
Miss Clara Wallace Of Mohawk, y. Y.
Mr.. Overton and Miss Wallace became
acquainted several years ago and Miss
Wallace supplied from an actual oe-
currence basis for the central mys-
terry OF the novel Using her narra-
tive as a nucleus MIR. Overton wrote
his book. dedicating II TO Clara Wal
lace, who knew Miss 6. LHomme-
dieu"-Mlss IlHommedieu being the
fictitious name of one Of the charac-
ters OF the story. The dedication was
an acknowledgment of Mr.. Overton's
Indebtedness to Miss Wallace for his
main motif. A few weeks before the
publication Of the novel the dedication
was followed by an engagement.