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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18
THE INVISIBLE TIDES


 By Beatrice Keen Seymour, Thomas
 Selzer, Publisher, No. West Eff
 tieth Street, New York City.
 Invisible Tides" is the story of a man and woman who are brought to- gether by the invisible tides of cir cumstances. It is full of deep sym pathy and an understanding of hu. man sorrow, and is incidentally writ ten with a literary distinction of the very rarest quality. The heroine is a thoroughly modern woman, and meets all the problems of life with that bold and open spirit which char acteriZes many of the younger women of the postwar period.
 Invisible Tides" is q distinct lit erary event. To Mrs. Seymour has been given keen and swift delineatlon of character, and a style that fairly glitters. It is q novel of the times, for her characters and situations are distinctly those of the twentieth cen tury. Her passions run high, her situations are intense, her men and women are flesh and blood. In it. Mrs. Seymour has caught the very spirit of our decade"
 The London Times says: Beatrice kean Seymour, the author of Invis- ible Tides is another star in the lit- erary void. Invisible Tides is writ ten with unerring taste and sense of proportion, and the style, if not posi- lively beautiful, approximates toward the pale negative ideal of perfection.
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remain the greatest or all the arts, especially as practiced in the family group.
 THE WONDER WORLD WE
 LIVE IN"
 By Adam Cowans whyte (Pictures
 and Diagrams); J. B. Lippincott
 Company, Publishers. Philadelphia.
 Here is book. the first ideally successful one of it's kind. that every intelligent parent and teacher should welcome, and every child with the proper allotment of adventurous curiosity call his own. It is a book that makes the foundations of real science more romatic. more thrilling, and at the same time more simply comprehensible and credible to the child than they can ever be made by any quantity of the usual senti- : mental batter of the pseudo scientific books written down to the usual false notion of what child's under standing is.
 Tn language simple enough. but never condescending, and in pictures and diagrams which very helpfuliy supplement the text. tAe facts and accredited theories are set down how the world was made and what it's relation Is to the visible universe how plant and animal life unfolded on its surface; how man developed: and how, by imperceptible stages. he achieved the beginnings of moral consciousness and embodied it in his historic religions.
 '.The author, in telling his story. regards the child as 8 friendly and absorbed companion whose intelli- genee must be respected and never patronized. So honest and so tactful an appeal must and will be answered in the child by more and more dis interestedly eager curiosity to know the world about him. And in many thousands of parents it is equally sure to be answered by deep and sim cere gratitude that such a book ex- ists."
 THE BOROUGH TREASURER" By J. $. Fletcher; Alfred A. knopf
 Publisher, New York City.
 MT. Fletcher has built up a repu- tation for Q particularly satisfactory kind of mystery detective story, and his enthusiastic readers will find "The Borough Treasurer" fully as good as any of his former tales. In it we are introduced to the contract. ing firm of Mallalieu x Cotherstone. in whose offices are conducted nu- merous transactions not altogether connected with the building industry. Mallalieu, who was mayor of the town. was q big man physically. and he did things in q big way so that his own pudgy fingers were rarely burned. Who was the tall man in the gray clothes? And what was the hand that clutched the borough treas urer in the dark? These are all part of the mystery that develops as T .I- and which will hold his interest to the last page.
 THE CHARMED CIRCLE"
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of Christmas to the effect that he was reminded by the increased num- Der of drunken men at the tavern that it was the birthday of their Re- deemer Is criticism made obsolete in this land of ours by our victory over the arch enemy of happy Christmas No one who has bowed at the cradle of the Christ-ehild would rob a single earth-child of happiness. No one would rob ehlld's Christmas tree of a single candle. nor a childs stocking of a single gift, nor a childis heart of single thrill of gIadness But we have approxi- mated the first Christmas in spirit. when our children have learned that ehelr own Christmas trees are more radiant when they have given of Its candles and gifts to make another tree of it's kind bear fruit in dark ened home. We have approximated the spirit of the first Christmas when we have learned in our churches that the Christmas exercises most worth while are those that are shot through with the spirit of self-denial."
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can now find the graves in the city cemetery of Birmingham of the father. the mother and little Annie lying side by side. Tho flowers have ceased to bloom, but the green grass has silently and reverentiy spread itself over those three little mounds of earth, showing, while all else had, nature had not forgot ten them. Jack Reilly did not go to his work that evening, but when the train was ready to start he took me by the hand and said: "Jim tell Sam Fellows and Tom Crawley will eat Christmas dinner at the Ex- change hotel" and I believe he did, for not long afterward saw him handling some scenery on the stage during some theatrical play In the hotel.
 Jack Reilly had some faults, the common heritage of us all, but well may I ask: If Thou be extreme to mark what
 is done
 Amiss, God. who may abide with : Thee?"
 Yours truly.
 JAMES T. FLINT. No,,ap,bar 1901
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"MAvIs OF THE GREEN HILL" .,y EoIth pa1dwir Small Maynard

MANIS OF Tth GRECN HILL By Faith Baldwin. Small Maynard
 & Co.,, Publishers, Boston.
 A lavender scented romance-a real love story-the life of Mavis; her spirit akin to the little river. run ming between the hills, rising mistily like altars-in winter, ice-bound, It's bright limbs fettered its dancing stilled. A glimpse of Already and love and very reah very human folks. Sheer beauty in thought and deed!
 STORIES EDITORS BUY AND WHY By Jean Wick. Small, Maynard X
 Co., Publishers, Boston.
 Here ie a book which will interest every editor of a magazine or news paper in the country. as well as every writer, whether he is an experienced successful writer or yet whether he is a novice and aiming for the high est goal.
 In Stories Editors Buy and Why the author, Jean Wick, sets forth American literature" as explained by editors of the American maga- zines-at length-and on the whole the explanation Is interesting as well as educational and enlightening.
 There are short stories reproduced those considered by the author as typifying the very best in American ure-ideals-which are the goal of American editors in the purchase of what they regard as the pest sellers" in American fiction.
 SUCCESSFUL FAMILY LIFE ON
 ON THE MODERN INCOME" By Mary Hinman Abel. J. B. Lippin-
 colt Company, Publishers, Philadei-
 phia.
 This Is more than book on home economies. It is broad minded study, both analytical and inspira- tional, of the fine art of living. Ethi- cal discussions of home life abound. but except in studies of the homes or the poor, economic conditions as eff fecting the character of home-life have not been given sufficient weight. It may be that in the family groups above the poverty line, the reaction or all that concerns spending of the money, what they chose as necessary. and what they reject as non essential, will be found to be of great signifi- canoe. The following discussion is addressed to all those who are in- clined to give thoughtful attention to the present-day problems of the fam- = fly. Among those 10 whom the pooN may be of special interest are Ero- fessional students of the social ana economic aspects of the family, stu dents of home economies in schools and colleges. men and women who are trying to solve the problems o' their own homes, and groups of club women who are taking up part-time studies of the home.
 The majority of us are debarred from self-expression In the recog- nized forms of art, but not in the art of living, which includes self development. the use of all personal resources. and an adjustment of our relations to those near us and to the community. For most of us this must
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SEA POWER AND DISARMAMENT Capt A. w. Kinds. '. S. N, in the
 North American Review.
 No nation can afford to send un- trained men to fight its battles at sea. In 1904. Russia tried 1t at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18
"WoUND STRIPES,
By Bertha Lippincott Coles. J. B. Lippincott Company. Publishers. Philadelphia.

Lippincott Company. Publishers,
 Philadelphia.
 Mrs. Coles has written five charm ing "after the war" romances. and assembled them under the appro- priate title of Wound Stripes" They will prove a real delight to all lovers of romance. Poignant touches of pathos and rare bits of humor add much to the intensely human atmos- phere that pervades these stories. Each one is throbbing bit of life, filled with the spirit of love and pa triotism; vivid picture of great sac- rifice and fitting reward. The author has not only paid tribute to the men who offered their lives in the cause of justice, but also to the wom- en whose love and fortitude was so often the inspiring influence that fur nished the courage to do and dare. To the men who were not called upon to make the supreme sacrifice. came
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"The spirit of Christmas however ia not circumscribed by the east anu vast boundaries of singled hal lowed day. In its genuineness II is not content with the stamping of Christmas letters and packages with Red Cross seals, but covets an ade- nuate hospital on the crest of Red mountain for the victims of the white ple of mercy on holy mount. It plague. rising in the glory of tenn is not content with Christmas carols
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18
"A RIOTOUS TERM AT ST. NOR
 BERT'S"

By May Baldwin Qllustrated) J. B..
 Lippincott Company, Publishers,
 Philadelphia.
 Miss Baldwin's stories of schoolgirl life are filled with the fresh breath of youthful enthusiasm; the over flowing buoyancy that comes only from health and high spirits.
 Her latest is concerned chiefly with Charlotte Allardyce, better known to her schoolmates as Charlie. Charlie is full of life and provides untold en- tertainment, not only for her asso- ciates, but for the reader as well. How far responsible she is for the riotous term at St. Norbert's may be best left to the imagination of the reader, but it can be safely predicted that the book will be laid aside with reluctance.
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"The key called love Is the magic key that the spirit of Christmas turns in the door of the human heart. It is the key that opens the gates of seif and frees imprisoned souls that were born for freedom. It is the love that leads many boy to forego the pleas ure of coveted skates that he might buy for his mothers shoulders warm shawl It Is the love that leads many girl to self-deniaI for the sake of others It Is the love that bright ems the chronicles of the poor ana writes the choicest chapters into the annals of the rich. It Is the love that brings the strong to the re-enforce- ment of the weak. It is the love that overcomes temptation, the love that taketh account of others, the love that sets men free"
 "christmas time has Its shadows and they are blacker and more dense' .s shadows on the earth are darkest when the sun Is brightest. Death IS busy at Christmas tide. Graves afe filled on Christmas Day. Muroei stalks through the land at this nal lowed season. The shadow of the iron door falls across many threshoiu at Christmas. The wolf at the door- step of,poverty is leaner and hunerlei than ever at Christmas. But the spirit
 ~,.4z+v,os underscores that 'Inas- much text of the gospels and com ne1s throng of cheer-bringlng mes sengers to cross the threshoids sha' are darkened."
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THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

better claim to the title of birth day of our Lord"
 The spirit of Christmas Is the conductor of our thoughts on a holy pilgrimage. The spirit of Christmas puts our feet In hallowed roads. At Christmas we stand in an old road to the south, road that begins with a mountain path among the cedars of Lebanon and widens into winding highway. Now 1t lies in straight line across the plain of Esdraelon where the chariot wheels and broken spears of conquered armies have been rusting through the years. Now it is a valley road between Mt Ebal and Mt Gerizim. Where Joshua made Israel listen 10 the reading of the law. and farther on the traveller finds Jacobs well where he can quech his thirst Past naked olive trees and the brown vines of vineyards that have fulfilled their ministry tho road leads on eyer To the south. Now 1t Is tho main street of village. now 1t Is the ford or stream: here 1t is rough with the rocks of the hills, wonder if ia smooth with sand; here it is barren of vegetation, wonder it is trimmed with waside flowers; and at it's end Is Bethlehem of Judea In that road at Christmas we find again A car penter and his wife chosen or God
 10 give and guard through child- hood Him who should be the savi.r of tho world"
 "In this Christmas journey for our thoughts we come to the crest Of serian mountain and look from road that leads to the west. Back toward the east 1t stretches for miles through the gates of great oriental cities, and on toward the west it narrows into a brown line lost in the green of far-off hills by the river Jordan. Over that road strange men travel at camers pace. There's treasure In their pos session and robbers in their path. but they journey on unharmed. There's many a lonely place in the road where the waysde trees cast long shadows. And that road to the west leads to all of them."
 The spirit of Christmas guides us to hillslope south of a quaint Judean village. It is starry night and the white road leading northward Is as deserted as graveyard path. Shepherds are watching their flocks that lie hud- dled in the fold as motionless as so many bales of wool tied up for the market. Stunted shrubs sway ing In the night wind make moving shadows on the grass. Overhead there's strange light as if some mammoth meteor burned it's way through the heavens. An angel stands near in raiment whiter than the wool of the sheep, and with l countenance brighter than the light | of the stars; and to those men of l the hills he brings the glad tidlngs | Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour"
 This is the old story of Christ mas. It Is written in a road map of the past with every road leading to the cradle of our Christ. In those roads that led to Bethlehem were represented the three chief cir cles in the social system-the home, tho school, the market place. Homelife, education, commerce are found under the influence of that first Christmas whose carols were
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the problem of readjustment, and it is of this particular phase that Mrs. Coles tells in her inimitable manner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18

THE CHARMED CIRCLE" By Edward Alden Jewell; Alfred A. knopf. Publisher. New York City. The title of this most sprigntly
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musty books into the meteor light of heaVen; getting men away from their sheep-folds long enough to see the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world; getting parents into the path that means ministry to the Messiah and the joy that Is above all happiness; that is the purpose of Christmas
 "Christward! that is the call of Christmas. Christward, you men who teach our youth. Christwardl you who seek our patronage in the place of trade. Christwardl you home-keepers who build the nations bulwark."
 "They mean most to education who can look into the eyes of youth with the eyes of those who have found Christ, even as the wise men were better instructors for the children of kings, when they had found the cra- dle of Jesus and looked into the in-
 fant face of the Son of God. The,
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novel one must suppose, is intended to signify the little group of persons whose lives the influence of the ex- traordinary central character touches ana whose fortunes are thereby al- tered. It is difficult. though, to es- cape the fancy that the title has an equally just application quite outside the book-namely, to those of tha books readers who are shrewd enough connoisseurs to detect here. not only an uncommonly fetching iirst novel, but also the first public exhibition of talent destined to a career always interesting and. un
 less all signs fail, deservedly popu- lar.
 The story is that of a lively young American boy stranded with his ab- surd elderly guardian in Paris pension. combination of imp and cheruh, drolly innocent of exterior. precociously disillusoned. shrewd and quixotic and incorrigiblc aoI adorable and brazen, he amuses him self by playing ducks and drakes with the lives of q queer miscellany Of folk whose paths cross his: anu always. by some quaint and surpris- ing master stroke of his talent for benevolent bravado his maehinations turn out to the advantage of others and himself. The book in which he lives and has his being is as sunny as seventeen" and as subtle as The Age of Innocence" There will be thousands to delight in it. with tears and chuckles. But to recognize the peculiar color and authenticity of it's humor-a humor with which it's whole tissue is pervaded and sur charged-is to be a fine judge of the delicate and the distinctive in per scnality, and, in the phrase of the title. one of a charmed circle.
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remain the greatest of all the arts, especially as practiced in the family Qroun
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November 1, 1921.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22

Meridian, and Friedman, D'Oench
and Duhme, OF st Louis, as defend.
ents.
The bin sets forth In its grievances
that the work was originally esti-
mated to cost $3.50, 900, and that al
ready $4,000 worth OF certificates
had been issued in excess OF that
amount. They set forth that esti.
mates submitted To the commission.
ers had been padded. They set forth
further that l.. s. Russell had so
padded his estimates falsely and
fraudulently, that large sums OF
money had been paid Gray Il Osler
of the Good Road Surfacing Com
pany, g. e. Golson and L. $. Russell
unlawfully and fraudulently. The
bill further sets forth that certiii-
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22
BILL FILED IN CHANCERY
PROPERTY OWNERS IN kERTAWkY DRAINAGE
DIST. FILE BILL AGAINST DISTRICT
commissioners AND OTHERS.

A bill was filed Tuesday In Chan
Gerry at Philadelphia by number oi
the property owners in the Kentaw-
ky Drainage District against the
Kentawky Drainage Dist. also W..
|. j. A. Morris, A. j. Mayo, and A.
d. Sharp commissioners, j. r. Me-
Cauley, Secy., L. ). RUSSELL Il L Col.
son, j.. w. Sanders, ti. w. Carter,
Merchants and Farmers Bank OF
Meridian, G. l.. Gray, r.. r. Olser,
Good Road SurfacIng Company OF
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22
NESHOBA NEWS


Miss Juanita Watkins has gone to
her home ut u ixon for Il few days.
MIR. and Mrs. w. w. McBeath
made business trip to Philadelphia
Rev. X. T.. Breland filled his regu-
lar appointment Saturday but Rev
Pierson filled his place Sunday.
Miss Ora Lewis spent last week.
end In Neshoba.
Leila Gordon is on the sick list.
Mrs. Willie Howle spent Wednes-
day night with Edith McBeath.
Clifford Mason from Ranger, Tex
as is home for the holidays.
MIR. Cook from Decatur was a
guest OF Miss Ruhie Mason Sunday
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consolidate and those will b., those that
soonest catch the vision.
No less authority than Raf Waldo Emerson said some
thing to the effect that fool houses and fences when
built ana painted but chat took with vision
the wilderness Few timber men have this vision
They think in terms logs and TIMBER
and painted houses trace in fancy plow nor urrow
Concerted effort on the part of mill and timber
vision of Emerson and the Edward
miracle in Mississippi Low prices, terms warm wei
to citizens Of other and
would prevent the conditions mentioned in the clipping
farm journal quoted above.
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In Touch With Legislature.

Representative Brown Williams will soon be attending the
Session of the State Legislature At request
promised to submit articles the form Of letters work
goes at Jackson will interest our read
because Mr. Williams writes WELL aud will discuss things with
the Neshoba Countians point OF view.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22

The Neshoba Democrat will distinction of
the only weekly in Mississippi with correspondent in Washing
Nshoba Countian here has promised give us xiv
letters from our National Capitol More of this later.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22

For weeks papers bossomng sunHowers
with pleasant alarm Until Sunday had yard
with twenty blossoms There nothing about flowers
responding to early spring late winter
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22

Chaperones common, but what girl wants
days chapherown her and alone and she gets him.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-12-22
Philadelphia

Gates had been raised. They ask
that the Kentawky Drainage Dis
trict matters he looked in at the
regular term OF Chanccry Court.
Those filing suit as complaints
we're as follows. j. &. Edwards, j..
M. Tingle, w. r. Tingle. j. NJ. BEN
son, w. b. Jolley, A. j Salter, Il. W.
FIembree, J II. King, I. =, Williams
A. j. Williams, A. d. Clibnrne, ] M.
Cliburne, I'll. w. Sharp. A. z. Hit,
=. @. Hit, 4. Il. Hit, +. p. Mckee,
j. M. Cooper, i. r. Crenshaw, j.. y.
Bassett, w. Z. Mason, j. W Brown,
u. w. Littpn and Cluud PEBBLES.
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