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plication tho dwelling mast 10 aired
for a hours before Il IL again occu-
pied. II absolutely docs not harm met
ais. fabrics or pigments. How Is IT
used?
Dilute sulphur!c acid and potassium
cyanide as follows: water two and a
quarter parts. All OF the Bulphuric acid
IS added 10 the water in = receptacle
capable of withstanding tho heat such
as a VItrifed clay jar. Then the cyan
ide tied up in cheese cloth bag. Is
lowered into the acid by means Of a
cord passing outside tho room. Or the
operator must be prepared 20 leave the
room the very moment he has put In
the cyanide: before he has a chance TO
tako another breath in the room itself
Tho generating Of the gas Is very rapid
About one ounce OF cyanide mixed in
the proportions stated with sulphuriC
acid. an ounce and a half, and water
TWO ounces and q quarter is right for
1000 cubic feet of air space.
Bun1ors
What shall I do for bu.g!ns bunion
Joint Can II ever become normal?
Answer-A bunion differs from q corn
In that the former Is bony growth
whilst the Ncorn Is n skin growth. BY
far the best thing for bunion Is 70
have Il removed by surgical opera
ton. Then the joint Will become nor
NAL again.
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All Inquiries addressed to DR.. Huber
In care OF the Health Talks" depart
ment will be answered in those columns
in their turn. This requires consider
able time. however. owing to the great
number received. So II personal or
quicker reply Is desired. stamped and
solfaddresscd envelope must DO en-
closed with the Question.--Thc Editor.
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a, Buckeye Lake, Ohio. spending his va
cation. He will return home about Sat-
urday in order to resume his duties with
the company Monday morning.
VIII Cumm!ns Of the B. & o. yards Is
expected home tomorrow from Cumoer-
land where he has been for the past
week on q vacation.
James Roberts OF the r. & O. at Graf
ton was in the city yesterday on busi-
ness.
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HELD roa GRAND JURY,

Martinsburg w. Va. Aug. 24.-Jos-
eph Edicott. hailtng from Westminster.
Md. charged with transporting Jean
nette Shaffer. a young girl Of this city,
to McConnellsburg. Pa. In violating
the white slave act. has been held to
await the action of the grand Jury at
the term Of federal court to be held
here next month. In default OF 5000
bond he Is In Jail.
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MORE BODIES RECOVERED.

Macon. Ga. Aug. 2f-Two additional
bodies 80 badly charred they could not
be identified were taken today from
the ruins Of tho Brown House tho
hotel destroyed by fire early Monday
Tho death list now stands at six known
dead with ono missing.
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LIST Burglar: Cad. that wuz narrer
escape.
End Burglar: Didn't yer have time 10
take anything
LIST burglar: Didn't have time { take
me breath.
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WILL RESUME UNDER
LOWER WAGE SCALE

Clarksourg. w. Va. Aug. 24.-Ar-
rangements were made hero today. fol-
lowing acceptance Of a % per cent wage
reduction by glassworkers. to start tho
ROLAND & Lafayette window glass
plants, employing $50, the second week
In September.
Tho Penn plant at Pennsboro. the
Royal at Grafton. and tho Cooperative
and the Alliance factories at Salem will
resume about the same time. The local
plants mentioned have been idle fifteen
months.
Pittsburgh. Pa. Aug. 24.-Josoph
Neenam. president Of the American Win
dow Glass Workers. announced here to-
day that wage agreement had been
reached with the Window Glass Manu-
taoturers' Association OF America. az
fecting the hand plants" 1t calls for
a reduction Of 2S per cent from tho
wage scale effective one year ago, and
becomes operative September to Sep
tember 10. when It Is expected the hand
plants will be placed In operation. The
new agreement affects $500 skilled
worknen and other workers enough to
bring the total TO $4,000 persons.
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That actor will never get ahead"
Why rot?"
Doesn't know how to take his own
part"
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
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romantic appeal as a woman-the re-
sponsiveness of a mtdinette, strange
to find in fighting men.
There was a renaissance of bugle
calls, of distinctively military music.
whose instruments had slept silent In
the. baggage trains. He tells of the
organization and spread of concerts
given during periods of repose.
The troops entered villages with
bands at their head. They marched In
double quick time to the irresistible
rhythm. They halted for a concert
in the public squares. Sometimes the
music of the army swelled solemn
mass: sometimes it quickened the
gayety of an improvised ball. And in
default of other partners the poilus
whirled about in pairs.
There is a touch of humor in the
reference to the way civilians reacted
to the army's music. In a certain
town the people woke at to the call
of hunting horns. sounding the
reveille. In the afternoon they
played in the public square: at eve-
ming they sounded retreat. Never
had the inhabitants had so thrilling
an experience. They cheered to show
their delight. But the next day and
the day after the programme was
repeated at the same hours. BY the
fourth day the music mad popula-
tion went to the general to beg for
mercy. And Nanteuil-le-H
was permitted to sleep in silence"
But the soldiers needed also the
finer manifestations which the noise
of war had drowned. There were eve
nings Of chamber music, on the line.
in the shelters, wherever they could
be had. And these were hours OF Il
beautiful comradeship. mo distinc-
tion of rank in these groups. Music
reigned the sole arbiter."
The entire repertoire was ex-
hausted. BY turns classic and popular
music was played, even Wagner
figured on the programme at a hun
dred yards from the Bochesl
Besides the soldiers own perform.
ances there were concerts by organizA-
tlons from Paris or other cities. Tho
greatest value of these was the
presence OF women. The simple smile
of n woman, the sound of her voice
alone, worked miracles. That was
evident when choice was made of the
men who should present flowers to the
singers after a concert. They took
their instructions very seriously.
when the singer comes to receive
you you will walk toward her and
hand her the bouquet And then look
OUT Don't be a chump-kiss her!"
Well, being a brave man. he did.
as Monsieur Ricou declares. blush
| ing like schoolgirl But when lie
came back to be saluted by the lucky
dog' of his comrades he tasted the
fun JOY of life"
Which reminds me of the saying Of
Rivarol, that old satirist of the
eighteenth century:
you only paint the French in
profile II you leave women out of the
picture" But lest I appear to ap-
prove the too frivolous view our
| friends are inclined to take of us,
let me add the remark Of Ernest
| Renan:
Women hare participated Ia the
creation Of the French spirit. VIC
must leaue them the right TO i'm
proUe the taste and the manners OF
men IN their olcn tCdV"
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edly, on the most friendly and familiar
terms. The Cavendishes had him at
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone,
among many others, and when most
of them went TO the theatre to see
Lord Lytton's play Money" Mr.. Glad
stone rode on the outside of the car
riage to direct the driver" George
Harry and Ellen Terry were In the
cast And on the way home Glad
stone insisted on walking for exer-
else" They all went back to Lord
Fredericks for a late evening tea,'
and the talk was of the stage as a
profession and whether it is one an
educated person of good family should
follow or not, on which there was a
division of opinion. Mr.. Gladstone
was surprised to hear that Massa-
chusetts had large surplus of women.
.. He said that In Wales there
were no murders, that the Welsh peo-
pie were very kindly, fond of music
and sang much in choruses. The party
broke up at twelve. They took me
into the family as if l were a relative
or at least a friend of long standing
One reflects that all this was fifty
years ago. and that twenty years
after il happened Mr.. Gladstone fell
very much into the bad graces of the
upper classes as a dangerous radical,
and twenty years after this sad event
the present Prime Minister of Eng
land, even though a kindly Welsh
man and fond of music" now consid-
cred by many to be savior of society,
was held to be infinitely worse than a
parsonage with horns and hoofs. Mr..
Dana must have smiled to himself
frequently when he read the proofs
of this book.
Perhaps one more note from the
record of young Dana's first London
season may be thought interesting:
"I have omitted one important in
cident | witnessed in Parliament. Sir
William Vernon Harcourt, in reply to
one of Disraeli's speeches, quoted from
one of the latter,s works showing
that Disraeli had changed his views
Disraeli disappeared into the library,
and soon afterward returned bringing
a COPY of the book and read an extract
which did not quite sustain Harcourts
statement. 1t happened that the very
next time l went to the House OF
Commons think it was the follow
ing day or later the same day after
dinner-Sir William Vernon Harcourt
got up and read from the first edition
of the same work. which fully sus-
tanned his quotation, and then showed
that Disraeli had read from a later
edition in which he had amended the
statement. and intimated that Disraeli
must have well known of the amend
ment and was trying to mislead the
House.
This would have been enough to
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Inverary Castle, Seat of the Duke of Argyll

ton of Henry Adams" And then he
remarks.
For myself, l took a position some
what between the two. Without gen.
eralizing too much, / know that those
l have met were the most delight
full, we'll bred, courteous, true hearted,
generous people, by and large, that
have ever come in contact with. They
were well informed, some of them
brilliant and delightful takers. made
many sincere friendships and their
acquaintance enlarged my view of life
and it's possibilities and was to me
at once an education and an hspira-
ton. shall never forget these good
people. did not meet the fast set.
Then. too they were human
beings after all. . 1t was their
human side that interested me, and
shall never forget their hospitality"
And 1t might be difficult to find a
better bred or less bumptious visitor
among that famous old society, which,
as Mr.. Dana remarks. perhaps we
shall not see again."
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Lament rose he made succession OF
visits in the country-to Earl Spencer
at Althorp House (via Warwick and
Birmingham), to Lord Young's (via
York and Edinburgh). to Rossie Priory,
Lord Kinnaird, to Inverary Castle, the
Duke of Argyll's (via the Trossachs),
to Lord Coeridge's, to Lord Tenter-
den's, and to Sir William Heathcote
at Huxley Park.
Then, off to the Paris salons, and
the English Embassy, and to the
French Assembly; to Athens by way
of tie Mediterranean, where the Eng
lish Ambassador did him well'; he
tells what he thought of the royal ball
and of the Acropolis, which he scaled.
Then to Egypt, where he became an
observer of many political details; to
Rome (via Naples), where both the
American and the English Ambas-
sadors helped him on his way. Then
back to England again by way of
Turin and Paris, and to Oxford and
Cambridge. All of 1t is interesting,
but the pages about the universities
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But let us return to music. We
learn of the resentment shown by
the soldiers who were living in the
very daily presence of death at
civilian attempts to utter a super
fetal sympathy. to glorify sacrifice.
Says Capt. Ricou:
When one of these unwelcome
guests arrived from Paris to sing
"the splendor of our miseries" on the
very eve of a battle, after the first
verse a poilu cried out:
Say, old man, If you feel that
way about 1t, we'll take you along
with usi"
The story closes with a scene at ST.
Quentin. The captains division had
been fighting up to November 5, 1918.
On the 11th they saw the imperial
German automobiles take the road,
with a French soldier beside every
chauffeur
Toward 3 o'clock the Paris papers
arrived: the armistice had been
signed that morning. At the railroad
station crowd of permissiondires
coming from different troops were
waiting for a train. When the news
was known a clamor arose. And sud
denly In the midst of cries and en-
braces the sharp whine of bag
pipe sounded. And there in that de-
vastated waiting room where the rain
was dripping from a leaky roof a
veritable jazz band was organized.
They whistled, kept time on a triangle
and the whole crowd merged into the
rhythm of a dance. Then separat q
couples moved out of the mass.
Americans, English. Scotch, Italians.
chasseurs, whirled around. shouting
their delight in every tongue, in every
dialect.
When / told Capt. Ricou that I
wished to obtain his lecture for the
readers Of THE HERALD he cried:
For the Americans! With all my
heart / love them. those big boys.
hearty and brave. II smiled at them
on the day Of the armistice. when
they were the funniest of the crowd, ]
admired them in battle and found in
each case the same dash. the same
power, the same passion"
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Reviewed by WILLIS STEEL.

THERE isn't a trace of Nebraska
lingering even as a faint aroma
on any of the pages of this
scholarly but universally appealing
book by the leader of the small
band of Americans who have a right
to use the name "litterateur." 1t is
a name frequently misapplied to al
most anybody who claims a more or
less distant connection with writings
and literary productions, but It's ap-
plication truly should be restricted to
those writer's whose works embody
taste, feeling, loftiness of thought and
purity and beauty of style. Within
this narrow circle the noted professor
who began to exert his benign in
fiuence as far west as Nebraska moves
with even greater lghtness than Pope
did in the heroic couplet. 1t is there
fore advisedly that the word leader is
used in this connection.
In the days that must seem far off
to Prof Woodberry, antedating the
1oluIilDid oHiNtlsity pcIiou' Ills SIdliii
was already potent and 1t has endured
to the present: less than a week ago
a woman whose hair has grayed since
she saw him as the inspiration of little
aspiring groups in her own home in
that distant town recalled his influence
with gratitude and animation. 1t af-
forded her a personal joy to hear of
three or four new titles. which in
cure and while still mindful of her
memories go on further with him.
In the first chapter of this book she
will have to go with him as far as
Rome to the Eternal City where he
accompanied Marius. Discussing ideal
ism the author finds a strange Puri-
tanism In this moving and vaguely
fascinating creation of Pater He finds
also, what II may be Pater himself
was blind to, the explanation of that
prescience, that foreknowledge of the
Christian era which in a pagan, how
ever beautifully pure in heart, has
puzzled many readers. 1t grows from
the roots of love for beauty and a
comprehension of her though she is to
be seen only by dim and quickly fading
light. This essay. the most completely
belle lettre' of the volume, will not
seem to Woodberry lovers the most
"Woodberry" but it will grow upon
them with increasing insight reach
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the two songs that marked it-Mn-
sciHOisc and Chant du Depart, lifting
themselves in clamor and in prayer
Sdchons pdincrc ct sdchons mourn.
"If the victory had come to US at the
beginning. the war would have been
written in our annals with the purity
of a crusade"
After the first songs came silence
which spread through all the camps.
No more choruses, no more hymns
That continued during all the retreat
until by the laconic power of an order
we saw the unrolling of that gigantic
battle with it's "liberating splendor'-
the Marne.
The war fell to an interminable
monotone and the soldier who had
been carried away by it's first violence
regained his freedom of thought.
Feeling the need for a return to
more normal mood. he went back
naturally to music.
80 many nations, large and small,
were represented in the trenches. so
many men from everywhere were as
sembled, that the most diverse land
scapes, the most contrasted, were
eNOktu ny lie ny Aiii VI ~ SOhb vi hht
accent of a word"
Here is Capt. Ricous memory of a
Champagne sector where the tired
divisions came to rest and renew their
strength
"The countenances OF the men,
Bretons for the most part, were sad.
like the troubled surface of blue
water. One evening at the twilight
hour a melody rose from a single
bagpipe, piercing shrill, an air of
the dance, slow in rhythm, calling up
the balanced motion of a round. on a
holiday. In a few seconds a crowd
gathered at the door of a shelter. at
tentive and thoughtful.
"The mems eyes gazed far off, doubt
less toward the land of the Towering
broom. There was no other sound but
that music of the dance. In the clear
and tender night. the very soul of
Brittany vibrated In the air"
And soon. no one knew exactly
how, a song imposed itself upon the
entire French army. at had the
frank appeal OF good humor, a mad
cap freedom. Above all 1t was in the
popular tradition; 1t sang of love and
presented its heroine like kind Of
muse. neither reserved nor proud, a
muse accessible to ALL II was that
famous 'Madelon' so often sung by
all the poiiuS, allied or French
II is even said that many soldiers
from other lands really thought
"Madelon" was the French national
song. Monsieur Ricou goes on to
characterize II as "the symbol of q
resurrection: IL marked the resurgence
of normal desires. 1T was also, on the
other hand, the proof of patience"
Because they dwelt in the conscious
ness of a continual menace, the men
had adjusted their minds to simp,e,
attainable satisfactlons of a soldiers
life. TO forget the daily miseries Of
the war, to escape its anguish-for
that men sang: ito create an illusion
and dissolve a reality"
is that impulse limited to war? How
often a song rises instinctively to the
lips when the torment within is un-
endurable. 1t Is not hard to realize
how the same experience would reach
it's greatest intensity among the sol
diers. And Monsieur Ricou reveals
to us the poilus sensitive to the
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Addison no longer best model

STUDIES OF A LITTERATEUR. BY
George Edward Woodberry. Har-
court Brace q Co
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| cannot keep the cinema out of
these letters. Picture writing was the
earliest form of literature. And what
are the films but a revival of the
primitive under a new mechanical
form? The latest creator in this field
TO go from Europe TO America Is our
Abel Gance-as truly poet as any
wro write ian words. lie took over to
you his earlier work, "J'accuse" which
doubtless will be released in your the
atres before long. But just before
leaving Paris he gave a lecture on his
new film, la Roue Eternelle." before
the c. A. S A. (Club OF the Friends of
the Seven Arts), at IL Rue Quatre
Septembre.
This club has for its object the unit
ing OF all the arts in the cinema. 1t is
doing an excellent work. And since
literature is among the seven. II is not
inappropriate to write of II here
Moreover. | understand that in his
next production Abel Canoe will at.
tempt to suggest a closer, happier re.
lationship between the old world and
the new. And the pictures which
speak a universal tongue are the bes
medium for such a beautiful en-
deavor.
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By PANAME.

During the war / used to hear the
poilu singing "Tipperary' and your
American soldiers our "Madelon." the
music of that period may be recalled
without the regret that darkens otner
memories. NJ. Georges Ricou prepared
n lecture on Music in Camp" which
was delivered at the Universite des
Annales and has just been issued IN
Les AnnaleS, a magazine founded ana
directed along with the "Universite
bv Nine. Yvonne Sarcey, daughter OF
the most influential dramatic critic OF
modern times. (For good reading on
nineteenth century drama turn back to
Forty Years of the Theatre" by
F'rancisque Sarcey)
AT the University des Annales we
are prepared to hear the liveliest OF
talks on the widest variety of sub
iects. And Monsieur Ricou did not
disappoint us. He was first the gem
eral secretary of the Opera Comique
and now holds the same position at the
Comedie FRANCHISE. During the war
he was a captain of Chasseurs Alpins,
the "5lue devils" you Americans ad-
mired. He belonged to that famous
Mangin division which fought along
with the Americans at the Mont de
Singes. September. 1918. He spoke of
things that he had seen, felt, lived
With him we returned to the first days
of August. 1914. the mobilization and
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MEMOIRS AND ESSAYS

are intensely vivid and fascinating in
their simplicity and charm.
In few pages of "Epilogue" the
author casts a rather lingering and
regretful look; he recalls Mrs. Hum
phry Wards complacent rehearsal of
Matthew Arnold's view: He never
denied-none but the foolish ever do
6eny-the immense opportunities and
advantages of an aristocratic class
wherever it exists. He was quite con-
scious of the glamour of long
descent and great affairs" And then
the author notes the sharply contrast
ing view brought out in THE Educa-
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BRITAIN TURNED
A SMILING FACE
TO YOUNG DANA

HoSPITABLE ENGLAND IN THE
SEVENTIES. The Diary of a Young
American: 1S75-1S76. BY Richard
Henry Dana. Houghton. Miffin Com
pany
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lingering even as faint aroma
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smash the reputation of any ordinary
Englishman. l looked to see him tali
down and give up the ghost ana 10
behold the young men arise and carry
him out; but not at all. Disrael only
made some amusing remarks and the
whole matter passed off like drops of
water from a ducks back. The truth
ia that Disraeli is not
really taken into the inner circles OF
the Tory party :"
Young Dana's travels extended far
beyond the British islands, though the
people kept him moving within that
relatively contracted space. After Par