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The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
Surely.

The Opumist says TO remember that
even If your mother-ln-law has the gift
Of tongues Il would be q lot worse u
she were a mindreader. Chicago
American.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
A Double Reply.

Husband-what's your opinion OF
matrimony?
slangy Wife-Youve got mei--way.
side Tales.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22

She-"Can you give me q proof Of
your love" He (kissing her)--"WelI.
there's an imprint OF IT,"
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22

Some folks are kept in the dark in
order to keep them from bringing
things to light.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22

To step into another mans shoes ID
generally easier than 1t is to walk In
them.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
WELL POSTED LEGION MAN
Commander Of Department Of New
Mexico Knows About Professions
Represented In Membership.

In his brief career farmer, trap
per. dynamite worker, oil field work
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22

Temptation is the balance in which
character is weighed.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
SWALE WAS A DISHWASHER
Commander Of LeoIon's Washington
Department Licked Kitchen Boss,
Then Took His Job.

The story of how a fist fight made
him a dish washer is told nv Thomas
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
ALL KNOW JACK WILLIAMS
AdJutant Of North Dakota Legion De-
partment Acquired Popularity
While Serving as Newsle.

Everybody in North Dakota, and not
few IN bordering states know Jack
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
POST SELECTS THIS BEAUTY
Puget Sound Organization Chooses
Miss Hazel Jordan as One
of Their Prettiest.

A dip in refreshing ocean water ev-
cry day during the summer and every
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1921-09-22
KILLED BY SHELL FROM WAR
Ammunition Expert Is Almost Blown
to Pieces in His Own Home
at Indianapolis.

Although he had gone through the
World war unscathed and had quail
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Oriental Color
Group of Chinese Tales
Are Brief But Vivid

JADE BY Hugh Wiley. Published by
Alfred A Knopf rrice $3.50.
UGH WILEY has written a
series of Chinese tales that
thrill and fascinate. The scenes
are laid for the most part in San
Francisco's Chinatown. Murder and
sudden death occur in each tale, but
the method by which the villain is re-
moved-and he usually merits his fate
differs in each case, which adds
nightly to the suspense.
In Jade, for instance-Mr. Wiley's
one word titles have an appeal of their
own-four ounces of gold melted slowly
over chacoal fire are poured down the
throat of the shrewish wife of Lingo
Riley. In Joss, a necklace of fine steel
set with a yellow diamond, q ruby, an
emerald and a sapphire binds the fat
neck of the Senator whose men have
violated the ancestral graves. In Hop
rusty spike driven by bronze cruci-
Tx ends the life of the opium dealer
who throttles his wife for bearing a
girl baby. But it is in Junk that the
most ingenious method OF taking off is
accomplished. There two great turtles
twin brothers of the Clan Chem
finish off the Portuguese who has
framed up the adopted son of Hong
Chung Lu and had him railroaded to
the penitentiary to save himself.
Jade is probably the best story in
the collection from the standpoint of
technique, but Junk would indicate that
there really are few Chinese who
possess the kindlier qualities of the
human race-a conclusion that in no
wise interferes with the excellence of
the tale, nor with the equally Oriental
notion of justice mentioned above, on
the theory of ''an eye for an eye.'
Mr.. Wiley has caught all the color of
the Orient in the West and painted it
in these tales skillfully. It's intrigues
and it's loves, its mystery and it's con-
tiicts are all here. G. P.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Russian Songs
MODERN RUSSIAN SONGS Edited by
Efnest Newman. Published by Oliver
pitson Company Two vols

MODERN RUSSIAN SONGS Edited by
Ernest Newman. Published by Oliver
Ditson Company Two vols.
MO COUNTRY has exertsd an inau-
ence in the world of music during
the last half century more decisive
than Russia. In creative composition,
advances along lines that are logical
and also inventive, the Russian has de-
veloped forms imbued with beauty and
maintaining the traditions of musical
history. In these two volumes, beauti-
fully printed, are songs by thirty two
Russian composers. They range, in
lyrical content, from the Rubinstein
school, profoundly shaped by the group
Of Schumann and his fellows, to the
purely Russian composers of the fash
ions Of Tchaikowsky and Caesar Cui,
in whose works are to be traced his
toric modulations in theme and me-
chanics, through Slavic mysticism and
yearning to the expression of a ma
tional, indigenous self. These books
form a splendid collection of historical
and lyric value.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

against all the higher instincts Of the
race. Taking up the justifications and
excuses and supposed compensating
benfits of war, he analyses and dis
r4-tses them one by one as fallacious.
Economic advantage? But wars arc
enormously expensive, and no civilized
people. even if conquered in war, can
profitably be governed against it's will.
Physical benefit to the race? But in
these days Of poison gas and high ex-
plosives men come out of the trenches
manned and blind and suffering from
nervous break downs. A test of cour-
age? Well, as Colonel Palmer says,
you don't have to scar your face with
red-hot iron to prove that you can
bear pain without finching.
And so on down the list. The au-
thor points out that there can be no
such thing as complete preparedness.
If nation builds up a stronger army
and a larger navy than its neighbor it
is likely to be confronted with coali-
tion Of angry and frightened neighbors.
Obviously, the only end to this busi-
ness is to build up an armament strong
enough to challenge the whole world.
This is what Germany did, and the re-
suits are not such as to tempt any
other country to follow in Germany's
footsteps.
Colonel Palmer realizes that the
glamour attached to every military
manifestation is powerful psyche
logical aid to the outbreak of wars. He
wishes that the triumphs and heroisms
of peace could be made equally dra-
matte with those of war To him it is
mournful symbol that the statue Of
Pasteur, the great preserver of life,
should be dwarfed by the tomb of Ma
poleon, the great destroyer.
The book is an earnest and often pas
sionate plea for peace, but the author
does not commit himself to any scheme
for the prevention of hostilities, al
though he speaks with sympathy of the
spirit manifested in the League of
Nations. He believes that certain
transformations of the human spirit
are more essential than any plans or
organizations which statesmen may
devise.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Two Girls
A Romance of New York

TOPLESs TOWERS. BY Margaret Ash
mum. Published by the Macmillan Com
"A KARGARET ASHMUN tells the
W. story of two girls who lived
together in an apartment on
Morningside Heights. Their characters
furnish study in contrast. Martina
is analytical and reflective, tender of
the feelings of others, equipped with
more than an ordinary share of the
New England conscience. Beulah is
impulsive and selfish and pleasure
loving.
We have had many novels which de-
pict the narrowness and unpleasantness
OF small town life. "Topless Towers"
points out some of the corresponding
disadvantages of existence in a great
city. We are shown the causes of
tangled nerves and cutbursts of temper,
cramped quarters, constant physical
proximity, the inevitable stufiiness of
city life. And finally Martina turns
her back on New York and its gayeties
to find her romance in the Far West
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

- - t7c- tIft OF SlABSIDES- BY Dallas
1se Lore sharp Published by the Houg hton
In THIS appreciation of John Bur-
roughs there is always evident a
union of estimates, one critical and the
other human, if we may use the word.
We are told that Burroughs was not a
great naturalist and rot supreme
thinker, that he lived Nature, had a
wonderful knowledge Of her myriad
lovely manifestations and Interpreted
her in simple, sincere prose. 1t is
evldent-one has but to turn to the
great field of readers Of John Bur-
roughs-that there are thousands OF
men and woman who find refreshmenS
and information in the pages he wrote.
There is no doubt that he has led q
little army of Americans to a more in
innate association with the wild life
of their country than they otherwise
would have enjoyed. This little tribute
of love, statement from the heart o.
friend, will be welcomed and read
with gratitude.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
China's Spell
american Girl Absorbed in
Matriarclhal Home

MY CHINESE MARRIAGE. BY NJ. r.. r.
Published by Duffield & CO. s175
Cv OMETHING of the spell which
~ China has wrought for centuries
is in this story Of an American
college girls life in China with her
Chinese husband and his family. 1t
is true story, simply written and
fascinating in it's wealth of detail con-
cerning the Chinese family life which
absorbed her as willingly and unre-
sistingly as the Celestial Empire has
absorbed its conquerors in ages past,
Indeed, the ease with which this was
accomplished would be terrifying if it
were were not for the beauty of the
relationship between husband and wife,
which makes it one of the most ideal
love stories ever written.
The two had met at college where
Chan King was studying international
law and political science with the in
tention OF entering the diplomatic serv-
race prejudice which the girl felt at
first, but after her own family had
been placated Chan Kings wealthy, con-
servative parents objected. They had
planned another marriage for him, and
when he refused to give up margaret
he was cut off with the proverbial shil-
ling. Not until after their first son
was born and she had followed her
husband to China did his parents real
ize that they had an American daugh-
ter-in-law
Even then they were not willing to
accept her, and one of the most poig-
nant moments in the story comes when
Chan King tells her of his mothers
proposal that he take a secondary
wife, a Chinese girl, who would take he,
place in the parental home as first
daughter-in-law." When this plan fail.
the mother-in-law capitulates. Mar.
garet goes to live in the Chinese
natriarchal home, and the process o,
abs sorption begins.
To any one desirous of seeing the
West and East meet, the gifts of one
supplementing those of the other as s
beginning, perhaps, OF higher civili
zation, this story will come as shock
The American girl gave nothing, ant
in her readiness to become more
Chinese than the Chinese she had M
part even in tbs new China for which
her husband was striving.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

party. So he went among .se Bedouin
tribesmen, spreading stories to the ef-
feet that an infidel woman had come
into their land to spy out its weak
POINTS and betray it to the foreigners.
II required all the power Of the letter
given her by the Senussi chief to 4a,e
Mrs Forbes from the fate of Rohlfs.
Once arrived in Kufara the author
was received with traditional Oriental
hospitality. The chieftain in command
Of the district invited her to one ban
auet after another-sump.uou feasts
Of unfamiliar Arab dishes, in which
lamb prepared in many ways seemed
to be the most important item on the
bill of fare
After leaving Kufara Mrs. Forbes
did not return to Tripoli, making for
the Egyptian frontier. She reached
her destination safely, although g mys-
terious caravan, which probably con-
sisted Of robbcr trihesmen, pursued
her party for time.
The author is brilliant writer rs
well as a courageous explorer. She
describes not only the physical fea-
lures of the country through whicA
she Travelled, but also the mental and
spiritual qualities of its inhabitants.
She lnterprets the life of the Bedouins
with sympathy and understanding.
There are many things about the nom
ad warriors which she likes-their
courage, their courtesy, their calm, i'm
passive dignity. And she loves the
desert, in spite of her grim expert
enees on its trackless sands. The sen
sation Of the traveller on the absolute
| ly fiat sandy waste could scarcely be
better put than in Mrs. Forhes's SEN
tence:
at was as if We were at the end Of
the world and the round horizon the
edge off which we should presently
fall.'
The photographs, which the author
took at some personal risk by snatch
ing out her concealed camera whenever
the suspicious natives were not look
ing, add considerably to the charm
and fascination of the volume.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Earnest Plea for Peace Voiced
By Famous War Correspondent
Frederick Palmer's Arguments Against War
Strengthened by Wide Background of
Military Experience
THE FOLLY OF NATIONS. BY Fred
erich Palmer. Published by Dedd, Mead
&c Co. $500.

THE FOLLY OF NATIONS, By Fred
ericA Palmer. Published by Dedd. Mead
&c Co. $500.
" UST now tho case against war
I scarcely needs to be proved in any
- civilized country. The man who
would get up and repeat the old senti-
mental arguments about the morally
beneficial effects of war to an audience
Of soldiers who fought through the
bloody hell of the trenches would be
laughed out of court as lunatic.
The chief danger to the success of
the effort to insure world peace which
is now being initiated at Washington
lies III the apathy which seems to creep
over the public mind after the termi-
nation Of every great conflict. To COM
bat and dispel this apathy we need
prophets and propagandists of peace,
men who will persistently and convinc-
ingly drive home the lesson that the
next war, unless constructive steps are
taken to avert it, constitutes q menace
to the health and happiness of every
one of US that is just as real and far
more terrible than the menace of an
insanitary sewer or an epidemic OF
yellow fever.
II. G. Wells is such man. Will
Irwin is another. Ard now Colonel
Frederick Palmer, who, according to
Theodore Roosevelt, has seen more war
than any other living American, comes
along with book that is certain to take
place among the classics of anti-war
literature.
Colonel Palmer's Indictment Of the
folly and wickedness of armed conflict
is all the more impressive because
having been a soldier and having lived
with soldiers of many nationalities, he
is free from the bigotry of the doc
trinnaire pacifist. He is able to give
the case for war fair hearing. He
comedies the glamour which the battle
field holds for young men who know
nothing OF its realities. He gives due
weight to the potent economic and psy-
Geological factors which have made fol
war in the past.
But in his final summing UP of the
evidence the author condemns Mars as
a hardened and irreclaimable offender
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Fireside Lyrics

CHIMNEY SMOKE. BY Christopher Nor
ley. Doran- $780,
IL these lyrics for households of
two or more" Morley evinces his COM
radeship with the hearth and the shelf
Of books. A notable collection by q
man loved by all who have grasped his
hand or read any one of his books.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Light and Shadow
Stories of Jewish Life in
America
America

TIE HERITAGE AND OTHER STORIES.
BY Viola Brothers Shore. Published by
the George H Doran Company. s19o.
TRAGEDY and comedy are mingled
in these stories, but the author
always shows herself a skillfu,
craftsman and shrewd observer of
human conduct and emotions.
"The Heritage" is unquestionably
the strongest and most significant
story in the volume 1t tells of Jew
ish girl who attempts to forget all her
racial traditions in her love for a
Gentle whose respectable family is in
clined to be anti-Semitic She is awak-
ened by the voice of her old uncle, who
brings home to her with convincing
force the truth that no man or woman
can cast away the heritage which has
been handed down by countless genera
tions Of ancestors. The end Of the
story is impressive in its simplicity and
dignity
The author nowhere else reaches the
heights of "The Heritage but she is
adept in creating scenes of delightful
comedy. 20 Tempora, Q Mawruss," an
account of the tribal feud between q
Jew and an Englishmsn, who are un-
willing next door neighbors, is one of
the funniest stories which have ap-
peared for some time. 1t treats OF
automobile contracts, accidents and in
surance; and such things are often hui
mcrous, except to those who suffer by
them.
1--WE Can't Afford IT, the tale of how
clever wife cured a miser, is also
well constructed story, with some
humorous elements drawn from the
everyday experiences Of American
Jewish life.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

Tile SECRET or THE SAHARA:
KUFARA- Ey Rusita Forbes Published
BY George II. Dcran Co. 81.
r-H HIS is by all odds the most ab-
sorbing narrative of danger
q Gus adventuring in unknown
regions that has appeared
since Ernest Shackleton's South"
Mrs. Forbes, to be sure, chose the
very antithesis of the South Pole as
the scene Of her exploring expedition.
But her camel trip across the Libyan
Desert was no less colorful and no less
perilous than Sir Ernest's voyaginss
in the Antarctic icefelds.
The author set as her goal the City
of kufara, which is located in an oasis
in the heart Of the vast Libyan Desert
which lies east OF the Sahara. This
place is especially holy in the eyes of
all Mahometans, because it has been
the Headquarters and seat of govern
ment of the Senussi, a religious secret
society which exercises enormous in
fluence throughout the world OF Islam.
The German explorer Rohlfs was
the only European who had ever pene-
trated as far as Kufara, and he was
attacked, robbed and made prisoner,
barely escaping alive with the aid Of
friendly sheik. Mrs. Forbes was
fortunate in securing permission to
make the journey from the much re-
vered head of the Senussi, but even this
potent talisman, as events proved, was
by no means an infallible protection
against the greed and fanaticism Of
the wild desert tribes.
On the southwark trip Mrs. Forbes
and her party lost their way as re-
suit OF the guides blunder, and they
endured all the agonies of being
stranded on trackless desert with
out food or water. Only when their
strength was practically spent did they
happen upon some water and vegeta-
tlon, which saved their lives They es-
capped this danger only to encounter
others. Abdullah, the guide who had
blundered, conceived the ingenious
idea of covering up his deficiencies by
arranging massacre Of the whole
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

<xfE ~ n
HISTORY AND SURVEY. by
x,eehsea Joshu@ Bau Published by
r. Fleming H. Reveli Company. So.
~ ETTER." wrote the Laure-
AaA ate, in atrabilious mood
better fifty years Of Eu-
rope than a cycle Of Ca
.sv." But after absorbing and being
.msrbcd by this amazing book, I am
rost nightly inclined to say better
! single volume OF Cathay than a
sbole library of Europe. For in scores
!; books OF European and American
.dgin many Of them admirable, have
ailed to find as much pertinent, prcg-
-,nt and profitable truth about China's
external relationships, past, present
md prospective, as is compacted and
I lucidly set forth in the opulent pages
A. tbs single volume from the pen Of
! Chinese scholar and statesman. In
iced, it would scarcely be amiss to saw
tit:
that Is all
4 7. know on earth, and all We need to
know;
! It least Sc far as the foreign relations
4 Cathay are concerned. To this let
re add that the book is written in a
spirit so dispsssionate and impartial
Is 70 suggest cosmopolitan rather than
,stiunsl Inspiration, and in a literary
/ syle so pure and clear that it might
veil serve as model and example in
English letters. Yet it is merely Dr.,
Bsu's university thesis Or dissertation
br bis Doctors degree! If only every
pa. D. were granted for a work of
comparable merit! Does he owe his
ability to his mother, who was mis-
J frss teacher; or to ST. Johns or to
Tsing Hua College, or to Yale or CO.
anbia or Johns Hopkins; or to Union
theological Seminary or Yale Divinity
School; at all of which he studied
| !. matters not. There is in this one
sark honor enough for them all.
China Isolated
The national isolation of China, DR..
9au reminds US, was at first due not
! to choice, but TO geographical setting.
Because of it there was developed a
unique type Of civilization, from which
il tine proceeded self-complacency and
\ pride, and finally 8 supercilious exclu-
lsVeness, looking upon as barbarians
|ias surrounding nations, which really
lad attained far superior rank. This
|sstus was invaded by the European
|Nwers, Great Britain taking the lead
|a the opening" OF China was grad
Ialy and reluctantly conceded; the
Iaary of which is told succinctly but
Isnprehensively. Loss of dependen-
aes followed, and then a great crisis
sas reached in the reign of the for
|aidable Dowager Empress, Use Hsi
/ he Emperor Kwang- -Hsu had jealous
j sought reforms, but succeeded only
n mourning the enmity of the con-
'ervatives and the coup d'etat of 1898
Thich practically deposed him and
Vlsesd the Dowager Empress in power
4Aiguted and anti-foreign," says our
author, "she turned her efforts against
( he invasions CT the Western states,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
A Mastery Compendium Of
China's Foreign Relations
A Chinese Statesman-Scholar's History, Analy-
sis and Forecast of His Country's
Place Among the Nations

snd' availing herself of tie Boxer
movement then on foot, with the object
or driving out all foreign devils she
secretly encouraged the Boxers and
thus brought to pass the uprising of
1900" There followed the era of the
struggle of the powers for concessions.
and that Of foreign cooperation and
control.
The policies of the six powers to-
ward China during those eras-and
IN measure at present and in pros
pect-are analyzed by DR.. Bau-save
perhaps IN single instance-with a
penetration and balance of iudeme MT
which | have nowhere seen surpassed.
If indeed cqualled. Russia was i'm
periaiistic, unscrupulous, deceitful, cor
rupt, opportunist, violent. The Oriental
policies of France were reflections Of
her European policies, in cooperation
with her allies. Germany was at first
indefinite, then became insincere, then
assumed brutally revengeful and ter
rorizing attitude: and finally, in the
years just before the World War. pro-
fessed passionate friendship and a
devotion to the policy of the open
door-professions which DR.. Bau ap-
parently credits with sincerityl The
British policy WAS chiefly commercial,
aiming primarily at trade predomi-
nance; and was characterized in q
marked degree by justice and fair
play; and it was the first and most
emphatic to give adherence and sup
port to John Hays principles of the
open door and equality of opportu-
nifty. The policy of the United States
he refers entirely to our policy in
China and not to our treatment of
Chinese in America-has been charac-
terized by unselfishness and friendli-
ness, ''quite in vivid contrast with the
other grasping powers who pounced
upon China in the general scramble for
leases in 1882; and at the end of
the Boxer episode Ii Hung chang tes-
titled: 81 tremble to think of what
might have been China's fate but for
the stand taken by the American SOW
ernment." DR.. Bau reposes trust in the
continuance of that benevolent policy
and in the consequent success of the
new consortium proposals with which
this country is identified. "The sue
cess of the new consortium spells the
success Of the open door doctrine,
while the failure of the new consortium
means the failure of the open door
poIicv"