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Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
Coal In tho phlllpnlnss.

A vein Of coal has been discovered in
the Philippines which is said to be up
to the quality of the Chinese fuels. The
amount has not been ascertained, but
1t is certain that 1t will answer the de-
mands Of the islands for many years.
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
cuticura soothes I,chIno scaIp

On retiring gently rub spots of dan
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. Make
them your everyday toilet preparations
and have clear skin and soft, white
hands.-Advertisem
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
Near Him

We come too near Him when we
search into His counsels. The sun and
the fire say of themselves, Come not
too near. How much more the Light
which none can attain unto2-Bishop
Hall
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
Rleaslnns Of This pau

Enjoy the blessings of this day, IL
God sends them, and the evils bear pa
tiently, ami sweetly; for this day is
ours; we are dead to yesterday, and
are not torn tomorrow.-Jeremy Tay-
lor
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SllnadaySchool .
' Lesson '
CBy REV. p. b. FITZwATER. d. D.,
Teacher OF English Bible In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
(9. 1921 Western Newspaper Union)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER %
PAuL's LAST JOURNEY TO JERu.
SALEM

LESSON TExr-Acts eo:l-n1.
GOLDEN TExT-Let US not be weary
In well doing: for in due season we shall
reap II we faint not.-Gai. 60.
REFERENCE MATERIAL - Rom. 16;
Big. a-23; II Tim <:ls-2l.
PRIMARY TOPIC-How Pauis Friends
Showed Their Love
JUNIOR TOPIC-Paul and His Friends.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Paul and His Friends.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULE TOPIC
Paul Reviews His Ministry.
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
Since When?

Mrs. Benham-He has been disap-
pointed in love.
Benham-How long has he been
married?
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21

Rio de Janelro is famed for It's bril-
liant Nominations which may be seen
100 miles out at sea.
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21

Some women jump to conclusions be-
cause they want to see how the story
is going to end.
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21
Meet Enouuh.

"They say mans heart is reached
through his stomach"
Then suppose girl should be Gro.
quettish. ."-Louisville Courier-JournaI
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21

Everybody is on the job when 1t
comes to knocking knocker.
Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-21

regularly organized women's club
existed In New York In l747.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
A Mountain Feud
Gunplay in Romance of
Kentucky Hills

THE ROOF TREE. BY Charles Neville
Buck Published by Doubleday. Page
& Co.
T<HIS romance Of the Kentucky hills
is enlivened by a considerable
amount of gunplay. There Is the
familiar feud situation, where two
groups Of mountain families are ready
to fly at each others throats upon the
slightest machination. The hero, Ken
peace, but he is constantly hampered by
the plots of Bas Rowlett, a very re-
sourceful villain, who tries to further
his own ends by infaming the old
quarrels. In the end, of course, virtue
is properly rewarded, and Bas Rowlett
is compelled to fee for his life to es-
cape lynching.
The love element in the story centers
about a gigantic old tree, which has
lowered above one of the mountain
homes ever since the days Of the Revo-
lutionary settlers. 1t is beneath this
tree that Kenneth Thornton first woos
his wife, and it is in the Same place
that they celebrate their happiness
after Bas Rowlett has been banished
and peace has been restored to the
hills.
Mr.. Buck shows intimate knowledge
of the localities which he describes,
and his mastery Of the mountaineers'
dialect is excellent. Above all. he
possesses the imagination and skill to
tell good adventure story thrillingly
and convincingly.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Balzac's Women

EVER since the publication of the
A@ Comedie Humane the novels Of
Ealzac have been criticized on the
ground that the great French romancer,
i bourgeois by birth and training, real
y knew nothing of the high society"
which he SO often depicts. The Holts
are bringing out soon a book, Women
in the Life of Balzac, which once and
for all disposes of this criticism by re-
vealing Balzacs intimate association
with various women of the highest So
cial standing The author, Miss Juanita
Floyd, of Goucher College, has devoted
years to the study of Balzac's life, and
in her careful and remarkably decu-
mcnted book has added so much to our
knowledge of the love affairs Of this
famous novelist that her volume will
be practically indispensable to the
many readers of his works. The book
is full of illustrations, including q min
iature of Balzac's wife never before
published and reproduced by special
permission Of J. P. Morgan. in whose
collection the original now is.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
When F anne Is Wed to F Fame
Is One Family Big Enough to Hold Two
Careers?
Careers?

THE FoURTH DIMENSION. BY Horace
Annesley vachel Published by George
H. Doran Company, New York.
~ EADERS Of the novels Of Horace
II Annesley Vachell. who became
acquainted with and admired
his work in Quinneys and his other
sarly novels, will be genuinely pleased
to be assured that in The Fourth
Dimension he hiss written book fully
up to the level Of his highest grades.
This story has a plot that shifts its
two central characters from a country
home in middle England to London and
then to the wild moors Of Dartmoor.
And the three localities, when spirit
ually envisaged, appear as the three
appropriate settings for the dramatic
record Of the lives Of the playwright
Cherrington and his lovely wife, the
young actress Jessica Yeo.
Jessica is a find. She is, in the pre-
liminary section Of the novel, young
girl in a quiet English country family,
at the hour of her appearance In a
play at the home of a wealthy neigh
bor. She makes hit. for she has an
unusual, almost uncanny power to live
herself into q part, to feel its require
ments and get more out of it than
even tho dramatist intended. Men who
recognize ability when confronted by
it are present at this country per-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

formance, and they see to it that doors
are opened to her for appearance at
Manchester and then in London.
Young Cherrington, a dramatist
loves Jessica and weds her. Then
swiftly, develops their knotty situa-
tion. Both are ambitious. Each is
eager to succeed one as a maker of
plays and the other as an interpreter
of parts. When the woman begins to
draw ahead of the man as a popular
and financial success, he, piqued and
faced by a difficult third act that will
not spread out in text on paper, runs
away to the wastes Of Dartmoor to
write in solitude. In his absence q
splendid leading part is offered his
wife by London manager.
Vachell has created a novel problem
in the facts Of the temporary estrange-
ment of CHERRY" and Jessica. We
have revealed so much of this truly
human novel that we will not divulge
the dramatic finale, worked out in wind
and tempest and love in cottage OF
the Dartmoor fields. The stage has
three dimensions, but life. supreme
dictator of Issues above and beyond
the footlights, offers an escape from
artihce to reality. This is Vachell'.
contention, the theme Of this his lates,
story.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Venizelos
Sympathetic Biography of
Greek Statesman

VENIZELOs. BY Herbert Adams Gibbons.
Published by Houghtou Mlfflin Company.
HE decisive defeat of Eleutherios
Venizelos in the recent Greek
election cannot destroy his repu-
tation as the most brilliant and ver-
satile Balkan statesman of modern
times. He has pursued the ideal of
Pan -Hellenism, Of reuniting the scat
tered fragments of the Greek race
under single sovereignty, with re-
markable skill and tenacity in the face
Of extraordinary obstacles.
Born in Crete at time when the
island was under Turkish rule, Veni-
zelos as young man threw himself
heartily into the movement for liberia
ton and union with Greece. The in
dependence of Crete was opposed not
only by the Ottoman Empire, but also
by the European powers, who were ali
distrustful Of each other and unwilling
to disturb the status quo in the Levant
However, by judicious mixture of
daring and caution, by knowing when
to strike and when not to strike, Veni-
zelos finally played leading part in
the annexation of his native land to
Greece.
In the mean time he had become q
prominent figure in political life at
Athens. Mr.. Gibbons justly calls him
the father of the Balkan Alliance,
which really broke the power of the
Turk in Europe. Side by side with his
dreams of q greater Greece, Venizelos
always cherished the aspiration Of q
durable federation Of Balka. nations
which should make for peace in that
troubled region. The rupture Of the
original alliance, due to Bulgaria's s
treacherous and greedy attacA, was q
severe blow to him.
From the beginning Of the war Veni-
zelos was a consistent advocate of
Greek intervention on the side Of the
Allies. He clung to this viewpoint, de-
spite the opposition of the King and
the Greek General Staff, whose policy
of neutrality, in the authors opinion,
was colored with pro-Germanism. By
setting up an insurgent government
ct Salonica Venizelos strengthened the
Allies in their resolution to depose
Constantine and helped to bring Greece
into the war. At the peace conference
Venizelos used all his influence to gain
hearing for Greek claims, despite the
hostile or Indifferent attitude of the
great powers. By securing permissior
to land troops at Smyrna he laid tbs
foundation for the reunion of the
| Asiatic Greeks with their motherland
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Following the Roosevelt Tradition
Theodore the Elder Advised His Son About
Navy Management

their number of civilian officers. Ex-
cept with a comparatively smail
number, too long q stay in our army
with it's peculiar limitations-pro-
duces a rigidity of mind that re-
fuses to face the actual conditions
of modern warfare. But the wonder
is that our army and navy have
been able to survive in any shape
after five years Of Baker and
Daniels"
And now young Roosevelt takes his
place in the Navy Department at the
post next tc the one which Daniel
has just vacated Those of US who are
concerned with the future policy of the
Navy Department will find much in
dicative of the policy of the new AS
sistant Secretary in his book. Quite
evidently Secretary Denby's assistan mt
is dyed-in- -the-wool disciple of pre-
paledness, and that not only from in
heritance, but especially as a result OF
his personal overseas experiences.
"The first and most evident lesson
taught US was the effect of being III
prepared" writes Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt. eve SOW the wind and we
reap the whirlwind AS result, hun
dreds of millions have been spent tc
no purpose and blood has been shed un.
necessarily. Those who were in this
country saw daily the evidences Of in
efficiency and the coincident waste OF
public money. Those who went tc
Europe saw blood shed unnecessarily
through lack Of supplies, inefficient or
ganization and unframed leadership
So the Roosevelt tradition rolls on
Another Roosevelt is at Washington
already with some active years of pub
lie service behind him and possibilities
before him measurable only by his owr
ability to grasp them. at is the bust
ness of each Roosevelt to play the
part of good American and try te
make things as much better as pos
sible." That is from a letter from the
older Colonel to the younger Colone
written in June, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
CALL MR. FORTUNE. BY Fl. G. Bailey.
Published by z. p. Duttoh g. Co.

CALL MR. FORTUNE. BY Fl. c. Bailey.
Published by z. P. Duttoh 6 Co.
@NTER another detective, belong
ing right out in the front row of
somewhat crowded stage - DR..
Reginald Fortune, familiarly known as
Reggie" of course. A most engaging
and whimsical young man is DR.. Reggie,
and efficiency itself when it comes to
running down crime. What is more,
he starts no end Of interesting CONVEX
sations while he is at his work, which
means that the reader who follows his
adventures in mystery is not going to
be bored with lot of long, descriptive
paragraphs.
Here is the way Reggie figures in
the large and growing portrait gallery
of distinguished detectives Of fiction
"He was Of round and cheerful
countenance and a perpetual appetite.
This gave him solidity of aspect, en-
phasized by his extreme neatness.
Neither his hair, nor anything else of
his, was ever ruffled. He was more at
ease with the world than a man has
a right to be at thirtyfive. At Oxford
Reggie always had plenty of time and
spent it here and there and everywhere,
on musical comedy, prehistoric man,
golf and the newer chemistry, bargees
and psychical research
There are six adventures in which
this magnetic young detective figures,
beginning with "The Archduke's Tea"
and ending with "The Business Minis
ter" the last being almost a novelette,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

BOOKS SEARCHED FOR AND FoU.D.
II you want some particular book very
badly, for which you have searched and
searched in vain. let Is fnd II fey you
H S Nichols Inc, Booksellers. The
English Bookshops 333 Fifth Avenue and
IT East s3rd Street. New York City. (Ks-
fablished 1852
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
In the Clutch Of Orthodoxy
Elsie Singmaster Sketches a Human Drama
Against Background of Ascetic Religion

were other things Of which be would
not tell"
In spite Of all these forebodings
Matthew does not succumb to the secu
lar allurements of the Medical School.
He runs away. returns 70 Grandfather,
settles down as farmer and a devous
Seventh Day Baptist. and only repents
OF his decision when it is TOO late. 1t
is his sister Ellen who rebels against
the narrowness and pettiness Of the lit
tie sectarian community and awakens
to the larger world outside.
After trying in various ways to earn
her own living, Ellen becomes q maid
in the home Of Stephen Lanfair, an old
college friend of her fathers. Stephen
flas his own tragedy; he has been
fatally hampered in his professional
career by marrying a rich and stupid
woman with morbid obsession Of
jealousy, which finally develops into
insanity.
When Stephen finds out who Ellen
is he sends her to college His interest
in her, which is first benevolent and
paternal, soon assumes a warmer char
acteI The author describes tho rela-
tionshp with her usual skill and sub
tfety and insight. The death Of the
insane wife provides an escape from
what was becoming a difficult situation.
Miss SingInaster displays remarkable
facility in characterization. and her
style is both direct and compsct. Shs
INDUCES in few digressions; 1t isn't
safe to skip any of her chapters. She
has created an unusually ambitious
plot, and she handles it very adequately
indeed
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
A New and Dramatic Detective
DR., Reginald Fortune Is No Mean Rival oi
Sherlock Holmes

In point of length. The young doctor
who is as high in the favor Of Scotland
Yard as Sherlock Holmes ever was,
and deservedly so. digs into each mys-
terry without appearing to dig. He
coins slang, jokes with his worried
friends. "spoofs" the solemn officers
of the law, and at the end plays the
trump card and then retires to his
mullins and tea. Compared with the
ordinary hard working, uninspired and
mechanical detective of the general run
Of fiction, Reggie Fortune is indeed a
delight. Behind all the authors gift
for byplay and light conversation
there is q strong sense of the dramatic
One is never quite rllowed to forget
that tragedy Is the main business in
hand. The opening stories, "The Arch
dukes Tea" and THE Sleeping Com
panion," might be skeletonized as
models Of basic form in detective lit.
erature for the advanced class in that
art in any college course in short-story
writing. Whether the average pupil
could come within gunshot of filling in
the skeleton as lightly yet as absorb
ingly as the author has done in these
stories is quite another matter. "The
Hottentot Venus" Is the oldest story
in the lot In it Reggie is enabled
to solve mystery, all because Of hav-
ing dipped into paleontology, among
other absurd things, at college. In
fact, no matter what sort of case he
is on, this young physician-detective
earns his mullins and tea.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

,vrxMTNG CUP. Ry Dorothy Cam
~. fss. published by Harcourt, Brace & Co.
oRoTHY CANFIELD writes
chiefly for mothers, for the
~ good, old-fashioned story book
mothers who have more inter
:. n whether or not little Willie
IVA, his ears than they have in who
.,.csed to the state assembly. Ard
-. ,rcbahly has q great many men
-..s.rs too. for there still are men
-, nrefer the old-fashioned mother to
-. new-fanged lady Of affairs. But.
.,v way you look at it, Dorothy Can
IA has host of readers. and there
ms. be reason. There always is.
The Brimming Cup is about as op-
,o,I.s a type to Rose Macaulay's Pot
.,-;.n as novel could be and still be
-,.d.ble. The only way we can COM
os,. the two books at all is to tell how
dlssrent they are.
In The Brimming Cup it is the man
,ho speaks contemptuously of "Har-
,ldbelwrightism" and cries cut against
4ast, conventional, rubber stamp COM
,,.n," who gets all the worst of il. He
,cmes into g quiet, little Vermont viii
srs and i.trudes with his liberal ideas
,ato happy family grouping Of
;ashsr, mother and the three blessed
children. He raises the Old Ned for a
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
lInETER DUNNE stopped me on
the street to-day" wrote

k<D ETER DUNNE stopped me on
the street to-day" wrote
Colonel Roosevelt in America
to Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt in
France, "and said The first thing you
kr-cw, those boys CT yours will be put
ting the name of Roosevelt on the
map"
Generally speaking, Mr.. Dooley's
prediction seems to be by way of full
fillment. For the second Theodore
Roosevelt is treading ahead pretty
rapidly in the footsteps of his great
father, and, curiously, those footsteps,
politically speaking, thus far coincide
almost exactly with his parents. For
now Young Teddy" as the American
Legionnaires called him when he
worked so 'strenuously in the making
Of the Legion two years ago, has be-
come Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
First, colonel in France, while his
father was a colonel in Cuba; then
member of the Legisla ture, from his
home district in Long Island instead
Of from New York City. Ana beyond
all this. which perhaps the public does
not realize 80 fully, the younger
Roosevelt is, like his father, an author
His 6rst book is called Average
Americans, and chiefly concerns his
experiences in the war and his reac-
tions from the war. There are also
a number Of extremely illuminating
letters from the ex-President to his
son.
Now that he is to become a mem
Der Of the regular establishment" on
the naval side, there is perhaps spe-
cial interest in what the ex-President
wrote his son in letter of September
II, 1917:
"The regular officers are fine fell
lows, but for any serious work we
should eliminate two-thirds of the
| older men and quarter of the
| younger men, and use the remainder
rs = nucleus for, say, three times
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

ELLEN LEWIS. By Elsie 5ngmaster.
Published by Houghton -a,rlin Company.
HLsIE sINCMAsTER employs a
r. familiar background with ex-
2--~ cellent effect in her latest novel.
We are shown a community of
Seventh Day Baptists, peculiar sect
Of Pennsylvania German farmers who
believe in footwashing and trine i'm
mersion and regard all contact with
the outside world as dangerous, If not
positively sinful. The generally
acknowledged head Of the commu-
nifty. Grandfather Milhausen, has ex-
perienced the sorrow Of seeing his
daughter marry an alien inidel, DR..
Edward Lewis.
The daughter has died, and Grand
father engages in a struggle with Dr.
Lewis for the souls of the two children.
The doctor wishes to have his children
grow up free from prejudices and
religious bigotry and sends Matthew
away to medical school. The con-
sternation of the Seventh-Day Baptists
at this development is depicted by the
author with sly humor:
"Grandfather thought hourly Of
Matthew. Each day he became more
painfully aware that Matthew was
young and that the temptations were
many. He saw him at the end of the
week surrounded by all the entice-
ments Of lurid Babylon Members of
the church, astonished by the course
pursued by Dr.. Lewis and permitted
at least they thought 1t was permitted
by Grandfather, poured into his ears
descriptions of orgies INDUCED in by
college students, in which wine, women
and song furnished a gay entertain
ment- Indeed, according to the stories
heard by Brother KONG. wine, women
and song were as necessary to college
students as food and sleep. Church
going was unkr wn without compul-
sion, and then all were required to
attend single irreligious, inconsist-
ent service, where on one Sunday Jews
preached 20 GentileS and the next
Centles to Jews. Brother KONG, SO
keen when the trade of a horse was
in question, had heard that on certain
Sundays even Catholics set up their
altars and tried to proselyte. Matthew
every one believed, had spiritual
strength unusual in young man, but
he was, in the local idiom, not that
strong.
1T was reported also that all evi
practices reached their height in the
Medical School, where Matthew, after
an incredibly long stay elsewhere
would eventually spend four years
Brother KONG could invent little be
yond that which he had already i'm
parted, but he stated plainly that Their
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
French Culture
It's Development Traced
Through the Ages

FRENCH CIVILIZATION. BY Albert Leon
Guerard. Published by Houghton Mlf-
fin Company.
r UCIDITY and balance are tradi-
tional virtues Of French scholar
ship, and M. Guerard displays
both these qualities with their natural
accompaniment: brilliant and charm
ing style. A history of French civili-
zation from its earliest origins to the
end Of the Middle Ages is rather
formidable task. Yet, by rigid elimi-
ration Of non-essential details and q
scrupulous concentration upon the
most important features Of the ages
which he describes, the author gives
US a very readable and consecutive
narrative Of the development of French
culture from the days of the prehis-
toric tribes to the dawn of the Renais-
sance.
M. Guerard is distinctly eclectic in
his philosophy Of history. He does not
believe that past events can be ex-
clusively interpreted in terms of race
CT climate; he rejects the MARKHAM
economic Interpretation Of history
elong with Buckles theory that all
progress Is due to the victory Of the
critical mind over superstition.
He feels the inherent romantic charm
of the Middle Ages without indulging
in an absurd idealization of this pc
riod after the fashion of the more un-
critical guild Socialists. He shows
that life in medieval France was domi-
mated by four outstanding forms of or
ganization: the Church, the royal
power, the feudal system and the au-
tonomous communes.
NJ Guerard points out that Greece
end Rome are intellectually much
closer to US than medieval Europe. 1t
is difficult for the modern mind TO un-
derstand the psychology Of a period
which possessed neither clearly de-
fined national spirit nor the scientific
attitude Of mind, nor an organized in
dustrial and financial system. Medi-
cval culture differs from ancient and
modern chiefly in its childishness and
imma aturity. Despite their obvious
defects the Middle Ages possessed sew
eral striking advantages. Among these
advantages NJ. Guerard enumerates
their vague conception of international
unity, expressed in the Church; theil
freedom from some of the more OBJ.
jectionabls features of modern Chau-
vinism and industrialism. and certain
humanized aspects Of their religious
| life.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
For Very Little Folks

RARy RuFFALO AND THE JOLLY
JACKRABBIT BY C. e. Kflbourne
Published by The Pom Publishing Com
pany.
A STORY for small persons who like
"A to hear about animals Is that OF
Baby Buffalo and the jolly Jackrabbit'
bv C. E. Kilbourne. The buffalo is not
very we'll known in these days because
men and their families have crowded
him off his native plains. This book
teaches some about buffalo, and at the
same time tells nice little story. The
pictures by Hattie Longstreet Price are
a,so instructive and entertaining.