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ARKANSAW "MEWSINGS"

All pessimists and some married
women get lot Of pleasure out of
being miserable.
People generally find what they are
looking for: A woman looking for n
shock may encounter one.
No matter how rough the road TO
heaven, you will feel all the more like
enjoying your rest when you get
there.
Few Of us can afford to live In the
Vale of Dreams, and few reach the
hilltop without regrets for the low
lands.
The player piano IN the front room
seldom needs it, but the family Bible
on the table near the piano always
needs busting.
Funny world! Just about the time
we think we are climbing, some ca
lamity stares us in the face, and
knocks our props from under us.-Ar-
kansaw Thomas Cat
E . FL
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penmark,s Motor Car census

A Danish motor vehicle census was
held on September /, 1920, and showed
that on that aate there were in the
country 1904 private passenger cars,
ZIG motor cabs and omnibuses, 3,7Si
motertrucks and 12,1S2 motorcycles
The rapid increase in the number Of
cars and trucks in Denmark during the
past three years is noteworthy The
increase was especially great in the
country Scientific American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
5,ooo-Yearold Seeds.

A morning glory seed reputed 5000
years old, has been planted in the
garden Of Mrs. W. Chnmplln Robin
son, in a Maryland village, The seed
is one Of twelve found in the hand Of
a mummy Of a young Egyptian girl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

WEEDS, gets hit by train. bites tongue
nearly of" is The startling news given,
the public by headline. 4 cynic
mlgl say that the unfortunate pr.
son wouldn't have had much CHARGE
to use. it, anyway.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

A considerable advantage is enjoyed
by DR.. EInstein through the fact that
his theory being difficult to demon.
slrate to the popular intelligence,
leaves very little for an argument
against It to take hold OF.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
CIIIROPRACTIC

The. world must advance. The call
for bodily and mental efficiency neces-
sary for attainment in the race of life
is greater than ever before
Disease, Ignorance and prejudice are
three OF the greatest ,andieaps man.
Kind has 20 combat--They stand be-
tween health and happiness---All that
makes life worth living.
Why accept disease as unavoidable?
Why not free ourselves OF prsludices
that often retard our weii.beine7 Civ
iization and progress demands newe&
ideas--Chiropractlc provides them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

The unemployed In London are add.
Ing to the governments troubles. The
spirit which furnishes mischief for
idle hands to do is apparently busy
everywhere, with no lack of dates for
work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
Only The Fittest Survived

Today only limited number Of Phonograph
manufacturers, those who because of Ions years
of sincerity OF purpose hae estamlished themsel-
YES in Public Confidence, and The Acolian Com
pany. the worlds leading makers of line musical
instruments, are holding the Phonograph field.
The Aeolian Company are essentially makers
of Quality ACKNOWLEDGMENT made as
the famous Aeolian Pipe Organ is made-by men
who have devoted their lives to music-men who
know musc-who diferentate between the re-
production of sound and the musical reproduction
men who have raised the taking machine to the
standard OF highgrade musical instrument
While musicians almost Invariably choose The
Vocation you need not be a musician to appre
cate the tone quality that makes The Vocation
supreme Beauty. delicacy clearness OF tone. the
things for which you should buy monograph
have beer brought to the highest grade of per
lection in The Vocation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

A stainless steel has been invented
IN England What a fine thing for O
uh.ion 10 make its swords OIL
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Mnrn MAR Euer 1h,r

Beware OF the man who knows II
all, especially il It happens to be your.
srla Boston Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17

"Thc war oyer~-the excited Public got It's mu
sic car back-became critical about the quality
of the Photograph il bought The trade result
was inevitable
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
Vocation Records

Vocation Records
The Vocation plays all records, but the height
Of mu-ical perfection Is reached when Vocation
Records are pIayed-for they are made as
carefully, as "musically' az The Vocation Itself.
Vocation Records are made Of special red
composition which provides the best recording
surface and insures unequaled endurance. Just
as they arc distinctive in colcr--you viii find
them equally distinctive IN tone. And time
and usage will prove that they do last longer
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-17
You Create With the Graduola

The Craduola-tone controls an exclusive
Vocation feature It lifts the Photograph out
OF tho Reproducing stage into the creating. For
with the Graducla you sing the songs as you
feel them-you play the violin from your own
heart YOU find at last the way to set your soul
TO music. With the Ora duoa in your hand, you
can make the music an expression of yourself
your joys--your sorrows-your yearnings-ali can
be translated by the golden tones Of The Vocation
If you but press the Graduola Control
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Hear the Vocation Today

Wen deliver yours in time to make this Thanks
giving your very happiest and we give you our
guarantee that you'll always be thankful that
Won chose a musical instrument and not merely
a Phonograph.
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Plays Without the Graduola

The Vocation faithfully reprodnces for you tho
singing and playing of the artists without the
GraducIa But the Graduola gives you the means
for sci, EXPRESSION which has been called man.
kinds Great Desire"
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

THE BLACK MOTH BY Georgette
Heyer. Houghton Mifflin Company.
\ L.UCH of the atmosphere of
MI Austin Dobson's poem about
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

their course on q level above national
hatreds toward a better humanity.
In the case of Peguy. as in that of
Halevy-in whom all the past of his
people lived on-the safety of thought
and of the humanity itself was con-
fused with that of his country. The
war seemed to Peguy a deliverance.
More than ever Jeanne dare was his
heroine. identifying herself in his
mind with the very being and the suf
ferings of France
For the 500th anniversary of Jeanne
dare, which fell i'm the day of Kings.
1912. he first published his Mystery"
II follows the character of those early
dramatic forms i'm which the people of
the fifteenth century put upon the
stage. with naive anachronisms. in
melange of affectionate reverence and
familiarity, the saints, God the Father.
Christ the Virgin. And Peguy found a
At theme for such a Mystery" in the
vocation of Jeanne, the humble shep-
herd. going forth to become leader of
armies, a savior of her country and
her king
II is only dialogue between Jeanne.
1914 years old, and Nine. Gervaise
nun OF u nearby aDDeN. II Is Ine lalk,
at once profound and simple. of child
who is also a saint in the rapture of
her first consciousness of Divine
Grace: suave as it were the speech of
virgin in an ancient cathedral:
thrilling with faith in her people and
in her Cod Here the youthful piety
of Charles Peguy softens the rigor of
the polemic debater. When he says
"lc pdys dc France" between two in
vectives against the seekers of the
glory of this world. his obstinate verb
melts into inevitable tenderness
Jeanne is always i'm prayer She is
herself n prayer SO ardent that il be-
comes an irresistible will to which the
answer is already fact. The mys-
terry of her calling? Her charity
everything turns upon that A heart
enlarged by a sympathy without limit.
a pity that feels hunger ever for those
who are unaware Of their own want.
She suffers not alone for the misery
of men but also for their apathy in
the face of evil And from the excess
Of her anguish is born the desire to
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

New Mexico and has seen enough OF
other regions to size up the modern
descendants of the Conquistadores.
casar was defeated by the shabby
trickery of Anglo Saxons. He finally
retired from competition to live as his
forebears had done.
The Delcasar background is firmly
sketched: This thing called business
was utterly strange to the Delcasars
and the other Dons. They were men
of the saddle, fighting men, and trad
ers only in a primitive way. Business
seemed to them a conspiracy to take
their lands and their goods away from
them, and remarkably successful
conspiracy. Debt and mortgage and
speculation were the names OF ITS
weapons"
Don Diego and Felipe Delcasar were
the last of the family to have any
economic footing. The others either
moved back to old Mexico or sank to
the level of poems. Don Diego was a
chip of the old block. ut was said
that one could follow his wanderings
about the territory by the sporadic oc-
currence of the unmistakable Delcasar
nose among the younger inhabitants.
All of his sons and daughters by the
left hand he treated with notable gen
erosity He was sort Of hero to the
native people--a great fighter. great
lover-and songs about his adventures
were composed and sung around the
fires in sheep camps and by gangs of
track workers"
Ramon, the nephew of Don Diego
was the first Of his race to face mod
ern civilization. He studied at mod
ern law school. He became enamoured
of Julia Roth. girl of the invaders
He profited by his uncle's assassina'
tion by man the Don had cheated,
and for a while Ramon was success
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

LIE M ISI EkE DE LA Charlie LIE
JEANNE D'ARC BY Charles Peguy.
Paris: Edition Dc Ia Nouvelle Revue.
A FAITHFUL comrade, NJ. Lotte.
u has left this portrait of Peguy:
n He is 81 small man. with
rounded shoulders crowded into a
tight jacket. with enormous shoes on
his feet. a little hat on his head, a
peasant face, in which burn two
sharp eyes"
In character equally disdainful Of
superficial elegance he was phi
losopher and poet who remembered
his laboring ancestors. ploughing deep
and straight his own furrow. He be-
gan as a free thinker. socialist. revo-
lutionary and violent defender of
Dreyfus. and closed his career in the
second month IF the war an ardent
lighting patriot and a Catholic.
Nevertheless. 10 life was ever more
truly constant under these changing
aspects. His Mystery of the Charity
of Jeanne dare" which has just been
reissued. anirmc and explains this
fact. Though II appeared only three
years before his death the subject of
this volume was the same as that Of
his first published work. The Mission
OF Jeanne dare" The theme had
filed his life and in il one may find the
unity OF his nature
What is the Jeanne dare Of peguy?
Before all else the need Of bringing
salvation. IN tdUt sGuver. qu sduuer
II comment sauUcrp" That was her
repeated question. That was the de-
sire and the uncertainty that drove
Peguy to try one path after another
divergent paths they were but he
sought one goal.
In his youth. caring little for ideas,
ne tried 10 save by the heritage OF
Justice and Liberty" that came from
the dying nineteenth century Sur
rounded by "a chosen group of young
university men Ike himself he de-
Tended that heritage with savage
energy. In his Gathers dc Ia Quin
roinc," a periodical founded to prepare
men for new revolution he de-
spatched without mercy all those who
seemed to give up the Cause or to ex-
plot it for their personal benefit. He
found so many "betrayers" among his
comrades that he finally separated
himself from all The heirs of the
nineteenth century included many op
posing types. They had been drawing
apart for some time when the Moroc-
can incidents OF 1911 widened the va
rious lines Of divergence.
Certain men OF broad European
culture. like Roman ROLAND, followed
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

VERA. BY the author OF Eilzapeth
and Her German Garden" Doubleday
Page & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
To See the Elephant
Jump the Fence

THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN. Bv
Lebbeus Mitchell. Little. Brown a
Co.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Paris Remembers Peguy

LIE MYSTERE DE LA CHARITE DE ,
JEANNE D'AItC. BY Charles Peguy.
Paris: Edition Dc la Nouvelle Revue.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

The CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN BY
Lebbeus Mitchell. Little. Brown a
Co.
~ LID and young love the big tent.
I the elephants and the parade.
Many daddy to-day can re-
call the days when he carried pals of
water to the elephants to earn his
pass to the circus because mother or
dad would not or could not put in his
outstretched palm the necessary shin
ing piece of money which would pur-
chase the ticket.
Ask your mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence
He jumped so high he hit the sky
And never came down till the Fourth
of July.
But little orphan Jerry did not know
that elephants could not jump the
fence, though he did find out that
they could do many other things. even
to the extent of leading him to the
missing happiness in his sorroWful lit
tie life, for Jerry was not yet 7.
This is book written by an author
very familiar with children. who un-
derstands their plays and their joys
and sorrows. She writes in a style
pleasing to young and old, for after
dad has read the story to the children
he will take them on his knee and tell
them about the time he first saw a
circus. and our little city boys and
girls will appreciate Jerry more than
ever.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

~ frequently eaustie Elizabeth
\ will find much TO applaud in
Vera" her latest work, which con-
tains many interesting close ups of
the most unpleasant man in fiction.
The book can scarcely be called
novel Rather it is an extraordinarily
astute human document, minute
analysis of enc particular kind of
egoist The reader is not so much
told as left tc infer just what havoc
his egoism wrought in the llves OF
others-his acquaintance, his SER
wants. his in-laws, but most especially
his unfortunate wives, of whom there
we're. up to page $40. but two.
one feels certain, however. that
there will be one or possibly two more,
for Lucy. the sensitive and acutely
suffering second victim who is being
tenderly gathered to the egoists breast
as the curtain falls, is not, one pas
sionately hopes. of the kind TO submit
long to Wemyss's selfish demands. She
will escape, even if she has to resort
to poor Vera's method.
planned. after fifteen years of having
her spirit crushed under the appalling
weight of Wemyss's egoism, escaped
by the simple though nervy expedient
of jumping out of a third story win
dow. After all. when ones spirit is
crushed. what matters broken body?
The, really brilliant achievement OF
the book is the careful manner in
which the author has shown that
Wemyss never for an instant sus-
pected that he was an egoist, brute
and a spoiled baby. He saw himself
as the most wholesome and sane and
affectionate of men. pouring out on
his undeserving wives wealth OF
tenderness and unalloyed devotion.
Vera had never appreciated nor re-
sponded to his love. In the end vera
had grossly failed him. annoying him
and hurting him even in ner death,
which had involved him in that most
unpleasant episode. the inquest. Very
well. he would forget Vera and the
codness with which she had net his
love all those years. He would find
soace in Lucy. and simultaneously
give solace to her in her newly or
phaned state.
We begin TO realize. after reading
Vera" that perhaps the author is
not. as some readers have thought
merely venting dislike of the s;erner
sex in portraying Wemyss, but has
rather attempted to show that not
only Wemyss, but many Of the worlds
egoists, male and female, are sublimely
unaware of their utter selfishness. and
go through the world firmly if a little
sadly believing that their splendid
qualities are unappreciated.
You loathe Wemyss from first to
last, you long TO have Elizabeth go on
and show us Lucy's rebellion, but you
must admit that there was never an
instant when Wemyss was not certain
that he was right. and generous, and
Fundamentally devoted TO his pa
thetic young bride. SO, until uEiver-
sal peace or the grace of God or some
thing shall wipe selfishness forever
out OF all mems hearts. perhaps a hook
like Vera can help us to be a bit more
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

N
MI Austin Dobson's poem about
= that tea cup time of hood
and hoop and when the patch was
worn" marks the pages of Georgette
Heyer's romance, whose title is that
of a wicked nobleman given to wear
ing highly picturesque black costumes
and lowering about women until his
wings are very badly scorched indeed.
To read of the heroine protesting to
the Black Moth, otherwise the Duke
OF Andover, Sir, Mr.. Everard-who-
ever you are-if you have any spark
of manliness i'm you. of chivalry. II
you care for me at all. you will this
instant set me down" is to catch the
full flavor of the time and manner
of the tale. But the Duke. who had
posed as Mr. Everard while making
love TO Diana Beauleigh, had little
chivalry. He carried Diana off to his
ducal mansion against her will. And
it took his brother-in-law to bring out
whatever manliness the Duke pos
sessed at the point of his sword.
There is much other sword play and
gambling and dicing and chocolate
drinking in this wholly artificial tale
of England in the eighteenth century.
The hero is an amateur highwayman
for a time until he is saved from the
possibility of ending his folly on the
gallows through the intervention of
a friend. the inevitable picturesque
and mildly humorous Irishman. The
tale. on the whole, is as graceful and
as unsubstantial as the winged crea-
ture from which it takes its name.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Don Diego Was a Great Lover

THE BLOOD OF THE CONQUERORs.
By Harvey Ferguson. Alfred A.
Knopf.
TT HE two Latin races which pos
sess our continent have much
i'm common. The first French
Canadian novel had back to its soil
for its motto. The Spanish Americans
of the Southwest have not become ar
ticulate in our literature, but they
have found an able Interpreter in
Harvc'- Fp~ruggo~ lie w"T ho~n in
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

John Dos Passos. author of Three
Soldiers" is an artist as well as a poet
and novelist. An exhibition of some
twenty-five or thirty water colors
made by Mr.. Dos Passos during his
recent trip through France and Spain
was held at the National Arts Club last
month.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

full in his plans of fighting fire with
fire. He even Joined the fanatic order
of Penitentes in order to have greater
influence with MacDougall. his oppo-
nent in land deals. However, his craft
was not sufficient for him to win out
against the gringoes. and the final
chapter shows his success in returning
to the old life of his forebears.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Himself He Never Saw

tolerant of the Wemysses OF this
world.
In any case, Vera" is a book not TO
be missed. though il is not just the
cheeriest thing of the season.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-01-04
ANTI BOYCOTT RULE
WILL WORK TWO WAYS
IS CONTENTION TODAY
Labor is Barred From Unfair
Practices and Rule Also
Reaches Case of Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.-CU. P.J-
The United States supreme courts in
depreciation Of the Clayton antitrust
act may hit big employers as well as
labor unions. II has developed here.
Government officials and legal author
tiles studying the decision, called at
tenuon to the fact the court Condemn
ed "a secondary boycott" as restraint
upon interstate commerce. II is point
ed out that big employers have been
charged with employing such boycotts
and one has admitted it. The su-
preme court decision was in the case
of the Duplex Printing Press company
against the Internationl Association of
Machinists. The court held the ma
chinists, in bringing pressure TO pre-
vent the use. repair, installation or
handling Of Duplex presses. conducted
a secondary Poycott" which the Clay
ton act does not legalize. Labor union
men and government officials pointed
out to employers that in refusing to
sell products to firms which used
union labor they employed the same
tactics as the machinists employed.
The Bethlehem steel company recently
refused to sell steel to a construction
company which employed only union
labor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-01-04
MAIL PLANE In FLAMES FALLS
I'm HEART OF SAN FRANCISCO;
AVIATOR ESCAPES FROM HARM
Sensational Accident Viewed by
Hundreds Bound for Work;
Motor Cut Out Caused Plane
to Become Unmanageable.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 4.-U. P.)
Failing a thousand feet when en-
gine trouble developed, a government
mail plane. piloted by S. S. Boggs,
plunged to the pavement near the
business center Of the city. As II
dropped the plane caught fire.
BOggs attempted to land in the civic
center park but failed. the machine
srashing into network of trolly and
telephone wires which broke the fall.
AS the plane hit the pavement, Boggs
uttered a yell and emerged from the
burning wreckage uninjured. Boggs
had just started for Reno with 27O
pounds of mail for New York. which
was destroyed.
The plane fell in view OF hundreds
of persons on their way to work who
were Mortified at the sight OF a burn
ing plane dropping through the air.
They were in turn astounded when
Boggs escaped practically without a
scorch. The motor cut out just as
| was getting the altitude" said
Boggs. 1T came so suddenly the
plane was unmanageable in min
ute.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-01-04
S1.4O OFFERED FOR
LOCAL WHEAT CROPS;
GROWERS WANT $l.5O
Some Authorities Believe
Wheat Will Go Higher; In
come Tax Return Period Has
Bearing on Desire to Sell.

Wheat buyers are offering around
$40 bushel for No. club in PEN
dleton and growers are asking s150. a
resume Of the wheat situation in the
city today indicated. Several large
sales Of wheat were reported on Friday
IN the $40 basis by growers who de-
cided 10 sell and take their loss on the
income tax report Many who are
holding, however, have set $3.50 as an
arbitrary minimum.
One pool Of wheat is known to have
been formed recently to be let loose
at $3.50 should the market cgme to
that figure. Another dealer reported
that he has dozens OF clients who will
neg tiate with him when he is in the
market at that price. Most Of the
dealers on the street. however, turned
4 deaf ear 10 requests OF a few who
wanted to sell yesterday and fixea
s1.50 az their minimum.
Some authorities on the grain situa-
ton say that from all indications the
price OF wheat should get higher. They
point to the fact that the export de
mand is again picking up and thai
there is hardly any flour in the mar
kets Of the United States. The ex
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