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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10
,,n,.,Ier and His Friends


- + THE fame of Whistler is
/ { !. #: i 1 !. !; . !.
&h& not permanent, it will not
@fs8T1 be for lack Of the efforts
MWkWa1 of Mr.. and Mrs. Pennell
TO prove that he was one
MV sl of the most striking per-
WD sonnlities and the most
distinguished artist Of his
,ir,e Their life of Whistler. pub
,i.hsd, ld n few. years ago, has gone
,,hromgh six editions, which would seem
~ Justify their belief that there Is con-
..g1asrabe interest in the man. In
sni.uonaration for writing the life they
t.nt journal in which they recorded
hspr ssau, time TO time all the information
,bey could gather both from him and
snon, @ his friends and associates. This
;o"rnai, which has just been publishe ed
Sy the Lippincotts, is filled with inti-
>,note, gossip. not only about Whistler,
hnt ,%' about innumerable contemporaries.
pesdmg it is like sitting down with
zoo informed person who chat about
.Ss artistic and literary life of London
of the sos and 00s Of the last century
ond of the first decade of the present
For example, in the early pages we
arc told Of the dinners of the staff OF
The National Observer. presided over
nv W. f.. Henley and attended by
Josepb Pcnnell. Arthur Morrison
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An American Classic

When John Habberton wrote Helen 3
Babies" for the amusement of his sick
wife he did more than he set out to do.
He wrote n classic which has been read
OF both sides of the ocean and has been
printed in .nnumerable editions. The
latest comes from the ~ css of the Stew
art Kidd Company. OF Cincinnati. and
1t is issued in memory of the author,
who died in Glen Ridge. \. J.. on
February 26.' 1t is illustrated in col =
ors and in black and white. and con =
tains a fac-simile reproduction of the
original dedication. TO the parents OF
the best children in the world" The
book has retained it's popularity be-
cause there shines through II from the
beginning 20 the end that fine spirit
that makes the world go round. Mr..
Habbcrtpn graspcd it without really
knowing what he was doing. He was
unable to do it again. and although he
wrote five other novels and a play.
']Ielen's Babies" is the only book OF
his to survive. In that respect his ex-
pPricnce is like that Of Mrs. Stove
whose ."Unclc Toms Cabin" is still
read. while everything else that she
wrote is forgotten. Those who hold
that there is such thing aS literary in
spirntion may use these instances tc
support their fniih.
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Henderson's .Pdris''

Miss Helen w. Henderson has done
for Paris what she has done for. New
York and Washington. Her books on
the two American cities set new stand
ard for such things. "a Loiterer IN
Paris" George II. Doran Company
gives to the reader the same kind OF IL
Illuminating and informed comment on
French capital that is contained in the
other books about the American cities.
The book is full Of detailed informa-
ton. with dates and names filling the
pages But Mics Henderson handles
them in such way as to make tas.
cinating story where less skillfu'
writer would have been meshed in q
mass Of tiresome details. She has not
pretended to write n guide to I'aris
but no stranger in the City could i;e'
more satisfactory guide book from
which to breathe The spirit of the place
and the romance Of its long and e'entfu
history.
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assSUNsA .
.Posthumous Fame Of Phillips

Recognition Of the work Of David
Graham Phillips in France has entered
,pon 4 now phase. His striking story,
"Thc Master Rogue" is appearing In
"L'Information under tlA title Of lie
Maitrc Couuuin.'' THE Fashionable
Adventures of Joshua Craig appeared
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Robert Frost at Michioan

Robert Frost, recently OF Vermont,
has established his residence at Ann
Arbor, having accepted fellowship in
poetry at the University Of Michigan.
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NcwbOlt'S Great Anthology

TT WOULD be almost as easy for the
l. layman to construct social, religious
and political history of the English
speaking race from Sir Henry New
bolts can English Anthology of Prose
and Poetry" (E. =. Dutton & co...
as it is for palcontologist to construct
the skeleton Of an extinct megatherium
from a single bone.
The purpose of Sir Henry. however,
was only to show the progress of the
English language and literature from
the fourteenth to the nineteenth cen
turies inclusive. Although there are
many !'elegant extracts" in the vol.
ume of 1000 pages. it was not his pur-
pose to produce such collection. In
decd he has included nothing merely
because it was fine literature. His
selections are made TO illustrate the
various influences that have worked or
the mind of the English race and found
oppression in it's literature. He has
shown III, development of the Language
by quoting the same passages from tht
Wyclif the COverdale and the King
james versions of the Bible. OF course
he has selections from Chaucer. but the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10

30 centered on this tiny mud patch
that we are deaf and blind TO all tha'
impinges on us from beyond.
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DOYLES~ PILGRIMAGE
Record of a Journey to Exploit
His Belief in Spirituulism

Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle went to
Australia little more than year ago,
TO tell the antipodean spiritualists why
be had become n convert to their belief.
He has written n, record of whnt he did
and saw for the information of those
interested. The book. 1.-THE Wander
ings of Spiritualist" tDornn), is n
discursive narrative In which his travel
experiences. his reflections about the
war, and his spiritualistic beliefs are
mingled with the account of the meet
lngs he addressed and the spiritualistic
revelations he received. ." o.
His conversion from materialism Is
comparatively recent, but he is $50
widely known that the spiritualists
have made much OF him. And he mas
shown all the enthusiasm of new con-
vert in what he has said and done since
he embraced his new belief. Indeed, he
accepts as evidence of the soundness Of
his faith incidents which IL he did noS
believe in the communication of the
dead with the living. would be uncon
vincing. For example, he met n man
on shipboard who told him that his
dead son had advised him to go TO Cey
lon. The man accepted the advice, and
prospered in Colombo. In recouniing
the incident Sir Arthur remarks: How
much people may miss by cutting them
selves of from these ministers Of grace
In all opposition to spiritualism the
punishment fits the crime" Again h
tells of his inability to sleep. after q
lecture. He was tossing restlcssly ir
bed when he began to detect the pungen
smell of ether coming in waves through
m open window. In n few minutes HI
was in a deep sleep. When he awokt
he looked out of the window to SEE
where the ether came from. Then j
returned thanks for one more benefit re
ccived." II do not suppose that an
alone in such interpretations, he con.
tinued. ''but I think that our minds ar,
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comparison Of the English Of Chauccr
with that Of Milton does not show 30
graphically the development Of the Ian
guagc as the quota from the Bible
as il was put into English at different
periods.
His prose extracts include history
sermons. letters and essays, and after
the novel was invented significant pas
sages from famons books Of fctien arc
ihcludcd beginning with Defoc and end
ing with Henry Jones. In between are
Smollett, Scott. Jane Austen, llnw-
thorno. Meredith and many others.
Curiously enough, Charles Lamb Is rep
resented by some letters. In poetry he
gives three selections from Walt Whit
man and only one from Longftllow. AL
most as much space is given to Robert
Bridges. the present poet laureate, as
to Keats or Shelley. 1t would be easy
to ask why this or that had not bccll
included. but Sir Henry's answer would
be that. as already indicated, he was
not making an anthology for the pur-
lose of including as many fine things
ns possible. but for a very different rea-
son. lie has done what he set out to
do. and he has done it in a most salts
factory manner. l.... q. W. ID.
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a JOURNAL FULL OF
- .. ....-. INTIMATE GOSSIP

which is reprinted in SELECTED English
Letters" (E. =. Dutton & Col, n
volume in the series of ''The Kings
Trehsuries of Literature edited by
Sir a. Il. Quiller Couch. Miss Osborne
who was born in 1927. did not marry
Sir William till 1854 because there
we're various obstacles to be overcome.
She concludes the letter reprinted with
these words: You are enough in INV
heart to know all my thoughts. and II
so you know better than l can tell you
how much / am, Yours" The volume
contains letters by other men and
women. beginning with Agnes PASTOR.
the writer of the earliest surviving
specimens of familiar correspondence
who lived in the middle Of the fifteenth
century and ending with Stevenson at
the end Of the nineteenth. They give
one an insight into the spirit Of the
centuries such as can be got in no other
way so easily. " rs. ....
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The Art of Letter Writing

ENEW love letters would bear publish
i ing so well as those of Dorothy Os-
borne to Sir William Temple. one of
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- - ,,,,
George Stevens y. VI. Barrie' t@iuro,u @
Frederic and occaSionn'iy DE Con",
Doyle. The journal tells us Lhat nt
certain stage Ill tue dinner thS ui,te;a
would lay bets as to which was freuerlc
and which was Doyle. AGAIN we ArE S
told of luncheon at'cnaca pS loWut'
at which George Mcredlth was preScnl'
Meredith taxed IN ioud' 'ipr"il 'ocv
all through the luncheon' As ne ""S
leaving Lowell ranarkcd 10 tT,cIu e,'
that he had Dech thinking OF the p'o''
all the time.
But why: ne was asked 49,
Because. was the reply, III 'ht
Bible we read OF the sun sp,hli voice u
God. :, -,
And IN ah0thcr pace II - rgcoIuru
that Burnc- Jones ana trleha W''.
into side show ut q country circus 10
see n tattoocu lady VINO hao Tue h'iieii
can eagle on one knee ana inc hion
union there should De pctWeen lHe E,is-
ish-speaking nations. whi,e on net
BACK was tatooeu l"uharuo @ l."n.
supper. fiv" years ih'rr bu'ne' 'o'Ts
ruShed INTO ms lrichd h"uHc "'u @ .o'u
MN the la'tooed '"uE wa" oH eAni i
at the Aquarium IN lLonuoh ana 'nel
must see hcr ag1ih. ihcE "rlC nn5
found that IN the interval shc hau
grown rat ana thht an th' HpoS,.rs ~
the Last supper were cohSequcn''!
s'retrhrd out ',Il th'S were wearing
broad grin. ,,
ihcSc Things: E0n NAV say. huEe ne
nothing 70 40 Wltn NhlStI'r OF hrt: vi
course thcy, haven |. nave mchtiohH'
them {" Indicate the nature OF thc iici''
covered by tnc journal vi course IL IS
hiIcd win whistler l"rr' WIN stories o!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10

THE biggest gift book Of the year-lit-
u orally a big book in size and gorgeous
splendor of text and illustrations and
binding and cover-and big in its signifi.
canoe and in the place it will fill in our
ssadns S M amS ft Send a; -,
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HE'D IT rs EASY. TO CHOOSE A GOOD ONE

serlally last year and was published In
book form in May OF this year as lie
Nouvel Homhie.'' Tho Phillips master,
piece. Susan LenoxAHer Fall ana
Rise" published in this country by the
Appletons, is now being translated into
French. Throughout the world there Is
widening appreciation of the American
novelist. Due to it's great success IN
England "Susan' Ler.ox" has gone into
its second edition.
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sslIzsa,
American Literary Taste

The announcement by Little. Brown
& Co. that A. s. NJ. Hutchinson's
IF Winter Comes is now IN H. i'-i
thousand will CRAFTY every ono who has
confidence in American literary taste.
The book is one of the best novels of
the year, judged by the highest stan
durds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-10

child of 10 to the youth of 7o---ard do
FORGET 70 make present of it
yourseM
$500 copy tworth tenO--At y
booksellers. and get it now If you dc
want to be kept waiting ior your CO
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
CLAIM REMARKABLE
 AGRICULTURAL RESULTS

Urbana, III. Aug. 16-The Uni versity of Illinois is conducting ex- periments at it's experiment. field at Newton, the results of which are said to be marvellous, according to an announcement here recently.
 The experiments deal with soil fertility, drainage and crop fertility with the use of lime and rock phos. phate. The field on which the ex- periments are being made was deed ed to the university in 1912 and was said to be one of the poorest pieces of land in Jasper county. II is the largest soil experiment. field in Southern Illinois.
 Such results, the statement says as were made in treating land for growth of crops will convince the most skeptical that there are great possibilities ill improving Southern Illinois farm lands.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
REPORTS OF FAMINE ARE
 MODIFIED
Health Service Used Word in Scientific, Restricted Sense;" Pellagra on In- Crease.

Washington, Aug 16.-Food short age in the Southern states has as sumed the proportion of famine only in scientific, restricted sense.' but undoubtedly has been accompanied by an increase ill pella- gra, the Public Health Service re- ported to President Harding today as q result of the investigation un- dertaken at his request.
 The findings of the public health officials the report said were based largely on incomplete statistics sub mitted by Southern state health com missioners at recent conference here. In a letter to the president, Surgeon General Cumming said that despite the criticism of some South ern officials regarding the admins trations course, the information contained fully confirms, in my opinion, the position of the Public Health Service with respect to the increase of pellagra in various parts of the South"'
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
MILLIONS ARE
 STARVING IN
 VOLCA VALLEY
Authentic Reports Tell of Fearful Conditions in Si- beria; Cholera Spreading Fast. ,., HSNn

Harbin, Aug. 16.--AccOrding to the best reports reaching here from Siberia there are 19,000,00O persons starving in the Volga valley, al- though some persons place the num- Der far ill excess of these figures The Soviet government. owing to the rapid spread of cholera, has issued decrees forbidding all travel in or out of the country and also all local transportation except for the min- tary and officials.
 Vast streams of people have been travelling through Chita, but most of them have been making for the Amur river region where they will establish themselves.
 Unofficial reports reaching here indicate disorders of n serious na- ture at Irkutsk with many casual ties. Hostile bands are operating near Verkne-Usnke while beyond that famine grips the country.
 In the neighborhood of Chita there is food shortage, while in the Volga valley even seed is lack ing. Much of this years food short age is blamed on the peasants who, 1t is said, refused to plant more than a fourth of the usual acreage be- cause of seizures by the Soviets.
 Cholera, typhus and bubonic pla- que are taking a heavy toll in the vast area from Kazan and Smara to Astrakhan. The decree forbidding trvel also prevents the people from leavinsathe villages in search of food so with the long winter coming on. millions must die since timely aid from America is impossible.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
Paragould Defeated.

Poplar Bluff, Mo, American in its issue of Monday, says:
 ''The Paragould baseball club proved an easy mark for Poplar Bluff Sunday, when it was presented a shut out, against 13 runs made by the home club. Owing to the threatening weather and the fact that a large number of fans thought the game had been called off, be- cause of the showers at noon and during the early afternoon, the Grandstand had plenty of empty pews, it being estimated that only a half crowd attended.
 Poplar Bluff won from Paragould l3 to 0 with a team much altered and it is probable that even a more overwhelming victory would have been won had the team had the reg .ular lineup
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
FAMILY FEUD RESULTS IN THE
 DEA'THOF TWO
Edgar Cooper and William Cooper Murdered at Ac- quilia, Twenty Miles From Poplar Bluff.

Poplar Bluff, Mo. Aug, 16-Offi- cers believe the murder of Edgar Cooper, 20 and William Cooper. 45, brothers, al Acqulla, 20 miles east of Poplar Bluff late Saturday was the result of feud of l0ng stand ing between members of the Cooper family. Clarence Cooper, 20, and Joseph Cooper, 50, father and son and cousin ana brother of the slain men, respectively, are held in jail at Bloomfield for the murder of their two relatives.
 The victims were passing the farm of James Cooper, according to best information obtainable, on their re- turn from taking cattle to the pas ture, when they met the assailants. Clarence is alleged to have done the shooting and is said 10 have carried a shotgun and revolver. He is charged with having fired five shots at Edgar and then turning on James father of the two boys, fired two more shots. He missed James. but one shot struck and instantly killed William.
 1t is said that a feud has eX- isted between certain members of the Cooper family for about 15 years. Both farmers killed are wealthy. The prisoners are noncom- municative.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
IF THIS IS NOT A NEW
 FORD STORY WE'LL BUY

Elkins, w. Va, Aug, 16-Here's s a new Henry Ford story. It is told by Judge William E. Baker, of Fed eral District Court, and it is new one. for it happened when MT. Ford, H. s. Firestone and Thomas A Edi- son were in Elikins the other day on their mountain camping expedi- tion.
 Two negroes were playing dice that is, shooting craps"--in the street and one had taken about all the money the other had. The win ner played slowly and took plenty of time with the dice before he would roll'' them. The loser was impatient.
 Niger, he said, Ford them bones."
 What do you all mean, Ford them bones."
 T means shake, rattle and rall dat's what I means"
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
Boy Prisoner Leaps From Train.

Calias, Me, Aug. 16-- Milton Hanley escaped prisoner, must be given credit for his nerve.
 Despite the fact that his feet were shackled while on his way to serve five years in the Dorchester, N. B. prison, he leaped from an express train speeding at sixty miles an hour and made his escape. Hanley was in custody of sheriff. When the officers attention was attracted for a moment Hanley made a spectacu- lar jump through q car window at Harvey N. E. Posses have so far found no trace of him. Hanley, who is twenty years old, had been convicted of breaking and entering store at St. Stephen, N. B.
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
BOOZE SEIZED
 BUT VI0LAT0R
 MAKES ESCAPE
Moonshiner Leaves Whis- key in Business Office
 Enters a Bank And Dis
 appears Mysteriously.

Sheriff Chas Stepp and Chief of Police Herbert Woodland are on the lookout for a moOnshiner that is q magical wonder; or. a bootlegger that has getaway ability that would baffle a real Sherlock How ever they got his ''hooch "a gal lon and half of the stuff, and they thought they had the violator hemmed, bat they didn't. Presto! The man disappeared.
 A call was received from the House-Jones Grain Company's build ing Friday afternoon that a moon sinner or boolegger was there with a package of his illicit prod uet. The stranger had left the stuff in the office of the company and was acting suspiciously when someone examined the package and discovered that it contained real white mule and immediately re- ported the facts to the officers.
 Sheriff Stepp and Chief of Po- lice Woodland made hurried trip to the scene and confiscated the whiskey. They saw the man going toward the city and followed him in their car to the corner of Pruet and Emerson streets. where they in- tended arresting him. The strang- CT went into the National Bank of Commerce and the officers i'm mediately followed the fellow into the building, but that was the last seen of him. They made hurried investigation of the surroundings, upstairs and in the business rooms within the immediate vicinity of the bank, but no trace of the violator could be found. He disappeared as completely as if by magic.
 Apparently the bootlegger was a stranger in the community. No one-and many people saw the char ter-knew the man. Just how he could have escaped from the bank undetected is a mystery the officers and others who saw the antics of the stranger cannot solve,
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
HIGH WAY TOD DE READY
 NEXT YEAR
Hope to Complete National
 Victory Project in 1922; Work of Signing" West
 End Under Way.
unternationaI News Service,

san Francisco. July 16-Under the direction of the California State Automobile Association the work of signing" the western end of the new Victory Highway, a transcon- tinental throughfare stretching from New York to San Francisco. is now under way.
 Engineer James w. Johnson, of the association, is engaged in com pleting the areconnaissance of the route. Over 5000 of the regula- tion c. s. A. A. road signs and auxiliary signs bearing the name of San Francisco and the milage thereto coming West and New York going East will he erected The regulation road signs will show the nearest town and large city with the milage thereto in either direc- ton. Eight or ten months will be required to complete the work. The Victory Highway will be a National monument in honor of the living and the dead who served in the great World War. The road will stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific, passing through Topeka, Kan, the approximate geographical center of the United States. The Eastern terminal of the highway will be New York and the Western ter minal San Francisco.
 The Victory Highway Association in selecting the route has had in mind highway that will best serve the people in time of peace and the Government in time of war. The president of the Victory Highway Association is George w. Stansfield, a capitalist of Topeka, Kan, who early in 1921 conferred with of ficials of the State Automobile As sociation to obtain their co-opera- tion in signing this National monu- ment to those who fought and gave
 their lives in the World war. The association plans to complete signing the highway to Jefferson City Mo-, this year and by the Fall lof 1922 the entire route to New
 York will be marked
Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-17
 INDEPENDENCE IS DEMANDED BY DE; VALERA
In Address to Sim Fein Par lament He Told Dele gates ireland Must Re Made a Republic.
>united Press AssocIatlons)

Dublin, Aus. 16.--An uncompro- missing stand for absolute Irish in dependence was taken by Eamonn De Valera in his address before the Sim Fein parliament. He told the delegates that Ireland must be recognized as republic before it would deal With any foreign coun- try. He denounced as unjust the British proposals which offered Ire land dominion status within the em- pire. In quoting from Ford, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson re- garding rights of small nations, he asserted that the Sim Feiners, if necessary, intended to die by these principles.