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The New York herald., 1922-08-06

something similar to the play the
writer submitted and had rejected.
He jumps to the conclusion that the
manager stole his play during the
months in which he was supposed
to be considering it. The writer
then proceeds to take the matter
to court. OF course, there have been
times when managers have actually
stolen plots in this manner. But
such thing rarely happens to-day,
certainly never in reputable the
atrical managers Office. Yet it is
surprising to learn of the number
OF lawsuits that are still brought
against managers by unknown writ
ers who have submitted unsolicited
play manuscripts. Every writer of
plays should remember that in or
der to prove that manager has
taken his plot, he must prove that
the manager has actually read the
play.-FrOm The Practical Side OF
writing, by Robert Cortis HOLT
day in the Bookmon.
Richard Middleton: Bohemian
D ICHARD MIDDLETON was a
~ Bohemian. He was a poet
and prose writer OF genuine dis
tinction who was born in 1882 and
committed suicide in frowzy
Brussels lodging couple of
months after he had passed his
twenty-ninth birthday. He was
strange young man who grew a
beard when he was twenty-other
young men of about the same
period were guilty of the same hor-
rible eccentricity but had sense
enough to shave before they were
twenty-three. He began life as
city clerk, abandoned his desk for
literature and lodging in the
Blackfriars Road, wrote for the
academy, the English ReUier, and
Vanity Fair, when it was edited by
Frank Harris, and contrived, in
his best year, to earn about $50
pounds.-Fr0m "A Bohemian Trag-
edy.' BIZ Sidney Dark in John
OLondon's Weekly.
Claudius Clears Favorite Book.
WITHOUT venturing all the
w way with Charles Lamb in
his unvarying preference for an old
book to a new, / unhesitatingly de-
clare my. favorite to be Boswell's
Johnson Where in literature is
its marrow? 1t embraces almost
the whole of the eighteenth cen
tury. that wonderful hundred years,
so noisy, yet so formative, and now
all sunk into utter oblivion, gath
cred up with yesterdays seven
thousand years." To the politics.
to the literature, to the men who
made both, what an introduction is
this book, Inded, it is really so
encyclopaedia that large section
OF ones years is needed to read 1t
in the great edition of DR.. Birk-
beck Hill, but thus presented it Is
living history. Indeed. its great
interest lies just here, that 1T be-
longs to a different age Of the hu-
man mind, in which there is SO
much like and also unlike our.
selves.-Fr0m the Correspondence
OF CIdudius clear in the British
Weekly.
An English View Of Our
BEST Sellers"
ITO achieve the best selling
stage in America is more than
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comforter, whose numbers increase
rather than diminish. And, inter-
estingly enough, she has tens OF
thousands of readers in England.
But of course the most notable sue
cess of recent times is that of Mr..
Hutchinson's IF Winter Comes. -
From "The American Literary Mar.
ket." By G. H. Grabb in the Eng
Hsh Bc0kRdn.
Books That the Boy Likes.
"WHAT books do these ado
w lescents want as they
stand on that vague borderline be-
tween boyhood and manhood? In
my experience they want the books
that present to them cross-sections
of their own real problems, books
that carry the romance of life and
yet hold fast to the actualities.
The world is before them; they
thirst to know what it is like. They
want adventure. not alone the well
done adventure of physical action,
but the adventure that finds its
movement in a clash of wills and
that writes glory into the common
n
himself in the hero's shoes: but
the older boy demands that that
hero be of pattern akin in possi-
bilities to himself and not a
prodigy or a caricature. And last
ly he wants the same moving,
gripping story of character devel- |
opment. That is the type of book
that grips him and leaves the
greatest and most lasting impress
sion" BY William Heyliger in the
authors League Bulletin.
George Borrow on the Open Road.
VET despite these varied wan
i derings Borrow seems greatest |
as a vagrant in the counties of his |
own England. 1t was there that |
he knew oftenest the Inn OF the |
Silver Moon. 1t was there that he
Travelled with the most unconven-
tional people and courted the queer
est adventures. He was at home in |
the gypsy camp. He fought happily |
and bloodily in fair booth or by the |
with the rowing boxer. OF |
bis prowess with his fists he was
proud. Borrow has |
given his readers tremendous
account of his encounter with the
Flaming Tinman." In .Lavengro"
and The Romany Rye appears
that remarkable woman Isopel
Berners. A fragment of Borrow's
throws light upon her. II
tells the need of strappipg woman
-one who can give and take. The
Flying Tinker is abroad. vowing
against us all. He
knows that Bess don't like him. and,
what's more, that she can lick him.
He'll let us alone: at least | think
so. If he does come, I'll smoke my
pipe whilst Bess is beating the
Flying Tinker. From Some Fa-
nous Vdgdbonds." BIZ Frederick
0'Brien in the Mentor.
Raabe: The German Dickens."
NTILHELM RAABE was born in
w 1881 at Escherhausen, in
Brunswick. He became an ap-
prentice to a booksellers-to the
publisher Of these two pamphlets,
n fact-at Magdeburg, and the es-
say Of which Herr Fehse is sole
author is less piece OF criticism
han an attempt, by a loyal son OF
to show what vital
influence the novelist's four years :
,f residence in that city had on
lis imagination. In a very at ,
written piece of research ,
he proves his case. recalling the I
streets and alleys OF Magdeburg as j
hey existed fifty years ago, with
! wonderful air of romance about I
hem. an atmosphere OF enchant-
nent which a thousand years OF [
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market place never ceased to ap-
peal; and while he was still learn
ing the routine of the booksellers
trade he awoke to an enthusiasm
for the city's charm and conceived
an irritation that others should be
so blind to it. Under his masters
counter he found seventeenth cen
tury description OF the siege OF
Magdeburg by Maurice Of Saxony.
and Herr Fehse considers that the
reading of this volume was of de-
cisive importance to his imagina-
tion-it peopled with living figures
the streets over which he had
brooded.-From the London Times.
The Viennese Writers.
THE Austrian writer's who center
J. around Vienna are different
from the German writer's of the
north. They are not as hard, not
as serious. They have a lighter
touch and their sense of form is
more highly developed There is
also in most of them an undercur-
rent of weariness, as though they
belonged to a civilization which has
lost it's illusions and is slowly dis
integrating. They often make one
think of the last days of the ancient
regime in France. There is some
thing of the bloom and grace and
artifice which make Fragonard,
Boucher and Vatican so appealing,
but there is also something far
more profound. They are men Of
the present time who have looked
intensely at this modern world
From Arthur Schniteler." By O. r.
Theis in the Art ReUicU.
The "Blurb."
THE "blurb" on the American
i jacket of "Babbitt" is sure to
be all right, only you may ask with
a faint wonder, What does 'blurb'
mean?" 1t means, and we have be-
gun to adopt the word from Amer
lea, the afidavit, advertisement or
whatever you like 10 cali it, which
a publisher nowadays prints on the
Jacket" of a new book, this and
the accompanying picture, when a
novel is concerned. We know the
'mush, gush and tosh" that gets
on to Jacket" and somehow
"blurb" expresses it all. We ought,
in gratitude, TO know that it was
the invention of an American au-
thor, Mr.. Gelett Burgess. He pre-
pared a mock solemn Jacket" for
a volume of his own and he chris
tened the strange female with
whose image he embellished it
Miss Belinda Blurb. Jackets" and |
"blurbs' for new books were un-
known in the days when George |
Meredith wrote his Diana of the
Crossways. From "A Windon in |
Bookiand" ia the London Graphic.
'.Avoeation."
THE Manchester Guardiaa is
i taken to task for its use of the |
word "avocation" in the phrase
went on with their usual avoca-
Lions." The writer reminds us that
the original Tor etymological1 |
meaning Of 'avocation' is exactly
he opposite of that now attached
% IL" and that when Jeremy Taylor
lsed the word IL meant a distrac-
ion, something that called a man
away from his vocation. This is
lutte true, but the question arises
low far a word which has taken
service in foreign language can
De bound by the rules which gov
srned IL in its infancy. The Book
II Common Prayer reminds us of
-wo instances of words which have
reversed their original meaning.
laying, in fact, changed places with
,ach other. In the Collect for the
Fourth Sunday in Advent occurs
he phrase whereas through our
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Bayard Taylor's Wanderines.

RAYARD TAYLOR, born in 1925,
- began his wanderings before
he was 20 years of age. The years
1874 and 1S45 were given to that
pedestrian tour of out of the way
places of Europe described in
Views Afoot; or Europe Seen with
knapsack and Staff" Then, in
1S49, gold was discovered in Cali
fornia and a new Ell Dorado beck
oned to those of adventurous spirit.
Taylor spent six months among the
gold diggers. Two years later he
was in Egypt, Asia Minor and
Syria. Thence, in 1852 and 1858,
he proceeded to India, crossing from
Bombay to Calcutta, and then went
to China to join the expedition of
Commodore Perry in Japan. In
1862 and 1863 he was the secretary
OF the United States Legation of
st. Petersburg, there exerting a
strong influence in molding Rus
sian opinion in favor of the cause
OF the Northern States. Then he
lived for a year in Germany, while
there translating Goethe's Faust" !"
In 1874 he was again in Egypt. In
1878 he was appointed Minister to
Germany. There he died.-Fron,
Some Famous Vdgabonds." By
Frederick O'Brien in the Mentor.
Shelley and the Flesh-Pots.
HCHELLEY is all the rage in
~ Cockayne," wrote Edward
Fitzgerald nearly fifty years ago;
"he is too unsubstantial for me-"
This was the only comment from
so good judge as the translator of
Omar. Yet Shelley did occasion
ally banker after the flesh pots, as
may be amusingly shown by the
story of his fall from vegetarian
grace on the occasion OF visit
with his friend Hogg to an inn on
Hounslow Heath not long after his
marriage to Mary Goodwin. When
the dish of bacon which Hogg had
ordered was brought into the parlor
Shelley, taking fork. picked up
morsel, looked at it with curiosity,
shifted its alluring flavor, says Mr..
}. G. Jeafferson in THE Real Shell
ley" regarded it lovingly: $50 this
is bacon" he said, as he put IL in
his month.-From the Manchester
Guardian.
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Sinclair Lewis in London.

DOOR Mr.. Hutchinson! If he goes
L to America in the autumn,
and he may, though it would be
tearing himself away from a nice
new old house in Surrey, he will
certainly be more friendly to our
cousins than Mr.. Sinclair Lewis of
Main Street" fame has been to-
ward us. He was in London all last
summer, and longer, tall, lanky
young man with reddish hair and
an air of having been neatly turned
out by the Main Street of which
he wrote. Hospitality fell on him,
as it once fell on Charles Dickens
In America, and, as in his case also.
IL begat poor thanks when he
turned home. Now Mr.. Sinclair
Lewis is about to launch another
Main Street." as he hopes. though
1T is called "Babbitt," who is a man
ana its hero. Duly we shall see
whether it has pep" which he could
not find in us writing Londoners. and
our welcome will be accordingly.-
From a Wind0U in Bookland' in
the London Graphic.
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comforter, whose numbers increase
rather than diminish. And, inter-
estingly enough, she has tens of
thousands of readers in England.
But of course the most notable sue
cess of recent times is that of Mr..
Hutchinson's IF Winter Comes. =
From "The American Literary Mar
ket." By G. H. Grub in the Eng
Hsh BCokRidn.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
AuVIL SAILS
 FOR H:l..
13 Passengers, Capacity Cargo, Mail; Due At
 Bethel June 4th.

Seattle, May 23.-Tne motor ship Anvil, Captain Louis Knaf- lich, sailed tonight for Bethel, having on board thirteen passen- gers and d capacity cargo, in- cluding large consignment Of mail for points on the Kusko- xWim river
 The vessel has radio 5ele- phone equipment, by means of which Captain Knafiich hopes to broadcast concerts in the Boring Sea and Kzuskokwim regions. He expects the Anvil to reach Bethel about June 4
 Among the passengers on the Anvil are Jack Hosfeldt, Alfred Anderson, wife and two children, James Newberry and D. M. Keellor, four miners headed for the lower Kuskokwim.
 The power schooner Ruby, which will sail for Anadyr river, Siberia, will return via Bethel. The Anvil is scheduled to make three round voyages.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
' THEY NYIAUI
 . FRE DOM
Filipino Delegation On Way to Capital to See
 About Past Promises.

Seattle, May B. i've were promised freedom as soon as we established a stable government. We have made good, and now in- sist that the United States fulfil Its promise, "
 This is the statement of par, liamentary mission from the Philippines which arrived here this afternoon on the Keystone States, the members of which are on their way to Washington to plead the cause of Philippine independence.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

 0F NINETY
British Steamship Sinks Following Collision
 With French Boat.

. .Bres5, May >21.-Ninety per sons were drowned when the British steamship Egypt was sunk in a collision with the French steamship Seine, yester. day afternoon. off the island Of Ushant, the collision occurring during a dense fog, The lost comprise ten passengers and eighty of the crew of the Egypt.
 The crew of the Seine did heroic work in rescuiug two hun dred and thirty of those from the Egypt, as well as the bodies of twenty others, notwithstand- ing that the Seine was in badly damaged condition.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
Greatest Raid Tr1 Irish
 History, When 2,OOO
 Sim FeillerS Arrested

Belfast, May z3.1The great- est raid Tn Irish history took place m Ulster last night, when two thousand Sim Feiners were arrested by an army of Ulster constables, volunteers and Brit ish troops.
 Sim Feiners. this afternoon, are fleeing with their families to the hills of Ulster to escape the great roundup, which was re- newed today by Ulster consta- bles>and bodies ot British mili- targ.
 London.-The arrest of two thousand Sim Feiners in Ulster was carefully planned weeks in advance as part of the British policy to cooperate in preserv- ing order in the northern prov- ince, ittbecame known today.
 Belfast.-W. J. Twaddle, member of Ulster parliament, was shot to death
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
RAMMED BY
 ALEXANDER AI|!!.. !:.xl
British Cargo Carrier Sinks After Being Hit
 By American Boat.

Philadelphia, May 23. - The British cargo carrier Andree was ra mmed off Fort Milling today by the Seattle liner H. F. Alex ander. The Andree sank shortly after being struck, her crew being rescued by the Alexander's lifeboats and number of naval tugs.
 The Ale1andep was formerly the Great Northern, the fastest ship flying the American flag.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
DOns Best Clothes,
 Kills Partner, Then
 Takes His Own Life

Seattle.-h. X, Berner, well known Renton poultry man, after 9nning his best suit of clothes, shot and killed his partner, Stanley oviontcheck. 8erner then ended aj5 own life by sending a bullet through is heart just as pretty Geneqisve Volaeyac, to whom Sviont chack was to be married in June. ap- peared Qpon tae scene
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
Aviator Prest Meets
 Trouble in Nebraska

North Platte, Clarence Prest, who left Buffalo some days ago with the announced intention of making 8 flight to Alaska and Siberia, was com pelled to land here today, owing to his machine becoming disabled. It may be several days before he will be able to resume bis light.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
For Oregon Governor.

Portland.-Governor OIeott, who de clared war on the klu klux klan, is running slightly behind State Senator Charles Hall, of Marshfeld, for repub lican nomination for governor today on returns from three-fourths of the state. Despite these returns, it is believed that final figures will give Olcott tta nomination.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
to Be Alaskan,
 Indicted At St. Louis

St. Louis.-George Dunphy, claim ing to be an Alaskan and the owner of valuable Alaska mining properties was indicted by the grand jury #hera today He is charged with securing thirty thousand dollars under false pretenses, through exploitation Of his alleged mining claims.
 
 Des Moines.-A nationwide war 0u open Sunday was declared by the Pres byterian general assembly, n session here, today.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

The steamer Tana is scheduled to leave some time during the next two or three days, probably Friday, for a trip to Berry Landing, returning from which she will leave for Bethel Capt. George Green expects the Tana to re- turn here from her lower river trip about July l. Incidentally, the Tana and Quickstep,s. under the supervision of Captain Green and Chief Engineer Howard Langley, have received a thor ough overhauhng, in which force of 8 dozen men have been engaged during the past three weeks.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
by three assassins ii the streets today. Seven shots were fired into his back.

London.-Collins and Grifiths, lead- CTS of the provisional government, wilt come to London next week for 8 cen ference with the cabinet regarding the situation in Ireland, it was announced in the House of Commons this after room.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
Prospectors for the
 Lower River Section

Seattle, May 21.-Among passengers on t he motorship Anvil, sailing from here tomorrow for Bethel, will be Jack Hos feldt, pioneer of the Copper river sec ton, with party of four, bound for sggings forty miles from the Kusko- kwim; also A. Anderson, heading an other party for Canyon creek, near Bethel
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Mike Blanusha. who arrived last evening, is authority for the statement that there is still a world of snow in evidence around Tacotna and that tHo miles from that place over towards Ophic the snow on the ground is four feet deep
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
0Z.MO IS A
 TOTAL LOSS
Piled Up On Spit Near Marshfield; No Hope
 of Saving Cargo.

Marsnfeld, May23 3.-The dis abled motorship, which piled mp on the south spit while being lowed to this place by the 5ag Daisy, two days ago, is declared to be a total loss, and the same $ stated to be true regarding her cargo.
 Marshfeld, Ore, May 20.-The waterlogged motorship Gzmo, ir tow of the steamer Daisy, piled up on the south spit when the Daisy attempted to bring her into this port, and may prove total loss.
 The Daisy headed the Ozmo for this place when the captain of the tug realized that he could never get the disabled ship to Astoria.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
Japan Ratifies Agreement.

Tokyo.-The Shantung agreement, negotiated with China at the Wash ington conference, was ratified today by Lanan.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Tim Marcum, after stay here of D few days, left for up river Sunday on the Julia B., also taking with him tHa boat recently purchased from Jesse Yoder
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Charles Nicollet, with the Alaskan, arrived yesterday from Tacotaa, bring ing down the scraper outfit of Black burn, Eldridge &2 Goebel, which will be placed on their ground on Hid- den creek. in the Nixon district. The Alaskan left early this morning for Berry Landing, Mrs. Nicollet and Adolph Lind also being aboard.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Capt. w. E. Geiger left early Sun day morning for Bethel, declaring his intention to retarn upstream later and put in a few months prospecting in the Stony river section.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24
Harding Is Against
 Treaty With Russia

Washington.-Continuance unchang cd of the Administrations present pol icy toward international economic problems was indicated today, Harding being equally against negotiating a trade treaty with Russia.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

The ice in the Innoko was still holu- ing couple of days, according to the latest arrival at Tacotna from Ophir.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Ike Koski, after, a visit hers of sev- eral days, returned to his nome at the Forks, this forenoon.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Bert Eldridge, on his Doughnu5 Queen, left this morning for a trip to the Forks.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Charlie Goebel, who returned here yesterday from Tacotna, left for Berry Landing this morning, returning with 5he launch Shakespear
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Louis German, in his new boat, left Monday for 8 trip to Berry Landing, being accompanied to that place by Owen Gray, on his way to Nixon.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

The Yukon ice broke on Monday, the 21st, on which date the ice movement became general. This is one Of it's latest break AO,
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

Joe Sherwood left this morning for Berry Landing.
The Kusko times., 1922-05-24

James Downey left Monday for Ia cotna, on his, way to Little creek, going up with Charlie Nystrom oa- the. Rec Wing
Phillips County herald., 1922-08-10
Help Austrian Children.

Danish Joint committees for help to
war devastated countries report that
In 1921 Denmark entertained 5,5s4
children from Austria for several
months. and that since September
1919. Denmark has cared for 1G.455
Austrian children and 5,i2s German
children. Furthermore. TO German
little ones needing specinl care were
nursed in a special camp. Gifts of
hospital equipment We're sent 10
Austria and Germany. and 10000
francs was spent supporting n
childrcn's home near Rheims. Food
and clothing to the value OF 10000
Danish crowns were sent 10 Germany
and Austria and financial nssls'incc
for children amounting to "'Doo
crowns was sent 10 Belgium. 3.If5 to
Poland. and $4,000 10 France.
Phillips County herald., 1922-08-10
DEMAND FOR cAscARA BARK
Industry. Was Once 4 Baby, but II
Has Developed Greatly In
Washington State.

A half million dollars was the value
Of this seasons cascara bark, har-
vested BY Grays Harbor (Wash.) folk.
1t Is the peeled leather-like skin Of
the barberry tree, stripped by settlers
and city dwelIers who spend six
weeks each spring in the swampy for
ests near HoQuiain.
Six years ago this bark gathering
industry was Il babe, the few who at
tempted to sell the. peeled bark get
ting from TO cents per pound for
it-not knowing Just how to properly
cure and pack II.
Then came the drug famine. The
wholesale price which has gradually
been rising is now Is cents per pound
and skillful strippers make $40 TO sl5
per day. With knife an incIsion
Is made near the ground and piece
of bark once loosened there may be
pulled from the tree upward for ten
TO fifteen feet. Taking but n part Of
the bark does not injure the tree.
Phillips County herald., 1922-08-10
s.rlk. mol New Weapon.

That strikes ARE not Of recent origin.
but that they have. for mnpy centuries.
troubled the employer OF labor. II snid
TO be interestingly established by a
record recently discoversi- In certain
nnclcnt Egyptian hicrogiypbic tablets
These tablets were found In the cxcn.
wilton Of some ruins ht Thcbcs. aud
cast n strong light upon the labor con.
ditlons of the city 300 years nro. De
tnIls nrc given Of Jlnany interesting
phases Of n strike yhcn n large mum.
ber Of workmcn notified their employ
crs they would dYconiinuc work Nm.
less their back pny We're promptly CIV
en- them and n Jew wage scale nr.
rnhgod.
Phillips County herald., 1922-08-10
HIS, SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX
Banker Would Have Put WouId-es
Borrower With HE Other Bust
ness sseuritlea

The great banker looked keenly at
the young man. $50 yop are tempo
rarily embarrassed, ehfg he asked
kindly.
II am sorry to say am" said the
young man, emboldened by his man
ner.
"How much do you waptf'
|. "Five hundred dollars would tide
me over" ~'s''sr''
"And what security can you offeff''
II can offer you." said the young
man. impressively. "my own personal
security"
The old man arose with slow
smile and raised the lid Of an iron
bound chest which stood In corner.
"will you get In here. pleaser he
said.
an theref why7"
Because" was the reply. "this ID
the place in which always keep my
securities. City Star.