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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-06

ITS sucking the muck out Of the
stump That means the ole drift is
unwatered.'
"Then the pumping jobs oyer2"
"Yeh." Harry rose. you stay ere
and dlsmantIe the pumps, so we can
send 'em back I'll go to town. We've
got to buy some stuff"
Then he started Off down the trail,
while Fairchlld went to his work And
he sang as he dragged at the heavy
hose. Work was before him, work
which was progressing toward a goal
that he had determined to seek, ln
spite of all obstacles The mysterious
offer which he had received gave evil
dence that something awaited him. that
some one knew the real value Of the
Blue Poppy mine, and that II he could
simply stick to his task, If he could
hold to the unwayering purpose to win
in spite of all the blocking pitfalls
that were put in his path, some day,
some time, the reward would be worth
its price.
More the conversation with Mother
Howard on the previous morning had
been comforting; It had given wom-
ans viewpoint upon another woman's
actions. And Fairchild intuitiyely be-
lieVed she was correct.
A shout from the road accompanied
by the roaring Of a motor truck, an
nounced the fact that Harry was max
ing his return.
Five men were with him, to help him
carry in ropes, heavy pulleys, weights
and large metal shaft bucket, then
to move out the smaller Of fhe pumps
and trundle away with them, leaving
the larger one and the larger engine
for single load At last Harry turned
TO his paraphernalia and rolled up his
sleeves.
"Ere's where we work. !" he an
nounced. cts us for a pulley and
bucket arrangement until we can get
the olst to working and the skip to
running. 'Elp me cave a few timbers."
II was the beginning Of three
days Job, the building Of a heavy stag
ing over the top of the shaft, the affix-
ing Of the great pulley and then the
attachment Of the bucket at one end,
and the skip loaded with pig iron on
the other. Altogether, II formed a
sort Of crude, counterbalanced ele
vator, by which they might lower
themselves into the shaft, with various
bumpings and delays-but which
worked successfully. nevertheless. To
gether they piled into the big, iron
bucket, Harry Juggling along spikes and
timbers and sledges and ropes. Then |
pulling away at the cable which held |
the weights, they furnished the neces-
sary gravity to travel downward
An eerle journey, faced on one side
by the crawling rope Of the skip as it
along the rusty old track on
It's watersoaked ties, on the other by |
the still dripping timbers Of the aged
shaft and It's broken, rottlng ladder,
while the carbide lanterns cast shad-
Ows about, while the pulley above
,reaked and the eroded wheels Of the
skip squeaked and protested Down
Eard-a hundred feet--and they col
lded with the upward-bound skip, to
END off from 1t and start on again.
The air grew colder, more moist. The
,arbides spluttered and Jared
A slight bump. and they were at the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-06
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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-06

In the District Court of the Third
Judicial District Of the State of
Idaho, in and for fillmore County,
II. G. MYERS, Plaintiff,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-06

"Ifs sucking the muck out Of the
sumpi That means the ole drift is
unwotered.u
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

when some memory, long dormant,
flashed out the words: when O
bulldog once takes hold he Hever
lets 90" With that the solution
was found.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

chosen: "The Wrong Box" by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson; "Pendennis,"
by William Makepeace Thackeray;
THE Gods and MIR. Perrin by
Hugh Walpole; THE Little White
Bird" by James M. Barrie; THE
Way of All FLESH" by Samuel But
ler; "The House by the River" by
A. P. Herbert; This Is the End"
by Stella Benson; Persuasion by
Jane AustenI LORD jim," by
Joseph Conrad: Vera by the
author of Elizabeth and Her Ger
man Garden: Joan and Peter. by
H. G. Wells, and "The Divine Fire."
by May Sinclair.
Prisoners in Australian prisons
demand interesting literature and
even go SO far as to strike about it
il their libraries don't furnish their
favorite authors. A dispatch from
Melbourne says that at one prison
recently the inmates went on
strike-thOugh it does not appear
that they walked out-because the
prison library contained none OF
the works Of o. Henry and several
other favorite American authors.
John Muir, known the world over
as writer and student of nature,
first won local fame as an inventor.
Miss Tappan in the Heroes of
Progress (Which Houghton Milf
fin Company have just publishedl
tells how he used to start the fire
in the little district school where
he taught. The fire had to be lit
early in the morning SO that the
room would be warm when the stu
dents arrived. 1t was {, similar
problem to feeding horses on the
farm--a problem which he had con-
quered with crude clock. To light
a fire, however, took d knowledge
Of chemistry as well. He put lit
tie powdered chlorate OF potash and
sugar on the stove hearth near
some shavings, then lie made lit
tie addition to his wooden clock, so
that at precisely it let drop Of
sulphuric acid fall upon the mix
ture. Not one morning did it fail
him, and on the coolest days the
schOOlhOuse was warm before the
children arrived. You won't do for
a teacher declared the farmer with
whom he was boarding, you are in
league with the DEVIL"
"DOdO," which has been reissued
by the George Ii. DOran Company,
was E. F. BensOn's first novel. He
was interested in archaeology at the
time and wrote "DodO" only as a
side issue. 1t was published with
no great expectations. 1t made Mr..
Benson famous over night and
established him in his career as
one Of the most popular English
novelists of our time. The heroine
was said at the time to have been
drawn from the Margot Asquith
who is now with us.
Maestro Salvatore Fucito, author
Of a book on Caruso announced by
Stokes for immediate publication,
is now the coach and accOmpanist
of Giovanni Martinelli of the Metro
politan Opera. Maestro FucitO held
this position with Caruso during
his years in this country and his
book "CarusO and the Art of Sing
ing" is the result of his intimate
knowledge Of the great tenor az
man and artist.
Tradition and Progress" is the
title of the latest Gilbert Murray
book (HoughtOn Miffiin Company:
1t is collection Of papers dealing
with varied subjects. The last
paragraph in the book sums up
what Prof. Murray believes our
present civilization lacks. I'VE have
been given everything. excent. IL
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT


of people who did not Lave the
money to buy the work swarmed
about the sidewalk displays of the
bookstalls in order to be able to say
that they had seen it. The author
was fairly submerged with letters
from unknown admirers. Within a
year fourteen books were published
devoted TO praising or berating the
novel. Where in the hist Try of our
own best sellers" can we find SINH
lar manifestations attesting popular
success?
no continue this preachment of
humility. We pride ourselves
on being a nation of adroit adver-
tisers. Yet in eccentric methods of
exploiting books we still have a
little to learn. To boom the sale of
zola's "Therese Raquin" antho1 and
publisher resocted to original de-
vices. They agreed to faign, for
the gallery. to quarrel. Zola was to
send the sheriff to Lacrolx with
formal order to place the book on
the market. The publisher was to
refuse and the newspapers were to
be filed with the incident. With
every day the pretended quarrel
Eas to grow more violent. When
Victor Hugo's "The Toilers Of the
Sea" was being brought out Nine
Hugo wrote to Auguste Vacquerie:
"Millaud is giving the book pub
lieity. Sunday. decorated wagon
covered with poster announcing
the appearance of the novel in lie
Soieif paraded here. There were
also placards borne on the arm,
fiiers, &C., were distributed. Yes
terday lie Soleil' and the splendid
novel of Victor Hugo were hawked
in the railway trains with deafen-
ing cries; at Ghent similar state
of affairs. This Millaud is incredi.
BILE. He is the bass drum of pub
Iicity."
M ITH this idea of literary pub
W licity the English writer
who signs himself Solomon Eagle"
plays whimsically in chapter of
Books in General" which has just
been published by the George H.
Doran Company. The suggestion of
the chapter apparently came from
an article that had originally ap.
peared in the columns OF the New
York Nation. Solomon Eagle" sees
book exploitation in the future
promoted by means of the use of
the social columns" as follows:
Lady Alicia Chope, Sir II. Pom
sOnby-Jambe, Sir Isaac Piccolomini.
NJ. p; the Hons. Peggy and Ursula
Rheinault and Mrs. Macdonald of
GlenvOmmit were among those who
were yesterday seen buying Miss
Calorilica Cartons new novel;"
Going further. Solomon Eagle"
pictures the publishing house of
Jones urging patronage Of Mr.. Gus
tavus Gupp's new novel "a Little
Bit OF Stilton" for such reasons as
f3) he has a wife and six children;
(4) they live in one room and there
is a hole in the roof; (5) the mat
tress needs recovering: (6) his
wife, who is an invalid, has been
prescribed Benger's, but cannot af-
ford it; ca his tailor is pressing
him for payment"
ELSEWHERE in this issue of the
~ book section Mr.. Albert Pay
son Terhune, himself the author of
number of very popular dog
stories, writes on What Are the
Worlds Great Dog Stories, and
Why?" These paragraphs are
written without any knowledge OF
what Mr.. Terhune's selections are
to be. Yet every one loves a good
dog story and is entitled to an
opinion as to what are the best.
III the paragrapher were asked just
what tales mantiou of tho paparal
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

FafJean or Les MlSeraDleS. In
the archives OF the French secret
Iolice Dumas read of the person
whom he nodded into the Edmond
Dantes of "The Count of Monte
CriStO." Leigh Hunt served as the
model from which Dickens drew
Harold SkimpOle of Bleak House.
The Harry Fokar of Thackeray' s
"PendenniS" was in actual life
Andrew Archdekne. The case has
been much the same with our
favorite canine heroes. There was
a real Bob about whom Alfred Olli.
wants story was written. The
kennel name of the real dog that
suggested to Richard Harding
Davis the Wyndham Kid of THE
Bar Sinister" was Regent Royal.
Like the Kid of the story Regent
Royals father was a champion and
his mother a black and tan vagrant
of the streets of Montreal.
n I hand is letter from Eleanor
Il Atkinson about the hero of
her widely read "Greyfriars Bobby" +"
In it she says. in part: 1T is a
true story, even to his name and
place and date. Any one who has
ever been in Edinburgh has seen
Greyfriars Churchyard, which Ste
vensOn calls the 'dustbin of Scottish
history Bobby is buried there
with his master, shepherd from
the Pentlands, whose grass he
guarded for fourteen years. The
bronze figure on the animal foun-
tain near the ehurchyard gate,
erected by Lady Burdett-C -Coutts to
his memory, was modelled from him
while living. His collar, presented
by Sir William Chambers, Lord
Provost of the city, is shown in
the caretaker's lodge, by the gate,
and the restaurant where he was
fed, 'Ye Olde Greyfriars Dining
Rooms is still the resort of
farmers. clerks and university stu
dents.
CVOU can trace the true story
Il in the book itself. / traced
it through many local sources
newspapers and court records and
personal recOllections. Born ON a
farm in the Pentlands in 1858, he
died in 1872. So, when I wrote the
story ten years ago. there were
Edinburgh University people who
could give me descriptions of him.
l invented very little. The accounts
OF his repeated returns from the
farm and his escape from the castle
are true, as we'll as his being given
the freedom of the city. and the
erection of the fountain. After the
book was published small card
photograph of the famous little
Skye terrier. taken in 1867, turned
up in this country. The story Of
Greyfriars Bobby is told briefly in
several collections of dog stories,
in monograph Of the life of Lady
Burdett-C0utts and four page
leaffet is issued by the Scottish So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals"
N connection with George Barr
L McCutcheon's The Day Of the
Dog" there is q story within a
story. In the first place the tale
came out Of dream. In the dream
the author saw the narrative from
the beginning to the critical moment
when the hero, Crosby, and the
heroine, Mrs. Delaney, are impris-
oned in the barn loft out Of reach
OF the leaps Of the enraged bulldog.
The situation was apparently hope
less, no relief was in sight and then
the author woke up. In the morn
ing Mr.. McCutcheOn told the story
at the breakfast table to his brother
John. Write that story" was the
advice of the historian of Bird
Center" So George McCutcheon
did so.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Authors Works
And Their Ways

ography will be published by Dodd,
Mead & Co, under the title MY
Life and Some Letters
Eleanor Gates, it seems, had a
very real suggestion for the genial
Father Pat, who plays such an I'M
portant role in the fortunes of John
ME Smith Of "The Rich Little Poor
Boy" her new novel, reviewed in
last weeks book section of THE
HERALD. II was Father Duffy, the
warrior priest of the Fighting Six.
ty-ninth, whom she had in mind
when portraying that angel with
brogue, Father Pat.
The writing Of a preface for ".
D. McCrackan's forthcoming new
book on "The New Palestine" ito
be published by Page, BostOn), was
the last piece of literary work done
by Lord Bryce before his death.
The preface, which has just reached
Mr.. McCrackan's publishers, is in
Lord Bryce's own handwriting aud
was signed by England's really
great man" just two days before his
death.
Disputes sometimes arise as to
the allegiance or nationality of
prominent authors, and Frances
Hodgson Burnett is one of these
claimed by both England and Amer.
lea. Though she was born in Eng
land she came to America as child
and married an American. She has
laughingly explained her own cche
by remarking that she was English
by birth, but American by the birth
of her two sons. Mrs. Burnett has
lived in Washington and New York
and her present home is at Plan
dome.
The old Five Points district of
New York, in which Gertrude Ather'
ton stages the climax Of her "Sleep-
ing Fires" reviewed in this issue
of THE New YORK HERALD book
section, is scarcely known by that
name to modern New Workers. 1t
was the locality northeast of City
Hall, formed by the intersection Of
Baxter. Worth and Park streets and
was notorious as the haunt Of low
characters and criminals. Improve
ments have completely changed the
aspect Of the old Five Points, but
Mrs. Atherton has recreated it with
its original flavor.
The J. B. Lippincott Company
are publishing this month an addi.
tion to their Training Series" en-
titled "The Training of Secretary"
by Arthur L. Church, secretary Of
Baldwin's Locomotive Works. This
is practical book on the prepara-
tion for a secretaryship and in
cludes all the many and varied du-
ties of secretaries in the different
lines Of business.
The third book in Stephen Nc
Kenna's trilOgy deals with the
prevailing egomania, craze for in
dividuality, in English society. Mr..
McKenna explains his purpose in
undertaking this form as follows:
I'm Lady Lillith' the emotion hunt
ers and sensation mongers who sup
ply the drama Of this trilOgy are
still practicing their poses in mir
rOred and passiOnless detachment;
in The Education of Erie Lane
artifice has grown to such strength
that, in it's contest with rellity, the
battle - between antagonists no
longer detached and passiOnless-
stands drawn: in The Secret Vie
tory a close contact with reality
debates the tumid pretensiOrs of
artifice and forces an amateur COM
pany Of tragi-comedians into the re-
vealing daylight Of the open street"
Although he carries On the same
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

ociuS d ueSt stiler III rance ana
then in Canada, seems destined to
be a best seller" in the United
States. Another book tina: has been
a best seller" in France is an
nounced for early American publi-
cation. That is 'Nene by Ernest
Perochon, which won the Prix Con
court in 1920. There are actual
figures to attest the popularity in
France of both Maria Chapde-
laine' and Meme" Formerly the
French method of indicating sue
cess was little confusing to those
not acquainted with the system. To
be informed that such a rovel, by
Zola, for example. was in it's ninety
fourth edition, suggested fabulous
sales. AS matter of fact. another
edition did not mean a reprinting
on a generous scale. Every 500
copies constituted an edition. and
the ninety-fourth edition Of Mana"
or "L'Assommoir" meant that A.
600 copies had been printed.
RUT thinking of the United
~ States as the land OF great
book sales, recalling that il was the
American reading public rather
than the English reading public
that made the success of such books
Of English authorship az Ships
That Pass in the Night" "Trilby"
and "The Prisoner of Zenda," to
limit mention to books OF genera
tion ago, many persons are inclined
to the fallacy that the best seller"
is distinctly an American institu-
ton. But is it? AS examples OF
American best sellers" of the past
take Archibald Clavering Curriers'
"Mr. Barnes Of New York" Gen.
Lew Wailace's "Ben-Hur," Charles
Majors when Knighthood Was in
Flower" and Winston Churchill's
Richard Carvel." The selection is
casual, but to the purpose. Roughly
speaking, the last two books named
sold little less than 100000
copies each. "Ben-Hur" probably
sold little more, and "Mr. Barnes
OF New York." issued In paper
cover. sold approximately 1000, 900
copies. Yet 100000 copies of
Georges Ohnat's lie Msitre de
FOrges" were sold In France alone.
despite the fact that the distin-
guished critic, Jules Lemaitre, de-
nounced the novel as the worst ever
written since the beginning OF time.
lie Maitre de Forges" must be ac-
cepted as the best seller" of the
last half century, which practically
means the best selling novel OF all
time.
q" E MAITRE DE FORCES" is
conspicuous example of
an individual book. None Of Ohnet's
other novels compared with it in
popularity. ZOla was conspicuous
example OF popular French novel;
ist. A year before the war the
books Of Zola's French publisher
showed that two novels OF the
"ROugon Macquart" series had
passed the 100000 mark; La De-
bacle," 235,000, and Mana" 220,-
600. Twelve of Zola's novels had
sold more than 100000 copies;
'Lourdes," 176.o00: "L'Assommoir."
10000; la Terre," $4,000; Ger
minal," 13S,0OO; lie Reve," 132, 900;
Rome" 121,0O0; "Une Page
d'Amour," 10000; Paris 10000;
"Fecondite," 10000; la Bette HUI
maine" los. 900; POT -Bouilie." no.
600. and lie Docteur Pascal" 101.-
0O0. The total sale OF all Zola's
works was found to amount 20 ap-
proximately 100000 copies.
M HEN Wilkie Collins's "The
Woman in White was run
ming serially in "All the Year
Round" the streets in the vicinity
OF the Offices of the periodical on
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

E'ULLY one-half of our favorite
Il heroes and heroines of fiction
have been drawn, or drawn in part,
from living originals. There was
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

AI lTH hero and heroine left Just
where the author had parted
with them in the dream the story
was sent to McCIure's Magazine.
Soon came a letter from Mr.. Me-
Clure. He liked the story, would
print it, but was not some solution
possible? II it were printed in the
form in which it stood he feared
that the author would be accused
of trying to do another The Lady
or the Tiger" Readers, curious and
unsatisfied. would be sure to OBJ
ject. For time that seemed to
settle the matter, for there was no
apparent loOphole. OF course, a
casual passerby could have been
introduced to shoot the bulldog, but
that would hardly have done. Mr..
McCutcheon put the story aside.
1t had been completely forgotten
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

w HEN wilkie cOllins's '"Ths
w Woman in White was run
ming serially in "All the Year
Round" the streets in the vicinity
OF the Offices of the periodical on
the day of publication were
crowded with people anxious to
learn what turn the tale was about
to take. When Eugene Sues The
Mysteries of Paris" was appea ring
from day to day in . Paris news
paper the paper was not sold out
right, but rented at ten sous the
half hour, the time estimated nee
essary for perusal of the daily
installment. Even more exciting
was the publication OF Victor
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

Christopher Morley has made a
list Of the dozen best English novels
for Walter A. Dyer, who has been
conducting a poll in his column in
the Springfield Union. It Is a
thought provoking list and, as Mr..
Morley explains, "is idiosyncratic,
but 1t won't do any intelligent
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

Tradition and Progress" is the
title of the latest Gilbert Murray
book (HOughtOn Miffiin Company:
1t is collection Of papers dealing
with varied subjects. The last
paragraph in the book sums up
what Prof. Murray believes our
present civilization lacks. I'VE have
been given everything. except, It
would seem, the resOlute and sincere
will. Just at present that seems
lacking; the people blame their
rulers for the lack OF it, and the
rulers explain that they dare not
offend their peoples. 1t may be
recovered. We have had il in the
past in abundance, and we probably
have the material for it even now.
II not, il for any reason the great
democracieS permanently prefer to
follow low motives and to be gov
erned by inferior men, it looks as
if not the British Empire only but
the whole world order established
by the end Of the war and summar-
lied roughly in the League of Ma
tiOns may pass from history under
the same fatal sentence as the great
empires of the past-that the world
which it ruled hated it and risked
all to compass its overthrow"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-04-06
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE BY
ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE is hereby given. That that GER
tain Mortgage, executed and delivered
by George Perrin n Adeline Perrin,
Mortgage " gage datedst the 18th tn day q Of April April
A. D. nineteen hundred and ten and
filed for record in the office Of the
Register Of Deeds Of the County, Of Bot
corded in Book 65 Of Mortgages, at page
1856 and assigned by said Mortgagee by
an instrument in writing to Citizens
sofa, dated the 25th day Of Ma y A. D.
1910 and filed for record in said office
of the Register Of Deeds on the 18th
Book 81. Of MORTGAGES on page 1873 will
be foreclosed by a sale of the premises
in such Mortgage n hereinafter de-
scribed at the front door Of the Court
County Of Bottineau and State of North
Dakota at the hour Of 1000 O'Clock A.
M. on the 25th day of April 1922 to sat
isfy the amount due upon said Mortgage
The premises described in said Mort
gage and which will be sold to satisfy
the same, are those certain premises
s state q Of II Ho tfs G paRofs of Ind B9 aeseriped aa aa
(sEN5 of Section Fifteen {15) Town
ship One Hundred sixty-one l161) North
Fifth Principal Meridian.
Notice before foreclosure has been
given by the assignee of the mortgage
to the title owner of record of said land
and premises as required by law.
The said assignee Of the mortgage
has paid taxes on said premises in the
sum of $152.58 which sum has been
added to the amount due ON said mort
gage and included in his foreclosure.
at the date of sale the sum Of Two
Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-eight
and 7S-100 ($2538.7s) Dollars.
Dated this 18th day, of March 1922.
d. Citizens state Bank. OF Kenyon,
- Kenyon, Minnesota