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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Miss Esta Thompson OF Ellen who
has been attending school in Louisa
left wednesday on account OF the Ill
ness OF her brother, Roy Thompson,
who has appendicitis and her father,
Lindsey Thompson. who is suffering
with rheumatism. She was accompan-
led 10 the home OF her brother by Miss
Hattie Thompson of this place.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
CLOSING OUT PRICES.

There are many ladies in our town
and county who have withheld buying
their Spring Ready Wear, antici-
pating our special sales.
We still have on our racks some
stock OF the Spring season. most au-
thentic styles beautifully blended with
superior quality and skillful workman
ship in Coats, Suits, Capes and Dress
es.
The way we have slashed prices will
be OF the greatest interest to all the
woman and girls
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
DIAMONDS RECOVERED.

Four OF the sixteen diamond rings
stolen from the Pollock jewelry store
in Ashland January 81 were recovered
IN Williamson, W. Va by Miss NADIA
Winters. manager of the store. They
were in possession of four persons
who bought them from the same man.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
SPECIAL NUDGE NAMED.

Judge H. L. Wood. of Olive Hill was
designated as special judge of the Pike
circuit court to hear an election case
in which Morgan L. Greer is contest-
ing the election of Marion Burke 10 .
justice of peace of Pike county. Tie
term begins May Is.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
JUSTICES STORE
Louisa . Kentucky

Mr. and Mrs. y. p, Petersen and
baby, Paul Atkins Peterson, returned
TO their home in Huntington. w. Va,
Monday after few days visit to o..
c. Atkins and family.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

= Roy Thompson, who has been Ill
with appendicitis the past week was
brought 70 the hospital at this place
on Wednesday. He WAS accompanied
by his wife and mother, Mrs. Lindsey
Thompson OF Ellen.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
.CIICRCII ,
ANNOUNCEMENTS
rHE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Sunday morning at $3.50. Bible school
10:30-Preaching service. Subject;
Gods one unchanging Law" A tri-
butte to our mothers.
7:30-Evening worship. Subject:
Some reasons why"
Come out and Join with US in these
services.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Mr.. and Mrs, c. NJ. Edwards will
move soon into their handsome new
residence on Lock avenue,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

James N. Bradley OF Yatesyille was
a business visitor In Louisa Thursday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Jim Heston left for Detroit, Mich.
Sunday night to drive a Chandler
roadster 10 Louisa for Fred N. Vim
son. He reached Louisa Wednesday
afternoon.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

q. c. Shepherd and family have
moved from Richardson to Louisa.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Judge d. w, Gardner OF salyersvllle
has been assigned TO preside over the
Powell Circuit Court commencing
,yune TO-
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

A marriage license was issued May
10 70 Charles William Strader 20, OF
Garth to Ethel shannon Hutchinson. 20,
OF Drift.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

T.. F., Maioney and family moved
this week from Louisa to Ashland.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Special for this month only. Best
grade hat dye. All shades zoe per
bottle. The j. II. Reynolds "Cut Rate"
formerly Louisa Drug Coz II.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Dick vinson has returned from Ok
iahoma.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

Attorney Fred NJ. vinson was In
Wayne. W. Va, this week acting as
one OF the attorneys in the defense OF
Ralph Taylor.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12

,JgHaskaggs and r. B. Spencer have
painted their residences on Lock ave
nue..
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-05-12
M. E CHURCH. SOUTH.

D. H. MATHERLY Pastor.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

paraded there In this costume?
Wells tries on my hat, then takes
my cane and twirls it. The effect
is ridiculous, especially as just at
the moment / notice the two vol
umes OF Outline of History on his
table,"
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT

best American work, and the psy-
Geological and imaginative reality
which American writer's have con-
ferred upon it,"
FOLLOWING an alphabetical ar
rangement according to au-
thors, Mr.. O'Brien has selected as
the best short stories of 1921
Brothers," by Sherwood Anderson
(from the BookmGn); "Fanutza, by
Konrad Bereovici (from the Dial) /;
Experiment" by Maxwell Struth-
ers Burt (from the Pictorial Re.
Uielc); Darkness" by Irwin S.
Cobb tfrom the Saturday Erening
POST: IAN Instrument of the
Gods" by Lincoln Colcord (from
the American Magdsine); "The
Lizard God," by Charles ]. Finger
tfrom Alrs WelD; Under the
Dome" by Waldo Frank (from the
DiaD; French Eva" by Katherine
Fullerton Gerould (from Scribners
MdgoSine); "The Past" by Ellen
Glasgow tfrom Good Housekeep-
in0); His Smile" by Susan Glas-
pell (from the Pictorial Revie,o);
THE Harbor Master" by Richard
Matthews Hallet (from Harper's
Magazine); Green Gardens" by
Frances Noyes Hoyt (from Scribner's
Mogdzine): "She Walks in Beauty"
by Fannie Hurst (from the Cosmo-
politdn) "The Little Master of the
Sky" by Manuel Komroff (from the
DiGl}; "The Man with the Good
Face" by Frank Luther Mott (from
the Midland); Master of Fallen
Years." by Vincent O'Sullivan (from
the Smart SeD "The Shame Dance"
by Wilbur Daniel Steele (from Har-
per's Mdgdzine); Kindred" by
Harriet Maxon Thayer (from the
Midland); shelby" by Charles
Hanson Towne (from the Smart
Set), and "The Wallow of the Sea-"
by Mary Heaton Worse (from Har-
per's MdgGsine).
ELSEWHERE in this issue Of
- the book section Frederick
O'Brien, author of white Shadowa
in the South Seas" and Mystic
Isles of the South Seas" writes
Of Chairman Kittredge (Mrs. Jack)
LondOn's new book ON Hawaii" I"
Much Of the material making up
this book was gathered during the
cruise of the Shark" which was
meant to encircle the globe in inn
itation Of Capt. Slocum's voyage in
the Spray" but which came to an
end in Australia on account of Jack
London's illness. Few journeys
have been so exploited in advance
as the Shark" cruise, and Jack
London was deluged with letters
from applicants who wished to
share the adventure. Ninety per
cent. Of the volunteers offered to
work in any capacity, and 80 per
cent. offered to work without sal
airy. The possession of a passion
ate fOndness for geography" was
the way one applicant expressed the
wanderlust that was in him. An
other wrote: Il am cursed with
an eternal yearning always to be
on the move, consequently this
letter to YOU" A third said he
wanted to go because his feet
itched." Almost all the applicants
wanted Mr.. London to telegraph, at
their expense, his acceptance of
their services; quite a number Of
fered to put up bond to guarantee
their appearance at sailing date.
M ANY of the applicants seemed
to have vague ideas about
| the work to be done on the "Spark."
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

City officials. He was coauthor
with Jeanne r. Carpenter of a book
ON Municipal Housecleaning,"
which was published by the buttons
two or three years ago.
Mazo de la Roche, whose first
novel Explorers of the Dawn" has
just been published by Alfred A.
Knopf, is a Canadian by birth. She
received her education in Toronto,
in private schools there and in the
University of Toronto. Before TAX
ing up writing she studied art for
seven years.
Among the prominent theatrical
people who appear in the pages OF
Thomas Beers new novel of the
stage "The Fair Rewards" just pub
lished by Alfred A. KnOpf, are
Clyde Fitch, Charles FrOhman,
Arthur Hopkins, Anna Held, Sara
Cowell lie Moyne, George Arliss and
Cyril Maude. In addition other fig
ures of the stage of the present and
the past appear under pseudonyms.
The period covered by the novel ex-
tends from approximately the time
of THE Merry Widow" down to the
production of "The Jest" at the
Plymouth Theater.
Fannie Hurst, author of Star
Dust" (Harper's) before leaving
for her European trip February Is,
said in regard to the movies versus
fiction: Comparatively few of the
arrived authors of to-day are stand
ing by the ship of fiction. They are
moving in great numbers across the
painted desert to the studios in
California, dividing their time be-
tween the advocation of the old job
and the vocation of the new. Mo-
tiOn picture cramp has become
more of a menace than writer's
cramp, because motion picturitis
distOrts style and warps sincerity"
Gunnar GunnarSSon's epics of Ice
land, Guest the One-Eyed," which
has just been brought out in this
country by Alfred A. Knopf as one
Of the DOrzoi-Gyldendal books, was
originally published in Denmark in
four volumes, the first in 1912 and.
the last in 1914. The story divides
itself naturally into four parts, ac-
cordingly. The American edition is,
however, single volume. Guest"
has been translated into Swedish,
English, Finnish and Dutch. Gun
narsson's earlier novel, "The Sworn
Brothers, is also being translated
into Dutch. and will be brought out
in Holland Immediately.
Stephen Leacock returned re-
Gently, after three months lee
ture tour of England and Scotland,
to resume his duties as professor OF
political economy at McGill Uni
versity, Montreal. He promises,
however, to find time to tell all
about his Discovery of England"
in a new humorous book which
Dodd, Mead will publish later In the
year.
Through his publishers. the Bar-
pers, w. l.. George, creator of that
disturbing young woman Ursula
Trent, answers the numerous as
saults made upon her morals by the
literary editors throughout the
country: Ursula is what she is. and
it is not my affair. A novelist Gre
ates a character-a woman who is
young, pretty, educated in a certain
way and placed in a certain kind Of
family" Then he says: What will
she do?" Well. that is not his busi-
ness. 1t is his characters business.
He can't stop her. She is what she
Is, and he tells you what happens 10
her. If could have stopped Ursula
she would not be a real character.
There were Ursulas before the war
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Authors Works
And Their Ways

And Their Ways
The Authors Club at it's thirty
ninth annual meeting, held recently
in Carnegie Hall, New York. an
nOunced that large majority of its
26O members had voted that the
book Of the most enduring value to
American literature published dur
ing 1921 was THE Collected Poems
of Edwin Arlington Robinson"
The buttons have ready for i'm
mediate publication new novel by
Richard Washburn Child, American
Ambassador to Italy. It's title is
announced as "The Hands of Nara"
and it is said to touch a little upon
occult things and to be centrally
concerned with the relations be-
tween a famous American medical
specialist and young woman from
Russia, who convinces him finally
that the most important factor in
life is "the sorcery OF something
in the SOUL"
'Lenin," published by E. P. Dut-
ton & Co., is written by Russian,
NJ. A. Landau-Aldanov, who is a
Socialist of the Labor Party, led by
MiakOtine and Pechekhonof, and de-
| scribes himself as a counter revolu-
zionist and anti-militarist. He
knows Lenine's character and career,
and in addition to his study of
Lenine's personality and develop
ment he devotes great deal Of at
tentiOn to an exposition of his eco
nOmic, political and philosophical
ideas and policies, the theories of
the social revolution as set forth by
Marx, Bakunin and Sorel, and the
fundamental ideas of Bolshevism.>
Donald b. Macmillan, author of
-Four Years in the White North
tHarpers), will in all probability
return from his expedition to Baffin
Land next summer, according to in
direct advices, which state that the
explorers schooner, BOwdoin, failed
to reach Fury and Hecla Strait. The
Carnegie Institute at Washington
has received word that Macmillan
is spending the winter at Nauwatta,
800 miles south of Fury and Hecla
| Strait.
Henry T. Finck adopted garden
ing as his avocatiOn fifty-One years
ago, as a boy Of 16. Mr.. Finck,
whose book Gardening With
Brains" the Harpers will publish
February q, describes as follows
the obstacles he had to overcome
before planting that first garden:
II lived in Portland, Ore, and had
to send East for my seeds. At that
time there was no railroad connect
ing Portland with the East, and my
seeds were shipped on by stage. 1t
rained most of the time in Oregon,
and when the stage got stuck the
driver would simply throw out the
bags which did not contain letters
and leave them there by the road
side. And so my seeds got lost.
But in spite of such difficulties l
managed to get my garden, and l
have had one every year ever since"
Francis Burton Harrison, who has
written out his experiences and the
convictions he gathered as Gov
ernor-General of the Philippines, a
book soon to be published by the
Century Company under the title of
'"The Cornerstone of Philippine In
dependence: A Narrative of Seven
Years." is the son Of that Mrs. Bur
| ton Harrison who administered
| anonymously a genuine shock to
the society of her time with her
novel "The Anglomaniacs. Al
though the book made a real sensa-
tion. owing to the many only slightly
concealed portraits of prominent
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

the fish boats unload" Physicians
surgeons and dentists offered in
large numbers to go along, and.
like all the professional men, of.
fered to go without pay. to serve in
any capacity, and to pay, even, for
the privilege of so serving.
CIR PHILIP GIBBS'S More That
~ Must Be Told" contains an ac-
count of an interview with the late
Pope Benedict XIV, and certain re-
fiections on the POpes attitude
during the war. Il remember how"
writes Sir Philip, through the war
many people not. Catholics had
looked to the Pope as the one man
who might rise above the conflict
and in thundering words, OF per-
haps in q voice of penetrating
sweetness, call the world back to
sanity and Christian brotherhood.
That did not happen. SOrrowful
messages came from him deploring
the 'fratricidal strife; privately he
offered himself as mediator and
peacemaker, but no message came
to stir the hearts of peoples with
burning words, irresistible in ap-
mr. Il In IN rl<ar -
thought him prO-German. In Ger
many they thought lrim pro-Ally."
II ALF a dozen men of letters,
II some of them stars of the first
magnitude. figure in the course Of
Charlie Chaplin's MY Trip
Abroad" Sir James Barrie Charlie
first met at a party given by E. V.
Lucas at the Garriek Club in Lon
don. AS the screen comedian saw
the author OF Peter Pam: He is
small man, with q dark mustache
and a deeply marked, sad face, with
heavily shaded eyes. Every
one looks jovial except Barrie. His
eyes look sad and tired. But he
brightens as though all along there
had been that hidden smile behind
the mask" At table the two are
placed side by side, and Barrie says
that he is looking for some one to
play Peter Pan and wants Chaplin
to play it. At once the ice is
broken and that night the come
dian, with Edward Knobloch, is in
Barrie's apartment in Adelphi Ter
race, overlooking the Thames EN-
bankment, slipping Scotch and ex-
changing stories.
after a knock, Gerald du
- Maurier, the actor and the son
of the author of "Trilby," comes In,
and the party lasts till the small
hours. 81 notice that Barrie looks
tired and worn, so we leave, walk
ing with Du Maurier up the Strand.
Next day there is a card
from Bruce Bairnsfather. .
He carries me out into the country.
l ask what Wells is like, and Bruce
tells me he is just like Wells and
no one else. When / get
back to the hotel there is a letter
from Wells: DO come over. Do
you want to meet Shaw? He is
really very charming out of the
limelight.'
QUT to bask in the actual pres
~ ence OF the redOubtable &c. B..
s." was not to be Charles fate.
Instead he went proving about
London in the company of Thomas
Burke, who wrote "Limehouse
Nights" He found Burke particu-
larly companionable because: He
is the one man who sees London
through the same kind of glasses
as myself. / am told that Burke
will be disappointing because he is
so silent, but / do not believe that
l will be disappointed in him." He
found Burke different from expec-
tations. 1T is hard to think that
this little man with the thin,
peaked face and sensitive features
is the same ono who hoe nlazod
The New York herald., 1922-02-19


industry and certain amount
of discrimination, been shifting,
classifying and judging the short
stories as they have been appear
ing in various American period
icals. The result OF this labor
has been the annual publication Of
volume including some twenty
tales that lie has deemed the best
Of the preceding year and what he
calls a Year Book of the American
Short Story" made up of addresses
OF magazines publishing short sto-
ries, a photographed roll of honor
OF American short stories, roll of
honor of foreign short stories pub
lished in American magazines, a
critical summary of the best books
VI ohOiL olOiIcS, "a CoIolutIdtlOu Vi
magazine averages and various in
dexes. "The Best Short Stories of
1921" has appeared. from the press
of Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. of
Boston. 1t is an interesting and
instructive volume. Whether we
agree with it or not is another
matter.
a FTER all, Mr.. O'Brien's Sc
Il lection is, as all selections
Of this kind must be, to a GER
tain extent arbitrary, and there
fore any criticism of his selection
is naturally in measure arbitrary.
lie says that such and such story
is the best of the year. We say
that it is nothing of the kind 1t is
entirely a matter of personal taste
and opinion. In turning over the
pages of Mr.. OBrien's annual vol
ume we always think of certain
memorable stories or the past, won
dering what their fate would have
been had Mr.. O'Brien been COM
piling for all the years of the last
century. Somehow we do not feel
that such tales as Edward Everett
IIale's "The Man without Coun-
try" or Thomas Bailey Aldrich's
Marjorie Daw" or Mark Twain's
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleys-
burg" would have fitted into the
general scheme.
M r. O'BRIEN'S first compilation
was of the stories that ap-
peared during 1915. The first story
that he selected, the one that he
presented as being the best OF that
year, was significant as indicating
the state OF mind in which he has
approached his editorial task. 1t
was "Zelig," by Benjamin Rosen-
blatt, which he called "a noble con-
tribution to American literature"
''Zelig" was good story. But it
was good Russian rather than good
American. Its inconsequential set
ting was on the East Side of New
York city, but save for that it was
not an American story at all. 1t
was alien in thought, in sentiment
and even in language. To compre-
hend it fully glossary was needed.
The American reading it was in a
state of mental bewilderment akin
to that of Eustace Cheever Of Mr..
Kipling's "a Conference OF the
Powers" listening to the chatter OF
the young subalterns. The selec-
tion of "Zelig" and the dedication
to Mr.. Rosenblatt, its author of the
first volume of the BEST Short
Stories" set the keynote of Mr..
O'Brien's judgment and taste.
"E had always thought of Mr..
w O'Brien making up his list
and bestowing his stars for particu
lar excellence, as Baedeker formerly
rkor,oJ ,o-t,,.,onto ouJ I,otol, go,.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

William Parr Capes's new book
THE Modern City and It's Govern
ment" is ready for immediate pub
lication by K. p. Dutton & Co. Mr.
Capes is director of the New York
State Bureau of Municipal Research
and secretary of the New York State
Conference of Mayors and Other
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

WE had always thought of Mr..
w O'Brien making up his list
and bestowing his stars for particu-
lar excellence, as Baedeker formerly
starred restaurants and hotels for
the benefit of the traveller, accord
ing to a formula known only to
himself. In the introduction TO
the present volume he surprises us
by the assertion that he is not at
all interested in formula, and that
he holds that organized criticism at
its best would be nothing more
than dead criticism, as all dog
matte Interpretation of life is al
ways dead. What has interested
me-" he says, ito the exclusion of
other things is the fresh, living
current which flows through the
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

M ANY of the applicants seemed
~ to have vague ideas about
the work to be done on the Shark"
as, for example, the one who wrote:
81 am taking the liberty of writing
you this note to find out IL there
would be any possibility of my go.
ing with you as one of the crew of
your boat to make sketches and
illustrations" Several offers to
serve, as one of them phrased it,,
"as assistant in filing materials col
lected for books and novels" One
man gave the following qualifica-
tions: II am an orphan, living
with my uncle, who is a hot Revolu-
tionary Socialist, and who says that
a man without the red blood of ad
venture is an animated dishrag."
Another thought himself particu-
larly fitted because he had seen
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

the fish boats unload" Physicians
surgeons and dentists offered in
large numbers to go along, and.
like all the professional men, Of.
fered to go without pay. to serve in
any capacity, and to pay, even, for
the privilege Of so serving.
The Washington times., 1922-08-22
MEN !.
|. IN GOOD SHAPE
SURVEY SHOWS
Fewer Failures, More Pros
perity in Past Year, Federal
Reserve Board Finds.
BY international News Service.


American business men are more
prosperous than year ago. and
the commercial record shows fewer
failures, officials of the Federal
Reserve Board announced today.
Reports to the board indicate that
business houses have made steady
progress In nquidating their obliga-
tions at the banks, Mid-year in
ventories reported by financial ex.
perts show that stocks of goods
generally have been greatly re-
duced, and signs point to heavy
buying by the retail trade to meet
fall and winter demands from CON
sumers. 4: ~
Officials noted as sign.fieant Of
the trend. the remarkable buying
power of the public exerted through
the early summer period. This sea-
son of usual dullness has been
marked by activity in practically, all
leading lines. The output Of man
ufacturers and their sales records
are reported high for this time Of
the year. Merchants are making
less heavy demands upon the banks.
than were shown in earlier months
and this Is considered favorable
indication Of commercial stability.
Business men are not over stocking.
but purchases are being made
largely to meet current require
ments. The Restraining influences
exerted by the strikes are gradually
disappearing.