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on Railways
Best for Many Years

Chicago, June 16.-Summer tourist
fares. which are lower than for several
years. have stimulated railroad travel
westward trem endously, according to
reports from local passenger agents.
One road reports a 35 per cent in
crease over last year.
Travel from the Pacific coast is also
the heaviest in several years, Chicago
railroad offices say. due to the fact
that round trip rates are in effect for
the first time since before the war.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
Falls 10 Floors
Down Mine Shaft;
Lives Few Hours

Butte. June 16.-(By The Associated
'Press.)-Joe Glenzo, 33. a native of
Greece. was fatally injured Wednesday
afternoon by falling 10 floors down a
shaft at the Badger mine. where be
was employed. He died a few hours
later at a hospital. He was Inmar-
ried.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
CANCEL SUMMER MEETINGS

II. H. Wright. secretary of the Cas-
cade County Taxpayers association,
announced Thursday that the associa-
ton will hold no meetings in Great
Falls during the ummer months.
Regular meetings here will not be re-
sumed until September. The associa-
ton plans to hold meetings in rural
communities during the summer, Mr..
Wright said.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
Negro Is Hanged
for His Assault
on Woman of 20

%Irwington. Ca, June 16.-Bin Den
son. negro who several weeks ago
escaped from a mob after he had been
taken from the county Jail. was hanged
Friday morning for criminally assault
ing a ~70-year-old white woamn. The
gaIlows OH which benson was to have
paid the death penalty was destroyed
by lightning Tuesday and a new one
had to be constructed.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
Spared With Willard
in Old Days; Taken in
Wyoming Liquor Raid

Casper, Wyo., June 16.-Twenty
alleged liquor violators, including Big
Jack Hempel. former sparring partner
Of Jess Willard, were rounded up here
Thursday night by federal, state and
local officers working under the direc-
ton of Carl Jackson, federal prohi-
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
LEADS EIKS.

Boise, Idaho. June 16.-Delegates to
the annual convention Of the Idaho as
ISOLATION of Elks Thursday elected
Charles l.. Stewart of Boise president
to succeed o. =. DUvall of Twin Falls.
Pocatello was chosen as the convention
city for 1929.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
NAMED HAWAII JUDGE.

Washington. JUN 18.-Ray J.
O'Brien Of Hawaii was nominated Fri
day by President Harding for ap-
pointed as second judge of the first
circuit court in Hawaii.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
N0ah'S Ark Intact,
Was Big Pyramid;
Belief of Scientist

mids and the sphinx, arose as a bea-
con light to mankind, and when the
flood subsidized Egypt was r~e-settled by
immigrants from other lands.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17

bition director for Wyoming. ALI were
bound over to the United States dis
trict court at Cheyenne for trial.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17

Shrove Tuesday was known in ancient
times as pancake day from the fact
that after dissolution people were sup
posed to partake of pancakes.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17

The Shoshones, once one of the
greatest divisions of the North Amer
lean Indian, now number but about
$500.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17

Titan, great Italian artist, died Of
the plague, aged 80.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-17
BAN PARADES At BELLEEK

Belfast, ireland, June IA pro-
clamation issued in Belfast Friday
night bans all professions, meetings,
fairs and markets within three miles
OF Belleek on the Fermangh side Of the
border.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
Authors Works
And Their Ways

Rafael Sabatini, whose captain Blood"
was reviewed in a recent issue of THE NEW
YORK HERALD book section was born in
Central Italy in 1875, his father italian and
his mother English. Therefore. as with
Joseph Conrad, English is really an adopted
tongue with him His youth was spent In
Italy and his later education obtained In
Portugal and Switzerland. While still a
young man, however he made England his
home and became British subject His
first book. The Lovers of Yvonne," was
published in 1902, and his first great sue
cess came with "Scaramouche" in 1921.
In recent list of desirable books for
small libraries the American Library Asso-
citation includes an interesting quintuplet
of Macmillan publications In four different
fields: Lord Bryces international Rela-
tions," DR.. Elwood's Reconstruction Of
Religion" and DR.. Vedder's Fundamentals
of Christianity" Rabbi Wise's Child
versus Parent" and Carl Van Doren's
Contemporary American Novelists."
Back to the days of the Elizabethan
period Violet A. Wilson takes US in her
volume on Queen Elizabeth's Maids of
Honour" which has just been brought out
by E. P. Dutton & Co.. She presents a
picture of the court of Elizabeth in her
various palaces with the Queen herself
moving through the scenes. always In
tensely interested in the affairs of her i'm
mediate surroundings Against this back
ground the author paints the personalities,
the histories and the fates of the Maids of
Honour and the Ladies of the Privy Cham
Der Mary Fitton is there. generally thought
to be the dark lady" of Shakespeare's
-"Sonnets."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10

sympathetically and that She had always
been sorry for the spirit of her letter
to me. 1t spoils the story because she did
know better"
UAIOT so the woman who wrote: Dear
IN Miss Gale-I have to write pa
per for our club. I heard you wrote .
story on civics Will you please send 1t
to me? want to use 1t for padding when
ideas give out sent it to her and she
wrote: Tt did just exactly what wanted
of it. Then there was the college girl
New York this time-who sent me spe-
cial delivery letter asking If she might
write to me when she felt blue. We had
corresponded for some time, when she
wrote: 1T is Christmas Eve. Father,
mother, Philip and I are sitting around
the lamp They are reading. | am put
ting on records and writing to you. A
nice way to be spending Christmas Eve
I am so bored that am going to bed by
o'clock for the first time this year"
HVERY now and then fact steps for
IL ward to vindicate fiction In its most
fantastic aspects. The other day news
story told of a New York beggar whose
pitiful appearance stirred the sympathy
of passersby and won him immunity from
police interference. Every afternoon ne
pushed himself about on a little platform
on rollers explaining to those persons
who inquired when dropping coin in his
cup that he had lost his legs in railway
accident At o'clock he disappeared, to
climb into his motor car, which his chauf-
feur had brought to nearby spot, and
to be driven to his hotel suite, where he
put on pair of very expensive and very
fine aluminium legs and one of his three
dinner coats. Isn't that exactly the story
of "The Man With the Twisted Lip"
which was held to be the most extrava-
CANT and far fetched of all the tales that
made up Conan Doyle's Adventures Of
Sherlock Holmes?
T N view of the desire which has been ex-
L pressed that a biography of the late
Viscount Bryce should be published Wis.,
countess Bryce would be grateful If his
friends in the United States would have
the courtesy to forward to her, care Of
the Macmillan Company, Ga Fifth avenue,
New York, any of his letters which they
may have preserved. The letters would be
duly returned as soon as copies had been
taken of them
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT Bartlett, B. Af MAURICE

they termed his ephemerality. They
pointed out that an understanding of
what he wrote depended upon a knowl-
edge of the mood of the moment, the
latest bit of catchy slang, the passing
event that was monopolizing the head
lines of the newspapers. There was one
of his stories in particular that was used
to illustrate the text. That was "The
Rose of Dixie"
"T'HE ROSE OF DIXIE" is the title
of magazine of the South and
exclusively for the South's fair daugh-
tiers and brave sons" It is edited by an
old Southern colonel who has forgotten
that the civil war is over Porter was
himself Southerner, just as the AL
phonse Daudet who wrote of Tartarin
was southern Frenchman. Like Dau-
DIET, Porter loved, but in loving delighted
to banter "The Rose of Dixie" limited
by Colonel Telfair's sectional prejudices,
is on its last legs, when, at the sugges-
ton of some of the stockholders, a cir
visits the office to offer some very radical
remedies. The Colonel rejects the prof.
fered assistance but hints mysteriously
at wonderful article that he is consid-
ering and hopes to use if he can obtain
sufficient satisfactory information about
the author. The contribution proves to
be "A Second Message to Congress-" by
a member of the WELL KNOWN Bull
LOCH FAMILY OF GEORGIA, T. Roose-
welt" 1t was predicted that this tale,
highly humorous at the time, would be
fatty unintelligible few years later
A CURIOUS feature of the work of o.
Henry is that no two readers are
ever in entire agreement as to what are
his very best stories In fact, they are
likely to be found in entire disagree
ment If you were to ask half a dozen
persons to write down on slips of paper
their ten favorite tales of Bret Harte, or
Maupassant, or Rudyard Kipling, gen.
eral uniformity of opinion would be dis
covered. To take Kipling, for example
Almost certainly "The Man Who Would
Be King" and without Benefit of
Clergy" and AThe Brushwood Boy" and
''The Finest STORY in the World" would
be found in all the lists, and they would
be grouped near the top. In rounding
out the ten there would be differences of
opinion. One reader would include MY
Lord the Elephant" a second reader
"The Ship That Found Herself" a third
"A Matter of Fact" But there would be
a general resemblance There would be
no such resemblance in similar test
applied to the stories of o. Henry.
ENIGHT years ago the writer of these
paragraphs made just such test
in the columns of the Bookmdn Then
lists of ten stories apiece were invited.
Those of Mr.. Booth Harrington, Mr. Owen
Johnson and Mr. George Barr Nc
Cutcheon represented the tastes of men
themselves writer's of fiction. Mr.. Rob-
ert H.. Davis of the Munsey publications
spoke not only as one of William Sidney
Porter's closest friends, but also as a
man who has probably read, accepted
and rejected more short stories than any
other man In the world The list of Mr.
Arthur W. Page represented in meas
ure the opinion of o. Henry's publishers.
The list of Mr.. Gilman Hall that of the
man who among all claimants has the
best title to be regarded as o. Henry's
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best, possibly opinions would vary to the
extent Of showing fifteen titles, certainly
not more than eighteen. Yet in the o.
Henry lists there were actually sixty-two
different stories named. "a Municipal
Report" lin narrative probably marking
the highwater mark of the authors pow
ers) appeared in six lists, whereas can
Unfinished Story" appeared in seven.
"A Lickpenny Lover" "The GW of the
Magi'' and 1.-The Furnished Room" were
mentioned four times, and "Mammon and
the Archer" and Let Me Feel Your
curious selections. Mr. Harrington, for
example, gave as his first choice "The
Ransom of Red Chief and as his second
choice 1.-THE Moment of Victory"
THE list from o. Henry's widow was
L accompanied by a very beautiful let
ter To her the stories acere Mr.. Porter,
and she found it hard to name them in
story came to her mind. That was "a
Municipal Report" After ALL" she
wrote, 81 am not sure that it is the story
good as it is-for o. Henry's own face
lifts from a Nashville roast that was
given that story, and I hear his puzzled
why did it offend? Do you see any
thing in it that should offend?' The
Fifth Wheel'-and we stand together on
Madison Square in the deep snow, or the
biting wind, looking at the line waiting
for BEDS When we turn away ten men
have found shelter The recording angel
must have seen us there some of the
snowy nights of 1908. He must have
known that when we turned homeward
there were times when o. Henry had not
dollar fifty left in his pocket"
ONE surprising story in Mrs. Porter's
~ list was Madame Bo-Peep of the
Ranches" but that tale figured largely
in her own life. In the spring of 1905
her mother came home from Greensboro
and said to her: "Your old friend Will
Porter is a writer. He lives in New
York and writes under the name of o.
Henry" 70. Henry! In my desk lay
Madame Bo-Peep' and / loved her. I
wrote o. Henry note. If you are not
Will Porter don't bother to answer /
said. He bothered to answer. The let
ter came as fast as Uncle Sam could
bring 1t. Some day when you are not
real busy he wrote, won't you sit down
at your desk where you keep those anti
Quated stories and write to me? I'd be
so pleased to hear something about what
the years have done for you and what
you think about when the tree frogs
begin, to boiler In the evening" Thus
after many years was a boy and girl
friendship renewed"
A LTHOUGH the subject of authors
a letters has already been pretty well
threshed out in this department, belated
replies are still coming in and will be dis
cussed from time to time. Miss Zona
Gale writes: "The most important let
ter which has come to me like this, out Of
letters of my life and has led to friend
ship fixed as the armament. Therefore,
cannot tell you much about it save to say
that do believe that one who writes to-
day finds open one Of the wide doors of
the world, in just these responses from
those who see supremely what writer
is driving at and who have the initiative
to tell him So"
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IF he had lived, tomorrow, Septem-
Der IL, William Sidney Porter 20.
Henry would be celebrating his sixtieth
birthday. His writing life would have
been twice as long as it was, for the
40 odd short stories that bear his
name were produced between 1900 and
1910. It was on June Of the latter
year that, lying on his bed In the hospi-
tai and foreseeing the end, he uttered his
last witticism: Pull up the shades; /
don't want to go home In the dark" para
phrasing q song that was exceedingly
popular at the time. What o. Henry
might have accomplished had he lived to
the allotted three score and ten is of
course a matter of surmise. In the
months preceding his death there were
no signs of mental exhaustion, of waning
power In fact he was planning to write
his first long novel and had finished eight
pages of it in manuscript.
THERE were 30 many aspects to that
! extraordinary life, that rich talent
Twelve years after his death, thinking of
William Sidney Porter the man, he seems
about the most picturesque figure in
American letters In comparison, Poe's
troubles were trivial Poe had to con-
tend with conditions caused by made
quate payment for his work and with his
own unreliability and irritable DISPOSE
tion. Poe lacked courage, just as good
many of the famous poets who have
enuffed themselves out, or who have al
lowed themselves to be snuffed out,
lacked courage. Porter possessed high
courage, born perhaps of a riotous sense
Of the humorous. Emerging from the
Swallowed years, with the prison pallor on
his face, he began to fight, fought on,
and kept fighting until the end. Nor was
there ever a whimper about the injustice
of fate. We admire and sing the praises
of the man who lifts himself by his own
bootstraps. In Porter's case there was
the additional burden that the boots were
heavy weighted with lead
A times the anecdote about the man
- has blurred the vision. A hundred
tales are told of his dislikes for effort,
mental or physical: OF the troubles ex-
perienced by editors who we're trying to
squeeze from him promised copy; Of
his inability to understand money values
The most unobservant of readers must
often have been conscious of the lack of
connection between some of o. Henry's
introductions and the tales that follow.
Those were the stories written when he
was under contract to write a story
week for 500 week When, as was
invariably the case. the story did not ar
rive at the time promised, the editor
would dispatch messenger to the back
ward author. Porter's reply would be:
"Just sitting down to write 1t. Please
send $50 by bearer" After one or two
unwfse compliances with the request the
editor learned his lesson and the edict
was: mo advance until 1 receive part
of the copy" So o. Henry would sigh
and sit down and write an introduction
that had nothing whatever to do with
the tale that he had in mind
DUT IL the promised tale was day late
or a week late eventually 1t was done,
and, with all the talent in the world,
without industry no one could have done
the work accomplished by o. Henry In
brief nine or ten years. Just how per-
manent that work is destined to be is
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TEN lists of ten stories apiece means
4 a possibility of one hundred differ
ent titles being mentioned. Were such
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nDUT OF course the humorous letters
ID come oftenest," Miss Gale con-
tinues. There was woman who wrote
to me about story of mine in which a
baby is fed from bottle. DO you not
know she inquired, that pure cows milk
is pure poison to child? Cows milk must
be modified by water. Do you not know that
alternate bottles must be used and these
sterilized? And that children must not
be fed If they awake at night and cry?
Your story gives no evidence of your
knowledge of any Of these things. / felt
1t my duty to beg you not to lead young
mothers astray. The letter had sequel.
Two years later this woman wrote to me
that they had lost their property. that
this had made her look at people more
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-11
WEST PHILADELPHIA

Mr. and Mrs Isaac Lakoff, or so.5
Snestnut street. announce the engage.
ment OF their daughter. Miss KatherIn,
Lakon' to Mr.. Abraham Saunders Lewis
sSn or Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lewis, OF
trenton. n. J. Miss Lakoff is a grad.
uate Of West Philadelphia High School
ana or Lrexel Institute. Mr.. Lewis Is
Harvard graduate, class OF Iq,a
ne ne served overseas during the World
war ana was commissioned a lieutenant
N the navy. Mr.. Lewis Is a member of
tie progress Club In Trenton.
A quiet. wedding took place on rues-
DAY morning. February 7. at the North.
minister Presbyterian Church, Thirty-fifth
am1 ana Saring streets when Mrs. L. s.
derson. 523t Locust street, became The
bride Of Mr.. Alfred l.. Mountford Rehh
formerly Of Oxford. England. The Rev
Joseph Mack!e offciated. Immediately
Nlrer H the ceremony wedding breakfast
Followed at the Hotel Adelphia. After
an extended wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs.
Beob VIII make their home at New
Rochelle. N. Y.
The marriage Of Mrs. NJ. L. Lank, OF
nell Of 634 North Thirty-second street
took place at 4 O'Clock on Wednesday
afternoon at the Northniinstcr Presbyte.
rian Church, Thirty fifth and Barring
streets. After a wedding trip Mr.. and
Mrs. O.Donnell will be at home at 634
North Thirty-second street.
Mrs, J. Blair Kennerly, OF 45Os Chest
nut street left on Thursday evening for
st. Petersburg and Miami, Fla, Where
she will Join friends and remain for
two months. Mrs. J. p. ReplogIe. Mrs
Kennerly's daughter, who has been her
guest for several days. has returned to
her home in JohnStown, Pa,
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Madam and Maid

10 me Editor OF the Evening Public Ledger:
SirLI have been servant for sew
cral years. ] once was a madam, so
speak on both sides. The mistress Of
Today thinks more of her nails and hair
Iman !,1, she does of her home or her family.
Inc mistress Of today feels she should
oe rocked to sleep in the lap of luxury
wniie v lie, her babies are rocked to sleep by
hired maid Of all work or maybe q
nurse, md il madam Is around she
1orbids her child to be rocked, as it Is
old fashioned.
Inc woman of twenty years ago ruled
the nome and children and was always
on the job. She had plenty Of friends
TO talk TO over the back fence, with
clothespins in her mouth or carpet
Deater in her hand. and the bread in
the oven. Hey, boys!. They were the
But today madam sits in the living
room or loiters in bed and thinks she's
abused because she was a fool to have
children. and she imagines Octavia in
,hc kitchenette has it better than she
because she allows her to make n
rendezvous of her Thy 13 kitchenette
70 entertaining her "friend' or more,
with the sink. a table, two chairs, gas
range, dresser and cabinet to play
Cupid between.
Inc trouble today is the madam 8
nerves. She knows what hardships her
mother. went through and to handicap
them she wont do anything more than
were not fighting for some one else's
opinion. l blame the men Of twenty
!ears ago. who nre the Beau Brum-
mells of today, leading the youthful
napper astray and filling their heads
with vileness. and the young wife to
Keep her husband must play the farper.
TOO. My heart aches for the married
boys Of today. Bobby Burns wrote
Man was made to mourn" The
truth OF those lines are on the rising
man Of today. He has to fight alone
nine times out of ten.
What fapper wants to be a servant?
Where can you find one woman in
twenty who wants to do hOuseworli
sixteen hours a day? Well. all I have to
say, all fools are not dead yet, so I
happen to be one who works thirteen
hours, from 6 a. NJ. to =. NJ, be-
cause / am od-fashioned and I don't
know any other work.
SERVANT GIRL OF FORTY-FIVE.
Philadelphia, February 0. 1922.
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THE PEOPLES FORUM
Who Is to Blame: Mistress or Maid?
lmoertlnent Maids

To the Editor Of the Evening Psbito LEDGER:
Sir-I have been employing servant
girls for the last twenty years, and
there was a time. in my early etperi-
ence, that you could find the real true.
blre servants, who were willing to earn
their wages and knew their place and
would speak with respect to their nin-
rloyers.
How different It is today. The change
has probably been brought about BY the
war and the higher wages paid, but !
think the real reason for much Of the
do just as their mistress does and dress
equally well and engage in all sorts OF
social pleasures.
1t is impossible for many families to
get a decent @ o'clock dinner these days.
for tho girl will rush things just as
much as possible and make just az
little variety as possible, to conserve
with the dishes, in order that she will
get through In time to 80 to. the 80
on the table and rushes them off. eats
u bite herself in the kitchen and makes
the whole family uncomfortable at
their evening meal, the main meal Of
the day.
Besides, my maids insist on dressing
for the evening in the afternoon, in Or
der to lose no time, and I am afraid to
nsk them to do many things after they
have on their good clothes, for fear Of
having them soiled. and il do ask
them am given an awful frown IL
not some suggestion that do not know
how to treat servants.
1t is a most unfortunate situation in
the home when you feel that everything
you ask of your servant Is done with
a bad grace and is frowned upon, so
that instead Of having happy surround.
ings, most mistresses find themselves
miserable through the unpleasant atti-
tude taken by their servants. II make
up my mind ] am going to be mistress
in my own house. what is the result?
l am compelled to spend several un-
pleasant days visiting the employment
Offices to get new help, only to find
that they are of the same caliber. until
/ am a nervous wreck through the ex-
perience, and know Il Mt many other
Of your readers are laboring under the
same unpleasant conditions.
MRS. Z. E. Z.
Philadelphia. February 0, 1922.