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The New York herald., 1922-02-26

hot foreheads and the easement rat
tied on its hinges. This wind that
came from the wings OF night was
sharp with the fragrance Of heather
and the sea. One fancied how II
would surge through the dim aisies
OF cathedral-like forests, rufiling the
plumage of drowsy birds. stirring
the surface Of some dark pool where
the trout still slept and making sibi-
liant music among the dropping
reeds. The sky had now become
delicately luminous and a streak Of
saffron showed above the furthest
roofs; a flock of little clouds hud-
died together TT is here!'
chanted the Seraph. Every bit Of
everything is shinin' Oh. Angel and
John please look!'"
The book is written with great
charm and the childish adventures
have a highly becoming setting OF
sympathetic description. AS a first
book 1t Is more than a little encour-
aging. for the writer has caught the
spirit of childhood In her flowing
words.
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THE JOY OF LIVING. BY Sidney
Going. G.. p Putnam's Sons.

THE JOY OF LIVING. BY Sidney
Going. C. p. Putnam.s Sons.
" HERE Is no oversupply OF
genuinely amusing light flc-
tion. without any purpose"
or somber intent Hence so well
made bit of pure farce comedy as
this Is doubly welcome. especially In
our somewhat depressing times.
This story gallops merrily through a
cleverly arranged series OF absurd
but entirely plausible situations to
happy climax. There is a slight.
momentary DEPRESSION into melo.
drama In the intrusion Of a real
burglar among the masqueraders.
but Il hardly amounts to a false note
though Il Is a little out of the key
OF the rest But the author Is deftly
light-handsd 70 treating the main
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GUEST. THE ONE-EYED. By Gun
mar Gunnarsson. Alfred a Knopf
"HE melancholy Dane-in this
case an Icelandic variant of
htm-ls al best a dismal per-
son. All is for the wors, in the
worst possible world Let us. there
fore. get drunk and become an
erotomaniac as at least temporary
distraction or let us judlciously com
nit suicide and see what next But
Gunnarsson. although he has an
abundance OF the familiar Scandi-
navian g:oorn. Is not altogether pes
simistic and Ia far from hopeless
He does not accept either of the
above. widely current Morse solu-
lions OF ufe's puzzles. He has what
may be called a doctrine OF saliva
ton By works." OF sacrifice and ser
vice thai distinguish him from his
more thorough going contempora-
ries. He Is. too. moro OF a believer
in n sort OF a gospel OF beauty. OF a
possible harmony attainable some
how. somewhere. than any whols
hearted realist can be. These quail
ties. added to much dramatic power.
justify his distinction lie Is. in
dub.tably. an artist.
This. which is said to be his most
important work thus far-he is still
young man. having been born in
1SS9-is a spaciously planned. almost
monumental affair. Its American
title is taken from but one part OF
the whole and is thus a little mis-
leading. The original ran TO four
volumes. but IL does not appear that
the translation Is condensed. II is
built on q scheme comparable TO
Wasner's "Nibeiungen Ring" falling
naturally into 4 prelude and three
acts. each part with It's central fig
ure holding the hmelight for the
moment but making an integral por-
ton OF a larger whole with various
Ieit Baotire recurring In the sym
phony. The effect Is impressive, IL
little ponderous.
The narrative covers three gen
erstions, the earlier being kind OF
survival OF more primitive times.
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SNOwDRIFT. By James Il. Hen
dryx. C. P. Putnam's Sons

SNOwDRIFT. By James b. Hen
dryx. C. P. Putnam's Sons
"HE subtitle OF this newest addi.
tion to Mr.. Hendryx's already
imposing list Of tales OF the
frozen northland calls Il ''story OF
the land OF the strong cold" The
stage setting Is chilly enough
Alaska in the days OF the Klondike
rush-but the atmosphere OF the mar
rative itself Is sufficiently super
heated to equalize the temperature
for the reader. and IL ends. appro-
priately. with the burning OF a dive"
from which Snowdrift, the heroine,
has just been rescued by the regen-
Grated hero. Brent snatched Snow
drift In his arms and rushed down
the stairs. Pausing at the window
and knocking the remaining
glass from the sash. he grabbed one
Of the screaming girls and pitched
her into the big snowdrift
Brent realized there was no time to
lose. and. seizing another girl. he
pitched her out Then he took them
as they eame-bis ones and little
ones" &c.
The adventures that lead to this
pleasing climax are wei managed.
Brent Is fairly human specimen. a
little more than a mere movie hero.
Much OF the story deals with his
conquest OF himself and his appetite
for unstabilizing strong drink-and
other vices II Is a luridly colored
affair. but not without genuine dra-
matte quality. though It falls into
the category Of fiction demanded by
the ''burly and bec;Iebrowed" editors
OF Don MarQuiss poem. who bang
on the table with bones OF bulls" and
below for strong stuff"
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New Fiction in Varied Forms

With some suggestion of the heroic
past. Then there Is an interlude OF
one member who seeks worldly dis
traction in society and finds il un-
satisfactory. Following this comes
Guest, the One-Eyed. the exponent Of
repentance and regeneration through
sacrifice, leading to the newest gen.
Grafton in Orlygur the second. who
is youthfully hopeful and aspires TO
happiness in harmony" and love,
and who rides off with the beloved
Bagga beside him at the end Of the
book-"two gray figures in the mist
but there was sunshine in their
souls" II is a rather watery sun
shine, but II is something to find
even so much after the tragedies of
the book.
"a gray, duh day-not a glimpse
OF the sun since morning. A man
came bobbljng along the little used
path. n solitary figure under the
leaden sky. The clouds hung so low
that it seemed as il the heavens had
fallen and were supported only BY
the mountain peaks on the horizon.
a gray, dull day-and the mans
spirit was gray and dull within him.
All that the day had given him was
n fragment Of a song that had
sprung into his mind: he hummed u
half consciously as he went along:
No sun over the sand:
Waste. waste.
No eagle over land.
Dead. dead"
That is the dominant note OF the
whole saga.
Its most dramatic sections deal
with the seduction OF a foster sister
by one of two brothers. The guilty
man is also parson. There is a
scene curiously like that Of the
Scarlet Letter" where. after the
father of these brothers has been
accused OF running the girl. II is
finally disclosed that the preacher
himself Is guilty There follows his
remOrse and long attempt at atone
ment by good deeds. incidentally
his wife goes insane and is reun ted
TO him at his death when she also
dies. 1t is a grisly affair. There is
something Hawthornesque about a
good deal of il. but II is a Haw-
thorne Of a heavy hand
There is. too. a high. ranting note
in much of the pathos and senti-
Of the book a sentimen-
tality that is suggestive OF Dickens
II his worst with no possible hint of
Dickens at his sane best. Ii lies like
lead upon ones mental digestion
Like most Scandinavian literature.
1t is always intensely. acutely self
conscious. but there is the hopeful
thing about GunnaTsson's manifes-
tation of it that it appears to be a
self consciousness that is a little
ashamed Of itself and is genuinely
trying to get free and emerge into
wider. more breathable atmosphere.
The translator Is by W. w.
Worster and. so far as one can judge
without the original at hand for
comparison. IL Is well done Its Eng
lish is nervous. clear and effective
THE WITCH MAN BY Margaret
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THE WITCH MAN. BY Mrgare,
Belle Houston Small. Maynard &
Co.
"HE Tong arm of coincidence"
Is rather overworked in this
novel and the construction of
the plot is messy. almost amateur
ishly awkward In some respects. bu,
the book has redeeming features in
the old fashioned flavor of its ro-
nance. which is something OF an
anachronism In the current output
OF fiction but perhaps pleasanter
than the horrifically up to date
pseudo psychological product The
story Is very ladylike throughout
and eminently proper" in fact, at
all points. Even the wild mountain
girl who makes off with the hero
ines fiance is really perfect lady. +.
and il turns out that she and tho
young man have been quite lawfully
married all the time while they are
under suspicion. Similarly the mys-
tcr!ous hero. who turns up with a
baSfUl of opals and emerald jewelry
and a suit OF clothes too small for
him, to take up the life of hermit
in an abandoned shack in the b ue
Ridge Mountains. is actually quite
all right. He thinks he has killed a
man. but of course the victim event
ually turns up. sound and cheerful.
and all is well.
But. in spite of its crudity. there
IS some charm in the authors treat
mcnt Of the environment and in h r
conception Of the heroine, who en-
joys the extraordinary name OF
Kadis. There is novelty. too. In the
presentation OF a clan OF mounta n
GERS who are the Hneal. unmixed
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THE LADY or THE NORTH STAR.
By Ottweu Binns- Alfred A. Knopf
~ EYOTEES Of the tale OF stren-
IL uOus adventure with plenty
OF shooting. haIrbreadth es-
capeS Indians. vanishing corpses.
villains. much pursued lady and
tho other serviceable stage proper
ties OF that type OF melodramatlc fic-
ton win find this story complies
successfully with the standard speci-
fcationa- IL moves. Mr.. Binns Is a
clever mechanician in the manufac-
ture OF his plot. although il presents
no novelties OF invention. lie makes
a frank use OF most of the Well
tested tricks; the heiresz with an
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A LTHOUGH overburdened with
~ commonplace slang and
stilted dialogue. the second in
Mr.. Fox's series of mystery stories
holds the interest Phineas Sneed,
elderly. immaculate as TO dress ana
explosive as TO temper. has remod-
eled the entire top floor OF the old
fashioned Burlingame Hotel on Fifth
avenue and lives there shut off from
the rest OF the world. He receives
a letter which reads: "The dead
sometimes return. You thought you
had beaten me when you robbed me
of my greatest treasure and had me
sent to a living death. but l have
come back. For every hour spent in
that hell you shall suffer. IL harm
has come to that which you stole
from me you shall pay. Old man.
take warning. for ! shall come 20
claim my own" Sneed enlists the
services Of The Shadowers. Inc.
firm OF private detectives made up or
six reformed criminals, They never
seek the aid of the police and do
their utmost TO keep their activities
out OF the newspapers-facts which
appeal greatly to Sneed- The old
man has peculiarly constructed
safe In his apartment. An attempt
has been made to open 1t during one
OF his rare absences. and that adds
to Sneeds uneasiness The Shadow
ers are confronted with a pretty
problem and they begin their efforts
at solving II by seeking to investi-
gate the man who has employed
them.
The Shadowers have Ethel Jepson.
a former shoplifter. In their employ
as a stenographer. The girl becomes
suspicious of a man who looks like
a Western cowboy" in the office
across the hall The Shadowers are
being shadowed themselves. AL
though they unearth a mass OF sus-
picious but seemingly unrelated facts
they have made little real progress in
the affair when Sneed appears at
their office. breathless and In great
distress. His daughter Eva. who Is
insane and whom he has kept In Sc
clusion In the apartment for the last
five years. has mysteriously made
her escape Sneed explains that her
malady Is due to an unfortunate love
affair-a match which he himself
broke up because the man was an
adventurer who sought the girl be-
cause she was heir to his fortune.
How Eva managed to secret herself.
who she really was and why the
letter which caused the Shadowers
to be called in was written to Sreed.
are matters best left to the reader of
the book.
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Ethel. OPENS THE DOOR. By
David Fox. Robert NJ Mcbride q
Co.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

OF. SJSANNA. BY Meade Mimi
gerOde. G. p. Putnam's Sons
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-12-29
MUST CHECK the AUroMoBn.Es

HIS country 10 making great fight against
tuberculosis and other dread diseases. There
is continual reminder Of the rayages Of the great
white plague and its twin brother pneumonia, but
right now the United States faces worse menace
than either, In the constantly. increasing number
Of violent deaths and fatal injuries from automo-
biles.
OF all mechanical inventions there has never
been the equal Of the.automobile in Its murderous
destrucayeness. Chicago has Just cast up her
accounts for the year along this line and faces
total Of 641 persons killed outright by automobiles
in 1892. This does not take into account the
crippes made, and the obscure injuries that later
resulted in death,
This is Just one eity's record. Other cities will
surpass this terrible list, and will not include the
number Of persons killed along the highways.
Something drastic will have to be done for the
protection of the people and action cannot be
delayed.
Here in Fairmont there Is difficult traffic
problem. Fairmont has had too many automo.
bile victims. People have been killed. and In.
jured when rigid enforcement of rules and
regulations might have saved them-but how are
these rules and regulations going to be entorced2
Shall the city set special police to tag around
after each driver? Obviously this cannot be done.
Neither can the public be put upon It's honor in
the matter. The public motto in regard to auto
moblling Is Take a chance!"
One thing. that could turn the trick would be
to render the! automobile comparatively harmless
in the making. II no automobile were manutac-
tured to run more than twenty or twenty-five
miles an hour, It would help some. That how
ever, is something that would require federal
supervision. The next best thing is utmost sever
fly With offenders against traffic laws. little
fine is a thing the public sneers at and forgets
about, Astiff fine and ajail sentence, for proven
recklessness, with states prison for that driver
who kills pedestrian would help whole whole
lot. Persons have been run down and killed In
Marion; County. but the drivers involved have
never been sent up for the tragedy. The natural
suffering on the part of the driver in such an
event has been deemed sufficient punishment.
Too much leniency, Is one reason the death lists
of the victims mount and mount.
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FRIDAY EVENING, DE6EMBEK 20, 1879:
AscAsE FOR SYMPATHY, NOT CONFORMATION

HE University Of West Virginia has suffered
] sad loss in the destruction of almost half OF
its valuable dairy herd because OF tubercular in
lection out Of herd Of fifty.eight CATTLE twenty
seven fine cows and valuable bull had to be
sxterminated,
tits stated by the professor of veterinary
science the University that the herd is inspected
aud examined every six months and that tubercu-
losis has developed since the last examination. 1t
Is ayowed that no possible danger could be in
CURED by those who have been using the milk,
since the disease had been so quickly discovered
and had made SO slight an advance.
The public cannot doubt this statement. Since
tie herd ismaintaned at the University for expert
mental purposes IL is closely watched and tended,
receiving the most expert attention. II tubercu-
losis had been present in anything approaching an
advanced stage 1t would have been noted and
prompt action taken, just as occurred when tho
first ntimatton of the presence of the disease was
ascertained 1t is unjust folly to accuse gross
neglect in such case as this II there is any
department of which West Virginia University is
proud, and which Ifs conducted with every cars it
the dairy work and cattle raising Of the expert
ment station.
The University has public sympathy in It's loss
Of such valuable stock, and 1t certainly retains
public faith which will be quick to deny any
ilgence on tie part of those in charge of the
herd or any wilful act that could endanger the
health Of those who purchased milk from the
station.
The thing to do now is to find out what condl-
tons prevail in those places from which these
COWS were purchased. Greater care will no doubt
be exercised in the purchase of other cows. and
assurance made doubly sure that no possible ex-
posure to tuberculosis has been suffered by the
new animals which will be bought for the expert
mehti station.
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CHRISTMAS SERVICE HELD
BY FARM WoMAN'S CLUB

A Christmas entertainment fol-
lowed by, an individual com.
munion service was held at
Mount Pisgah Christmas aIght
under the direction of the Pleas
ant Valley Farm Woman's Cub
A Christmas tree added interested
to the affair, and all children pre-
sent were given candy aad
presents.
The following program was
given: Song by choir; prayer, led
by the Reverend Mr.. Valentine;
song by choir Christmas chimes;
reading by Ruth Jacobs; recita-
ton by Maxine Steele; vocal solo
by Mrs. W. R. Frum; recitation by
Leo Valentine; song by choir;
Have You Sought HIM." song,
by assembly; musical reading By
Mrs. Price,. recitation by Gene
Frum; song, "oh Morning STAR
by assembly; distribution Of pre-.
sents by Santa Claus; "Holy
Might" song, by assembly; bene.
diction.
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NOT READY For ASSISTANCE

b those nations whose economic lives are at
j stake are unable to agree over their procedure
in handling the German reparations problem, how
can the United States hope 10 rescue the sltua-
ton? There can be only one way in which this
country can help, and that 10 that 1t be permitted
q free hand in Its deliberations and conclusions,
and that the countries now at loggerheads will
accept; and abide by the suggestion laid down over
here
France is determined to crush Germany-to
squeeze from that land every drop OF sustanance.
Her latest move is to demand the German state
forests as debt pledge, and II there is any other
German asset, toward which France has not
stretched her hands, 1t is because she does not
3nUN apunn II u hss nUt sesUSnlHeG IT'S talue.
While England is practically standing alone in
her present demand for reason, she together with
economic aims. These countries have staged
her allies has been selfish, both in political and
since the war one of the most deplorable wran-
giles the world ever witnessed, and the situation
tsssrowing more hopeless every minute
Even yet the time has not rpened for America
to help out. at the first intimation OF an Amerl-
can loan to Germany based upon an investigation
conducted solely by an American commission,
France was Immediately up in the air. She saw
In the movement check upon the plans which
she purposes to put into action; she was quick
In her resentment. France is unable TO see, or
does not desire to see, that the United States
would work out to the best of Its ability the COM
nercial and financial problems Of the European
tangle upon the broad lines of the best for all
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Bezton Braley,s Poem
TRIBUTE
BY BEItToN BRALEY

(Dr. Royal NJ. Whitenack OF
Newark, N. j., died recently OF
meningitis, contracted In his prac-
tice among children. His last
words were, How are my littla
babies getting on?rD
Read this you realists, who say
that man
as selfish. cruel, wallowing IN
greed;
Read Of this doctor-try then 81
you can
To hold your faith In your re.
morseless creed
OF human soullessnesA
In face ofdeath
Waking moment ere his wife
was gone,
he whispered softly with his dying
breath, tt
How are my little babies get
ting on?"' ''
I say the sayior's spirit is no,
dead,
When one who made the child.
rem, all his care
Asks. at the end, before his sou,
has fled
Only to know how well the .h!l.
dren fare!
Who dares to sneer that man is
but clod,
When there are words like this
to think upon
Words worthy Of the gentle Son
Of God
How are my little babies get
ting ONT"
Brave Man, True Lover, seryan,
Of Mankind;
Living, the Little Ones whom
Christ has blessed,
He toiled to aid. Dying, they filled
his mind,
His final thought before his
quiet rest. :
His was the faith of man, unset
fish, vast,
Through which, on earth, heav.
en- shall surely dawn;
This Newark doctor, asking at the
last.
--Sw ale my 4lHle pao,es get.
ting onT
Copyright, 1922, i
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EAST SIDE
=:fIEWs:-

Mission Circle
The Woman's Missionary. Circle
Of the Baptist Temple met Thurs
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs
j. D. Summers in Diamond
street. The meeting Was well at
tended although the weather was
very inelemsnt. Tho subject fol
study was: 'fTho Negro In Amer
tca." Following the program II
social hour was spent and refresh.
ments served by the hostesses,
Mrs. Summers and Mrs. Flor
Brown.
Next months meeting wifi be
held at the home OF Mrs. Ida
Sharp IN Market street with Mrs.
Sharp and Mrs. Lulu Clark as
hostesses. The program will be IN
charge OF Miss Ann Richards and
Mrs. Allie NuEum.
To Meet Next Thursday
The Woman's Christian Mission.
AIRY Society will have its regular
business and social meeting next
Thursday afternoon at the Central
Christian Church. A splendid pro.
gram is being arranged for the
meeting by Mrs. Dale BrownfielG
The subject for study Is "oui
Island Missions" Mrs. ]. B.
Hicks Is chairman Of the hostess
committee. There will be special
music under the direction OF Mrs.
r. e. Ash.
To Celebrate Anniversary Tonlah.
Waneta Council No, 8 Degree o
Pocahontas. will celebrate It's
twenty first anniversary at their
hall in Merchant street this even
ing. There will he several initia.
tions. followed by q social hour
aud serving OF refreshments.
Glass Meeting
Glass No. 9 OF the Centrnl
Christian Sunday School will meet
on Tuesday evening at the hoira
OF Mrs. S. l.. Jacobs in Guilty
street. A good program is being
prepared for the meeting, AMI
there are several important busl.
ness matters to be decided at this
meeting. Miss Gertrude Morgan
is the class president. and Miss
Virginia Hartley, secretary. Mem
hers OF the class residing on thu
west side OF the river are being re-
Quested to take the 1855 East
Park car to Moreantown avenue.
Son Born
A son was born Wednesday 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles q. whita
OF Market street. Mrs. Whits
was Miss Laura Jones before her
marriage.
Mrs. Jack Hall is HI at the
home of her daughter ,Mts. CUNT.
ston in Fast Park avenue.
Mrs. NJ. E. Nuzum and daugh'
ter Lucille went to Wheeling u
attend the ball given by the D
& o. Veterans Association.
Luther Steele Of Davis Ridge
! has been indisposed the past few
days.
street Is Ill with tonsilitis.
Mrs. Frank Malone OF Potomac
avenue. who has been quite III is
improving.
Mrs. Ernest Steele a. child.
rem OF Corapolis, Pa, who, spent
several days with j. H. stels,
and family IN Potomac avenue,
have returned to Little Falls.
Misses Marguerite and Madeline
Tichnell OF Hoult were guests o.
their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Tichnell, In Tygart
street this week.
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HooDsVILLE

]. C. Michael was a visitor In
High Lawns Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Cross and
children, Dennis and Avis Marie OF
Grant Town, spent Christmas with
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. D. Barbe of this place. II
Harry Martin visited friends in
Fairview Sunday evening.
Miss Eva Morris was a Sunday
guest at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Toothman.
Lewis Toothman OF Chunks Run
was a visitor in Baxter Sunday.
Mrs. ]. c. Michael and daugh.
ter Martha spent Christmas at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Michael
OF High Lawns.
Walter Moore of Chunks Run
spent Sunday. afternoon with
tr1esRsU al -ssiiSSSSzdySville.
Ray Michael Of Ministers Run