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The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Frederic Harrison at Ninety

effusion tHardy's Collected Poems"l
Nature is graveyard; man IS
hopeless mystery; love works out
tragedies. death ends ALL Mr.. Har-
rison, like most of US, adm;res Mr..
Hardy. but he evidently does not
believe in being too morose in ones
early years.
Mr.. Harrison comments bitterly on
the Versailles treaty: "The thing
was a case of cephafitis turgida-
swelled head. Wilson caught the
disease from Wilhelm: and he i'm
proved on it, with the American way
of going ten times better than any
one else. He infected France. AMI
then the British good sense sue
cumbed. And in the hullabaloo of
the peace celebrations real facts and
imminent dangers were hidden away
and overlooked. We were hood
winked. i know that i was"
Sometimes Mr.. Harrison is aston
ished, if not alarmed, by the sud
denness with which rooted ideas are
abandoned" He sees the picture
changing rapidly: Women have
votes and even exceed the male
votes. Home rule is carried by
Unionist majorities against the Lib
erals. Labor becomes the New Rich.
Bishops and deans invite Noncon-
formists to their cathedrals. The
House of Lords leads the way in
divorce. Socialism is advocated in
academies. literary and aristocratic
quaitas. And the biggest republic
on earth goes dry and retires from
the world" The essays were written
in 1920 on topics then current, but
they remain true and bold to-day.
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

cerned just now with his poetry
particularly We cannot say he is
this kind of poet or another. He
is quicksilver. He is the modernist
on this page. and. behold, here he is
writing Sapphics. Here is a poem an
Englishman might have written un-
der the walls of Oxford, and then: !:
kiss her, you crook: it is your life
work: Sweat" The amazing part
of it is that none of these moods
is forced.
And here we haven't even men
toned the book which prompted all
this. 1t is Poems and Portraits
Doubleday Page). We suppose
there is one thing that does bind
these poems together. and that is
their irony. Most OF them possess
it. and they have the accompani-
ment of irony. which is strength.
There is little here that is merely
pretty. There is much that is
searchingly beautiful. much that is
acrid and keen, much that genu-
inely scars and sings.
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
The Whispering Gallery
Poetry, &c.

+ + it were not for Archy and
L Hermione. the Old Soak and
Capt. Fitzurse we suppose more
would be heard of Don Marquis the
poet. Apparently, if man writes
other things besides poetry it is
those other things oy which he is
judged; the poetry we regard some
what as an indulgence he permits
himself and which we accept ac-
cordinsiy. Ono hears little of Ches-
terton the poet, and yet We have a
notion that some of his ballads Will
be read when the contentious ef-
fervescence of his prose is forgotten.
But there is no use trying 70 pin
Don Marquis down as prose sati--
list. poet or teller OF tales. He
simply will not stay put. We cannot
say which IS the most real. the most
enduring part of him. Being con-
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Western Stuff.

LIE takes the hoardings of years
IL at A. G. Gashwiler's emporium
and goes confidently to the coast
And there the Fates stick out their
tongues at Merton. The director of
the Buckeye comedies. low stuff
which is abhorrent to Merton's ear
nest soul, uses him in a series of
burlesques in which Merton plays
the strong, silent man of the open
and some other stereotypes.
Merton doesn't realize for a mo-
ment that he is funny when he puts
his arm around Pinto's neck, and
says brokenly, "Good-by. old pal:
they're takin' ye frum me-" 1t doesn't
occur to Merton that Pinto's neck
is extraordinarily scrawny-that he
is. on the whole. sad looking horse.
Go to it, cowboy; take all the
footage you want" called Baird in
curiously choked voice.
The actor took some more foot
age. But we got to keep stiff
upper lip. old pal, you and me both.
No cryin'. no Dustin down. We had
our last gallop together, an we're
at the forkin' of the trail. So we
got to be brave-we got to stand the
gaff."
Once In his story Mr.. Wilson
placed heavy strain on our credul-
ity. Merton is burlesquing the
simple country boy-in other words,
he is just being himself. His hard
working old mother is keeping the
farm together by making a sort of
improved grape juice. Merton no.
tices that one of the pots in mothers
kitchen has tightly closed top with
coil Of copper tubing. and that
close ups are made of this device.
Merton takes that seriously, too.
But If we are not careful wen be
taking Mr.. wilson's book seriously.
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
In Which We Come to Think Better of the
Late Gar Nicholas, and Meet Merton of
the Movies, Out Where Men Are Men.
BY DONALD ADAMS.

The efforts made to keep knowledge
of it from the Russian peasantry.
Thirteen Years at the Russian
Court" is in our opinion an unfor-
tunate title. 1t leads one to expect
the conventional memoir. which NJ.
Gilliard's book is very far from be-
ing. There is little about court life
and diplomatic circles in Thirteen
Years at the Russian Court We
see the Gar and Czarina with the
bars of etiquette let down. The book
left US feeling what pleasure II
would be for rs personally to choke
Yourofsky, the Jewish commissar. 10
death.
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
H. Leon Wilson.

LIVER since Harry Leon Wilson
IL wrote "Ruggles of Red Cap
we have been hoping that he would
some day write another book that
would paralyze US with laughter as
that one did. The fact that we first
read "Ruggles" under circumstances
which made us easy prey for humor
does not alter our present estima-
ton of it's worth. 1t came into our
hands while we were digging
ditches-we dislike to call them
trenches because we never carried
our excavations into France-at the
Plattsburg training camp. For two
or three successive Sundays we car
ried "Ruggles' out to the pine grove
just beyond the barracks and read
it there with two of our friends. We
clawed up the ground over that
book.
Mr.. Wilson has not achieved such
heights of drollery since. There has
been humor in everything he has
written, but of late he has been
spreading it thin. Merton of the
Movies" which Doubleday Page has
just published, although it has only
three hundred odd pages, is much
too long, the obvious explanation of
that being that it was first pub
lished in the Saturday Ereniag Post
There is nevertheless. no little
fun to be had skipping through
Merton of the Movies" Nowhere
have we found the bunkum of the
films better travestied.
Merton Gill is tank town store
clerk who dreams of himself as Cliff
ford Armytage. He will be film
star who will do "the better sort of
things, the things that are worth
while" No slapstick for Merton
Rather will he emulate Buck Ben
son. portrayer of those strong, silent
souls out in the open spaces, out
in Gods great out-of- DOORS" where
men are men. Mertons ambition to
do Western stuff suffers no inhibition
from the fact that a dappled pony
on a merry-go-round would tax the
limit of his equestrian ability.
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

AvA
the great war, it is hard
for the reader to face with
equanimity the hideous tales ol
wholesale death and destruction sci
down by Capt. McCullagh in the
matter of fact account of expert
ences in Siberia and Russia between
November, 1919, and April, 1920, in
four of which months he was a pris-
oner of the Soviet Government. Al
though he is bitter opponent of the
Bolsheviks and what they stand for,
Capt. McCullagh is very fair in all
his statements as to what he saw in
Siberia and Russia for this reason
II really hate Bolshevism.
but / also hate propaganda in so far
as that word means the selection OF
all the facts supporting certain
theory. and the deliberate suppress
sion of all the facts which tell
against that theory, or rice rersd
Even during the great war propa-
ganda did more harm than good to
every nation which made use Of it
Laughed at by the soldiers, dis
trusted by the general public, re-
garded with unspeakable contempt
by independent journalists, it was
too often used merely for the pur-
pose of screening Governments which
had miscalculated and generals who
had blundered. The only good prop
aganda is propaganda of the truth
His narrative begins with a de-
scription of the attempted escape OF
the members of the british Military
Mission, to which he was attached as
Intelligence Officer from Omsk in
November, 1919, by train over the
Trans-Siberian Railway. In addition
to the extraordinary discomforts oil
such travel in such country, rent
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

|ANE Of the most absorbing stories
~ We have read is Pierre Gilliard $
account Of the las ars and the
death of Gar las and his
family. 1t is published by Doran
under the title of Thirteen Years at
tie Russian Court" We doubt if
there is to be encount cred anywhere
a more intimate or a more humanity
interesting narrative dealing with
the life of kings and greens IL there
is we have not read il.
M. Gilliards book deserves TO be
read widely. not only for it's human
interest but because it re- a historical
document of great value. one TO
which all historians OF Europe in the
twentieth century viii turn with
profit.
In his capacity Of tutor TO the
daughters Of the Gar and later to
the young Czarevitch NJ Gilliard
came into relations of exceptional
intimacy with the royal family. par
ticularIy in the tense hours leading
up to and following the Cars alb
dication. The conversations he had
with Nicholas and the Czarina pre-
sent their characters in a very diff
ferent light from that in which they
were made to appear through The
efforts of German propaganda.
There is no reason to suspect NJ.
Gilliard of special pleading. He is a
Frenchman of Swiss birth, not a
Russian. The Car and his family
are dead, the victims of one of the
foulest crimes in history. What he
writes about them serves only their
memory.
I'm this book" writes NJ. Gilliard
in his Introduction, Il have en-
deavored to bring Nicholas II. and
his family back to life. My aim is
to be absolutely impartial and to
preserve complete independence OF
mind in describing the events OF
which / have been an eye witness
1t may be that in my search for
truth have presented their politi-
cal enemies with new weapons
against them, but / greatly hope
that this book win reveal them as
they really were. for it was not the
glamour of their imperial dignity
which drew me to them. but their
nobility of mind and the wonderful
moral grandeur they displayed
through all their sufferings."
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Nicholas Romanof.

THE world knew little about
L Nicholas Romanoff beyond the
fact that he was weak" monarch,
and cared less. M. GiIliard does not
try to create fictitious strength for
the Cars character. but he does
make US believe that he took the
loss of his crown like a sportsman,
that he thought if he yielded to pres
sure and abdicated Russia might
then stand together and fight on
with the Allies. He wrote a proc
lamation to the soldiers after he
gave up the crown. which was never
read to them, begging that they
stand by the Provisional Government
and prevent Germany's triumph.
1t is interesting to find him ad-
miring Poincare because there is
nothing OF the diplomatist about
him. II only we could do without
diplomacy humanity would make i'm
mense strides
The Czarina, educated in England
and the favorite granddaughter of
Queen Victoria, has been persistently
pictured as pro-German. At the be-
ginning of the war she said to NJ.
GiIliard: What will become of Ger
many? What humiliation: what a
downfall is in store for her. And
all for the sins of the Hohenzollerns
their idiotic pride and Unsuitable
ambition. Whatever has happened
TO the Germany Of my childhood?
1 have such happy and poetic
memories Of my early years in
Darmstadt and the good friends /
had there. But on my later visits
Germany seemed to me changed
country-a country did not know
and had never known. L had no
community of thought or feeling
with any one except the old friends
of days gone by. Prussia has meant
Germany's ruin"
The story OF how a Jewish COM
missar Of the Soviet regime, aided by
a crew of convicts and several Aus
tro-German prisoners. shot and bay
oneted the royal family to death at
Ekaterinburg and then burned the
!, bodies has already received wide
publicity. In his book N. GiIlkrd
tells how the evidense OF the crime
was collected. and hox careful we're
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
NOvISSIA1A vERBA. By Frede
Harrison. Henry Holt 1 Co.

Harrison. Henry Holt & Co.
ITY HEN the essays which COM
wv prise "Novissima yerba'
were written Frederic
Harrison was on the eve of ninety
years. We shall not say that the
articles have the virile spirit of the
youngsters of Greenwich Village, for
that were unfair to Mr.. Harrison
They are brisker and snappier than
the writings of the young Rebels of
the Brevoort basement. Here is a
man who was born before either THE
NEW YORK HERALD or THE SUN was
founded, yet he is a veritable ma
chine gun. Like Bryce, he has
watched more than two generations
of political change; when he was az
school the only republic in Europe
was the Swiss. Now there are a
dozen. The only thrones left are in
England, Italy and Spain. Himself
a loyal monarchist, Mr.. Harrison re-
marks that NO one can count on
there being any kings left at the end
of the century. When you have
once accepted unlimited democracy
the inevitable step is the republic"
Nothing is SO edifying as to see a
lad of ninety scolding a child OF
eighty-two. This is Mr.. Harrison
chiding Mr.. Thomas Hardy for his
gloom They are friends, but Fred
eric thinks that Thomas, particu-
larly in his verse. is slapping it on
too black. I'm this mass of lyrical
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

by civil war, they had to help keep
the engine watered and fueled. and
this in winter time. with everything
frozen up and only wood to feed the
furnace. One reads Of a train being
blown up accidentally with the loss
of 5000 lives. of hospital train
catching fire and the patients burned
alive, of the bodies of dead soldiers
stripped Of their clothes and piled M
like SO much cordwood alongside
roads or near villages. And every
where lack of sufficient food. cloth
ing and fuel for the people of this
stricken country.
The most striking chapters Of the
book are those describing the killing
of the Car and his family, a narra-
tive culled from the testimony of
witnesses and from a personal visit
to the town in which the assassina-
tons took place. Capt. McCul,agh
attempted to interview Yurovsky,
the Czaricide, but he was so over
come by the horrors of the associa-
tion of the man and his deed that he
could not bring himself to ask Yu-
rovsky single question about that
event. Capt. McCullagh does not
believe the Bolshevik Government
was responsible for the deed and
says SO.
He gives vivid pictures of life in
Moscow and of it's chief political
characters and of his eventual re-
lease after refusing position as a
Journalist by the Bolsheviks. The
writer took all his experiences in a
philosophical spirit and obviously
lessened their hardships by adopting
that attitude. For those with an
Unsuitable appetite for news of Rus
sian affairs under the present regime.
this volume win afford much, if
somewhat strong, meat.
"The Outline of Science" by
Prof. ]. Arthur Thomson, the Brit
ish scientist and author, is being
published in four volumes, the first
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Captain McCullagh's Story

A PRISONER OF THE REDS: THE
STORY OF A BRITISH OFFICER
CAPTURED IN SIBERIA. BY
Francis McCullagh. r. p. Dutton
& Co.
M UGH as the world grew ac-
V customed to horrors during
the great war, it is hard
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

"The Outline of Science" by
Prof. ]. Arthur Thomson, the Brit
ish scientist and author, is being
published in four volumes, the first
Fof which will appear early in April.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
GIVING HER HER DUE

was young and nervous the first
Sunday | played the organ for the
morning service in church. The or
ganlst faced the congregation, and
IL was the custom for her to leave
!Ae organ and take a seat in the
front pew as the minister gave out
The text for his sermon.
Ims morning I had acquitted
myself not too badly, | thought, and
mad just left my place at the organ
ana was walking to the front pew
Wnen the minister announced his
text In clear and impressive tone
OF voice: "She hath done what she
eould."-Exchange.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
TIE OF BROTHERHOOD STRONG
When Occasion Arises, the Human
Heart Is Found Ready to Respond
to Call of Distress.

In the wooded region Of northern
| Minnesota, news reports say, a man.
hunt that even includes the use of
airplanes has been in progress for
| two weeks. This particular man is
neither a fugitive nor a yagabond,
but an honest citizen who penetrated
these wilds in the pursuit of his
legitimate business and was over
taken by one Of those overwhelming
snOwstorms that only Mortimer
can appreciate for its horrors. A
man lost in the woods! For miles
around the news was quickly passed
and from all points men dropped
their work to help find the unfortu-
nate human being and attempt his
rescue. Perhaps he is dead by this
time; and yet his wouldbe rescuers
have not taken thought for this al
most certain eventuality but are
pressing in their work.
A tale like this is news, hundreds
Of miles away, because a human life
is in danger. In the hurry Of COM
pick city affairs often there are
seeming evidences that human life
$ held rather cheaply, and one be-
'Omes almost skeptical as to the
alue placed on it. But an Incl
lent such as this which has been re-
Orted to us from the northern
'oods restores ones confidence. 1t
lOws how the great human heart |
Ill respond, particularly on the
utter fringes of civilization, when a
FOther man is in trouble. Chicago
Vening Post.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13

Example of What Can Be Done With
Small Sum Allowed to Accumulate
for Centuries.

Compound interest is a wonderful
device and the New Jerseyite who
planned to use it in order to make
his bequest increase and multiply
may have been of sound mind. AS
Stunning that $1,000 which he left
will be allowed to grow from the adj
dltlon Of interest at per cent com
pounded annually, the principal will
become 100000 in perhaps CEN
tury. But why did this shrewd
benefactor limit the growth of his
bequest to that which will occur in
100 years? If he had provided that
his trustees should continue to ac-
cumulate interest at the assumed
rate for 300 years, the available to-
tai would be rather more than $780,
000,000,000; and if he had instruct
ed that the bequest lie fallow for
four centuries, his trustees would
find themselves the owners of the
whole world at the end of that
period. After carrying the inyesti-
cation to this point, it begins to ap-
pear that there is limit to the good
which post-mortem thrift can eff
fect--Baltimore Sun.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
GREAT PUBLICITY WORK

Well, | guess I'll get a story in
your paper nowp' exclaimed the
press agent, jubilantly.
What's it about ?" asked the sus-
plclous city editor.
Our tattooed man has eloped
with our bearded lady"
"0ld stuff"
But she happens to be the wife
VI our wild man. He started after
Tue couple with his makeup on and
caused the incest little reign of ter
iOr you ever saw Birmingham
Age-Herald.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
A RECENT EPISODE

81 notice a member of the Ameri-
can delegation at the arms confer
ence quoted poetry in referring to
zap"
CHATS a good idea" said Mr..
Grumpson. at is much better to
quote poetry on delicate information
al relations than to use original
prose. It's less apt to cause an I'M
happy president to make explana-
tions that don't explain. "-Birmisg g.
ham Age-Herald.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
THE BARE IDEAL

Mrs. Mumps My husbands bru-
tality is so insidious. He keeps tell
ing me how nicely Mrs. Crump
dresses, and you know she doesn't
spend 500 a year on her clothes.
Mrs. Chumps-And I suppose he
expects you to spend no more?
"That's it; but l told him I'd
economic by taking six inches off
my skirt, and the bare idea made
him give me $780, Stray Stories.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT

:. Smith, lover of music, took his
Trend We're de We're to pianoforte
smith was enraptured. He turned
% his friend, who held the program,
a. asked, with feeling, '1What is
:; suat magnificent thing he is play
Can't you see?" replied We're de
yer. we're. Hes playing a piano"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE

"You never change your mind
after you have expressed yourself
on public question %
sWhat's the use?' rejoined Sen
ator Sorghum. "Public opinion is
always shifting, and after you have
deliberately explained your change
of mind sentiment is liable to swing
around to the position you have just
abandoned"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
One Dollar Saved Represents
Ten Dollars Earned.

The average man does not save
to exceed ten per cent of his earn
ings. He must spend nine dol
lars in living expenses for every
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13

HIRAM LODGE NO. SO, A. F. &
A. M, of Nezperce, Idaho. Reg
ular Communication on the
Monday evening on or before
the full moon of each month in
the Fraternalabuilding. Visit
ing brothers are cordially invit-
ed to attend.
E. L. Schnell, W. M.
R. FL. Y. Moser. Sec'y. M
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
''ss.c IDEA or SITUATION
aorah sees Similarity Be-
Bsn''a mistaken Farmwife and
WV sstaIn Type of Statesman.

,.,or Borah said in an after.
Ea s's'I speech in Boise
'a a1here are some men who pre-
- advocate universal peace
~ i the same time they work
' for the great armament
' ~rhsse men remind me Of a GER
,ip fisherman.
q 4, fisherman was returning home
,,Iy-banded across farmers field
f "fe evening at dusk when he saw
/ sook Of fat white geese in front
h him. He put a worm on his hook
ia trsiled it back and forth among
|hem Soon large goose swallowed
\ sud got impaled on the hook.
aThe fisherman, having hooked
bis bird, started 10 run. Inc help-
IS goose, tapping its wings and
vuaTking, was drawn at great
aee after him. He ran faster. The
n0se followed faster. 1t looked as
he was being sayagely pursued.
4Then all of a sudden the farm
s wife hurried out Of the spring
use.
@Don't be afraid, FRIEND she
lied in a soothing voice. There's
dangers Geese often chase people
E that, but they never bite.
troit Free Press.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13
Machinery Parts Less Than Cost.

All Deering and Mccormick extras
for less than cost: sections, cogs, bear
ings, guards, ledger plates, wood roll
lers, canvases and bevel gears. Tar
for roofs and posts; hog-dip, spray for
chicken houses; harrow teeth, teeth
clamps, Superior drill extras, etc.
Huff & Peterson. 2tf
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13

dollar saved. That being the
case he can not be too careful
about unnecessary expenses.
Very often few cents properly
invested like buying seeds for
his garden, will save several dol
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-07-13

lars outlay later on. 1t is The
same in buying Chamberlain s
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t
costs but a few cents, and a bot
tie of it in the house often saves
a DOCTORS bill of several dollars.