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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
COUNTY AND
NEARBY NOTES

Alfred Stone, Northwestern bag
gageman, died Saturday at Verona
while on duty. The body was taken to
Madison for burial
Mrs. j. x. Van Matre Miss Belle
Scott and Mrs. Frank West, Darling
ton women, inspecting flowers on d
porch at the Van Matre home, were
injured when the porch gave way ami
they were thrown five feet to the
ground Miss Scott suffered frac-
tured leg bone. The other women
were badly bruised.
Miss Yuma Costing, for many years
Clerk for her father, who was clerk
dlGate for the office. She has strong
backing.
John Grooming, SO, Mugcoda travel
ing man and son-in-IaW OF NJ James
Hayden, who was taken to a hospital
in Madison to be treated for sleepins
sickness died there Sunday afternoon
from its effects. He woke up at in
tervals, and realized fully the serious
nature of his illness.
The Louis Winrich family of Pleas
ant Branch, near Madison, were
awakened at 3:15 Saturday morning
with their home i'll flames. Mrs. Win
rich was away on visit. The father
saved the five children but all his be-
lOngings burned.
Frank He'll, former sheriff of this
county, now U. S. Marshall, went to
TT. Leave1WoltE last week as Gus
todian Of WOO Ong, Superior Chinese,
who was convicted for IS months for
selling opium Girls and womer
were habitutts OF the joint.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
FLORA.

Quite number from here attended
the school contest at Beetown last
Friday.
Homer and Beryl Irish are working
on the Hackett road.
Grant Atkinson was quite i'll last
week.
Lancaster visitors last week were
Ed Bishell and wife, Miss Mason,
Essie Garthwaite, Albert Zeigler, ].
c. Edginton and Beryl Irish
Marguerite Mason spent the week
end with her parents. Helen Garth
waite accompanied her.
Harley Pohle, Lester Snyder, VIII
Garthwaite, and ern Edwards and
families spent Sunday at Ervie Ed
wards
Herbert Schwantes and wife were
at Fletcher Miles Sunday.
Albert Zeigler and Beryl Irish took
a trip to Glen Park Sunday
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
WIND MOVES SILO,
THEN PUTS 1T BACK

JANESVILLE.- The wind blew the
err about three feet off it's foundation
who has made a success of farming
iously on the insecure base. Wieland
woh has made success of farming
though he has no legs, was wonder
ing whether he should push the silo
over or try to skid it back. Then
Tuesday came another high wind "a
gale swept over the town of Newark
and silo swung half about and went
squarely on it's own platform.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
DROWNED LADS CHUM
STRUCK BY AUTO; DIES

JANESVILLE.-Tw hours
after his chum had been drowned IN
Rock river, Eugene Kuster, 8, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Kuster, was
fatally injured Thursday when he was
struck by an automobile. He died six
aours later. Young Kuster was re-
turning home from the river, where
he had been with searchers attempt
ing to recover the body of Warren
Cutris.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03

ington Saturday, also Jimmie Garta-
waite and wife, Elmer Caller and wife,
Miss Ruth, and Earl Jeidy.
Casey hay business at Pra. du
Chen Sunday.
Mrs. Tanners mother, Mrs. Staiey,
has been helping 90 house cleaning
last week.
Quite a number from the Ridge
took in The dance at Bloomington on
Friday evening.
Lizzie fell out with aunt Kate and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
CLIMBS ON BRIDGE RAIL;
CHILD BROWNS IN RIVER

EAU CLAIRE Annabel, 3-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Phil
lips, was drowned in the Chippewa
river here Saturday, when she fell
through the railing of the Madison
street bridge while trying to cllmo
up where she could look into the
water. Her bodys has not been re-
covered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03
CARD OF THANKS

The family desire 10 express the.r
thanks for the acts of sympathy and
floral offerings rendered them in
their recent bereavement.
Mrs. A. Wisco and Children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-05-03

cousin Harry Thursday evening, and
lucky enough, walking was crowded.
Over one bump then down the other
home again.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16
The World of Letters as Others See It

Davies would have done. Class
consciousness and class hate had
not developed in his day as they
have done in ours. And it is prob
ably because class hate has such
power to darken the eyes that it
has been possible for any one to
think Gray patronized the people
of the countryside. He was sincere.
He rejoiced in our English peasant
ry and working class, not simply
because it was irrevocably a work.
ing class, but because it was the
parent stock of all, and could pro-
duce Hampdens, Millions, Cromwells
and all that England needed. In
his poetic moments of reverie he
knew that though only one Milton
had won through to all mems
knowledge there were mute, In
glorious Millions" everywhere
From John o. L0ndon's Weekly.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16
What You Should Know
About American Authors

of three, whom his fathers death,
succeeding the wreck Of the family
fortunes as a result of the civil war,
had left without support. Whimsi-
cally he has himself summed up the
pedagogical situation: / was, as a
salaried official of education, engaged
in painfully making known of rapidly
growing but perhaps of quite so
rapidly learning young Americans
what the English language is and
how the English language should be
written"
Mr.. Aliens first writing for general
publication was an essay, entitled
THE First Page of The Portrait of
a Lady," which was kind of dis
tinguished attack" on Henry James.
1t was mailed to a New York literary
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16

weekly, and by that weekly promptly
accepted. Some verse soon met the
same happy fate. and soon Mr.. Allen
felt that it was not too great a
gamble to put the pedagogical life
behind and plunge wholeheartedly
into literature. From Harper's Nag
asine, then edited by the late Henry
Mills Alden. he received commits
sion to write the paper on The Blue
Grass Region of Kentucky" that
eventually gave the name to the
volume. In one paragraph of that
Harper's article he said: Still Ken
lucky has little or no literature"
He was destined to be the first to
make that criticism impossible.
Most of US of an older generation
read then. as they came out one by
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16

at public auction; or of 1.-THE Blue
Grass Region" of "A Kentucky Car
dinal," Aftermath" anc THE Choir
Invisible" or of the Trappist Monas-
terry in solitary valley of southern
Kentucky which was the scene of
The White Cowl."
Born near Lexington, KY. in 1919,
educated at the Pennsylvania Uni
versity, which appears in several of
his books, conspicuously in The
Reign of Law" Mr.. Alien began not
as a writer but as a teacher. first in
public and private schools of the
State and later at the University Of
Lexington. The urge for writing
was strong within him, but the year
that saw him through college also
placed him at the head Of a family
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16

one, "The Blue Grass Region" and
"A kentucky Cardinal and its Sc
quel, aftermath" and The Choir
Invisible" The early and middle
nineties of the last century saw their
birth. Those of us who are wise
enough to reread them find in their
pages a charm not one whit dinin-.
ished by the passing years. We
who read them in the past and those
who read them to-day are alike in
seeing a territory amazingly rich in
vivid types and romantic atmosphere.
There was music, perhaps the min
gled sounds Of flute and violin, in
the Kentucky Of which the James
Lane Allen of the eighteen-nineties
wrote. Its people, ANGLO Saxon in
ancestry. had kept their traditions
customs and race traits. Their
sports were the sports of England
but with New World names. Picnics.
barbecues, State fairs took the place
OF dances on the green and village
gatherings in the moifer country.
Instead of manor houses Kentucky
had its homesteads; in place of titled
aristocracy, the no less recognized
one OF the blue grass farmers. Over
all was the fading romance of
slavery.
! 1t was not merely spon the keen
observation of his own sensitive
early life that Mr.. Allen has drawn
for the flavor of the Kentucky that
was. Many tales, much of the ira
ditional lore, came to him through his
mother, the Her. to whom all his
books are dedicated. From her lips
he heard the story of Two Gentle
men of Kentucky" AMI of that alb
ject but great souled King Solomon,
who in the time of crisis when those
of unctuous rectitude who had
spurned him had taken swift flight
before the plague, heroically re-
manned at his post, hurying the
stricken dead That "Esar" seems to
have remained the beautiful. starlike
love of his life; for Mr.. Allen has
never married.
The universities with which Mr..
Allen was associated i'm the days be-
fore he left teaching for wider field
have showed that they are justly
proud of him. He is an Ii. ID. Of
Pennsylvania and an Lit. d. OF
Tulane and the University of Ken
lucky. 1t was in 1886 that he first
gave his fun time to writing. The
first few years were years of fugitive
stories and essays and experimental
flights. 1t was not till 1891 that the
volume>"Flute and yio'sn" appeared
Then followed The Blue Grass Re-
gion and Other Sketches of Ken-
lucky" 1899; John Gray-A Novel;
1898: The Kentucky Cardinals
1895; Aftermath" 1896: "A Summer
in Already 1896: THE Choir Invisi-
BILE" 1897. and then. in later years.
THE Reign of Law" THE Mettle Of
the Pasture" THE Bride of the
Mistletoe." The Doctors Christmas
Eve" The Heroine in Bronze" The
Last Christmas Tree" Sword OF
YOUTH" THE Cathedral Singer"
Kentucky Warbler" and "Emblems
of Fidelity"
1.-THE Reign of Law" appeared a
short time after the State of Ken
lucky had been the scene of consid-
cradle turbulence. The late ". L.
hampton, himself Kentuckian, in
dulged in the following unpatriotic
squib:
THE Reign of Law" Well. Allen.
you're lucky.
It's the first time that Law eve1-
rained in Kentucky. I.
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born in Chicago.-From "Chicago
and It's Literary Emigres." By
Pierre Loving in The Nation.
What Did People Read Before
Novels?
II AS it ever occurred to novel
IL readers to ask, what did
people read before there were
novelist" For the first true English
novel was written only 200 years
ago, when, in 1872, it appeared un-
der the title MOL Flanders"-its
author Daniel Defoe. But how did
the average man and woman get
knowledge of human nature from
literature? You will say that they
got it abundantly at the theater,
in the great dramatic periods. Yes
but / means from books, on eve
nings when the rain dripped and the
chair invited. Well. they got it in
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16
Gcethe's Love of a Thousans
Letters.


GOETHE was man of altogether
VI exceptional personal beauty,
with rare power of attracting the
enthusiastic friendship of men as
we'll as of women. He had just
broken off an engagement when he
arrived in Weimar, and was eagerly
looking for a new woman to wor-
ship. 1t was in this mood that he
first met Charlotte Won Stein. Ger
mans still eagerly dispute concern
ing the exact relations that existed
between them. In the ten years of
their friendship Goethe wrote the
lady over a thousand letters, which
she carefully preserved and which
were published after her death.
Unfortunately her replies were APP
parently destroyed. From the let
tiers it is clear that poet and court
lady saw each other almost daily.
Under her influence Goethe wrote
some of his greatest works, includ.
ing "Egmont" and the first part of
wilhelm Meister. From John
o. L0ndon's Weekly.
Drawbacks of Literary Honors.
TT seems definitely established
i that membership in the Ma
tional Institute Of Arts and Letters
is a disgrace; that being starred in
O'Brien is rather worse than being
a Guido REM starred in Baedeker
that the official approval Of DR.
Blanche Williams and her confed
crates is likely to reduce littera
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16


A CCORDING to two women. GER
"A tain ages in the lives of their
sex are most fraught with peril. In
Dangerous Ages" the warning sig
nal is pointed against Is, SO and so.
In THE Girls" the spinsters are
charged to be on their guard at is
or 10, at 80 and "A. So near is the
agreement on the times when perils
assail women we must conclude,
unless we accept the hypothesis of
collision, that Miss Rose Macaulay
and Miss Edna Ferber have hit
upon a truth in feminine psychol-
ogy. They are not so exact when
writing of men, probably because
they do not know them so well. Nor
am myself sure about the danger
Gus ages for men. Mr.. Anthony
Pryde in "Nightfall'' mentions SO,
while Mr.. Hergesheimer's Lee RAN
don sails for Cuba with Savina at
AZ. Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe was not
much above 80 when he left Rowena
for the chase and took drink; it
was later, according to Thackeray,
when he crossed over to Spain to
kill the Moors and to look up Re-
becca. A Presbyterian minister
who had safely reached the COS
once told me to look out for Al and
Sc, but for what reason / never
knew. Having since seen several
of my friends slip by both Al and Sc
without being greatly damaged, l
now distrust the clergyman's gener-
alization.-By Wilbur Cross in the
Yale RcUieio.
The Child and the Fear Book.
DERHAPS you think you would
L rather your children did not
learn a rhyme which might leave
behind it vivid pictures of sinister
suspense and disquieting ruhblings
in their minds. But do not deprive
them entirely of fear. When, if not
in childhood, will they acquire that
dark deposit of ominous experience
which alone relieves the superficial
glitter of the adult imagination?
You do not want their response to
literature to be limited to "The
Lays of Ancient Rome" or 1.-The
Song Of the Shirt" To put the
plea at its lowest: even in childhood
there is great deal of fun to be
got out of fear. Besides, so thirsty
are their imaginations for what
frightens that they will pick it up
anywhere. The phrase thought
body dropped in my hearing dur
ing the cheerful chatter of lunch
con party when l was child lit
was in the early days of psychic re-
search) bred in me dreams in which
the perversely ordinary and the
fantastic were most unpleasantly
mingled. 1t is hopeless to try to
keep fear thoughts out Of child's
mind or lust thoughts out of
youths mind, and to attempt to do
Sc by shutting books is like shut
ting the park gates to keep out the
rooks.-From the London NetC
Statesman.
Ccethe's Love of a Thousand
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on the tour around the world
during which he wrote the papers
subsequently collected under the title
American Notes." California was
not a State or a type of civilization
but the background of the stories of
Bret Harte. So a good many Amer
leans, not to speak OF readers of
other lands, think first of Kentucky
in connection with the tales Of James
Lane Allen. The name of the State
conjures up a mental picture of Lex
ington, with its old Court House.
before which King Solomon was sold
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16

some measure from a literature of
which we have little or nothing to-
day-the literature of the eharac-
ter sketch. Before characters"
were born in novels they were de-
scribed brilliantly as types" in
short essays. Steele and Addison
and Swift, and, for that matter,
Pope, dealt in this silhouette por-
traiture.-From "John o. London's
Weekly."
Modern Critics of Gray's "Elegy."
GONE modern writer's who were
- not possessed of the secret of
the poem have urged that Gray pat
ronized the poor, and was very
stilted over it. Gray, of course,
was not a peasant. nor a Stoke
Poges villager, and he did not
write his reflections in the church
yard as, for instance, our w. H.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16
James Lane Allen.

TO Rudyard Kipling, when he
first landed in San Francisco
on the tour around the world
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-16

Chicago as Literary Center.
THE vantage point which New
1 York occupies is not to be
denied or overlooked. How then
are we to account for the fact that
Chicago, by common consent, has
brought forth or stimulated such
salient and unusual recent writer's
as Theodore Dresser, Edgar Lee
Masters, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood
Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair
Lewis, Floyd Dell, iona Gale, and
one or two others? What astonishes
us most of all, think, is that their
books resemble or, in any case,
call to mind what is best and most
worth while in European literature.
The question naturally arises: Did
Chicago really bring forth these
writer's, as the saying is? And If
the city by Lake Michigan served
solely as wet nurse, what makes
it so felicitous a foster mother to
the young creative talent? What
odd property does it boast which
acts by way of goad, urging the
writer to turn to the native soil for
his material? / need not point
out, of course, that the majority Of
the writer's ! have named were not
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13
PLAYS SAFE ON LIQUOR
Express Company Demands Prepay
nent on Shipments in Virginia.

ment on Shipments IN Virginia.
Richmond, Va - The Virginia State
Corporation Commission granted the
American Railway Express Company
the right 10 require prepayment on
shipments OF liquor between points in
the state. The express company com
plalned that "a large number of spuri-
Gus permits issued cause the company
10 lose the charges when such permits
are discovered before the shipments
reach their destination.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13

between our various departments of
science, religion and philosophy.
Moreover, as Charles Lamb ono.
pointed out, not an books are real
books; and in Difference to the sup
posed taste Of some q our sabscrib-
ers We are obliged 70 harbor a good
deal Of trash
But the outstanding fact that any
book, eeyn a trashy one, Is much more
an affair Of the spirit than OF the
body; and the correlative fact that, in
this so-called maaerialistic day and
generation, the habit Of reading pre-
walls is full Of significance. Let the
preachers and prophets lament the
decline Of the soul, let the critics Of
the age cry aloud that il is given over
TO mammon We know better, you
and !, do We not So long as people
continue TO haunt our shelves in pur-
suit Of that which, az the lowest, Is
flip to the Imagination and, al the
highest, is the stuff which gods are
made on, so long shall we continue 70
believe in the essential spirituality. Of
mankind.
Ii is well that we stand. you in the
fork Of the roads, | near the cross
roads. Let US garnish our shelves as
wisely as our committee will let Us
and open our doors and solicit all
passers-by. There is no telling what
we may accomplish in the general,
burning cause Of freedom and right
eousness.
Sister, | wish you many, many
happy returns Of the day.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13
VALERA IS MASSING
$4,000 FOR ATTACK
Republican Official Says Men
Take Oath to Defend Repub-
lie Until Death.

London.-That the Irish Republicans
are massing approximately 10000 fully
armed, equipped and maintained
troops in South Ireland, each taking
solemn oath TO defend the republic
until death, was the information given
by a Republican Official high In De
Valera circles.
The informant stated he has been
In direct communication with the lead
er Of the lrregulars for the past four
days.
This official had just been released
by the PROFESSIONALS after a twenty-four
hour detention on suspicion.
According 10 the story he told, De
Valera escaped from the Gresham Ho-
tel headquarters Tuesday night. He
left after he saw that the Republican
position In O'COnnell street was hope
less. He went under cover Of dark
ness through q tunnel In the rear Of
the hotel He succeeded In mixing
with crowds of citizens and then
worked his way through the city to the
outskirts, where he managed to elude
the Free State guards.
DE Valera, who Is now Fastening
southwark, was wounded in the attack
on the Gresham Hotel, according TO
an Exchange message from wicklow.
Father Domino, who was in Four
Courts with the rebels, is also Joining
the irregulars in the Wicklow hills
De Valera regards the battles in
Dublin the past week simply as Incl
dents in the Republican campaign
against the PROFESSIONALS He is said
10 have declared:
"The c9Antry in the south Of ire
land Is tfe great stronghold OF the
republic. The fact that we lost the
positions In Dublin is merely a tenn
porary setback. We intend 10 fight 10
the end. Despite contraNy statements
by the Professionals we are gaining
daily"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13
MEARS GETS THREE TO
FIVE YEARS AT WINDSOR

Given Prison Term For Shooting Fred
Squires in Sandgate Last Fall.
After being out for about one and
one-haf hours on Friday afternoon,
the jury in the case Of Ahira Mears,
charged with assault with intent TO
kill in shooting Fred Squires Of
Sandgate last October, brought in a
verdict Of guilty. Sentence was de-
ferred until Saturday when the coun
sentenced Mears to the states prison
at Windsor for term Of not less than
three nor more than five years
The case was opened on Wednesday
afternoon, when a jury was secured
without great deal of difficulty. The
state opened its case Thursday morn
ing and occupied the entire day. Fred
sauires was on the stand and told his
story Of the affair. The state rested
Friday morning and the forepart OF
the day was spent with the defense,
including the story Of the respondent.
Mears told in a simple way Of seeing
a lantern in the woods, and on investi-
cation found Squires shaking a
raccoon from a tree, out Of season.
He placed Squires under arrest and
Squires responded, according to
Mears' story, that he was not man
enough TO take him. He walked along
TO Squires' home and the latter, when
he reached his own piazza, according
to the story, turned and levelled his
gun at Mears. Mears, fearing for his
own life, reached for his revolver and
shot Squires. The defense rested at
the opening Of the afternoon session
and the arguments began.
States Attorney George A Man
ther opened briefly for the prosecu-
ton leaving most Of the time for At
General Arcribald. Collins NJ.
Graves for the defense produced some
oratory, picturing Squires as a nat
lral Law breaker and one whom such as
Hears naturally feared He belittled
he evidence of threats made By the
and dweit 81 length On the
evidence OF the defense that Squires
eveled q gun az the respondent be-
'ore the latter fired the shot. Attor-
ley-General Archibald, in turn for the
'tate, finished his argument with pic
.uring the respondent as picking a
lime when be WIS or thought he was
screened BY his authority as game
warden 70 DO that for which he had
Ong sought the opportunity namely 70
Ihoot the complaining witness,
,91irezl
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-07-13
EDWIN MARKHAM TO
VISIT MANCHESTER

Edwin Markham, author Of "The
Man With The Hoe and other dis
tinguished and widely known poems,
will give a public reading in Manehes-
ter on Saturday Of next week, July
% Mr. Markham's position in Amer
ican letters is indicated by the fact
that he is the Honoc ry President OF
the Poetry Society Of America. The
most recent outstanding honor that
has come to him is his being chosen
from among many competitors to
write and read the dedicatory poem TO
Lincoln at the dedication Of the Lin
coin Memorial in Washington. Mr..
Markham comes to Manchester under
the auspices Of the Poetry Society Of
Southern Vermont He is TO appear
also in Bennington, Rutland and Mid
dlebury A detailed announcement OF
his Manchester appearace will be pub
lished in next weeks issue Of The
Journal.