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OREGON NATURE
LOVERS TO BUILD

A start was made last Friday at the
work Of tearing down the old buildings
on the property of the Oregon Nature
Lovers club just west of the grounds
of the Columbia Gorge hotel. and as
soon as this work is finished, a small
club house will serve also as tourist
information bureau. A collection of
information material is gradually be-
ing made and it is planned to have this
feature of the work as thorough and
up to date as anything of the kind in
Oregon.
One of the latest additions to the list
of vice-presidents of the club is Mrs.
Ida Callahan, president of the State
Federation of Women's clubs and asso-
ciate professor of English literature at
Oregon Agricultural College. Mrs.
Callahan writes:
81 believe sincerely in the cause
that the Oregon Nature Lovers club
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06
Valley May Have an Oil Deposit

A flow of heavy. black liquid on
the East Side place of Oscar Wander
bilt has created excitement this week.
While none of those who have observed
the seepage are familiar with oil, all
declare that it is black and has an odor
like the commercial crude oils used in
locomotives and heating plants. 1t is
planned to have skilled geologist in
vestigate the seepage.
Both MIR. and Mrs. Vanderbilt have
observed the seepage. They saw it,,
they say, at one point year ago.
But the flow. in considerable volume,
is showing now at various points.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

community and the state we're deriv-
ing real benefit from the efforts of a
well directed gun club. His address
was followed with one by DIR. Tony.
president of the Commercial club, who
frankly admitted that they had invited
the Hood River boys down there to
trim them, not so much for the glory
of the defeat, but to have good ex-
cuse to pay Hood River another visit
in order to snoot off the tie.
The scores are as follows, with each
shooter shooting at so targets
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

is advocating. We in Oregon have
been prodigal of our scenery and it is
time to call halt. If the various To-
cal organizations of the state will give
their support to a central educational
institution designed to spread the gos-
pei of the love of nature, much can be
accomplished in the right direction.
sincerely hope that there will be an
enthusiastic response to your appeal"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

ing decided trend for the betterment.
The potatoes served at the luncheon
were produced in the Upper Valley.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06
QUALITY
COAL
AND
WOOD
Hood River
s.. Marks Episcopal Church

Sunday school every Sunday at 9:45
o'clock. Morning service will be con-
Quoted by the men of the church every
Sunday morning at IL o'clock. The
service will include an address and the
usual music.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

j. W. Critics spoke briefly to the
Woman's club last week on the junior
high school situation.
Mrs. w. E. Kissinger presided and
introduced the speakers in few well
chosen words. Mrs. A. S. Keir gave
two pleasing numbers, ''Our Yester-
days" and The Bell of St. Mary's"
which were very much appreciated.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

Expert work on Ladies Shoe Heels at
Smiths' Champion Shop. jl9f
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06

Mrs. Chas. II. Castner and Mrs. c.
II. Sletton will be guests of the White
Salmon Woman's club today. Mrs.
Castner will address the neighboring
women on general club topics and Mrs.
Sletton will render vocal solos.
The visiting club women will be en-
tertained at luncheon at the home of
Mrs. Bert Heaman. prominent worker
of the White Salmon organization.
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1t is very easy to follow the strests
described by Dumas in "The Three
Musketeers" and Twenty YeaRs
After" although the action of the
former book was two hundred years
earlier. 1t has not been a matter
OF mere chance. Balzac's persis-
tence in seeking out the unusual led
him to the very streets that were
naturally swept out of existence by
the Haussmannizing Of Paris. But
II most OF the streets associated
with his creations are gone. many
OF the streets linked with his own
life are still to be seen, very slightly
changed, or not changed at all. For
example. there is the Rue visconti.
of the riUe 0duche, on the edge OF
the Latin Quarter. To be specific
it is near the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
between the Rue Bonaparte and the
Rue de Seine. 1t is little street
so narrow that at one point two
vehicles cannot pass in it. The Rue
Visconti was formerly the Rue des
Marais Saint-Germain, and there
at No. II, house that wasSAter
occupied by the studio of Paul
Delaroche. Balzac established the
printing press that ruined him.
Ruin was not entirely misfortune.
for while living over his shop he
began Les Chouans," the first book
to bear his real name as author.
Also still existing, though much
changed, is the Rue Lesdiguieres,
near the Place de la Bastilie. where
Balzac, at the beginning of his
career, lived in an attic and wrote
a number of preposterous novels in
imitation of Sir Walter Scott and
Fenimore Cooper. signing them with
such grotesque pen names as Horace
de Saint-Aubin and Lord R'Hoone.
the latter an anagrarn of Honore.
There he lived fifteen months. and
there he undermined his health By
overwork and insufficient nourish-
ment. To the attic he carried his
scant supply of food, and from the
court pump the bucket of water
needed for the making of the coffee
that sustained him through the long
nights OF pen labor. His only relaxa-
ton were the long walks in which
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"Pere Goriot."

he deemed necessary to an effective
setting. The present Place du Car
rousel. with its statues Of Lafayette
and Gambetta, was very different in
the early part of the last century.
Then the ground was given over to
a labyrinth Of sinister streets, in one
of which, the Rue du Doyenne,
Murger found the environment he
pictured in his "Vie de Boheme."
Balzac used the Rue du Doyenne in
la Cousine Bette" It was there,
according to the story, that Baron
Hulot first saw Valerie Marneffe.
Between the little gate leading
to the Pont du Carrousel and the
Rue du Musee every one having
come to Paris, were 1t but for a
few days, must have seen a dozen
houses with a decayed frontage
where the detected owners have
attempted no repairs. the remains
OF an old block of buildings of
which the destruction was begun
at the time Napoleon contem-
plated the completion of the
Louvre. This street and the blind
alley known as the Impasse du
Doyenne are the only passages
into this gloomy and forsaken
block, inhabited perhaps by
ghosts. for there is never any
one to be seen. The pavement is
much below the footway of the
Rue du Musee, on a level with
that Of the Rue Froidmanteau.
Thus. half sunken by the raising
of the soil these houses are also
wrapped in the perpetual shadow
cast by the lofty buildings of the
Louvre, darkened on that side by
the northern blast. Darkness.
silence, an icy chill and the
cavernous depth of the soil COM
bine to make these houses a kind
of Crypt. tombs of the living.
Driving in fdcre past this spot
and Ch1ncing to look down the
little Rue du Doyenne a shudder
freezes the soul. and we wonder
who can live there and what
things may be done there at night,
at an hour when the alley is a
cut-throat pit and the vices OF
Paris run riot under the cloak of
darkness.
I'LL
Not merely that labyrinth of
strange streets in the shadow Of the
Louvre is gone. Very little of Bal
zac's Paris of 1880 remains, whereas
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part of the city lying to the south Of
the Pantheon. Balzac placed 1t
definitely in the first lin. of the
novel. He said: Mime. Vauquei
(nee Confians) kept a pension bour-
geoise in the Rue Neuve Saint Gene
We've just where that street begins
to SLOPE toward the Rue TArbalete."
The street with its slope is there still
unchanged, though rather hard to
find. Long ago the street name was
altered to the Rue Tournefort, which
may be reached from the Rue de
pEstrapade, stones throw from the
Pantheon. The actual number Of
the house is "a 1t is on the right
going south, and once the doorway
is passed the rough. cobbly roadway
breaks sharply into descent.
Balzac, yisualizing city as well
as its people, was generally swift in
rushing to a setting Of the scene.
The beginning Of "Pere Goriot" Is
typical. lie Cousin Pons" begins by
showing it's unhappy hero walking
along the Boulevard des Italiens,
with his head bent down. as If
tracking some one" The Rue Saint
Honore, near the Place Vcudome, Is
in the opening note of 1.-THE Rise and
Fall of Cesar Birotteau." As the
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and loathes his chief, Holstein, may
make caution necessary. 1t is hard
for disgruntled employee to be fair.
That he says the English Govern
ment has never made but ono serious
mistake-under George III.-may
lead some readers. in this era of hot
patriotism, to feel that what he says
is stained with -Britishism. Let
them allaye their distrust. Won
EckaEdstein divulges the notes. cor
respondence, messages and what
not that show what he did as first
aid to an able but ill ambassador,
Count Paul Hatzfeldt. And as to the
English, he pays his respects to them
by remarking that they can be cal
culating. consecutive and callous."
When Holstein, the inextinguish-
able bete-noire, would receive a
document from an accredited attache
of the Foreign Office stating that
war here or there was imminent he
would scrawl on the margin these
words: "IneXpressibly naive" De-
spite the solemnity of this work. the
present writer feels that il too be-
trays an element of naivete on the
part of both English and Germans.
The former would send the latter
cases of special sauce. the latter
would retaliate with bales of WurSt
and Cans. On the surface it looked
as though everything were lovely
and the goose would nicely cook. At
the same time the Emperor took
Lord Lansdowne's hand and said, 1T
is not the British fleet but the
twenty four German army corps
that constitute the balance of
power" Lord Lansdowne actually
said. You know. l don't quite I'M
derstand him." He would now. And
to the layman who reads this book
issues that were hopeiessly obscure
eight years ago will become as clear
as human reasoning and forceful
writing can make them.
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curtain rises for La Cousine Pons"
the pompous Crevel, in the uniform
of a captain of the National Guard.
Is being driven down the Rue de
fUniversite. La Peau de Chagrin"
plunges the reader at once with
Raphael into the Palais Royal and
the gambling den where he staked
and lost. From there Raj hael pro-
ceeded to the Pont Neuf determined
to drown himself, instead to enter
the antiquary's shop on the Quai
Voltaire. 1t has been pointed out
that if all copies. in all languages, of
all the books of the Coincide HUI
maine" were to be deleted of every
thing but the opening paragraphs,
there would still remain O Paris of
Balzac worthy of serious considera-
ton and study.
There is the familiar story of Bal
FAC, at a loss for just the right name
to fit a certain projected character.
rushing wildly about Paris until he
found, over O shop. the sign az
Marcas." He was as careful in the
study of his streets as he was in the
study of his characters. To him a
street was something much more
than a mere thoroughfare. There
are certain Paris Streets he wrote
in "Ferragus." 'as dishono, ed as can
be any man convicted of infamy;
then there are noble streets, also
streets that are simply honest. also
young streets of whose morality the
public has not yet formed an opin-
ion; then there are murderous
streets, streets older than the oldest
possible dowagers, estimate streets,
streets that are always clean, streets
that are always dirty, workingmen's
streets, students streets and mer-
camille streets. In short, the streets
Of Paris have human qualities and
impress us by their physiognomy
with certain ideas against which we
are defenseless.
Here is an example of the care
with which he dressed street that
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A German at St. James

pines, and that Germany had an
opening there" But even so. he says,
any excuse that Germany had for
steaming and tuning arouIsd Manila
was a very poor one. He takes
seeming pleasure. too, in remarking
that Holstein might have prevented
it all, but he refused to confer with
his two superiors. while mis- sub
ordinates, who would have been
happy to enlighten him, were afraid
to unseal their lips lest Trey open
the next mornings mail only to find
that they had been transferred from
highly desirable posts to Timbuctoo
or some other outlandish main
street.
Any one who has ever conversed,
or rather talked. with a township
justice of the peace knows that the
ways of politics are dark and devil
ish. 1t is probable, however, that no
greater support has even been given
this fundamental proposition than
what this volume contains concern
ing the attempted Anglo German
agreement. At the very moment
when matters were at their worst
Samoa and South Africa were enjoy
ing preferred positions on the front
pages and France ami Russia were
exchanging conciliatory notes-Ger-
many threw the official offer of an
into Lord Beaconsfield's face
He was stunned, for he was
human being But he was amenable
to argument, open to conviction.
Things dragged on. Sir John Blum
dell Maple, Baron Won Eckardstein's
father in-law, made an address at
Brighton in which he said that the
Kaiser had paid visit to Queen Vic
toria when the British Empire was
in great difficulties" This reached
back into history. Holstein wrote
a letter saying IT hope
there will be no more speeches of
this sort" Clouds of anti-British
rolled across the father
land Herbert Bismarck. pining to
succeed his father as Chancellor
and never having a shadow of a
to see them. Docu.
ments marked very confidential"
for so-and-so and him only began
to be sent west across the Channel
by couriers. In 1900 cipher tele- I
grams came into common use, and |
buzzed with the talk
Of an ultimatum.
Open mindedness on the part of |
the English had flushed the Germans |
with fresh courage. They agreed"
among themselves to hate England. |
The rest is known. The failure to |
form the alliance after four at
tempts Eckardstein charges to "the
morbid nightmares of Holstein."
Though written since the war this
IS not war book. It is a volume |
Of comment and of priceless docu-
nents, many of which were hitherto
to English readers. The
sole allusion to the war is found at |
The very opening. where the author
tells of meeting Field Marshal Won
IIaseler at Romange-sous-M Mont
faucon in September, 1914. There
he stood. this venerable symbol of |
the imperial army. up to his knees
in battle maps, berating the German |
High Command for its gigantic |
plumbers. 1t is good reading.
The purpose of the book is to en- |
able the Germans of to-day to profit |
by the mistakes of yesterday. II 4
they can they are adopts at elimina-
lion and evaluation. for we have in
this volume an amazing maze of in
trigues. That the author loathed |
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worth noting; for if his book were
wholesale condemnation of his supe-
riors and colleagues comment on it
would be futile, adverse criticism su-
perfiuous. Edmund Burke was right
about the culprits any nation does
not produce. But three good men
and true no more make nation OF
statesmen than three soldiers make
on army. Baron Won Eckardstein
obviously tries to be impartial.
Tn the first four chapters he has
assembled a huge mass of intimate
material. every line of which shows
that England's prime wish was 10
live in peace with Germany, and that
the better minds of Germany were OF
the distinct conviction that "enclrcie-
mentr could be avoided and their
country's welfare assured only IN the
event of friendship with and Tor
England. But it was Impossible.
The Kaiser nagged and ragged ana
n,aced orders with his tailor Tor
rev tassels for his sword. AT the
coyves regatta he played the role
not of guest but of bully. 10 the
pr;nce of Wales he was openly dis
respectful, of Queen Victoria ne was
;nconsiderate despite his stodgy gall
lantry.
But England. according to this
German nobleman. who stands SIX
feet and over in thin soled Sandals
who could drink lakes OF champagne
and vet talk coherently and vino
once ate a whole ham unaided while
on a hunting party with the Piince
IF Wales. was calm and horcful.
When things looked most bilious the
English Prime Minister. sitting at
the dinner table and discussing poll
ties. was asked what more he was
waiting for" To the astonis' ment
of his companions he replied. For
the potatoes" They all ate Well in
those good old days-twenty years
ago and Won Eckardstein was then
and is now in a good humor, which
adds to .the value of what ne has to
say.
But then. like veritable hash
from the blue. came the insane
Kruger telegram apropos OF the
Jameson raid This act of incom-
prehensible stupidity has been
charged to the Kaiser. Won Eckard-
stein. without exactly acquitting his
then supreme lord. relates the story
of an eyewitness who claims that
Freiherr Won Marshall Foreign Sec
rotary at the time, drafted the silliest
statement ever transmitted with the
aid of electricity and that the kais-
er's aide-de- camp. Admiral Won Sen
den. wheedIed his Majesty into allow
ing il to be sent. Whatever the truth
may he. Won Eckardstein does here
what he invariably does in this book:
he gives expression to the belief That
Fritz Won Holstein. the unmitigated
Mephistopheles of these memoirs,
had a hand If not hoof in the dirty
business, but. seeing how nearly
irrepressible the furry was that it
caused. shut up in shame or openly
denied utilization with his pals.
AND close on the heels OF this came
the Spanish American war with the
Dewey Diederichs scene IN Manila
Bay. Won Eckardstein RACES again
at the infamous insanity of Ger
many's behavior. though. despite
Andrew Whites own denial. he
charges our representative at Berlin
at the time fatty and squal ely with
having said that America had no
intention of annexing the Philip
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Literary Pilgri1nages at Home and Abroad
vII.-A.pect. of Balzac'. Paris.

VII.-Aspects of Balzac's Paris.
q YEAR ago the. present writer
~ stood before q structure that
it has been his habit to visit
at the earliest opportunity en- every
return to Paris, a structure that
Henry James called "the most por-
tentous setting of the scene in all the
literature of fiction" and il soul re-
belled against the march of progress
The Pension Vauquer of Honore de
Balzac's immortal "Pere Goriot."
where Goriot, the Lear of French
fiction, died in anguish. where
Trompe-la-M Mort whispered to Eugene
de Rastignac in the garden, was
trapped by the soldiers of the King,
betrayers, Mile. Michonneau and Fill
de-SOie, had been converted into an
auto service station. For one hun
dred years it had remained much as
1t had been at the period of the story.
Now its Old World quiet was broken
by the honk of Ford horns. Eheu
fHgacesi
The most portentous setting of the
rcene in all the literature of fiction"
is in a quarter of Paris rarely seen
by the casual American visitor, that
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-20
MRS. ALEXANDER BRADLEY'S
FIVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
DANGEROUSLY ILL

Here is little bit of true life
put into a letter. Mrs Alexander
Bradley of Danbury, Conn.,, says
"After IA long years trying diff
ferent remedies l have at last
found a good medicine-Dr. True's
Elixir.
Il was nearly discouraged. 7
was giving the oldest girl some
thing nearly every night, but now
l keep bottle Of DR.. True's Elixir
handy, and only give it occasional
ly. l have tried so many things
but now as soon as | see signs of
worms | give DR.. True's Elixir for
quick relief.
"My son, IA years of age, was
always troubled with worms when
small and DIR. True's' was un-
known to me then. | always have
it on hand now, as / have another
small child. They even ask for
more. Now please print this let
ter so other anxious mothers may
know the good results which fol-
low DR.. True's Elixir for children
suffering with worms and consti-
patton, as I cannot recommend it
too highly"
Symptoms to watch: Constipa-
ton, offensive breath, swollen up
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Irasburg

Miss Marjorie Sears is home
from her work in Montpelier on
account of i'll health.
A very good delegation from the
local branch Of the W. C. f. U.
attended the annual meeting at
Derby Line Tuesday. Cars driven
by G. W. Russell and W. Fl. Kid
der conveyed the following ladies
Mrs. J. S. Wiley, Mrs. Ward, Mrs.
Ruth Washer, Mrs. Ada Russell,
Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Ada Metc2f and
Mrs. J. c. Carpenter.
The annual canvass of the mem
bers of the M. E. church is tax
ing place this week and the re-
ponses from both members and
adherents is very satisfactory.
The mothers and daughters of
Irasburg are entertaining the faith
ers and sons in the Congregation
al church parlors Friday evening
of the Week. A program will be
rendered and refreshments will be
served.
Rev. A. J. Ward attended the
annual meeting of the st. Johns
bury District Foreign Missionary
society in Hardwiek Friday.
The Ladies of the Methodist
Home missionary society sent a
12-dozen crate of eggs to the
Barre Deaconess' Home Tuesday
Mrs. Leland Herman of Newport
visited her aunt Mrs. N. A. Wells
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NEWPORT LOCALS

A delicious lunch of candle fruit
salad, bread and butter, olives and
nuts, strawberry shortcake and
coffee. and candies was served on
small tables in the library.
Mrs. Wallace Little of Rock
land, Me-, has been the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred e. Harvey re-
turning Saturday.
Mrs. Erastus Buck and son
Ralph Buck were in Burlington to-
day. Miss Ruth Buck student al
u. V. NJ. will return with them to-
day for the week end.
Mrs. Leon Curtice and son Raw
mond of Lyndonville are spending
Saturday and Sunday with MI. and
Mrs. II p. Leayitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. J. Prouty, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Sisco, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert DAVIS, Miss Hazel
Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. Ara SEES
sions, Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Bly,, Mr.
and Mrs. Austin Beebe, Mr. and
Mrs. George Eaton, Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. W. R
Prouty, DIR. Fred Crawford, Abra-
ham Aiken, Mr.. and Mrs. Walden
Ruther, attended the meeting OF
the Shrines in Montpelier return
ing Thursday.
f. f. Doe and son Alton Doe OF
Orleans were guests Of friends in
town on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Divide Vamie OF
Winter street are the parents Of a
baby daughter, born Thursday
May 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Dubray
of Montreal are quests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Davis.
Fred Donle, special represents
tive from the H. P. Hood and Sons
Creamery of Boston, has been in
town for several days on business
with the local creamery.
Miss Virda Spear of Boston is
visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
r w. Spear.
Sam auckland, from Stockholm
Sweden, has been visiting his sister
Mrs. A. r. auckland.
Mrs. E. S. Hart has been in Bos-
ton for two weeks.
Mrs. Charles Lamoureux has re-
turned from trip to Lyndonville
Rev. l.. A. Edwards has chosen
as his subject TO: tomoTow's ser
mon, Insurance"
George William Hamilton, who
has been closely identified with the
music department of the college
has just been honored by being
elected leader Of the Dartmoutt
Musical club.
Inspector James C. Ford and G
F. Boslev of the u. S. immigra-
ton office are taking their two
weeks leave which is being giver
the entire force by turns to reduce
expenses.