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rc'man Of Lincoln; Hon. John p.
t'.cang &c Saco and Hon. Leon T..
4 sgt0s ~ Brewer. candidates for
e. Republican nomination for Gov
9 nor. Dr T.. u. Merrill Of Dover
toNrr"ft: Iii Gledhll of New York.
U siaont ot the Lincoln Worstcd
Company and one OF the best known
vurst,d aud wooden manufacturers
" the country; Lawrence NJ. Carroll
o. Norway; J. Fred O'Connell of
Eangor and Hon Frank +. Guernsey
q Dover FoXcroft, former member of
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was his exact counterpart in person
al appearance. The news of his death
was q great shock TO his friends in
Belfast.
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G. L. Bowman

Word has been received here of the
deoth Wednesday in Boston Of George
Lucao Bowman OF Pinckney street.
whose wife Miss Ada Mariner, was a
former Belfast girl. Mrs. Bowman
mas been in Belfast for the mast wcelr
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The New York herald., 1922-05-28
The Aroma of Stevenson

the ghost Of Poe looking over
Stevenson's shoulder, as If the Amer
lean had felt himself summoned by
somebody's thought, but had found,
when he came, that nobody had
thought of him, and that Stevenson,
too, had answered the call Qf there
had been any calll and that "Olalla"
and "Markheim" and "The Body
Snatcher" and passages in some of
the novels were the incarnation
which had sounded in the dead ear
of Poe Mr.. Freeman. of course,
does not hint that Stevenson bor-
rowed from Poe. merely suggesting
that he shared Poe's delight in the
maeabre. using familiar traditions
for the creation of physical horror;
and he thinks he rather boggled his
work in that direction.
In comment upon another flash of
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Stevenson's spirit, what seems rather
a aueerer conclusion is drawn. Ste
'venson's own criticism of 1.-The choice
of wrong key of detail or style"
Gas shown by a phrase in Prince
Otto'D is cited as IAN admirable
comment, to which it is hard to add
more than word in saying that
Prince Otto is Stevenson's chief, if
not sole, essay III sentimentalism,
and that neither character nor incl
dent yields satisfaction in it's pages"
Mr.. Freeman's acute analysis Of
Stevenson's varied performances and
his clear perception of his hills and
valleys are pervaded with such a
generous, almost wistfuL, spirit that
one could wish, forf his sake, that he
had not missed-as he seems to have
missed-something in prince Otto
which is surely of its essence. To
say, and to stop with saying, that
neither character nor incident yields
satisfaction" in its reading is to allow
what may be called lin contemporary
lingo) the astral quality to escape
It was the Ariel in Stevenson who
wrote that wonderful fairy story
which was, unless this guess is far
out and wide, the spring and source
of all the race Of romantic Gf senti-
mentaD tales, from the Prisoner of
Zenda" onward and down through
ten years of English story telling.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
The Dead Mems Chanty

human veracity. 1t has been travel
ing the rounds of the newspaper and
so-called literary press, paved over
by editors and eepyreaders, shifted
at by office critics and regarded with
mixed favor and distrust by "lit-
erary" printers, during matter of
twenty-five odd years. There has
been a considerable variation of text,
since everybody wants to improve
and thereby claim something in an
anonymous masterpiece
can't understand why there
sheuld ever have been any mystery
or question about it's authorship, un-
less the poet was for long time in
different to caveat or judged that a
temporary sequestration of his title
would rebound to his greater ulti-
mate fame. At any rate, these cir
cumstanees have given full play to
the invention of fakers, the pipes"
of well meaning haliueinants, and
the the painful ingenuity OF those
who weave literary mares nests.
A fabrication of the latter sort de-
ceived the critical Hdt1kshaa1 of a
New York paper into swallowing a
yarn about the poem found, as al
legged, in an "old scrapbeok") having
been sung as ehanty by English
buccaneers in the Caribbean, say a
century ago. The literary Haacl-
shdiU was taken in so completely
that. subsequent admission Of his
error, upon an unanswerable presen-
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Fantastic, ethereal, cloudy, almost
formless, through and out of it
floated that very spirit of ''The True
Romance to which was made the
lofty ascription:
"Who art in sooth the happy truth
The careless angels know"
This kindly commentator gropes to
his regretful conclusion that sit is
only in. part from his own work that
the bright myth has sprung; it's true
life is lived in the memory of those
that knew him in the flesh or in the
spirit" If indeed the contemporary
mind is insensitive to the quite in
tangible but intensely real enjoy
ment which comes just as~ often in
rereading as it did in the first sight
of those feathery formulas which
made wings for his literary frame
works. much of pure pleasure is lost,
even if the pleasure were partly the
readers unconscious cooperation and
fusion with the writer's words. There
was a certain quality of the beauty
of a butterfly's wing about much of
his legacy as it was treasured away.
If anything of it's coloring or deli
cacy has disappeared, not to be made
visible to the holder of the reading
glass to-day, one is persuaded of an
other faded beauty of the time before
the world became so filled with
weights and measures.
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tation of the real facts. was not cas-
lily wrung from him-there is moth
ing like a Texas mule or a literary
expert for certain kind of opin-
belt, the laurel of "The Dead Mems
Song" has now finally been placed
upon the modest yet Joyian brow of
Mr.. Young e. Allison, veteran
journalist of Louisville, Ky. Or to
speak with allowable metaphor, that
ralSish craft. the "Derelict," with her
papers finally cleared and her true
skipper on board, now stands out to
sea for the long voyage!
This same Allison ought to be a
man delightfully."- worth knowing, to
judge from a certain tall red-and-
green volume of appreciation in his
honor put forth in a privately pub
lished edition by his friend Champion
Ingraham Hitchcock, also of Louis
Vile. The book fully establishes Mr..
Allison's claim to the parentage of
the truculent chef-d'oeuUre SO long
disputed about and errantly fathered,
and also raises the wonder that he
should have been content with bav-
ing once miraculously centred the
bullseye of literary achievement.
However, according to a famous
French critic, the man who produces
only enc masterpieee-be it only
single page of perfect prose or verse
has a better chance of future fame
than the author of many volumes IN
differently good. Indeed fame seems
to have made a special provision for
carrying the monopoematic genius.
as a search of the anthologies will
readily disclose. In its peculiar class
Allison's poem is as memorable as
Poe's "Raven''-and 1 can see him
still steering that sallen "Derelict"
of his upon future seas. not a wave
of which will be hazarded by many
admired literary cockboats of the
present time.
This, / am proud to advance. was
also the view of the late MIR. James
Whitcomb Riley Can undoubted I'm
mortaD, who in letter to the pres
ent writer coined an inspired word,
"delishamous," to express his pleas
ure in the poem, and who has else
where characterized it as mastery
and exquisite ballad of delicious
horificneS." A tribute which, fall
ing all other Endorsement, would
send the "Derelict" Iong way on
her cruise to the future.
In a copy of the book mentioned
above, presented to a certain per-
son, Mr.. Riley has Inscribed this
characteristic verse of appreciation
fah, collectors. wouldn't ye like to
set gloating7 lamps upon it?-Held
off,-your pieces of eight shall not
tempt me.):
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Young L. Allison done all the rest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
He's sung this song for you and me,
Jest as it wuz-or it ort to be
Clean through time and eternity.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
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Continued from Precedin1 Page.
he contributed to Once a Week. But
he was not exempt from criticism on
that account. In 1894 he was bur-
lesuued in a parody of Lord Ormont
and His Aminta," which ran through
three numbers and was ernamented
with portrait of the author as a
bull in the china shop of syntax,
grammar and form. Punch in mid
die age, says Mr.. Graves, only dimly
appreciated Meredith's genius, and
was disconnected by his obseurity.
Punch erred in good company, for
Tennyson is reported to have said
that Reading Meredith is like wad-
ing through glue"
There was never any perceptible
change in Punch's attitude toward
the aesthetics. 1t deplered in the early
nineties the movement in the diree-
ton of unrestrained self-expression
in literature which had it's outcome
in the YeIloU Book and the So
roy and which avowed it's loyalty
to Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine.
Punch held that the movement was
wholly decadent. 1t printed the lines
to "Any Boy-Poet of the Decadence":
For your dull little vices we don't
care fig,
1t is this that we deeply deplore:
You were cast for common or usual
pig,
But you play the invincible bore.
In ono common anathema Punch
confounded all the contributors to
the Yelloto Book and the S0UoU.
The former, with an Illustration by
.Daubaway Weirdsley" and MAX" "
rs Max Mereboom" was held up to
especial ridicuIe in 1895. In 1896
the SdroB became the "Saveloy," /"
with imaginary extracts and further
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

attacks on Max Mereboem, Simple
Symons and Weirdsley.
In the early nineties were the
Punch parodies of Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holiness" and OF Benson's
"Dodo." The latter was particularly
effective. 1t began with: "Sling me
over a two eyed steak, Bill" said
Bobo. In the sequel the Marquis
of Qbkaleek, the noble unappreciated
husband, is killed in the hunting
field, but Bobo does not marry Bill,
her fancy man. She jilts him and
got herself married to an Austrian
Prince at half an hours notice by
the A. of c." 1t was Punch that was
responsible for the much quoted say
ing which first appeared in 1894.
that the modern novel is a blend of
the Erotic, the Neurotic and the
Tommyrotic"
In view of George du Mauriers
long service "Trilby" was treated
with benevolence, though Punch re-
gretted the theological interludes.
About the same time the paper was
enthusiastic in its welcome to An
thony Hope Hawkihs's 1.-The Pris-
oner of Zenda," and it's sequel, "Ru-
pert of Hentzau." In these novels
it saw healthy aniidote to the ultra
realistic. But in 1896 it described
the later manner Of Henry James as
indifferent Trollopian and second
class Meredithian.
MIR. PUNCHS HISTORY OF MOD
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

NorE-"Mr. Punch's History of
England" will be the basis of sub
sequent papers in The NEW YORK
HERALD book section on Punch
and English Society,"" Punch and
the Woman Question" and Punch
and the Art Ec- entries"
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
BY MICHAEL MoNAHAN.

by MlCf1AEL moNAffAN.
E"HERE may have been more inn
portant literary discoveries
than the revelation, quite re-
cent, of the identity of the man who
wrote that ripping piratical blood
bothered ballad, Fifteen Men on the
Dead Mans Chest" Certainly there
has been none that excited a more
genuine "thrill'' of interest among
the true co9noscenti. I do not refer
merely to the original gruesome quat-
rain quoted in r. L. Stevenson's
Treasure Islandn:
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
I Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of ram!
Drink and the devil had done for the
/ Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
but rather and moreover, to the elab-
crate piece of rhythmic deviltry
! evolved and educed and exstructed
therefrom by long unknown or, at
any rate, unaccredited hand. Here
| follows the sanguine sonata alluded
to-an impeeeable text favored with
the latest revision of the only true
and genuine author.
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest
/ Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil had done for the
rest
/ Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
The mate was fixed by the bos'n's pike,
I The bosn Drained with a marlin
| spike,
And Cookey's throat was marked be-
like.
1t had been gripped
By fingers ten;
And there they lay,
| All good dead men.
Like break-o'-day in boozing-ken-
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle a rum.
Fifteen men of whole ships list
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of ruml
Dead and bedamned, and the rest gone
/ whist -
Yo-ho-ho and bottle of rum.
The skipper lay with his mob in gore
| Where the seullion's ak his cheek
had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed times
four.
| And there they lay,
And the soggy skies
| Dripped all day long
[ In up-staring eyes
At murk sunset and at foul sunrise
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
| Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
| Ten of the crew had the murder
/ mark
I Yo-ho-ho and bottle of rumt
Twas a cutlass swipe, or an ounce of
/ lead,
/ Or yawing hole In battered
/ head
And the scnppers glut with rotting
4. red.
| And there they lay
| Aye, damn my eyesi-
/ All lookouts clapped
/ On paradise
| All souls bound just contrariwise-
! Yo-he-ho and a bottle OF rum!
| Fifteen men OF 'em good and true
/ Yo-ho-ho and bottle of rum,
Every man Jack could ha' sailed with
/ Old Pew
| Yo-ho-ho and bottle OF rum
There was chest on chest full of Span
| fsh gold,
| With a ton of plate in the middle
\ hold,
And the cabins riot OF stuff untold.
| And they lay there
| That had took the plum,
/ With sightless glare
And their lips struck dumb.
/ While we shared all by the rule Of
I thumb
Yo-ho-ho and bottle of rum!
The history Of this poem illustrates
anew the fallibility of human evi-
dence and the tenuous character Of
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H. have been moved to write
something plaintively derog-
atory to the literary fame of Robert
Louis Stevenson. sometimes half
apologeticaIly. yet as if pricked by
the spur of duty; not SO often as if
irritated by some vaporous mystery
about him Of which others were
sensible but of which they could only
hear the Talk.
In the London Mercury Mr.. John
Freeman turns again to the theory
of "the Stevenson myth"-a phrase
which carries an implication of
magistral dominanee-and studies
1t at some length, with a long look
at the conflict between the artist
and the novelist in Stevenson. And
while he is looking he sees a ghost
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Barrie as a Poet


simultaneously in the English Bookman and |
r February, 1895. Incidentally, it was the
American Bookman, and the poem was the opt
zine that is now published by the George HI.
ted by Mr.. John Farrar Probably very few An
For the benefit of those who love the memory
who love the work of the creator of Peter PaI
lich was called "Scotland's Lament" Editor ]
Her hands about her brow are pressed,
She goes upon her knees to pray,
Her head is bowed upon her breast,
And. oh, she's sairly failed the day
Her breast is old, it will not rise,
Her fearless sobs in anguish choke,
God put his finger on her eyes,
And then it was her tears that spoke.
I've ha'en obrawer sons flow,
My Walter mair renown could win,
And he that followed at the plough,
But Louis was my Benjamin!
'Ye sons wha do your little best,
Ye writing Scots put by the pen,
He's deid, the ane abune the rest
1 Wilma look to write again!
III Suue the ledVe tHelF cn1fuHO0u QTdp,
1--WE ill to ken them, game sac grey,
But aye he climbed Until my lap,
Or pu'd my coats to max me play.
"He egged me on with mirth or prank,
We hangit gowans on a string,
We made the doakens walk the plank,
We mairit snails withoot the ring.
I'm auld.' / pant, sic ploys to maxi
To games your mither shouldna stoup
You're gey and auld,' he cries me back,
That's for 1 lak to gar you loup.'
co. thae bit ploys he made sic books.
A mither's cam to watch us playing;
I feigned no to heed their looks
But fine kent waht they was saying.
AT times lent him for game
To north and south and east and west,
But no for lang, he sune cam hame,
For here it was he played the best.
"And when he had to cross the sea,
He wouldna let his cen grow dim,
He bravely dreed his weird for me,
tried to do the same for him.
"Ahint his face his pain was sair,
Ahint hers graf his waefu' mither,
We kent that we should meet nae mair,
The ane saw easy thro' the ither.
"For lang I've watched wi trembling lip,
But Louis ne'er sin syne I've seen,
The greedy island kept It's grip,
The cauldriff oceans rolled atween-
He's deid the ane abupe the rest
Oh, wac. the mither left alane!
He's deid, the ane looed the best,
oh, mayna hae back my nain."
Her breast is old, it will not rise,
Her fearless sobs in anguish choke,
God put his finger on her eyes,
1t was her tears alone that spoke.
Now out the lights went slime by slime,
The towns crept closer round the kirk,
Now all the firths were smoored In rime,
Lost winds went wailing through the mirl
A star that shot across the night
Struck fire ON Pala's mourning head,
And left for aye steadfast light,
By which the mother guards her dead.
"The lad was mine." Erect she stands,
No more by vain regrets opprest,
Once more her eyes are clear; her hands
Are proudly crossed upon her breast.
A e Co.,
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MIR. PUNCHS HISTORY OF MOD
ERN ENGLAND. In four volumes.
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Punch and England's
Men of Letters

Continued from Precedin0 Page.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-11
CZECH SOCIAL WORKER
TO STUDY METHODS HERE

DR.. Marie Joubova, representative
Of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, re-
Gently arrived in the United States to
take up the study Of American social
service methods, with the intention of
later introducing them in Czechoslo-
vakia. She will spend some time In
Hull House, studying under the direc-
ton of Miss Jane Adams, who was
likewise the instructor, Is years ago,
OF DR.. Alice Masaryk the daughter OF
the president of the Czechoslovak Re-
public and herself the president of the
Czechoslovad Red Cross.
DR.. Poubova will also address
American audiences throughout the
country on present conditions in the
Czechoslovak Republic, dealing prin-
cipally with those affecting the women
and children of Slovakia, who until
recently have had little opportunity
for schooling, and to whom her past
work has been largely devoted.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-11
UNITED STATES EXPORTS IN
PAST YEAR LARGE
Exports Of the United States for the
Year 1921 More Than Twice rs
Large Mt 191O.1914 Period.

The United States exported more
than twice as much foodstuffs during
1921 than In the pre-war period, not
withstanding the fact that there has
been a considerable decline since the
peak Of 19lS-1919, announced the
Foodstuffs Division Of the Department
of Commerce in revief of the food
stuffs export situation.
With cereals and cereal products,
we have exported during the past year
thirty-one billion pounds as compared
with an average of nine billion pounds
before the war or more than three
times as much. With meat products
we exported during the past year
about eighty per cent more than the
pre-war average; of vegetable oils
practically six times as much; and OF
VARY products about eleven times as
much.
That exports will continue heavy in
volume is shown by the fact that for
the new wheat crop beginning July 1,
we have exported one hundred eighty
one million bushels against pre-
war average of seveny-one million
bushels or about two and one-half
times as much. We have exported
about eight times as much rye and
three times as much corn since No
vember /. When we compare the
values the ratio is still higher, as
average export prices are still con-
siderably higher for 1921 than were
pre-war prices. When we consider
that Europe. alone, takes between
eighty and ninety per cent. OF the ex-
ports OF food products, the large TAX
ings from the United States for the
past year are really remarkable, con-
sidering the financial difficulties I'M
der which Europe is struggling.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-11
WE ARE AGENTS FOR For Mas
k/IIUI III al Ib County
uM n c.
i Il

age Of It's remarkable opportunities.
The hearing on the Watson illegal
hanging charges before the Senate
Committee continues to be devoid OF
any substantial evidence In support
of them. Apparently the sole result
of the present agitation is to parade
before the public once more some Of
the distressing facts connected with
the World War, and which will ac-
company every war that is ever
fought. The country is convinced that
its officers in France conducted the
operations as humanely as the busi-
ness in which they were engaged per-
mitted. The rest It is better to forget.
Secretary Weeks has acted wisely
In holding up final action on the bid
of Henry Ford for the Muscle Shoals
power plant. Other Industrial leaders
are becoming interested in the posi-
bilities at that point, and 1t is more
than probable that the postponement
will result in a contract Of far more
benefit to the Government than the
original proposal Of Mr.. Ford would
have meant had 1t been accepted.
The vast majority OF income tax
payers are in the class who have net
incomes OF $1,000 or less. All Of these
will deeply appreciate the work OF
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon In
simplifying the forms so that making
an income tax return can be accomp-
lished without expert assistance.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-11
100000 g ccssooc00G
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, Jan. IL. Especial
Correspondence - In December the
gross debt of the United States was
cut $1SO.101 1916, and in the last three
months over s4S5,OOO,OOO. Since the
war debt was at Its peak II has been
reduced more than $3,15S,000, 900.
With the economies Of the Republican
Administration, and an arrangement
by which the United States will re-
ceive payments from abroad on the
huge debt owed to this country, the
future will see an even more rapid
decline in our own national obliga-
tons
The new Alaskan railway is not
only going to open up the natural re-
sources Of the territory for develop
ment. but already II has materially re-
duced the cost Of living in the towns
along It's line. Every article OF food,
clothing. and other supplies that for
merly had to be carried by boat on the
circuitous route up the Yukon River,
may now be transhipped at Anchorage
to the railroad and carried overland
at great reduction in freight and a
tremendous saving In time Next sum
mer the 352 miles OF road from An
chorage to Fairbanks will be complet-
ed. and further freight reductions are
anticipated. Passenger trafilc, partic-
ularly during the summer months, is
expected to be heavy. The trip from
the coast to Fairbanks will take "a
hours. and is accompanied by magnifi-
cent scenery the whole distance.
There should be plenty OF sightseeing
patrons OF the road, as well as those
who visit the country to take advant-
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-11

fact that Mr.. Phillips has had wide
experience in the livestock and dressed
n eat business, his demonstration and
lecture are expected to be of consider
able value to the farmers of the state.
Following this lecture and demon
iiration W. ID. Nichols, head of the
arm management department of the
'ollege will give an address on, The
Place OF the Hog in Profitable Farm
Management in Kentucky" He will
be followed by Neil Jones, a swine
specialists of Washington Court House
Ohio, viii will discuss swine feeding
problems with the farmers.
"The Relation of Livestck to the
Maintenance of Soil Fertilitz," will be
discussed by George Roberts, head of
the agronomy department of the COL
oge. after which H. C. Selards, swine