The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-03-02
BY ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
Questions gladly answered. Write
me In care Of the editOr.)

In his Compassionate Counsel to
Young Mem, Baxter has said: Great
store Of all sorts of good books
Through the great mercy of Cod are
common among us. He that cannot
buy, may borrow"
I have borrowed "Cappy Kicks, or
the Subjugation of Matt Peasely". by
Peter B. Kyne Oh. X. Fly Co. New
York; and am devouring it with the
greatest glee. I'll tell you more about
it next week. Just now l want to tell
you aobut a newer book. "Cappy Kicks
Retires," Cosmopolitan in which
Cappy Kicks, dear old Cappy. shows
SO many sides of his interesting per-
sonality, 1t is hard to know where to
begin to tell Of him. Here is one
snapshot: eff had son I'd pal up
with him. he declares. I'D want to
get out with him and raise little
dignified hell once in while. just to
be human being and keep him from
being mollycoddle"
Periodically he announced solom-
/ My that "By the Holy Pink Toed
Prophet" he was through with busl-
ness: he would retire and nothing
should drag him back into harness In
the Blue Star Navigation company,
(Which he had built up to princely
proportions). Then he would get scent
of a ten to one shot in the shipping
Il line. and plunge into the midst Of the
n widest sort of speculatiOn-and win;
d because he really was the keeneSt,
E wisest old fox immaginable. He low
HI ed making money, heaps of it, but
M not so much for the sake of the mon
III ey as for the fun and excitement OF
81 the game. He would spend freely to
k& get his own way, and he was always
E dividing his luck" with those who
ET needed it. and patching up other
81 folks difficulties. The book is like
MI a string OF firecrackers. full of sud
h den surprises and explosions of fun
a. Bless Cappy Kicks and his kind ole
= heart and rudy face for" the goot
= times ne has gwen thousands Of read
81 ers.
N NY uncle sent me for Christina
villa OutUeT StOls, wy All
u tonia", which | have long wanted t
4 read, but have not had opportunit
II until now. I'll tell you about it one o
a these days if you do not read it frs
Il 1t Is good, I've heard on excellen
4 authority.
III Another Christmas gift was chez
wi |
III Prof. Elliott c. Lincoln's Rhymes {
e a Homesteader." You will find thel
Ii cropping up in the column here some
n times and will want TO read them a
for yourself-as ! did, when l 81
Il them first from the library. LibraI
books are great to get acquainte
L with. But after you have found a
acquaintance you like we'll enous
u to wish you know It better, you wal
to go out and buy that book and ha'
1t for our own.
49, -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has ne
i and exciting story Of the days befo
gunpowder-the days Of chain ms
and the bow and arrow, entitled IT
White Company" Cosmopolitan wi
n c. Wyeth's vigorous Illustration
I'll try to get it to read, and tell y
more about It,
s*&s
DR.. C.. w. Stone of the educate
department of the State College
Washington has lent me his copy
William H. Buttons new book
Supervision and the Improvement
Teaching" (Appleton) because
thinks teachers and school men in
departments of education will be
terested in 1t. 1t has special inter
for Washington teachers, particula
those who gained their training
the college. since Mr.. Burton was
merly a professor of our educat
department, before he became direc
of training schools in the 81
Teachers College at Winona, MINI
"One has difficulty not to app
extravagant in reviewing tails DO