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the Federation OF Musical Clubs,
with which she has been actively
identified since it's founding in 1897.
having been its active vice president
for four years and for six years
chairman of it's publicity depart
ment- She organized State branches
of the federation in Texas. Alabama,
Florida and North and South Caro-
lima.
She is also founder and president
of the national organization known
az the American Association of Low
ers of Music. which, like the Fedora
ton of Music Clubs, is one of the
affiliated organizations Of the Ma
tional Council of Women.
Mrs. Campbell has also had i'm
portant contact with the musical
world OF America through her posi-
ton as editor and publisher for IL
years of the Musical Monitor, which
she founded while living in Kansas
City and subsequently published in
Chicago and New York. This maya
zine after two numbers had been Is
sued was adopted by the Federation
Of Music Clubs as the Official organ
of that society. In addition to or
ganization news, It carries much mu-
steal information of general interest
and on it's pages may be found many
striking and original articles from
the pen of Mrs. Campbell, who is a
member also of the League Of Ameri-
can Pen Women.
Urged to tell something of her own
experiences in recent interview,
Mrs Campbell responded with a story
that pushed back the walls of the
room in which we were sitting and
carried me first to the wide plains
of Nebraska, wnere, in a little log
cabin, a small child touched with
eager. excited fingers the keys of an
organ, the first ever transported
across the Missouri River for use In
a private home. The child was Viola
Vale Barnes. now Mrs. Campbell, and
the organ was a gift on her fifth
birthday from her father, John wes-
ley Barnes, a young Kentucky pioneer
who had settled in Nebraska and had
married Martha Gage, daughter Of
Rev William D. Gage, pioneer mis-
sionary to the Indians and member
of the first legislature of Nebraska.
my greatest asset in meeting life's
problems I have found to be this
pioneer heritage" said Mrs. Camp
bell with feeling, "for it has given
me the opportunity to dream dreams
and the courage to mako those
dreams come true"
Her father was q natural musician,
playing both the violin and the or
gan. He loved also to weave fanctful
tales, and once on being asked by his
little daughter where music came
from. responded by saying: When
God created the world and 1t was
finished and he had pronounced 1t
good, He stretched unseen wires
around it that men, women and little
children might touch them and send
messages of love and harmony all
over the world. The wind playing
upon these wires taught the birds to
Stag and human beings. listening to
the vibrations Of these wires, heard
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very slowly. amid the audible prayers
of the Armenians, but finding
our brakes seemed very efficient
we soon let her go" little and
shot downward with amazing velocity.
On checking the speed our wooden
brakes promptly took fire and COM
menced to burn up--a most unpleas-
ant situation. especially for the two
men sitting Immediately over them.
Tor whom the scenery instantly lost
all attraction. This necessitated q
compulsory stop at the first water
fall. In spite. however, of all our
efforts, IL was at the second stream,
about a mile and half further Oh,
! that we at last succeeded in bringing
our vehicle" to a standstilL
Then followed a very animated dis
cussion, for we found that our two
poles. which had originally been
about Is feet long, were now burnt
down to about six feet, and it would
evidently be necessary TO carry a
stock of spare poles with US. By
great good fortune. in the valley of
the little stream where We had at last
stopped. some small trees were grow
ing, and Of these we proceeded to lay
in an ample supply, arranging now to
apply them 10 all four wheels instead
of two only, and soaking them all
well in the stream before starting.
Profiting by our previous expert
ence, we then used them alternately,
and. having no further trouble, were
able to enjoy our novel form of
locomotfon among surroundings the
beauty of which 1t would be impossi-
BILE to describe. We finally arrived
safely at our camp as the first gray
of dawn was showing In the eastern
sky, to find all In commotion there.
The Turk commander was mastering
his men while awaiting orders from
the pasta at Erzerum, to whom he
/ bad already telegraphed as to our
having been detained by the Ar
menians.
Shortly afterward another expedi-
ton took US into the country of the
Kurds, who are to this ancient and
inaccessible region what the Bedouin
| Arabs are to abe desert for they
have been in occupation Of the land
since prehistoric times.
On our way to the region Of the
Kurds we passed within view of the
historic peak of Mount Ararat. This
massive giant rises to a total height
of $4,000 feet, is covered at It's top
most 5000 feet by everlasting snow
and dominates the whole of this
rugged and intricate mountain sys-
TEN, from whence fow all the great
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sharper" and. sharper till sud
denly there were only two horses
left in front, ir.stead of three. though
1 never saw. tho other one disappear,
having enough TO do TO mind my
own job.
THE road grew worse and the sur
l. face became loose and bad as we
got lower down, and although the
horses In front were getting pretty
well exhausted, yet we were unable
to catch them. Eventually, when the
village appeared in sight, at the bot
tom of the last zsigZag, they were
still 10 yards ahead. We therefore
did the last turn Ettle extra" and
with a loud bang" away went one
back tire, clean off the rim, with the
other following it n moment later.
and we did the last so yards on the
rims only; for any attempt to put on
a brake at that pace without tires,
would have skidded ms over the edge
in noment-so we all arrived
pretty well together, amidst an In
describable ovation from the whole
population of the surrounding coun-
try. who had all come down from the
upper yailas to the village for the
occasion, and had been watching Us
in great excitement all the way down
the face of the cliff.
My first action, when we finally
stopped, was to jump out of the car
and to go ard congratulate the tEo
now dismounted and somewhat ex
hausted heroes on their ma gntf1cent
and most daring horsemansnjp, which
commanded my most hearty and cor
dial admiration / next congra tulated
Hussein also on both his men and the
horses. After that, the latter were
attended TO, as they always arc
among the Kurds, with the very
greatest care, and, the other car
shortly afterwards arriving, with
news that no one had been seriously
hurt, Hussein then dragged me into
a howell to give me the best enter
tainment he could. which consisted
of fine curdled milk, the true noun
tain drink, the same being provided
outside for my men, who were then
busy putting on new tires and a new
wheel. some of our spokes having
been badly sprung in our last effort.
This over, we bade good-b TO
Hussein and his wild mountain
sportsmen, in the midst of great
cheering, with the certainty that we
should all Of us at any time be safe
I'm his country, II we got into any
trouble farther on-a state of affairs
which seemed TO be far from i'm
probable.
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the river roaring through its rocky
gorge in the valley far below.
Luckily for US, the road did not go
quite straight, and our friends left
II to take q short cut, which allowed
the car to get up it's speed unham-
pered by the galloping horses, so that
1t then became a race as to who
should reach the entrance to the ledge
first. They did, but, as 1 expected they
were by that time going too fast to
be able to take the turn safely, and two
of them bumped into the face of the
rocky cliff, with what result l do not
know, but at any rate we saw them no
more. and I was then committed to
trying to pass these wild riders on the
ledge of rock.
This I did not intend to adventure.
as I was confident the next turn
would be sure to be In the opposite
direction, SO that could imagine
them. II they kept up the rate of
speed at which they were then going,
shooting clear OF the road into space
at the turn and hitting the river bed
some hundreds of feet below with a
sickening sQuelch. / therefore kept
behind them, and so enjoyed a won
derful exhibition of hair-raising
horsemanship which I wouldn't have
missed for worlds
All IuIS LlHlS we were OOlnS sOulo
pretty tall skids" round the bends
ourselves. and Hussein had to hold
on with both hands to keep his seat.
One would have expected him under
these circumstances, being an alb
solutc novice, to keep pretty quiet;
but not at ALL
! stole a glance at him. for one
moment only, between the turns. and
saw he was yelling with sheer de-
light. and screaming at his pals
by name, letting out a shrek of JOY
every time q horse slipped (Which
was often), till at last one of them
took e. real beauty, clean heels over
head.
At that Hussein as nearly as pos
sible fell out Of the car, for he let
go his hold in order to clap his hands
with delight, and as at the moment
we had to swerve to avoid the fallen
horse still rolling over in the road,
he was thrown clean out of his seat
and only saved from going overheard
by my having the luck to catch a
Arm hold of the tail of his long coat.
1 held on to IL like grim death, being
just able to pull him back into his
seat.
think that really only increased
his enjoyment, and he kept crying
Faster! faster:" while the slope got
sleeper" and sleeper" and the turns
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such beautiful sounds and harmonies
that they called them music, that
glorious universal language under
stood by all who are In tune with
Gods law
IWHEN she was s years old lit
w tie Viola Barnes was singing in
the church choir at Plattsmouth
Neb., where the family lived, and at
years was playing the organ for the
church services.
Although she was gifted with a
fine contralto voice she did not take
up the serious study of the voice un-
til she was 16 years old, when she
went away to a music school and
seminary. She returned home two
years later, to be quickly wooed and
won by David Allen Campbell, a
young attorney from Ohio, and the
cares Of home life and her three little
boys soon absorbed most of her time.
However. her belief in music, not
only as d personal. artistic JOY, but
as medium for developing and refin-
ing whole communities, burned in her
with such consuming fire that she
was forced to seek some outlet for
its expression. There was at that
time no music in the public schools
of Plattsmouth, Neb. With the as
sistance of a young woman who was
visiting her from Oberlin. Ohio. she
fdrew up plan for teaching music
in the schools. presented it to the
school board and had II accepted.
The appointment of her husband as
clerk of the Supreme Court Of Ne
braska necessitated removal TO Lin
coin. in that State. There she found
little being done along musical lines.
Believing that an interest in music
only waited some one to touch the
torch to its slumbering fires. she
called together some of the women
Musical" the first musical club in
Lincoln. This club has been in con-
tinuouS existence since its founding,
with constantly increasing member
ship, and was one of the original IS
musical clubs whose affiliation form
ed the National Federation of Music
Clubs in 1897. 1t has played an inn
portant part in the musical develop
ment of Lincoln, Neb.
While president Of this club, and
having studied voice at intervals in
Chicago and New York, Mrs. Camp
bell went to London to study under
Nine. Celleni. who was at that time
court teacher. and from whom she
took daily lessons for eight months.
II seems a Ions way from a log
cabin on the unsettled plains of Ne
braska to a debut in ST. James Hall
In London. before members of the
royal family, but that was the course
of Mrs. Campbell between childhood
and early womanhood. 1T was dur.
ing the Queens jubilee that this great
opportunity came to me to appear on
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Of the upper pass. about 25 miles
above the frontier, late in the eve
ming. and it appeared impossible to
reach our camp below that night.
However, while seeking a spot to
bivouac, we came across a small
four-wheeled hand car used by the
men working on the railway, and
the railway on that.
We were well aware that the gra-
dent was both severe and continuous,
but we, of course, paid no heed to the
terror of the Armenians, who sought
to dissuade US from sssaying the trip,
saying that we should certainly be
killed (which IN itself really did not
worry them at AID and that they
would certainly be accused afterward
of having made away with us. This
last possibility, however. reduced
them to a state OF abject terror.
Having first cut poles and fitted
them to the hand car as brakes on
the wheels, we started soon after
midnight upon what proved to be a
really glorious trip, with just that
amount of uncertainty about its suc-
cessful achievement which was re-
qufred to lend it a real thrill
Our altitude at starting was 500
feet, and we knew we had to descend
5000 feet in about 80 miles. There
were four of US on the hand car, and
none Of US had been down the line
before, nor had any of US previously
undertaken any trip of the kind. We,
however, knew the limo had been GER
titled by the engineers as unsafe for
the little train to go over carrying
the labor parties, and we were pro-
foundry ignorant as to the actual eff
fciency of the pole brakes which we
had improvised.
The scene was one Of enhancing
beauty: warm Summers night, with
the widest OF rugged mountains and
rocky precipices on all sides OF US;
foaming waterfalls descending from
the slopes above and a boiling torrent
ever roaring far below; while over
all hung a bright full moon, causing
each rock to stand out in bold relief.
and showing clearly every detail of
what seemed to be a fairy valley
lying far beneath US in the peaceful
silver moonlight.
As may be IMAGINED, We started
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Adventure. in flashing and un-
usual forms, has been the life habit
Of Col. Rawlinson. Beginning as
E brilliant rolo player, he took up
automobile racing and later avia-
ton, and in all OF these he has
rubbed elbows with death.
AFTER serving in France during
The World War. he was sent to the
war East. remaining there for
several years after the wars end
Or this period in his career he has
written four articles, of which this
is the second
In the preceding article Col.
RawIinscn gave a graphic account
Of plotting boIshevik ship loaded
with high explosives-the rail of
the bridge was lined with cases of
dynamite--out of Baku Harbor
under Il rain of shells from the
s,unboats. This was done by 10
finglishmen in the teeth of crew
of 96 armed bolshevists.
Col. Rawlinson Is the son Of the
late Sir Henry Rawlinson, re-
uowned Archaeological, who deci-
phered the ancient Persian and
Assyrian languages. and he IL IL
brother OF Lord Rawiinson, COM
n,ander of the 4th British Army in
the World War. and now commander
OF the British forces in India.
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y. S. Music History to Be Featured
Here at World Meeting of Women

By EIlGARETTA NORTH.
" HE most important gathering z.
of women ever held anywhere
in the world is to take place
in Washington, d. C, early in
frcrxa thS. IL b
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e. NJ. g.. G. n. F., ID. =. q.
A FTER our successful dash from
~ Baku Harbor with a ships
"A load of ammunition and dyua-
mite, on returning TO England
had the good fortune to meet
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Dam DobbSDaifV
OH, WHAT A FUNNY NOTE
MAY OFFER FORTUNE FOR A
SONG

A wild New York rumor says a
rich woman wants to buy young
girls vocal cords so she can sing in
grand opera. The vocal cords would
be transplanted, just like gland
operation.
While there are many singers
whose voices need amputating, we
don't think these voices should be
grated on someone else.
If this woman wants to learn grand
opera, or, as it might be called in
this case, gland opera, why doesn't
she buy a ranch and call the cows
every night? That's the way a
Texas girl learned.
SPORTS
A scientist is planning a trip to
the moon. Another scientist says he
will find nothing there. We say he
will find filling stations, insurance
agents, tax collectors, politicians, sax
ophone players and people who talk
too much. Why shouldn't he find
them there? They are everywhere
else.
ACCIDENTS
Chorus girls get $4,000 for q
broken heart and an Ohio man got
only $500 for broken leg.
FOREIGN NEWS
Germany is restricting the output
of beer, the effort to restrict the in.
take having failed.
MARKETS
Experience is fine, but man with
a wild son in college should be giver
wholesale rates.
FINANCES
Too much money makes you un
happy-if q neighbor has it.
WEATHER
Only a few more weeks in which
to cuss winter.
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A STRANGE WAY TO HONOR
HARDING'S MEMORY

The mud when frank A. Wander
lip threw at the reputation of the
late President Harding did not stick
Testifying before the Senate oil in
vestigating committee recently. Mr..
Vanderlip admitted that he had done
nothing but repep. sordid rumor of
the sort that is always being banded
about concerning public men.
Substantially, | said in my speech
that there were rumors coming from
Washington which went beyond gos-
sip" the witness told the committee.
Il believed that out of respect to
President Harding's memory this
scandal, for I believe it scandal,
should be coldly looked at"
And that was all he could say!
The absurd baselessness Of that
part of Mr.. Vanderlip's speech in
which he had looked under the edge
of shroud is further
emphasized by the ignorance which
he displayed in another part of his
speech, when he asserted that the
reason the Senate committee had not
insisted that Mr.. Fall testify was
that the members were afraid he
would incriminate others Of high i'm
portance.
Mr. Vanderlip admitted to the COM
mittee that he did not know that Mr..
Fall had been summoned and had re-
fused to testify on the ground that
his testimony might tend to incrim-
mate him. Every newspaper in the
country carried the news, which was
everywhere of first-page perform
ance. Yet the news was unread by
man who presumes to be sufficiently
informed to instruct his countrymen,
to denounce Senators, and to impute
dish honesty to dead PRESIDENT!
Mr.. Vanderlip had nothing to tell.
In contrast to him was Louis H.
Brush, one Of the two publishers who
purchased the Marion Star from
President Harding. Mr.. Vanderlip
had referred to Mr.. Brush and his
associate as two young men of no fl
nancial standing. Mr. Brush testified
that he had known Mr.. Harding for
twenty-five years, and that, in addi-
tlOH 10 HIS HAIL Interest III lHe Ctai ,
he owned practically all the stock in
three other Ohio newspapers and a
small interest in another in New
York State.
The price paid was $3s0,O00, in
stead of the $550,OOO of which Mr..
Vanderbilt spoke, and Mr.. Brush gave
details to show that neither he nor
his associate borrowed any money
except two ordinary bank loans.
Mr.. Vanderlips charges have fall
en- flat. They would be merely ridi-
culous if they were not also ire
mendous wrong. They wronged the
reputation of the late President.
They wronged Mrs. Harding and the
present publishers of the Marion
Star. And above all, they wronged
the country, for they raised in the
minds Of millions of Americans a
baseless suspicion that a President of
the United States has been bribed.
A strange way, indeed, to honor
Harding's memory!-Chicago Journal
. of Commerce.
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wife should share her secrets with
another woman while she kept them
from me.
Rather peremptorily I asked Ruth
what she was doing, and she in
formed me she had just put large
sum of money in the safe that she
hadn't wanted to keep in her room
until banking hours the next morn
ing. This money, she explained, was
the result of the days sales in a
new lingerie shop she had just open
ed. Us
let her. think she put that over
me, but when Leslie came home. l
demanded an explanation, demanded
that she open the safe, which at
first she refused. Finally she opened
it and found the money Ruth had
said she put in there.
/ knew then that Ruth Ellington
had given me same cock and bull
story. knew she could never have
made six thousand dollars worth of
sales during one day in that little
, shop of hers. Suddenly thought !
had hit upon the right solution. /
told Leslie I thought this money must
have been sent to Ruth by her alb
sent husband, to be paid to me and
others of his creditors. ] promised
her l would Investigate the whole
matter. In the meantime ! forbade
my wife to speak to Ruth Ellington
| again until the whole thing was ex-
planned satisfactorily.
might just as we'll have been
talking to side of the wall as far
as my wishes were concerned be-
cause Leslie absolutely refused ia
give up her friend, and there the
matter stands.
At present she has not given up
her friend and I have not given up
the money. We are in deadlock
over it. Leslie will make no explain
alton why she gave the combination
Of her safe to Ruth Ellington and re-
fused it to me, and nothing ! can
say has any effect upon her.
If it were not that my business
was running along very smoothly
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XVIII

He called for Madame Zattiany
at ten O'Clock. This time she was
standing in the hall as the man
opened the door. and she came out
Immediately. A lace scarf almost
concealed her face.
II didn't order the car" she said.
1T is such a fne night. and she
lives 80 near. Do you mind?"
Il much prefer to walk. but your
slippers"
"They are dark and the heels
not too high"
I'm not going to make the
slightest preliminary attempt at
Indifference tonight, nor wait for
one of your leads. How long do
you intend to stay at this party?"
"Oh, an hour. possibly. One
must not be rude" Her own tones
were not even, but he could not
see her face.
"But you'll keep your word and
tell me everything tonight?"
She gave deep sigh. eyes. I'll
keep my word. No more now
please! Tell me. what do
they do at these parties besides
talk-dance?" N
Not always. They have char.
AIDES, spelling matches, pick word
out of a hat and make tmpromptu
cnonoh oc
but Mon dieu!" She stopped
short and pushed back her scarf.
Whatever expression she may have
wished to conceal there was moth.
ing now in her face but dismay.
But you did not tell me this or
should not have accepted. I
never bore myself. I understood
these were your intellectuals.
Charades! Spelling matches:
Words in the hat! It sounds like
small town moved to New York"
We'll, good many Of them are
from small towns and they rather
pride themselves on preserving
some Of the simplicities of ruraf
life and juvenescence. while lead.
ing an exaggerated mental life for
which nature designed no man.
Perhaps it is merely owing to an
obscure warning to preserve the
balance. Or an innocent arrogance
akin to Mrs. Oglethorpe's when
she Is looking her dowdiest. !. =.
But Cora often has good music
-. still. II you don't want to 60
on I'm sure ! do not"
NO." she said hurriedly. u