Vf. . Vtf.W WTIP'.MS'J . V Srt, i .. ' ' vTI,"" "- (),.h...'. : 5' tVINS. COBB TO SPEAK AT RED CROSS RALLY W m Mass-Meeting Will Be Held Next Thursday at Forrest I Theatre IRVIN S. COBB The popular writer, who will speak t the Red Cross Rally at the For rest .Theatre next Thursday after noon. A big- Red Cross rally, with Irvln S Cobb, who has been called America's great Mt reporter, as the principal speaker, will be held In the Forrest Theatro next Thurs day afternoon. The meeting will be held under the au iplces of tho Southeastern Pennsylvania Branch of the American Ited Cross and the Independence Square workroom of the Hed Cross. The gathering; will be public and ad mltslon will be free, reserved seats being obtained for Invitations which weru Issued jraiterday. Hxtra Invitations may bu ob tained at the Ited Cto3s headquarters, at !1 South Eighteenth street. Great Interest Is being taken In Mr. Cobb's talk. The boxes of the theatre will bo occu pied by almost 200 persons who aro promi nent In this city's affairs. A group of aoclrty girls, under the direction of Mrs Joeeph F. Leldy, will act as ushers nnd Will also receive the contributions of tho audience for the work of the Hed Cross. Boy Scouts will alBo assist at the meeting. 'The Independence Square Auxlllarjf of the Red Cross Is working to aid PennsylVa Bla Base Hospital No. 1U, a local Institution which Is to be established by tho organiza. tlon. Mr. Cobb's lecture Is to be on a ciuotatlnn f from Shakespeare, "Thrice Is he armed that a&ui ma quarrel juai. ur. xucuaru ii. Harte, chairman of the Ited Cross in tills lection, will preside. Another active worker for the rally Is Dr. Charles D. Hart. In addition to the meeting In tho Forrest Theatre Mr. Cobb will also be the prin cipal speaker at a "Red Cross night" to bo held next Thursday at the Huntingdon Val ley Country Club, when the lecture will be followed by dancing. The committee In charge of the country club meeting Includes Mrs. George Horace Lorlmer, chairman ; Mrs. Frederick Morris, Mrs. Corblt I.oer Inc and Mrs. Archibald Hubbard. The women's committee in charge of the arrangements for tho big mabs-mectlng in cludes Mrs. Benjamin Rush, chairman; Mrs. George Horace Lorlmer, vice chairman i tw"'"- """Fi"' uoiuy anu airs, i-iavia i.cwis. Ii,ir. iewis will take charge of the financial I ,-vi tide of the gathering. !, Mrs. Rush and Mrs. Lorlmer are chair- nan ana vice chairman of the Independence Bourne uiuuvii, ana oiner omcers include lira, Thomas Reath, vice president; Mrs. J. Norman Jackson, treasurer; Mrs. Ilemy Brlnton Coxe, Mrs. Rodman K Clrlscom, Mr. Lorlmer, Mrs. Thomas Robins, Mrs. Reath and Mrs. Rush, advisory board ; Mrs. David Lewis, chairman finance committee) Mrs. Rush.and Mrs. Reath, purchasing com mittee, and Mrs. Franklin Bache, Mrs. Kllz Jbeth Scott, Mrs. Mary ralmer and Miss VUry-GlrvIn, cutting committee. PRESIDENT'S WAR CALL 51. . WITH SUNDAY LEDGER :. Eight-Pace Sunnlempnr Will t Also Contain Resolution and " r.i.... 2.- n i -f ? x rainouc oongs 1 ' President Wilson's great speech before " -Mress last Monday will be published In" --w.t.ncm. iuim ana aistrluuted free with c fomorrnw'a n.ii.n. t i ,...., . i " 'i. ucustr, inn win oner to' J "i, opportunity to obtain this address PrODablV tlln frrnntoat lAll.nKA.i I a fc L- " --- n. w.ufc v.c,ivicw li ill! jlllli;i ( ru p.re8ldent since Lincoln's speech at t -"'uu.b in a lorm in which It in.iv bo .!k Properly preserved for future gcnerutlotis. ''t Not .onIy w111 lho President's speoch bo ' given, hnf tho. ...in i.- i ..... . i. ii imr ""'" "in ur in mis eigni-page r CW nt the "war" resolutton ndopted by a... . ' u'-Pago portrait or tho 1'iesl H af Lplnures of tne Capitol and of scenes aiT Vu 1'repareunet.s measures under 2f.i.i tB.ureat way to mak0 certain of warning this supplement Is 'to order now. ILL ORGANIZE NEW CHURCH ewnan. VU8'.cll!ll"Teur evungellst. will ?SSf Bi'hUrch "orroiv night In Tabor U L U.i'ney,,a.venue- u wl be "own Th,S ty Ref0,rmed Methodist Church. U M a'ti. ht W0.r,k of ,ne evaiiKollst. whu .....: . TItchenell. many members of iti .3? .i?d. .?rtr ha been I '7 tin., v ' u ",l l"a tra I." S nee the m ta hi. .;. :, '" "". "e..nM a.evotea F tie onnin., .L evaiiBeiistic work, and m Tiff SrortlMW churc" " a dlrect re- U . aythingsof Fate' f'tnchMV1 the Mina' nihBkable faith ? M .?.."'? a woman with the pure heart beJrt" - are ne Children of tho Uul. ni5. 6 "ew novel of that tlo by fi JSr?8' .nC8 more Dtlny is the I ritV. i. i '" lne '"vincible force which H t thn..Pf. t83 and leaut' from the hands Ik itanw. Il, h.as Prejerred from the be- a Th uesiroy, & '11(hn.Irboro ls cIean. honest. Intelll- rS un. i deP-rooted love of purity nnd llte.; J. B Del,er Jn the .sweetness f .. wlaftm Woman Syly'a lH a chnrm- '. Nlii k.. V ""' wiio nas tr ea to A."1' her ehsrn nt .. .j .i. 19 me Ivan wl,u ii,c t-oior OI ElWwui.from !"8 depths of sonjld sin I Met TT? tu"1?ss. Incredible father has lWniWi.i aboro-knowing nothing of 1 1 W ? v ' marries ner and reveres SS"fc.,.ei? .,re deePly hapjiy Sylvia with Kit fc!. W contentmen,t of a restless soul M IL .lMt found Peace; Harboro with ERuctor "I? '?va Bnd reverence of the 4tt 1 5; Nothln. It would seem, could SllHla'. I?." them' unlMS ll might be lfct"ytuaUy, In h. im,. .o ...- .a. ..":. .M " "i m. ih. T rama oetween them, and .-..". l ,ne ttbrlc f their hap- taL vuih elr dreams crumbles d btaU ! lfdy8t Thl" downwrd rush 7 nwnK is uevoiopea njr fWMh tj aklU' of thoroughly good wrtwnnM naaaud his -' - EVENING LED6ER-PHIIIA.DBLPHIA. SATURDAY, " APRIL1 k, 1M.T) '"' ; ''' -" HOW YOUNG IS LIFE WORTH LIVING IF YOU ARE AFRAID TO LOSE IT? This Question Is Answered in St. John G. Ervine's New Novel That Reminds One of DeMorgan TPVKUY mature patriot la wondering In X-J theso critical days how tho young men of Ametlcn will net when confronted by wnr. "Will they respond willingly and Bladyto tho cnll of their country, ns they icact to tho call of tho natural Instincts? Will they feci that America ls not worth living for if it is not worth dying for, or will they bo "slackers"? Will there bo among them physical cowards who will bo great enough to take their fear In their hands mid cast It behind them, nnd will thoro bo men who will go Into the nimy nnd navy without a thought of what great sacrifice they may be called upon to make? Wo nro In n (fnlr way to have theso questions answered within the next few months, as they have been answered in England nnd France. Much has been written of the effect of war upon tho youth on tho other sldo of tho (ocean. Thero are tragic pages In "Mr. Brltllng Sees It Through" which throw much light on tho subject. Those readors who found "Mr. Brltllng" absorbing will find St. John a, Ervine's new novel, "Changing Winds," of compelling Interest. Mr. Wells dealt particularly with the rovolutloA In the thinking of grown man and tho father of a family. "Mr. Brltllng" Is tho Hrltlsh splrlt'personlfled.-Mr. Er vino has dealt almost exclusively with young men, starting with them as boys In a preparatory school, taking them through oollego and bringing war upon them Just as they have begun successful careers. Ills hero Is a congenital coward. Tho lad ls afraid of the water. Death fills him with nn Indefinable terror. When his friends enlist ho dreams of them killed and mangled on the battlefield, and wakes In horror at the thought that It was he nnd not they who had been killed. But nt last, under the stress of strong emotion, his spirit conquers his body and ho decides to offer himself for his country. Ho has reached that stato where he can say with conviction that Llfo Isn't worth while If one Is afraid to lose It a year or two more, what do they matter If a Job be shirked? It Isn't the tlmo one lives that matters, he went on, It's what ono does In the time! This ls tho conclusion of the whole matter. And a pretty flno conclusion, too not new and not strange, but In accord, nnco with tho experience of the race slnco men llrst -began to have ideals and to believe that there Is more to llfo than simply filling tho belly. "Changing Winds" ls a young man's book. The young men In It are British and Irish by accident of birth; but they might have been Americans or French men or Germans. Yes, Germans, for In spite of all the horrors that have come to be known ns Germany there ls a spirit und a soul In the Teuton that ls akin to the soul of all mankind. Mr. Ervine's youths are human types at bot tom. The environment In which he puts them is of little matter. Thero me four of them who go through the" volume from MOVING STORY OP A MODERN MIRACLE How a Grafting New York Po liceman Was Transformed Into a Decent Citizen Whooer Is In doubt whether miracles can happen has the evidence at hand to re solve his uncertainties Into certainties if he will only study It. They nro happening eory day. A record Is made of some of then! and others occur where only a Mnall group takes notice of them. Hero is the story of a modern miracle: A boy was born In a western mining THE WICKED JOHN GOODE town of a drunken Irish father and a hard working mother. He was one of many children. Ills mother was too busy to give him any teaching and his father saw him only to beat hlni. He early developed Into a liar and a thief a thief, because that was the only way he could get money to buy candy, and a liar because he discovered that was the only way he could escape a beating. He did not know the difference between right and wrong. At the age of eleven he- ran away from homo to escape the brutality of his father. He stole rides on rnllway trains and came In contact with the thieves and bums who travel that way. Ho was arrested In St. Louis for sleeping In a barn and ordered out of town by the Judge, who. In delivering this kind of a Bentence. kicked him along orf the way on which he had started. Experienced thieves trained him as. a pickpocket. He became a gambler and a drunkard because his asso ciates wcro drunkards and gamblers. He was arrested and sentenced to "reform Hchools" and came out worse than he went In. Ho went to New York and got on the police force, where he grafted with he worBt of them, and was protected by th politicians whose game he played. He mar ried a good woman for the sole purpose of doing her out of 12000 that she had saved. He took the money with no relets, and gambled It away with the knowledge that he could get more somewhere else, Kla of. fensea became bo great that ija "alined t.m. h nolle t orca, to . ecaa ,HawUai. Bbbm jft ..jjHHHbbmbS MEN EACT WHEN CONFRONTED BY WAR GROWS TITLE TO PX beginning to end tho like of which might bo found In any of tho American colleges, Their talk Is nt first tho crude, Immature talk of Inexperience, lightened up by flashes of Intuition such ns delight all men who deal much with outh, because of Its levelatlon of awakening compre hension of tho significance of human ex periences. If tho young men In the American colleges do not devour tho book It will bo for tho reason that the men charged with their education do not call their attention to It nnd lmm ess upon them its vnluo ns a document which will help them to understand themselves. It ls a young woman's book as well, for It exhibits young men nnd their ways of thought In a manner seldom equaled. Thero Is a frankness In tho discussions to which young women nro never treated and of which they know nothing unless they chance to hear young men talking freely among themselves where they havo no fear of being overheard. Tho femalo youth can learn from It what tho male youth is like when he ls speaking out what ls really In his mind. It ls a book for fathers and mothers as wcll ns young people, for there Is a fond father In It nnd a heroic mother. Mr. Ervlno has entered Into tho heart of motherhood when ho makes a widow whose only son has enlisted say: I feel proud and afraid. I'm glad that N'lnlan has Joined. I think I should hate It If he hadn't and yet I wish, too, that that ho weren't In It. I am not much of a patriot, Henry. I Ioe my son more than I lovo my country. , I've never been able to understand those women ono reads about who offer , their sons gladly I don't offer N'lnlan gladly. I offer him that's all. I know that men have to defend their country, and I lovo England and I'm proud to be KnKllsh but when I've said all that. It's very little when I remember that I lovo N'lnlan. I suppose that that's a selfish thing to say but i don't care whether It Is or not! As tho hero ls Irish, Mr. Ervlne has much to say about Ireland and the Irish question. As he ls a Protestant, his bias need not be further explained. Many of the things which ho makes his charac ters say will bo offensive to the Roman Catholics, nnd some of them will be pleas Ing. His characterizations of English nnd Irish statesmen and literary men he mentions them by names -aro peno tratlngand entertaining. Of Chesterton, for Instance, ho fcays that his lecture would have been funny If it could have been heard, but he laughed so heartily at his Jokes as he saw them approaching that he forgot to make them. Wells was deprecating and almost lnartlculnto ns ho told of the Importance of the novelist. And so on with half a dozen other great names. The book has many of the qualities which havo made Will DeMorgan's writ ing famous, and If I mistake not It Is bound to bo popular. GEORGE W. DOUGLAS. C1n1N WINDS, in- Ht John tl KrWii-. 11.60. New York: The Macmlllan Company In such straits that ho had not the carfaro to go to her he went to tho Bowery Mission to get paper and a postage stnmp so that he might write. He was. a man without conscience. The world to him was made ijp of selfish grafters. He thought the mission workers belonged to the samo class. But when work was offered to him by a man who approached him as he had neer been approached before ho accepted It to his own great surprise. Ho had neer worked before. He kept the Job for three days, until the task for which he was. hired was tlnlshed. He did not get drunk, but he sought more woik. He attended lho meet ings nt the mission and heard a man tell how he had maltreated his wife. That night, for the first tlmo in his life, he felt regret for what ho had dono to the good woman who had married him. Out of that regret his moral nature began to develop, and after two stumbles on the way upward he made a home for her nnd earned an honest livelihood and devoted his spare time to helping men to find the better way to which he had been guided by a Tower the mastery of which he bnd discovered by so curious an accident. He is still a worker In the mission. If this be not a mliaclc, then words must have new meanings But it ls the kind of a miracle with which lellglous workers are familiar. It might baxe happened earlier In this case If our courts ami piisons were conducted for the purpose of saving men. The little boy whom the St l.ouls Judgo nad kicked on his way downwai.l might have been saved If the Judge had been blessed with a modicum of tho milk of human kindness. One of tho purposes of "The Wicked John Ooode," In which the tale Is told, ls to disclose the almost crimi nal stupidity with which, tho prisons and reformatories havo been conducted and still are manuged. Indeed, the book ls one of the most moving tracts on prison leform that has come from the contemporary pres-j Thomas Mott Osborne has glen If the seal of his approval by writing an Introduction for It. TIIK WICKRD JOHN OOODU Ily Horace Wlnthrop Scindllm With an Introduction hy Thomas Mott Onborne and nn rpllosua bv tho Itev. J. O Halllmond, Suporlntenclent of tho Itowery Mlaalon. New York: (Hume II, Doran Company. $1, Must Keep Auto License Tags Clean NOniUSTOW.V. Pa., April 7. Every au tomobillst who goes through Xorrlstown next Sunday with dirty license tags will be stopped nnd compelled to wash them under the supervision of a pol'eeman. This method of enforcing the automobile law, which pro vides for a clean license tag, has been de cided upon by Chief of Police Fellman. A BOOK for every' JLX. member of the family, for reading aloud, for' YOU if you felt the charm of such stories as "Little Women" and "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm." Watch your book-a-cZar'a window 7he Middle jVli ". mri 4 Mural v v fl mM X ABBBBBBBS BBVBVBvSBBBB: fhapyajiimiiii iii w.iWHw-,Jiiil3BtwBBBBBBB lyF PbbbR. bbbb GALUSHA A famous Pennsylvania!!, who pushed GROWS CONTRIBUTION TO THE MAKING OF AMERICA Pennsylvania's Famous Congressman Did More Than Any of His Contemporaries to .People the AMONG the men whose careers are part tx. of tho history of Pennsylvania few If any have dono greater service to the na tion than Galusha A. Grow His life span ned two centuries, as ho was born In 1823 nnd did not die until 1907. He IIed from before the building of tho railroads, tho In vention of tho electric telegraph and tho telephone to the days of wireless teleg raphy, tho electric street car and the automobile. It Is difficult to realize now that when his mother with her six children migrated from Connecticut to Susquehanna County, In the northern tier of Pennsylva nia counties, that this was regarded as a western State. Yet the families that came hero from Connecticut were said by those who remained nt home to be "going out West." Mrs. Grow and her children wera ono of a group of families that Joined In the mi gration In lho early thirties of tho last century. They chartered a boat on which they loaded their household goods at Mys tic, Conn. They sailed up Long Island Sound, down the East River, around New York, which then did not extend above Twenty-third street, nnd continued up tho Hudson to Hondout. There they transfer red their belongings to canal boats and traclcd through tho new Dclawnie and Hudson Canal to Honcsdale, whence they were carried by wagon to a settlement on tho Tunkhannock Creek ten ml!es above Its Junction with the Susquehanna. Hern Galuihn Grow, who died only ten years ago grew up In tho wilderness where sturdy men and women were carving farms out of the forest. And here he got his first dream of tho duty of the nation to Its pioneers that led him to devote ten years of his life in Congress to obtain the pass ago of tho homestead law. We ot this gen eration do not realize the Importance of that great statuto which entrenched tho authority of the nation In the States and opened up the public lands to hona-flde settlers free from the exploitation of specu lators, Yet the Czar of Hussla, who has lately been deposed, understood Its great ness, for when an American who attended his coronation nsked him what he was going A Poem in Prose JOAN AND THi: nAniES AM) I t!y Conmo Hamilton, fl. Boaton: I.lttle, Ilrown & Co. Thero is more poetry In Cosmo Hamilton's new book, "Joan and the Babies and I." than In many a volumo of verse. Indeed, the book Is n romantic poem In prose. It Is the brief story of a lonely man and a lonely woman who discover at first sight that they were made for each other's com fort and companionship. They moet with out an introduction as though they had known each other always. There Is a sug gestion that they were kindred spirits In somo previous existence, say In the time of the Vikings. It Is n clean nnd beautiful bit of sentiment projected upon the back ground of a New England seashore resort. It would be as easy to tear It to bits as to trample on a rose, but we all know that a rose Is Its own excuse for being, and we treat It accordingly. Thus will the dis criminating trat Mr. Hamilton's story. PubliMhed Today MEXICAN WAR DIARY OF GEORGE B. McCLELLAN Edited, with Introduction and notes, by WILLIAM STAKIt MTERB. The campaign Journal, 1840-47, nt the Lieutenant of Engineer who became com mander of tho Union armies In tha Civil War. !eea!a a new McUlellan. A vivid picture or rtKular and olunteer In camp and field In llelco. Cloth, 03 pp., 111.. II net; by mall, 11.00. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS . Princeton New Jersey MALICE IN KULTURLAND By HORACE WYATT Illustrated after Tenniel, by W. Tell The cleverest parod; y Alice In WonOarland ever published. Delight MINCtTON I WivuLsirvy A. GROW the h'omestead law through Congress. Great West public domain of the United States. In due to do with the Siberian land Nicholas re plied: "We Intend to do with It what your great statesman, Mr. Grow, did with the time wo shall give It to the people, because wo aro convinced that tho homestead law is tho most useful enactment ever placed on the statute books of nations." James T DuBoIs, of Hallstead, In Mr. Crow's old county, a Journalist and diplo matist his last public service was as min ister to Colombia has written a llfo of tho distinguished father of the homestead law. He was assisted by Gertrude S. Mathows. Mr. DuBoIs has devoted the greater part of his volume to n history of the homestead legislation that preceded the Grow law nnd to the fight which the South made for the recognition of slavery lit the new territories and to the southern Insis tence on the rights of the States to the pub lie domain. It was not until the South seceded and Its representatives were no longer In Congress that It became possible to pass the net which has peopled the West with men drawn theie by the offer of n homestead from the Government. Mr. Du BoIs has produced an admirably condensed history of the controversy over the land question and the Issues tied up with It. Only a single chanter I elven tn h career of Mr Grow after he left Congress In 1863. hut for Pennsylvanlas this was a most Interesting period, for In Mr Crow's person was Illustrated the evils of the boss system In State politics. Grow had written a letter to Simon Cameron, who ' was Mncoln's first Secretary of War, urging him to take decisive action while It was In his power nnd tolling him that If he did not act soon he would bo Impotent before he knew it. Cameron resented the Implied criticism and while Grow was still Speaker of the House ho had the Congressional dis tricts In the State so reappointed that Grow's district, made famous by David Wllmot and honored by Wllmot's suc cessor, became Democratic and Grow was defeated for re-election Fifteen years later there was a demand for Grow's nomination for the governorship, but tho Cameron machine would have none of him In 1881 EVERY AMERICAN in this fateful crisis should fully understand its causes and future effects. Read THE BOOK OF THE HOUR, characterized by the New York Tribune as "THE AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION OF THE HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS, THE BROADEST AND MOST PENETRATING VISION AND THE MOST PROFOUND CONVICTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NATION." The War JAM Author of "The Evidence in the Case" First published in November, 1916, this powerful discussion of America and the World War has made a deep impression on upon American public opinion. tion and Mr. Beck's now historic speech in London on "America and the Allies") have been," circulated all over the World in the English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Dutctf' languages. , "I most earnestly hope uy.- 11 is me Kina 01 a dook wnicn every sea-respecting American, Avho loves his country, showi; read. I believe that its circulation throughout the whole land would have a very real effect MJ educating puouc opinion as 10 me auiy 01 America in this great Foreword by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "Mr. Beck's volume was and lucid discussion of the essential facts and problems of the consistently unu even vigorously American in IIS spirit." V. I. "One of the most virile and convincing books that the country of the world." N. Y. Sun. "Dignified, clear and dispassionate, a masterly analysis of with noble and persuasive sentiments." London Telegraph. the members of the Legislature from moro than two-thirds of tho Itcpubllcancounlles were pledged to the election of a row ns United States Senator, but the machine was still relentless In Its opposition. Its candidate was tho late Henry T. Oliver of Pittsburgh, Thoro was a de'ndlock and John I. Mitchell, of Tioga, was chosen ns a compromise, candidate, only to turn on the machine within two years and defeat Heaver for tho governorship nnd elect Inttlson. Mr. DuBoIs makes brief mention or theso Incidents, doubtless for thn reason that ho wishes his book to be a homestead law manual. As such It will servo tho purpose very well. (;. w 1). 'VRw8"vAi.Ci!l.(" VB,Ii''r of the'tlome.tenrt Math.. nf." .T' .""""Is "! "ertrudn 8 lSfti,"hTo"n MlfttrSnyJ"' ,,0"oni Advice to Mothers Kor those women expecting to become mothers, who nre rcluctnnt to ask tho fam Ily Physician about what they wish to know, nnd should know, many books havo been written. One of the best, becauso one of tho most complete and detailed, .has Just been published under tho title of "Advice to Women." It Is written by a woman of arge experience In such matters In Kng land, nnd has been revised by nn American woman to conform to the practlco In the united States. Hvery expectant mother should have all tho Information which this volume contains, whether sho Is recently n?Mi or wn,,ther sbo has had several children slnco her marriage, Thero ls a surprisingly largo number of mothers who do not know what this book tells them, if they had known It In time they would have saved themselves much suffering and many needless worries. A "?'? 7,. WOMEN- On the rare of tha m?ntm nt'0'!?,' Durln5, ' After Confln" JSnfn.1 ilnrnro Mtacprol Itovlacd to Ami.,f.mn to tAl.V,rlcJ.n 1'rsctlce by Ldla IJ nil's Co New Y"rk' Pllnk & W"B- Farce for Piazza Reading Maxlmllllan Foster's new story, "Shoe strings," is really diverting There nre many characters who figure prominently In tho travesties of real people, but the adventures (such ns they arc) of one J. Lester Tarns constltuto tho story. Tarns, nn erstwhllo floor walker In the "Beehive," a linen shop. Is persuaded to Invest $1700. tho result of many years of sacrifice, for t'.eec Ing purposes. Something goes wrong nt the "bucketshop" and J Lester comes In con tact with the Aladdin's Lamp of the finan cial world the "war bride" much to the disgust of Messrs. Belcher and Lubln, the swindlers. In consequence. Turns reaps n golden harvest. But ho Is not alone Hery member of the boarding house where ho lives meets with tho same good fortune. Then tho entire household goes to Coro nado Beach, Cal It Is here that tho real fun commences, when Tarns, armed with a goodly sized bank roll and the knowiedgo of the contents of "In the Drawing Hoom," a book of social etiquette, sallies forth to take tho social world In one blazing assault. Tho story Is of tho up-to-date variety: present-day finance, motion pictures In the making, cherished desires to becotno social lions and kindred Ideas. There nre many laughs in this tale. SHOESTUINOH Ily Maxlmllllan Koatcr. New York! I. Apploton & Co Major Charles W. Gordon, of tho Forty third Canadian Infantry, of 'Winnipeg, known to the world ns Ralph Connor, nov elist, brought cheers from 100 ministers at the luncheon of the Clergy Club the other day by telling them that ho soon hoped to see the Stars nnd Stripes waving oer the trenches In France. "The men In the trenches all look up to America," he said. "We will nil be glad when we see the troops of the United States on the fighting line." The luncheon was held- In tho Fifth Ave nue Building, and was attended by clergy men of many denominations Major Gor don Is In this country on a special mission from tho British, War Office, and will re turn shortly to his regiment In Flanders. - Publishing a book of crse. says Don Marquis, Is like dropping a rose lenf Into n canyon and waiting to hear tho echo. WOMAN By Vance Thompson Helen Wnllerion Moody says. "I hope that women not only In America but in Kurope as well will thoughtfully read this book, for it Is the widest nnd freshest Interpretation of the great hap. penlngs today wh'ch are breaking up all traditions and lessening sex spe cializations." tt,25 Htt. Postage Eitra. Alt bookstores K. I. Duttiin & Co., B8I lifdi Ae., N. Y. and Humanity By -J M. BECK both sides of the Atlantic. It made history in its potent influence Selected chapters (as the burning indictment of the Cavell execu- that there will be a wide circulation a classic the moment it annoarod.- xnn Ty.tt.iv n.nv avaiAcmt r4uu pages THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE 300 pagte '"?$ll New Saxondom in a N( Tho gront war serves as the aombar 1 craft for the stnge In tho first act of. Belloo Lowndes's new novel. ' meets tho woman In the gloom of natu midnight on a military train, darkened military reasons as a precaution ng'ah Zeppelins. ) Tho book Is one of constant surprise; i drama or situations rather than ona characterizations and psychology. Jt'; conducted as a scquenco of surprises suspenses until the denouement thatJ,l tragic, inclined though It ls to the r dramatic, It ls not of the type of Dr MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES I.ano thrillers. Tho mr,in character, one XaaaaPaaaaafaaaaai9BafBaaiaaaaaaU H aaaW ilaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' 'l' m 'Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal; '! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaV aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxaaaaaaaaaaak. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBat aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHR9aaaaaaaaaV of the heroic men bred oy England In war ja, time. Is splendidly conceived anil plausibly S Clmrnnterlzpri. Thn hnrnlnn. tnn fa rtf1vi llimin.l. Tim npnhlAm Invnli'ml ... r.n& t-Vifl - ... a.w f'.wu..... ....V.....U ui.g v ""ifia mining unu mismaung. The author has handled her material not merely competently, but convincingly, aneUJfe has given a realistic picture of England ifi iransionnea irom mo fcociai and economic, conditions or tno period precedent and suB,.TM sequent to tho Boer war, when Soxondom.f was at Its ebb, as caustically scored by'itu Uudyard Kipling., It Is a new England now, a rejuvenated island nnd empire, physically nnu spiritually, ana airs. Lowndes ls one of tho first to give a picture of the re-creation In fiction. LILLA: A Part nf Ilrr I.lf Tlv Mr. nll.'.vi'l. Uiwndes, 1.35. New York: Oeorae H. "ij,l Dornn CnmnMnv. .!J "Raymond, or Life and Death," Sir 01$j vcr I.odire's remnrknhln nrmiinl nf li w't1? munlcatlons believed to have been received OT "J ' niiiiu.o ji. .no itiuiuy irum iiib Bon Jri xuiyiuunu Kiueu ui mo ironi over a year Tra ago). Is now In Its secnth lareo edition. Mf Apparently tho Intel est In "Spiritualism" la I increasing rather than decreasing in thla mM country. By !fc3 .: WiUoiV-i Woodrciwi 4 -& ...MS?vr IMF' JSff rrr WW aaafe. UaavmWMal aaaaaaaaaal TJr aSaaaal Wm FB & aaTaaa'aaa ;nUKNl NEST MYSTERY STOUT '-VffeJS A capital story . , . Mrs. Woodrow is a clever portrayer of character, and she makes her men and women real. Brooklyn Eagle. At All Booksellers. $1.35 Net LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Publishers Boston of Mr. Beck's 'War and Human- world cris s." 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