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BY 17-STORY PLUNUt:
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C. H. Weston Sought Job as
S'tr.iko-Breaker, but Was
Rojectod by Cohan
New Yorli, Aug. 10. Chnrles II.
Weston, netor, stage manager mid mov
Icg picture director, who sank from a
l.ositlon of wealth and fame to poverty
In the last five years, ended his life here
joterdny afternoon by leaping from n
window on the seventeenth floor of the
Ai-olinn llulldlng. Ills widow in New
ark has been notified.
It developed from letters In the man's
pocket and from further investigation
that he had npplled to George M. Cohan
last Monday for a jab as n "strike
breaker" In the actors' strike, and had
received n reply the following day that
no place was open foi him. There was
an unmalled letter to Mr. Cohan in hU
pocket.
The most remarknble document found i
on the dead man, however, was a letter
addressed "to any one Interested,"
which contained n justification for his
suicide and n description of his feelings
on the point of leaping.
The letter said:
Last night I saw my wife and
darling son the last time on this
earth. It is a strange feeling to know
that it is the last time. Something
in your soul seems to cry, "How
wonderful that last kiss is!" What
a coward I feel! Still, I know I
itm not a coward. It is far better
to die at once than n lingering death
In an insane hospital, as I know I
am crazy.
They will be far better off with
out me. I cannot find employment.
I am unable to keep them. I am
dragging them down. I cannot live
and let it be known that I am the
cause of their downfall. All this
comes to my mind as I nm waiting to
jump. Peoplo arc passing far below.
I do not want to fall on any one. I
am crying like a child. My heart and
head ache. Yet I nm not nervous. I
started to jump a few seconds ngo,
but n vision of my dear, dend mother
came before me just as plain as day.
Billions of thoughts pass through
my brain. What will I see in five
minutes? Will I go to another world?
Will my soul rest in peace? Five
minutes from now will I know what
dying is? I have no fear of hell. 1
cannot suffer any more than I have.
My body is in hell. If I am to go to
hell, ouly my soul can go, but I tan
not snve my soul.
I feel just like n man waiting to
meet his boss when there Is some
thing wrong, fioodby, all. May (iod
bless you. If any paper uses this,
please send n few dollars to my wife
and ton.
ASTOR TRANSFERS TO SONS
$50,000,000 Worth of New York
Realty Placed In' Trust
New York, Aug. 1(5. (Ily A P.)
The New York real estnto holdings of
Viscount William Waldorf Astor,
valued at more than $."0,000,000. were
formally transferred to the Farmers'
Loan Trust Company today, to be held
In trust for his two sons, Wnldorf
Astor and ( aptain John .lacoh Astor
No statement as to the purpose of j
ine irnnsier wns ninue ny Mscouut j "Mncmillan's Pocket Clnssje-.," by
Astor's attorneys, out it was under. Vincent H. Itrecht. bend of the I.'ng
stood to have been in line with the Hh department of the Northeast High
policy he inaugurated in 1011. when I School of this citj. Piofessor Itrecht
he turned over about 5., 000,000 in lonl supplies the usual apparatus for studv
estate to the same company, to be held biographical sketch and notes thnt
ui uuai .. ..,-, ...-. .11 uuu nun-
his sons
It was stated that the move was for
the purpose of escaping the heavj in
heritance tax which would have been
levied had he retained the property
and disposed of it after his death by
will.
The property transferred included
the Hotel Astor, valued nt ?4,0.")0,000;
the Astor Theatre, valued at $1,002.
000; the Astor Apartments in Broad
way and large holdings in Madison and
Eighth avenues.
OFFERS CANTATA PRIZE
Matinee Musical Club Spurs Com
posers to Compete
The Matinee Musical Club has sn
nounced a prize of $100 for a cantata,
Bubject o be selected by the composer,
tuitable for a women's chorus with in
cidental solo parts. The cantata must
not exceed forty nor be less than twenty
minutes in length, and manuscripts are
to be submitted with piano score.
The cantata awarded, the prize will
be given u public presentation on April
27, 1020, in the ballroom of the Tlelle-yue-Strntford
by the Matinee Musical
Club, chorus and assisting artists. This
prize also assures the purcha&ing from
nublisher of at least s'entr-fivo conies
of the work. Tho composition. are to j
be submitted anonymously hut to bear
&ome distinguishing mark, a copy of
which, with the composer's name and
address, is to be inclosed in n separate
sealed envelope.
BARON INVERCLYDE DIES
Cunard Steamship Company Director
Was 55 Year. Old
Glasgow. Aug. 10. (Ily A. P. )
Raron Inverclyde, prominent in '
Ilrltish shipping iiidustry and a director
of the Cunard Steamship Company.
0ad.
' I
Jnmes Cielanil Hums, third Huron .
Invcreljde, wns borp in 18(14 and suc
ceeded to the title in 1lKl."i on the denth
of his brotlier, tho second Ilarou lnver
clyde, who was chairman of.tlie Cunard
Steamship Compan. Itnron Invi-r-clyde
wns the principal director of the
shipowning firm of (!. & .1. Ilurus,
chairman of the Hums Steamship
Company and a director in sevcrnl
banks and industrial concerns. His
heir is .lohn Alan Hums, a lieutenant
In the Scots Hoards, who was twenty
one years old last December.
HISTORIC CANNON FOR MONS!
Canadian Guns That Fired Last
Shots In War Presented to Town
Mons, Belgium, Aug. 10. (Hy A.
P. I Canadian cannon which fired the
last shots at the (iermans ou armistice
day, November 11, were presented to
the village of Mons yesterday with elab
orate ceremonies.
Colonel Itnvey, of the C.intullnn
forces, said Iti presenting the guns that
they would "lie a souvenir of the kind
ness .shown by the natives of the town
to the soldiers, ' The mayor of Mons
spoke odthe splf-sncriHce of the Cjina.
rtlans yho "without profit came to 'fight
lor Hie liberty of Helgluai."
MIDSUMMER
Will? DD TE' TJ-JVO
i iilj uiir lj dui o
WHO WENT TO WAR
.Booth Tarkington Has Iricd
to Describe Them All in
"Ramsey Milholland"
Hooth Tarkington attempted a big
thing in his latest novel, no less a thing
than to interpret the soul of the nver
age American hoy who went to France
to light. He has succeeded after a
fashion, but his failure where he has
fallen short Is due to his method rather
than to his Inability to comprehend.
On its surface the book Is the biography
of a boy from his grammar-school days
to his junior jcar in college, when he
enlists In the regular army to be among
the first to fight the flermans.
Mr. Tarkington has deliberately
drawn a renlistle picture of the life
of the boy, n youth innrticulate and not
gifted intellectually, but with the solid ,
qualities which every one knows reside
in the youth of the present generation.
He passes through tho ordinary ex
periences of school days, has a senti
ineutal attachment for n girl and is
deeply wounded when she turns him
down, nnd all the time has a sneak
ing admiration for another girl,
whom he cannot say mean things enough
when he tnlks to her. His college life ;
is line mat or thousands or otners. ine
truthfulness of the description will lie
recognized by every one fnmiliar with
college bojs. Hamsey is made as near
like a type of his kind ns possible. There
is no suggestion until he enlists that
he had given any serious thought to
the war or what it meaut. He hnd said
little about It to any one, but the
author, In the first chapter, laid the
foundation for that which was to come
by making the boy's grandfather, a Civil
War veteran, tell him when he was still
wearing cotton clothes about the faith
which the 1'nion soldiers hnd in the
righteousness of their cause. The old
man's words echoed in the boy's mind
and influenced his conduct.
The explanation of the whole book is
in the last few sentences, which read :
"This ordinary life of Mamsey's was
but the outward glinting of a high and
splendid -spirit, ns high and splendid as
eartli can show. And yet it was ouly
the life of nn everyday American boy.
The streets of the town are full, now,
of boys like Kamsey. At first they were
just bovs In uniform: then one snu-
that they were boys no more. They
were soldiers
Perhaps in- hiding all this till the1
end Mr. Tarkington has given n faith-
fill picture of American vouth, but he !
would hnvo written n grenter book if
Mie had used the romantic rather than 1
I tl, rnnlluil.. ,ii....i i 1...1 i ..,
.... ........... ,ii. nil,,,, iiuu uuu uinii.. in,-,.. n i i l , . ., .
reader conscious of what wns going on1 ' . , ", 0f . "n(' "riKnllll5' written
in Hnm-oy's mind through all the ,ears. I !" "'' fon" "f. n BJr or
KA.MSI-.T MII.HOU.ANr. Hy Iloh T.rk I Vnrl ' M f 1,,.r?f",or
Irston tlnrdtn Mty Doubledai ran fti,0rge I. Moore, of Harvard Univer
School Edition of Classic
George William Curtis's 'True and
I" is a delightful little American
classic. It "reads well," even in these
dajs of more sophir-tirated essays and
sketches. A new school edition of it
has been prepared in the series
of
.re slinni nt lip nn. inffinninv h.il .,!
too exbnustive nnd in nddition fur
nishes carefully made selections from
the most noted critics on Curtis's life
nnd works. His commencement oration
to the graduates of the class of 1S77
of Fnion College, a piece of important
prose, Is reprinted under the title "The
Public Duty of Fducated Men."
PRUE AND 1 ny (Jeorso William Curlls
New York Mncmlllan Companj
Dream Lore
Persons, curious about the literature
of dreams will be able to find sat
isfaction in Katherine Taylor Craig's
"The Fabric of Dreams," which
is a studj of the dream theories
from ancient times to the present,
together with, nn exposition of the
methods of dream interpretation. There
Is a chnpter on dreams that have
come true which will fortify in their
belief all who have confidence in
thnt revelation of future events which
is supposed to come in sleep. The au
thor does not attempt to offer nny
originul theories. She has rather com
piled what has been thought by others,
and it is as a compendium of dream
lore that the volume has value.
TUB FAORIC OK DB.KAM8 By Kalhfrln
Tailor Craig N.w York B P Dutton t
Co Ji.r.o
Weird Tales by Bierce
Whoever is seekiug n volume of tales
which will keep him nwake o' nights
fhould get hold of ."Can Such Things
lie?" by Ambrose Itierce. It , Is a
collection of mystery stories. There are
twenty -four grouped under the general
bending of the tlfle of the volume, four
K'10" siorira. mur uuuin Km.m-.n u.
ten tales of haunted houses. They all
h,F. thnt n.-eiillnr niinlttr which ffnve
fnme to I'of anil whifli liavo lrdVrltics
(( 0)afisfv Hierce as one of the great
Writert of Knglish fiction.
CAS HUf-ll T1IINUS UK? It. Amhro.o
Pierce. New York: Uonl i Uverlght. II. iO.
Riches in the Soil
In-"Hidden Treasure" .lohn Thomas
Simpson tells an interesting story of
modern farming In the form of easy-to-read
fiction. The contrast between
the old drudgery of the farm and the
efBicicnt, pleasant methods of up-to-date
farming with proper facilities and
machinery Is shown in a story that
holds the interest and is both inform
ing and Inspirutioutil.
HIDDEN TRKAHl'RK. H
Hlmpaon Philadelphia. J
Company. H.oo.
John Thotnaa
H I.lpplnrolt
Woodbcrry on Hawthorne
Will D. Hone, who is editing a
series of books ou famous authors,
selected (Jeorge Kdward Woodherry to
write on Hawthorne, Mr. Woodberry
has produced u volume which will serve
admirably as nn introduction to the
study of the, distinguished New Kng
land novelist. Few men nre better
qualified than he to understand and
interpret the .spirit of the man. He
discusses the old New Knglund, the
Colonial traditiou and Hawthorne's
artistic method and devotes a chapter
to "The Scurlet Letter."
JHAWTIIOHNEi how to know him. ny
tieorpe Kdivaru ivnouiierry inaiiinapoiu
The ItvblM-Mtrrlll Company, I1.J9.
EVENING PUBLIC
FICTION BY AMERICAN
A SERIOUS NOVEL,
BUT ENTERTAINING
"Mummery'" Strips Grease-
jmintFrom Stage and Hide
From Pseudo-Art
IJecause Gilbert Cannan's new novel
"Mumnury" Is serious it is by no Wans
uncntertnintng. In fact it is distinctly
entertaining for a novel with a purpose.
Just what the purpose is Is difficult to
understand except it be a deliberate
Haying, animated by the pan-untie spirit
of Arclillochus or the satiric intent of
the mordant dean of St. Patrick's, al
though developed with nil the modernitj
of psjchology and modernism of ntti
tude that Mr. Cnnnan knowB so well
how to employ of pretentlousncs and
pretense in art.
Only two of the seven arts btc sub
ject to Mr. ('toman's line and subtle
ronlcs drama, including both the man
Ker ,he aywrBnt nn(I tU(. artor, nll,i
painting, the painting of self-advertise
ment nnd of splnshy Ideals and unreal
ideas. He scrubs the grease paint off
the fht-e of Thespls. The playriglit, who '
eventually becomes the hero, at least in I
so far as he wins the love of the heroine,
is a nrettv slink fni- a lmrn tie writer I
Of'nlnvc Ihnl nm nf nH.M,l K..f ll.nl-
, not worry ,,,, for ,, rPCOgniw,H ,
the current incompntibilit between tlv
,ir,,ma mi ,lp ti)Cntre. iw heroine, or,
nt least central feminine figure, who is
ju-l u mi my iiiii-eil lino perieciru, i
.. ..i .. . . ....... ....
, ,n,.,,'i wnt.s.. nrsi iiigni iriumpu ll-
ariei is spoiled by her rcnlmng sense
of theatrical commercialism ; she feels
too late the declension of the actor from
a creator and interpreter to a bas-relief
figure against n painted back-drop.
Hhe has three lovo nffalrs, with an nrt
ist whom she goads into achievement,
with a young nobleman who angels the
production in which she Is appearing
nnd with the dramaturgic idealist to
whom she finally gives her Own ideal
istic heart.
Mr. C'annan presents very vividly the
conflict between the high ideals of high
art and the machinations nnd machinery
of nrt as commercialized. Hut one feels
that although his ironic nnd criticnl
nuimndversions ore interesting and war
ranted they offer nothing thnt is gen
uinely corrective and constructive
towaid the betteiment of matters. Put
"Mummery" is rhcy reading, nt nny
rate.
iM VJ'rk"'ow
llv CllhArt r-nnnan V.
Owrtre II Dorn Company. St 50
. - C!, 7.,7..
, JOti m a GrCec 1 rgedy
"'blical students nnd students of
"",''p,lt literature generally will he
1. ,,"". Iy ln"'r,'!,1(,(1 "' Horace Meyer
Kallcn oiposltlon of his theorv thnt
sity, who writes an introduction to the
hook, regards the hypothesis as deserv
ing serious attention. Indeed, it is not
new, ns it hns.been set forth several
times in the past centuries.
Mr. Kallen justifies his theory by an
elaborate and scholarly examination of
all the evidence bearing upon the sub
ject. After setting forth his theory he
writes an essav on the Joban theory
of life and concludes his book by n
rearrangement of Job to conform to the
dramatic form of n Greek tragedy, with
prologue, epilogue and choruses. In
this form it has been acted twice at the
I'niversity of Wisconsin and once at
Hanard.
TUB IlCXlK or llltl AS A RRKRK TRAO
K1JY RE.1TOI1KD With an Introductory
easily on the orlKtnal form nnd phlloaophlr
meaning of .lob Hy Horati- Meer Kallen
And Rn Introduction bv Profeaaor Cleon?,
Pool Moore, of llarard I'nl.eriltj New
lork Morfat. Yard Co. It 2.".
Short Stories by Locke
The first volume of short stories by
W. .1. I.ocke has just appeared. It
contains tales written before the war.
To indicate that they have been dug up
nut of the past Mr. I.ocke has called
the book "Far-Away Stories." The
will delight his admirers, for they ore
told with that delicacy and skill for
which he is famous. "Ladies in Laven
der," which teils of the nutumnal loie
of two spinsters, is most charming
comedy, touched with pathos, and "An
Old -World Kpisode," dealing with, the
love nn"air of a man whose face was
horribly disfigured by an accident, is as
beautiful a tale as one will find in a
month of Sundays. Kach of the ten
stories is perfect in Its way.
FARAWAY 8TOIUEH Hy William J Locks
New York John I.ane Company SI 50
Serbia
The lolunie ou Serbia In the Home
I'niversity Library condenses the his
tory of that long-suffering country Into
less than -0 pages, nnd does it so well
thnt the render lays it down with an
excellent knowledge of the general out
line. It opens with the coming of the
Slavs to the Hnlknns, and ends with
the year IMS, after the great war,
precipitated by the Austrian demands
upon Serbia, hud been in progress for
n year, lis author is Miss L. F. War
ing, .lovan M. .lovanovitch, the Serbian
minister in London, has written an in
troduction, in which he discusses the
Serbian political problems.
HF.nniA uy i, i
Henry Holt l o
Wartns
00 eenta
New York:
Clemcnceau
(ieorges Lecomte's appreciation of
Clemencenu hns recently been published
In an Knglish translation in America.
It is not an ordered biography of the
great Frenchman. The author assumes
that the reader is familiar with the
facts of Clemenceau's life, and he makes
a running commentary ou his arts and
his theories, nil the time with most
friendly and enthusiastic praise. It is
nn example of the kind of political
biography with which we are familiar in
the L'uited States. ,
ar.ORQES ('1.KMENPEAI' The Tleer of
Kran Hy lleorues Lecomte Translated
hv Donald 'lla Ktuart New York D
ArPl"'"" l' 'l0
Totem and Taboo
Freud's discussion of the resemblance hears general western attorney for the
tween the psychic lives of savages. Fidelity nnd OiMi.rlt Compuny, of
between tne psyrnic lives of savaee:
nnd neurotics has been made available
to English readers iu nn exeeileut trans
lation by Dr. A. A. llrlll, ft New York
University. Tt is a learned exposition
of en extremely technical phase of hu
man psychology. The person unread
In the subject will find the book un
interesting, but it will be vcijy much
worth while for those who have the
necessary Intellectual preparation.
TOTEM AND TAI1.X) ny Trnfraaor Or
Plsmund Trend, New York, Mvrtat, Yard
Ou. 12.
LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY,
Vafoyv '
182,. ' in
KODTII TAKKINC.TON
Author of "Ramsey Milholland"
j,nArnr, fC tj DmJVJTQQ
'Vi Ut t J. II Art MLdO
f Bom FooV FictionizCS fie
. ,
C..ttlt
umiiiiiI'
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iilKru 11 rilTJinj ."'""' I'"
haps Kirkpatrick Clinton was a horn
fool, as the chronicler of his twenty- I
' ,,,, ,. .v.
odd years dubs him. for he put whnt
he considered the demands of high honor
Hiefore his own hnpplness. And clouds i
are banking purple nnd heavy on the
1
horizon of his life as the narrntive ofi
his youth nnd oung manhood comeslemy, wrote a book on Frederic
abniDtlv to a close.
Yet. "A Horn Fool" though he was,
, , ,, . .
miube, and that is the title which the
book bears, Kirkpatrick Clinton makes
n most neeeinnhle heio in this curious
tale by John V alter Hjr.l
Iv.rkpntnck Is the merest youngs ter
when the reader meets h,n,-n little lad
in .. ...iiin-iiuiii.- ..i.s.. ......... "'.proiouiHl respect for tiic mini's Intel
n mother whom he idealizes and a loetu.il integrity. Faguefs conclusion
father whose stern exactions strike him j tt tho giht of .Vietzsche is thnt a
tilth awe, ami in the end. drive him man has a right to form personal ideas I
to definite rebellion. His revolt changes because only personal Ideas have the
the -citing of thc-joutlis life entirely. consistency which we need to sunr-mi
Kirkpatrick is transplanted from the ourselves and because one can lean
smiling meadows and gentle winding I strongly nnd firmlv upon no one but'
mors in ins own i-iniiiu. n. ..- -u.....i
harshness of n mining region, nm'
mere ne meeis ine pin in wnusc iiiuius
liis future lies.
Was it disaster or a moderate hap
piness which wns to lie the portion of
this chivalrous young Fnglishmnn in
the following jenrs after the narrative
was closed?
That is left for t lie reader to answer.
TIlH noRN FOOT, llv John Waller Bird
New York Gi-orpp Jl Doran l'imp.iu
SI Till
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neyonii .. ....." ' "' ' "'. ;"."';" 'V'
Tnuru in hii n im-i viiir ui wiiiin iiiniu,
assassination The illustrations from
photographs nre well chosen nnd re
veal much that is beautiful and inter
esting in her native land.
, ..i.-st i -has a oinr. in mp.xii n n i
Men-piles Hodol Illustrated from photo
?-o",,ny '""""n- '" """'" '
LOIliPJtiy
I
Synwns on Symbolism ,
The discriminating and scholaih hook
on the- symbolist movement in litera
ture which Arthur Syinnns wrote ten
nr a doyen years ago now appears in a
new and levisod edition, with its com
ment brought up to include the latest
symbolistic developments. Symbolism
in litotoiture, ns is well known, is the
Impulse to know and express in conven
tional forms the underlying soul of
whatever exists. Symons begins his
examination of the movement with
Halzac and . arries it on through Meti
mee, Onutier, Flaubert, Ilaiidelaire, the
(ioncnurts. Mullnrme, Verlnine nnd oth
ers to Maeterlinck. His comment on
the methods of these men is keen nnd
penetrating and his study of the sub
ject to which he has addressed himself is
probably tho best in the language. Mr.
Symons has included bibliographies nnd
notes, and Ids own transitions of n
number of poems by the men discussed.
THE SYMHOI.I8T MOVE.MP.NT IN I.ITril
ATURE. P Arthur Hwnons A new edl
lion t.ioro-ifihlv r. vlfc-d and sr.ntli --n-h-rged
New York. E. I Putton & Co
Georgina and the War
fieorginn, who wns intiotluied to the
public by Annie Fellows .lohnston in
"(Jeorgrrin of the Hainbows." makes
her bow again in "(Jeorgina's Service1
Stars." She hns grown to be sixteen I
when the hook opens nnd she is nine-
teeii when it closes. In the interven- j
lug yenrs she learus much of w.u- and
of the sintering oi inosc wnosi- irieiius
are fighting. It is a story of youth
and romance told in Mrs. Johnston's
characteristic manner autl is bound to
interest heryiarge public.
UPORQINA'S SERVICE STARS Hy Annie
Pellowa Johnmon New York Rrltlun
PubllHhlng Companj SI 3'i
Automobile Liability
,.,n A. I'ost. foi more than twenty
Vew York, has prepr.red u little hand
book telling automobile owners what to
do In case of accident, how to secure
evidence and how to settle on the moat
favorable terms. It is intended ns a
guide for use in the various emergencies
which arise in tho operation of a car,
and contains much information which
ought to be valuable to automobile
owners.
At'TOMOHII.K I.IAIHI.ITY Hour to Deal
With It. llv -lol.il A P.iat New Vuik.
K. I Uutlun & Co,
C.MIMA.VY S NKW WAR t! M V.s r AMKR '
A Girl in Mexico i J .& W' .i?" s- ? !
The simple- girlish spirt, which char .; s;kn "y ?"&?, 8i .B0NI&LIVERIGHTp1.Y. Wfl
acleri.e "When I Wns n Ctrl in .soi-.a), ''.l.xv'Tvf, '.Inn'tV",, xs, K, ! . . f & St . i.i Afy
Men ico, " liv Mercedes (ioclo. adds very !'hiri,i'ii,r:''"111 ",ncl H'n.hM -iriiiin'if ' ' '" ' ' ' " ' ""'"" lf1
much to its nttractiveis. Miss (lodoy ! i M Dh,a J " '-'P'n-t -mVj111 - t-
iiinti.ies life in her native citv. ns she I l'Lr.,A" 1Ss5vV'rro.v It. Arthur in ! ii.. i :
saw it in her childhood, in a rhnrming T,yy,;!, 'i''lri,,'nr"'""''"mi"iny "t'so"" n li- l j a o m
way, and one g,,s a Mud impressio,, ,! "'tW' Wn XZtt"
the interesting lite wnicii innings us , ,,.,,. ,;.-; v..V .,,.,
streets. Hut her experience goes far riorence Oueril,, Tuitle ' w vorit. rini," 0
Cubn and espccinlly lo Washington, her , MR dooi.kv n.s' makis,; a Cvn i VVD
father being .1 prominent .itl.en , ffil?KXW"J&&
charge d'nfTiures at Washington and I ."" Hon" Jl :i-, !Hr"1'
Mexican icpresentntive at the Pan ' Ali'o?,f 've'S i'iUAJlJ:Vr
American Imposition at HuITiilo Her .sfn,s.-n ViKrwn- ok nv vr ,,,M
father and mother were guests of mission- ok tub mini, op iommon
President McKinley on the day of his, 'M N""'"-k Ma-mii,., ,,C
AND BRITISH WRITERS
PRETTY MYSTERY
IN THIS NEW TA LE
"VVtr Winning Chp.' by James
Hay, Jr.. Will Puzzle
Sleuth Story Readers j
Inveterate readers of sleuth fiction
'who can spot the criminal of the aver-
nge detectiie tale before the end of
the second chapter wherein the police
I examine the vcene of the crime will have
n pretty problem for their Sherloeklnn
talents in "The Winning Clue." by
.Tnmes Hay, Jr. The crime is the mur
der of n woman, nnd very plausible
suspicion points to several persons -her
her sster-In-law. etc. The Withers tl,Hl.hrr. M ,, ,,,,.
2lLlTm " Vmr C?f? '"l ' 1U"C """K'llJ in the prcint uml-i
newspapers, and h Inst the time i-bme ,. ill, iniit ion that .ho ,,,,,-t al
line, Tl C 1 11'" PnK0.nn' ' . '"''' "'"''"i.-s PI1. ,, ,.,,
lines and finally from the far Interior inK ollt ,,es,es." si,- longed for the
of the sheet nnd n tiny single line cap- ,,,., ,,, fr fop , ,r ',,..,,
T" , , .. , . ., I rannont. music, light arid laughter
sol, ll " "rP .1C,,.r.",1 '" 'plt she was constant!, beet the
n? lw-r n onf n7-Irt.tivr nmlthii llrBet hliKn,ion of raring for her old
other n professional. They persist in ' Kl.
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By
William Patterson White
This novel of a cattle feud between
the rival ranches of Glenn County,
is laid in the Wild West, and there
is an abundance of gun play and
excitement throughout the story.
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"THE O W N K R OF THE
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