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Edgar lliff Scorns Superstition - - W . .. Criticises Some Modern Fiction

By EDGAR ILIFF. A man held a baby before the mirror and all the women Bcreamed, protesting that this would . cause the child's death. This is only one of the hundreds of superstitions about looking-glasses. Thousands of persons, ignorant and intelligent, are today shocked if the household mirror is broken. It is unlucky and portends death. Thousands turn the lookingglass to the wall or cover it with a towel when one of the family dies. They also stop the clock. Nobody knows why. A German nurse girl who raised me filled my youthful mind with many such superstitions. I used to shiver in bed when I heard a dog howling outside in the night. It was notice that some of us would soon die. Perhaps it meant me! My German nurse said it was unlucky to kill a cricket, because it was the patron saint of hospitality. It was unlucky to kill swallows that made their nests under the eaves, or any birds like wrens or robins that lived near houses. It violated the supreme law of hospitality. Judge Unseated. You will recall in Greek history that the court was sitting when a sparrow, pursued by a hawk, took, refuge within the robes of one of the Judges. He angrily seized it and killed it. This outrage upon "the sanctuary" or upon the rights and sanctity of the refugee, bo Incensed the other judges that they unseated their colleague and fined him heavily. This German girl filled my mind with simple stories of her peasant life in the "faderland." There were fairies, goblins, elves, dwarfs, devils and witches, who could do all kinds of impossible things. There were birds and animals who could talk learnedly. The trees could bend low and whisper to the laughing stream. There were flowers that could slip from their places on the bush or vine and dance all night Jn the moonlit grass. When the sun peeped over the mountain in the morning they slipped back to their homes. This was why the flowers drooped so in the dawn. They were as tired as Cinderella, who danced all night in glass slippers. t Stories Were Severe. Her stories were severe in their simplicity. She pictured bleak mountains, great snowstorms long winters, stubbleflelds, black forests, gleaners, faggot-gntherers, bird-houses, thatched roofs, and grain left out for the birds. There were poor folks, good and simple and patient, and rich men mean and cruel. There were fools, simpletons, beggars, hunch-backs and vagabond singers; greedy landlords, princes princesses, enchantresses, dragons and t'.ie evil eye. There was always something about poor Unlucky Hans. How he made the tears come. But with all his blunders and hardships he always came out right. It is a very old belief that God looks after fools just as the Indians hold a disordered mind to be sacred to the Great Spirit. All of her stories ended in triumph for the poor, the outcast, the simple and the oppressed. And here lies the fundamental beauty, and the perennial freshness of all folk lore, of all the old romances and tales, of all the fairy stories and nursery rhymes that this universe Is built upon the rock bottom of absolute justice, and there is no possible escape for any man or woman. Those tales l.eld up the ideal of ultimate justice for the wronged and the final overthrow of the cruel and wicked, the sure and inevitable reward for the simple folk who trusted. This is not only the religion of "the meek who shall inherit the earth," but the basis of the Emersonion philosophy, transcendentalism. When you read in one of these old tales, "There was once a very wicked king," you see his finish. When you read "There was once a poor girl who tended the swine," you know she is a princess in disguise, and will marry a prince and live in a palace. Justice Wins Out. There have always been stories about Cinderella and the glass slippers. It is the elemental story of the final triumph of justice. The germs of this tale are found in all ancient literature and folk lore. There is a myth about Cinderella in the very oldest Egyptian records. On the 25th of December each year, when the Nile i

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river receded, the people gave presents to one another, the children received toys and dolls, and the story of Cinderella was told. This was ages before the Christian era. A little study of folk lore shows us how' closely the human race is bound together, how common and universal our beliefs and superstitions are, how enduring, and how charitable we should be tpward the inherited or inborn nations of all the creatures ; of earth. The world's superstitions from savage to civilized life would fill volumes.' There are thousands of charms, omens, cures, philters and queer talismans. One can easily imagine how ghosts, fairies, good and bad angels, stories of giants and tales of haunted places, made up the bulk of the talk around the big chimney place long before these blessed days of scientific exactness. Many a child went to bed shivering and heard - in every windsigh or creaking bough the voices of the strange creatures that inhabited the Invisible world. Woo Maiden Fancy. In spite of all this we love to woo "in maiden meditation fancy, free" the old gods and spirits. We still love to imagine nymphs and dryads in the groves and fairies hiding in the meadow grass. We still love to read of Unlucky Hans, Little Golden Hair, Frog Prince, Ugly Duck, Hop O My Thumb, and all the fantastic and beautiful dreams of humanity raining down upon us . from the child hood of the race. The woods and hills, valleys and meadows, willows dipping and weeping in the whispering streams, all seem to invoke a mysterious longing for we know not what. Every birdsong, every soft note of harmony, is a promise; every glint of beauty in the sun, every sweep of landscape in the morning light, is a guarantee a promise of ultimate right, a pledge of ultimate justice. The old idea in fairy tales, that the good triumph and the bad come to grief, lingered long in the novel and drama. The climax of the fairy story was a marriage celebrated with, great pomp. The end of the novel aifd play was a forgiving father, the villain expiating his crimes, happy wedding bells and twins. Wife, home, domestic bliss, were the acme of the old school of fiction. But reajism, steel buildings, tireless cookers and the exact science have entered. We are demanding predigested novels. We are asking for stories that are "true." H. G. Wells, the socialist novelist, tells us that "we are going to deal with political questions, and religious questions, and social questions," in the future novel. So in our passion for "pay dirt" we are forgetting that the beautiful' is as useful as the unbeautiful, and that the red rose or purple clematis may be as potent for good as the workless washing machine or the laborless referendum. We are demanding the "real." Well, the Police Court is real. The Police Gazette is intensely real. So we are getting tales of slaughter houses, the morgue, the pig sty, the dunghill, the sewer, the red light district. Arnold Bennett Sins. The greatest of all sinners in this phase of fiction is Arnold Bennett, the English novelist. His novels are saturated with morbidness of Eccleslastes "All is vanity." With him "the

path of glory leads but to the grave."! He delights in telling us that the whole human race is steeped in melancholy. He shows us sores, cancerous flesh, paralytics, slow painful deaths, the KNIGHTS VOTE Enthusiasm featured the meeting of Knights of Pythias at Cambridge City last night when a delegation of twenty Richmond members visited there and extended an invitation to that lodge to participate in the countywide meeting to be held in Richmond on February 18. Cambridge City pledged a good representation at the coming celebration. The Richmond delegation included the joint committee of Triumph, Iola and Cceur de Lion lodges, which is arranging details. Clarence Mote, chairman of the committee, in addressing the Cambridge City lodge, liiiiiiisBsaags

hideous corpse, the end which Is the Inevitable grave. His "Old Wives' Tale" should bear the motto, "To live is useless. The end is mumbling paralysis, agony, death. What is the use to try?" Every book, such as "Anne of the Five Towns," "Leonora," "Charlotta," "Clayhangr" and "Old Wives Tale," ends hopelessly. Not one gives a single hint that this life or the next may contain any real good. The true antidote to these tales df pessimism Is Dumas, the prince of story tellers. Here you find sanity and fresh air. The true function of the novel has yet not been determined, . but surely we know that life is real without adding insult to injury. Burdens can be lifted instead of increased by the right use of the imagination. To lose one's self in romance is a high pleasure, and happy is the man or woman who reads with the unperverted appetite of youth who climbs the hills and sails the seas, and makes love to the eternal stars in the good old way, as in the dreams of midsummer nights long ago. We might hitch our wagon to a star and come into port bravely. There are novels that are unreal in their realism, and one can go upon a mental spree with them as well as in the use of any alcoholic poison or sedative.

JEWISH RELIEF Continued From Page One. tional Jewish relief headquarters in New York. Response from Jews and persons of all faiths over the country has been free and generous in view of the dire need among the helpless war victims. Contributions large and small will be equally acceptable. At the close of the campaign a detailed list of the donors will be -published by the committee which consists of A. Harsh, A. Goldfinger, Sam Vigran and Ed. Hirsch. The following is a partial list of donors: Public Corporations $155.00 Rev. A. J. Feeger 1.00 H. Goldfinger 15.00 Ed Hirsch 2.00 Sam Vigran 2.00 J. Horwitt 2.00 George Fox 2.25 Neff & Nusbaum 1.00 Sam Fred 15.00 John Melpolder 1.00 John Thompson 1.00 H. Goldston 1.00 C. W. Jessup 1.00 B. Lichtenstadt, Hagerstown. . , 2.00 Kid Hull 1.00 Al Kemper .50 Sol Frankel 1.00 George Brehm 1.00 Carl Piatt 1.00 J. H. Insky 1.00 Frank Howells 1.00 W. H. Haberkern 1.00 J. F. Bartel 25 E. A. Feltman 50 C. H. Finney 1.00 J. C. Bayer 50 L. C. King 50 Druitt Bros 50 Irvin Reed 50 A. J. Luken 50 Model Clothing Co 2.00 Lee B. Nusbaum Co 2.00 Cash 50 Dave Teeple 1.00 Jenkins & Co 1.00 Mashmeyer Store 1.00 AGAINST PARADE outlined the purposes of the February meeting. The Cambridge City lodge voted in the negative when the question of holding a street parade in connection with the celebration was submitted. It is not likelv that a narade will h held, because of probable inclement weather. Cambridge City was asked to have a candidate for the first rank, the principal event on the program. About 125 members of the order were present last night, and before adjournment a luncheon and smoker was held. Fight

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A Harsh 25.00 Krone A Kennedy 1.00 Boston Store 2.00 Miller Harness Store .50 Richmond Art Store 50 J. A. Conkey .50 J. S. Brown .25 Bartel Rohe 1.00 C. A. Harrison .50 Ed. Wilson 1.00 E. Reuben 1.00

Chas. Johanning 1.00 E. L. Cooper .50 Dickinson Pharmacy .50 George Homrighous 25 Guy Gotschalk . 30 Reed Furniture Store 1.00 J. F. Ackerm&n Co. - 1.00 John Zwissler 50 Geo. H. Nolte 1.00 W. H. Romey 1.00 Clem Thistlethwaite 1.00 J. F. Maher 1.00 G. H. Knollenberg ............ 5.00 Sam Buckley 1.00 S Doctors ,1.00 H. Mashmeyer 1.00 Sam Baron 1.00 David Kershner 1.00 Mrs. Sara Fisher 1.00 Abe Gross . , . . . 1.00 Mike Pleise 1.00 Harry Cohn ..' . 1.00 Sam Jaffe 5.00 H. Holzapfel 5.00 W. FiBher 1.00 Hyman Jacobs 50 William Barel 50 Philip Koney 25 M. Fivel 5.00 Richmond Fish Market 1.00 O. G. Whelan f. 1.00 Sol Saffer 5.00 R. L. Morel 1.00 M. C. Levy l.uO Lee Ashley 3.00 Eggemeyer & Sons 5.00 O. G. Murray 5.00 B. Teitz 2.00 Cash 4.00 Cash 1.00 J. H. Schroeder 5.00 L. Hiatt 1.00 Total $329.25, RED MEN ARRANGE FOR BIG POW WOW Arrangements are almost completed for the pow-wow which will be held in the Red Men's hall Saturday when 500 members of that order will gather there to conduct the ritualistic work. Delegations of Red Men will be here from Cambridge City, Fountain City and Centervllle to join the local members in the event. Three degrees will be conferred upon seven candidates by the degree teams of Carlos City, Ohio, Troy, Ohio, and the Osceola lodge of Richmond. Among the candidates are Bert Ewbank and Andrew Thompson. HAGERSTOWN (Continued From Page One.) the risk of having another bout like this. He has the support of the town board and the members of the Law and Order league back of him and dfd not hesitate in informing the promoters that arrests would follow an attempt to hold a match. The promoters allege that it is not contrary to law to have wrestling matches and that the town officials have no legal right to prevent them. Joshua Allen town attorney entered appearance in court this morning for all the defendants. The date for the hearing has not been set. The plaintiffs ask also for a temporary restraining order against the town officials. A Good Meal is Not Poetic But Sounds Better For the average person, unblessed with riches, it is the material comforts of life that count. That "we want but little here below" is a truism, but tc be without that little is keenish hardship. A good meal isn't poetical, but the honest declaration, "I can cat a hearty medl without discomfort," has a better sound to the average man than the best line ever penned by poet. "For a long time I was unable to enjoy a single meal," declared Edward Redding of the Automatic Baseball Co., Springfield, O., recently. "No matter how plain the fare I would always suffer for hours after eating with r. bloated feeling and belching of gas. Along with that I would often feel drowsy after eating and was forced to lie down for a while. Severe headaches and constipation were among the results of my poor over-worked stomach. "On every side I heard about Tanlac and how it had relieved so many! people of stomach and catarrhal troubles. I decided to try a bottle although I was rather skeptical at first. From the time I took the first dose I noticed an improvement In my condition. "Although I have tried numerous other so-called remedies I have found nothing that even compares to Tanlac. Before I began the Tanlac treatment I couldn't sleep at night and would i often arise In the morning feeling more i tired than the night before, making! me unnt for work. Not so now, however, as I haven't spent a single sleepless night since I first began taking Tanlac. I can eat anything now without the fear of disagreeable after effects. In other words I have taken a new lease on life and I feel great. "I hope that others, who suffer as I did, will take advantage of Tanlac because I think it is the greatest stomach remedy ever introduced and deserves all the possible praise that can be given it." Tanlac is designed to combat disordered stomach, liver and kidney troubles and to relieve catarrhal affections of the mucous membranes, which when neglected, so often effect the vital organs themselves. Tanlac, the ideal reconstructive tonic, is being especially introduced In Richmond at the Clem Thistlethwaite Drug Co., where the Tanlac man dally explains its merits. Adv.

LITERARY SOCIETY WES DODDRIDGE

AS NEW PRESIDENT PHILOMATH. Ind.. Jan. 28. Liter ary society meeting was well attended Friday night and a good program was rendered considering the weather and sickness In this vicinity. Officers were elected as follows: President. Earl Doddridge; vice president. Richard Stin6on; secretary, Mrs. Roy Rodenburg and treasurer, Mr. Samuel Fish er..... Ward Roger's sale was well attended Thursday. He moved his fam ily to Marlon the latter part of the week..... Miss Gertrude McCashland called on Mrs. Samuel ' Fisher and daughter Wednesday afternoon Some organization ought to take ad' vantage of the big offer, announced last night by The Palladium Mrs. John Hendrlx and son Russel were In Richmond Wednesday Miss Fern Rose of Brownsville spent the week end with her parents Mrs. Samuel Fisher and Darlie are reported on the sick list with severe colds M. B. McCashland and wife were callers In Brownsville Tuesday afternoon. I CHESTER r Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Green visited relatives near Webster Sunday Rufus Newman and family visited relatives at Richmond Sunday Mrs. Edwin Charles entertained 'several friends of Everett Mopp's Sunday afternoon In honor of his fourteenth birthday. A two-course luncheon was served. The decorations were in pink and white. The following guests were present: Everett Mopps, Nelson Hunt. Marvel Worley, Herman Ghnet, Elmer Woodruff, Richard Edwards, Herman Shaffer, Everett McMahan, Harry Glunt, Harry Worley; Maurice Hinshaw, Clarence Brown Mrs. Ada Morro.w and son Chauncey called at Will Curtis' and Morrison Pyle's Monday Mrs. Frank Hodgin and Mrs. Lizzie Hodgin spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. Warren Stigleman.. . . Mrs. Earl Mitchell and Mrs. Harry Meeks have been on the "grip list.". . . Miss Carrie Boerner visited the local school Tuesday afternoon Who will win' in our district? Why not one of churches, schools or lodges? The Ladies' Aid society will meet Wednesday afternoon in the hall, at the usual hour. All members are requested to attend Charley Huffman butchered last week Miss Adelaide Kemp was Bad Gold? Take "Cascarets" for Bowels Tonight They're Fine! Liven Your Liver and Bowels and Clear Your Head. No Headache, Sour Stomach, Bad Cold or Constipation by Morning. Get a 10-cent box. Colds whether in the head or any part of the body are quickly overcome by urging the liver to action and keeping the bowels free of poison. Take Cascarets tonight and you will wake up with a clear head rnd your cold will be gone. Cascarets work while your sleep: they cleanse and regulate the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry off the constipated waste matter and poison from the bowels. Remember the quickest way to get rid of colds Is one or two Cascarets at night to cleanse the system. Get a 10cent box at any drug store. Don't forget the children. They relish this Candy Cathartic and it is often all that is needed to drive a cold from their little systems. Adv. Richmond People Good Dressers Very few cities Li the United Statet can show as many well-dressed peopl as Richmond, a large per cent of then having their clothes made to order. You can tell a w oarer of Emmons1 T-'loring It is classy an, vp-to-date We make fine suits 415.00 to $30.00 Main and Ninth Streets Emmons Adv. MACHINIST'S TOLLS DIVIDERS CALIPERS SCALES MICROMETERS SQUARES GAUGES HAMMERS PROTRACTORS "GOOD CERVICE." r

the Sunday guest of If Uses Bonnie and Blanche Carman. Rev. Ulmer delivered a fine sermon at the M. E. church Sunday night. There will be praeching at the regular hour next Sunday morning. Come. There will be no prayer meeting this week on account of sickness here..... Roy

rsicnois oi tuenmona was at Solomon Huffman's ' Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bulla spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stlglemam GARAGE DUILDItIG PLANNED FOR ROW OF AUTO CONCERNS Plans for the erection of a modern garage on the site of the present Air Dome theatre on Main street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets are in the hands of a local architect and actual work of construction wUl be under way within a short time, it was learned this morning. J. J. Steele, proprietor of a Main street saloon, owner of the site, will build the garage. Plans call for an up to date building that will Include several store rooms as well as a garage. Chenoweth Garage,' a firm with headquarters in Hollansburg. Ohio, probably will take over the garage business. The Richmond Electric company is negotiating for tile use of one of the storerooms. . The erection of this new garage would add another unit to Richmond's rapidly growing "Auto Row." (There are at present five automobile firms located In the squares between Eleventh and Thirteenth streets. The first use of the treadmill was in China, where it did service in remote times In Irrigating the land. It was introduced into English nrinnna in 1817 as a means of punishment.

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