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THE UNION-RECORDER, MIULEDCEVILLE, CA., JUNE 19, 1930
and the
undred y
Two
i an instant are bloi-
rged together. Nay
more than this for the ways of men,
r ancient their mentalities, otherwise separat-
val view, id by two centuries, flow into one
the pub- :story. Giants again live, lifting their
•\i>or.: ive ! glorious forms, lightly like thB clouds,
retches of fore
1 Figgis- in j
many other j
. n of the i
=t Ireland; n doubt allowed to worry his ir
“Annals of While he reads, he enjoys and
THE RETURN OF THE HERO
By Derrrll Figgis
Charles Beni Paper Book.. N
York. 1930.
A modernised version of nnei'
Irish material
point is here preser'- !
lie in the attractive yet
paps r books form. D.-irr
tiia whole life produce J
books, 'iifeludimr "cl '
Earth," a novel of W«
"Song* of Acaill." and
the Irish Wars." The last named is I Ifeves.
c valuable portrayal of the Irish! Another merit of the novel is the
revolution which was published »f-I beauty of de^cr .tion which the au-
ter the author's death. i tf >or has given in generous measure.
"Ti;e Return of the Hero” ap- Most American readers plan to glide
petre l i- 1923 under the pen name <ver such passages and to hurry on
r f Mieh-el Ireland. Critics James towards the action which thrills their
Stephens was the real author but this being. James Stephens, in his intro-
gentleman has written a preface for duction augers a new reason why de-
the Bnni edition in whi. h he dis- Fcription should receive the reader’s
claims responsibility for the rr«tora- attention. Here the author reveals
t*on of an old story. The present himself. Another may tel! the story,
publishers provide also an introduc- ** fa** as action and plot ore con-
tion Iir Pougla* Hyde’s version of cerned and yet pass for ary scribe
the dialogue between Saint Patrick he pleases. But in beauty of descrip- I
and Oisin. In this the claim ir made tion the author betrays himself and ■ final fl(rurcs on the industrial
that the Colloquy of Oisin and Saint nian can here imitate him. The l tres are not >’ et
Patrick is the "earliest example in “purple pa**nge," laments Mr.
European literature of a feeling for Stephen, “that royal and lapsed
nature—for the colors of the sea- splendor, is no more. It ceased to
sons, the movement of animals, the be when the young men from the
song of birds." public schools discovered that they
The characters of the ancient were not able to write it. It has
story nre Finn, leader of the ancirnt been exiled Jrom Cambridge to Cov-
hcro-corr.pany Ireland* his son entry, nnu u semi-idiocy called ‘hum-
Oisin, and hi* grandson Oscar. The <>ur\ the natural secretion of the
hroes of Finanna succumbed in the «hool boy and the yodel, reigns in its
dreadful bdttle of Gabhra. Finn stead." The book abounds in these
and Oscar passed into thg I-and of, “purple parages" and they amply
Dead, but Oisin with the immortal repay the reader for his money and
Niamh entered Tir-na-nog, the land bis time.
of Youth, whence Oisin at the age |
of two hundred years suddenly ap
peared to the clerics and their people.
BOOK REVIEWS
GEORGIA IS FACING
A LOSS IN CONGRESS
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
June 16—Texas agreed to terma of
annexation, 1845; Santiago bom
barded in Spanish-American war,
J. T. ANDREWS, District Agent
“Jefferson Standard Life
By DR. ALICE HUNTER
Associate Professor of Engliih. Georgia Sute College fir Women
tion Decrease* in Mid Section
of State
1898.
June 17—Sir Francis Drake landed;
.•n California coast, 1579; Joliet
lamnace Co.”
J. T. ANDREWS, Real E*t at .
"Apartment!, Finn,, Town
Property.”
1673;j
; John j
reached Mississippi rive
Battle of Bunker Hill, 1
Wesley born, 1703.
June 18—First alien laws passed
1798; United States declared war
on Great Britain, 181“: Battle of
Waterloo, 1815; Amelia Earhart
(first woman to fly the Atlantic)
Washington.—Georgia faces a defi-
rite prospect of losing one or possi
bly two representatives in congress.
This disclosure, together with th<
fact that tne state’s population i
fluting from agricultural to indus
trial centers was revealed on release
of censu- figures for 1930 covering
hint rf the grotesque i, Stowed j ana-third of the stated entire popa-1 S., eongrer,
mar ,h< ' ™ d "' S enJOym “ t! ’’“‘' onhe counts, for which compara-j . Albany Convention, ,net .754;
tive figures were announced exact-1 Maine separated from Massnchu-
ly three out of four show losses of j Shtts. 1810.
population since 1920. Gains gen- June
erally nr? shown in regions where
industrial development has been
marked, mostly in the northern por
tion of the state.
Of the counties which show losses
the majority nre in the middle Geor
gia cotton bblt. radiating around Ma
con, with complete returns from the
Sixth district showing n loss of 6
per cent. Losses were rcpor*.ed in
the Eleventh, Ninth, Fifth,
and Twelfth districts.
Census official* said, however,,
0—Great Seal of United
States adopted, 1782; first steam
boat crossed the Atlantic, 1819;
Michigan admitted to the Union,
1837; Alaska purchased from Rus
sia, 1867.
June 21—First patent for platform
scales, 1831; first patent for reap-
ei, 1834; Increase Mather born
1639.
June 22—Bank of New York (old-
Tenth- est l started 1797; United States De
partment of justice organized,
1870.
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Fir.it he ■
* the use of those people
, ., . .. , ...v... well, but mean well feebly,
aim then iVy dm- _ R „ 0SCVC , L
ends
covered his aged, withered form with
its long snowy heard. Like the men | ■
of hi* youth he was immensely tall Be ure that relig
and these later folk in companion Light that man is th«>
were pigmies. Aroused from his ing.—William Penn,
lethagry by plenty of food Oisin j
talked of the generous days when j
men feasted hountifull? and perform
ed the mighty deeds of warriors. Sn j
deeply did he grieve for his son that J
when he reminded of his distant
death he took to bed and refused
to be comforted.
Then Saint Patrick’s gentle he-rt
went out in pity and he persuaded
Oh in that Finn and 0«car were with
God in Heaven. It remained for Oisin
to make himself ready for their
glorious companionship by accepting
baptism after complying with the
Titunls of preparation demanded I v
the clerics. Poor Oisin could not
understand those queer questions of
answers but Saint Patrick forvhore
sleep to teach him and Oisin became
Ictter-pcrfect in the catechism. Then
the rest of the bi-hops remonstrated.
Finn, that mighty warrior and his
grandson who died on the battle
field wounded from crown to sole
were, they declared in hell, suffering
the torments of the wicked and
would so suffer the rest of eternity.
Then declared the doughty Oisin he
would also go to hell for where his
beloved were, there would be all
the heaven he desired and their re
lief or rescue would be paradise for
him.
Tis a pretty story, with moral
enough for the contemplative to re
volve. But there are qther merits
in the book. Celtic imagination here
leaps over mortal boundaries. The
“ RID OF BAD TASTE -
Georgia Man Tells How He
Takes Black-Draught
When Bilious.
Valdosta, Ga.—In telling how
Thcdford's Black-Draught has
helped to keep him well, Mr. O. A.
Aldrich, of this city, says-
“Black-Draught is U good medi
cine. I begen taking it when just
a hoy. lor biliousness and as a
laxative.
®“Whcn I get bilious, my mouth
has a bad taste and I get dizzy,
leel light-headed. A lew doses of
Black-Draught usually make me leel
like new. It seems to cleanse my
System ol Impurities, my head gets
dearer, and the bad taste Is gone
rrom my mc-uth.
“I am a rather healthy, strong
man. taking very little medicine, ex
cept for the dizziness I mentioned.
"It Is good to know that there is
a good laxative like Block-Draught
to take und give quick relief."
Thou.vuids of other men and wom
en find Black-Draught a great help
In relieving common ailments due
to indigestion, constipation and
and may pull up
the loss of agricultural sections
enough to make up for the congress-
ionhl representation which mtg'nt
otherwise be lost.
The state as a whole in 1920 had
2,895.832 population. A heavy bur
den is placed on the counties yet to
report to turn an impending loss in
to a sufficiently substantial state
wide gain to insure a retention of
the present congressional repiescn-
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