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Show I THE GRANT8V1LLE NEWS, GRANT8VILLE, UTAH. the page place which many men believe that it deserves. No Mystery There. While living in New York Colonel House resides in an apartment not very far uptown. It is a homelike place where good books are found and where good friends may come. It is a genial place and no curtain of mystery its hangs over the door of any one ofwelrooms. Men go there and are come. They go and they talk. Man learns as much from man, as he learns from books and more perhaps if we believe the ancient saying about the proper study of mankind. I asked Colonel House what his recreations are. He said, Friends, reading and walking." His library shelves show the kind of books that he has read, still Is reading and will continue to read, for those in the book cases are made the companions day by day of the others as they come from the hands of writers worth while. No man probably can read politics, legislation, economics and history constantly without getting some of Dr. characteristics. So it la that Colonel House does not read the four formidables constantly. He turns to fiction and here one finds something of possibly more than passing human Interest George Friable Hoar of Massachusetts was one of the scholars in politics It was said of him that be bad read everything from Aristophanes' Frogs" to Locke's Human Understanding" and from this latter book of dismals-tie- s to the lighter minded reader, down to everything heavy and which was published to the week of his dentil. Senator Hoar kept his mental condition balanced by turning not merely from the heavy to the light on occasion, but to the actual featherweights of fiction. He read Nick Carter." Woodrow Wilson, it is said, turns away from the studies of states, post and present and In prospective to the r ling of what the English call penny dreadfuls, and what the Americans In the old days culled yellow backs. It Is said that the spenkcr of the house of representatives. Champ Clark, stops frequently his mental digging Into all kinds of history to take up for relief purposes books of the kind which make a boy happy. Reads Good Fiction. In the library of Colonel House there Is plenty of good fiction. He does not turn to Nick Carter, nor to The Hidden Hand of Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, nor yet tft Owl Face, The Pawnee" of Beadle dime novel fame, but he manages to keep the mental balance even by an evening lamp hour or two with the writers of fiction who can lay claim to what the book reviewers call literary merit Today Colonel House Is entering upon the work of preparing material which one day, perhaps far In the future, will be serviceable to the at the great peace conference. Another has written this concerning the choice by the president of Colonel House for this work: He Is peculiarly qualified for it by his diplomatic experience of recent years, by his study of political problems which the war has raised and by his Integrity of mind and character. Sherlock, will you take on the House Mystery Case? Mystery? my dear Watson, there Secret of His Power. In Houston, Texas, In the year 1858, Edward M. House was bom. He was educated at the Hopkins grammar school. New Haven, Conn., and at Cornell university. He has been active all his adult life in Democratic politics, is modesty not mystery which has been but never has been a candidate for ofthe basic difficulty. fice. Colonel House will not tell you that Add to these admittedly meager dehe Is a modest man, as I know from tails one fact and unquestionably you personal contuct with him. To claim will have the secret of this mans powmodesty for ones self Is to be immod- er to attract other men to him for the est He does go from his present abode purpose of consultation on really high In New York city to Washington occa- public matters. From the day that he sionally or frequently as the requests was old enough to undertake serious may cume, to give what he can of the ytudy, Edward M. House has been deep counsel of his views to the president In the books of politics, economics and of the United States. Why should he legislation. He has marshaled in his any more than any other man send a mind all the greater events which have trumpeting herald ahead or a band of happened in these three words. Morecymbal dashers? over, he has the men, the things and He goes to the White House, stays the motives connected with each case his while and leaves, and because no constantly in procession before him. great noises fill the streets at ap- He is quick to trace a cause to an efproach or departure, exclusiveness, fect, or to go the reverse route. He and secrecy have been the has been a student of human nature order of the days words concerning as it has shown itself in many of the each visit great problems of human life. This means that he has in him, or at any Gives No Word of Work. It perhaps Is not too much to say rate men believe that he has in him, that If the full record of the results the qualifications which go to make of the conferences which House of up a sound diplomat Texas has had with Wilson of the Through successive administrations in Texas the governors of the state, COLONEL HOUSE, WILSONS FRIEND NOT A MYSTERY Unofficial Counsellor of the Pres- ident Is a Modest But Well Posted Man. STUDENT ' OF WORLD AFFAIRS Now Gathering Data on Economic and Other Problema Which Muet Be 8olved at the Peace Table Haa Qualiflcationa That Go to Make a Sound Diplomat AUTHOR'S ' NOTE Men have made a mystery of the life and the dolnga of Col. Edward M. House, the friend and adviaer Of Woodrow Wllaon. If there haa been myatery, it la none of the Colonela making. I venture the hope that whatever may have Beamed to be hidden la dla closed In this article, the material for which waa obtained In the only way In which such material can be obtained, by direct, personal contact inquiry and study.' By EDWARD B. CLARK. (Copyrlaht, KIT, Western Newspaper Union.) s doubtless from the viewpoint of other men In being extended into many chapters. i Who Is Col. Edward Mandell House, who, until the day when the flnnl order "Cease Firing" comes, Is to study In behalf of the government of the United States the economic, the geographic, the democratic and the humanitarian problems which the American counsellors at the pence table must seek to sol vo after a manner which the people of a great democracy can approve? Consulted by President In the Washington dispntches something like this Is read several times a year: Colonel House has been in the hours as the guest dty for twenty-fou- r of the president. He will leave for New York tomorrow morning. Beyond this the render gets nothing from the dispatches except the word thnt the president and his visitor discussed Mexican matters, or European mntters, or It may be, but in this latter case rnrely, political matters. The public has known little more about Colonel nouse than that he Is a man frequently consulted by Wood-roWilson and a man In whose Judgment on political, economic and legislative mutters the president puts confidence. There Is a sort of a glamour about men and things which are mysterious. It would seem that because of the attraction which mystery has for the people, as shown if you will In their gluttonous reading of detective stories and the like, that writers of the news of the day In part have choseq to treat the goings and comings of the colonel and his conferences with men of affairs as If they were a deliberate attempt to hedge them in and bide them from public knowl- these days of huge fortunes, Colonel try to put an interpretation upon some of his methods of doing things. He is free enough to say thnt he has studied hard at economic, political and legislative subjects. He probably even would be willing to admit that he thinks the results of these studies continued and their results retained, have ennbled him to be of some servlqe when men weje seeking information concerning events in flic past which have relation to event: in the present or events expected in the future. Therefore, there is here a man who has held what he has studied, wfio has collated and' correlated the happenings of history,' who has drawn lessons from them, who takes an interest as deep In the living present as he does in the dead past, and who men believe is able to make his knowledge serviceable, for old rs It is let us say it, history repeats itself Woodrow Wilson did not meet his friend Colonel House until the days when he was holding office as governor of New Jersey. It is said by. friends of Mr. Wilson that almost Instantly he came to understand why the Texan had been of service along constructive lines to some of the governors of the state in which he has lived most of his life. For six or seven years Mr. House has been the confidant and the counsellor of the president of the United States, and seemingly time enough has gone by and things enough hare been proved or disproved to give certainty to the nd word that Woodrow Wilson has Edward M. House an advisory as. . There hardly can be much of real mystery about u man who twice since this great war began has been sent abroad as a special commissioner for the president of I he United States. Colonel House has been twice In Berlin, five times in Paris, and frequently In other of the grent European capitals. Some day it may be that Woodrow Wilson will write what may be called an autobiographical review of his administration. If lie does it Is entirely likely that the part taken by Colonel House In the shaping of some of the policies of the president may be given w edge. It Is just as possible to get at the truth In the case of Colonel House as It Is in the case of any other man whose doings are of public interest It United States Is to be read it must be sought in some of the accomplished deeds of the present administration. That Woodrow Wilson has been moved to certain courses or strengthened in his purpose to pursue them, by the counsel of Edward M. House is not to be doubted. The impossible task would be to get from the latter a definite word concerning the public work In which his counsel has played a port. Those who have built up a wall cf mystery about the man who Is studying matters against the day of peace apparently have not wished to pull down their handiwork. The wall can be demolished by anyone who tries iu get at the foundation of the fiction. Edward M. House lives as open a life as that of any American whose profession or business does not call hlin daily Into the places where men throng. If one wants to know about him through motives other than those of the Idleness of curiosity he can see him and talk with him, and the chances are that he will be told every thing concerning the subject of his inquiring curiosity thnt any man o modest mien and Inclination naturally would be willing to tell. Colonel House is a genial man who seemingly never has sought to define for personal use the meaning of either of the words, coldness or austerity. He hus a sense of humor well developed, and a temperamental warmth. ft Pueblo, Cola Thomas Price, twenty-sevea legless boot-black here, wants the Job of shining shoes for General Perover there." Sammies shlngs Ills crippled condition prevents him from entering the army, so he has written President Wilson, requesting that he be given a chance to do his bit I am told that soldiers have to keep flielr boots polished," wrote Price, who conducts a shoe-shiniparlor here, and thnt they have to do it them- Mives. If you can make a place me to do the shining for them 1 dont think you'll find me loafing on the Job. A Satisfactory- - ' Centerville, Md. New London, Conn. A contract for Centerville, Mr. The flag carried A 1,000 shark hooks, 800 to be completed by the frigate ranger of the continentft In ten days and TOO in twenty days af- al navy, under command of John Paul $ ter the first consignment, has been j Jones, recently was hoisted on tbe J V X awarded by the government to J. W. flagstaff of the Observer. This cherA $ Fordham, a blacksmith, of this vi- ished banner is owned by William AnX cinity. $ thony of Queenstown. There are to be three varieties of Tattered and torn at its end from A hook, eleven, ten and nine Inches in whipping in the ocean gates, the flag X to be length. A chain and swivel are is still in a good state of preservation. X attached to each hook. Its blue field has faded into drab, its It is reported from a Washington white stripes and stars are tinged with X X A correspondent that the government is cream of J age and Its red Is dingy with X about to prospect in a new leather years. X a se$ field, that of shark skins. InsatisfacMr. Anthony received the flag from X ries of tests a durable and his who served under $ tory leather has been evolved from Johngrandfather, 0 on the Ranger. Paul Jones believed X A the skins of these fish. It Is there Is no reason why an industry Bible study la the most popular of may not be profitably started. the many activities of the Missionary Vanity. club for Boys at Sfax, Tunis, comRemembered His Dogs. Vnnlty dies hard, wrote Robert A Venetian once left 00,000 florins posed of street waifs among the MoLouis Stevenson; in some obstinate for tbe maintenance of his three dogs. hammedan population. cases it outlives the man. n, ng X j curves." ar curves? "What are asked Nick. They are curves which only go half round just like half a circle, answered Daddy. .And so Mrs. Buffalo gazed with fondma at her son. Henry, Mrs. Buffalos child, was really much older than I think ws semi-circul- ar would guess. How old was he?" asked Nancy. About six months old, said Nick. Maybe a year old," suggested Nancy, If Daddy says he was older than we would imagine when full- -. grown." Daddy laughed and shouted, Both wrong I . Now Henry was born one May, seven years before Mrs. Buffalo made-thispeech. She did not know that he was seven years old. She had not stopped to count the years, but know that he was at least a grownup son because of his horns. To be sure every spring of years Bhe knew thnt she and her family and cousins and relations-lmall shed their coats and that they had not bothered about new ones until the fall. 'Gome and talk to me, said Mrs. Buffalo, as she noticed Mrs. Bison not she-di- the-seve- far away. Wlint kind of an animul was Mrs. Bison, Daddy? asked the children. "Mrs. Bison belonged to the Rome family of animals as Mrs. Buffalo. SometinipR one Is railed a buffalo, then im"! American-comm- I Am Feeling Rare, Said Mrs. Bison. it Is also called a bison. It is liko having two names that mean just about . the same tiling. But tills buffalo had always been called Mrs. Bisou, and when Mrs. Buffalo called her she went right over. Good morning, she said politely. Good morning, said Mrs. Buffalo. How are you feeling? asked Mrs. Bison. 'Well, and how are you feeling? I um feeling rare, said Mrs. Bison. Wlmt in the world does that Pipe Line of Wood. mean? asked Mrs. Buffalo. rSenttle. A wooden water pipe 0 jit means the way I am feeling of feet long and 12 feet In diameter, course, answered Mrs. Bisoh. supplied by a local company, will be If the way you feel I am that's In a power development project in sure I don't understand. Are you ill New York state. Douglas fir staves at alir equivalent to 1,800,000 board feet of No, not at all, said Mrs. Bison. lumber will be used In the construcThen whatever do you mean? tion of the pipe line. asked Mrs. Buffalo, who was becoming more puzzled every moment Eagle Pecks Elk to Death. 'I heard some people from a long CInyton, N. M. One of the largest distance off shout to each other, and cngles ever seen In this section of the this is what said when they they country was reported this week. The looked at ine: Do yon see that bufeagle perched on the back of a young falo over there? elk and pecked It to death, according Then some one else said, "Yes." to word brought here from Glenoro. And after a little bit I heard & third person say, The buffalo Is getting to be very rare these days. So, To Sell Greek Kings 8tables. Athens. One of the signs that you see, I am right I am rare very rare. democracy has taken the place of royThen I must be feeling rare too, Is the public notice that the kings alty stables will be sold at auction. The said Mrs. Buffalo. Tour name is Bison stables are in the very heart of Athens, though you are the same as I am, and so I am every bit as rare as you are.' occupying a whole block on the two 'I suppose that is true,' said Mrs. main streets. Now that Premier Veni-selhas restored a democratic ad- Bison. But you must give me the ministration one of the first moves has credit for having heard that we are been to dispose of this royal eyesore rare. If I hadnt we might never have known it in the center of tbe city. No, we probably never would have known It,' said Mrs. Buffalo. Draft Leaves Only Aliena 'It must mean that we are gentle Weirtown, W.. Va. The selective draft will leave inly foreigners lu this and nice, even If we are stubborn and steel mill town. Of the 950 registrants always insist upon having our own here it has been found that 700 are way. Of course now and again the aliens who are exempt from military bulls get very nngry, but we dont And service. Practically every physical!) perhaps it means that we are bo very fit American will be taken in the first large. No, said Mrs. Bison, I'm sure National army. from the way they were talking It didn't mean anything usual like that 8ettled Out of Court So Judge Merrymnn pro- It must have meant that we were conMuriel sidered very wonderful.' Alice to lost night I Ethel-Yeposed Perhaps, said Mrs. Buffalo, but it and he made an awful brea:. is nice to be feeling that way. For When she asked him for time to mi; even though they did not know that aider his proposal, he gave her rare meant something unusual and Ju ge. scarce, they liked the new word. isnt any. 10,-40- GET LEATHER FROM SHARKS FLIES JOHN PAUL JONES FLAG A semi-circul- issioners ' WANTS TO SHINE SHOES 8eries of Tests by Government Shows Ancient Banner of Sea Hero Carried :j FOR PERSHINGS ARMY ft on Frigate Ranger, Raised at That Product Is Durable and Mrs. Buffalo, ' said Daddy, waa watching the children growing up. Little son Henry, she said, will soon be a big buffalo. His horns are curved. For such a long time they have been quite straight the way all my sons horns have been when young. But now it shows Jlenry is growing up he has beautiful horns which go off in y semi-heav- House is quite well' fixed financially and is not engaged in business of any kind. , Has Studied Hard. I have talked to Colonel House and have learned things which make me feel that I shall not go wrong when I ultra-modes- RARE BUFFALOES. Dry-as-Dus- one after anot.er, consulted Colonel House on public matters. How deep an impression he has made on Texas legislative history never may be known definitely, but there is enough salient to make Texans know that they are right In attributing to him many of their public welfare acts. Though not accounted wealthy in Who Is Col. Edward Washington. Mandell House who Is to gather war data for the United-Stategovernment for service on a future day of peace? This Is a question that is being asked by a very large proportion of the people of the United States and In fact of all the allied nations.. Colonel House does not wear the record of his deeds on his sleeve. It Is probable that If this unofficial counsellor to the president of the United States were to be elected to congress the autobiography which he would prepare for the congressional directory would read like this: Edward Mandell nouse, Democrat of Austin, Texas; born 1858; elected to the congress, November. t, If you win, In this brlpf, way would this Texan be prompted to write an nutohlogrnphy, justified cmothem WILE i os s, |