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Show AUTHOR OF 'BARNEY IS CAUGHT IN PHILOSOPHY By AMES W. DEAN KEW TnniC, 'Auv. I In Ma-Jeira, Ma-Jeira, a email town of the M1Jdi West, le a man who niad concrete block as. wullt a house, lie built a room at a tlm and wha.- tha building was comptemd he found ne room with neither velnuow mic door. d R. H. Hii ret found hlmseU 1n a similar predicsment when as finished fin-ished wilting '"Harney." Ths units of Jiurst s story are of first Clara material, soma of them the mot dramatic I hsv read In some time, some of I hem. toned-ered toned-ered as Separate passsges, very gound In their logic. . The house bulller found himself on the outside of the blind room. Hurst finds himself on I he Insula of hla room, looking at four solid, blank walls with no escape, from the struct-tre of phtlneophy n which he hsa trapped himif. Thua the book come to Mink end. MHIVK. KHOW II OMR. Harney llllllard and hla bosom friend. IMrk t'irew, ere driven from their home town when ihe community com-munity indicts them Jointly for an Offenss of which they are Innocent. They ship ort a S'-uooner to Victoria. Vic-toria. B. t In gambling house they win enough to ship to Alsska. snd prospect t'r sold, tor weeks they traverse Ihe now barrens e-liiR e-liiR no white n.an. until st test they coins to sn Indian village whre they find a bile man as haj of the colony. Irtiring the nlrht a tllal wave strikes the vlllsae. Herney and 1 ll k etcsp. then return to see If Others sre living. Ths only one alive Is Williams, tbe M'U man. whoin bat k I broken and who Is paralysed from the waist down. Although WIUiamtf was doomed to die and was hardly worth say-' Ins; even had he been a whole man. the to prospectors put him on their sled snd try to ret him to the nesrest settlement where Williams' Wil-liams' brother lives. William wanted to ronfe to his brother that In his youth he had murd red the ajirl hia brother loved The prospectors rncriflc thetr doss for meat to suitsln life. They do everything possible for William, but he die on the trail, confessing confes-sing to Harney before he goes snd bidding Harney carry the message to his brother. Rut the journey shea it seem more thnn the two adventurers can accomplish. fltarvtns; and at tne point of complete collapse, they tappen upon a derrted cabin. They find a can of coffee and shoot a caribou. t eavlrg the cabin they find n baas of gold dust cached under the lloor. After carrryin th dead men' message to his brother, they return for th gold and set off for the pratrlea of Canada. There Barney, who has never loved, fells In love with a alM who haa ovr bafore been In lov. IWKKTHK.tRT JmFTO. Carney and hia betrothed ride out cnto the prairie the dar before their wedding la to tsk place. Bh la thrown by her horse and mortally mortal-ly Inured, dyina; tn Barneys arms. Dick and UArney return to Vic-torts Vic-torts They lo thetr money la trembling and Lt-tck goes ftt o California Cal-ifornia to prospect for gold. Barney ways behind aa gatxte keeper at the (ambling hall. Barney nretg his brother la the tambllns; hall. Ha knows the brother had been guilty of tbe ef-fenae ef-fenae that had ostractaed himaelf and Dick from their homes. He forces' a written oonfeaaitia from his brother. Ilrk sends for Parney to eom on for hla wedding. Aa llck la about tw introdut Hartley to the girl a rtal shoots incit ro ueata and abarsy beat a the murderer tv death. After taking Ilck'a body home and clearing his name. Harney r- I turns to Alaska. He strikes a rich win of gold. fou.id a ntlnluf camp, does as much as he can to Jielp others Snd then plans suicide. ! He docen t commit suiciu bcaui i he promised his dying wemert be Would Dot. There tne auiry I eoda. j laisiAL rtOT, - I You may readily as from this' bar skeleton of the story that Hurst haa evolved a story ef un uaual plot and startling actto-t. In tie condensed form It seems mdo-' dramatic, beyond plaut Iblllty. Hurst Is a master ef narration. He mattes ow believe that he has actually ' i xperlenccd the adventures hs re-1 latfs Distributed throusrhout the nar-rstlon nar-rstlon ars dissertation on religion,' philosophy and experiment in th ; occult. There ar the thfuxa Hurst ' cannot make you believe In. They deatroy coutlnued Intereai la lb j narration. Harney belleyea In God. but he ' 1 ooncelvea Uod aa a monster of cruelty, a master who find great pleas itre In bringing pain and sor-i row to those be has placed on sarth. i Harney I an egocentric Indl-, vidua! who believe that he rani master Ood, that ha ran defl tbe Cauae of being, and that one having hav-ing aorompllsn,rl that he ran end hla own existence which, he con-, aiders only th mere frittering away of a small hit of duration. I Kecalllng his promise to hie' loved one. be diamisaes ths Mtoushl j of suicide. "I wonder, he muse. . "If the game would seem less of a bora If 1 thousht leas of myself and mora of others? God. 1 beg Your pardon." I All would have ended w bad th book ended there. Th philosophy philos-ophy bad reached a conclusion, weak though It waa. But Hurat s.oa on snd end Barney diatribe against existence with these words: "Death may not mean the enu ef cs. Aid perhaps. If there 1 another an-other life. 1 may be able to bor-tow bor-tow a soul somewhere and get Into heftvaon with It.'' lsplte this flnsl futility, "Parney" "Par-ney" is a book worth considerable attention and thoughtful reading. COSMUrOLlTB. If there has been anything more polmant, more deeply tragic, than "Cosmopolite' In recent poetry, U haa not come to general attention That poem is on ef a col lectio i by Oeorai Douglas Johnson, a stifled cry of tbe colored race la America. They are lathered in a volume called "Bronae." "Coamo-pohte" "Coamo-pohte" Ip aa foliowa: Not wholly thia or that. . j But wrought Of alien bloods am I. A product of the Interplay of traveled hearte. tstrnnged, yet aot estranged, i aland All comprehending; a'rofp my estate V |