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Poems  by  Will  Carleton  : 

The  Nation's  Name 

36 

The  Babes  and  the  Bull 

5 

"0  Come,  Come  Away" 

36 

Corporal  Punishment 

7 

The  Child-Catcher 

37 

Stars  of  the  Grasses 

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Old  Stories  Revamped 

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Three  Girls  in  a  Bandbox 

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At  Church: 

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A  Proverb  Sermon 

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Two  Years  With  Edison 

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The  Pastor's  Wife  Again 

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Ralph  L.  Gould. 

Old  Hymns 

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Doing  What  He  Could 

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On  the  Association  of  Ideas 

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Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

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What  the  Telescope  Reveals 

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A  Forest  Tragedy 

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Some  Who  Have  Gone 

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Poems  by  Will  Carlelon. 

The  Babes  and  the  Bull.  -^"^  yielding  to  customs  quite  prevalent 

there, 

■^J^HY  grumble  or  sneer  because  those  This  maid  had  a  costume  as  red  as  her 

who  aspire  hair. 

To   Fashion's   gay   vapors,    wear   gar-  And  with  her  an  Englishman  wandered ; 

ments  of  fire?  and  he 

Hasn't    Nature     her     colors? — There's  Was  searching  a  fortune  this  side  of 

many  a  flower  the  sea; 

That  flaunts  out  with  red,  both  in  sun-  (Thus  making  of  him  a  financial  young 

shine  and  shower.  "jingo")  ; 

The.  poppies,  the  roses,  the  hollyhocks,  And  he  had  a  coat  that  would  scare  a 

dress  flamingo. 
In  goods  that  a  love  for  the  startling 

express;  Together  this  pair  through  the  bypaths 

The  lightning's  oft  crimson  that  pierces  were  wandering, 

and  bruises;  Two    red     human    flames:    and     were 

The  sun  paints  the  firmament  red,  when  vocally  pondering 

he  chooses;  (Her  name  was  Dolphina,  and  his  was 

So  when  by  style,   fancy,  or  phantasy  Adolph) 

led.  Of    themes    of    importance    connected 

Why  sfhould  not  Humanity  bloom  out  with  Golf, 

in  red?  And  what  profane  search  for  the  ball 

had  her  daddy, 

These  thoughts  hovered  'round  a  young  One  day  when  attempting  to  be  his  own 

lady,  one  day,  caddy ; 

As  she  walked  through  the  fields  in  ap-  And  how  her  poor  mamma,  with  force 

parel  so  gay  to  appal. 

That  Solomon's  milliners  glum   would  Hit  the  corn  that  was  sorest  instead  of 

have  sat,  the  ball ; 

And   murmured,  "We   never  can  come  And  how   a  young   lover  grew   softer 

up  to  that."  and  softer, 

It  was  a  young  maiden  whose  father  Until  he  didn't  know  a  sand-box  from 

had  struck  a  lofter; 

Some  trustworthy  kind  of  commercial  And  how  a  fat  lady  struck  ghosts  in 

good  luck,  the  air. 
Some  poison,  or  trap,  or  explosive,  that  And  went  down  on  a  rock,  with  mo- 
rats  kills;  mentum  to  spare; 
And   so  they  were  posing  a  month  in  And    how   a   good    parson,   with    fury 

the  Catskills,  unstinted, 

And   living  in  Wealth's  costly  glamor  Drove  his  ball  in  the  wall,  with  a  word 

and  clamor,  rarely  printed. 

With  fifty-odd  times  as  much  glitter  as  And  then   with  a  dash — and  of  other 

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That  make  up  material  for  every-day 
chatters. 

Now    e'en    while    her  maidenish    elo- 
quence bound  him, 
The  Englishman  took  an  uneasy  glance 

'round  him, 
And  said,  as  if    time  was  a  thing  he 

might  squander, 
"May  I  ausk  what's  that  animal  coming 

out  yonder?" 
The   maiden    a   moment    revolved    her 

trim  bright  head: 
"It's  a  bull!"  she  loud  screeched,  and 

then  "ran  like  a  whitehead." 
And  the  Englishman  also:    not  swayed 

by  fear's  passion, 
But   simply   determined!  to    follow   the 

fashion. 
If  she  ran,  than  he  ran  ;   if  she  stopped, 

then  he  did ; 
That's  fashion's  rule,  put  in  a  nutshell 

when  needed. 

The  bull  was  one  fitted  with  Spaniards 

to  battle: 
A  regular-built  roaring  lion  of  cattle, 
I  may  say,  while  our  redbirds  fly  thick 

through  the  brambles: 
His  ancestors,  mad  from  the  blood  of 

the  shambles, 
And   knowing,  howe'er  gay  their  life- 
page  began, 
They  would  all  of  them  some  day  be 

murdered  by  man, 
Whene'er  of  the  fact  by  blood's  color 

reminded. 
They  rushed  for  the  same,  with  their 

moral   sense  blinded; 
And  thus  do  they  ever:    though  madly, 

sincerely 
Regarding    our    species    as    cannibals, 

merely. 
And    that    is    "heredity" — drawn    very 

nearly. 

Thus  onward  he  came,  in  his  rage- 
grounded  folly: 

Came  down  through  the  field  like  a  car 
on  the  trolley; 

His  head  bowing  low  as  the  fenders 
they  bear, 

And  his  tail  like  the  wire-stick  that 
drags  through  the  air. 


And  his  game — how  they  ran!  not  the 
crafty  and  cunning 

Zoological  firebrands  that  Samson  set 
running 

Through  wheatfields  of  foes  in  his 
anger  sublime, 

Though  more  there  were  of  them — 
could  make  better  time. 

The  Englishman  struggled  o'er  boulders 
and  ditches, 

And  grieved  at  the  thorns  that  were 
tearing  his  stitches 

That  kept  on  his  red  coat — still  mutter- 
ing low, 

"This  is  very  peculiar,  indeed,  don't 
you  know!" 

And  the  maid,  like  Dave  Harum,  ex- 
claimed, "Scat  my  cats! 

I  wish  he  had  some  of  our  'Beverage 
for  Rats'!" 

And  then,  like  a  red-squirrel,  climbed  to 
a  tree; 

And  "You  take  that  other  one  yonder!" 
screamed  she. 

"Thanks !  I  will !"  said  the  Englishman : 

"quite  in  good  time! 
It's  quite  opportune ;   but  a  beastly  hard 

climb ! 
I  hope  you  are  comfortable  there;    and 

you're 
Ah — what    do    you   call   it? — stuck  up, 

now,  for  sure!" 

While  the  bull,  with  a   rage  his  thick 

hide  could  not  smother, 
Would  rush  up  at  one  tree,  and  then  at 

the  other, 
And  make  all  the  grass  and  the  pebbles 

and  sand  slide 
In  terrible  ways  that  predicted  a  land- 
slide. 
And  writhed  at  the  lightnings  of  anger 

that  spurred  him, 
And    thundered    so    half   of   the   town 

might  have  heard  him. 
But    none   of    it   did;    for  a  rain-cloud 

had  come: 
Not  a  giant  of   storms   striking  other 

sounds  dumb. 
But  a  slow  droning  drizzle,  unaided  by 

breeze, 
That  came  by  inquisitive  drops  through 

the  trees, 

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And  spattered  these  children  of  fashion 

and  lucre, 
And  drove  all  their  friends  to   whist, 

gossip,  and  euchre, 
And    dancing   and   flirting — both    aged 

and  young. 
Unmindful  of  field-sports ;   so  there  the 

two  hung, 
Each  one  to  a  tree-limb;  and  still  did 

the  bull 
Hang  'round  them,  of  rage  and  celerity 

full. 

And  there  stayed  the  three  till  the  day- 
light had  gone. 

And  there  hung  the  three  when  the 
morning  came  on ; 

For  while  the  two  victims  in  terror  sat 
•high. 

The  bull  lay  and  dreamed,  with  red 
blood  in  his  eye ; 

While  a  party  of  search  through  the 
wide  country  groped. 

To  find  the  young  pair  that  so  strangely 
eloped ; 

But    when    morning    peeped    down    on 

them  tattered  and  jaded, 
The  red  of  their  robes  was  so  ragged 

and  faded, 
The  bull  saw  no  sight  to  be  angry  or 

glum  for. 
And  went  away  wondering  what  he  had 

come  for. 


Corporal  Punishment. 

TTHE  prettiest  girl  our  "district"  had, 

Was  trying  to  learn  by  rule, 
And  study  "lessons"  that  oft  made  sad 
The  Hickory  Corners  School. 

She  strove — so  hard! — with  sages'  and 
seers' 

To  couple  her  girlish  mind ; 
But  those  bright  eyes  and  delicate  ears 

Were  not  of  the  deaf  or  blind. 

She  saw  the  timid,  desperate  airs 

Of  many  a  household  pet. 
Trying  to  climb  the  slippery  stairs 

Of  the  Roman  alphabet; 


She  saw  the  novice's  crimson  tongue 
With  pen-strokes  rise  and  fall, 

Or  traveling  'round  the  world  that  hung 
In  halves  on  the  schoolhouse  wall; 

She  heard  the  multiple  lass  and  lad 

In  lyrics  o'er  and  o'er 
Telling  the  numbers  how  to  add 

New  numbers  unto  their  store; 

She  pitied  the  wights  that  sat  about 
And  swallowed  the  long  hard  words, 

Then  stood  and  struggled  to  draw  th'em 
out, 
As  showmen  do  their  swords; 

She   pitied   the    "Master":     wno    must 
strive 

With  prodigy  and  with  dunce. 
And  who  was  doing  his  best  to  drive 

And  lead  them,  all  at  once; 

And  then  she  pitied  herself:    for  on 
Her  daintily-cushioned  slate, 

A  long  "example",  weary  and  wan, 
Was  asking  to  know  its  fate. 

"Times  a  dozen",  the  maid  averred, 
"The  'answer'  has  slipped  me  by; 

In  spite  of  all  I  have  read  and  heard, 
I  say  that  figures  will  lie!" 

"Who  was  that  whispered?"  the  Master 
said: 

"You,  Jonathan,  I  suppose?" 
And  started  upon  a  mission  of  dread ; 

But  the  slender  maiden  rose. 

'*'Twas  you?"  he  said,  as  the  girl  he 
saw. 
In  a  voice  more  calm  than  cool: 
"I  must  punish  whoever  may  break  a 
law 
Of  the  Hickory  Corners  School. 

"I  rule  with  a  ruler:    who  breaks  the 
rule. 
With  a  ruler  must  punished  be!" 
Said  the  chief  of  the  Hickory  Corners 
School : 
"Come  up  on  the  floor  with  me!" 

They  stood  together:    the  maiden   fair 
As  newly-blossomed  flowers, 

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And  the  Master,  sturdy  as  winter  air: 
The  tyrant  of  six  long  hours. 

"Hold  out  your  hand!" — to  him  'twas 
thrown — 

As  delicate  as  the  dew  : 
He  took  it  lightly  within  his  own : 

It  thrilled  him  through  and  through. 

His  shoulders  broad  he  turned  to  the 
flock, 
So.  none  of  them  all  could  see ; 
But  thrice  they  heard  that  sharp,  quick 
shock: 
(The  old-time  "rule  of  three") ; 

But  thrice  across  the  delicate  palm, 
His  fingers  strong  he  flung, 

And  blows  they  shielded  the  punished 
from. 
The  punisher's  knuckles  stung. 

None  but  they  twain  his  sudden  choice 

Of  which  was  the  culprit,  knew: 
"Keep   it   between   us",   he   said,   in   a 
voice 
That     thrilled     her,     through     and 
through. 

And  still  the  figures  unconquered  were, 
Half-dainty,  and  half-grotesque; 

And  lied  to  each  other,  and  laughed  at 
her. 
With  her  head  bowed  on  the  desk; 

Weeping — not  for  her  fault  at  all, 


For  that  she  could  easy  explain; 
But  for  the  Master,  who  bore  it  all. 
And  suffered  the  ferule's  pain. 

And  just  as  the  afternoon  was  near 
To  clasping  hands  with  night, 

She    caught    his    bravery,  dried    each 
tear. 
And  figured  the  answer  right. 


Stars  of  The  Grasses. 

PIREFLIES!    fireflies!    fragments   of 

^      light. 

Leading  through  darkness  the  careless 

sight — 
Tremulous  stars  of  the  lower  night; 

Living  lamps  in  the  green  below. 
Clinging  and  swinging  to  and  fro. 
Where  the  forests  of  grasses  grow; 

How  can  we  say  but  yonder  star. 

Glittering  in  the  blue  afar. 

May  be  conscious,  as  insects  are? 

Greater  and  stronger,  but  still  as  you. 
Oft  it  will  vanish  from  our  view. 
Then  will  glitter,  as  fired  anew. 

E'en  as  an  insect,  bye  and  bye 
Yonder  star  in  its  turn  must  die. 
Making  a  death-bed  of  the  sky. 


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By  Lucy  B.  Jerome. 


ANASTASIA. 


TTHIS   is  a  true   story  of  how  three 
girls    kept    an    apartment,    lived, 
dressed,  and  enjoyed  themselves  in  New 
York,  on  twenty  dollars  a  montli. 

"Live    in    New    York    on    l.v^enty    a 
month?    Really  LIVE!" 
"I  do  it,"  I  asserted. 
Anastasia  viewed  my  plump  form  up 
and  down.     Th^n 
her     eyes      roved 
over   the   tiny  sit- 
ting-room   of   our 
five-room      apart- 
ment on  the  slopes 
of      Washing  ton 
Heights,      four 
squares  above  old 
Trinity.    When 
she      faced       me 
again,  the  light  of 
a  dawning  respect 
— at  least  I  fancied  so — shone  in  them. 
"You  don't  look — er — emaciated",  she 
commented. 

"Nor  feel  it,"  I  answered  briskly. 
"I'm  not  joking,  Anastasia.  Would  you 
like  to  know  how  we  three  bachelor 
maids — there's  a  trio  of  us  you  know — 
manage  to  live  in  little,  gay,  festive,  old 
New  York,  and  maintain  a  reasonable 
adjustment  between  a  champagne  appe- 
tite and  a  beer  purse  as  they  say,  vul- 
garly, along  the  Bowery?" 

"Well,  rather!"  Whenever  Anastasia 
is  excited,  she  sits  up  as  straight  as  a 
ramrod.  She  sat  very  straight  now. 
"But  I  can't  understand  how  you  can 
possibly  mean  it.  What  do  you  pay  for 
this  apartment?  It  isn't  half  bad,  you 
know.  Lots  of  air  and  sunshine,  plenty 
of  elbow-room,  and  a  bedroom  apiece, 


kitchen,  bathroom,  sizzHng  water  day 
and  night.     What  do  you  pay  for  it?" 

"Anastasia,"  I  said  solemnly,  "figures 
don't  lie;  else  if. anyone  had  told  me 
seven  months  ago  that  I  would  today 
be  living  in  a  comfortable  apartment, 
devouring  three  square  meals  a  day, 
tending  my  own  little  window-garden, 
luxuriating  in  my  own  Sunday  rocking- 
chairs  and  casting  my  wearied  fran^e 
down  on  my  own  couches  when  inclined, 
and  all  in  the  face  of  that  bugbear  of  a 
phrase,  'prevailing  high  prices',  I  would 
have  told  him  simply  and  sweetly  to  'go 
to'.  But  as  I  before  remarked,  figures 
don't  lie,  and  so  like  the  old  woman  in 
the  fairy-tale,  '  'ere  I  be'.  Twenty  a 
month  is  our  slogan,  for  never  once 
have  the  individual  expenses  run  above 
it,  and  still  we  live  and  flourish,  and 
feed  a  mangy  dog  and  fuzzy  cat  into 
the  bargain.  Now  having  spun  my 
spiel,  I'll  answer  your  question. 

"Behold  this  apartment,  Anastasia. 
Observe  the  sunny  cheer  of  the  sitting 
and  dining-rooms.  Note  well  the  bath- 
room with  its  up-to-date  plumbing,  the 
kitchen  with  the  sun  streaming  in,  after- 
noons, the  two  bedrooms  veiled  from 
further  observation  by  a  curtain  deftly 
constructed  of  silkoline.  Not  a  dark 
corner  in  the  house.  Air  at  all  times 
through  any  and  every  window  in  the 
place.  Good  air  too;  Washington 
Heights  air  is  pure.  All  this  for  twenty 
dollars  per — no,  not  week,  but  month. 
We've  been  here  six  months,  and  the 
next,  we  don't  have  to  pay  any  rent: 
which  is  one  of  the  elusive  and  per- 
fectly enchanting  ways  New  York  land- 
lords have  of  inducing  you  to  become 

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permanent.  No  lease  on  this  apartment, 
though:  just  a  plain  rental  of  thirty 
dollars,  which  I  needn't  inform  your 
mathematics-loving  soul  means  just  ten 
apiece  for  each  of  the  trio.  Well,  that 
starts  us.  Ten  apiece  for  rent.  Jot  that 
down." 

Anastasia  jotted.  Then  she  jumped 
at  me.  "That  leaves  only  ten  dollars 
for  everything  else." 

"So  It  does",  I  agreed.     "Let's  see  how 


HOW    DOES    IT   SOUND?" 


far  it  will  go.  Nathless,  wait  until  I 
bring  in  the  household  bills.  I  would 
never  have  believed  it  myself,  but  you 
know  figures — " 

"You've  said  that  before",  remarked 
Anastasia  tartly.  "Let's  get  a  little 
forrader." 

"Disbeliever!"  I  flung  at  her.  "See 
for  yourself!"  and  I  handed  over  a 
sheaf  of  bills. 

Anastasia  looked  to  see  if  they  were 
all  receipted.  Then  she  tilted  her  eye- 
glasses   and    set    to    work    in    earnest. 


"Milk,"  she  read,  "sixtythree  cents." 
"A  week",  I  put  in.  "Plenty  of  it— 
a  quart  a  day,  and  lots  of  cream  on  top." 
Anastasia  put  it  down,  and  went  on  to 
the  next. 

"Grocery-bill  seems  to  include  a  lot", 
she  observed,  running  over  the  items. 
"Ought  to  be  a  respectable-sized  one." 
She  glanced  at  the  total.  "I  told  you 
so,"  she  said  triumphantly.  "Fifteen 
dollars  and  forty  cents.  There's  your 
ten  dollars  gone  already,  and — " 

VBut  you  forget  perchance,  sweet 
maid,"  quoth  I,  "that  this  little  account 
lia^  yet  to  be  sundered  in  three." 

'Oh,"  said  Anastasia,  "I  forgot  that. 
That  makes  the  groceries  five  apiece 
th<jn." 

'Right  you  are",  I  agreed,  compos- 
edly. 

"Your  gas-bill's  cheap  enough  for  a 
wonder.  Does  this  include  the 
gas  for  cooking?" 

"Everything.     It    seldom    came 
to  more  than  $1.50  all  winter." 

"Your  meat-bills  seem  to  run 
about  five  a  month.  That  makes 
one  dollar  thirtythree  and  a  third 
cents  for  each  of  you",  continued 
Anastasia,  jotting  it  down.  "And 
your  vegetables  average  six ;  that's 
right,  cut  down  on  the  carnivorous 
animals  and  buck  up  on  the  green 
meadows  and  fields  idea.  Six  dol- 
lars! Three  into  six  goes  twice, 
doesn't  it?  Is  this  all  the  bills? 
Then  let's  add  up.  Groceries", 
she  murmured,  concentrating  her 
brows  in  a  frown  of  attention. 
She  looked  up  suddenly.  "What 
do  you  have  to  eat,  anyway?"  she 
demanded  suspiciously. 

This  was  my  strong  hand,  so  I  played 
it  for  all  I  could  get.  "How  does  it 
sound?"  I  asked,  glibly  enumerating 
last  month's  menus. 

"Grape  fruit,"  fairly  gasped  Anasta- 
sia; "stuffed  olives,  asparagus,  (away 
with  the  villainous  boarding-dens!)  fruit 
salads,  green  peas,"  (they're  the  kind  the 
French  delectably  call  petits  pots,  you 
know)  I  put  in,  being  willing  to  stag- 
ger Anastasia  still  further:  "Carrots, 
turnips,  parsnips,  string  beans,  spinach, 

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oranges,  apples,  and  apple-sauce,  cus- 
tards, floating  island,  cake,  bought  and 
home-made  cheese,  stuffed  dates,  chops, 
bacon,  pot  roast  occasionally,  and  hot 
breads,  popovers,  muffins,  and  yeast 
powder  biscuits,  nuts  and  bananas — 
why,  there's  everything  respectable  bach- 
elor maids  could  wish.     Do  you  mean 


and  fodder.  But  see  here — was  this 
apartment  furnished?" 

"It  was  not",  I  replied.  "While  we 
aren't  furnished  up  very  extensively, 
still  what  do  you  think  the  trappings 
cost?" 

"Blessed  if  I  know",  said  Anastasia. 
"Looks  pretty  good  to  me.     Are  the 


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to  say  you  get  all  that  for  ten  dollars 
a  month?" 

"It's  really  thirty,  of  course,  but  only 
ten  apiece,  and  you  said  yourself  I 
didn't  look  emaciated." 

"I  should  say  not.  And  this  dear 
little  apartment  besides",  said  Anastasia, 
enviously.  "And  me  in  a  hall  bedroom 
paying  nearly  fortyfive  a  month  for  stall 


beds  good  enough  for  a  night's  rest?" 
"First-class.  We  just  stumbled  into 
this  way  of  living,  by  pure  accident. 
Our  united  incomes  amount  to  about 
one  hundred  dollars  a  month,  and  we 
had  no  furniture^  But  we  had  to  stay 
in  New  York  for  a  year  and  make  good 
in  our  several  occupations,  and  the  first 
few  months  we  were  her^  we  wore  res- 

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taurant  and  boarding-house  life  down 
to  a  frazzle.  There  wasn't  any  variety 
that  we  didn't  know  about — that  was 
decent — and  so  we  decided  we  had  to 
have  a  home,  even  in  this  Bedlam  of 
a  city.  Everybody  scorned  the  idea 
They  said  we  couldn't  furnish  five 
rooms  for  less  than  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  at  the  lowest  estimate  (we 
had  less  than  half  that  to  spare)  and 
that  food  supplies  were  so  high  that 
we'd  find  ourselves  bankrupt  the  first 
month.  But  some  inward  monitor  told 
me  to  try  it,  anyway.  I  persuaded  the 
other  two — girl  friends  of  mine  before 
coming  here — to  go  into  it  with  me,  and 
they're  both  pleased  as  Punch.  Just  see 
the  spring  sunshine  pouring  across  my 
hyacinths  and-  tulips!    Isn't  it  sweet?" 

Anastasia  looked.  Bars  of  clear  sun- 
shine lay  across  our  little  round  dining- 
table  of  undressed  wood,  like  a  benedic- 
tion on  the  lonely  maids  who  gathered 
round  it  when  tiieir  day's  work  was 
done,  my  canary  sang  loudly  in  his 
brass  cage,  the  hyacinths  sent  gusts  of 
fragrance  into  the  sunny  room  from  the 
plant  on  the  sill,  the  wooden  rocking- 
chairs  invited  to  comfort,  our  books  and 
magazines  gave  the  room  a  lovely, 
homey  air,  and  out  in  the  kitchen  the 
crepe-papered  shelves  of  the  cupboards 
looked  so  fresh  and  dainty  that  I  saw 
quick  tears  spring  to  Anastasia's  eyes. 
"What  did  it  all  cost?"  she  asked,  not 
knowing  that  I  had  seen. 

"About  seventy  dollars",  I  answered, 
proudly.  "I  did  all  the  buying,  and 
when  one  of  us  has  to  leave,  the  others 
have  promised  to  buy  her  out.  Our 
three-quarter  couches  averaged  ten  dol- 
lars apiece ;  that  is,  the  couch  and  mat- 
tress, blankets,  comfortables  and  pil- 
lows, sheets  and  pillow-cases.  The  sit- 
ting-room rug  was  five  dollars,  and  the 
fibre-matting  one  in  the  dining-room, 
three  and  a  half.  This  reversible  one 
for  my  bedroom  was  two-seventyfive, 
and  these  two  bathroom  ones,  seventy- 
five  and  fortyfive,  each.  We  have  no 
dressers  or  chiffoniers,  but  anyone  with 
a  spark  of  ingenuity  in  this  day  of  box- 
furniture  can  contrive  fair  substitutes. 
Table  linen,  china,  and  'silver'  came  to 


five  dollars,  and  the  cookang-utensils  to 
five;  the  dining-room  table  was  eight, 
and  the  three  chairs  one  dollar  apiece. 
The  two  rockers  were  three  and  three- 
seventyfive,  and  the  gas-stove  was  al- 
ready in  the  kitchen.  There  are  so' 
many  mirrors  built  in  the  walls,  that  we 
didti't  need  to  buy  any,  and  our  pic- 
tures and  books  came  from  the  depths 
of  our  trunks,  of  course.  Each  girl  has 
her  own  little  finicky  way  of  arranging 
her  room — which  gives  individuality. 
We  go  to  the  theatre  whenever  we 
feel  like  a  fifty-cent  seat,  lunch  or  dine 
down  town  whenever  we  need  a  change, 
and  divide  the  housework  so  that  each 
has  her  week  to  cook,  while  the  one 
who  stays  at  home  the  most  has  to  at- 
tend to  the  cleaning.  A  woman  comes 
in  to  do  the  rough  work,  but  she  only 
asks  seventyfive  cents  a  day,  and  if  you 
divide  that  by  three — " 

"What  about  your  laundry?"  asked 
practical  Anastasia. 

"There's  every  convenience  for  doing 
it  any  time  you  like",  I  answered.  "Two 
tubs  in  the  kitchen,  steam-radiators  to 
dry  it  on  if  it's  raining,  and  a  back-yard, 
fine,  sunny  and  blowy  to  hang  it  out  in, 
if  it  isn't.  But  we  send  out  the  larger 
things,  and  the  bills  average  about  fifty 
or  sixty  cents  weekly.  Our  collars, 
jabots,  handkerchiefs  and  *sich'  we  do 
at  home." 

I  saw  something  dawning  in  Anasta- 
sia's eye.  "That's  all  very  well,"  she 
announced  firmly,  "but  what  do  you  do 
about  clothes?'' 

I  countered  with  a  mental  right.  "We 
don't  spend  all  our  income  for  mere  liv- 
ing", I  amended.  "Each  of  us  has  thir- 
teen to  fifteen  dollars  left  after  paying 
room-rent  and  board.  We  try  to  save 
from  five  to  eight  dollars  a  month,  and 
— did  you  ever  visit  the  New  York  sec- 
ond-hand shops?" 

"No,"  said  Anastasia,  dubiously. 
"Have  you?" 

"Well,  I  won't  harrow  up  your  soul 
by  telling  you  what  this  suit  that  you 
like  so  much  cost,  but  I'll  give  you  a 
piece  of  information.  If  you  know 
where  to  go,  and  are  willing  to  wait 
your  chance,  you  can  fit  yourself  out  as 

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regards  a  wardrobe  for  somethingi  like 
thirty  dollars.  I  won't  tell  you  just  how 
to  go  about}  it  now,  for  'that's  another 
story'  of  course,  but  the  suit,  hats  and 
all  the  rest  of  it  last  more  than  a  year, 
and  always  look  nice  and  always  keep 
their  shape.  You  see  they're  first-class 
material,  and  sell  for  less  than  a  third 
of  their  original  cost.  A  friend  told  us 
about  the  plan,  and  we've  fitted  our- 
selves out  that  same  way  for  the  next 
year." 

Anastasia  sighed.  "Forty  dollars  for 
this  suit!"  she  said:  "bought  when  I 
came  away  from  home,  and  beginning 
to  fray  at  the  edges  already.  Fortyfive 
monthly  for  the  seclusion  of  a  ten  by 
twelve  bedroom  and  somd  food  put  on 
a  table  for  you — I  can't  call  them  meals", 
she  burst  out.  "It's  the  old  plan  of 
corned  beef  and  cabbage  on  Monday, 
lamb  or  mutton  Tuesday,  lamb  stew 
Wednesday,  hash  Thursday,  and  poached 
tggs  Friday.  By  Saturday,  I'm  so  des- 
perate I  could  spend  my  last  nickel  for 
a  jolly  meal  eaten  in  good  company. 
Nobody  ever  talks  at  our  boarding- 
house.  It's  one  of  those  dismal  old 
places  that  have  been  fixed  over  as  a 
resort   for  the  lonely,   impoverished   in 


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spirit,  and  strangers,  and  the  dining- 
room  is  always  covered  with  a  black 
pall  of  silence.  Sometimes  I  feel  I 
could  shout  out  loud,  scream,  dance,  do 
some  disgraceful  thing :  if  only  to  break 
the  awful  dead  wall  that  seems  to  shut 
that  room  off  from  the  rest  of  the 
world.  Last  night  t  bought  crackers 
and  cheese  and  stuffed  olives,  and  ate 
them  off  my  trunk.  I  could  not  stand 
that  room  and  those  mute,  hushed  peo- 
ple, another  minute.  I  should  go  dead, 
or  crazy  at  least!" 

"I  know,"  I  said  sympathetically: 
"I  know;  we've  been  through  it,  too. 
Isn't  it  frightful?" 

I  patted  Anastasia's  hand,  and  sud- 
denly Anastasia,  the  reserved,  the  quiet, 
the  most  uncomplaining  and  courageous 
girl  I  knew,  flung  herself  on  her  knees 
at  my  side  and  buried  her  face  in  my 
lap.  "Oh,"  she  burst  out,  "will  you 
promise  me  one  thing — will  you?  will 
you?  Oh,,  if  ever  one  of  your  friends 
should — should  leave  this  dear  place, 
will  you  take  me  in?  May  I  come  in 
too?" 

And,  with  my  arms  about  Anastasia, 
and  her  wet  cheek  against  mine,  I 
answered  with  something  like  a  choke 
in  my  voice  too, 

''Dear  old  girl,  indeed,  indeed  you 
^halL" 


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By  Ralph  L.  Gould. 


nPHE  village  of  Milan,  Ohio,  may  be 
*  said  to  cling  to  the  map,  as  it  were, 
by  its  finger-nails:  having  only  a  few 
hundred  inhabitants.  But  its  people  are 
as  proud  as  if  it  held  its  thousands: 
for  a  very  distinguished  man  'was  born 
there. 

In  the  latter  part  of  1846,  a  gathering 
of  electricians,  from  all  over  the  coun- 
try, was  held  in  this  little  town ;  and  in 
the  early  part  of  1847,  Thomas  Alva 
Edison  was  born.  How  much  accidental 
stirpiculture  may  have  occurred,  with  all 
this  electricity  and  thoughts  of  electric- 
ity in  the  air,  we  do  not  know :  but  the 
fact  is  a  very  interesting  and  suggestive 
one. 

At  any  rate,  the  little  Milan  baby 
grew  up,  and  "made  good" :  and  at  the 
time  I  entered  college,  was  a  sort  of 
patron  saint  of  all  inventors.  As  a  stu- 
dent, I  studied  closely  the  subjects  that 
he  made  luminous  with  his  extraordi- 
nary genius,  and  determined  some  day 
to  get  near  him.  It  was  with  this  view, 
that,  bright  and  early  one  May  morning, 
I  walked  quietly  but  resolutely  into  his 
main  office  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and 
applied  for  the  position  of  mechanical 
draughtsman. 

It  was  a  moment  of  some  suspense, 
when  I  presented  my  "recommendations" 
to  a  tall,  pleasant-looking  man — ^the  me- 
chanical engineer — who  I  could  see  very 
well  was  an  amiable  but  inexorable 
assistant  of  the  great  inventor.  The 
testimonials  were  fresh  from  my  univer- 
sity instructors;  and  I  remember  yet 
the  smile  that  came  on  his  face  when  he 
saw  them.     Edison  was  not  a  college 


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man,  and  the  mechanical  engineer  knew 
it,  and  I  knew  it.  He  had  had  very  lit- 
tle schooling  before  he  left  that  town 
of  Milan,  although  his  mother  had  in- 
structed him  the  best  she  could,  before 
his  going  on  to  one  of  the  railroads  as 
a  train-peddler-boy.  Legend,  or  tradi- 
tion, says  that  it  was  on  one  of  these 
trips  that  a  belligerent  brakeman  sus- 
pended him  over  a  car-platform  by  the 
ears,  and  gave  his  hearing  a  blight  from 
which  it  never  fully  recovered.  All 
along  from  the  time  he  left  home,  he 
had  been  self-educated,  and  he  probably 
had  acquired  the  usual  prejudice  of  self- 
made  men,  against  the  average  collegian. 

The  mechanical  engineer  spent  very 
little  time  looking  over  my  scholastic 
testimonials,  but  put  me  through  an  im- 
promptu civil  service  examination  that 
rasps  me  yet.  He  grew  less  and  less 
cheerful  of  countenance  as  the  ceremo- 
nies went  on,  and  promptly  disagreed 
with  about  everything  I  was  bold 
enough  to  say.  I  began  in  my  mind  to 
recall  the  path  to  the  railroad-station, 
land  to  wonder  in  which  pocket  I  had 
placed  my  return-ticket  to  New  York. 

But  it  is  a  world  of  surprises:  and 
Orange  was  on  one  of  its  hemispheres. 
Very  unexpectedly,  I  was  given  a  desk, 
and  set  to  drawing  up  the  details  of  a 
sketch. 

I  worked  away,  like  a  beaver:  for  I 
was  bound  to  see  Edison  before  I  died, 
and,  I  hoped,  under  pleasant  circum- 
stances. But — it  is  a  world  of  disap- 
pointments, as  well  as  surprises:  and 
at  the  end  of  six  days,  I  seemed  no 
nearer  to  the  great  man,  than  when  I 

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first  got   off  the  train  at  the   station. 

Neither  did  I  know  how  well  I  was 
pleasing,  or  how  vilely  I  was  displeas- 
ing: no  one  seemed  called  upon  to  give 
me  any  information  concerning  the  sub- 
ject. It  was  every  man  for  himself,  and 
it  seemed  as  if  his  Satanic  Majesty  was 
only  too  ready  to  take  the  hindmost. 
My  associates  were  too  busily  at  work 
to  get  very  well  acquainted  with  me; 
my  fellow-employees  did  not  seem  to 
consider  that  ceremony  a  part  of  the 
business. 

I  was  thinking  this  over  one  day — it 
was  about  a  week  from  the  time  I  com-^ 


five  feet  and  eight  inches  in  height,  and 
hair  fast  turning  gray,  the  parting  of 
which  was  assisted  and  accentuated  by 
a  slight  modicum  of  baldness,  and  that 
half-anxious,  sound-seeking  look  that 
deaf  people  sometimes  carry  in  their 
eyes.  I  had  forgotten  for  a  moment 
that  he  was  considerably  more  than 
hard-of-hearing,  or  I  would  have  shout- 
ed my  greeting.  But  I  hardly  think  he 
would  have  returned  it,  even  if  he  had 
heard. 

He  asked  of  me  in  a  tone  that  was  a 
command  rather  than  a  request,  for  a 
particular  one  of  the  drawings  I  had 


THE    GREAT    MAN    IN    HIS   LABORATORY. 


menced  there — -when,  unceremoniously 
as  the  coming  of  a  Swiss  avalanche, 
Thomas  Alva  came  down  upon  me.  I 
heard  some  one  walking  behind  me;  I 
looked  hastily  around:  and — there  he 
was. 

There  was  no  mistaking  Edison:  I 
had  seen  his  portrait  o'er-often — and  I 
am  a  good  "hand"  at  remembering 
"lineaments."  I  had  presence  of  mind 
enough  to  say  "Good  morning,  Mr. 
Edison":  but  no  good  morning  was 
handed  back  to  me. 

He  was  .  a   fair-sized  man   of   about 


made  during  the  past  week ;  and,  in  my 
embarrassment  and  confusion,  although 
sure  that  it  was  in  my  portfolio,  I  could 
not  find  it.  I  felt  that  moment  as  if  I 
would  have  given  a  mortgage  on  one 
year's  salary  in  advance,  for  a  sight  of 
that  drawing.  But  millions,  if  avail- 
able, would  not  have  made  it  appear 
just  then,  and  I  had  to  sit  and  hear 
some  very  pointed  remarks  on  the  sub- 
ject. 

His  words  of  disapproval  were  quick 
and  jerky,  as  if  he  were  telegraphing 
them.    The  statements  came  thundering 

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in,   in   lots   of  about   ten   words   each. 

"You  evidently  don't  know  your  busi- 
ness at  all,  young  man." 

"Your  value  to  this  establishment,  is 
simply  nothing  whatever." 

"Keep  on  this  way,  and  your,  time 
here  will  be  brief — very  brief  indeed." 

"Why  did  Schiffel  employ  such  a  use- 
less and  inefficient  man?" 

And  so  on — for  several  very  interest- 
ing messages — constantly  increasing  in 
voltage.  I  sat  and  received  the  de- 
spatches— there  was  nothing  else  to  do. 
How  could  I  arg^e — with  a  deaf  man — 


me,  from  another  portfolio,  where  some 
comrade-joker  had  no  doubt  placed  it. 
Sometimes  I  have  suspected  that  the 
whole  thing  was  a  "fake",  and  Edison 
was  in  it:  he  is  a  hard  man  to  under- 
stand. 

At  any  rate,  I  made  my  way  into  his 
office,  armed  with  the  paper,  and  grin- 
ning as  sweetly  as  I  could,  under  the 
circumstances.  He  was  smoking  a 
"corncob  pipe",  and  seemed  an  entirely 
different  sort  of  man  from  the  one  that 
had  just  left  me,  half  an  hour  ago.  He 
smiled,  and  invited  me  to  sit  down. 


WATCHING   OUT    AN    EXPERIMENT. 


especially  when  I  was  undeniably  in  the 
wrong? — And  yet,  it  was  rather  a 
homesick  place,  for  a  young  fellow  that 
had  to  make  his  way,  without  over-much 
money  for  a  start. 

He  went,  as  suddenly  as  he  came: 
and  I  cuddled  down  uncomfortably  in 
my  chair,  waiting  to  be  cast  out  into 
the  Cold  Bye-and-bye. 

But  all  at  once,  it  occurred  to  me — 
whatever  that  is-— that  I  might  as  well 
find  the  drawing,  and  present  it  to  him 
on  the  silver  server  of  a  smile:  and 
after  a  half-hour's  wearisome  hunt,  it 
smirked   sweetly   though  mockingly  at 


"Fm  glad  you  stuck  to  it  till  you 
found  the  drawing",  he  said.  "My 
scolding  was  just  to  impress  upon  you 
the  value  of  time.  Just  think  of  it! 
The  world  turns  over  500  miles  on  its 
way  round,  in  half  an  hour:  and  we 
ought  to  do  a  little  progressing  our- 
selves." 

After  that,  we  were  good  friends,  and 
he  seemed  trying  to  make  up  for  the 
untoward  occurrence,  by  taking  a  spec- 
ial interest  in!  me.  He  would  some- 
times come  up  behind  me,  slap  me 
lightly  on  the  shoulder,  praise,  although 
very  ging^erly,  something^  I  had  done. 

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and  then  murmur,  more  forcibly  than 
elegantly,  "All  right,  my  boy:  keep 
pluggin'  away." 

Like  most  geniuses,  he  had  (and  I 
suppose  has)  his  gales  and  his  grouches. 
Sometimes  nothing  would  suit  him,  for 
days  together:  and  then  he  was  all 
brightness  and  gayety.  I  seldom  saw  a 
man  whom  the  word  "impossible"  made 
angrier.  "It  never  ought  to  have  been 
put  into  the  dictionary",  he  used  to  say. 
A  very  efficient  German  engineer,  upon 
whom  he  had  set  great  store,  came  out 
before  us  all,  one  day,  and  said,  "Mr. 
Edison,  there  is  no  use  of  going  any  far- 
ther with  this  experiment — it  is  sheer 
foolishness:  and  never  can  be  a  suc- 
cess." 

It  happened  to  be  one  of  the  chiefs 
"bad  days":  and  nothing  could  have 
gone  farther  to  make  it  worse.     "Mr. 

",  he   thundered,  "when    Saturday 

night  comes,  you  will  draw  your  blue 
envelope,  and  never  come  into  this  place 
again:  this  is  no  home  for  impossibili- 
ties." 

"By  gracious",  said  one  of  the  men 
to  me,  confidentially,  "if  the  Boss  should 
tell  me  to  draw  plans  for  a  machine  to 
lift  a  war-ship  out  of  the  ocean,  as  they 
say  Archimedes  did,  or  induce  the  sun 
to  stand  still,  likq  Joshua,  I'd  go  at  it, 
and  work  till  he  told  me  to  stop." 

Probably  this  wonderful  power  of 
scorning  failure  and  living  laborious 
nights  and  days,  has  gone  far  toward 
making  Edison  a  world-success.  I  have 
known  him  to  make  forty  thousand  ex- 
periments to  accomplish  one  object,  and 
not  secure  one  bit  of  encouragement, 
until  the  last  ten  thousand  began — and 
not  much  then:  but  to  grandly  and 
thoroughly  triumph  at  last. 

His  usual  hours  of  work,  are  from 
eight  to  twelve,  and  one  to  five:  but 
when  there  is  something  peculiarly  vital 
on  the  tapis,  chronological  system  is 
flung  aside,  and  Father  Time  is  ignored. 
In  such  cases,  seventeen  hours  out  of  the 
twentyfour  is  not  considered  by  him  an 
unreasonable  number,  and  his  enthusi- 
asm is  such  as  to  carry  all  his  employees 
with  him  that  he  chooses  to  take  along, 
in  his  dash  around  and  around  the  dial. 


Mr.  Edison  has  a  wife — an  attractive 
one,  with  aristocratic  ideas,  and  demo- 
cratic manners.  His  only  daughter  has 
the  aristocratic  ideas  and  manners 
both.  His  older  son — climbing  along 
up  among  the  twenties — -will  probably 
never  invent  anything  of  value.  His 
younger  son,  still  in  his  teens,  has  built 
an  automobile  that  could  not  be  moved 
out  of  the  barm  in  which  it  was  made, 
wthout  taking  down  the  doors.  There 
was  something,  too,  .about  the  speed- 
limit,  which  the  village  authorities,  Mr. 
Edison,  and  Mr.  Edison,  Jr.,  had  to 
adjust.  But  he  has  one  merit:  he  is 
ambitious  to  do  something  in  the  world, 
besides  being  the  son  of. 

When  his  wife  is  on  the  way  to  make 
one  of  her  occasional  visits  to  the  office 
in  which  he  toils,  he  immediately  begins 
to  "sleek  things  up."  All  the  smoking- 
paraphernalia  is  shoved  out  of  sjight, 
and  certain  traces  of  the  tobacco  which 
he  habitually  chews,  are  wiped  away. 
The  office  is  made,  as  far  as  possible,  a 
guest-room — fit  for  princess  or  queen. 
The  quickness  and  ingenuity  with  which 
he  can  transform  things,  is  always  a 
delight  and  an  amusement  to  his  em- 
ployees. 

With  unwelcome  visitors,  however, 
he  adopts  exactly  the  opposite  course. 
It  is  wonderful  how  his  deafness  can 
come  down  on  him  when  he  wants  it  to 
do  so.  It  is  also  remarkable  what  awful 
odors  he  can  make  the  chemicals  in  his 
laboratory  produce,  when  he  wishes  it 
uninhabitable.  Once,  when  a  company 
of  clergymen  came  into  the  laboratory 
to  ask  him  about  the  state  of  his  soul 
or  something,  he  went  into  a  trance  (or 
toward. one)  and  by  some  legerdemain 
smashed  a  volt-meter  valued  at  a  thous- 
and dollars,  and  laughed  heartily  after 
they  had  fled  in  fright.  Sometimes  he 
will  say  the  most  nonsensical  things  to 
a  persistent  interviewer — like  that  he 
declared  not  many  days  since,  that  "man 
has  no  individuality."  He  is  also  vari- 
able in  his  habits :  sometimes  being  a 
strict  vegetarian  for  a  number  of 
weeks,  and  then  "falling  from  grace", 
and  perpetrating  the  most  carnivorous 
of  actions.  "rioalp 

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In  other  words,  he  is  a  genius — with 
all  a  genius'  proper  improprieties,  and 
concentric  eccentricities. 

Many  think,  and  I  believe  he  does, 
that  his  most  wonderful  and  original 
invention  is  the  phonograph — and  he  is 
piqued  because  the  devising  of  that  was 
really  an  accident — occurring  while  he 
was  endeavoring,  by  means  of  hard  and 
strenuous  study,  to  invent  something 
else.  He  declares  he  will  not  waste 
any  time  improving  the  aeroplane — ^not 
believing  that  it  will  ever  be  practicable 
on  a  large  scale:  an  opinion,  by  the 
way,  shared  with  Wilbur  Wright,  ac- 
cording to  his  own  statement. 

He  spent  five  years  on  the  perpetual- 
motion  problem — and  gave  it  up,  in 
something  very  nearly  akin  to  disgust, 
"ril  let  somebody  else  do  that,"  he 
exclaimefl,  "and  they'll  never  do  it." 

He  is  trying  to  connect  the  phono- 
graph with  the  motion  picture,- and  has 
succeeded,  to  some  extent:  but  it  is  not 


yet  well-enough  developed  to  put  it  on 
the  market.  When  it  is,  he  expects  that 
the  performance  of  the  huge  kineto- 
scope  of  today  will  no  longer  be  known 
as  "The  silent  drama",  but  that  the  ex- 
hibits will  be  regular  artificial  theatrical 
programs. 

He  is  an  industrious  collector  and  a 
careful  saver  of  the  voices  of  famous 
men  and  women,  and  has  large  stores 
of  them.  I  asked  him  one  day  what  one 
he  had  rather  have  of  all  in  the  world, 
and  he  answered,  with  that  often-noticed 
desire  of  human  nature  for  what  it 
knows  it  cannot  get, 

"I  would  give  more  for  one  word 
from  Napoleon  the  Great,  than  for  all 
the  rest  of  my  records  put  together." 

He  will  be  greatly  honored  in  Europe, 
as  he  richly  deserves:  and  none  will 
glory  more  in  reading  of  the  process, 
than  those  who  have  toiled  under  his 
patient,  vigilant,  and  sagacious  direction 
and  tutelage. 


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Worry    just    enough    to    keep    you 
thriftily  at  work. 

There   are    invisible   blood-stains   on 
every  national  flag. 
<^ 
The  diining-table  has  killed  more  men 
than  the  battle-field. 
<^ 
Success    is   ninetynine    hundredths    a 
matter  of  endurance. 

Tears  are  never  unmanly,  unless  the 
one  that  sheds  them  is. 

A  thought  is  good  for  nothing,  unless 
it  breeds  more  thoughts. 

The  bashfulest  boys  often  become  the 
most  self-possessed  men. 
<^ 

Sc\^ral   people   who   do   not  believe 
that  n:an  is  an  evolution  from  the  mon- 


key, seem  doing  their  best  to  prove  that 
the  monkey  may  be  an  evolution  from 
man. 

Circumstances    never    altered   a   case 
that  was  worth  very  much. 
<^ 
People   are   all   the   while   forgetting 
that  they  ever  were  in  love! 
?^ 
To  be  ahead  of  the  times  as  credit- 
able, but  mightily  uncomfortable. 

The  pursuers  of  the  fox  are  every 
one  pursued  by  invisible  pursuers. 
<^ 
Some  of  the  most  genuine  and  heart- 
brewed  tears,  never  leave  the  eyes. 
<^ 
"Foul  play"  really  means  foul  work — 
and  a  good  deal  of  it,  first  and  last. 
^^ 
We  will  be  millions  of  years  under- 
standing mysteries  that  lie  before  us: 


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and   even    then,   the   investigation    will 
have  only  just  begun. 

Fear,  as  they  say  of  fire  and  water, 
is  a  good  servant,  but  a  hard  master. 
<^ 
"Talk"  is  not  always  "cheap",  when 
you  consider  what  it  costs  afterwards. 
<^ 
Walls   are  no  essential  barriers  be- 
tween the  really  essential  things  of  life. 
<^ 
The  oftener  you  "act  from  impulse", 
the  more  idiotic  impulses  you  will  have. 
<^ 
The  "man  in  the  moon"  would  have 
cause  to  do  some  thinking,  if  hei  could 
see  this  far. 

<^ 
If    water    were    as    costly    as    wine, 
everybody    would   prefer   it — ten   times 
over. 

<^ 
"Luck"   never   springs   up   spontane- 
ously:   it     is    really    a    plant   of    slow 
growth. 

^> 
Wars    do    not    settle    anything:    the 
things?  settle  themselves,  after  the  wars 
are  over. 

<^ 
When  you  get  on  the  right  road,  do 
not  stay  still  upon  it  so  long  as  to  keep 
others  back. 

Kindness  and  justice  should  go  hand 
in  hand:  but  they  are  constantly  part- 
ing company. 

One  day's  mistake  has,  millions  of 
times,  spoiled  a  life — and  plenty  of 
others  with  it. 

<^ 
Tangibility   is   a  very  elastic   word: 
what  is*  perfectly  real  to  one,  is  mythi- 
cal to  another. 

<^ 
"Stei>s  unto  heaven"  are  all  in  a  hori- 
zontal direction,  if  you  start  right  and 
keep  going  so. 

^^ 
A  very   large-natured  man   has   one 
misfortune:    the  world  cannot  see  him 


in  his  true  proportions  until  after  he  is 
dead. 

Many  a  one  who  starts  in  to  "take 
the  bull  by  the  horns",  finds  that  it  has 
been  dehorned. 

?^ 
People  laugh  at  the  mention  of  funer- 
als,  in  general:    but  is  not  the  laugh 
half-hysterical  ? 

<^ 
If  wishes  were  horses,  beggars  would 
not  ride:    they  could  still  make  more 
money  on  foot. 

<^ 
Competition  versus  monopoly  has  al- 
ways been  and  will  always  be  the  main 
fight  in  business. 

?^ 
Learn  how  to  make  stepping-stones 
of  others'   jealousy,   and   you   have   a 
staircase  to  success. 

There  is  no  law  broken  more  per9is- 
tently,   than   the  one   against   carrying 
concealed   weapons. 
<^ 

John's  book  was  only  one  of  millions 
of  things  the  sweetness  of  whose  taste 
ended  entirely  in  the  mouth. 

Many  a  sage  has  toiled  a  lifetime  for 
success,  and  has  not  achieved  a  hun- 
dredth part  of  the  vogue  of  Mother 
Goose. 

<^ 

When  you  draw  your  last  will,  guard 
if  possible,  against  a  hundred  wills  and 
won'ts  that  will  come  after  you  are 
dead. 

<^ 

If  the  tax  man  could  buy  all  the  prop- 
erty  he  assesses,  at  the  owners'  valua- 
tion, he  would  roll  up  fortune  after 
fortune. 

?^ 

The  great  majority  of  murderers  do 
not  know  that  they  are  murdering;  and 
most  of  those  do  not  care  whether  they 
are  or  not. 

<^ 

There  are  some  who  cannot  see  a 
wedding-day,  without  a  thought  of  the 
multitude  of  days  coming,  that  are  not 
wedding-days. 

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BY  CHARLES   EDWARD  STOWE. 


LJENRY  WARD  BEECHER  wanted 
to  be  a  sailor,  once.  It  was  lucky 
for  him  that  he  never  tried  it:  for  he 
would  have  died  of  sea-sickness.  He 
made  his  first  voyage  across  the  ocean 
in  the  old  sailing  packet,  *7<^hn  Bright", 
in  1850.  All  the  way  over  and  all  the 
way  back,  he  lay  in  his  berth  deadly 
sick.  He  was  the  author  of  that  famous 
assertion:  "At  first  I  was  afraid  I 
would  die,  and  then  I  was  afraid  I 
wouldn't!" 

Those  days,  in  the  old  sailing-ships, 
the  sailors  were  constantly  singing  about 
their  work.     Young  Beecher  heard  the 
associated   them    with    the 
sea-sickness.     Years    after- 
old    "John    Bright"    came 
the    harbor,    one   beautiful 
morning     in     June,    as     Mr. 
was    shaving    himself    at    an 


songs,  and 
agonies  of 
wards,  the 
sailing  up 
Sunday 
Beecher 


open  window;  and  as  he  saw  the  old 
ship,  and  heard  once  more  the  familiar 
songs,  he  was  attacked  with  nausea, 
and  other  unpleasant  symptoms  of  sea- 
sickness. 

The  writer  well  remembers  how,  as 
a  small  boy,  he  was  put  under  the  care 
of  a  somewhat  dismal,  but  very  pious 
and  conscientious  woman,  well  advanced 
in  years.  She  felt  it  her  duty  to  im- 
press upon  his  mind  at  a  tender  age 
the  idea  that  he  was  a  most  desperate 
sinner,  both  by  nature  and  practice; 
and  in  this  the  old  woman  was  not  far 
from  the  truth.  She  had  terrible  head- 
aches, and  by  way  of  remedy  used  to 
apply  bandages  of  boiled  vinegar  to  her 
head.  To  this  day  the  writer  cannot 
smell  boiled  vinegar  without  feeling  that 
he  is  an  awful  sinner. 


Not  long  since  he  was  in  a  home 
where  tomato-pickles  were  being  con- 
cocted, and  the  house  was  redolent  with 
boiled  vinegar.  He  felt  as  if  the  accu- 
mulated guilt  of  Adam  and  all  his  de- 
scendants were  pressing  down  upon  him. 

A  retired  army  officer  who  had  joined 
the  church  and  had  a  reputation  for 
unusual  sanctity,  was  called  upon  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  to  drill 
some  raw-recruits.  As  soon  as  he  be- 
gan his  drilling,  he  swore  most  terrible 
oaths.  This  was  very  dreadful  to  his 
pious  neighbors ;  who  remonstrated  with 
him  for  setting]  such  a  bad  example  to 
the  young  men  he  was  drilling.  To  their 
astonishment,  they  found  that  he  was 
entirely  unconscious  of  the  fact.  It  was 
the  power  of  the  association  of  ideas. 
He  had  been  in  the  habit  of  accompany- 
ing his  instructions  with  profane  ex- 
pressions in  his  old  army  days,  and  they 
flowed  unconsciously  from  his  lips  as 
soon  as  he  began  to  drill  an  awkward 
squad. 

Sometimes  certain  muscular  move- 
ments become  associated  with  certain 
words.  A  military  officer  who  was 
something  of  a  wag,  saw  a  soldier  in 
his  company  carrying  in  his  hands  a 
tray  containing  the  dinner  designed  for 
another  officer.  He  suddenly  and  in  a 
loud  tone  called  out  the  word  "Atten- 
tion"! Down  went  the  soldier's  arms 
to  his  side,  and  down  went  the  dinner 
on  the  side-walk^  This  was  the  power 
of  the  association  of  ideas.  That  word 
"attention"  acted  on  the  soldier  as  if  he 
were  a  puppet  pulled  by  a  string. 

It  is  an  undoubted  fact  that  we  human 
beings     are    very    curiously    contrived 


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machines.  We  are  very  largely  autom- 
atons: puppets  pulled  by  strings.  One 
day  an  old  farmer's  horse  came  home 
without  him,  and  he  was  found  lying 
by  the  side  of  the  road  with  his  skull 
fractured  by  being  thrown  out  and  hit- 
ting a  telegraph  pole. 

His  horse  had  been  frightened  by  an 
automobile.  As  soon  as  the  trepanning 
instrument  was  placed  on  his  head  and 
the  fractured  bit  of  the  skull  lifted  from 
pressing  on  the  brain,  his  lips  parted 
and  the  words  "Whoa  Dolly!''  came 
from  his  lips  as  if  shot  out  of  a  pistol. 

His  last  conscious  volition  had  been 
to  caution  DoUy  not  to  be  too  rash: 
but  before  he  could  turn  the  volition 
into  words  his  head  hit  the  telegraph 
pole,  and  put  his  talking-gear  out  of 
commission.  It  was  loaded(  in,  how- 
ever, and  came  forth  when  the  clog  was 
taken  out  of  the  machinery. 

Our  sensations,  ideas,  and  emotions 
are  associated  in  groups.  A  certain 
hymn  is  sung  in  church,  and  the  woman 
next  you  weeps  violently.  She  explains 
afterwards  that  that  hymn  was  sung  at 
her  mother's  funeral.  The  vibrations 
caused  by  the  music  bring  up  the  whole 
associated  group  of  ideas,  sensations, 
emotions,  and  tender  sentiments  that 
were  hers  at  the  time  of  her  mother's 
funeral. 

This  plays  a  very  large  part  in  emo- 
tional religion.  A  boy  saying  his  pray- 
ers at  his  mother's  knee  has  an  associ- 
ated group  of  ideas — ^tender,  elevating, 
and  pure — ^in  his  mind.  If  that  little 
boy  grown  up  to  manhood,  can  have 
vividly  brought  before  him  a  picture  of 
himself  as  a  tiny  figure  in  white  kneel- 
ing at  his  mother's  knee,  instantly  the 
group  of  sensations  returns,  and  he  is 
once  more,  for  the  time  being,  that  gen- 
tle, loving,  tender,  little  boy.  Then  re- 
mind him  of  some  man  who  has  injured 
him  and  whom  he  hates!  and  he  is 
transformed  in  an  instant  into  another 
group  of  sensations,  and  curses  his 
enemy  and  swears  vengeance.  So  we 
pass  from  one  associated  group  of  sen- 
sations to  another  in  our  minds,  as  we 
pass  from  room  to  room  in  our  houses. 

From  this  fact,  one  that  understands 


human  nature  can  play  upon  us  as  if 
we  were  pipe-organs.  That  is  the  secret 
of  the  wonderful  power  of  words. 
This  is  the  art  of  the  skillful  revival 
preacher. 

"All  the  men  in  this  room  who  have 
had  praying  mothers,  please  raise  their 
hands!"  he  cries.  This  lets  loose  a 
mighty  power  in  the  congregation.  It 
produces  an  atmosphere  of  contrition, 
tenderness,  love,  and  gentfleness.  In 
every  man  there  is  some  such  image — 
or,  God  help  him ! 

Two  sailors,  hard,  reckless,  and  aban- 
doned, were  playing  cards  in  a  gambling 
hell.  They  were  playing  for  money, 
with  rum  and  revolvers  on  the  table. 
One  of  them,  as  he  fumbled!  the  cards, 
not  thinking  what  he  sang,  began  to 
hum: 

"One  sweetly  solemn  thought    . 
Comes  to  me  o'er  and  o'er." 

"What's  that  yer  singin'?"  growled 
his  companion. 

"Singin'? — dunno!     What  was  it?" 

"Why,  you  was  a  singin'  a  hymn, 
mate!  One  they  used  ter  sing  in  Sun- 
day School  when  I  was  a  kid!" 

It  was  not  long  before  they  both 
recalled  the  hymn.  They  left  the  gam- 
bling hell,  and  went  down  to  a  lonely 
place  by  the  river;  and  there  each  said 
he  was  sick  of  his  bad  life.  The  hynm 
brought  back  the  group  of  associations 
that  had  belonged  to  their  innocent 
childhood,  and  in  them  there  was  power 
to  change  their  lives. 

What  is  called  conversion,  is  a  change 
from  an  evil  group  of  associated  ideas, 
to  a  good  one. 

Sometimes  whole  trains  of  thought 
are  associated  together  by  the  most 
trivial  incidents.  The  writer  when  a 
student  in  Germany  used  to  attend  the 
lectures  of  Prof.  Kuno  Fischer,  of 
Heidelberg.  He  used  no  manuscript, 
but  spoke  with  great  fluency  and  ease. 
He  always  held  a  small  key  in  his  hand. 
One  day  he  dropped  this  key  and  could 
not  go  on  with  his  lecture  till  it  was 
restored  to  him.  It  was  evidently  the 
key  to  the  situation. 

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28,  contained  the  information  that,  on 
the  last  voyage  of  the  steamer  Majestic, 
Martha  Thurman  would  neither  eat  nor 
drink  and  spent  her  time  in  her  state- 
room praying,  and  honing  a  razor.  She 
was  immediately  put  under  restraint  as 
in  a  dangerous  condition.  Now  none  of 
these  acts  are  in  themselves  reprehensi- 
ble. Peoplej  frequently  do  not  feel  like 
eating  when  on  shipboard,  and  it  is 
always  commendable  to  pray.  To  hone 
a  razor  is  certainly  an  innocent  per- 
formance in  itself;  but  by  association  of 
ideas  Martha's  performances  became 
ominous.  Why  does  Martha  hone  a 
razor  when  she  has  no  beard  ?  The  fact 
that  she  accompanies  the  act  by  devo- 
tional exercises  makes  it  all  the  more 
alarming.  What  is  she  going  to  do 
with  the  razor  when  it  is  honed? 
Under  certain  circumstances  we  asso- 
ciate a  razor  with  throat-cutting — so 
Martha  is  put  under  restraint.  We  do 
not  associate  abstinence  from  food, 
razor-honing,  and  prayer,  with  a  sound 
condition  of  mind  in  a  beardless 
woman. 

There  is  a  powerful  scene  in  "Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin"  that  turns  on  the  associa- 
tion of  ideas.  Sambo  brings  Legree  the 
lock  of  Eva's  hair  that  he  has  taken 
from  Uncle  Tom.  "A  long  shining  curl 
oil  fair  hair,  which,  like  a  living  thing, 
twined  itself  around  Legree's  fingers. 
'Damnation!'  he  screamed,  in  sudden 
passion,  stamping  on  the  floor,  and  pull- 
ing furiously  at  the  hair  as  if  it  burned 
him.     *     *    * 

"And  what  was  the  matter  with 
Legree?  and  what  was  there  in  a  simple 
curl  of  fair  hair,  to  appall  that  brutal 
man,  familiar  with  every  form  of  cru- 
elty?   *     *     *" 

The  writer  then  goes  on  to  tell  of 
Legree's  wild  wicked  life ;  of  the  lovely 
Christian  mother  whose  prayers  he  had 
spurned,  and  whose  heart  he  had  broken. 
"The  next  Legree  heard  of  his  mother, 
was  when,  one  night,  as  he  was  carous- 
ing among  drunken  companions,  a  let- 
ter was  put  in  his  hands.  He  opened  it, 
and  a  lock  of  long,  curling  hair  fell 
from  it,  and  twined  about  his  fingers. 


The  letter  told  him  his  mother  was 
dead,  and  that  dying,  she  blessed  and 
forgave  him." 

By  the  power  of  association  of  ideas, 
one  lock  of  little  Eva's  fair  hair  had 
the  whole  of  this  bad  man's  past  locked 
up  within  it :  a  past  that  stung  him  like 
an  adder  and  bit  him  like  a  serpent.  To 
this  evil  man,  the(  very  thought  of  this 
mother  and  her  dying  love  for  him,  was 
the  keenest  anguish. 

So  in  the  book  of  Revelation  we  are 
told  that  at  the  appearing  of  the  glori- 
ous vision  of  the  Christ,  "they  that 
pierced  Him  shall  wail  before  Him." 
So  "there  is  a  dread,  unhallowed  necro- 
mancy of  evil,  that  turns  things  sweet- 
est and  holiest  into  phantoms  of  horror 
and  affright.  That  pale,  loving  mother, 
— her  dying  prayers,  her  forgiving  love, 
— ^wrought  in  that  heart  of  sin  only  as 
a  damning  sentence,  bringing  with  it  a 
fearful  looking-for  of  judgment  and 
fiery  indignation." 


What  the  Telescope  Reveals. 

r^EEP  in  the  caverns  of  the  sky, 

Beyond  the  reach  of  human  eye. 
Roll  millions  of  unnumbered  stars. 
The  strongest  telescope  unbars 
The  gates  of  distance;  and  a  few 
Are  nearer  brought  to  mortal  view. 
But  still  there  float  in  boundless  space, 
Myriads  of  stars,  whose  beaming  face 
We  may  not  look  upon. 

In,  man 
Whose  merits  we  too  lightly  scan. 
We  see  but  little  good,  because 
We  seek  for  frailties,  faults  and  flaws, 
Or  give  a  careless,  heartless  glance. 
And  deem  him  evil  in  advance. 
No  noble  impulses  we  trace 
Upon  his  unimpassioned  face; 
But  with  the  lens  of  charity. 
Encased  in  tender  sympathy. 
Great  excellences  we  discern, 
And  virtues,  though  they  dimly  burn; 
Searching  for  merits,  we  may  find. 
Without  God's  lens,  the  soul  is  blind! 
Edgar  Thorne. 


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r  A  FLAME  of  crimson  swept  into  the 
•^  purple  sea  in  the  west  and  its 
shadowy  cloud-islands  became  gleaming 
fairy-lands  of  marvelous  brightness. 

From  the  big  hammock  on  the  piazza 
the  children  explored  them  with  won- 
dering, eager  eyes,  all  unconscious  of  a 
very  tiny,  round  and  shining  pair  which 
viewed  the  four  rosy  faces  with  greedy 
impatience  from  a  waving  grass-blade 
on  the  lawn. 
*^  "Hum-m-m,"  chanted  a  gay  little 
mosquito  debutante,  delightedly.  "Those 
children  seem  greatly  interested  in 
something;  I  am  sure  mother  would 
call  this  a  good  opportunity.  There  is 
no  need  of  my  being  so  stupidly  cau- 
tious any  longer.  I  longed  to  experi- 
ment on  that  dignified  old  gentleman's 
nose  this  afternoon — it  looked  delic- 
iously  red  and  inviting,  but  he  seemed  to 
grow  vicious  the  moment  he  heard  my 
song,  so  I  contented  myself  with  hover- 
ing near  enough  to  observe  his  actions 
and  learn  what  I  could  of  the  ways  of 
men.  Hm-m !  What  a  temper  he  has. 
Why,  the  dragon-flies  on  the  marshes 
were  quite  gentle  in  behavior,  compara- 
tively. I  thought  life  was  exciting  and 
full  of  danger  there,  but  this  promises 
^^more  amusement. 

"How  strange  it  seems,"  continued 
the  small  prima  donna  in  still  higher 
soprano  key,  "to  think  of  being  only 
an  insignificant  little  'wiggler',  tobbing 
around  on  the  water. 

"I  was  called  a  'tumbler'  the  next 
time  I  changed  my  dress.  What  a 
happy  day  it  was  when  I  succeeded  in 
tearing  an  old  one  off  for  the  last  time, 
and  spread  these  beautiful  wings  in  the 
sunshine  to  dry. 

"The  journey  here  was  very  tedious. 


Grandmother  kept  buzzing  her  advice 
to  us  in  such  a  tiresome  way  and  pre- 
dicting that  I  should  be  caught.  How 
annoying  old  people  can  be !  I  think  I 
know  a  few  things  myself,  and  am  glad 
to  be  here  alone. 

"It  is  time  I  had  a  sip  of  blood. 
Some  one,  I  suppose,  might  hear  me 
singing  and  conclude  to  go  where  I 
could  not  find  him. 

"People  are  odd  creatures — ^very 
stingy  and  hateful,  I  think.  Why,  they 
never  miss  a  drop  of  blood,  yet  mother 
says  they  would  refuse  to  give  it  to  us 
if  we  stopped  to  ask  them  for  it.  Then 
they  don't  seem  to  realize  that  we  are 
of  any  use  to  them.  We  will  feed  on 
matter  poisonous  to  them  all  summer, 
and  doubtless  save  a  great  many  from 
disease ;  but  they  will  hate  us  most  cor- 
dially. 

"I  expect  adventures,  and  when  I  find 
our  family-swarm  again  may  have  as 
entertaining  tales  to  relate  as  those  Aunt 
Jersey  is  so  fond  of  telling;  or  those 
impossible-sounding  yarns  grandmother 
repeats  about  our  cousins  in  Brazil,  and 
giant  Klondike  relatives. 

"Now,  here  I  go — there  never  was  a 
mosquito  more  impatient  to  use  a  dainty, 
new  set  of  lances.  That  baby  is  asleep, 
too,  as  sure  as  my  name  is  Marguerita 
Matilda  Mosquito.  Who's  afraid,  un- 
der such  circumstances?" 

"I  see  a  soldier  in  that  big  blue  cloud, 
and  warships  in  this  lovely  red  one,  just 
as  plaid  as  anything",  Harold  was  say- 
ing.   "Do  you,  Rob?" 

"I  see  a  horrid  mosquito  trying  to  eat 
baby  up",  answered  Robert,  whose  eyes 
never  looked  very  long  in  any  one  direc- 
tion; and  that  venturesome,  inexperi- 
enced mite  of  conceit  was  soon  strug- 

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gling   between   his   thumb   and   finger. 

The  execution  of  so  guilty  an  insect 
would  doubtless  not  have  been  post- 
poned an  instant  if  former  experiences 
had  not  made  the  children's  ears  quick 
to  hear  tiny  insect  voices.  Now  they 
bent  down  to  listen  to  the  faint  piping 
of  their  small  prisoner,  who  was  ex- 
claiming in  Its  loudest  tones:  "Don't 
pull  my  wings  so,  you  cruel  children; 
they  will  be  ruined.  You  cannot  blame 
me,  I  am  sure,  for  drinking  when  I  was 
so  thirsty,  and  why  you  should  interfere 
is  more  than  I  know.  Treat  me  as  I 
deserve  and  perhaps  I  will  tell  you  some 
things  you  ought  to  know,  and  if  you 
will  be  reasonable  I  will  show  you  my 
case  of  surgical  instruments,  so  delicate 
they  cannot  possibly  hurt  any  one,  I  am 
sure." 

"They  do,  though,"  hastily  corrected 
Harold,  "and  the  hurt  lasts  long  after 
you  fly  away." 

"Well,"  hummed  the  mosquito,  with 
growing  confidence,  "I  should  never  im- 
agine it;  but  since  you  spare  my  life 
I  will  try  to  avoid  you  in  future.  I 
must  use  my  beautiful  needles,  though. 
Who  ever  heard  of  a  mosquito  promis- 
ing to  forego  that  pleasure?  I  really 
wish  your  clumsy  eyes  could  see  them. 
The  sheath  in  which  they  are  kept  you 
can  see,  I  suppose,  but  not  how  beauti- 
fully It  is  ornamented,  nor  the  tiny 
silken  hairs  on  my  wings,  and  the  pretty 
scales  on  my  bodice  you  have  no  idea 

f  "Now  if  you  had  compound  eyes  like 
mine,  nearly  covering  your  head,  you 
might  see  some  very  wonderful  things. 
My  tongue  is  half  as  long  as  my  body," 
boasted  the  proud  little  captive,  saucily, 
"and  I  have  no  use  for  teeth  like  yours. 
You  know  nothing  about  me,  for  you 
probably  never  listened  to  a  mosquito's 
song  before.  I  suppose  you  don't  know 
how  I  sing,  either." 

**  "How?"  questioned  the  children,  be- 
ginning to  regard  their  impertinent 
insect  prisoner  with  considerable  awe. 

*•  "Well,  my  wings  vibrate  fully  three 
thousand  times  in  a  minute  and  make  a 
humming  accompaniment  to  my  high 
notes.    We   are   a   very    lively    family. 


found  in  every  country  and  climate,  and 
invariably  hungry,  just  as  I  am  told 
boys  are  apt  to  be.  Musicians  should 
not  be  expected  to  be  as  mild  in  dispo- 
sition as  ordinary  insects.  We  are  not 
amiable,  of  course. 

"Our  cousin  gnats  are  dancers.  If 
you  care  to  watch  you  can  see  them  in 
aerial  quadrilles  and  minuets  almost  any 
summer  evening;  they  are  so  quick  to 
see,  and  dreadfully  nimble,  that  you  will 
have  to  be  careful  how  you  approach' 
them.  Dear  me!  If  I  resembled  them 
more  I  should  never  have  had  this  hu- 
miliating experience  of  being  caught. 
But  I  was  enjoying  my  first  drink,  and 
forgot  all  about  being  discreet  and  cau- 
tious. 

"Your  hand  tempts  me  now.  Couldn't 
you  hold  it  still  and  let  me  show  you 
how  I  'bite',  as  you  call  it?  If  you  will 
just  be  quiet  and  let  me  get  a  good- 
sized  drop  the  little  liquid  I  inject  to 
thin  the  blood  before  I  draw  it  up  will 
not  be  left  to  irritate  your  flesh,  as  it 
will  if  you  drive  me  away  before  I  finish 
the  operation." 

"I'll  let  you",  Robert  declared;  "get 
the(  glass,  somebody,  and  we'll  see  how 
Miss  Doctor  does  it." 

1"Oh,  dear!"  exclaimed  Florence,  as 
she  peeped  at  the  greedy  insect  draw- 
ing forth  a  many-bladed  lancet,  "what 
a  dreadful  mouth  and  eyes.  It  has 
three  pair  of  the  longest  legs  and  very 
pretty  wings.  Now  it's  growing  big- 
ger.   Don't  let  it  hurt  you,  Robby." 

Florence  was  much  distressed  and 
the  tiny  surgeon  did  certainly  look  for- 
midable when  magnified. 

"Does  it  hurt?"  asked  Harold,  excit- 
edly, viewing  the  novel  sight  with 
interest. 

"No — yes,  it  does,  too.  Here,  you 
shan't  bite  me  nor  anyone  else." 

Robert  slapped  with  sudden  impa- 
tience at  his  smarting  palm  and  only  a 
tiny  blood  stain  showed  where  his  little 
tormentor  had  been. 

"I  couldn't  help  it,"  he  apologized, 
"mosquitoes  always  make  me  mad  when 
they  bite.  It  ought  to  have  known  bet- 
ter than  to  ask  me;  besides,  I  think 
that  was  a  story  about  it's  not  hurting 

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if  I  would  let  it  drink  all  it  wanted. 
Maybe/'  he  added,  hopefully,  "in  mos- 
quito heaven,  it  has  nothing  else  to  do 
and  is  enjoying  itself  now",  and  this 
soothing  thought  enabled  the  children 
to  begin  happily  a  search  for  new  cloud- 
pictures. 

Just  as  they  were  getting  over  their 
sorrow  a  little  they  were  surprised  to 
see  their  intelligent  little  friend  hover- 
ing near  them  once  more,  though  very 
cautiously. 

"You  didn't  get  me  that  time,"  he 
laughed,  shrilly.  "I  shall  require  bonds 
the  next  time  I  trust  you  with  my  life." 
And  he  skipped  away,  leaving  the  chil- 
dren rather  glad  he  was  still  alive. 


A  Forest  Tragedy. 

//OAS  anything  happened  since  we 
**     left?"     said     a     returned     city 
boarder,  in  a  letter  to  a  friend.     This 
is  the  answer: 

Yes,  something  has  happened!  Not 
here  entirely, — elsewhere  the  tragedy 
begins:  Away  in  the  North  woods,  on 
a  bright  October  morning,  a  beautiful 
daughter  of  the  forest  rose  from  her 
leafy  couch;  her  slender  neck  was 
adorned  with  frost- jewels  as  she  lifted 
her  innocent  face  toward  the  sunlight. 
Her  large,  wondering  eyes  saw  no  dan- 
ger, and  her  sensitive  ears  caught  only 
the  sound  of  joyous  notes  of  birds,  the 
faint  distant  thunder  of  the  partridge, 
the  near  rustle  of  leaves  as  rabbits  and 
squirrels  began  their  search  for  food. 

"Dear,  innocent  creatures,  I  love  you 
all,"  she  said :  "you  are  my  friends  and 
I  am  yours,  and  we  will  enjoy  this  glo- 
rious Autumn  day  together."  Then  she 
carelessly  nipped  the  tender  twigs  of 
beech  and  birch  as  she  left  the  thicket 
that  had  been  her  protection  in  hours  of 
rest.  But  the  rising  breeze  brings  to 
her  keen  scent  the  sure  proof  of  danger 
afar — that  distant,  dismal  half-moan  is 
the  baying  of  pursuing  hounds.  "But 
with  all  the  help  a  proud  master  can 
give,  their  scent  is  not  half  so  keen, 
their  feet  so  swift,  or  power  to  endure 
a  long  journey  equal  to  mine.    I  defy 


them!  Let  them  come  on!"  she  said, 
as  she  lightly  bounded  over  fallen  trees, 
woodland  streams,  grassy  hillocks,  or 
plunged  through  dense  thickets  and 
easily  measured  off  with  long,  slender 
limbs  league  after  league  of  distance 
left  behind.  As  easily  and  beautifully 
as  a  swift  vessel  cuts  the  wave,  as 
securely  and  proudly  as  the  hawk  sails 
in  the  sky,  she  keeps  on  her  course,  the 
sound  of  pursuing  foes  lost  in  the  dis- 
tance. She  gains  a  low  ridge  of  open 
ground  stretching  toward  the  clear 
river,  and  the  thick  woodland  beyond. 
Suddenly  the  sure  scent  of  danger  near 
comes  to  her  nostrils;  and  she  stops, 
looks,  wonders  an  instant,  then  wheels 
off  to  avoid  the  dangerous  path ;  but  a 
sharp  sting  of  pain  comes  to  her  side, 
a  sudden  dizziness — a  trembling,  a 
crashing  fall — follow  closely  the  loud 
[report  of  a  deadly  rifle,  as  a  mighty, 
broad-belted  hunter  steps  forth  from 
his  ambush. 

With  desperate  energy  she  struggles 
to  rise,  and  would  drive  her  sinewy  feet 
through  his  hunting- jacket,  and  into  his 
breast;  but  he  stands  off  and  with  de- 
liberate aim  sends  a  bullet  through  her 
brain.  There  she  lies;  so  beautiful,  so 
helpless,  staining  the  glorious  autumn 
leaves  a  deeper  red;  while  above  the 
deep  azure  shines  the  rejoicing  sun. 
The  noble  river  rolls  on,  with  happy 
birds  and  the  safety  almost  won,  just 
beyond  its  banks. 

Before  the  belated  hounds  can  claim 
their  little  share  of  victory,  the  guide 
is  called,  the  slain  victim  lifted  to  his 
shoulders,  carried  to  his  home,  and 
thence  with  greater  speed  than  her 
swift  living  feet  could  gain  she  comes 
to  our  railroad  station.  With  long, 
bleeding  neck  hanging  over  the  end- 
board  of  our  stage  wagon,  she  follows 
the  course  of  the  river,  advertisiijg  with 
these  beautiful  large  dead  eyes  and  this 
bleeding  neck  the  triumph  of  her  con- 
queror until  she  reaches  his  home ;  and 
is  hacked  into  small  pieces  and  scat- 
tered to  other  homes  where,  let  us  hope, 
sweet  human  pity  dwells. 

Do  the  recreations  we  choose  and 
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Porpoises  in  Parade. 


TPHE  spirit  of  the  parade  appears  to 
be  contagious,  extending  even  to 
those  who  inhabit  the  world  of  waterl 
We  have  had,  recently,  suffragette  pro- 
cessions, work-horse  processions,  Sun- 
day-school parades,  coronation  parades, 
and  now,  in  apparent  emulation  of  man, 
we  learn  that  the  porpoises  recently  had 
a  procession  two  miles  long,  in  the 
waters  of  the  Atlantic  that  surge  along 
the  shores  of  Asbury  Park  and  Long 
Branch. 

And  why  not  ?  Have  we  not  all  read 
of  schools  of  porpoises,  that  follow  in 
the  wake  of  vessels  and  have  often  been 
seen  and  described  by  scholars  viewing 
then^  from  the  decks  above?  Whether 
they  are  merely  swimming-schools,  or 
whether  other  arts  are  taught  in  their 
finny  assemblies,  •  we  cannot  well  say. 
But  doubtless  there  are  lessons  in 
hygiene  and  correct  diet  given  to  the 
young  ones,  by  the  more  experienced, 
as  they  investigate  the  life-giving  qual- 
ity of  the  various  foods  that  descend  to 
them  from  the  vessel's  kitchen. 

And  we  can  fancy  them  practicing 
also  those  branches  of  sea-education 
mentioned  by  the  Mock  Turtle,  in 
"Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland" : 
namely,  Reeling,  Writhing,  and  the  four 
ground  rules  of  Arithmetic,  Ambition, 
Distraction,  Uglification  and  Derision, 
besides  Mystery,  Seaography,  Drawl- 
ing, Stretching  and  Fainting  in  Coils, 
Laughing,  and  Grief. 

Why  should  they  not  parade,  on  a 
holiday  ? 

One  of  this  particular  school  of  por- 
poises was  of  an  inquiring  turn  of  mind, 
apparently:  for  it  rolled  into  shallow 
water  just  outside  the  bar,  where  nu- 
merous people  were  bathing.     Being  a 


practical  joker,  as  it  would  seem,  it 
raised  its  head  and  suddenly  emitted  a 
harsh  bark.  "Oh,  then  and  there  was 
hurrying  to  and  fro !"  as  women  scram- 
bled madly  toward  shore,  not  knowing 
what  strange  creature  might  be  at  their 
heels.  Tripping,  falling,  regaining  their 
feet,  and  again  falling,  rolling,  hasten- 
ing toward  land  by  any  motion  that 
seemed  quickest,  with  a  continued  bark- 
ing] sounding  in  their  ears,  they  at  last 
reached  some  vantage  point  whence 
they  could  look  back  and  observe  their 
pursuer  (?).  And  as  they  saw  that 
plump,  playful  porpoise  roll  again  out 
to  sea,  they  asked  each  other  sheep- 
ishly, "Did  he  do  it  a-purpose?"  "Can 
a  porpoise  joke?"  "Was  that  bark  a 
laugh?"  If  any  of  those  scared  bathers 
had  determined,  in  turn,  to  investigate 
the  ways  of  the  porpoises,  they  would 
have  learned  some  interesting  facts. 

For  one  thing,  although  a  denizen  of 
the  waters,  the  porpoise  is  not  a  fish, 
but  a  cetacean,  a  mammal,  warm-blood- 
ed, viviparous,  and  suckling  the  twenty- 
inch  infant  that  it  brings  forth. 

The  name  "porpoise"  as  commonly 
used  by  sailors,  includes  also  the  "dol- 
phins": but  scientists  distinguish  be- 
tween the  two  species.  The  word 
"porpoise"  is  evidently  derived  from  the 
French  pore  poisson  (hog-fish),  which 
corresponds  to  the  German  meerschwein, 
and  to  the  English  "hog-fish",  "sea- 
hog",  "herring-hog" — all  of  which  de- 
scriptive names  refer  to  their  habit  of 
rooting  like  hogs,  for  some  of  their 
food.     But  they  have  other  aliases. 

Being  of  the  order  of  whales,  they 
must  needs  come  at  frequent  intervals 
to  the  surface  of  the  water  to  obtain 
the  indispensable  oxygen,  and  the  puflF- 

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ing  that  accompanies  this  process  ex- 
plins  the  origin  of  the  name  of  "puflf- 
ing-pig"  and  of  "snuflfer." 

The  porpoise  measures  about  five  feet 
or  more  in  length,  when  full  grown. 
The  lower  jaw  projects  about  half  an 
inch  beyond  the  upper  one.  The  eyes 
are  very  small,  and  the  external  ear- 
aperture  is  so  tiny  that  it  is  all  but  in- 
visible, even  to  close  examination.  And 
yet  his  cousin,  the  dolphin,  whose 
external  ear  is  equally  small,  is  an  enthu- 
siastic music-lover,  according  to  ancient 
story.  It  is  in  the  form  of  its  teeth 
that  the  porpoise  differs  most  from  the 
dolphin  and  other  Delphinidae. 

This  small  cetacean  has  a  smooth, 
shining  skin,  dark  above,  changing  from 
bluish  to  violet,  green  or  gray,  accord- 
ing to  the  light,  but  passing  into  pure 
white  beneath.  As  it  is  furnished  with 
four  stomachs,  it  might  well  be  that  a 
healthy  appetite,  as  well  as  the  rooting 
habit,  would  account  for  its  common 
name.  Its  food  consists  of  moUusks  and 
fishes,  such  as  mackerel,  pilchards  and 
herring,  and  the  schools  of  porpoise 
seem  always  eager  to  attend  the  schools 
of  fish :  though  very  likely  the  attention 
is  not  appreciated  by  the  latter.  In  pur- 
suit of  their  prey  they  will  frequently 
ascend  the  Thames  (English)  as  far  as 
Richmond,  and  also  the  Seine;  and  it 
may  have  been  that  our  Asbury  Park 
porpoise  was  more  interested  in  some 
small  fishy  fry  than  in  the  charming 
summer  mermaids  of  the  popular  water- 
ing-place. 

The  porpoise  was,  like  the  dolphin, 
formerly  greatly  esteemed  for  its  flesh, 
as  an  article  of  diet — and  before  the 
dolphin  was  discovered  to  be  flesh  in- 
stead of  fish,  the  Church  allowed  it  to 
be   eaten  on  the  usual   fast  days.     Its 


blubber  is  valuable  for  the  oil  derived 
from  it,  and  the  skin  is  sometimes 
turned  into  leather  and  boot-thongs. 

Sociable  and  gregarious,  the  por- 
poises, like  the  dolphins,  seem  fond  of 
play :  and  can  frequently  be  seen  by  voy- 
agers rolling,  racing,  leaping  out  of  the 
water  for  the  sheer  joy  and  ecstacy  of 
living. 

The  porpoise  is  more  limited  in  its 
southward  range,  than  is  the  dolphin, 
which  is  known  to  the  sailors  of  the 
Mediterranean.  Since  the  two  species 
are  so  nearly  allied,  it  may  not  be  out 
of  place  here  to  recall  to  our  readers, 
that  the  dolphin  was,  by  the  ancients, 
regarded  as  a  great  friend  to  man. 
Their  school-sessions  gave  warning  to 
the  sailors  of  the  approach  of  a  storm. 
The  image  of  a  dolphin  is  common  on 
ancient  coins,  and  the  beautiful  legend 
of  Arion  tells  of  the  music-loving  dol- 
phin that  saved  the  life  of  the  death- 
threatened  poet,  playing  his  tuneful 
lyre.  The  Latin  name  of  the  dolphin  is 
Delphinus  delphis — and  since  the  most 
renowned  oracle  of  Apollo — that  one 
dedicated  to  the  God  of  music,  at  Delphi, 
was  closely  associated  with  a  dolphin- 
myth,  as  the  name  implies — it  would 
seem  that  there  was  some  long-ago  con- 
nection between  the  two  legendary 
tales. 

Again,  we  find  the  symbolism  of  the 
dolphin  reappearing  in  more  modern 
times.  As  the  eldest  son  of  the  King 
of  England  is  known  as  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  so,  the  Count  of  Dauphiny,  the 
heir-apparent  of  France,  was  the  Dau- 
phin (dolphin),  and  this  emblem  ap- 
pears on  the  coat-of-arms  of  the  old 
French  monarchy,  which  "quartered 
with  the  fleur-de-lys  azure  a  dolphin 
hauriant  or!" 


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September  Information. 


UQ  EPTEMBER,  laden  with  the  spoil 
of  harvest",  marks  the  consum- 
mation of  the  summer  toil  of  the 
husbandman;  and  it  betokens,  in  the 
changing  phases  of  Nature,  the  ap- 
proadi  of  winter. 

"Yet  still  shall  sage  September  boast  his 
pride, 
Some  birds  shall  chant, 
Some  gayer  flowers  shall  bloom." 

Although  September  retains  the  name 
bestowed  upon  it  before  the  revision  of 
the  calendar,  indicating  that  it  is  the 
seventh  month  of  the  year,  the  term  is 
now  no  longer  appropriate:  the  same 
being  the  case  with  October,  November, 
and  December.  But  among  our  Saxon 
ancestors,  who  had  the  habit  of  cor- 
rectly designating  their  months  and 
seasons  by  some  circumstance  of  nature 
or  custom,  September  was  known  as 
the  Gerst  or  barley,  month,  on  account 
of  the  commonly  used  beverage  which 
was  then  brewed  from  the  grain.  They 
also  called  it  "holy  month",  because, 
therein,  their  "forefathers,  the  while 
they  heathens  were,  celebrated  their 
devil-guild" — 2l  relic  of  some  older  fes- 
tival observed  in  connection  with  the 
ingathering  of  the  crops. 

The  solicitude  for  fine  harvest  weather 
found  expression  in  various  proverbial 
rhymes.  This  one  of  invocation  is  very 
old: 

"September  blow  soft 
Till  the  crop's  in  the  loft." 
And  again,   the   following  verse   of 
prediction : 

"If  dry  be  the  buck's  horn 
On  Holy-rood  morn, 

'Tis  worth  a  kist  of  gold ; 
But  if  wet  it  be  seen 


Ere  Holy-rood  e'en. 

Bad  harvest  is  .foretold." 

The  principal  ancient  church  festival 
of  the  month.  Holy-rood  Day — on  the 
fourteenth — commemorated  an  event  of 
human  interest,  albeit  one  of  supernat- 
ural quality.  The  day  became  celebrated 
in  the  Greek  and  Latin  churches  as  the 
anniversary  of  the  exaltation,  or  rais- 
ing, of  the  true  cross,  in  view  of  the 
people  of  Jerusalem,  A.  D.  335.  Tradi- 
dition  affirmed  that  the  empress  Helena 
journeyed  to  Jerusalem,  and  obtained 
the  surrender  from  the  Jews  of  all  the 
crosses  they  had  secreted  in  the  Holy 
City :  and  the  identity  of  the  true  cross 
was  established  by  the  miraculous  res- 
toration to  life  of  a  dead  man,  whose 
body  had  been  placed  on  the  sacred  relic. 

But  it  was  the  old  farm  festivals  of 
rural  England,  connected  with  the  har- 
vest season,  that  marked  the  most  inter- 
esting features  of  the  month;  and, 
while  differently  known  as  thurn-sup- 
pers,  mel-suppers,  and  harvest  feasts, 
they  were,  undoubtedly,  all  of  one  ori- 
gin and  of  great  antiquity:  relics  of 
far-back  Pagan  or  Jewish  ceremonies, 
and  more  significant  in  meaning  than  is 
generally  supposed.  The  Bible  contains 
many  references  to  the  custom:  as  in 
Exodus :  "The  feast  of  harvest  .  .  . 
which  is  in  the  end  of  the  year,  when 
thou  hast  gathered  in  thy  labors  out  of 
the  field."  Similar  feasts  were  held 
sacred  to  Apollo;  and  Herodotus  men- 
tions the  Greek  custom  of  oflFering  holy 
things,  in  the  temples  of  that  god, 
"tied  up  in  a  sheaf  of  wheat."  The 
worship  of  Apollo  in  Britain  would 
account  for  the  festival  in  that  island; 
the  god  lost  his  divinity  by  reason  of 
the  advance  of  Christianity,  but  the  fes- 

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tive  part  of  the  custom,  agreeing  so 
well  with  the  disposition  of  the  con- 
verts, was  maintained  after  the  last 
shred  of  their  old  faith  had  vanished. 

While  the  ancient  harvest  festivities 
are  now  observed  in  only  a  few  rural 
districts  of  England,  and  are  fast  dis- 
appearing, the  custom  was  almost  gen- 
erally celebrated  less  than  half  a  cen- 
tury ago.  The  unfortunate  Eugene 
Aram  wrote  a  description  of  the  har- 
vest festivals,  as  they  were  observed  in 
Yorkshire,  in  his  time.  He  says :  "They 
are  commonly  insisted  upon  by  the  reap- 
ers as  customary  things,  and  a  part  of 
their  due  for  the  toils  of  harvest."  The 
thum-supper  was  provided  by  the 
farmer  when  the  corn  was  all  cut;  but 
the  mel-supper,  or  harvest  feast,  was 
not  celebrated  until  the  grain  was  all 
ingathered  from  the  fields. 

In  the  south  of  England,  the  last 
standing  handful  of  grain  was  called 
"Amack."  When  this  was  cut,  the 
reapers  assembled  round  it,  and  one  of 
them,  holding  the  sheaf  aloft,  cried  out 
loudly:  "Arnack,  arnack,  arnack" — 
which  his  companions  thrice  repeated. 
Then  he  would  sing, — 

"Well  cut,  well  bound. 

Well  shocked, 
Well  saved  from  the  ground." 

To  which  the  company  responded  with 
loud  huzzas.  The  custom  was  some- 
what diflFerent  in  Perthshire,  Scotland, 
where  the  last  handful  was  cut  by  some 
favored  damsel ;  and  the  sheaf  was  usu- 
ally preserved .  in  the  farmer's  parlor 
until  the  end  of  the  year. 

The  last  load  of  grain  taken  from  the 
fields  was  called  the  "Hockey-load"; 
it  wasi  surmounted  by  a  gayly  dressed- 
up  figure  of  grain,  supposed  to  repre- 
sent the  goddess  Ceres,  and  the  reapers, 
men  and  women,  with  troops  of  happy 
children,  sung  appropriate  songs  as  they 
accompanied  the  wagon  to  the  farm- 
yard. Sometimes,  a  pretty  village  lass, 
crowned  with  flowers,  would  imperson- 
ate Ceres  on  the  top  of  the  Hockey- 
load.  The  antiquity  of  this  custom,  at 
the  end  of  the  harvest  labors,  is  illus- 
trated in  the  book  of  Isaiah :   "For  the 


shouting  for  thy  summer  fruits  and  for 
thy  harvest  [that]  is  fallen." 

In  the  evening  the  harvest-home  sup- 
per was  served  in  the  barn,  or  in  the 
old-fashioned,  oak-raftered  farm  kitch- 
en: always  celebrated  with  much  rustic 
pleasantry  and  merry-making. 


Found  Out  In  Time. 

QNE  of  Charlotte  Bronte's  letters 
^^  gives  a  very  good  series  of  rea- 
sons why  she  did  not  marry  a  Mr. 
Taylor,  who  at  one  time  hoped  to  make 
her  his  wife.  She  says,  in  writing  to  a 
friend : 

"I  am  sure  that  he  has  estimable  and 
sterling  qualities;  but  with  every  dis- 
position and  with  every  wish,  with  every 
intention  even  to  look  on  him  in  the 
most  favorable  point  of  view,  it  was 
impossible  to  me,  at  his  last  visit,  to 
think  of  him  in  my  inward  heart  as  one 
that  might  one  day  be  acceptable  as  a 
husband.  It  would  sound  harsh  were  I 
to  tell  even  to  you  of  the  estimate  I  felt 
compelled  to  form  respecting  him.  I 
looked  for  something  of  the  gentleman 
— something,  I  mean,  of  the  natural 
gentleman;  you  know  I  can  dispense 
with  acquired  polish,  and  as  for  looks, 
I  know  myself  too  well  to  think  that  I 
have  any  right  to  be  exacting  on  that 
point.  I  could  not  find  one  gleam,  I 
could  not  see  one  passing  glimpse  of 
true  good  breeding.  It  is  hard  to  say, 
but  it  is  true.  In  mind,  too,  though 
clever,  he  is  second-rate — ^thoroughly 
second-rate.  One  does  not  like  to  say 
these  things,  but  one  had  better  be  hon- 
est. Were  I  to  marry  him,  my  heart 
would  bleed  in  pain  and  humiliation ;  J 
could  not,  could  not  look  up  to  him." 

There  is  a  grave  question  here,  which 
might  have  occurred  to  Miss  Bronte's 
mind,  and  might  not:  and  that  is, 
whether  marriage  is  intended  for  pleas- 
ure, or  for  mutual  benefit  and  discipline. 
If  he  had  "estimable  and  sterling  quali- 
ties", and  she  "true  breeding",  they 
might  have  improved  each  other:  each 
imparting  what  the  other  to  some  extent 
lacked.  ^  T.    ^^ 

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'J'HE  commuter,  crossing  the  Hudson 
River  on  a  ferryboat,  and  the  voy- 
ager, steaming  up  the  same  noble  stream 
on  a  giant  liner,  become  aware  of  a 
giant-faced 'and  giant-handed  clock  that 
marks  time  on  the  Jersey  shore. 

Smaller  clock-faces  regulate  the  going 
and  coming  of  the  trains  over  the 
Brooklyn  Bridge,  and  one  thoughtful 
observer,  as  he  waited  for  his  many- 
wheeled  vehicle,  killed  time  by  noting 
that  the  larger  hand,  on  its  hourly  cir- 
cuit, proceeded  not  at  an  even,  snail's 
pace,  but,  rather,  by  fits  and  starts,  jerks 
and  halts,  at  brief,  though  regular  inter- 
vals ;  and  his  brow  furrowed  with  pon- 
dering on  the  question.  Just  how  often 
is  that  clock,  or  any  clock,  really  strictly 
correct? 

Imagine  some  microscopic  germs — 
health-germs — deciding  to  take  a  jour- 
ney round  the  country  of  the  clock-face. 
Perched  on  the  lamina  of  the  minute- 
hand,  they  start  at  Depot  XII.,  prepared 
to  enjoy  the  journey  to  the  full.  Would 
their  train  be  best  likened  to  an  express, 
or  to  a  local?  Follow  the  moving 
pointer.  It  stops  for  a  moment  at  a 
minute-station,  then  springs  to  the 
next  graduating  line, — ^pauses,  leaps  for- 
ward, pauses  and  so  continues  its  way- 
freight  progression  "round  the  circle." 

Acknowledging  that  the  large  point- 
ers of  the  electric  timepiece  do  thus  halt- 
ingly perform  their  daily  round  of  duty, 
is  their  mode  of  progress  common  to  all 
timepieces,  large  and  small,  where  the 
movement  is  not  so  obvious? — And  if 
so,  how  often  is  a  clock  actually  accu- 
rate? 

We  learn  from  an  expert  watchmdin, 
that,  with  the  exception  of  certain  freak 
clocks,  provided  with  revolving,  in  place 
of  vibrating  pendulums,  all  clocks  and 


watches  go  by  intermittent  stages;  the 
latter  are  frequently  right — often  sixty 
times  an  hour.  The  former  are  likely 
to  be  inaccurate  and  are  used  mainly  in 
the  clocks  used  for  keeping  an  equato- 
rial telescope  directed  to  a  star,  or  in 
bedrooms  wherein  sleep  people  who  are 
disturbed  by  the  ticking  of  the  ordinary 
clock — for  the  rotary  or  conical  pendu- 
lum produces  no  ticking,  as  does  the 
vibrating  one. 

Once  a  minute,  then,  or  twice  a  min- 
ute, with  each  tick  comes  a  halt,  and 
then  a  swinging  forward.  For  the  non- 
illionth  of  a  minute,  we  might  say,  the 
hand  points  truly — for  the  ensuing  59 
and  999  nonillionths  of  a  minute  it  is 
not  quite  accurate,  although  for  ordi- 
nary needs  it  certainly  suffices,  and 
only  some  microbe  traveler  in  the  slow- 
moving  "local"  train,  woutd  mind  the 
difference.  Sixty  times  an  hour,  then, 
the  ordinary  clock  of  good  workman- 
ship may  be  said  to  be  "right" :  and  we 
realize  the  wonderful  perfection  of  their 
mechanism,  when  we  learn  that  a  jewel- 
er's Regulator,  with  its  39.7  inch  pen- 
dulum, has  been  known  to  "go"  eleven 
months  without  falling  more  than  one 
minute  behind  time — that  is,  it  was  one- 
four  hundred  and  eightyone  thousandths 
of  a  minute  out,  in  a  period  covering 
eleven-twelfths  of  a  year. 

The  electric  clocks  or  dials,  on  which 
the  minute- jumps  are  so  conspicuous,  are 
usually  governed  by  one  master-clock — 
as  many  as  5,600  subordinate  clocks 
being  controlled  by  a  central  timepiece, 
from  which  comes  the  electrical  impulse. 
In  New  York  City  hundreds  of  eyes 
look  daily  at  twelve  o'clock  to  watch 
the  ball  fall  from'  the  pole  of  the  West- 
ern Union  Telegraph  Building.  It  is 
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movement  comes  directly  from  Wash- 
ington; so  timed,  that,  at  twelve  pre- 
cisely, it  falls — and  electric  clocks  all 
over  the  city  are  automatically  set  right, 
if  perchance  they  have  gone  astray. 
They  are  wound  automatically,  but  the 
storage  batteries  containing  the  vital 
fluid  (if  we  may  so  term  it),  must  be 
examined  daily;  for,  although  they  are 
supposed  to  last  a  year,  they  do  not  all 
die  out  simultaneously,  and  so  all  can- 
not be  renewed  at  the  same  time. 

The  latest  development  in  the  making 
of  accurate  timepieces  will  be  an  evolu- 
tion from  wireless  telegraphy — as  proph- 
esied at  a  recent  jeweler's  convention 
by  Charles  Higginbotham.  Mr.  Higgin- 
botham  has  a  vision  of  a  system  of  cen- 
tral clocks,  connected  by  wireless  waves 
with  individual  timepieces  carried  on  the 
person. 

"We  ourselves  will  see  this  change", 
he  declared.  "In  a  few  years  the  man 
who  wants  to  know  the  time  will  take 
a  dial  from  his  pocket,  something  like 
the  watch  which  he  carries  now,  but 
instead  of  looking  at  the  dial  and  figur- 
ing out  how  slow  or  fast  the  watch  is 
running,  he  will  simply  press  a  button 
on  the  watch  and  the  waves  of  elec- 
tricity from  a  controlling  clock,  perhaps 
many  miles  away,  will  spin  the  needles 
around  to  the  proper  positions  and  show 
him  the  absolutely  correct  time." 

Seth  Thomas,  whose  clocks  have 
ticked  his  name  around  the  world,  made 
one  that  was  placed  in  a  vacuum,  and  so 
was  as  absolutely  precise  as  human 
ingenuity  could  devise  and  manufacture. 
An  inaccuracy  of  one-half  second  a 
month  is  almost  a  negligible  quantity. 

We  are  supposed,  in  a  general  way, 
to  take  the  sun  as  our  great  standard- 
izer  of  daily  time,  and  when  sun-dials 
were  the  usual  timepiece,  they  were,  of 
course,  absolutely  correct,  on  sunny 
days,  each  in  its  own  garden,  or  own 
church-wall.  It  may  not,  however,  be 
generally!  known,  that  there  is  in  Paris 
an  unique  alarm-clock,  that  recently 
"went  off"  right,  for  the  first  time  in 
many  years.  An  old  gun,  at  the  Palais 
Royal,  is  fired,  we  are  told,  at  noon,  by 
the  heat  of  the  sun's  rays,  through  a 


lens.  The  sun  usually  takes  from  five 
to  ten  minutes  or  more,  as  it  focusses 
through  the  lens,  to  set  the  gun  off. 
This  year,  so  intense  has  been  the  heat, 
that  when,  exactly  over  the  meridian, 
the  rays  touched  the  glass,  the  gun 
promptly  reported — the  fact.  It  is  said 
that  if  the  heat  continues,  the  sunj  will 
be  almost  as  reliable  as  a  railway  clock. 
While  the  absolutely  true  clock,  then, 
exists  only  in  imagination,  as  does  the 
only  true  geometrically-straight  line, — 
for  all  practical  purposes  man  can  make 
timepieces  that  help  keep  him  true. 


Ages  That  are  Public  Property. 

Lyman  Abbott  is  seventyfivc. 

Felix  Adler  is  sixty. 

John  Kendrick  Bangs  is  fortynine. 

Amelia  E.  Barr  is  eighty. 

James  Gordon  Bennett  is  seventyone. 

Sarah  Bernhardt  is  sixtyseven. 

Sarah  K.  Bolton  is  sixtynine. 

Ballington  Booth  is  fiftjrtwo. 

William  Jennings  Bryan  is  fiftyone. 

Rev.  J.  M.  Buckley  is     seventyfivc. 

Robert  J.  Burdette  is  sixtyseven. 

Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  is  sixtyone. 

John  Burroughs  is  seventyfour. 

George  W.  Qible  is  sixtysix. 

Ex-Senator  Chandler  is  seventyfivc. 

Kate  Qaxton  is  sixtythrec. 

(Rose  Elizabeth  Qeveland  is  sixtyfivc, 

Russell  H.  Conwell  is  sixtynine. 

Phoebe  Couzins   is  fiftysix. 

Capt  Jack  Crawford  is  sixtyfour. 

Richard    Croker   is   sixtyseven. 

iRichard  Harding  Davis  is  fortysevcn. 

Chauncey  M.  Depew  is  seventyseven. 

Admiral  Dewey  is  seventythree. 

Thomas  A.  Edison  is  sixtyfour. 

Senator  J.  B.  Foraker  is  sixtyfive. 

Gen.  Fred.  Funston  is  fortyfive. 

George  Jay  Gould  is  fiftytwo. 

Helen  M.  Gould  is  fortythree. 

Gen.  Frederick  D.  Grant  is  sixtyone. 

Rev.  David  Gregg  is  sixtj'five. 

Dr.  F.  W.  Gunsaulus  is  fifty  five. 

Senator  Eugene  Hale  is  seventyfivc. 

Julian  Hawthorne  is  sixtyfive. 

Dr.  P.  S.  Henson  is  seventynine. 

Richmond  B.  Hobson  is  fortyonc 

William  D.  Howells  is  seventyfour. 

Henry  James   is   sixtyeight. 

Rev.  Edward  Judson  is  sixtyseven. 

Rudyard  Kipling  is  fortyfive. 

Robert  T.  Lincoln  is  sixtyeight, 

Ex-Sec.  John  D.  Long  is  seventytwo. 

Charlotte  Crabtrec   ("Lotta")   is  sixtyfour. 

Scth  Low  is  sixtyone. 

S.  S.  MoGure  is  fifty  four.   ^  , 

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THE  PENALTY  FOR  SABBATH-BREAKING. 

TTHE  Fourth  Commandment,  which 
directs  us  to  "remember  the  Sab- 
bath Day  and  keep  it  holy",  has  come 
to  be  too  largely  considered  as  a  negli- 
gible quantity. 

There  is  one  class  that  treat  the  great 
First  Day  of  the  week  exactly  the  same 
as  any  other — working  and  playing — 
plowing  or  fishing — ^hoeing  or  hunting 
— traveling  or  visiting  at  home  or 
abroad.  There  is  another  class,  that 
will  not  work,  but  will  do  almost  every- 
thing else.  There  is  another  class,  that 
will  worship  part  of  the  day,  and  play 
the  rest.  There  is  another  class,  that 
spend  the  whole  day  strictly  in  accord- 
ance with  the  above-mentioned  com- 
mandment. There  is  another  class,  that 
hold  and  assert  that  Saturday  is  the  day 
meant  by  the  Bible,  anyway,  and  keep 
that  day,  some  of  them  taking  care  to 
work  or  play  as  conspicuously  as  possi- 
ble on  Sunday.  There  is  another  class, 
that  believe  Saturday  to  be  the  right 
day  instead  of  Sunday,  but  do  not  keep 
either  of  them. 

There    are    laws    in 
States,    directing   that 
served:    but  they  are 
except   spasmodically, 
these    were    strictly 


several  of  the 
Sunday  be  ob- 
never  enforced, 
Once,  some  of 
put    into    action 


throughout  New  York  City,  and  several 
shopkeepers,  barbers,  and  restaurant 
men  were  arrested  for  not  obeying. 
This,  however,  only  lasted  a  few  weeks, 
and  then  the  trouble  was  as  bad  as  ever, 
while  today  New  York  breaks  the 
famous  Fourth  Commandment  on  every 
block. 

The  same  may  be  said  of  Wilming- 
ton, Delaware.    But  there  are  also  laws 


in  that  State,  as  Mr.  Upton  Sinclair, 
the  novelist,  and  some  of  his  associates 
in  a  kind  of  single-tax,  do-as-youVe-a- 
mind-to  colony,  ascertained,  at  a  consid- 
erable expense. 

One  of  its  members  was  not  allowed 
to  speak  out  what  he  liked  in  one  of 
their  assemblages,  and  the  law  was  "in- 
voked upon"  him.  Whereat  he  decided 
to  also  invoke  some  law,  and  caused  the 
arrest  of  Mr.  Sinclair  and  several  of  his 
fellow-do-as-you-hkes,  for  playing  the 
agile  though  not  particularly  intellectual 
game  of  tennis  on  Sunday. 

There  was  no  way,  under  the  statutes, 
but  to  sentence  them:  and  they  spent 
several  hour§  in  jail,  and  several  more 
in  the  transportation  of  stone  from  one 
locality  to  another,  by  means  of  wheel- 
barrows. 

We  are  informed  by  Mr.  Sinclair, 
that  the  sojourn  was  treated  by  the 
sojourners  as  "a  lark" — although  the 
lark  evidently  had  to  be  up  to  meet  the 
sun  and  go  to  work  at  the  regularly- 
established  hour.  A  number  of  other 
details  of  the  environment  were  not  at 
all  to  the  novelist's  taste,  and  he  resent- 
ed the  fact  so  much,  as  to  compose, 
between  shovelfuls,  a  poem  on  the  sub- 
ject. 

Rhymes  seem  to  have  been  scarce  in 
Wilmington  jail,  and  the  poem,  like  Mr. 
Markham's  well-known  "Man  with  the 
Hoe",  is  in  blank  verse.  It  has  appar- 
ently been  telegraphed  to  every  daily 
in  which  the  English  language  is  treated 
and  maltreated.  It  is  entitled,  instead 
of  "The  Man  with  the  Wheelbarrow", 
"The  Menagerie",  and  reads  as  follows : 

Oh,  come,  ye  lords  and  ladies  of  the  realm, 
Come  from  your  couches  soft,  your  perfumed 
halls ; 


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Come   watch  with   me  throughout  the  weary 

hours. 
Here  are  there    sounds    to    fill    your  jaded 

nerves, 
Such  as  the  cave  men,  your  forefiathers,  heard 
Crouchingr  in  forests  of  primeval  night. 
Here,  tier  on  tier,  in  steel-barred  cages,  pent, 
The  beasts  ye  breed  and  hunt  throughout  the 

world, 
Hark   to  that  snore — some  ibeast  that  slum- 
bers deep. 
Hark  to  that  roar — some  beast  that  dreams 

of  blood — 
Hark  to   that  moan — some  beast  that  wakes 

and  weeps; 
And    there,   in    sudden    stillness,    hark    the 

sound — 
Some    beast    that    xasps    his  vermin-haunted 

hide. 
Oh,  come,  ye  lords  and  ladies  of  the  realm ; 
Conje,  keep  the  watch  with  me;  the  show  is 

yours ; 
Behold  the  source  of  all  our  joy  and  pride. 
These  beasts  ye  harness  fast  and  set  to  draw 
The  chariots  of  your  pageantry  and  pomp. 

Mr.  Sinclair's  invitation  to  the  lords 
and  ladies  of  the  realm,  has  not,  so  far 
as  we  have  heard,  been  accepted:  they 
probably  preferring  their  couches  soft, 
and  their  perfumed  halls.  They  evi- 
dently did  not  care  to  hear  that  snore, 
or  that  roar,  or  the  other  sounds  that 
the  poem  mentions — but  they  zmll  hear 
them,  if  the  poet  follows  up  his  threat 
of  prosecuting  everybody  in  Wilming- 
ton that  breaks  the  Sabbath — ^and,  it 
seems,  there  are  plenty  of  them. 

If  everybody  who  breaks  the  Sunday 
laws  is  made  to  trundle  stones  for  a 
day,  wheelbarrows  will  be  very  much  in 
demand,  and  labor  will  be  cheaper. 
And  yet,  it  would  seem  that  nothing  but 
a  strict  enforcement  of  the  prescribed 
penalties,  will  ever  bring  about  a  ref- 
ormation. 


admirable  wit  and  quaint  wisdom. 
His  references  to  Henry  Ward 
Beecher  and  to  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe, 
are  all  the  more  interesting,  from  the 
fact  that  he  was  the  nephew  of  one  and 
the  youngest  son  of  the  other. 


SOME  BEECHER  IDEAS. 

^OjT'E  call  editorial  attention  to  the 
bright  and  interesting  article  on 
another  page,  entitled  "On  the  Associa- 
tion of  Ideas."  It  was  written  expressly 
for  Every  Where,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Charles 
E.  Stowe,  who  has  several  times  re- 
cently   enlivened    our   pages    with    his 


BELLIGERENT    CATS. 

TPHE  brilliant  new  idea  of  collecting 
ashes  and  garbage  throughout  the 
city  at  night,  has  caused  numerous  peti- 
tions, addressed  to  boards  of  health, 
street  commissioners,  etc.  The  Mayor 
of  New  York  advised  one  of  his  "sub- 
jects", who  wrote  complaining  of  the 
nuisance,  to  "move  out  of  town",  if 
he  didn't  like  it.  This  delicate,  refined, 
courteous  and  practical  little  piece  of 
lore,  ought  to  be  framed  and  hung  up 
in  each  dwelling,  as  a.  motto.  It  is  so 
natural,  and  so  easy,  to  pack  up  and 
leave  the  city,  to  save  the  authorities 
the  trouble  of  keeping  it  habitable. 

Even  the  cats  have  raised  various  and 
sundry  protests:  and  garbage-men  find 
in  many  of  the  tubs  and  barrels,  pugna- 
cious tabs,  which  spit  at  them,  scratch 
them,  and  bite  them,  when  they  go  to 
taking  away  the  wasted  nutrition  which 
the  animals  consider  their  own  property. 

The  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Animals  now  states  that  it 
considers  it  its  duty  to  kill  the  cats — 
which,  it  assumes,  must  be  homeless 
ones,  or  they  would  not  be  around  o' 
nights,  stealing  garbage.  That  is  a 
jump  to  a  conclusion:  many  a  home- 
fed  and  child-caressed  grimalkin  loves 
variety  in  the  way  of  eating,  and  often 
finds  something  new  and  palatable  in 
the  fragments  that  the  neighbors  or  the 
neighbors'  servants  have  thrown  away. 

In  connection  with  this  subject,  it 
occurs  to  one,  that  there  should  be  a 
society  established  for  the  prevention  of 
cruelty  to  people,  who,  after  a  hard 
day's  work,  are  trying  to  get  a  full 
night's  sleep,  and  are  awakened  by  the 

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gathering  of  ashes  and  garbage,  and 
the  yells  of  impatient  drivers  at  their 
horses. 


japan's  ocean-hero. 

TTHE  world-famous  Admiral  Togo, 
who  has  been  visiting  his  dear 
friends,  the  Americans,  produced  a 
mild  but  favorable  impression  wherever 
he  went — especially  in  New  York — and 
all  New  York  saw  him — at  least  those 
that  wanted  very  much  to  do  so. 

Not  high-booted,  mustached,  and  be- 
spurred,  was  this  mighty  warrior  of  the 
ocean — not  high  of  stature  and  fierce  of 
visage:  but  "a  little  bit  of  a  man" — 
with  a  typical  Japanese  face  and  a  tiny 
gray  goatee.  So  far  as  personal  ap- 
pearance is  concerned,  you  would  not 
look  at  him  twice  in  a  railroad  coach: 
and  maybe  you  would  not  at  Napoleon 
Bonaparte,  if  he  could  release  himself 
from  invisibility,  and  come  here  today. 
Probably,  they  were  of  about  the  same 
heightand  weight:  and  their  greatness 
was  of  the  brain — almost  any  one  of 
ordinary  size,  having  been  or  being  able 
to  easily  worst  them  in  personal  combat. 

At  any  rate,  the  ultra-distinguished 
"Jap"  has  been  given  all  the  honor  that 
New  Yorkers  knew  how  to  bestow,  in 
the  hottest  month  of  their  history. 
They  wined  him,  dined  him,  lured  him 
and  his  attendants  into  indigestions, 
and  tried  to  make  the  whole  company 
feel  as  much  at  home  as  they  could. 

Things  are  most  decidedly  different 
from  what  they  were,  one  generation 
ago,  when  a  Japanese  embassy  came  to 
this  country,  and  were  received  by  Pres- 
ident Buchanan.  On  the  day  they  were 
to  have  their  audience,  the  Chief  Exec- 
utive gathered  the  biggest  and  tallest 
men  connected  in  any  way  with  his  ad- 
ministration, and  ranged  them  in  line. 
The  President  himself,  although  not  par- 
ticularly larc:e  in  history,  was  six  feet 
tall,  and  perhaps  a  little  more.    General 


Scott  stood  so:ne  inches  higher.  Six  or 
eight  other  American  giants,  gathered 
from  Cabinet  and  Court,  completed  a 
formidable  receiving-line.  ,  The  embassy, 
who  were,  from  a  physical  standpoint, 
very  diminutive  men,  were  so  astounded 
and  overwhelmed  when  they  came  to  the 
door  and  saw  the  fleshly  display,  that 
they  threw  themselves  on  their  faces, 
and  crept  and  crawled  the  whole  way 
to  where  the  President  proudly  stood. 

No  creeping  now!  The  little  Japa- 
nese admiral  is,  to  all  essential  intents 
and  purposes,  a  giant  whose  shadow 
stretched  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific,  the  very  minute  he  landed  here. 
Crowds  pursued,  and,  as  far  as  possible, 
honored  him.  Dignitaries  tumbled  over 
each  other  to  get  at  him.  Hotels  dug 
out  and  made  ready  their  most  sumptu- 
ous apartments  for  his  occupancy. 
Dimpled  girls  asked  for  his  autograph. 
The  President  gave  him  the  freedom  of 
the  White  House.  He  was  a  lion  sev- 
eral times  over — although,  physically,  a 
very  diminutive  one. 

This  furor  is  not  because  the  Japa- 
nese are  any  better  Christians  than  they 
were  in  the  later  fifties;  not  because 
Admiral  Togo  is  any  more  of  a  gentle- 
man than  any  one  else:  but  because 
Japan  is  now  a  fighting  nation,  and  he 
is  her  Nelson,  or  her  De  Ruyter,  or  her 
Dewey,  whichever  you  may  call  it.  Hie 
made  a  solemn  wager  with  death  that  he 
would  win — and  won.  If  he  had  been 
defeated — the  grave:  he  laid  his  sword 
upon  his  knee  and  promised  it  his 
heart's  blood,  if  he  did  not  whip  the 
Russians — and  he  did  not  have  to  pay 
the  penalty  of  defeat. 

War  is  conducted  largely  by  machin- 
ery, nowadays,  and  an  admiral  is  vir- 
tually a  master-machinist.  Of  all  the 
Japanese  to  get  an  education  in  foreign 
countries,  Togo  seems  to  have  been  the 
best,  and  is  honored  accordingly. 

The  question  has  been  asked,  several 
times,  whether  the  Admiral  is  a^courte- 

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ous  visitor  and  guest,  commissioned  to 
bring-  from  our  Japanese  neighbors  the 
loyal  friendship  his  words  express,  or 
whether  he  is  a  spy— to  see  all  he  can 
of  our  resources  and  capabilities,  and 
take  advantage  of  his  knowledge  in 
case  of  a  war  between  United  States 
and  Japan.  It  does  not  seem  to  us  that 
it  makes  much  difference  which  is  the 
case :  if  he  came  to  see,  he  has  seen  a 
whole  lot  that  would  not  be  particularly 
encouraging  to  an  antagonist;  if  he 
came  to  offer  and  receive  courtesies  and 
amenities,  he  has  had  abundant  oppor- 
tunities to  do  so. 

He  closed  his  visit  to  the  metropolis, 
at  the  historical  Press  Club — where  all 
New  York's  distinguished  visitors  from 
various  parts  of  the  world  are  supposed 
to  make  a  call  while  in  town,  and  im- 
plicitly admit  that  the  pen  and  the  press 
are  mightier  than  the  hustings  and  the 
sword. 

Several  of  the  windows  of  the  New 
York  office  of  Every  Where  looked 
down  upon  the  scene  of  the  arrival  and 
departure  of  Admiral  Togo  from  that 
famous  head-center  of  "red-hot  litera- 
ture." Some  would  pronounce  the  visit 
the  most  important  of  all  he  made  in 
America — when  it  was  considered  what 
effect  the  press  has  upon  the  goings 
and  comings  of  mortals. 

The  arrival  and  departure  of  the 
great  man  was  very  quiet  and  unosten- 
tatious— so  far  as  it  was  managed  by 
cx)mmittees  and  chauffeurs.  But  Nature 
apparently  would  not  have  it  so:  she 
sent  one  of  the  most  savage  storms  of 
this  or  any  other  season,  pounding 
down  upon  the  scene,  all  through  the 
reception.  No  naval  battle  ever  caused 
more  noise  than  thunder  did  for  a  time, 
and  the  torrents  of  water  that  fell, 
would  have  floated  many  a  ship.  And 
Heaven  grant  the  circumstance  be  not 
a  portentous  one! 

From  there,  the  Admiral  went,  the 
same  day,  to  Boston :   and  there  he  was 


captured  and  held  prisoner  in  bed,  not 
by  some  enemy's  guns — but  by  a  fit  of 
acute  indigestion — a  malady  that  has 
killed  thousands  of  tourists  in  different 
parts  of  the  world.  "A  change  of  pas- 
tures makes  fat  kine":  but  a  radical 
change  of  diet  in  a  country  foreign  to 
one's  own,  should  be  handled  with  ex- 
ceeding care. 

.  From  Boston  to  Niagara  Falls,  and 
Canada,  and  home:  and  so  good-bye, 
Togo:  may  your  talent,  or  genius,  or 
whatever  it  is,  never  be  needed  in 
another  gigantic  encounter  between  na- 
tions ! 


CONTRASTED  ILLINOISANS. 

TTWO  men  were  born  upon  farms,  de- 
veloped in  Illinois,  achieved  world- 
wide reputations,  and  lived  each  fiftysix 
years. 

One  was  John  W.  Gates,  who  died  the 
other  day.  His  motto  was  "Life  is  a 
gamble."  Even  as  one  of  Shakespeare's 
characters  held  that  everything  and 
everybody  was  a  thief,  Mr.  Gates  held 
that  everything  and  everybody  was  a 
gamester.  He  wagered  on  horses,  on 
stocks,  on  manufacturing-plants,  on 
everything  that  could  compass  his 
favorite  style  of  financial  argument. 
He  was  not  noted  as  a  benefactor  of 
mankind,  and  humanity  does  not  seem 
to  have  been  one  of  his  strong  points. 
His  life  was,  apparently,  conducted 
principally  for  Mr.  Gates,  and  family, 
and  for  them  alone. 

He  found  iron  in  the  earth,  manufac- 
tured it  into  steel,  the  steel  into  wire 
fence,  and  sold  it  at  an  enormous  profit ; 
he  found  oil,  and  drained  fortunes  out 
of  it ;  he  made  everything  that  he  could, 
turn  to  crisp  bank-notes;  and  he  gam- 
bled with  millions  as  boys  do  with  pins 
or  marbles.  He  considered  horses  as 
merely  articles  concerning  which  to  bet, 
and  people  as  stock-buyers.  The  world 
was  his   pleasure-ground,   an4   worldly 

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EVERY    WHERE. 


success  was  his  relierion.  He  died  at 
least  one  generation  sooner  than  he 
ought  to  have  done — and  of  a  complica- 
tion of  diseases  that  showed  him  to  be 
no  carer  for  his  own  physical  personal- 
ity. As  to  his  spiritual  condition,  mor- 
tals are  not  to  judge:,  that  must  be  left 
to  higher  intelligences. 

The  other  man  whom  we  have  in 
mind,  found  himself  during  early  man- 
hood, a  young  lawyer,  who  also  had  to 
make  his  own  way,  in  life.  His  motto 
was  not  "Life  is  a  gamble",  but  "Life  is 
a  field  for  honest  labor,  and  sane  ad- 
vancement." He  climbed  his  way  to  the 
highest  place  in  the  nation,  and  to  as 
high  a  one  as  there  is  in  the  world,  and, 
by  hard  and  patient  toil,  demonstrated 
his  right  to  be  there.  He  had  great 
treasures  and  millions  of  lives  under  his 
control,  but  he  never  gambled  with 
them.  He  did  not  die  a  multi-million- 
aire, or  even  a  mono-millionaire :  but  he 
worked  out  a  noble  career,  achieved  a 
permanent  renown,  and  when  he  died — 
also  at  fiftysix— left  the  world  mourning 
for  him — the  immortal  Abraham  Lin- 
coln. 


THE    nation's    name. 

TT  may  be  noticed  that  in  speaking  of 
this  country  Every  Where  gener- 
ally makes  it  a  point  to  leave  out  the 
article  "the",  and  mentions  it  simply  as 
"United  States."  This  is  a  departure; 
but  we  consider  it  as  a  sensible  and  log- 
ical one.  Time  was  when  Michigan  was 
referred  to  as  "The  Michigan",  Ohio 
as  "The  Ohio",  etc.,  etc. ;  but  no  one  at 
present  thinks  of  using  that  absurd 
method  in  mentioning  them. 

United  States  is  a  nation ;  "the  United 
States"  are  its  different  divisions.  It 
would  be  just  as  reasonable  to  say, 
"The  England,"  "The  France,"  or  "The 
China,"  as  it  is  to  use  the  term  now 
generally  employed. 

The  spirit  of  the  age  is  condensation ; 
and  this  is  in  accordance. 


"o  come^  come  awav." 

T'HE  author  of  that  inspiriting  little 
song  which  was  so  much  in  vogue 
several  years  ago  notifying  all  children 
that  the  schoolbell  now  was  ringing, 
would  this  month  be  very  much  re- 
minded of  the  parody  perpetrated  by  his 
educational  muse. 

There  will  march  and  loaf  and  slouch 
and  frolic  up  and  down  the  streets  nu- 
merous droves  of  juvenile  prophesies 
of  the  near  future.  The  soon-to-be 
business  men,  lawyers,  legislators,  gov- 
ernors, generals,  presidents,  belles,  so- 
ciety-leaders, philanthropists,  and  other 
rulers  of  our  world  when  this  genera- 
tion gets  old,  useless,  and  dead,  will 
now  be  on  their  way  to  desks  and  reci- 
tation-rooms so  as  to  learn  how  to  do  it. 

Various  and  many  will  be  their 
teachers:  some  good,  some  bad,  and  a 
large  number  indifferent.  They  will 
be  taught  and  untaught  and  mistaught 
and  maltaught  in  many  different  ways. 
Some  of  them  will  carry  eight,  nine, 
ten,  fifteen  "studies"  at  the  same  time. 
Some  of  them  will  be  pampered — some 
beaten — some  treated  as  human  beings 
should  be.  Much  depends  on  the  kind 
of  teacher  that  happens  to  be  over  them. 

Let  us  hope  and  believe  that  the 
great  majority  of  instructors  during  the 
coming  year,  will  have  been  chosen  on 
account  of  ability  and  adaptability. 
Many  a  man  traces  back  his  success  in 
life  to  one  or  more  good  sensible  pre- 
ceptors. Indeed,  it  may  almost  be  said 
that  the  teachers  of  the  present  rule  the 
world  of  the  future. 

But  a  vast  amount  of  importance 
must  also  be  attached  to  the  conduct 
of  parents  toward  their  children,  in 
regard  to  schools  which  they  attend. 
The  parent,  so  far  as  desk-education  is 
concerned,  should  be  the  first-lieutenant 
of  the  teacher.  He  should  teach  his 
child  the  importance  of  embracing  every 
opportunity  to  learn,  and  to  discipline 
the   mind.     He    should   counsel   obedi- 

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ence  to  every  reasonable  rule  and  law. 
He  should  see  to  it"  that  his  child  is 
prompt,  well-clad,  and  tidy,  and  does 
not  need  the  attention  of  the  truant- 
officer. 

There  is  another  class  of  people  that 
should  be  careful  of  schoolchildren — 
and  that  is  the  people  who  encounter 
them  on  their  way  to  and  from  school. 
The  temptations  and  moral  obliquities 
that  pupils  encounter  between  home 
and  class-room,  are  many  and  varied. 
It  ought  to  be  made  a  misdemeanor  to 
interfere  except  to  administer  needed 
help,  with  children  going  to  and  from 
school. 

As  to  the  effect  that  children  have 
upon  each  other,  in  their  unavoidable 
daily  intimacy  in  schoolroom  and  play- 
ground— that  is  a  matter  that  cannot  be 
regulated  except  by  close  care  and  at- 
tention on  the  part  of  both  teacher  and 
parent. 

A  school  year  may  mean-  years  of 
happiness  or  misery  for  others — twenty 
or  thirty  years  later. 


THE    CHILD-CATCHER. 

QNE  of  the  most  interesting  of  offi- 
cials in  some  towns,  now-a-days, 
is  the  Child-catcher.  He  is  generally  a 
man  of  mature  age,  who  knows  the  city 
like  a  book.  He  possesses  a  list  of  the 
youngsters  in  all  the  various  schools, 
and  knows  more  of  them  by  sight  than 
any  one  imagines.  He  keeps  as  good 
track  of  the  Sittings  of  families,  as 
would  an  instalment-collector.  He 
makes  very  early  morning  visits  into 
all  sorts  of  unexpecting  flats  and  gar- 
rets. He  is  armed  with  a  constable's 
power,  and  can  carry  off  children  and 
put  them  in  charge  of  their  appointed 
teacher,  in  the  school-room  appertain- 
ing to  their  district. 

He  is  hated  by  thriftless  parents ;  and 
there  are  a  great  many  objectionable 
personages  whom  they  had  rather  see 


coming.  Sime  of  them  would  kill  him, 
if  they  dared.  A  school-house  in  Sagi- 
naw, Mich.,  was  once  blown  up  with 
dynamite — ^it  is  thought  by  people  whose 
children  had  come  under  the  hand  of  the 
Child-catcher. 

These  people  should  remember  that 
the  really  best  thing  that  can  be  done 
for  their  children  and  the  country,  is  to 
compel  juveniles  to  go  to  school;  and 
that  a  little  temporary  inconvenience 
may  result  in  permanent  benefit. 


OLD   STORIES   REV.\MPED. 

Come  of  the  dail}l  papers  are  driven 
to  literary  drink,  in  the  "silly  sea- 
sons", for  something  of  interest  to  tell 
— there  being  often  a  few  days  between 
interestingly  scandalous  crimes  and  acci- 
dents. 

One  of  them  not  long  ago  printed  the 
aged  yarn  of  the  drunken  man  who 
wouldn't  have  got  off,  if  he'd  known 
that  the  stage  had  not  tipped  over — 
transferring  the  venerable  story  into  a 
trolley-car  on  one  of  the  streets  of  New 
York — which  have  to  answer  and  will 
long  have  to  answer  for  so  many  stories 
— true  and  untrue. 

Another  age-hallowed  idyl,  is  the  one 
they  used  to  tell  about  the  man  who  was 
in  a  poor  show  on  a  free  pass,  and 
threatened  that  if  the  exercises  did  not 
get  more  interesting,  he  would  go  out 
and  buy  a  ticket,  come  back,  and  hiss 
and  howl  with  the  restj  of  them.  This 
story  was  told  by  the  late  James  G. 
Blaine,  long  before  he  died,  and  ex- 
ploited in  newspapers  all  over  America : 
but  story-writers  are  displaying  it  yet, 
and  laying  the  scene  wherever  they  hap- 
pen to  fancy. 

There  are  only  a  few  original  stories, 
and  these  are  with  difficulty  traced. 
When  you  think  you  have  found  the 
real  beginning  of  one,  you  are  liable  at 
any  moment  to  find  another — still  far- 
ther back. 

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A  Proverb  Sermon. 

T^EXT:  All  the  days  of  the  afflicted 
are  evil :  but  he  that  is  of  a  merry 
heart  hath  a  continual  feast. — Proverbs 
xv.:i5. 

The  spirit  of  this  text  would  indicate 
that  by  "the  afflicted''  are  meant  here 
the  self-afflicted;  and  it  is  a  possible 
fact  that  there  is  fully  as  much  affliction 
from  within  the  human  nature  as  from 
without.  Some  people  are  always  nag- 
ging themselves,  worrying  themselves, 
torturing  themselves ;  in  fact,  all  people 
do  more  or  less  of  this  when  you  come 
to  know  them  well. 

Some  people  are  always  afflicting 
themselves  and  others  by  diagnosing 
their  own  physical  complaints.  Their 
imagination  conducts  a  constant  tour  of 
discovery  among  all  the  different  organs 
of  the  body,  and  never  rests  for  a 
moment  until  it  has  found  one  of  them 
out  of  order.  They  summon  physicians 
to  their  relief  and  help  pay  for  patent 
medicine  advertisements,  and  still  con- 
tinue to  ail,  when  all  they  really  need 
is  a  proper  recourse  to  God's  great 
medicine  chest — containing  as  its  most 
potent  remedies,  light,  water,  and  air. 
Such  people  are  often  jocularly  said  to 
"enjoy  poor  health",  and  some  of  them 
do  get  a  solemn  kind  of  pleasure  out 
of  their  imaginary  pains.  They  also 
derive  some  solace  from  giving  a  list  of 
their  ailments  to  such  friends  as  will 
listen,  and  in  fancying  that  they  thus 
get  sympathy.  This  is  usually  a  delu- 
sion, for  while  people  generally  respect 
a  due  amount  of  caution  and  care  for 
one's  health,  they  soon   learn  to  laugh 


at  ailment-searching  egotism — of  which 
there  is  considerable  in  the  world. 

Some  people  are  always  afflicting 
themselves  and  others  by  dolefulness 
concerning  their  pecuniary  condition. 
It  is  such  as  this  who  are  always  poor — 
no  matter  how  much  they  may  possess. 
There  have  been  cases  where  men 
"worth"  thousands  of  dollars  died  in 
abject  fear  of  starvation.  The  great 
trouble  with  such  people  is  that  there 
is  so  much  poverty  in  their  souls  that 
it  gets  into  their  minds  and  hearts. 
There  is  also  bred  a  lack  of  faith  in 
the  great  fatherhood  and  guardianship 
of  wealth's  universal  Master.  No  won- 
der that  all  the  days  of  such  mortals 
are  evil ;  no  marvel  that  their  money 
does  them  no  good,  and  that  each  new 
dollar  creates  a  vacuum  in  their  desires 
which  it  would  take  more  or  less  dol- 
lars to  fill! 

Some  people  are  always  afflicting 
themselves  concerning  the  action  of 
others.  There  is  no  doubt  that  we  are 
intended  to  be,  to  some  extent,  "our 
brothers'  keepers";  but  it  is  one  thing 
to  quietly  lament  a  fault  while  lovingly- 
trying  to  correct  it,  and  another  to  go 
around  among  our  fellow  creatures 
howling  about  it.  You  can  identify  the 
person  who  habitually  afflicts  himself 
with  other  people's  faults,  as  soon  as 
you  see  him  in  a  crowd.  Nine-tenths 
of  the  people  he  looks  upon  produce 
upon  his  face  a  scowl  of  disapprobation. 
Nobody  does  anything  exactly  as  he 
would  do  it;  everybody  leaves  undone 
the  things  he  would  do  if  in  like  cir- 
cumstances. With  him,  the  world  is  all 
hung  at  a  wrong  angle ;   it  is  one  gigan- 

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tic  mistake,  whether  or  not  designed  by 
the  great  Designer,  Creator,  and  Bene- 
factor. 

Some  people  constantly  afflict  them- 
selves and  their  friends,  with  an  ac- 
counting and  a  relation  of  their  own 
delinquencies.  They  waste  a  good  deal 
of  time  in  regretting  that  they  are  so 
bad,  instead  of  using  part  of  it  in 
bravely  endeavoring  to  become  better. 
All  their  days  are  evil,  because  they  are 
bound  to  have  them  so.  It  is  as  much 
of  a  mistake  to  consider  yourself  too 
bad,  as  too  good.  Indeed,  it  is  worse; 
for  the  man  who  considers  himself  too 
bad,  is  very  likely  to  approach  more  and 
more  nearly  to  his  owm  distorted  and 
unjust  idea  of  himself. 

Some  people  are  always  afflicting 
themselves  and  others  by  a  general  lack 
of  confidence  in  the  future.  They  dis- 
parage the  prospects  of  the  world  and 
all  that  dwells  therein.  The  future  of 
politics,  of  religion,  of  finance,  of  every 
earthly  thing— is  all  dark.  The  great 
men,  the  honest  men,  the  Pfood  men,  are 
all  dying.  At  the  demise  of  every  emi- 
nent man,  they  shake  their  heads  dole- 
fully, and  say  he  can  never  be  replaced. 
They  are  always  lamenting  that  there 
are  now  no  such  men  as  used  to  live 
when  they  were  young  (and  when  im- 
pressions upon  their  minds  were  deep 
ancHasting).  They  do  everything  they 
can  to  drive  the  country  to  destruction, 
by  averring  that  it  is  already  on  the 
way.  In  fact,  all  the  days  of  the  com- 
munity, of  the  nation,  of  the  world — 
are  evil  to  them. 

There  has  seldom  been  a  Presidential 
election  in  United  States,  but  peo- 
ple on  all  sides  of  the  question  have 
prophesied  that  if  it  did  not  go  their 
way  the  country  would  be  ruined; 
ncverthekss  it  has  gone  as  it  liked,  and 
the  nation  has  still  lived,  notwithstand- 
ing all  the  many  dire  and  portentous 
prophesies  of  evil. 

Let  us  all  cultivate  the  "merry  heart" 
mentioned  in  the  text:  not  in  a  frivo- 
lous, senseless  manner,  but  in  a  cheer- 
ful, hopeful  spirit.  Thus  shall  we  have 
"a  continual  feast"  of  Hope  and  Thrift, 
and   their   child,   Prosperity. 


The  Pastor's  Wife  Again. 

^^Y  OU'LL  never  catch  me  marrying 
a  minister"  says  Miss  X,  and 
that  is  precisely  what  Miss  Z  and  all  the 
rest  of  the  young  ladies  are  saying  who 
some  day  will  marry  ministers.  That 
is  what  most  preachers'  wives  said  be- 
fore they  were  married.  Who  blames 
them? 

What  do  the  people  expect  of  a 
preacher's  wife?  We  might  better  ask, 
what  do  they  not  expect  of  her?  Unless 
she  makes  every  call  expected  of  her 
most  promptly,  she  is  thought  to  be  un- 
social and  unfaithful.  If  she  is  not 
ready  to  receive  company  at  all  times, 
somebody  will  severely  criticise  her.  If 
for  some  good  reason  unknown  to  the 
public  she  does  not  attend  church  ser- 
vices as  regularly  as  she  attends  to 
home  duties,  she  is  pronounced  by  many 
to  be  "unspiritual",  and  standing  in  the 
way  of  her  husband's  work.  If  she  does 
not  take  part  by  speaking  in  every  relig- 
ious service  where  the  opportunity  is 
given,  somebody  is  apt  to  think  that  she 
is  not  in  sympathy  with  the  work  of  the 
ministry.  She  is  expected  to  attend  the 
Sunday  services,  one  and  all;  to  take 
part  in  the  young  people's  meeting,  at- 
tend the  ladies*  aid  society,  attend  the 
mission  circle,  attend  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
meetings,  attend  the  prayer-meeting, 
attend  committee  meetings,  visit  the 
sick  and  afflicted.  She  is  expected  not 
only  to  be  present  at  these  meetings, 
but  to  take  an  active  part.  A  certain 
pastor's  wife  of  my  acquaintance  was 
burdened  almost  above  that  which  she 
was  able  to  bear.  The  poor  woman  was 
doing  far  more  than  her  health  per- 
mitted. An  active  W.  C.  T.  U.  woman 
of  the  same  church  criticised  her 
severely  and  disgracefully  before  me 
because  she  refused  to  join  the 
W.  C.  T.  U. 

Unless  the  pastor's  wife  makes  a  slave 
of  herself  to  about;  every  movement  in 
the  church  and  out  of  it,  she  is  gossiped 
about,  and  by  many  classified  as  a  fail- 
ure. I  know  a  faithful  wife  of  a  pastor 
who  took  part  in  every  good  work  pos- 
sible.    She  is  a  most  talented  and  re- 


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fined  person,  and  I  fail  to  see  how  any 
one  can  criticise  her  methods.  But  it 
was  said  of  her  that  she  tried  *'to  run 
everything."  If  the  pastor's  wife  is  not 
able  to  satisfy  all  the  petty  notions  of 
everybody,  she  is  advertised  as  a  failure. 
If  she  takes  part  in  everything  expected 
of  her  she  is  spoken  of  as  one  who  tries 
"to  run  everything."  It  is  intensely  in- 
teresting to  hear  that  which  the  people 
have  to  say  about  the  wives  of  the  pas- 
tors who  have  served  the  church.  Most 
every  member  old  enough  to  know  them 
all  has  them  all  classified  with  a  long 
list  of  critical  foot-notes.  Therd  are 
exceptions  to  all  rules,  but  churches  are 
much  the  same  the  world  over. 

The  pastor's  wife  receives  no  salary. 
She  is  not  called  by  the  church  to  the 
pastorate.  She  may  be  no  more  called 
of  God  than  any  other  Christian  woman 
not  the  wife  of  a  pastor.  She  may  not 
be  especially  gifted  socially.  She  may 
be  a  modest  person  and  may  not  enjoy 
public  life.  She  may  not  possess  all  the 
arts  and  accomplishments  of  the  women 
politicians.  She  may  be  too  honest  to 
have  all  these.  Suppose  she  is  not  a 
society  woman.  Suppose  she  does  not 
take  part  in  every  movement.  Why 
should  we  expect  more  of  the  pastor's 
wife  than  we  expect  of  any  other  church 
member?  If  we  are  going  to  expect  so 
much  of  her  why  do  we  not  pay  her  a 
salary?  If  we  burden  and  crush  her 
with  manifold  duties  outside  the  home, 
let  us  give  her  at  least  a  little  some- 
thing in  return  besides  just  a  few 
words  of  praise  and  many  of  hostile 
criticism. 

Many  of  us  pastors  would  be  of  no 
good  on  earth  or  in  heaven  were  it  not 
for  our  faithful  wives.  Talk  about  the 
success  of  Rev.  Mr.  So  and  So!  Better 
talk  about  the  success  of  his  wife.  Let 
the  pastor's  wife  be  free  to  do  her  home 
duties  first  and  then  do  as  she  wills  to 
do,  God  leading  her,  with  relation  to 
other  work.  Let  us  give  our  pastors' 
wives  a  "square  deal."  Criticise  your 
pastor!  He  needs  it.  Rake  him  over 
the  coals !  It  will  warm  him  up  and 
cause  him,  to  give  you  a  message  which 
may   hurt,   but    it    will   do   you   good. 


Make  as  many  demands  of  your  pastor 
as  you  want  to ;  if  he  is  a  true  man  he 
will  be  guided  by  the  dictates  of  his 
highest  conscience.  Find  fault  with  his 
voice,  his  manner,  his  methods,  his  ser- 
mons. To  use  a  slang  expression, 
"Bowl  him  out."  But  for  his  sake  and 
the  Lord's  sake  and  his  better  half's 
sake,  spare  his  faithful  wife! — The 
Standard. 


Old  Hymns. 


TTHERE'S  a  lot  of  music  in  'em — the 
*      hymns  of  long  ago — 
And    when    some    gray-haired    brother 

sings  the  ones  I  used  to  know, 
I  sorter  want  to  take  a  hand!     I  think 

of  days  gone  by — 
"On    Jordan's    stormy    banks    I    stand, 

and  cast  a  wistful  eye!'* 

There's  a  lot  of  music   in   'em — those 

dear,  sweet  hymns  of  old — 
With  visions   bright   of   land  of   light, 

and  shining  streets  of  gold ; 
And  I  hear  'em  singing — singing,  Avhere 

mem'ry  dreaming  stands, 
"From    Greenland's    icy    mountains    to 

India's  coral  strands." 

An'  so  1  love  the  old  hymns,  and  when 

my  time  shall  come, 
Before  the  light  has  left  me,  and  my 

singing  lips  are  dumb, 
If   I   can   hear  'em   sing  them,  then   I 

pass  without  a  sigh 
To    "Canaan's    fair    and    happy    land, 

where  my  possessions  lie." 


Doing  What  He  Could. 

pETER  CARTWRIGHT  once  tried 
to  give  the  regulation  sort  of  ser- 
mon in  a  fashionable  New  York  church. 
It  fell  flat,  but  he  was  not  discouraged. 
"I  tried  it  your  way  this  morning — I'll 
paddle  my  own  canoe  tonight,"  he  told 
the  pastor;  and  that  night  gave  a  regu- 
lar back-woods  service  and  talk — and 
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^^LD  Mr.  Jones  was  very  prompt  with 
his  appointment,  and  entered  the 
new  doctor's  office  at  exactly  the  time 
agreed  upon. 

He  found  the  young  man  ready  for 
him,  or  for  anybody  else,  apparently; 
although  it  was.  well  known  that  he 
was  the  busiest  physician  in  town.  He 
lounged  in  an  easy  chair,  the  very  per- 
sonification of  leisure:  looking  as  if  he 
had  never  done  a  day's  work  in  his  life 
— avith  the  exception  of  his  face — 
which,  it  must  be  admitted,  bore  lightly 
a  few  lines  of  thought — these,  however, 
young  ladies  said,  adding  to  his  good 
looks,  rather  than  subtracting  therefrom. 

"Well,  I  guess  you've  been  waitin' 
for  me  all  the  mornin',"  exclaimed  old 
Lemuel  Jones,  as  be  took  the  doctor's 
white,  well-grcomed  hand.  "Any  one 
wouldn't  think  you'd  been  doin'  any- 
thing for  a  week." 

"On  the  contrary",  protested  the  new 
young  doctor,  smiling  modestly,  "if  you 
will  pardon  me  for  seeming  boastful,  I 
have  made  three  calls  already  this  morn- 
ing; and  have  just  concluded  a  very 
successful  experiment  in  chemistry." 

"  * Jwst  concluded  it  ?'  "  exclaimed 
Jones — "if  that's  so,  where's  all  the 
things  you've  been  using?  I  don't  see 
one  of  'em  lyin'  around." 

"Everything  is  put  away  in  its  proper 
place",  replied  the  new  young  doctor. 
"I  never  leave)  anything  'lying  around.' 
Nothing  is  really  worth  anything  near 
its  full  value,  unless  it  is  in  its  place." 

"But  it  takes  time,  you  know,  to  put 
things    into    their    place,    when    youVe 


done  with  'em",  remonstrated  Lemuel 
Jones. 

"And  saves  ten  times  as  much",  re- 
plied the  doctor.  "I  have  known  men 
to  hunt  half  a  day  for  something  they 
needed,  which  could  have  been  put  in  its 
place  in  less  than  a  minute,  at  the  time 
it  was  last  used.  I  formerly  spent  half 
my  time  in  searching  for  things.  I  de- 
cided one  day  to  employ  half  my  time 
instead,  in  putting  things  in  order,  until 
they  were  in  order.  When  I  got  them 
just  where  I  wanted  them,  it  was  too 
good  a  state  of  things  to  give  up,  on 
any  account;  and  I  hold  them  so,  as 
strictly  as  possible,  and  find  it  pays — 
every  season  of  the  year." 

Old  Lemuel  Jones  set  himself,  to 
thinking,  very,  very  hard,  at  this  state- 
ment. He  remembered  "acres  of  dis- 
order", as  he  termed  it,  all  through  his 
affairs.  Disorder  in  his  accounts,  in  his 
stores,  in  his  house,  in  his  barns,  on  all 
his  numerous  land-holdings — why,  he 
had  not  even  possessed  order  enough  in 
his  mind,  to  make  his  last  will  and  tes- 
tament, yet.  He  groaned,  and  said,  half 
audibly,  "Dumbed  if  you  ain't  right. 
But  it  would  take  half  my  time  for  two 
years,  to  put  my  affairs  into  anything 
like  order.  I've  got  rich  by  sheer  force, 
and  in  spite  of  my  bullhead  way  of  run- 
nin'  matters.  Order.  Order.  It's  a 
great  thing:  I  see  all  through  it,  now. 
I'd  have  been  worth  ten  times  as  much, 
if  I'd  have  followed  your  plan.  Order. 
Orderji  Td  have  done  twenty  times  as 
much  good,  had  thirty  times  as  many 
friends.  Order.  Our  old  teacher  in  the 
district  school  used  to  call  it  'awder', 
and  say  that  nothing  in  the  world  could 

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be  done  without  it;  but  we  little  fool- 
scholars  laughed  him  to  scorn  behind 
our  ill-studied  books.  What  a  fool  I 
am,  not  to  have  everything  in  order !" 

"But,"  he  added,  after  a  minute's 
thought,  "I  don't  quite  see — in  fact,  I 
don't  at  all  see — what  all  this  has  to  do 
with  health!" 

"I  think  it  can  easily  be  given  that 
kind  of  a  twist",  replied  the  doctor.  "If 
it  is  so  important  to  keep  ordinary 
things  in  order — things  that  can  be  re- 
placed— things  that  we  cannot  feel — 
things  that  cannot  give  us  the  intensest 
of  physical  and  mental  delight  or  mis- 
ery— ^things  that  are  not  absolutely  tied 
to  us — ^things  of  which  we  are  not  a 
part— if  it  is  so  important  to  keep  these 
in  order,  of  how  much  more  importance 
is  it  to  keep  our  bodies,  our  minds,  our 
souls — which  are  in  fact  all  there  is  of 
us — how  tremendously  important  it  is, 
to  keep  these  in  more  perfect  and  exact 
order,  than  anything  else  with  which  we 
have  to  do  on  this  earth !" 

"Dumbed  if  it  ain't",  replied  old 
Lemuel  Jones,  with  more  force  than 
propriety  of  language.  "You're  right 
— awfully  right,  and  you've  given  me 
something  to  chew  for  a  week." 

And  he  bolted  out  of  the  office — for- 
getting even  to  pay  the  fee — although 
he  would  not  have  omitted  that  little 
ceremony  for  anything  in  the  world,  if 
he  had  only  thought.  But  he  sent  the 
new  young  doctor  a  five-dollar  bill  the 
same  day,  and  wrote  him  that  he  would 
be  round  to  see  him  again  the  first  of 
the  next  month. 


The  Ice  Cure. 


TTHAT  barbarous  old  theory,  which 
insisted  on  hot  drinks  for  the 
fever  patient,  warmed  every  drop  of 
water  or  denied  it  altogether,  and  even 
prohibited  frequent  baths,  is  happily 
replaced  by  a  sensible  and  less  tortur- 
ing method   of  treament. 

One  who  has  spent  many  weeks  on 
his  bed,  tossing  from  side  to  side  in  a 
vain  search  for  some  coolness;  hearing 
in  his   dreams  the   splash  of  the  lake- 


wave,  the  running  brook;  seeing  the 
little  spring,  with  its  mossy  cup  brim- 
ming with  water  that  never  cools ; 
thinking  with  impatient  longing  of  the 
river,  swift,  deep  and  cold ;  knows  what 
a  blessed  thing  a  piece  of  ice  can  seem, 
and  how  grateful  to  his  burning  flesh  is 
the  sponge  from  a  bowl  of  cold  water. 

While  the  fever  rages,  there  is  no 
danger  of  any  bad  effects  from  the  use 
of  ice-water.  A  flannel  cloth  may  be 
used  for  the  sponge  bath. 

A  distinguished  German  physician, 
who  was  the  pioneer  of  a  systematic 
bath  treatment  of  typhoid  fever,  has 
lately  died  in  Stettin,  Germany.  It  is 
said  that  by  his  method  the  mortality 
of  the  disease  has  undoubtedly  been 
reduced  to  a  small  percentage. 

Pneumonia,  in  its  first  stages,  is  now 
successfully  treated  by  some  physicians 
with  repeated  applications  of  ice-water. 


Happy  and  Unhappy  Breakfasts. 

A  HAPPY  day  depends  much  on  how 
it  •  is  begun.  A  few  cheerful 
words  and  a  smiling  face  may  brighten 
it,  or  gloomy  frowns  and  sarcasm  may 
bring  a  cloud  that  all  the  out-door  sun- 
shine cannot  banish. 

What  a  difference  a  word  or  a  look 
can  make  to  us ;  how  they  linger  in  our 
minds,  and  grow  in  our  imagination, 
until  they  seem  no  longer  trifles,  but 
things  of  vast  importance ! 

Breakfast"  should  be  the  coziest  meal 
of  the  day,  and  if  it  is  pervaded  by  a 
cheerful  spirit,  work  seems  easier  and 
we  go  to  it  with  willing  energy.  Noth- 
ing can  be  more  depressing  than  the 
silent  breakfast ;  yet  in  some  families  it 
is  a  common  occurrence.  Sometimes  it 
is  the  father,  who  deigns  only  to  growl 
an  occasional  "more  coffee",  or  a  sulky 
young  son  or  daughter,  who  comes 
without  even  a  "Good  morning",  and 
begins  the  meal  in  a  businesslike  man- 
ner, as  a  duty  that  must  be  performed 
as  quickly  as  possible. 

Perhaps  it  is  the  tired  mother,  ner- 
vous and  careworn.  One  silent  ill- 
humored  presence  will   soon  affect  the 

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rest,  and  make  conversation  impossible. 
Doubtless  silence  is  better  than  angry 
debate,  but  in  either  case  the  spirit  is 
the  same. 

The  suffering  invalid,  in  whom  we 
must  and  should  excuse  fretfulness  and 
impatience,  is  often  the  ray  of  sunshine 
in  the  household,  bearing  trial  with 
sweet  patience,  and  cheering  others  too 
thoughtless  to  perceive  their  own  great 
selfishness. 

Though  it  may  sometimes  cost  an 
effort,  refrain  from  telling  all  that  wor- 
ries you,  stop  grumbling  at  the  weather, 
and  finding  fault  with  your  food.  Be 
more  thoughtful  of  others,  and  give  the 
day  a  bright  beginning. 

Sometimes  in  the  quiet  twilight  our 
mistakes  come  to  us  with  reproof,  and 
we  resolve  to  be  less  selfish,  to  speak 
more  kind  words,  and  fill  tomorrow 
with  kind  deeds. 

Strange  that  the  new  day  that  brings 
us  the  opportunity,  should  be  so  often 
marred  at  the  very  outset  with  a  gloomy 
face  and  unkind  manner! 


The  Vice  of  Short  Breathing. 

T^HERE  are  nineteen  chances  in 
twentyi  that  it  is  safe  to  assert 
that  your  method  of  breathing  is  noth- 
ing more  than  a  series  of  little  panting 
gasps,  and  that  the  small  whiffs  of  air 
which  you  take  into  your  lungs  fail  to 
accomplish  their  full  mission.  Our  arti- 
ficial mode  of  living  today  makes  it 
necessary  for  us  to  learn  to  breathe  if 
we  value  strong,  vigorous  lungs,  pure 
blood,  and  a  clear,  healthy  brain. 

We  have  a  senseless  habit  of  ignor- 
ing the  faithful  housekeepers  whose 
duty  it  is  to  keep  the  body  clean  and 
orderly  within,  until  their  complaints 
can  be  felt;  then  we  beg  their  pardon 
with  numerous  doses. 

The  stomach  is  a  favorite,  spoiled 
servant,  that  we  delight  to  overfeed, 
while  the  lungs  are  too  often  weak  and 
starving — quite  incapable  of  serving  us 
efficiently  or  in  any  other  way  very 
kng. 

Perhaps   it   is   because   we   are   only 


vaguely  conscious  of  their  constant  per- 
sistent hunger  for  air. 

The  whole  body  constantly  demands 
new  supplies  of  oxygen,  a  substance  of 
which  healthy  people  are  half  com- 
posed. The  object  of  breathing  is  to 
put  it  into  the  blood. 

A  yawn  or  a  sigh  is  an  evidence  of 
a  lack  of  oxygen  in  the  system.  Your 
languid  feeling  on  waking,  accompa- 
nied by  a  dull  headache  and  that  de- 
pression of  mind  you  call  "feeling  blue'' 
are  all  a  result  of  your  short  breathing 
during  the  night,  perhaps  in  a  poorly- 
ventilated  room. 

There  are  innumerable  little  lung- 
cells,  made  expressly  for  air,  which 
never  receive  their  fill  of  the  food  they 
crave,  and  are  most  likely  in  a  distress- 
ing state  of  congestion;  yet  the  life- 
giving  supply  extends  for  fortyfive 
miles  above  us,  and  we  have  only  to 
breathe  it  in^ 

Now,  while  you  are  thinking  of  the 
matter,  take  a  long  breath,  full  and 
deep;  hold  it  a  few  seconds,  then  let 
it  out  slowly. 

Carry  chest  and  lungs  upward  and 
outward.  ,The  feeling  of  buoyancy 
given  by  a  few  such  inhalations  is 
genuine  and  strengthening  to  the  feeble, 
decaying  lungs. 

This  is  the  way  you  should  always 
breathe. 

"Do  you  suppose  I  can  always  stop 
to  think  how  to  breathe?"  demands  the 
incredulous,  contrary  individual,  who  is 
always  opposed  to  decided  statements. 

It  is  not  difficult  to  form  a  habit  of 
deep  breathing.  Whenever  you  think 
of  it,  take  a  long  breath.  It  may  be 
only  once  or  twice  a  day  at  first.  It 
will  soon  be  easy  to  remember  it  every 
hour  or  so,  and  then  two  or  three  times 
an  hour,  until  the  old  scant  breath  is 
replaced  entirely  by  one  which  will 
make  your  lungs  strong  and  hardy  as 
surely  as  physical  exercise  will  strength- 
en your  muscles. 

Ten  breaths  a  minute  at  most,  ought 
to  be  the  average  number  when  the 
body  is  at  rest,  and  some  healthy  people 
quite  readily  and  easily  reduce  the  num- 
ber to  six. 

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Advice  of  a  Son  to  a  Father. 

WOU  are  now,  my  dear  father,  arrived 
as  nearly  as  you  can  ever  hope  to 
be,  to  the  years  of  discretion,  and  are 
soon  to  enter  upon  the  active  duties  of 
old  age.  In  addressing  these  words  to 
you,  my  eye  grows  dim  and  my  hand 
trembles;  there  are  few  responsibilities 
more  important,  than  that  of  a  son 
when  he  i^  giving  advice  to  his  paternal 
relative. 

I  have  striven,  my  dear  father,  ever 
since  you  came  under  my  filial  care,  to 
train  you  aright ;  to  see  that  you  did  not 
lack  kind  but  firm  and  efficient  disci- 
pline ;  to  warn  you  against  the  mistakes 
that  I  was  myself  constantly  making 
and  to  see  that  you  became  altogether 
a  better  man  than  I  was  myself.  I  have 
watched  your  manhood  steps  with  ten- 
der solicitude;  have  seen  every  erring 
move  with  the  eye  of  one  who  knew 
how  it  was  himself ;  and  often  hovered 
about  you  when  you  did  not  know  it 
if  you  wandered  where  you  should 
not  go. 

Pardon,  then,  the  solicitude  of  a  son, 
who,  having  been  educated  in  the 
schools  and  society-circles  of  the  pres- 
ent day,  may  be  naturally  supposed  to 
be  able  to  give  you  points. 

First,  my  dear  father,  be  very  care- 
ful, as  you  grow  older,  as  to  the  com- 
pany you  keep.  Do  not  affect  the  so- 
ciety of  wild  old  men,  who  would  lead 
you  astray.  Cultivate  good,  respectable 
companions,  who  will  not  tempt  you  to 
spend  your  (and  subsequently  my)  sub- 
stance at  the  glittering  bar  or  the  fes- 
tive poker-table.  Remember  that  a 
penny  earned  is  worth  a  hundred  per 
cent,  of  its  value,  if  saved ;  also  that  a 
bird  in  the  hand  is  worth  no  more  than 


one  in  the  bush  unless  you  hang  on  to 
it;  also  that  a  stitch  in  the  side  often 
saves  nine  or  ten  dollars,  if  it  keeps  you 
in  at  night;  and  other  improved  prov- 
erbs, which  were  not  taught  in  your 
school-days,  and  which  I  shall  take  upon 
myself  the  duty  of  giving  you  from  time 
to  time. 

In  short,  my  dear  father,  avoid  all 
the  bad  things  you  have  seen  in  me, 
and  imitate  the  good  ones;  do  not 
think,  because  I  have  erred,  that  you 
are  licensed  to  do  the  same;  do  not 
deem  because  I  am,  so  far  as  you  can 
generally  discover,  good,  that  the  fact 
excuses  you  from  being  the  same;  and 
conduct  yourself  generally  as  I  would 
do,  if  I  knew  you  were  looking  at  me. 


Grammar  on  Trolley-Oars 

COME  of  the  street-railroad  compa- 
nies  have  gone  somewhat  beyond 
the  limits  of  their  charters,  and  consti- 
tuted themselves,  to  a  certain  extent, 
schools  of  English  grammar.  They 
have  given  lessons  to  their  conductors, 
and  it  is  concerning  the  words  by  which 
they  shall  address  their  lady  passengers. 

For  instance,  it  has  been  the  habit  of 
these  guardians  of  public  transportation, 
to  say  to  a  female  passenger  whose 
wardrobe  took  up  too  much  room, 
"Lady,  won't  yer  please  move  up 
there?"  Or  to  a  girl  who  was  holding 
the  train  while  she  exchanged  farewells, 
visiting  cards,  caramels  and  confidences 
with  some  eternal  friend,  "Step  lively, 
lady,  if  yer  please" ;  or  to  a  feminine 
party  who  insisted  on  looking  at  the 
scenery  in  spite  of  an  outstretched  hand, 
"Fare,  lady!"  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth 
and  so  on. 

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English  word  **lady"  must  disappear 
from  the  conductorial  lexicon.  -Instead, 
the  French  term  "Madame"  is  to  be 
used,  whenever  a  girl  or  woman  is  ad- 
dressed. 

To  be  consistent,  the  companies 
should  go  still  further,  and  direct  that 
a  distinction  be  made  between  married 
and  unmarried  ladies — the  latter  to  be 
called  "Mademoiselle."  They  should 
also  constitute  themselves  schocJls  of 
manners,  and  pursue  still  more,  closely 
the  French  methods,  and  instruct  each 
lucre-gatherer  to  raise  his  hat '  every 
time  he  addresses  a  lady ;  and  when  she 
hands  him  a  five  dollar  bill,  to  thank 
her  warmly  and  politely  for  the  five 
cents  which  he  is  allowed  to  extract 
from  it. 

It  might  also  be  well  to  include  elo- 
cution, and  to  enjoin  conductors,  in 
announcing  localities,  not  to  sayi  "yav" 
instead  of  "avenue",  and  to  be  as  par- 
ticular in  mentioning  obscure  corners  as 
they  are  department  stores. 

They  should  als6  set  other  companies 
a  pace  in  Athletics.  They  should  train 
each  conductor  in  gymnastic  exercises; 
so  that  when  his  car  happens  to  be  full 
of  train  rowdies,  he  can  take  them 
firmly  by  the  collar  and  pile  them  neatly 
across  each  other  upon  the  next  vacant 
lot. 


Law  Advice  Should  be  Free. 

T  AW- SUITS  are  proverbially  expen- 
sive— not  only  to  those  taking  part 
in  them,  but  to  the  county  in  which 
they  are)  held.  Court-rooms  must  be 
constructed  and  kept  in  order  for  them ; 
judges,  clerks  and  other  officers  are  paid 
to  conduct  them ;  and  business  men  are 
compelled  to  serve  upon  juries,  often  at 
a  loss  to  their  own  pockets. 

It  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  not 
one-tenth  of  the  law-suits  that  now 
afflict  the  country,  would  occur,  if  a 
little  good  and  sound  advice  could  be 
given  the  would-be  litigants,  right  at  the 
start.  Either  one  side  or  the  other 
would  most  probably  see  at  once  that 
his  case   was   hopeless,   and  settle   the 


matter  in  a  quiet  and  comparatively  in- 
expensive way. 

But  lawyers'  advice  is  as  expensive 
as  other  people's  is  cheap;  and  the 
result  is  that  most  people  w^hen  a  dis- 
cussion arises  that  cannot  be  settled, 
first  decide  themselves  to  be  in  the  right, 
and  then  go  to  an  attorney — not  for 
advice,  but  for  help  to  make  the  fight. 

There  are  also  many  cases,  discon- 
nected with  litigation,  in  which  a  poor 
man  does  not  know  exactly  what  he 
ought  to  do,  or  what  he  has  a  right  to 
do,  and  cannot  aflPord  to  pay  for  the 
finding-out.  In  such  a  case,  he  is  prone 
sometimes  to  plunge  ahead,  not  know- 
ing whether  he  breaks  the  law  or  not; 
and  perhaps  subjects  tax-payers  to  the 
expense  of  prosecuting  and  punishing 
him. 

In  Paris  there  is  a  tribunal  supported 
by  the  public  expense,  by  which  legal 
advice  is  given  gratis  during  one  fore- 
noon and  one  afternoon  of  each  week. 

This  is  a  matter  in  which  we  might 
profitably  imitate  our  sister  republic. 


Wlio  Owns  the  Railroads? 

^ORODY  owns  any  land  or  any 
^  thing,  absolutely:  his  deeds  are 
in  effect  leases  from  the  Government, 
under  which  he  lives:  and  under  some 
circumstances,  they  can  be  revoked,  and 
the  property  confiscated.  If  the  situa- 
tion were  analyzed,  it  would  be  found 
that  Government  is  really  the  owner  of 
every  thins:,  and  that  taxes  are  the  rent 
which  it  charges  the  holder  and  enjoyer 
of  its  effects.  Surely,  no  other  conclu- 
sion can  be  reached ;  for  if  property  be- 
longed absolutely  to  the  individual,  he 
could  control  it  without  reference  to 
Government.  And  it  is  no  more  than 
fair  that  such  should  not  be  the  case; 
for  without  the  protection  of  Govern- 
ment, property  ceases  to  be  such,  and 
becomes  merely  the  prey  of  thieves  and 
robbers. 

Railroads  are  iron  highways  that 
really  belong  to  The  People,  which 
means,  or  should  mean.  The  Govern- 
ment.    They  are  all  subject  to  the  laws 

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of  the  States  through  which  they  pass, 
and  to  those  of  United  States.  The 
fact  that  foreigners  "own'*  a  part  or  all 
the  stock  of  a  railroad,  does  not  make 
it  any  less  the  property  of  The  People. 

The  time  is  not  very  far  distant  when, 
without  reference  to  present  lines  of 
party,  the  question  will  be  agitated 
whether  the  Government  should  not 
take  possession  of  its  railroad  property, 
reimburse  fairly  those  who  have  stock 
in  the  same,  and  conduct  it  as  it  now 
does  certain  other  enterprises. 

We  are  not  discussing  this  question: 
we  are  only  prophesying  that  it  will 
arise,  be  seriously  considered,  and  voted 
upon ;  and  we  advise  our  readers  to  be 
thinking  the  matter  over. 


What  Youll  Have  to  Stand. 

TT7HEN  a  man  becomes  a  hero  all  the 
world  is  standing  round, 
In  waiting  for  a  chance  to  share  his 
glory. 
From  shore  to  shore  innumerable  voices 
will  resound. 
All  eager  to   add  something  to   the 
story. 
"We  used  to  know  him  in  his  youth!" 

"We  said  he  was  a  wonder !" 
"He  was  a  genius;   that's  the  truth. 

You  couldn't  keep  him  under!" 
"He  was  the  catcher  on  our  nine." 

"His  sharpness  beat  thei  weasel's", 
"That  six-foot  oldest  boy  of  mine 
From  him  once  caught  the  measles!" 

And    the    anecdotes    come   rushing,    in 
bewildering  array, 
From  folk  of  every  station  and  com- 
plexion. 
For  there's  always  an  ambition,  which 
no  wisdom  can  allay, 
To    revel    in    some    brilliant    man's 
reflection. 
"His  family  we  visited!" 

"We  were  his  next-door  neighbors!" 
"Kind  words  of  hope  we've  often  said 

To  cheer  him  at  his  labors!" 
"My  father  told  him  he  might  call 

On  our  folks  to  assist  him!" 
And  (loudest  chorus  of  them  all) 
"We  are  the  girls  who've  kissed  him." 


The  Cit's  Lament. 

TTHE  following  breezy  lines,  by  Charles 
Irwin  Junkin,  in  Puck,  typify  the 
way  that  a  good  many  city  people  have 
been  feeling,  in  the  past  few  weeks,  and 
for  many  assemblages  of  weeks  in  for- 
mer years. 

But  of  course,  "Skinem  and  Bitem", 
"Bleedem  and  Soakem",  "Pickem  and 
Pluckem",  and  all  the  rest,  can  not 
afford  to  take  care  of  their  city  friends 
at  a  sweet  little  nominal  price — "the 
way  provisions  are."  And  besides,  there 
are  only  a  very  few  months  in  the  year 
when  they  can  emerge  from  their  hiber- 
nation and  endeavor  to  make  money 
enough  to  last  them  all  the  rest  of  the 
year. 

In  the  stanza  where  Pluckem  and 
Pickem  areJ  expected  in  the  city  streets 
during  the  winter,  there  are  statements 
that  contain  the  very  quintessence  of 
truth.  Most  of  the  money  that  town 
people  spend,  gets  back  to  town,  sooner 
or  later — and  most  of  it  stays  there. 

Sometimes  a  poor  fellow  comes  down 
from  the  country,  and  spends  all  he  has 
made  during  the  summer,  and  all  he  can 
borrow  from  his  friends. 
Down  by  the  Shore,  where  the  breezes  will 

blow, 
Fresh  from  the  sea,  with  its  ebb  and  its  flow. 
Smelling  of  oysters  and  scraps  of  old  fish, 
Fragrant  with  chowder  and  other  salt  fish. 
Stands  the  Hotel,  and  the  chief  and  his  rrtw. 
Skinem  and  Bitem,  are  waiting  for  you ! 

Up  in  the  Mounta'ns,  beneath  the  blue  sky, 
Rocks,  and  the  Eagles,  and  everything  high. 
Stunning  old  pines,  and  the  hemlock  and  ash. 
Six-by-ten  rooms  for  the  ten-by-six  cash, 
Stands  the  Bird  Inn,  and  Tm  telling  you  true. 
Bleedem  and  Soakem  are  waiting  for  you ! 

Out  on  the    Farm,  where    the    chickens    and 

ducks 
Turn  out  the  eggs  with  the  quacks  and  the 

clucks ; 
Onions  and  radishes,  limas  and  corn, 
Mother's  own  pie,  and,  as  sure  as  you're  born. 
Right  up  to  date  and  quite  ready  to  "do," 
Pickem  and  Pluckem  are  waiting  for  you! 

Go  where  you  will,  for  vacation  or  sport. 
Start  away  long  you  will  stumble  liack  short. 
Pockct])onk  empty;  but  listen  and  learn — 
Winter  is  coming,  and  tables  will  turn. 
Pluckem  and  Pickem  will  turn  up  in  Town, 
Then  we  will  get  them  and  do  them  up  brown  1 
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July     i8 — Secretary    of    Agriculture    Wilson 
brought  Dr.  Wiley's  reply  to  the  charges 
against   him    to    the    President,    who    re- 
turned it  to  the  Secretary,  asking  for  a 
speedy  report  upon  it. 
In   accordance  with  King  George's  award, 
the  Chilian  Government  ordered  $935,ooo 
paid  to  the  Alsop  claimants. 
Conditions  in  Mexico  decided  United  States 
to  retain  four  troops  of  cavalry  on  the 
border  at  Nogales. 
19 — A  sham  naval  battle  took  place  off  Block 
Island,  R.   I.,   between  the  Blue  or   for- 
eign fleet,  under  command  of  Rear  Ad- 
miral Osterhause,  and  the  Rted  or  home 
fleet,    under    Commander    Eberle.    Each 
claimed  the  victory. 
Spain  apologized  to  France   for  the  arrest 
of  the  latter's  consular  agent  in  Morocco 
by  a  Spanish  patrol. 
20 — The  British  House  of  Lords  passed  the 
Veto  bill  on  the  third  reading,   without 
division. 
InternationaJ     negotiations     in     regard     to 
Liberia   resulted   in   a  $2,000,000  loan   to 
that  republic. 
21 — The   most  violent   scene   up   to   date  oc- 
curred   at    the    Camorra    trial,   Viterbo, 
Italy,  the  lawyers  fleeing  from  the  room. 
22 — The   Reciprocity   bill   passed   the   Senate, 

53  to  27. 
23 — Paris  reported  the  most  oppressive  heat 
in  twentyfive  years.     In  Berlin  the  mer- 
cury rose  to  104  degrees. 
Stamboul,  the  Mohammedan  part  of  Con- 
stantinople, was  devastated  by  fire. 
24 — Organized  disorder  over  the  Veto  bill,  in 
the  House  of  Commons,  prevented   Pre- 
mier  Asquith   from    speaking    for   forty 
minutes  and  necessitated  the  adjournment 
of  the   House,   for  the  first  time  in  the 
history  of  that  body. 
Premier    Sir    Wilfred    Laurier    of    Canada 
demanded  a  vote  on  reciprocity  or  a  new 
election. 
The   extreme  heat  continued   in   Germanv; 
one   hundred    soldiers     fell     out    of   the 
ranks  during  drill  at  Halle  and  a  factory 
stopped  work  for  lack  of  water. 
25— Fearing  a  split   of   the   Tories  over   the 
Lords'  Veto  bill,  Mr.  Balfour  issued  an 
appeal  for  a  united  party.    The  King  ap- 


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proved  a  list  of  250  men  to  be  created 
peers  to  carry  the  measure  to  the  second 
house  if  necessary. 

Thirtyseven  of  the  eightythree  men  in- 
dicted for  participation  in  the  Steel  Wire 
Trust,  entered  pleas  of  "nolo  contendere", 
which  were  accepted,  despite  the  protest 
of   Federal   District-Attorney  Wise. 

The  Georgia  Senate  passed  a  unanimous 
resolution  calling  for  an  amendment  to 
the  Federal  Constitution  prohibiting  poly- 
gamy. 
26 — President  Taft  signed  the  Reciprocity  bill. 
There  was  a  stormy  session  over  the  Reci- 
procity bill  in  the   Canadian   Parliament. 

European  relations  were  severely  strained 
by  the  Morocco  dispute.  The  European 
markets,  and  the  Chicago  wheat  market, 
were  affected  by  the  outlook. 

The  whole  of  Hayti  was  reported  as  being 
in  revolt. 

Andr6  Beaumont  (Lieut,  de  Conneau),  won 
the  circuit-of-Great  Britain  aviation  race 
of  1,010  miles,  in  22  hours,  28  minutes. 

The  trial  of  the  Camorrists  at  Viterbo  was 
resumed  after  a  week's  interruption,  oc- 
casioned by  the  withdrawal  of  the  law- 
yers for  the  defense. 

The  Venezuelan  Cabinet  resigned. 
27— Lord  Lansdowne  secured  pledges  of  318 
Unionist  peers  to  let  the  Veto  bill  pass 
the  House  of  Lords  unamended. 

Premier  Asquith  informed  Parliament  that 
the  Morocco  question  was  so  fraught  with 
peril  it  was  imprudent  to  make  public  the 
difficulties  barring  a  peaceable  solution. 
Balfour  assured  him  of  the  support  of 
the  Opposition. 

The    Canadian    Pacific    liner,    Empress    of 
China,  was  wrecked  off  Tokio,  but  passen- 
gers and  mails  were  saved. 
28 — The  Electrical   Trust  agreed   to  dissolve 
without  a  contest  in  the  courts. 

Naoum  Pasha,  Turkish  Ambassador  to 
France,  dropped  dead  in  Paris,  killed  by 
the  extreme  heat. 
2g — The  Canadian  Parliament  was  dissolved 
— the  date  of  new  elections  to  settle  the 
fate  of  Reciprocity  being  fixed  for  Sep- 
tember 21. 

The  Persian  Government  offered  $ioo,oco 
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30 — The  Canadian  cruiser  Niobe,  flagship  of 
the  Dominion  Navy,  struck  in  a  fog  off 
Cape  Sable,  but  all  lives  were  saved. 

It  was  reported  that  the  ex-Shah,  Mo- 
hammed AH  Mirza,  was  marching  on 
Teheran  with  an  overwhelming  force. 
31 — Two  bills  were  introduced  in  the  National 
House,  fixing  royalties  and  rentals  of 
Alaska  coal-lands,  as  a  basis  for  conser- 
vation and  to  prevent  coal-land  monopoly. 

The    British    Cabinet    decided    to    postpone 

the  reappearance  of  the  Veto  bill  before 

the  House  of  Commons,  until  August  7. 

August   I — The   Senate  passed   the   Farmers' 

Free  List  bill. 
2 — A  general  strike  in  the  port  of  London 
was  declared,  after   12,000  dock  laborers 
had  struck,  because  they  did  not  receive 
a  promised  increase  in  wages. 

President  Simon  fled  from  the  capital  of 
Hayti  and  his  daughter  was  mobbed  by 
women  at  the  wharf.    A  riot  followed. 

An    ice-famine    was    reported    in    London. 
Cargoes  were  expected  from  Norway. 
3 — The    Anglo-American    and    the    Franco- 
American  arbitration  treaties  were  signed 
in  the  White  House. 

Admiral  Heihachiro  Togo,  of  Japan,  ar- 
rived in  New  York,  the  guest  of  United 
States. 
4 — The  United  States  Government  brought 
suit  against  the  Hocking  Valley  and  five 
other  railroads  and  three  mining  com- 
panies, charging  conspiracy  in  restraint 
of  trade. 

Edwin  E.  Jackson,  Jr.,  who  organized  the 
Wire  Trust  pools,  was  fined  $45,000  by 
Judge  Archbald. 
5 — President  Taft  entertained  Admiral  Togo 
in  the  White  HoUse,  all  of  official  Wash- 
ington being  present. 

United  States  issued  its  millionth  patent. 
6— General  Leconte's  troops  occupied  Port- 
au-Prince  and  proclaimed  him  President 
of  llayti. 
7 — Balfour's  motion  to  censure  the  British 
ministers  was  voted  down  in  the  House 
of  Commons  by  a  majority  of  119. 

Admiral  Togo  inspected  the  Naval  Acad- 
emy at  Annapolis. 

General  Cincinnatus  *Leconte  made  a  trium- 
phal entry  into  Port-au-Prince,  Hayti. 
8 — London  was  menaced  by  a  food  shortage, 
due  to  the  dock  strike. 

John  G.  A.  Leishman,  United  States  Ambas- 
sador to  Rome,  was  appointed  the  succes- 
sor at  Berlin,  of  Dr.  David  Jayne  Hill, 
resigned. 
9 — The  Emir,  a  French  steamer,  foundered 
off  the  Spanish  coast  after  collision  with 
a  British  vessel  and  ninety  six  were 
drowned. 

Fire  occurred  in  the  Carleton  Hotel,  Lon- 
don, causing  a  panic  among  the  guests. 

It  was  reported  that  United  States  had 
declined  the  Australian  proposal  for  a  re- 
ciprocal two-cent  postage  arrangement. 


10— The  House  of  Lords  passed  the  Veto  bill 
by  a  vote  of  131  to  113.  The  House  oi 
Commons .  adopted  a  resolution  to  pay 
members  $2,000  a  year  each. 

The  "appeals"  of  the  officers  of  the  Wireless 
Company  were  denied. 
II— The  London  strike  ended,  the  lightermen 
winning  a  shorter  workday  and  more  pay. 

Speaker  Champ  Qark  and  Vice-President 
Sherman  signed  the  joint  resolution  ad- 
mitting New  Mexico  and  Arizona  to  state- 
hood. 
12— iGrowing  political  unrest  was  reported  in 
Spain. 

The  United  States  Government  granted  au- 
thority to  President  de  la  Barra  to  let 
Mexican  troops  cross  American  territory 
to  put  down  lawlessness  in  Lower  Cali- 
fornia. 
13 — Four  persons  were  killed  and  thirty  in- 
jured in  a  wreck  of  the  Pennsylvania 
eighteen-hour  flier,  near  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. 
14— The  Wool  bill  was  passed  by  the  House. 

Rioting  continued  in  Liverpool,  necessitating 
the  ordering  of  cavalry  there. 

General  Cincinnatus  Leconte  was  unani- 
mously elected  President  of  Hayti  by  the 
Congress. 
i5_President  Taft  vetoed  the  joint  resolution 
of  Congress,  admitting  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico  to  Statehood  because  of  the  pro- 
vision for  the  recall  of  Judges  in  the 
Arizona  Constitution. 

The  National  Employment  Exchange,  a 
philanthropic  help-agency,  was  opened  in 
New  York  City. 

Two  Representatives  introduced  resolutions 
to  have  the  House  take  steps  toward  se- 
curing uniform  divorce  laws. 
16— Edmond  Rostand,  the  playwright,  was  se- 
verely injured  in  an  automobile  accident. 

Sir  Henry  James  Dal-ziel  introduced  a  bill 
in  the  House  of  Commons  calling  for 
home  rule  in  Scotland. 

The    thirteen    convicted     members     of     the 
Poultry    Trust    were    sentenced    to    serve 
three  months  in  the  penitentiary  and  pay 
fines  of  $500  each. 
i7__President  Taft  vetoed  the  Wool  bill. 

The  Cotton  bill,  with  steel,  iron  and  other 
amendments,  passed  the  Senate  amid 
scenes  of  excitement. 

Curtis  Guild,  Jr.,  presented  to  the  Czar  his 
credentials  as  American  Ambassador, 
ig — Railway    traffic    thronphout    the    United 
Kingdom  was   demoralized  by  the  strike 
of   200.000  men. 

House  Democrats  tried  to  pass  the  Wool 
and  Free-List  bills  over  the  President's 
vetoes,  but  failed. 

The  Senate  passed  a  Statehood  resolution 
with  the  recall  of  judges  cut  out. 

Andr6  Jager- Schmidt  arrived  in  New  York 
on    his    "around-the-world-in-forty-days" 

trip. 
The  King  assented  to  the  Lords'  \Jeto  bill. 
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By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

TT/HEX  you  sit  in  the  house  of  mourning, 
^^      Let  the  clasp  of  your  tender  hand 
Be  a  wordless  pledge  of  comfort. 

And  your  friend  will  understand 
That  your  heart  is  aching  with  her. 

Though  your  words  be  ever  so  few, 
And  the  thought  of  your  deep  compassion 

Shall  be  sweet  as  the  summer  dew. 

When  you  sit  in  the  house  of  mourning 

Where  never  the  light  streams  in. 
Let  your  love  be  like  a  sunbeam, 

A  conquering  way  to  win; 
Let  it  spell  itself  out  in  flowers. 

Let  it  cause  no  hurt  nor  jar. 
Let  it  bring  a  message  from  heaven 

Where  the  angels  of  comfort  are. 

When  you  play  with  the  little  children 

Let  the  ch. Id-heart  be  your  own. 
Ah,  me,  that  the  years  of  childhood 

Are  so  soon  and  swiftly  flown! 
Play  with   the  little  children 

And  learn  their  wisdom  rare; 
In  their  beautiful,  brave,  sweet  morning 

They  are  cumbered  not  with  care. 

When  you  sit  with  the  dear  old  people 

W'ho  have  reached  the  western  slope, 
Share  in  their  tranquil  evening, 

Share  in  their  splendid  hope. 
For  just  across  the  river 

There  is  waiting  for  them,  in  truth, 
The  joy  of  the  life  immortal. 

And  the  garment  of  fadeless  youth. 

When  you  sit  in  the  house  of  feasting 

There  must  be  a  smile  on  your  lips. 
Beware  of  the  selfish  shadow 

That  might  cast  a  brief  eclipse. 
Jrin  in  the  mirth  and  laughter. 

Join  in  the  merry  song. 
When  you  sit  in  the  house  of  feasting 

Be  gay  with  the  joyous  throng. 

When  you  take  the  road  with  a  comrade 

Whatever  the  hap  may  be. 
Accept  it  as  part  of  your  fortune, 

Let  your  mood  be  bold  and  free. 
Care  naught  for  the  roughest  weather. 

Shrink  not  from  the  steepest  way, 
The  two  who  are  marching  together 

Should  fare  to  the  end  of  the  day. 


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DIED:  !   /; 

ABBEY,  EDWIN  A.— In  London.  England. 
August  I,  aged  fiftynine  years.  He  was 
a  native  of  Philadelphia.  He  began  drawing 
at  the  age  of  four.  He  worked  for  two 
years  in  a  wood-engraver's  when  sixteen 
years  old,  and  then  studied  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania Academy  of  Fine  Arts.  He  be- 
came a  famed  illustrator  in  black  and  white. 
He  went  to  live  in  England  in  1878,  where 
he  developed  his  rare  skill  as  a  colorist 
in  water-colors  and  oils.  He  was  elected 
to  membership  in  the  Royal  Institute  of 
Painters  and  the  Royal  Academy,  and  was 
a  corresponding  honorary  member  of 
French,  German  and  Spanish  societies. 
Among  his  most  famous  works  are:  "The 
Qiu'st  of  the  Holv  Grail",  in  the  Boston 
Public  Library  (fifteen  large  paintmgs)  ; 
"King  Lear  and  his  Daughters",  and  the 
"Coronation  of  King  Edward",  done  at  in- 
vitation of  the  late  King. 

FITZGERALD,  BISHOP  OSCAR  PEXX— 
At  Monteaglc,  Tennessee,  August  5,  aged 
eightytwo  years.  He  was  born  in  North 
Carolina.  In  1854  he  was  received  into 
the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  at  Atlanta.  Ga.  In  1855  he  went 
to  California  and  became  editor  there  of 
The  Pacific  Methodist  and  Christian  Spec- 
tator.  He  was  superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction of  the  State  from  1867  to  i87f. 
In  1878  he  returned  South  and  edited  The 
Nashville  Christian  Advocate.  In  i8qo  he 
was  made  a  Bishop.  He  wrote  several  well- 
known  works. 

FRYE.  SENATOR  WILLIAM  PIPLRCE— In 
•Lewiston,  Maine,  August  8,  aged  eighty 
years.  Lewiston  was  his  birthplace.  He  was 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  and  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Fessenden,  the  anti- 
slavery  Whig.  He  served  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature three  terms,  was  Mayor  of  Lewiston 
one  year,  and  Attorney  (ieneral  for  the 
State  from  1867  to  i860.  For  ten  years,  fol- 
lowing 187 1,  he  was  a  Member  of  Congress, 
leaving  the  House  for  the  Senate  in  18S1. 
He  was  Senior  United  States  Senator  and 
President  pro  tem.  of  that  body  since  1896. 
During  his  long  career  he  was  an  influen- 
tial member  of  important  committees  and 
was  always  a  fearless,  patriotic,  devoted  ser- 
vant of  the  people. 

GATES,  JOHN  W.— In  Paris  France,  August 
8,  aged  fiftysix  years.  His  birthplace  was 
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Turner  Junction  (now  West  Chicago).  111. 
As  a  youth  he  entered  the  hardware  busi- 
ness, and  when  the  great  cattle  ranges  of 
the  Southwest  were  cut  up,  he  saw  the  possi- 
bility in  barbed  wire  fences,  began  to  manu- 
facture them,  and  soon  became  a  magnate 
in  the  steel  and  wire  markets.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  on  the  directorate  of 
eight  railroads  and  industrial  companies  and 
was  a  powerful  influence  in  others. 

GORDON,  GEN.  GEORGE  \V.--In  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  August  9,  aged  seventyfive  years.  He 
was  a  native  of  Giles  County,  Tennessee,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Western  Military  In- 
stitute. He  served  in  the  Confederate  Army 
as  drill  instructor  and  then  as  Captain,  and 
Anally  arose  to  be  Brigadier  General.  After 
the  war  he  studied  law  and  practiced  in 
Memphis  until  1885,  when  he  was  appointed 
a  Commissioner  in  the  Interior  Department 
of  United  States  and  served  four  years  in 
the  Territories  west  of  the  Rockies.  In  1907 
he  was  elected  to  Congress. 

GREENE,  COL.  W.  C— In  Cananea,  Mexico, 
August  5.  He  was  born  at  Chajppaqua, 
N.  Y.,  and  went  West  in  the  seventies  and 
later,  after  some  experience  as  a  cow- 
puncher  in  Mexico,  he  bought  property 
there  and  organized,  with  T.  W.  Lawson 
and  Edward  Addicks,  the  Cobre  Copper 
Company.  For  a  while  he  was  a  successful, 
highly  picturesque  operator  in  Wall  Street, 
but  in  1907  the  Amalgamated  Copper  men 
brought  his  operating  career  to  a  close,  al- 
though he  still  retained  great  cattle 
ranches  in  Mexico. 

HUGHES,  REV.  THOMAS  P.— In  Kings 
Park,  L.  I.,  August  8,  aged  seventythree 
years.  Lndlow,  England,  was  his  native 
town.  He  studied  for  the  ministry  both  at 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  and  was  ordained  in 
1864.  For  twenty  years  he  was  a  mis- 
sionary in  Afghanistan,  and  was  Chaplain 
at  Peshawar,  the  base  of  operations,  during 
the  Afghan  war.  In  1885  he  became  rector 
of  a  church  in  Lebanon  Springs,  N.  Y.  For 
fourteen  years  he  was  rector  of  St.  Sepul- 
chre's Church,  N.  Y.  He  engaged  also  in 
religious  journalism,  being  for  six  years 
associate  editor  of  The  Churchman.  He 
was  at  times  on  the  staff  of  The  Literarv 
Digest  and  The  Commercial  Advertiser.  He 
wrote  books  on  Mohammedanism  and  was 
author  of  the  English  Government  text- 
books in  the  Afghan  language. 

MALLALIEU,  BISHOP  WILLARD  FRAN- 
CIS—At  Auburndale,  Massachusetts,  August 
I,  aged  eightythree  years.  His  birthplace 
was  Sutton,  Massachusetts.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Wesleyan  University,  in  1857, 
and  was  one  of  the  foremost  figures  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  He  wrote 
voluminously  on  religious  and  secular  sub- 
jects and  always  played  an  active  part  at 
the  general  conferences.  He  was  Trustee 
of  many  denominational  institutions. 


MILLER,  JAHU  DE  WITT— At  Forest 
Glen,  Md.,  August  6.  He  was  for  several 
years  a  well-known  lecturer,  and  devoted 
most  of  his  time  to  that  occupation,  to- 
gether with  the  accumulation  of  a  large 
library,  in  which  he  took  great  pride.  He 
was  rather  a  curator  than  a  maker  of  litera- 
ture, and  the  material  for  his  work  was 
mostly  the  work  of  others,  upon  which  he 
commented  with  notable  fluency  and  facility. 
He  had  many  rare  editions  and  autographi- 
cal  copies  of  books  in  his  collection,  con- 
cerning the  safety  of  which  he  constantly 
worried,  when  from  home  on  his  numer- 
ous lecturing  trips.  As  a  young  man,  he 
was  noted  in  the  Hudson  River  region  as 
an  eccentric,  wearing  his  hair  long  and  as- 
suming various  other  peculiarities  of  ap- 
pearance. With  more  mature  years,  he  cor- 
rected many  of  these,  and  was  considered 
by  his  acquaintances  as  a  pleasant  and 
genial  companion,  and  by  the  public  gener- 
ally, as  an  entertaining  and  instructive  lec- 
turer. 

MURPHY,  EX-SENATOR  EDWARD,  JR. 
— At  Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  August  ^  aged 
seventysix  years.  Troy,  N.  Y.,  was  his  place 
of  birth.  He  was  a  power  in  State  politics 
during  the  eighties  and  nineties.  He  was  a 
Tilden  Democrat,  supporting  the  latter  in 
both  the  Gubernatorial  and  Presidential 
campaigns.  In  1893  he  was  elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate.  It  was  said  that  it 
was  he  who  cast  the  votes  in  the  Conven- 
tion of  1884,  that  decided  Cleveland's  nomi- 
nation. 

SHEPARD,  EDWARD  M.— At  -Lake  George, 
N.  Y.,  July  28.  aged  sixtyone  years.  Born 
in  New  York  City,  he  was  brorght  up 
in  Brooklyn,  and  educated  at  Oberlin  Col- 
lege and  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York.  He  qualified  for  the  bar,  and  was 
long  prominent  in  the  political  affairs  of 
New  York  City  and  State.  He  was  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  State  Forestry  Com- 
mission. He  was  a  successful  corporation 
lawyer,  and  had  been  general  counsel  in 
the  city  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  He 
was  a  man  of  broad  culture  and  high  ideals, 
and  a  conscientious  worker  for  the  better- 
ment of  politics.  He  was  a  prolific  writer 
on  social,  economic  and  political  topics  and 
wrote  biographies  of  Martin  Van  Buren 
and  Samuel  J.  Tilden. 

WARE,  EUGENE  F— At  Cascade,  Colo- 
rado, July  I,  aped  seventy  years.  Kansas  was 
his  native  Stntc.  He  served  through  the 
Civil  War  and  was  admitted  to  the  Kansas 
bar  in  1871.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Kansas  Senate  and  of  the  National  House, 
and  from  19^  to  IQ05  was  Pension  Com- 
missioner under  Roosevelt.  He  gained  fame 
as  a  newspaper  poet  rnder  the  pseudonym 
of  "Ironquill",  his  political,  narrative  and 
descriptive  verses. breathing  a  homely  opti- 
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Burglars  now  steal  with  gloves  on — so  as 
to  avoid  being  detected  by  finger-prints. 

Some  progressive  city  clergymen  are  pro- 
posing church  roof-gardens  for  summer  use. 

The  country  still  continues  to  preach  against 
prize-fighting  with  its  mouth  and  to  tolerate 
it  with  its  hands. 

The  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives 
has  by  vote  permitted  itself  to  sit  in  session 
with  its  coats  off. 

The  usual  number  of  little  boys  have  lost 
their  legs  stealing  rides  on  railroad  trains, 
during   the   past   month. 

"Taking  the  chances"  on  crossing  turnpikes 
and  railroads,  has  killed  the  usual  number  of 
people  during  the  past  month. 

A  well-built  chimney  lOO  feet  high  will  sway 
from  three  to  four  itKhes  in  a  high  wind 
without  any  danger  of  falling. 

People  are  now  throwing  ihetnselves  in 
front  of  automobiles,  as  well  as  railroad- 
trains,  in  order  to  commit  suicide. 

America  has  invaded  France  again  this 
summer,  and  Yankee-English  is  talked  on  the 
jtreets  almost  as  much  as  French. 

Consolidation  and  absorption  is  extending 
even  to  the  churches— several  having  united 
with  each  other  during  the  past  year. 

If  "Fifty  Years  Ago"  had  known  the  atten- 
tion that  would  be  paid  to  it  in  the  news- 
papers now,  it  sure  would  have  strutted. 


A  hoot-owl  pecked  out  a  Pennsylvania 
man's  eye,  while  he  was  crossing  his  own 
dooryard,  and  was  killed  for  his  pains. 

Nearly  every  "shooting-box"  in  Scotland 
has  been  taken  by  rich  Londoners.  "It  is  a 
fine  day:  let's  go  out  and  kill  something." 

A  great  many  journals  are  following  the 
example  of  Every  Where,  and  leaving  out 
the  antiquated  hjrphen  in  "to-day"  and  "to- 
morrow." 


If  Col.  Ingersoll  has  appeared  through  all 
the  mediums  that  have  claimed  to  interpret 
him  since  his  death,  he  has  been  pretty  lively 
on  his  wings. 

Every  once  in  a  while,  some  peculiarly  mean 
person  is  caught  robbing  the  poor-box  of  a 
church.  A  twelve-year  girl  at  Corona,  L.  I., 
is  the  latest  one. 

An  arrested  tramp  in  Vermont  escaped  from 
the  courtroom,  locked  everybody  else  in,  and 
gave  the  officers  a  long  chase  after  they  had 
forced  their  way  out. 

A  cow  and  a  stallion  had  a  big  fight  over 
the  latter's  hay  in  the  manger,  at  Sheepshead 
Bay,  N.  Y.  The  cow  came  out  ahead,  and 
the  horse  had  to  be  shot. 

Anglo-Saxon  thrift  is  just  transforming 
Cuba  into  part  of  United  States,  and  it  is 
thought  that  after  a  time  its  annexation  will 
be  only  a  matter  of  form. 

Some  farmers  in  the  country  who  do  not 
wish  their  lands  invaded  by  trespassers,  save 


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Winchester's  Hypophosphites 
ef  lime  and  Soda  (Dr.  Chureh- 
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Specific  Ptll  are  the  best  reme- 
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The  Specific  Pill  Is  purely  vegetable,  has  been  tested  and  prescribed  hy  physicians,  and  has 
proven  to  be  the  best  and  most  effective  treatment  Icnown  to  medical  science  for  restoring  Im- 
paired Vitality,  no  matter  how  originally  caused,  as  it  reaches  the  root  of  the  ailment.  Our  reme- 
dies  are  the  best  of  their  kind,  and  contain  only  the  best  and  purest  ingrredients  that  money  can 
buy  and  sdenoe  produce;  therefore  we  cannot  ofiTer  free  samples.  Price.  One  Dollar  per  box, 
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Tawksbury,  M.  D.,  Portland,  Me.  I  have  useA  Winchester's  Hypophosphites  in  several  very 
severe  cases  of  consumption,  with  the  best  possible  results.— P.  Crang.  M.D.,  Centrevllle,  N.  T.  Win- 
chester's Hypophosphites  not  only  act  as  absorbents  but  repair  and  retard  the  waste  of  tissue.— 
H.  P.  DeWees,  M.  P.,  New  York.  I  know  of  no  remedy  in  the  wholo  Materia  Medica  equal  ts 
your  Specific  FUl  for  Nervous  Debility.— Adolph  Behre,  M.  D.,  Professor  of  Organic  Chemistry 
and  Physiology.  New  York.  Send  for  free  treatise  securely  sealed.  Winchester  &  Co.,  &M  Be^k 
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OurARTlFlOIAL  UMMtfeiydolMtlan.  Will 
a«t  a  llf«-tlnM. 

P«rf*ct  In  machanleal  aonatruatlon.  A  r«- 
markabl*  raproduetlon  of  natural  mod«lt. 

8«nd  postal  for  fro*  dosorlMhro  booklot 
•ff*d  toatlmonlals  from  sratofkal  and  eatlsilod 
o«trons. 

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the  painting  of  a  long  sign  by  simply  post- 
ing, "Beware  of  the  Bull." 

Gambling  in  the  street  at  "craps"  is  still 
not  uncommon  in  some  parts  of  Greater  Xtw 
York.  In  many  cases,  the  police  1  n  k  plaridly 
on,  or  stroll  indifferently  by. 

Alpine  glaciers  are  receding  and  some  of 
them  are  disappearing  entirely.  Some  attri- 
bute this  action  to  the  Iwring  of  tunntls  and 
building  of  mountain  railways. 

Twelve  bombs  within  a  month  have  been 
exploded  in  various  Chicago  conduits — smash- 
ing things  generally  around  them.  They  are 
attributed   to  the  labor  troubles. 


-  ..^U-l^^^^EW  DESSERT  FORK  FOR  PJE 

■ n  WATKR1IKI4>If  AND  SHORT  CA»1. 

BxtnSilTtrPUlad  Rfort.  8««ivmir  >**n.pie  *«ic  f.  ^oIkI  (ierm*n  MW«tT«» 
9pMM48«.  AcMtaWantwt  E.  W.  BU-HL  X  Co..  ig;  E.  MadUon 
St.,  CHICAGO. 

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A  well-dressed  middle-aged  man  was  found 
on  the  New  York  streets  industriously  nurs- 
ing a  doll.  He  was  taken  to  the  hospital 
and    found   to  be   mildlv   insane. 


President  Taft  tells  a  story  nf  a  fond 
mother,  who.  speaking  of  her  children,  said, 
"With  the  plague  of  their  living,  and  the  fear 
(){  their  dying,  I   shall*  go  crazy." 

The  only  perfect  copy  of  the  first  folio  of 
Shakespeare  known  to  exist,  sold  for  $8,5co. 
Keep  your  first  editions,  young  authors!  Xo 
knowing  what  may  happen  to  you. 

Being  at  the  head  of  Greater  New  York 
is  a  dangerous  occupation.  Mayor  Gaynor  has 
been  shot  once,  and  now  another  eccentric  has 
been  shut  up  for  threatening  to  "fix  him." 

So  many  overheated  men  and  women  sleep 
on  the  beach  some  nights  at  Coney  Island, 
that  as  many  as  twenty-five  policemen  have 
to  be  detailed,  to  prevent  their  being  robbed. 

A  grass-plot  gathered  from  all  ever  the 
world  has  bten  transp.)rted  several  hundred 
miles,  with  i03  wagon-loads  of  soil,  for  the 
amusement  of  the  proprietor  and  his  friends. 

•*.\evv  York  f(^rts  arc  invincible,  and  their 
great  guns  could  destroy  any  force  that  could 
be  brought  against  them",  says  Col.  Leonard 
\Vo(  d,  Chief  of  Staff  of  the  United  States 
Armv. 


Mrs.  Harriman.  widow  of  the  capitalist,  is 
going  West  for  a  rest.  She  has  recently  re- 
ceived more  than  5.000  letters  asking  for  sums 
of  from  $10  to  thousands  and  it  upset  her 
nerves. 

The  Goddess  of  Liberty  in  New  York  Har- 
bor never  expected  to  have  aeroplanes  glid- 
ing and  playing  about  her:  but  one  rf  them 
has  hem  doing  it,  and  making  new  records 
in  high-up  navigation. 

The   forbidding  of  noise-explosions  in  sev- 
eral  large  cities  during  the  4th  of  July,  has 
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no  doubt  saved  several  lives — notwithstanding 
a  certain  percentage  of  the  juvenile  population 
were  killed  and  wounded. 


The  hot-water  bag  of  winter  nights,  filled 
with  ccld  water,  as  it  runs  from  the  faucet, 
and  applied  to  head  or  feet,  or  even  used  as 
a  pillow,  keeps  cold  for  two  hours,  and  cools 
one  off  wonderfully  on  a  hot  night. 

Greeley,  Colorado,  named  after  the  re- 
nowned Horace,  has  been  troubled  by  auto- 
mobile-robbers— riding  in  vehicles  the  like  of 
which  the  great  editor  never  saw.  They  took 
$10,000  out  of  the  postoffice,  one  moonlit 
night. 

A  Philadelphia  old  gentleman,  aged  i  o 
years,  gave  his  youngest  son,  aged  70,  a 
threshing  because  he  got  drunk  and  abrs  d 
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"I  evidently  fed  that  girl  too  much  taffy." 

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has  decided  to  go  on  the  stage." 


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"I  always  put  a  card  addressed  to  myself 
among  'em-  If  I  don't  get  it  the  next  day  I 
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your  beautiful  country  place.  Uncle  Hiram, 
and  we  feel  that  we  owe  you  a  great  deal." 

"Yes,  sir,  you  do,  and  I  want  it  settled 
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Tessy  Limelight— What,  was  he  a  relic- 
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Bible.'* 

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seemed  to  mSy  like'  going  from  one  country 
into  another  and  better  one — a  lovely  and 
pleasant  thing." 

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CONTENTS  FOR  OCTOBER 


Poems  by  Will  Carleton: 
The  Boatman's  Story 
Converse  With  the  Sea 
A  Contrast 

Most  Famous  Living  Mayor 
A  Summer  Girl. 

Two  Meetings  of  the  Club 

Love 

Margaret  E.  Sangster, 


69 
71 
72 

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77 
79 


The  United  States  Department  of 

Agriculture,  and  the  Future.— I  80 
Lyman  Beecher  Stowe. 

Methods  of  "Philistine  Teachers"  83 

The  Banner  Song  86 

Aunt  Melinda's  Journey  88 

Good-Bye,  Old  Horse  90 

Corals  On  the  Maine  91 

Catania's  Recent  Close  Call  92 

Plants  That  Fight  93 

Eighteen  Thoughts  94 


Editorial  Comment: 
Education  Should  Educate 
The  "Boob"  Problem 
Our  Coy  Neighbor,  Canada 
The  Wreck  of  the  Olympic 
Concerning  the  Fly 

At  Church  : 
The  Making  of  a  Hymn 
Fanny  Crosby, 
A  Story-Sermon 
"Awful"  Gardner 
Some  Prayers 

The  Health-Seeker: 

Lack  of  Air  Killed  Moody? 
Refusing  to  Grow  Old 
Hand- Healers 


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107 


World- Success  : 

Daniel  Webster's  Personal  Habits  108 

A  Hotel  Keeper's  "Luck"-  109 

Parson  Nimbus'  Philosophy  no 

Time's  Diary  m 


Some  Who  Have  Gone 
Doings  and  Undoings 
Philosophy  and  Humor 


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MR.  WILL  CARLETON 

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Catania— The^LavalOity/ 

MeJi  live  in  houses  borroived  from  the  trees, 

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But  seldom  in  a  home  dwell  Eden's  sons, 

Hurled  from  the  fierce  volcano's  murderous  guns. 


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The  Boatman'8  Story, 

^TT  WAS  a  very  curious  story  that  the  boatman  told  to  me, 

As  I  lingered  in  the  offing'  with!  my  eyes  upon  the  sea, 
Or  upon  the  full  moon  climbing  up  the  ladder  of  the  sky, 
And  the  man  who  rode  within  it,  with  his  truthful  mouth  and  eye. 

"Oh  how  true  is  Nature !"  mused  I,  as  my  gaze  ran  near  and  far : 
"Not  an  atom  is  ambiguous,  from  the  island  to  the  star: 
All  is  steadfast  honest  going,   from  the  sky-lofts  to  the  sea: 
How  invariably  truthful  all  these  islanders  must  be ! 

"Ah,  how  different  from  the  city ! — where  the  words  by  people  said, 
To  the  hearing  may  be  silver — to  the  feeling  may  be  lead ; 
Where  Assertion  is  exploited  in  a  manner  bold  and  high, 
But  Reality  is  smothered  'neath  the  mantle  of  a  lie  V* 

Then  the  boatman,  whose  demeanor  was  of  clerical  design. 
And  whose  face  had  Truth  engrafted  in  each  separate  look  and  line, 
In  a  tone  of  melancholy  that  immediate  credence  drew. 
Told  the  quite  unusual  story  that  I  now  repeat  to  you : 


"Good  Cap'n  Crane  had  lived  his  life  for  seventy  year  or  more. 
Where  ocean-winds  play  hide-an'  seek  around  Nantucket's  shore; 
And  he  was  loved  as  men  is  loved  who  loves  their  fellow-man, 
And  pulls  their  best  flag  up  each  day,  and  sails  the  best  they  can. 

"Good  Cap'n  Crane  was  never  knowed  to  sight  the  bark  Distress, 
That  he  wouldn't  square  away  its  course  to  make  its  cargo  less : 
And  what  he  had,  his  neighbors  had,  whene'er  they  signalled  need. 
And  though  no  angel,  he  knowed  how  to  do  an  angel  deed. 

*'When  sickness  sailed  to  any  house,  there  couldn't  soon  be  found 
A  tend'rer  nuss  than  he  could  be,  in  all  the  country  round ; 
And  when  Doc  give  some  med'cine  such  as  accident'lly  kills, 
Cap  often  soothed  survivors'  griefs,  by  helping  pay  the  bills. 

"There  seldom  was  a  buryin'day,  on  old  Nantucket  shore, 

But  Cap'n  Crane  was  early-there,  a  half  an  hour  or  more*  ^r\r^n]r> 

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?o  EVERY    WHERE. 

For  after  many  suff'rings  of  a  patient  he  appeased, 
He  al'ays  felt  a  longin'  to  embellish  the  deceased. 

"And  no  Nantucket  weddin',  be't  a  large  or  small  affair, 
But  Cap'n  trimmed  his  mainsail  so's  to  manage  to  be  there ; 
Discreetly  kiss  the  blushing  bride,  and  her  charms  advertise 
Until  the  bridegroom  came  to  over-estimate  his  prize; 

"For  birds  and  other  insects  he  stowed  pity  in  his  breast. 
And  every  ailing  quadruped  was  his  compassioned  guest; 
An'  it  was  said  that  fishes  which  he  caught,  in  calm  or  storm, 
Was  often  dealt  an  easy  death,  by  means  of  chloroform. 

"When  in  his  pew  on  Sunday,  at  the  church-belFs  soonest  ring, 
Twas  whispered  that  the  angels  flocked  around  to  hear  him  sing ; 
And  contribution-boxes,  when  they  wandered  to  him  nigh. 
Felt  the  frailty  of  that  sayin'  that  refers  to  them  as  'dry.' 

"On  this  world-ship  of  a  planet  that  goes  sailin'  round  an'  round, 
You'd  say  'Could  any  better  man  amongst  its  crew  be  found  ?' 
But  one  stowaway  got  in  him,  and  continually  grew : 
He  was  just  thp  biggest  liar  that  Nantucket  ever  knew. 

"If  he  said  that  it  was  Monday,  half  the  week  was  on  its  way ; 
If  he  said  *I'll  come  tomorrow*,  he  was  sure  to  come  today; 
If  'That  fish  was  just  a  monster',  'twas  not  big  enough  to  cook: 
If  'I  catched  a  baby-minnow',  it  might  bu'st  your  net  or  hook. 

"If  he  said  Tm  tackin'  landward'  you  would  find  him  on  the  sea ; 
If  he  said  Tm  for  the  offin',  he  upon  the  shore  would  be ; 
If  'I  am  hearty  as  a  bear',  right  sickly  was  his  plight : 
If  'I  am  ill  nigh  unto  death',  he'd  dance  around  all  night. 

"The  hymns  he'd  sung  at  meeting-time,  up  from  his  earliest  youth. 
Writ  out  by  good  men,  held,  of  course,  the  most  undoubted  truth  : 
But  Cap'n  Crane  would  always  try  to  twist  the  lines  about, 
And  shut  the  saints  in  fearful  dooms,  and  let  the  sinners  out. 

"Still,  in  them  serpents  of  his  tongue,  you'd  signal  one  good  thing — 
There  wa'n't  no  p'ison  in  their  make — an'  not  a  trace  of  sting : 
He  never  told  a  lie,  men  said  who'd  known  him  from  his  birth. 
That  harmed  a  soul — except  himself — on  this  deceitful  earth. 

"And  when  he  rose  in  meeting,  his  'experience'  for  to  give, 
The  worst  old  sinner  he  had  been,  that  Heaven  allowed  to  live : 
And  he  had  robbed  and  murdered,  and  sowed  ruin  far  and  wide. 
And  on  the  stormy  sea  of  sin,  done  everything  but  lied. 

"And  wheni  the  Cap'n's  death  upon  the  island  cast  a  gloom, 
'Twas  found  that  he  had  left  these  words,  to  tack  upon  his  tomb: 
'Here  lies  a  sinner  mean  and  vile  from  earliest  days  of  youth — 
With  one  exception :   which  same  was.  He  always  told  the  truth.'  " 


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CONVERSE    WITH    THE    SEA. 


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Then  the  boatman  ceased  his  story :  and  no  sound  there  was  afloat, 
Save  the  ripplings  of  the  waters  'gainst  the  curvings  of  our  boat, 
And  a  softened  wave  of  clamor  that  went  gliding  up  and  down. 
Through  the  street-lanes  quaint  and  olden,  of  the  lamp-lit  island  town. 

"What  a  mystery — that  quaint  Captain  !*'  was  my  musing,  o'er  and  o'er. 
As  we  joined  some  wayward  breezes,  and  went  fluttering  to  the  shore : 
"What  a  psychologic  puzzle !  how  could  Goodness  ever  meet 
And  clasp  hands  in  life-long  friendship,  with  the  monster  called  Deceit  ? 

"I  will  study  up  the  problem :  I  perhaps  can  learn  the  cause 
Of  this  strange  and  sad  perversion  of  the  simplest  moral  laws ; 
I  will  take  it  to  some  college,  and  amid  the  world's  applause 
Have  some  sage  declare  the  reason  of  the  reason  of  the  cause." 

So  next  day  I  searched  Nantucket  for  accounts  of  Captain  Crane, 
But  with  all  my  weary  wand'ring,  every  effort  was  in  vain ; 
For  my  honest-featured  boatman — so  one  preacher  told  me  true — 
Was  himself  the  biggest  liar  that  Nantucket  ever  knew. 


Converse  With  The  Sea. 


XtT  HAT    hast   thou    in    thy    treasure- 
house,  O  Sea? — 
A  thousand  rivers  long  and  deep  and 

wide, 
Once  rivulets  upon  the  mountain-side. 
That  wandered  through  the  fields  and 

glens,  to  me. 
So  gathered  they,  as  thrifty  trav'lers  do, 
Somewhat  of  all  the  lands  they  jour- 
neyed through: 
The  cavern's  roar,  the  valley's  lisping 

song, 
The   dripping  cliffs  with  thunder  loud 

and  long. 
The    man-made   mills,    the    clatter   and 

turmoil 
Of    wheels,    that   yoked   their   dancing 

floods  to  toil: 
They  brought  me  them,  and  gave  me 

them  to  keep. 
Till  sun  or  gale  should  rouse  tham  from 

their  sleep. 

What  hast  thou  in  thy  hands,  O  gentle 

Sea?— 
Refreshing    showers    that   shortly    will 

arise, 
Inveigled  by  the  sun,  to  seek  the  skies — 


Then  from  his  passion-wooing  strangely 

free. 
Return  unto  the  eager  earth  awhile. 
To  glad  the  blooms,  and  bid  the  forest 

smile. 
For  never  tree  or  flower  could  love  or 

live, 
But  for  the  strength  my  god-like  mis- 
sions give. 
Cool  zephyrs  have  I  that  'mid  summer 

heat. 
Will  fan  the  world,  and  bless  whome'er 

they  meet; 
And  gales  that  push  their  sharp  blades 

everywhere. 
And  cut  the  poison  from  the  withered 

air. 

What  hast  thou  in  thy   shifting  tides, 

O  Sea?— 
A    thousand    storms,    that    peacefully 

could  lie 
In    their    cloud-hammocks    'twixt    the 

earth  and  sky. 
Forgetting  that  to  drift  is  scarce  to  be. 
And  now  in  slumber,  now  in  seeming 

mirth, 
They  floated  idly  o'er  the  dappled  earth : 

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Until  a  messenger  of  strife  there  came. 

That  gathered  all  the  air  in  flood  and 
flame, 

And  brought  the  floating  cannons' 
lordly  sound, 

And  made  the  startled  sky  a  battle- 
ground : 

Till,  tired  of  strife,  they  sought  a  need- 
ful rest, 

And  flung  themselves  upon  my  willing 
breast. 


What  hast  thou  on  thy  rugged  floors, 
O  Sea?— 

A  million  ships,  that  ploughed  my  yield- 
ing spray. 

All  bearing  hope  for  many  a  merry  day : 

A  hope  that  had  not  learned  of  Fate's 
decree. 

How  little,  when  the  shallops  leave  a 
place, 

Can  mind  or  soul  their  future  moorings 
trace : 

If  they  shall  touch  the  ocean's  edge 
once  more. 

Or,  sinking,  seek;  my  underlying  shore, 

That  has  a  myriad  fleets  that  rot  away — 


Themselves   their   cumbrous   anchors — 

day  by  day! 
You     wonder     if    their     ghosts    have 

skimmed  the  waves? — 
It   is  not   mine   to   answer: — ask   their 

graves. 

What  hast  thou  that  is  firm,  O  tossing 

Sea?— 
Fair  refuge-islands — where  you  mortals 

find 
A  help  to  soothe  the  weary  heart  and 

mind; 
To  my  protection,  all  the  world  may 

flee! 
I  toss  as  feathered  toys  upon  my  hands. 
The  ocean-birds  that  brood   in  all   the 

lands. 
But  give  them  homes  in  many  a  rocky 

nest. 
Where  they  in  firm  tranquillity  can  rest ; 
I   nurture   in   my   realms  of  drowning 

space. 
The  island-builders  of  the  coral  race : — 
Where  find  you  more  of  firmness  than 

in  me? 
For  God  Himself  doth  walk  upon  the 

Sea.  I 


A  Contrast. 


QCTOBER  held  a  carnival, 
^^     When  Summer  days  had  fled; 
His  halls  were  trimmed  with  blue  and 
gold, 

And  banners  flaming  red. 
Now  all  the  world  with  fowl  and  fruit 

Were  at  his  table  fed; 
The  richest  wine  of  bough  or  vine 

Before  his  guests  was  spread. 

October  held  a  funeral 

When  Summer  nights  were  fled ; 
And  all  the  leaves!  and  all  the  vines 

And  all  the  flowers  were  dead. 
The  richly-colored  drapery 

Was  burial  robes  instead, 
And  shorn  of  pride,  he  lay  and  died 

Upon  a  lowly  bed. 


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Most  Famous  Living   Mayor. 

By  a  Summer  Girl. 


IT'S  worth  while  to  see  and  talk  with 
the  most  famous. — But  is  he? — Let*s 
consider. 

Who's  the  mayor  of  London? — Who's 
of  Paris? — ^Birmingham? — St.  Louis? — 
San  Francisco  ? — Philadelphia  ? — And  so 
forth  and  so  forth  and  so  on.  Very 
few  of  my  readers  can  name  one  of 
them. — But  when  it  comes  to  New  York, 
— second  city  in  the  world  for  popula- 
tion, and  first  for  a  lot  of  other  things — 


THE    MAN    I    WENT   TO   SEE. 

then  it  is,  everybody  says  "Gaynor!" 
Admiral  Togo  knew  all  about  him: 
he'd  heard,  in  Japan.  Gaynor  figures 
in  the  EngHsh,  French,  and  German 
papers;  he  is  in  fact  the  most  pictur- 
esque conspicuously-forceful  Mayor  in 
the  world,  and  the  only  one  New  York 


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has  had,  for  quite  some  time,  who  has 
really  mayored,  much  of  any.  He  has 
been  announced  again  and  again  as  a 
Governmental  and  a  Presidential  "pos- 
sibility": and,  honest,  he  is  certainly 
the  most  famous  Mayor  in  the  known 
world. 

An  interview,  for  a  summer  girl,  with 
that  sort  of  a  male  biped  ? — It  is  not  so 
very  hard  a  "stunt"  at  a  resort-refuge- 
from-city-broiling,  especially  if  the  Bi- 
ped' happens  to  be  there:  but  in  office- 
hours,  at  an  office,  and  with  a  large 
crowd  of  resolute  males  ahead  of  you — 
that  is  about  as  different  as  often  hap- 
pens. 

Still,  I  was  slated  to  see  Mayor  Gay- 
nor, or  die  with  my  eyes  open  looking 
for  him.  I  had  never  thus  far  made  a 
solemn  vow  to  converse  with  a  gentle- 
man worth  the  effort  of  articulation, 
but  what  the  dialogue  was  sooner  or 
later  pulled  off:  and  had  dismissed  my- 
self from  the  presence  of  several  quite 
some  celebrities,  with  a  string  of  ques- 
tions and  answers  streaming  proudly 
away  from  my  back-hair. 

So,  when  the  golden  idea  was  held 
dangling  before  me  of  a  little  talk-fest 
with  the  Chief  of  this  second-largest 
camp  of  citizens  in  the  world,  I  made 
up  my  mind  that  the  chain  of  success 
should  not  be  broken. 

And  I  applied  for  the  honor  of  an 
interview,  until  it  became  a  habit:  I 
wrote,  and  wrote,  and  wrote,  and  kept 
on  writing,  until — joy! — there  came  an 
answer.  It  was  several  hundred  words 
shorter  than  the  Mayor's  average  pub- 
lished letters — it  was  not  as  long  as  the 
village  of  St.  J^m^s^^^yl^a^my^n^ended 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


victim  summered,  or  as  wide  as  a  garage- 
door:  but  I  was  bound  that  it  should 
serve.  It  said,  "I  will  see  you  some  day 
when  you  call/' 

Some  day  when  I  called,  happened 
quite  a  number  of  times,  and  I  was  in- 
formed on  two  or  three  of  those  times, 
by  two  or  three  gentleman-friends  of 
high  position  whom  I  also  found  wait- 
ing in  various  throngs,  that  my  chances 
were  pronouncedly  microscopic.  It  was 
almost  as  bad  as  if  I  were  trying  to  see 
a  king.  I  began  to  wonder  what  sort 
of  luck  I  would  have  next  summer, 
with  George,  of  England. 

But,  one  day.  Presto !  the  gates  of  the 
city — or  rather  the  doors  of  the  inner 
office — OPENED ! — and  I  was  in  the  pres- 
ence of  New  York's  most  enigmatical 
and  picturesque  character — Mayor  Gay- 
nor. 

A  well-groomed  and  neatly-apparelled 
man  saluted,  without  rising,  gave  me  a 
good  straight  honest  look,  and  then 
peered  past  me  into  the  distance — what 
distance  there  was  in  the  room — as  if 
he  were  trying  to  find  out  what  in  the 
blessed  known  world  a  summer-girl 
wanted  of  him.  (As  an  "s.  g."  I  had 
signed  my  letters.) 

His  temporary  preoccupation  gave 
me  a  first-class  little  stare  at  the  most 
eminent  Mayor.  He  has  gray,  close- 
trimmed  hair  and  beard;  good-sized 
forehead,  not  too  high;  strong,  promi-. 
nent  nose;  and  straight,  firm-shutting 
mouth.  His  dark-brown  eyes  are  near- 
er together  than  those  of  most  brainy 
men,  but  sharper  for  the  fact.  He  has 
the  general  appearance  of  being  one  of 
the  care-takers  of  the  world. 

It  was  a  year  and  a  day  from  the  time 
when  he  had  been  shot  down  by  a  half- 
crazy  nondescript  whom  he  had  neg- 
lected to  give  immediate  employment: 
and  an  elaborate  loving-cup  was  among 
the  trophies  of  a  celebration  that  had 
been  held  the  day  before,  in  commemo- 
ration of  the  fact  that  a  live  Mayor  was 
loved  much  more  fervently  than  a  dead 
one  could  possibly  be.  He  glanced  at 
the  flower-entwined  article,  but  said 
nothing  about  it ;  and  I  felt  that  he  did 
not  at  all  crave  my  mentioning  it.    Sud- 


denly came  the  rather  brusque  words, 
"What  can  I  do  for  you?" 

"I  wanted  you  to  talk  with  me  con- 
cerning yourself",  I  replied,  with  meek- 
ness. 

"I  don't  care  to  do  that",  he  mur- 
mured, wearily.  "The  people  and  the 
papers  are  perfectly  willing  to  save  me 
the  trouble.  And  since  the — accident — 
my  throat  is  bad.  Somehow,  things  in 
there  don't — work  right.  I  have  to  save 
the  vocal  organs  as  much  as  I  can." 

Poor  Mayor  Gaynor!  I  pitied  him 
away  down  in  the  cellarage  of  my  heart; 
and  I  felt  that  he  knew  it.  I  had  heard 
him  address  thousands  of  people  at  a 
time,  and  trade  thunders  of  oratory  for 
thunders  of  applause.  And  now — he 
had  to  be  economical  with  every  word. 
That  miserable  leaden  bullet,  which  doc- 
tors say  they  dare  not  remove  and 
Nature  cannot  dissolve,  must  always  be 
reckoned-with  by  his  vocal  organs.  A 
politician  or  statesman  nowadays  who 
has  to  be  constantly  heedful  of  his  voice, 
is  handicapped  in  a  way  that  entitles  him 
to  pity. 

"Well,  if  you  won't  talk  about  your- 
self, Mr.  Mayor,  suppose  you  give  me 
your  idea  of  woman's  rights.  Shall  we 
vote?" 

"The  women  do  not  want  to  vote", 
he  answered,  more  energetically  than  he 
had  spoken  before.  "I  know  of  very 
few  who  are  really  anxious  for  the  bal- 
lot, and  they  are  not  of  the  most  repu- 
table of  their  sex." 

I  was  very  much  surprised— one 
might  say  thunderstruck.  I  had  thought 
I  knew  several  quite  reputable  ladies 
who  wanted  to  vote.  One  was  a  sweet 
good  mother  at  home,  who  would  go 
through  a  November  rainstorm  or  a 
March  blizzard,  to  demonstrate  herself 
as  a  real  American  citizen.  One  was  a 
lady  of  wealth,  who  is  anxious  to  vote 
as  to  how  her  property  shall  be  taxed: 
and  she  is  also  a  sweet  good  reputable 
woman.  One  was  a  woman-preacher, 
who  had  picked  and  plucked  many  souls 
out  of  the  muck-beds  of  sin  and  temp- 
tation. I  knew  a  whole  lot  more — ^but 
dropped  the  subject:  and  realized  that 
he  was  perfectly  willing  to  do  the  same. 

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"Fiction?"  he  inquired,  sententiously. 
I  had  with  me  a  public-library  book 
with  which  to  improve  the  time  when 
on  city  trains,  and  keep  mashers  from 
bothering  me.  Mashers  do  not  like 
books — especially  of  a  decent  character. 
There  are  still  such  beings  in  New 
York.  Young  women  adorned  with 
delicate  laces  and  white  slippers  have 
not  been,  as  in  some  other  towns,  em- 
ployed to  go  out  and  lure  silly  dude-flies 
into  the  webs  of  a  police-station. 

"Yes,"  I  answered:  "fiction:  and  a 
pretty  good  novel.    Do  you  like  'em?" 

"Haven't  time  for  them,"  he  replied, 
looking  away  and  beyond  me,  as  if  there 
were  some  one  else  off  there  that  he 
was  trying  to  find.  He  has  this  pecu- 
liarity in  conversation.  "I  do  not  object 
to  fiction  when  it  possesses  the  true 
ring:  but  there  is  reality  enough  nowa- 
days to  keep  me  busy — and  very  inter- 
estingly so. 

"Both  in  this  big  city,  and  my  village 
home  at  St.  James,  I  am  constantly  find- 
ing that  truth  is  not  only  stranger  than 
fiction,  but  more  attractive. 

"Did  you  ever  study  the  domestic  ani- 
mals that  are  among  and  around  us? 
Nothing  can  be  more  interesting  and 
attractive  in  fiction,  than  the  real  truth 
that  displays  itself  in  their  lives. 

"A  fine  old  matron  of  the  porcine 
tribes  has  since  last  week  been  very 
proud  of  a  large  family  of  children  that 
squealed  and  clustered  about  her.  I 
don't  wonder :  they  are  very  pretty  little 
toys  of  live  meat,  with  their  handsome 
blonde  complexions,  their  little  stemlcss 
leaves  for  ears,  and  their  tiny  leafless 
stems  for  tails.  What  could  be  prettier 
—what  more  entertaining — ^than  the 
study  of  such  natural,  unspoiled  creat- 
ures?— I  am  going  to  have  them  taken 
to  the  Bronx  Park,  where  thousands  of 
children  can  see  and  admire  and  enjoy 
them. 

"The  city   children   of  the   day  are 
shown   all   kinds   of    foreign    animated 
creatures,  over  there  at  the  Zoo :    why  • 
shouldn't    they    be     taught    something 
about  our  own  domestic  animals?" 

I  am  sure,  as  an  observant  summer 
girl,  and  one  who  is  trying  hard  to  be  a 


useful  autumn  and  winter  one,  that  I 
should  wish  Mayor  Gaynor  much  suc- 
cess, in  his  proposed  additions  to  the 
Zoo.  I  hope,  for  instance,  that  he  will 
send  a  very  tiny  colt,^an  exceedingly 
juvenile  cow,  a  flock  of  recently-incu- 
bated chickens,  a  few  long-  legged  but 
sweet-faced  lambs,  three  or  four  minia- 
ture ducks,  a  mule  too  young  and  soft- 
hoofed  to  be  harmful,  and  other  domes- 
tic animated  minutiae,  with  mandatory 
instructions  to  the  Park  Commissioner, 
to  keep  the  tiger  away  from  them. 
Showing  off  the  youngest  wild  animals 
in  captivity,  has  been  somewhat  over- 
done, of  late  years:  and  it  is  surely 
important  for  them  to  know  something 
about  American  infantile  Zoology. 

"Are  you  satisfied  with  your  life, 
Mayor  Gaynor?"  I  ventured  to  ask, 
next. 

Few  people  are  entirely  satisfied  with 
their  lives,  and  I  expected,  of  course,  a 
negative  answer.  When,  slowly,  delib- 
erately, emphatically,  he  turned  out  the 
word  "Yes",  there  was  perhaps  an  in- 
terrogation-point in  each  one  of  my 
eyes.     He  continued,  thoughtfully: 

"I  have  always  tried  to  do  what  was 
right,  tried  to  help  others.  True,  I  have 
found  very  little  appreciation:  but  ap- 
preciation, as  Daniel  Webster  said  of 
confidence,  is  a  plant  of  slow  growth. 
Walk  ten  miles  straight  and  true,  and 
nobody  particularly  notices  you:  make 
one  mis-step,  and  all '  the  lookers-on 
laugh,  jeer,  or  scold. 

"I  made  the  bridges  free  for  horses 
and  wagons:  who  of  those  that  were 
saved  big  money  by  it,  has  thanked 
me? 

"The  Bureau  of  Weights  and  Meas- 
ures now  means  that  in  this  city  a  quart 
means  a  quart,  an  ounce  an  ounce,  and  a 
pound  a  pound — something  that  hasn't 
happened  before  for  a  good  long  while. 
Perhaps  householders  thank  their  stars 
for  it:  but  I  am  not  included  in  the 
astronomical  assemblage. 

"I  have  stopped  'graft'  in  many  ways : 
I  haven't  noticed  that  any  one  said 
'Much  obliged !'  But — ^no  matter  I — the 
people  are  benefited,  whether  they  know 
it  or  not.    'Work  for  the  right,  and  not 

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EVERY    WtlERE. 


for  others'   sight'  has  always  been  my 
motto." 

"Is  the  toil  of  being  Mayor  hard  upon 
you?" 

/'I  wouldn't  feel  natural  outside  of 
hard  work. 

"When  I  first  found  myself,  up  in 
Oneida  County,  there  were  fields  all 
around  me — they  had  to  be  tilled — and 
it  wasn't  very  many  years  before  I  was 
at  it. 

"When  I  taught  school,  to  earn  edu- 
cation-money, I  was  perhaps  the  most 
industrious  scholar  in  the  whole  little 
establishment:  I  worked  hard  to  keep 
ahead  of  my  pupils. 

"In  Boston,  I  worked  hard  instead  of 
running  around  to  see  the  sights,  or 
going  to  concerts  and  theaters. 

"In  Brooklyn,  I  worked  hard  on  the 
papers,  all  the  while  I  was  studying  law. 

"From  that  time  on,  study  the  history 
of  our  city,  and  you'll  admit  that  I 
haven't  been  a  star  idler." 

"Your  work  is  of  course  interesting 
to  you?" 

"If  you  sat  here  where  I  am,  you 
couldn't  help  being  interested,  even  if 
you  took  an  oath  against  it.  The  re- 
quests that  people  make,  and  the  opin- 
ions they  express,  are  every  kind  of 
interesting — from  hilarious  to  pathetic." 

"And  public  opinion — is  that  also 
interesting  to  you,  Mr.  Mayor?" 

"Yes:  but  not  the  counterfeit  article 
that  is  presented  by  the  worse  sort  of 
newspapers.  Not  that  supplied  by  the 
journals  that  corrupt  the  eye  with  im- 
pure pictures,  and  soil  the  mind  with 
vile  stories. 

"I  do  not  pay  any  attention  to  what 
they  say:  for  it  is  not  the  opinion  of 
real  people,  and  they  cannot  make  it  so. 
They  are  lying  about  me,  all  the  time: 
but  what  do  I  care?  I  have  always 
been  lied  about,  more  or  less,  and  I 
have  always  lived  the  falsehoods  down." 

Well,  the  Mayor  had  talked  a  good 


deal  about  himself,  after  all,  and  not- 
withstanding his  strongly-expressed  dis- 
inclination to  do  so. 

"W^as  that  a  lie  when  you  said  that 
if  the  people  didn't  like  the  fiercely 
crowded  street-cars,  they  had  better 
walk? — And  if  not,  how  would  you  like 
one  of  your  lovely  daughters,  if  she 
were  obliged  to  go  to  business  each  day, 
to  walk  from  Nassau  and  Beekman 
Street,  to  the  Bronx,  in  a  good  nice  lit- 
tle blizzard? 

"When  some  one  complained  to  you 
that  the  frightful  noise  attending  night 
collection  of  ashes  and  garbage  mur- 
dered sleep  for  a  part  of  the  night,  did 
you  say  that  if  any  one  didn't  like  it. 
he  could  'move  out  of  the  city'? — And 
how  much  do  you  think  it  would  cost 
most  of  us,  to  'move'? 

"Did  you  say  that  the  noise  only  last- 
ed ten  minutes,  and  that  was  nothing? 
And  did  you  realize  that  several  people, 
awakened  from  a  sweet  slumber  by  the 
rattling  of  cans,  the  jerky  rumbling  of 
a  rude  cart,  and  the  yelling  of  angry 
drivers  to  their  sleepy  horses,  required 
an  hour  or  two  to  sink  into  somnolence 
again  ?" 

These  last  questions  ran  through  my 
mind,  and  out  on  the  very  tip  of  my 
tongue:  I  didn't  unleash  them.  But  I 
would  like  to  have  heard  him  say,  either 
that  they  were  newspaper-lies,  or  were 
merely  grim  jokes,  which  he  did  not 
mean  literally. 

But  the  day  was  all  the  time  aging. 
I  had  not  taken  the  life  of  the  Most 
Famous  Mayor,  as  Gallagher  tried  to 
do  a  year  ago,  but  I  had  taken  a  part 
of  it — and  he  needed  every  minute  in 
more  important  business  than  answer- 
ing a  summer-girl's  questions — when 
she  knew  nothing  about  politics  or  much 
of  anything  else,  and  couldn't  vote. 

But  his  farewell  was  as  polished  and 
considerate  as  if  I  were  a  millionairess 
or  a  full-grown  queen. 


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^HE  Morris-Hill  Reading  and  Thim- 
ble  Club  had  assembled  at  the 
home  of  its  president,  Mrs.  Warren 
Bennett.  The  members  had  done  their 
best  to  be  as  progressive  as  desired,  and 
arrayed  in  their  finest  gowns  sat  in  stiff 
and  silent  little  groups,  a  bit  of  embroid- 
ery in  their  hands.  They  were  waiting 
to  feel  a  "blessed  relief  from  the  monot- 
onous daily  toil",  to  learn  a  new  stitch 
in  embroidery,  and  to  have  their  minds 
improved,  according  to  Mrs.  Bennett's 
promise. 

"Dear  me!  What  is  the  matter  with 
poor  Helen  ?"  whispered  a  nervous  little 
woman,  excitedly,  as  the  younger  Miss 
Bennett  stood  before  them,  staring 
wildly  about  her  with  a  mournful  ex- 
pression truly  alarming. 

"Hush!  she  has  studied  elocution", 
explained  someone. 

It  was  intended  that  the  afternoon 
hould  be  delightfully  instructive  and 
informal,  but  for  some  reason  the  little 
company  of  neighbors  looked  more  and 
more  depressed,  and  their  solemn  silence 
became  more  noticeable  as  Mrs.  Bennett 
concluded  a  reading  from  Dryden,  and 
begged  to  know  their  opinions. 

Evidently  they  had  none  prepared, 
and  it  took  much  encouragement  to 
elicit  even  the  faintest  murmurs  of 
approval.  Mrs.  Bennett  began  to  fear 
that  a  thirst  for  knowledge  would  never 
be  awakened  among  such  provoking 
people. 

Miss  Ball,  the  most  demure  member 
of  the  reluctant  circle,  took  care,  how- 
ever, to  differ  very  faintly  but  positively 
whenever  a  certain  lady  in  the  corner 
spoke,  and  this  evidence  that  the  two 
still  cordially  hated  each  other  was  the 
only  enlivening  feature  of  the  after- 
noon. 


77 


A  more  uncomfortable  hour  was  to 
follow. 

It  was  undoubtedly  a  kind  thought 
which  prompted  Mrs.  Bennett  to  invite 
the  entire  company  to  stay  to  tea,  and 
then  surprise  them  with  a  banquet  such 
as  no  resident  of  Morris-Hill  had  ever 
dreamed  of,  and  she  herself  had  never 
tried  to  give  before. 

The  guests  looked  most  unhappy  as 
they  ventured  timidly  to  the  chairs 
assigned  them. 

Decked  with  a  gorgeous  new  set  of 
flowered  china,  glittering  with  plated 
silver,  splendid  with  fairest  white  linen, 
and  gay  with  brilliant  paper  lamp- 
shades, the  table  gleamed  before  their 
amazed  eyes  in  all  its  newly-acquired 
glory. 

Miss  Ball  sat  directly  opposite  her 
enemy,  but  gazed  demurely  at  the  elab- 
orate decorations  with  more  composure 
than  the  rest  of  the  company  could 
boast,  and  wondered  if  Adeline  Bennett 
meant  to  feed  them  on  bouquets  and 
new  finery. 

The  "help"  in  the  kitchen  positively 
refused  to  act  as  a  waitress,  saying  it 
was  not  the  Morris-Hill  way;  but  the 
Misses  Bennett  showed  remarkable  agil- 
ity in  popping  in  and  out,  from  their 
chairs  to  the  kitchen  and  back  again; 
so  the  dinner  was  served  in  courses,  to 
their  great:  satisfaction  and  the  com- 
pany's utter  bewilderment. 
^  It  would  be  hard  to  say  who  blun- 
dered most  often ;  for  each  one  could 
only  guess  at  the  manner  in  which  she 
was  expected  to  attack  the  various 
dishes. 

Mrs.  Bennett  saw  that  her  neighbors 
had  no  liking  for  mysteries,  and  sighed 
despairingly  as  each  queer  attempt  at 
elegance  was  carrie4cli^i^\j'v/vi^ 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


The  little  woman  whose  small  son 
burst  into  the  room  with  the  summons, 
"Baby's  cryin'  orful,  and  nobody  can't 
stop  him",  was  envied  by  all,  as  she 
hurried  away. 

The  marvelous  and  undreamed-of  ele- 
gance of  the  entire  feast  was  so  over- 
whelming, that  conversation  was  an  im- 
possibility; and  only  as  they  prepared 
to  depart  did  the  ladies  begin  to  talk 
briskly  and  forget  the  somber  poetry, 
the  oppressive  essays,  embarrassing 
feast,  and  the  idea  of  improving  their 
minds. 

Mrs.  Allen  was  rather  amused  at  the 
If-I-must  expression  with  which  the 
members  hoped  the  club  might  soon 
meet  with  them;  but  frightened  to  see 
that  her  own  feeble  invitation  was  sure 
to  be  accepted  in  the  near  future. 

"What  will  you  do  when  it's  your 
turn,  mother?"  questioned  her  daughter, 
thinking  of  the  big  dining-room  with  its 
rag-carpet  and  other  homely  furnishings, 
the  plain  stone-ware  china,  and  all  the 
deficiencies  which  made  the  old  home 
seem  not  at  all  the  place  to  invite  a  club 
entertained  by  so  elegant  a  president  in 
so  wonderful  a  way. 

"I  don't  know  what  difference  I  can 
possibly  make  at  our  table",  was  all 
Mrs.  Allen  could  say  in  reply. 

Miss  Ball  made  many  calls  the  follow- 
ing week.  "How  did  you  enjoy  Mrs. 
Bennett's  literary-sewing-meeting?"  was 
her  first  question,  in  the  demure  drawl 
it  was  hard  to  believe  hid  any  sarcasm 
or  spitefulness. 

"Adeline  Bennett's  style  is  something 
new.  She  didn't  used  to  be  so  awful 
particular,  as  I  can  remember.  Her 
father-'n-mother  always  ate  in  the 
kitchen,  and  she  and  her  daughters  fix 
things  most  any  way  when  they  ain't 
expectin'  company,  for  I  was  there  at 
dinner  time  only  the  day  before,  and 
saw  just  how  they  manage.  Land!  I 
was  surprised  when  I  saw  all  the  new 
china  and  the  air?  they  put  on.  I  must 
visit  mv  relatives  in  the  city,"  she  would 
conclude,  with  a  faint  suspicion  of  a 
laugh,  "before  the  next  meeting,  and 
unless  I  can  borrow  extr.i  spoons  and 
forks  enough  to  match  Mrs.  Bennett's 


and  find  gold-band  china  is  comin'  into 
style,  I  shall  have  to  resign  from  the 
club." 

With  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Bennett's 
style  thus  kept  before  them,  it  was  not 
strange  that  at  each  meeting  of  the  new 
society  a  great  effort  was  made  to  pro- 
vide a  feast  which  should  in  some  way 
excel  all  previous  attempts. 

If  Mrs.  A.  had  no  silver,  she  could 
make  delicious  cake.  Mrs.  B.  could 
compete  with  this  by  making  fiv€  kinds ; 
while  Mrs.  C.  spread  such  a  variety  of 
eatables  upon  her  table  that  there  was 
positively  nothing  known  to  the  house- 
wives of  Morris-Hill,  (Mrs.  Bennett 
excepted)  which  she  did  not  have. 

There  was  much  talk  at  this  meeting, 
of  resigning.  The  reading  from  one  of 
Mrs.  Bennett's  Dryden-books  was  as 
much  dreaded  by  each  hostess  as  the 
preparation  for  a  dinner;  and  it  is 
doubtful  if  the  club  would  have  existed 
many  months  but  for  the  meeting  con- 
ducted by  Mrs.  Allen. 

At  the  family  council  which  preceded 
this  event,  Mr.  Allen  reassured  his  fear- 
ing wife  and  daughter,  with  many  sen- 
sible words. 

"Don't  you  let  those  foolish  women 
interfere  with  your  usual  way,  Esther," 
he?  urged,  "show  them  that  a  table  can 
be  attractively  set  with  poor  dishes,  and 
a  simple  meal  give  more  pleasure  than 
a  nonsensical  attempt  at  elegance." 

"I  think  too  many  unkind  things  have 
been  said  about  Mrs.  Bennett,"  said  his 
wife,  gently.  "It  was  surely  nice  of 
her  to  do  her  best." 

'*Your  best  will  be  to  make  each  one 
enjoy  herself  by  giving  a  neighborly 
welcome,  and  entertaining  them  in  a 
way  she  can  understand  and  appreciate", 
said  her  husband,  and  so  it  proved. 

No  members  were  absent  when  the 
time  arrived.  It  was  noticeable  that 
many  brought  very  practical  little  gar- 
ments in  place  of  the  "fancy-work"  they 
had  thought  it  necessary  to  have  for 
Mrs.  Bennett's  meeting. 

Their  cheery  hostess  made  them  feel 
glad  at  once  that  they  had  ventured  such 
a  change.  They  were  laughing  and 
chatting    with^,g(j[yjg^y  ©J^XS^gV^  w*^^" 


LOVE. 


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Mrs.  Allen  began  to  read,  and  with  a 
sigh  resigned  themselves  to  the  inevi- 
table but  difficult  task  of  mind-culture. 

But  the  simple,  beautiful  tale  of 
common  life  which  was  read  to  them, 
had  an  unexpected  charm,  sewing  was 
forgotten  for  a  time,  and  they  laughed 
and  cried  together  over  a  story  that 
stirred  their  hearts,  inspired  nobler 
thoughts,  and  taught  in  an  unpreten- 
tious way  a  sweet  and  practical  lesson. 

There  were  eager  requests  for  the 
reading  to  continue,  and  the  hopeful, 
wholesome  verses  which  followed  were 
enthusiastically  received. 

Mrs.  A never  dreamed,  she  said, 

poetry  could  be  so  plain  and  interesting. 

Songs  of  home,  of  true  affection,  fer- 
vent patriotism,  devoted  sacrifice,  caused 
the  members  of  the  Reading  and  Thim- 
ble Club  to  start  a  brisk  discussion — so 
interesting  and  so  amiably  carried  on 
that  Miss  Ball,  in  the  pleasant  excite- 
ment of  the  moment,  actually  echoed  the 
sentiments  of  the  lady  in  the  corner. 

It  was  a  social,  light-hearted  com- 
pany that  soon  filled  the  big  dining- 
room.  Bright  faces  gave  it  a  more 
attractive  appearance  than  any  other 
decoration  could  have  done,  and  al- 
though the  linen  was  coarse  and  the 
dishes  of  the  most  common  variety,  Mr. 
Allen  was  right  when  he  said,  "A  more 
daintily  arranged  table  could  not  be." 

Good  taste  had  selected  the  most 
effective  place  for  each  tempting  dish, 
and  the  bowl  of  common  wild  roses, 
gathered  from  the  roadside,  the  ladies 
marvelled  to  see,  were  really  beautiful. 

"I  think  I  won't  resign,  after  all," 
whispered  a  worn  and  faded  housewife 
to  her  neighbor.  "I  haven't  felt  so 
rested  in  a  long  time." 

"I  never  supposed  a  few  things  to  eat 
could  look  and  seem  so  nice,"  whispered 
back  the  other.  "I  shall  invite  the  club 
myself  next  time." 

Even  Mrs.  Bennett  remarked  that  the 
afternoon  was  enioyable  and  improving. 

The  rest  of  the  company  expressed 
themselves  in  affectionate  good-nights 
that  left  their  hostess  satisfied  with  her 
effort  to  give  them  helpful  pleasure. 

Mrs.  Bennett  long  ago  moved  to  the 


nearest  city,  where  she  belongs  to  a 
Browning  Club  and  as  many  others  as 
she  is  permitted  to  join ;  but  Mrs.  Allen 
makes  a  very  acceptable  president. 

A  lively  debate  occupied  the  last  half 
hour  of  a  recent  meeting,  on  "Resolved 
— That  the  table  should  be  always  as 
attractive  for  home  as  for  company." 

Miss  Ball  led  the  affirmative,  who 
won;  and  though  she  makes  frequent 
calls  just  at  meal-time,  thus  far  she 
finds  nothing  to  condemn.  Mrs.  Allen's 
club  has  improved  habits  of  living 
among  her  neighbors,  as  well  as  their 
minds. 


Love. 

By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

TT7HEN  you  sum  up  the  year 
^^  With  its  glory  of  leaves, 
Its  seed-time  and  harvest, 

Its  buds  and  its  sheaves; — 
When  you  get  to  December, 

You  sing  the  same  tune 
That  'twas  sweet  to  remember 

And  carol,  in  June. 

From  the  day  of  your  youth 

To  the  day  of  white  age. 
Through  the  book  of  your  life 

To  the  very  last  page. 
When  comes  a  great  angel 

The  "Finis"  to  write. 
The  same  true  evangel 

Is  aye  your  delight. 

There  be  those  who  will  tell  you 

Of  jewels  and  gold, 
Of  investments,  a  story 

Of  wonder  unfold. 
One  dividend  never 

Will  fail  to  impart 
The  self-same  wealth  ever, 

Tt)  dower  the  heart. 

Let  the  spring  zephyrs  blow, 

Or  the  winter  winds  howl, 
Let  fortune  smile  blandly 

Or  sullen  fate  scowl, 
From  June  to  December, 

What  sky  arch  above, 
To  life's  very  last  ember, 

Life's  crowning  is  lovel     T 

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The    United    States    Department   of    Agri- 
culture,  and    the    Future. 


By  Lyman  Beecher  Stowe. 


I. 


QUT  of  curiosity,  I  once  asked  a 
well-informed  citizen  what  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture did.  He  replied,  "I  don't  know 
exactly.  I  suppose  it  distributes  seeds 
and  bulletins  to  the  farmers."  This 
remark  is,  I  believe,  fairly  indicative  of 
the  ignorance  on  the  part  of  the  people 
of  the  cities,  at  any  rate,  of  one  of  the 
greatest  and  most  important  organiza- 
tions of  the  present  day.  An  organiza- 
tion which  employs  between  ten  and 
eleven  thousand  people;  whose  receipts 
run  into  the  millions  and  whose  expen- 
ditures are  between  ten  and  twelve  mil- 
lions yearly;  whose  field  of  action  ex- 
tends from  Alaska  to  the  Philippines 
and  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific; 
whose  operations  effect  directly  36,000,- 
cxx)  people  (the  farmers  and  their 
families),  and  indirectly  every  man, 
woman  and  child  subject  to  the  Gov- 
ernment of  United  States,  whether 
within  or  beyond  our  Continental  bor- 
ders. 

To  be  sure  thei  Department  of  Agri- 
culture "distributes  seeds  and  bulletins 
to  the  farmers."  It  does  other  things 
besides,  and  these  are  some  of  them: 
It  forecasts  the  weather ;  gives  warning 
of  floods ;  estimates  the  water  resources 
derived  from  rain  and  snow,  inspects 
cattle  and  meat;  inspects  all  domestic 
animals  imported  to  or  exported  from 
this  country;  seeks  to  prevent  or  sup- 
press all  contagious  diseases  among 
domestic  animals;  continually  increases 
the  efficiency  of  horses  and  cows  by  sci- 


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entific  breeding ;  constantly  explores 
the  surface  of  the  entire  globe  for  new 
crops  for  the  American  farmer;  en- 
forces the  Food  and  Drug  Act  to  pro- 
tect the  public  against  poison  and  fraud ; 
enforces  humane  and  hygienic  regula- 
tions about  the  transportation  of  live- 
stock; gives  instruction  in  making  fer- 
tile barren  wastes ;  improves  the  quality 
and  quantity  of  crops  by  breeding  and 
selection;  shows  the  farmers  how  to 
farm  by  actual  demonstrations  on  their 
own  farms;  administers  and  conserves 
for  the  benefit  of  the  whole  people  over 
195,000,000  acres  of  National  Forests; 
surveys  the  soils  of  the  country  and  rec- 
ommends the  best  crops  for  the  various 
soils;  wages  relentless  war  against  in- 
sect pests  and  imports  their  parasitic 
enemies  from  every  part  of  the  world; 
wages  equally  constant  war  against  in- 
jurious animals  and  birds,  while  encour- 
aging and  protecting  those  which  are 
beneficial;  sets  forth  the  natural  con- 
ditions to  be  met  with  in  every  section 
of  the  country  by  life  and  crop-zone 
maps ;.  provides  the  public  with  constant 
reports  on  the  quality  and  quantity  of 
all  staple  crops ;  constructs  stretches  of 
model  roads  as  object  lessons  through- 
out the  country;  provides  practical 
training  for  road  engineers;  collects 
and  makes  available  information  on 
road  construction  and  administration 
throughout  this  country  and  Europe; 
assists  State  and  country-road  officials 
in  the  improvement  of  the  highways 
under  their  charge.  These  are  some  of 
the  chief  concerns  of  the  United  States 
Department  of  AgrkuHucfiiwi^vi^ 


UNITED   STATES   DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE. 


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Fanning  is  a  good  deal  of  an  art  and 
something  of  a  science.  As  other  arts 
and  sciences,  it  requires  systematic 
training.  Many  of  our  farmers,  par- 
ticularly in  the  South,  lack  such  train- 
ing. Until  very  recent  years  agricul- 
tural schools  were  few  and  far  between. 
As  a  natural  result  there  are  many 
farmers  who  do  not  know  how  to  farm, 
— ^that  is,  to  the  best  advantage.  Since 
the  adult  farmer  cannot  leave  his  farm 
to  seek  agricultural  training,  such  train- 
ing, if  he  is  to  have  it,  must  seek 
him. 

This  it  is  doing.  For  just  this  pur- 
pose was  organized,  under  the  Bureau 
of  Plant  Industry  of  the  Agricultural 
Department,  the  Farmers'  Co-operative 
Demonstration  Work.  It  aims  to  make 
agriculture  an  occupation  of  profit  and 
pleasure,  to  improve  country  conditions, 
to  broaden  and  enrich  rural  life,  and  to 
make  the  farmi  and  the  country  attrac- 
tive and  desirable  for  residence. 

This  is  the  way  it  is  done :  In  Octo- 
ber, public  meetings  are  called  in  every 
district  to  be  covered.  The  Director 
from  Washington,  or  one  of  his  assis- 
tants, presides.  It  is  not  difficult  to  per- 
suade the  farmers  of  the  desirability  of 
increasing  their  crop  two  or  four  fold. 
It  is  difficult  to  persuade  them  that  it 
can  be  done.  In  this,  the  leading  village 
bankers,  merchants,  and  editors,  are 
called  in  to  help.  The  progressive  farm- 
ers are  first  won  over.  They  then  use 
their  influence  with  the  rank  and  file. 
Finally  a  majority  agrees  to  the  ex- 
periment. A  demonstration  farm  and 
farmer  are  selected  in  each  district. 
There  are  enough  so  that  every  farmer 
may  sec  one  or  more  demonstrations 
during  the  crop-growing  season.  The 
demonstrator  agrees  to  follow  direc- 
tions, while  doing  all  the  actual  work 
himself.  What  he  can  do,  his  neighbors 
will  believe  they  can  do. 

Every  month  during  the  season,  in- 
structions are  sent  to  each  demon- 
strator, definitely  outlining  the  plan  for 
managing  the  crop.  In  addition,  a  local 
agent  calls  each  month  and  explains 
anything  that  may  not  have  been  under- 
stood in  the  printed  instructions.     Be- 


sides this,  notice  is  sent  to  each  co-oper- 
ating farmer  of  a  neighborhood  to  meet 
the  Government  Agent  on  a  certain 
date  at  a  given  farm  for  a  joint  discus- 
sion of  plans,  in  a  "field  school." 

In  these  discussions,  it  is  frequently 
found  that  the  small  farmers  had  never 
completely  fulfilled  any  of  the  condi- 
tions necessary  to  successful  farming. 
Believing  they  knew  all  there  was  to 
know  about  farming,  they  had  always 
blamed  the  weather  or  the  land  for  their 
failures  or  meagre  successes.  At  a  pub- 
lic meeting  in  Alabama,  one  such  man 
made  this  manly  confession:  "I  was 
born  in  a  cotton-field,  and  have  worked 
cotton  on  my  farm  for  more  than  forty 
years.  I  thought  no  one  could  tell  me 
anything  about  raising  cotton.  I  had 
usually  raised  one-half  a  bale  on  my 
thin  soil,  and  I  thought  that  was  all  the 
cotton  there  was  in  it  in  one  season. 
The  '^demonstration-agent  came  along, 
and  wanted  me  to  try  his  plan  on  two 
acres.  Not  to  be  contrary,  I  agreed,  but 
I  did  not  believe  what  he  told  me. 

"However,  I  tried  my  best  to  do  what 
he  said,  and  at  the  end  of  the  year  I  had 
a  bale  and  a  half  to  the  acre  on  the  two 
acres  worked  his  way,  and  a  little  over 
a  third  of  a  bale  on  the  land  worked  my 
way.  You  could  have  knocked  me 
down  with  a  feather.  This  year,  I  have 
a  bale  and  a  half  to  the  acre  on  my 
whole  farm.  If  you  do  not  believe  it,  I 
invite  you  to  go  down  and  see.  Yes, 
sir ;  as  a  good  cotton-planter,  I  am  just 
one  year  old." 

During  the  first  season  of  a  demon- 
stration in  a  neighborfiood,  usually  a 
few  only  are  sufficiently  aroused  to 
break  through  the  inertia  of  long  habit, 
and  try  the  plan ;  the  second  year  they 
try  it  on  more  acres,  and  some  of  their 
neighbors  follow  their  example;  the 
third  season,  perhaps  as  many  as  half 
adopt  some  of  the  methods;  and  so  it 
goes,  until  concrete  results  have  so 
moulded  local  public  opinion  that  the 
new  methods  gradually  become  the  cus- 
tomary ones. 

One  lesson  that  the  Agents  drive  home 
is  this :  In  farming,  no  more  than  in  other 
kinds  of  businesSj^,^^d9P^jnj?lS^^<^"«y 


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without  spending  it.  This,  too,  is  shown 
by  actual  demonstration.  The  agent  has 
a  farmi  worked  with  a  full  complement 
of  horses,  mules,  and  modern  imple- 
ments. It  is  shown  that  the  earning 
capacity  of  each  farm  worker  is  practi- 
cally proportionate  to  the  number  of 
horses  or  mules  for  the  use  of  each.  In 
North  Dakota,  each  farm  worker  has 
five  horses,  cultivates  135  acres,  and  has 
an  earning  capacity  of  $755.62  annu- 
ally; in  Iowa  each  laborer  has  four 
horses,  tills  80  acres,  and  earns  $611.11 ; 
while  in  Alabama,  where  each  farm 
laborer  has  but  three-fifths  of  a  mule 
(doesn't  sound  useful,  does  it?),  and 
works  15  acres,  he  earns  $143.98  only. 

Imagine  what  this  demonstration- 
work  means  to  the  poor  and  obscure 
farmer !  His  name  appears  in  the  local 
paper  as  having  been  selected  by  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture to  be  the  official  demonstrator  for 
his  neighborhood.  He  receives  instruc- 
tions direct  from  Washington,  he  begins 
to  receive  special  attention  from  his 
neighbors,  he  takes  a  personal  pride  in 
having  the  best  seed  and  the  best  culti- 
vation. As  his  crop  begins  to  show 
special  excellence,  it  becomes  a  chief 
topic  of  local  discussion.  Finally  the 
Demonstration-Agent  calls,  and  a  "field 
school"  is  held  on  his  farm.  He  begins 
to  feel  not  only  that  he  has  raised  more 
of  a  crop,  but  that  he  has  become  more 
of  a  man.  The  mowing-machine  and 
the  battered  wagon  disappear  from  the 
front  yard,  the  garden  is  weeded,  the 
house  and  barn  are  painted  or  white- 
washed, the  dilapidated  harness  is  re- 
paired or  replaced  by  a  new  one,  the  old 
fence  is  straightened,  and  the  whole 
place  begins  to  look  its  new  part  in  the 
life  of  the  community. 

Finally  the  crop  is  harvested — the 
record  crop  for  the  county.  "Write 
ups"  about  it  appear  in  the  county 
papers.  The  farmer  begins  to  get  inqui- 
ries. His  advice  is  sought  by  previously 
indifferent  neighbors.  A  meeting  is 
called  to  discuss  the  new  methods,  and 
he  is  made  Chairman.  As  a  climax, 
he  receives  an  invitation  from  the 
County   Seat  to  come  and   explain  his 


success  before  the  farmers  of  the  county. 

By  this  time  he  has  grown  even  faster 
than  his  crop.  He  has  achieved  some- 
thing of  which  to  be  proud.  His  neigh- 
bors have  come  to  look  upon  him  as  a 
leader.  He  has  a  prospect  of  more 
money  than  he  ever  earned  before.  To 
relapse  to  his  former  obscurity  and  pov- 
erty, is  out  of  the  question.  Inevitably 
he  becomes  a  leader  in  seeking  to  im- 
prove conditions  in  the  community.  He 
wants  telephone  service,  rural  free  de- 
livery, a  better  school  for  his  children, 
and  better  pubhc  roads.  In  short,  he 
gets  healthfully  discontented  with  unnec- 
essary inconveniences  and  limitations. 

In  January,  1907,  this  Demonstration 
Work  was  started  in  Virginia.  It  had 
come  to  be  generally  held  that  farming 
in  Virginia  could  not  be  made  profit- 
able. Many  farmers  had  moved  away. 
Most  of  those  who  remained  had  given 
up  trying  to  improve  their  farms. 
Many  farms  had  become  increasingly 
unproductive  until  they  were  finally 
thrown  upon  the  market  at  from  $5  to 
$8  an  acre.  Instead  of  trying  to  raise 
enough  hay  for  their  animals,  the  farm- 
ers imported  most  of  it.  Corn  gave  only 
five  to  ten  bushels  an  acre. 

On  the  demonstration-farm  of  the 
State  Agent  at  Burkeville,  Va.,  in  1907, 
the  crop  yield  per  acre  was  four  to  six 
tons  of  hay,  and  75  bushels  of  corn. 
Another  demonstrator  raised  85  bush- 
els of  corn  to  the  acre.  The  next  year 
the  demonstration-farms  had  increased 
from  27  to  nearly  1,200.  Practically  all 
the  land  in  and  about  Burkeville  has 
doubled  in  value,  and  some  of  it  has 
tripled.  The  discovery  that  hay  could 
be  grown  successfully  resulted  in  the 
building  of  a  creamery — the  local  bank 
advancing  the  money.  Money  became 
more  plentiful  and  the  standard  of  liv- 
ing rose.  Of  necessity  home  and  com- 
munity improvements  followed.  Eleven 
of  the  farmers  put  hot-water  heating 
and  sanitary  plumbing  into  their  houses. 
It  requires  no  powerful  imagination  to 
picture  what  the  contemplated  continu- 
ance and  extension  of  this  work  will 
mean  to  the  farmers  and  to  the  country 
life  of  America. 

Digitized  by  VJV-.'i^V  IV 


Methods   of    "Philistine   Teachers," 


THE  public  has  grown  accustomed  to 
the  sporadic  appearance  of  infant 
prodigies  possessing  musical  genius  or 
other  specific  gifts,  but  when  young  Sidis 
arose  on  the  horizon  a  few  months  ago, 
the  entire  educational  world  stood 
agape. — ^For  here  was  a  boy  whose 
teacher-father  claimed  that  he  was  no 
prodigy  at  all — ^merely  the  product  of 
intelligent  methods  of  teaching,  and  yet 
who  had  mental  power,  intellectual 
capacity  and  well-stored  mind  of  such 
grasp  that  all  Harvard  ran  to  see 
and  hear  while  he  gave  a  lecture  on 
the  Fourth  Dimension — ^that  imaginary 
nothing  which  only  the  most  mathemati- 
cal minds  can  pretend  that  they  are  able 
to  conceive. 

Yes,  here  was  a  boy  of  ten  years, 
who  could  discourse  intelligently  on  art 
and  mathematics,  geography  and  his- 
tory; who  could  speak  in  several  lan- 
guages, and  was  well  up  in  literature, 
and  withal  was  happy-hearted  and  as 
fond  of  boyish  sports  as  the  ordinary 
boy  who  can  neither  read,  spell,  nor 
remember  his  yesterday's  lesson.  And 
his  father  insists  that  his  boy  possessed 
no  unusual  capacity  or  gifts,  but  that 
the  difference  between  him  and  the  boy 
of  the  usual,  normal  type  was  merely  a 
matter  of  training. 

Admitting  this  to  be  the  case,  we  can- 
not wonder  that  Professor  Sidis  should 
express  great  dissatisfaction  with  the 
modern  school  methods  which  afford 
such  meagre  results  for  all  the  outlay 
of  time,  money,  thought  and  nerves 
expended  upon  them. 

It  is  a  little  unsafe  to  decide  as  to  the 
merits  of  Professor  Sidis'  particular 
methods  until  the  boy  has  grown  to 
manhood,  and  proved  their  value  in  the 
battle  of  life.     But  all  thinking  people 


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realize  that  our  school  systems  do  fail 
to  produce  results  commensurate  with 
what  they  may  and  should — and  will 
read  with  interest,  and  frank,  if  reluc- 
tant endorsement,  the  pages  of  penetrat- 
ing and  pungent  criticism  from  Profes- 
sor Sidis'  pen,  which  we  publish  here- 
with. The  physician  must  diagnose  the 
case  before  the  cure  can  be  effected. 
Once  we  have  decided  that  something  is 
wrong,  we  must  call  in  the  doctor,  lis- 
ten to  his  statement  of  causes  and 
effects,  and*  then  proceed  to  act  intelli- 
gently upon  his  advice.  If  our  schools 
are  faulty,  it  is  for  the  parents  and  tax- 
payers to  insist  on  better  methods,  until 
the  best  are  arrived  at.  Too  much  fine 
raw  boy  and  girl  material  goes  to  waste 
in  our  country. 

From  "Philistine  and  Genius",  a  book 
whose  author  is  the  above-mentioned 
Professor  Boris  Sidis,  and  whose  pub- 
lishers are  Moffat,  Yard  &  Co.,  we  quote 
the  following: 

From  time  to  time  the  "educational" 
methods  of  our  philistine  teachers  are 
brought  to  light.  A  girl  is  forced  by 
a  schoolma'am  of  one  of  our  large 
cities  to  stay  in  a  corner  for  hours, 
because  she  unintentionally  transgressed 
against  the  barrack-discipline  of  the 
school-regulations.  When  the  parents 
became  afraid  of  the  girl's  health  and 
naturally  took  her  out  of  school,  the 
little  girl  was  dragged  before  the  court 
by  the  truant  officer.  Fortunately  "the 
judge  turned  to  the  truant  officer  and 
asked  him  how  the  girl  could  be  a  tru- 
ant, if  she  had  been  suspended.  He 
didn't  believe  in  breaking  children's 
wills." 

In  another  city  a  pupil  of  genius  was 
excluded  from  school  because  "he  did 
not  fall  in  with  tlj^^^gt-^jij^i^i^i^^iitby 


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the  "very  able  business-superintendent." 
A  schoolmistress  conceives  the  happy 
idea  of  converting  two  of  her  refrac- 
tory pupils  into  pin-cushions  for  the  edi- 
fication of  her  class.  An  "educational" 
administrative  superintendent  of  a  large, 
prosperous  community  told  a  lady  who 
brought  to  him  her  son,  an  extraordi- 
narily able  boy,  "I  shall  not  take  your 
boy  into  my  high-school,  in  spite  of  his 
knowledge."  When  the  mother  asked 
him  to  listen  to  her,  he  lost  patience 
and  told  her  with  all  the  force  of  his 
school-authority,  "Madam,  put  a  rope 
around  his  nedc,  weigh  him  well  down 
with  bricks!" 

A  principal  of  a  high  school  in  one  of 
the  prominent  New  England  towns  dis- 
misses a  highly  talented  pupil  because, 
to  quote  verbatim  from  the  original 
school  document,  "He  is  not  amenable 
to  the  discipline  of  the  school,  as  his 
school  life  has  been  too  short  to  estab- 
lish him  in  the  habit  of  obedience." 
"His  intellect,"  the  principal's  official 
letter  goes  on  to  say,  "remains  a  marvel 
to  us,  but  we  do  not  feel,  and  in  this  I 
think  I  speak  for  all,  that  he  is  in  the 
right  place."  In  other  words,  in  the 
opinion  of  those  remarkable  pedagogues, 
educators  and  teachers,  the  school  is  not 
the  right  place  for  talent  and  genius ! 

A  superintendent  of  schools  in  lectur- 
ing before  an  audience  of  "subordinate 
teachers"  toldl  them  emphatically  that 
there  was  no  place  for  genius  in  our 
schools.  Dear  old  fogies,  one  can  well 
understand  your  indignation!  Here  we 
have  worked  out  some  fine  methods, 
clever  rules,  beautiful  systems  and  then 
comes  genius  and  upsets  the  whole 
structure!  It  is  a  shame!  Genius  can- 
not fit  nto  the  pigeon-holes  of  the  office 
desk.  Choke  genius,  and  things  will 
move  smoothly  in  the  school  and  the 
office. 

Not  long  ago  we  were  informed  by 
one  of  those  successful  college-manda- 
rins, lionized  by  office-clerks,  superin- 
tendents and  tradesmen,  that  he  could 
measure  education  by  the  foot-rule! 
Our  Regents  are  supposed  to  raise  the 
level  of  education  by  a  vicious  system 
of  examination  and  coaching,  a  system 


which  Professor  James,  in  a  private 
conversation  with  me,  has  aptly  charac- 
terized as  "idiotic." 

Our  schools  brand  their  pupils  by  a 
system  of  marks^  while  our  foremost 
colleges  measure  the  knowledge  and 
education  of  their  students  by  the  num- 
ber of  "points"  passed.  The  student 
may  pass  either  in  Logic  or  Blacksmith- 
ing.  It  does  not  matter  which,  pro- 
vided he  makes  up  a  certain  number  of 
"points"! 

College-committees  refuse  admission 
to  young  students  of  genius,  'because 
"it  is  against  the  policy  and  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  university."  College-pro- 
fessors expel  promising  students  from 
the  lecture-room  for  "the  good  of  the 
class  as  a  whole,"  because  the  students 
*'happen  to  handle  their  hats  in  the 
middle  of  a  lecture."  This,  you  see, 
interferes  with  class  discipline.  Fiat 
justitia,  pereat  mundus.  Let  genius 
perish,  provided  the  system  lives.  Why 
not  suppress  all  genius,  as  a  disturbing 
element,  for  "the  good  of  the  classes," 
for  the  weal  of  the  commonwealth? 
Education  of  man  and  cultivation  of 
genius,  indeed!  This  is  not  school 
policy. 

We  school  and  drill  our  children 
and  youth  in  schoolma'am  mannerism, 
school-master  mind-ankylosis,  school- 
superintendent  stiff-joint  ceremonialism, 
factory  regulations  and  office-discipline. 
We  give  our  pupils  and  students  arti- 
san-inspiration and  business-spirituality. 
Originality  is  suppressed.  Individuality 
is  crushed.  Mediocrity  is  at  a  premium. 
That  is  why  our  country  has  such  clever 
business  men,  such  cunning  artisans, 
such  resourceful  politicians,  such  adroit 
leaders  of  new  cults,  but  no  scientists, 
no  artists,  no  philosophers,  no  states- 
men, no  genuine  talent  and  no  true 
genius. 

School-teachers  have  in  all  ages  been 
mediocre  in  intellect  and  incompetent. 
Leibnitz  is  regarded  as  a  dullard  and 
Newton  is  considered  as  a  blockhead. 
Never,  however,  in  the  history  of  man- 
kind have  school-teachers  fallen  to  such 
a  low  level  of  mediocrity  as  in  our 
times  and  in  our  country.    For  it  is  not 

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the  amount  of  knowledge  that  counts  in 
true  education,  but  originality  and  inde- 
pendence of  thought  that  are  of  im- 
portance in  education.  But  independ- 
ence and  originality  of  thought  are  just 
the  very  elements  that  are  suppressed 
by  our  modern  barrack-system  of  edu- 
cation. No  wonder  that  military  men 
claim  that  the  best  "education"  is  given 
in  military  schools. 

We  are  not  aware  that  the  incubus  of 
officialdom,  and  the  succubus  of  bureau- 
cracy have  taken  possession  of  our 
schools.  The  red  tape  of  officialdom, 
like  a  poisonous  weed,  grows  luxuri- 
antly in  our  schools  and  chokes  the  life 
of  our  young  generation.  Instead  of 
growing  into  a  people  of  great  inde- 
pendent thinkers,  the  nation  is  in  danger 
of  fast  becoming  a  crowd  of  well- 
drilled,  well-disciplined,  commonplace 
individuals,  with  strong  philistine  hab- 
its and  notions  of  hopeless  mediocrity. 

In  levelling  education  to  mediocrity 
we  imagine  that  we  uphold  the  demo- 
cratic spirit  of  our  institutions.  Our 
American  sensibilities  are  shocked  when 
the  president  of  one  of  our  leading  col- 
leges dares  to  recommend  to  his  college 
that  it  should  cease  catering  to  the  aver- 
age student.  We  think  it  un-American, 
rank  treason  to  our  democratic  spirit 
when  a  college  president  has  the  cour- 
age to  proclaim  the  principle  that  "To 
form  the  mind  and  character  of  one 
man  of  marked  talent,  not  to  say  genius, 
would  be  worth  more  to  the  community 
which  he  would  serve  than  the  routine 
training  of  hundreds  of  undergradu- 
ates." 

We  are  optimistic,  we  believe,  in  the 
pernicious  superstition  that  genius  needs 
no  help,  that  talent  will  take  care  of 
itself.  Our  kitchen  clocks  and  dollar 
time-pieces  need  careful  handling,  but 
our  chronometers  and  astronomical 
clocks  can  run  by  themselves. 

The  truth  is,  however,  that  the  pur- 
pose of  the  school  and  the  college  is 
not  to  create  an  intellectual  aristocracy, 
but  to  educate,  to  bring  out  the  individ- 


uality, the  originality,  the  latent  powers 
of  talent  and  genius  present  in  what  we 
unfortunately  regard  as  "the  average 
student."  Follow  Mill's  advice.  In- 
stead of  aiming  at  athletics,  social  con- 
nections, vocations  and  generally  at  the 
professional  art  of  money-making,  "Aim 
at  something  noble.  Make  your  sys- 
tem such  that  a  great  man  may  be 
formed  by  it,  and  there  will  be  a  man- 
hood in  your  little  men,  of  which  you 
do  not  dream." 

Awaken  in  early  childhood  the  criti- 
cal spirit  of  man;  awaken,  early  in  the 
child's  life,  love  of  knowledge,  love  of 
truth,  of  art  and  literature  for  their 
own  sake,  and  you  arouse  man's  genius. 
We  have  average  mediocre  students, 
because  we  have  mediocre  teachers,  de- 
partment-store superintendents,  clerkly 
principals  and  deans  with  bookkeepers' 
souls,  because  our  schools  and  colleges 
deliberately  aim  at  mediocrity. 

Ribot  in  describing  the  degenerated 
Byzantine  Greeks  tells  us  that  their 
leaders  were  mediocrities  and  their  great 
men  commonplace  personalities.  Is  the 
American  nation  drifting  in  the  same 
direction?  It  was  the  system  of  culti- 
vation of  independent  thought  that 
awakened  the  Greek  mind  to  its  high- 
est achievements  in  arts,  science  and 
philosophy;  it  was  the  deadly  Byzan- 
tine bureaucratic  red  tape  with  its  cut- 
and-dried  theological  discipline  that 
dried  up  the  sources  of  Greek  genius. 
We  are  in  danger  of  building  up  a 
Byzantine  empire  with  large  institutions 
and  big  corporations,  but  with  small 
minds  and  dwarfed  individualities. 
Like  the  Byzantines  we  begin  to  value 
administration  above  individuality  and 
official,  red-tape  ceremonialism  above 
originality. 

We  wish  even  to  turn  schools  into 
practical  school-shops.  We  shall  in 
time  become  a  nation  of  well-trained 
clerks  and  clever  artisans.  The  time  is 
at  hand  when  we  shall  be  justified  in 
writing  over  the  gates  of  our  school- 
shops  "mediocrity  made  here!" 


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^HERE  was  something  of  a  crowd  in 
the  large  farm  kitchen,  for  Uncle 
Luke  had  got  home,  and  he  was  a  very 
popular  though  very  ignorant  man.  He 
was  eating  his  supper,  and  would  not 
say  a  word  to  any  one,  or  make  even  a 
gesture  beyond  a  nod  and  a  wink,  until 
he  had  devoured  the  very  last  potato 
and  slice  of  fried  ham,  and  had  given 
the  meal  its  doxologry,  as  he  called  it, 
consisting  of  a  dish  of  cider-apple  sauce. 
But  all  the  relatives  and  neighbors  were 
willing  to  let  him  go  on,  for  they  knew 
he  would  make  it  up  when  he  was 
through  eating.  Meanwhile  they  con- 
versed cheerfully  among  themselves. 

"Uncle  Luke  looks  pr'tty  well",  said 
one. 

"He  went  down  to  New  York  on  a 
railroad  pass",  added  another. 

"Didn't  hev  to  pay  a  cent",  said  an- 
other. "Eli  Hathaway,  he  ^  tuk  him 
along  to  help  manage  a  carload  of 
horses.  Got  him  chalked  down  an' 
back." 

"He  seen  a  heap  o*  things  in  New 
York",  continued  another. 

"No,  I  didn't  see  nothin'  whatsoever 
in  New  York",  exclaimed  Uncle  Luke, 
giving  his  lips  a  loud  final  smack,  and 
shunting  his  chair  away  from  the  table. 
"Was  so  tired  when  I  got  in  I  hed  to 
sleep  in  the  tavern  all  the  while  I  was 
there." 

"Seen  a  heap  on  the  way  down  there 
ril  bet",  said  another. 

"Didn't  see  a  thing",  replied  Uncle 
Luke.  "Had  to  watch  the  horses  half 
the  time." 

"Seen  a  heap  comin'  back",  suggested 
another. 

"Yes,  I  seen  a  heap  comin'  back",  re- 
plied Uncle  Luke,  "an'  heard  more ;  an' 


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I'll  tell  ye  what  it  was.  Stopped  in 
Buffalo  over  night  fur  to  change  cars, 
an'  Eli  says,  *Le's  gfo  to  a  concert.' 
'Concerts  ain't  any  good  to  me',  I  re- 
plied, 'any  more  than  pictures  to  a  blind 
man.  I  never  know  what  piece  they're 
a-playin'  or  a-singin'.  I  can't  tell  the 
notes  apart,  excep'  that  some  of  'ems 
louder  than  some  o'  the  others.'  'Never 
mind,  come  on',  says  Eli,  'an'  see  the 
folks  that's  there,  an'  how  many  differ- 
ent kinds  o'  women's  hats  you  ken 
count.'    An'  I  went. 

"It  was  all  sorts  of  a  concert  in  one, 
an'  they  was  quite  a  lot  of  men  an* 
women  took  an  interest  in  a-makin'  of 
the  noise.  The  first  piece  was  on  a 
pianner,  which  is  re'lly  a  big  dulcimer 
where  you  use  the  fingers  fur  hammers. 
It  was  all  'Fiddledy-diddledy-dink-dink- 
dink-fiddledy-dink,  slam',  an'  I  didn't 
git  much  out  of  it  excep'  the  young 
woman's  hair — an'  I  wondered  whether 
that  was  hers  or  a  wig.  Then  there  was 
singin'  an'  pieces  spoke  an'  I  couldn't 
seem  to  git  hold  an'  hang  on  to  any 
of  'em. 

"An'  then  jus'  as  I  was  gittin'  com- 
fortable to  sleep,  a  young  feller  came 
out  an'  bowed  an*  he  stood  an'  looked 
as  much  like  a  gawky  as  any  relative  I 
ever  hed." 

Everybody  laughed  good-humoredly 
at  this  point,  thinking  of  some  other 
relation  that  Uncle  Luke  probably 
meant. 

"  'Well,'  I  says  to  Eli,  'I'm  goin'  to 
keep  awake  a  little  while  longer,  jus'  to 
look  at  that  feller  an'  thank  the  Lord  I 
wasn't  made  quite  as  humbly  as  he  is.' " 

Everybody  laughed  good-humoredly 
again;  and  this  time  Uncle  Luke  paid 
the  bill ;  for  he  was  known  as  one  who 

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never  had  dared  look  a  pail  of  milk  in 
the  face,  for  fear  of  turning  it  prema- 
turely sour. 

"So  he  struck  in",  continued  Uncle 
Luke,  "an*  by  gracious  somethin'  entire- 
ly new  happened:  I  could  understan' 
him.  He  told  it  all  off  so's  I  got  the 
Ian'  furrow  o'  the  story  in  a  very  little 
while,  without  consulting  Eli  a  word 
about  it.  There  was  somethin'  the  mat- 
ter about  his  tryin'  to  see  somethin' 
through  the  darlq  in  the  early  mornin'. 
He  looked  'way  off  so  an'  seemed  so 
anxious  to  find  it,  that  firs'  I  knowed  I 
looked  too.  But  Eli  whispered  an'  says 
'It's  all  made  up' ;  an'  I  says  'Durn  you 
I  know  it',  an'  the  singin'  never  noticed 
me,  but  went  ahead. 

"The  young  feller  went  on  to  explain 
that  the  night  before  everything  was  all 
right,  but  now! — was  it  all  right  now? 
an'  then  he  turned  to  me  an'  to  Eli  an' 
to  all  of  us,  an'  says  in  words  better 
than  I  kin  tell  it,  'Say,  fellers !  is  the  ol' 
flag  a-wavin'  there  the  same  as  it  was 
las'  night?  It  was  all  right  then — ^but 
how  is  it  at  the  present  writin'  ?' 

"First  I  knowed  I  foun'  myself  sayin' 
to  myself  'He's  near-sighted,  an'  I'll 
look  fur  him',  but  jest  then  Eli  whis- 
pers, 'Keep  still,  Luke,  it's  only  a  songf, 
an'  I  says,  TDurn  you,  I  know  it.' 

"Then  he  went  on  to  tell  quite  a 
story,  an'  he  hed  it  all  in  rhyme,  an' 
a-singingr  all  the  while,  an'  by  hokey  I 
don't  see  how  he  done  it.  He  was 
makin'  believe  that  the  enemy  had  been 
all  night  a-tryin'  to  pull  the  flag  down; 
an'  the  great  question  was,  hed  they 
managed  to  do  it?  All  to  once  he  points 
with  his  long  bony  finger,  an'  then  his 
face  lights  up,  an'  he  says,  'What's  that 
out  yendcr?  Now  I  kin  see^  it  an'  now 
I  can't,  but  I'll  know  in  a  minnit — Oh, 
I'll  soon  know !  Now  the  sun  is  a-get- 
tin'  a  little  higher  an'  is  a-shinin'  on  it 
some'at;  now  the  thing  whirls  aroun' 
an'  gits  the  full  blaze  of  it'  an'  look! 
there's  two  of  'cm !  one  atop  o'  the  fort, 
an'  one  reflected  in  the  water !  It's  the 
flag — it's  the  old  stars  an'  stripes — it's 
still  there — an'  I  hope  it'll  be  there  a 
long,  long'  time,  to  wave  over  the  like- 
liest set  o'  people  that  ever  ploughed 


a  furrow,  or  mowed  a  field  o'  grass  1' 

"An'  then  he  actu'Uy  looked  han'some, 
this  feller — an'  I  was  all  excited  an' 
ready  to  holler  Amen !  I  got  as  far  as 
the  A,  but  Eli,  he  pulled  down  at  me, 
an'  says,  'That  feller's  singin'  it  fur  pay', 
an'  I  says,  *Durn  you,  I  know  it',  an' 
stayed  still. 

"But  the  young  man  wasn't  half 
through  yit.  He  kep'  gittin'  better  an' 
better  lookin'  all  the  time,  an'  a-singin' 
more  an'  more  earnest.  'The  flag's  all 
right — now  where's  the  enemy  ?'  he  yells. 
'They  said  they  was  goin'  to  whip  us 
out — they  was  goin'  to  take  our  homes 
away  from  us — we  was  sure  to  be  out- 
casts, without  any  country  of  our  own, 
an'  must  jine  them  an'  take  up  with 
what  we  could  git  or  disappear  from 
the  earth!  Where  are  these  fellers 
gone?'  'To  the  old  Harry,  I  hope',  says 
I,  but  Eli  pulled  me  by  the  sleeve  like  a 
pickerel  on  a  hook,  an'  says,  'This  is  a 
concert,  not  a  town-meetin'  an'  they'll 
put  you  out  ef  you  ain't  keerful',  an'  I 
says,  'Dum  'em,  I  know  it.* 

"  'There  ain't  a  place  where  they  set 
their  foot,  but  the  mark  hez  be'n  wiped 
out  with  their  own  blood!'  shouted  the 
young  man  at  this  juncture.  At  this  I 
begun  to  pity  'em;  fur  when  you  talk 
about  a  man's  blood,  it  brings  you 
nearer  to  him,  somehow.  'No,  I  hope 
it  ain't  as  bad  as  that',  I  says.  'We'll 
just  take  'em  prisoners,  an'  send  'em 
home  to  their  folks  on  parole,  an'  tell 
'em  never  to  say  or  do  such  things 
ag'in,  or  we  won't  ans'er  fur  the  conse- 
quences.' But  Eli  whispers,  'It's  too 
late;  it  was  all  done  before  this  song 
was  sung' ;  an'  I  says,  *Durn  it,  I  s'pose 
so.' 

'"There  ain't  any  place  where  a 
tyrant  can  hide  permanent,  excep'  in  the 
grave !'  said  the  feller,  an'  I  tell  you  he 
wasn't  humly  now,  but  looked  fierce  an' 
noble  an'  independent  and  han'some,  all 
to  once !  An'  then  he  shouted  ag'in  to 
the  effect  thet  the  flag  was  a-goin'  to 
wave,  whatever  happened!  An'  he  tol' 
it  in  such  a  way  that  it  made  my  teeth 
fairly  grind  together;  an'  I  had  all  I 
could  do  to  keep  from  jumpin'  up 
and   hollerin',   'You're   right!'    But  Eli 

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wouldn't  let  me ;  this  feller  kep'  singin' 
along  an'  hopin'  that  it  would  al'ays  be 
that  way ; — whenever  a  free  country  was 
a-tryin'  to  stan'  between  itself  an*  de- 
struction, he  prayed  that  the  same  good 
Lord  that  made  us  up  into  a  nation 
would  keep  us  all  rieht.  An'  then  he 
kind  a  caused  one  to  feel  ez  ef  the  whole 
country  was  in  danger  a^'in,  an  says, 
'But  we  shall  come  out  ahead — an'  we've 
got  a  motto  worth  havin' — 'In  God  is 
our  trust' — ^an'  the  flag  is  a-goin'  to 
wave  over  us  forever  an'  forever  an' 
forever!'" 

Uncle  Luke,  rose,  and  brought  down 
his  fist  with  a  thump  upon  the  table. 


The  cider  apple-sauce  dish  fled  in  dis- 
may, the  teapot  tumbled  to  the  floor, 
and  thirteen  different  dishes  were  fight- 
ing with  each  other  at  one  time — ^to  the 
utter  demolition  of  some  of  them,  and 
the  delight  of  all  the  friends  and  rela- 
tives. 

"Theer",  said  Aunt  Patience,  "now 
you've  smashed  up  a  dollar's  worth  of 
dishes,  just  a-tellin'  a  you'.'g  man's  per- 
formance, when  probably  any  one  of  us 
could  have  seen  the  whole  thing  for  a 
quarter !" 

And  Uncle  Luke  cowed  back  in  his 
chair,  and  murmured,  "Durn  him,  I 
know  it!" 


Aunl  Melindas  Journey. 


A  UNT  MELINDA  was  not  hand- 
some ;  neither  was  she  gifted,  save 
in  coaxing  tangles  out  of  rebellious 
curls,  and  kissing  bruised  places  to 
make  them  well ;  but  she  was  our  house- 
hold saint,  and  what  woman  could  be 
other  than  lovely,  with  love  beaming 
from  her  eyes,  love  reflected  in  every 
touch,  love  thrilling  in  every  tone  of 
her  voice,  love  radiating  from  her  whole 
being? 

And  when  Helen  was  recovering  from 
that  dreadful  siege  of  scarlet  fever, 
what  face  was  so  welcome,  so  restful  to 
look  upon  as  Aunt  Melinda's,  as  she 
leaned  over  the  bed  or  hovered  near  the 
fever-racked  patient,  anticipating  every 
desire,  interpreting  the  wish,  even  be- 
fore it  had  taken  tangible  shape;  and 
when  Tom  broke  his  leg  and  barely 
escaped  with  his  neck  from  riding  that 
dangerous  colt,  who  stood  by  the  doctor 
and  ministered  to  the  sufferer  while  he 
was  paying  for  his  fun  so  dearly?  And 
in  the  long  dreary  nights  that  followed, 
who  watched  by  the  bedside  and  whiled 
away  the  wakeful  hours  with  her  never 
failing  sympathy? — ah,  it  is  something 
to  have  a  household  saint! 

Aunt  Melinda  never  wondered,  never 
queried;    she  took  it  for  granted  that 


what  came  first  was  to  be  done,  and  if 
the  "bread  cast  upon  the  waters"  was 
unduly  retarded  in  returning,  shq  gave 
it  no  thought.  Still,  it  was  little  short 
of  wonderful  how  many  things  came 
"first"  for  Aunt  Melinda. 

She  never  suspected  that  she  was  the 
living  embodiment  of  the  old  English 
maxim,  "Do  ye  next  thynge",  for  ro- 
mance and  Aunt  Melinda  were  relations 
infinitely  "removed",  and  it  would  have 
been  the  sheerest  folly  to  have  tried  to 
convince  her  that  her  brave,  helpful  life 
was  anything  out  of  the  ordinary. 

Despite  Aunt  Melinda's  love  for 
home  life,  there  was  inborn  in  her  an 
intense  desire  to  travel,  a  wish  that  had 
never  been  gratified  because,  as  she  jok- 
ingly put  it,  "The  sign  wasn't  always 
in  the  feet",  and  so  she  could  count 
upon  the  fingers  of  one  hand  all  the 
journeys  she  had  ever  taken. 

It  was  characteristic  of  Aunt  Melinda 
that  the  plans  she  contrived  for  the 
pleasure  of  others  were  invariably  car- 
ried out  to  the  very  letter,  but  those 
that  in  her  heart  she  had  so  wished  for, 
she  suffered  to  pass  by  and  gave  no 
sign. 

She  had  "  'lowed"  to  go  to  the  Phila- 
delphia  Centennial,   but   sister   Mary's 

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little  boy  was  just  getting  over  the 
measles,  and  Mary  and  John  had 
counted  so  on  going:,  so  Aunt  Melinda 
stayed  at  home  with  the  little  invalid; 
she  had  "  'lowed"  to  ^o  to  Chicago,  too, 
and  attend  the  Fair,  but  Jennie's  baby 
was  cutting  its  teeth  and  she  couldn't 
bear  to  think  of  leaving:  it,  so  the  Cen- 
tennial came  and  went,  the  World's  Fair 
came  and  went,  and  Aunt  Melinda  came 
and  went,  like  an  angel  of  light  among 
the  grown-up  children's  homes  and 
aided,  petted  or  abetted  as  was  needed. 
The  little  children  had  grown  so 
accustomed  to  Aunt  Melinda's  minis- 
trations, so  used  to  running  to  her  with 
little  childish  worries,  knotty  curls,  torn 
dresses,  petty  quarrels  and  troublesome 
examples,  that  it  had  never  occurred  to 
them  what  life  would  be  without  her. 
But  when  day  by  day  the  sweet  pale 
face  grew  sweeter  and  paler,  and  day 
by  day  the  light  elastic  step  lost  more 
and  more  of  its  elasticity,  the  eyes  of 
the  elders  were  opened  and  with  aching 
hearts  the  old  family  physician  was  im- 
mediately summoned. 

The  grave  doctor's  thoughts,  upon 
arriving,  were  these:  "nervous  pros- 
tration, no  thought  for  herself,  worn 
out  for  others", — but  what  he  said  was, 
— "Absolute  rest  and  change  of  air, 
more  than  medicine  is  what  is  needed; 
send  her  off  to  the  southern  part  of 
the  state  to  her  brother's  for  the  rest 
of  the  year,  and  she'll  come  back  a  dif- 
ferent person", — and  Aunt  Melinda  lay 
and  listened,  with  a  new  look  upon  her 
face,  a  new  light  in  her  eyes,  a  new  joy 
in  her  heart. 

When  the  doctor's  prescription  was 
made  known,  there  was  a  general  wail ; 
every  one  would  miss  her  so,  what 
would  they  do,  how  could  they  ever 
manage  to  live  without  her?  but  the  old 
doctor  stood  firm,  the  flat  had  gone 
forth,  nothing  remained  but  to  obey  it 
and  that  as  speedily  as  possible. 

When  it  dawned  upon  the  family  that 
in  order  to  keep  the  loved  one  with 
them  they  must  let  her  go  from  them 
for  a  season,  every  one  stood  ready  to 
help,  and  out  of  this  depth  of  feeling 
came  gifts  in  abundance.     Pathetically 


inappropriate  as  were  some  of  the  gifts 
of  the  younger  children.  Aunt  Melinda 
would  refuse  none  of  the  love  offerings, 
while  nothing  could  be  more  opportune 
than  Tom's  present  of  his  new  alli- 
gator grip  as  a  small  token  of  the  lov- 
ing care  she  showered  upon  him  and 
his  poor  splintered  limb,  and  uppermost 
in  Helen's  mind  as  she  tendered  her 
offering,  a  dressing-case,  was  that  fear- 
ful fever  and  the  dear  patient  watcher. 
One  sister  adds  a  silk  umbrella,  another 
one  a  pair  of  black  kid  gloves,  and  Aunt 
Melinda  can  travel  respectably. 

When  the  children  were  all  asleep 
that  night.  Aunt  Melinda  stole  to  the 
nursery,  and,  laying  a  trembling  hand 
upon  the  tangled  mops  of  curls,  kissed 
the  flushed  foreheads,  and  the  soft 
cheeks  where  recent  tears  had  left  their 
mark,  and  reluctantly  turned  to  go,  but 
a  sound  stayed  her  steps  and  she  leaned 
over  the  little  crib;  it  was  baby  Willie, 
sobbing  even  in  his  sleep.  That  settled 
it, — she  would  not,  could  not  go,  her 
tender  heart  gave  way;  and  hastening 
to  her  room  she  wept  for  the  sorrow  of 
the  children,  wept  for  the  very  joy  of 
being  beloved,  and  calmly  made  up  her 
mind  to  let  nothing  tempt  her  to  start 
on  the  morrow — not  a  sigh  for  the 
pleasures  just  shown  and  then  with- 
drawn, even  though  voluntarily. 

Her  clothes  and  gifts  were  all  laid 
out,  but  she  was  tired,  and  would  see 
about  putting  them  away  tomorrow; 
she  blew  out  her  light  and  crept  to  bed. 

The  morning  dawned  bright  and 
clear,  an  ideal  day  for  a  journey.  The 
rising-bell  rang,  the  breakfast-bell  rang, 
still  no  Aunt  Melinda.  Then  it  was  that 
they  sought  her.  They  opened  the  door 
and  went  in — her  black  bombazine  dress 
was  laid  out  carefully  on  a  chair,  her 
shawl,  gloves  and  handkerchief  were 
close  by,  while  upon  the  floor  was  her 
bonnet-box  and  the  new  grip  and  um- 
brella: all  was  in  readiness,  but  the 
peaceful  face,  bordered  by  its  bands  of 
soft  gray  hair,  lay  motionless  upon  the 
pillow,  and  all  the  years  of  patient 
waiting  were  merged  into  one  happy 
whole.    Aunt    Melinda   had   taken   her 


journey. 


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TTHE  pleasant  days  have  gone  their 

ways^  the  world  is  getting  old, 
The  wind   is   in   the   north   again — the 

air  is  damp  and  cold; 
They  turn  their  heads  and  laugh  at  us 

— those  days  we  used  to  win — 
/Vnd    Fortune   when    we    ask   for    her, 

sends  word  she  isn't  in. 
The  earth  is  growing  bare  and  bleak, 

and  clouds  are  in  the  sky; 
So   I   must  go   and   find  the  sun:   my 

dear  old  horse,  good-bye! 

You  had  a  speed  and  I  a  rein  we  both 
knew  how  to  trust: 

Oh  'twas  a  mighty  lively  rig  that  gave 
us  any  dust! 

We  made  a  race-track  of  the  road 
whene'er  we  had  a  mind. 

And  you  had  not  the  faculty  of  follow- 
ing on  behind. 

But  luck  went  off  another  way,  and 
never  told  us  why : — 


And   so   Fve  got  to   walk  a  bit:- 
dear  old  horse,  good-bye! 


-my 


One  night  we  met  a  robber  band  with 
whom  we  couldn't  agree — 

And  one  caressed  you  by  the  bit,  and 
one  took  charge  of  me. 

I  knocked  mine  over  with  the  whip, 
and  yours  you  trampled  down, 

And  showed  the  rest  a  set  of  heels  un- 
rivalled in  the  town. 

I  said,  "Old  man,  we'll  never  part  till 
one  of  us  shall  die": 


But  Ruin  sneers  at  hearts  and  hands — 
good-bye,  old  friend,  good-bye! 

One  merry  eve  when  ruby  wine  had 
turned  my  brain  to  lead. 

Beside  the  road  when  half-way  home  I 
stopped  and  went  to  bed. 

But  I  was  watched  by  chivalry  all 
through  my  night's  disgrace: 

For  when  I  woke,  your  warm  sweet 
nose  was  cuddling  round  my  face. 

You  vowed  no  harm  should  come  to  me, 
with  you  a-lingering  nigh: 

I'd  stay  by  you  now  if  I  could — Good- 
bye, old  horse,  good-bye! 


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CORALS    ON  THE    MAINE.                                     91 

I  think  and  hope  I'm  leaving  you  in  There'll    come    first    thing    across    the 

good  and  friendly  hands —  space,  a  telegram  for  you. 

I  feel  as  if  you'd  think  of  me  in  distant  I  hope  that  yet  some  happy  days  we'll 

seas  and  lands;  capture,  you  and  I, 

And  if  my  fate  turns  round  again,  and  And  golden  stables   shall  be  yours  in 

Effort  serves  me  true,  Heaven,  bye  and  bye! 


Corals   On  the  Maine. 

n^HE  warrior  ship  had  moored  beneath  the  waves, 
^      Its  tangled  depths  were  crowded  thick  with  graves: 
Each  jewelled  sword  had  bent  a  shattered  knee 
Before  the  rusting  sabres  of  the  sea. 

True  patriots  could  not  let  their  heroes  lie 
Without  one  glance  of  pity  from  the  sky: 
So  delved  among  those  caverns  of  despair, 
And  all  the  ghosts  of  ruin  slumb'ring  there. 

No  gleaming  triumph  of  the  builder's  toil, 
But  one  demoniac  moment  served  to  spoil; 
And  hearts  long  loved  and  cherished  night  and  day, 
Were  in  a  midnight  tempest  swept  away. 

It  was  a  lesson  to  our  minds — alas! 
That  warning:  how  or  when  it  comes  to  pass, 
This  world  must  heed  the  universal  touch, 
And  fall  in  Ruin's  ever-waiting  clutch. 

But  lo ! — amid  that  sad  and  silent  place, 
Were  tiny  craftsmen  of  the  coral  race! 
Those  unobtrusive  "toilers  of  the  sea"— 
Those  builders  of  the  islands  yet  to  be. 

With  placid  thrift,  they  plied  their  wizard-trade, 
Qose-clinging  to  the  fragments  War  had  made, 
As  if  those  had  been  summoned  to  their  call: 
They  knew  not  that  the  wrecks  were  wrecks  at  all  .• 

It  was  a  lesson  to  our  hearts ! — with  joy 
We  felt  that  Ruin  is  in  God's  employ; 
And  there  are  builders  that  we  cannot  see, 
Erecting  grander  worlds  for  you  and  me. 

It  was  a  lesson  to  our  souls! — above 
The  gloomy  graves  of  those  we  loved  and  love. 
The  joys  they  sought,  our  martyred  lads  may  know. 
On  spirit  islands,  fashioned  long  ago. 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


i  I  Catania's  Recent  Close  Call. 

/^UR  frontispiece  this  month  gives  a 
^^  view  of  the  lava-city,  Catania,  liv- 
ing by  grace  of  the  volcano  ^Etna,  which 
in  that  picture  is  represented  as  frown- 
ingr  in  the  distance. 

The  city  (containing  150,000  inhabi- 
tants) thrives  upon  ^Etna.  The  streets 
are  paved  with  its  lava;  the  mole  that 
protects  the  harbor  is  composed  of  it; 
the  lava-built  houses  are  filled  with  lava- 
constructed  furniture ;  the  very  children 
play  with  lava  toys.  Snow,  taken  from 
the  huge  sides  of  the  burning  moun- 
tain, is  made  an  article  of  merchandise, 
and  exported  at  a  profit.  Sulphur,  an- 
other product  of  great  value,  is  dug 
from  the  crevices  between  the  lava-beds. 

The  cotton,   wine,   linseed,  almonds, 


and  other  valuable  products,  all  come 
from  the  rich  soil  of  decayed  lava. 
Many  tourists  each  year  leave  consider- 
able money  in  the  thrifty  little  city, 
before  starting  for  the  summit  of 
JEtna. 

The  close  call  which  the  huge  moun- 
tain in  its  bad  and  murderous  moods 
has  given  the  town  this  year,  is  not  by 
any  means  the  first  one.  One  of  the 
most  dreadful  was  in  March,  1669,  when 
a  lava-stream  twentyfive  feet  in  width 
started  for  the  town,  which  it  seemed 
bent  on  destroying. 

The  people  bravely  went  out  to  meet 
it,  and  prayed  the  Virgin  to  change  its 
course.  It  merely  grazed  the  city,  and 
went  into  the  sea:  and  to  this  day  the 
inhabitants  claim  that  the  escape  was 
due  to  their  prayers.       ^  , 

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Plants   Thai  Fight. 


^  HERE  are  some  very  crafty  villains 
among  our  silent  forest  friends; 
disagreeable  but  interesting  inhabitants 
of  tiic  glimmering  green  world  about 
us,  whose  beauty  is  so  grateful  to  tired 
eyes,  and  whose  stillness  brings  such 
rest  that  few  suspect  life  to  be  a  strug- 
gle with  murderous  foes  for  many  of  its 
residents, 

An  ambitious  vine  will  choke  and 
strangle  a  stalwart  tree  in  determined 
efforts  to  reach  its  topmost  leaf;  but 
climbing,  weak-stemmed  plants,  like  the 
familiar  ivyt  and  honeysuckle,  are  more 
dependent  than  vicious,  and  not  to  be 
cataloged  with  the  robber  parasites, 
who  live  on  the  blood  of  their  victims, 
and  whose  attack  in  some  cases  is  sure 
death. 

It  is  exceedingly  curious  to  note  the 
varying  degrees  of  parasitism,  and  trace 
the  causes  which  led  some  once  very 
respectable  and  independent  plants  to 
live  by  making  their  neighbors  suffer. 

The  conditions  which  rendered  them 
paupers  and  then  dangerous  thieves  can 
only  be  guessed  at;  but  it  is  certain 
that  the  parasitical  habit  is  gradually 
formed  and  advances  with  succeeding 
generations. 

The  mistletoe  is  a  mild  fighter  who 
fastens  only  upon  trees  strong  enough 
to  support  it  without  difficulty;  but  in 
Jamaica  and  other  warmer  climates  it 
is  a  particularly  dangerous  plant,  inva- 
riably^ killing  the  tree  it  feeds  upon ; 
sometimes  being  quite  leafless,  and  liv- 
ing entirely  upon  stolen  sap. 

The  English  Dodders  are  small  but 
relentless  parasites  that  creep  into  clover 
and  oat-fields,  or  among  any  plants 
crowded  together,  wind  wire-like  coils 
about  their  prey,  and  proceed  to  loosen 
their   hold  in   the   earth   to   drink   the 


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blood  of  the  tiny  plants  who  struggle 
in  vain  to  resist  them. 

The  army  of  vegetable  barbarians 
who  have  always  lived  by  conquering 
their  higher  caste  companions  is  a 
mighty  one.  To  it  belong  the  parasitic 
fungi,  the  rusts,  mildews,  blights  and 
enemies  we  call  diseases;  and  hosts  of 
plants  fall  before  their  ferocious  attacks 
every  year. 

In  tropical  forests  a  state  of  war  is 
far  more  apparent.  Each  plant  and  tree 
seems  to  fight  desperately  for  suprem- 
acy, and  every  growing  thing  appears 
possessed  with  a  spirit  of  selfish  rest- 
lessness. The  huge  creepers  twist  and 
coil  about  the  monarch  trees  like  huge 
serpents,  and  climb  persistently  until 
they  spread  their  foliage  triumphantly 
over  their  summits. 

The  Sipo  Matador,  or  the  "Murderer 
Liana,"  is  a  particularly  disagreeable 
climbing  tree  of  the  fig  variety.  Spring- 
ing up  close  to  some  huge  tree,  it 
stretches  out  arm-like  branches,  which 
cling  to  its  trunk,  meet,  and  blend  to- 
gether at  quite  regular  intervals  as  they 
rise,  until  the  hapless  cylinder  of  vege- 
tation is  clasped  by  tightening  rings, 
which  in  time  triumphantly  hold  a  dead 
victim. 

The  Bamboo-vine  is  a  confirmed 
strangler.  The  rope-like  lianes  hang  in 
loops  and  stretch  from  bough  to  bough 
in  a  determined  effort  to  overpower 
their  neighbors. 

The  success  of  every  species  in  this 
crowded  wilderness  depends  on  their 
ability  to  conquer  their  fellows;  and 
the  tangle  of  beauty  is  a  great  battle- 
field where  each  soldier  fights  for  him- 
self. 

The  dark-leaved  Matapolo  is  a  con- 
spicuous old   sinn^^,^^^^Jl^o4gJ^^^(^od 


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sends  an  air-like  root  into  his  victim's 
stem,  and  twines  and  rises  relentlessly 
until  his  branches  are  crowned  in  the 
sunshine,  eighty  feet  above,  and  with 
rich  foliage. 

Contented  little  plants  nestle  here 
and  there,  and  are  described  as  si)me  of 
the  loveliest,  but  the  majority  enter  the 
struggle   for  lijs:ht  and   air,  and  adopt 


belligerent    methods,    as    an     absolute 
necessity. 

Such  wild  forest  barbarism  is  weird 
and  depressing  to  contemplate,  and  we 
view  with  satisfaction  the  vegetable 
world  about  us,  where  competition 
exists  of  a  milder  variety,  and  thieves 
and  murderers  are  less  numerous  and 
powerful. 


Eighteen     Thoughts. 


What  we  call  ''trash"  may  contain 
treasures. 

<^ 
A  woman  without  tact,  is  a  cat  with- 
out feelers. 

<^ 
Few    travelers    stay    anywhere    long 
enough  to  learn  anything. 
<^ 
An  American  horse-trade  would  gen- 
erally "make  a  horse  laugh",  if  he  could 
understand  English. 
<^ 
Twice-told  tales  depend  for  their  en- 
tertaining qualities  upon  who  tells  them 
and  how  they  are  told. 
<^ 
Strange  that    the    plant    of    murder 
should  grow   from  the  seeds   of  love: 
but  it  sometimes  happens  so. 

The  reason  troubles  have  the  reputa- 
tion of  never  coming  singly,  is  that  one 
is  liable  to  bring  on  another. 

When  you,  tamper  with  other  peo- 
ple's business,  you  are  liable  to  put  your 
fingers  gratuitously  into  the  fire. 

A  public  whipping  on  the  bare  back 
would  do  more  good  to  lots  of  crimi- 
nals, than  any  amount  of  imprisonment. 

Perhaps  each  hemisphere  of  the  world 
drapes  itself  in  mourning  every  night, 
for  those  who  have  died  during  the  day. 
-^ 

Most  of  the  subjects  have  been  "cov- 


ered", and  most  of  those  merely  cov- 
ered, and  worked  to  no  appreciable 
depth. 

<^ 

A  strike  always  fails,  and  never  fails : 
the  employees  get  less  than  they  de- 
mand, and  the  employers  give  up  more 
than  they  wish. 

<^ 

Profanity  is  growing  rarer  as  the 
world  grows  more  fierce  and  strenuous : 
a  plain  statement  of  the  facts  being  all 
that  lis  necessary. 

<^ 

There  may  be  millions  of  "senses": 
Nature  gives  us  five,  which  she  consid- 
ers just  the  number  necessary  to  do  the 
work  required  by  her. 
<^ 

Small  men  nestling  in  among  greaf 
men  in  order  to  make  themselves  ap- 
pear greater,  frequently  achieve  the 
exactly  opposite  result. 

.<^ 

Those   who   mistakenly   suppose  that 

they  are  the  real  makers  of  some  par- 
ticular thing,  are  very  much  surprised 
when  they  try  to  make  another. 

<^ 
It    may    interest    you    to    count    up 
how  many  you  have  known  in  various 
occupations,  who  called  themselves  "ex- 
perts", and  were  merely  expert  fools. 

<^ 

If  people  could  once  really  see  the 

devil  as  terrible  as  he  has  been  painted, 

they   never  would   call   anything  after 

him,  or  play  with  his  name  in  anv  way. 

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Editorial    Comment. 


EDUCATION    SHOULD    EDUCATE. 

HTHERE  are  probably  no  "doctors" 
that  "will  disagree"  so  frequently 
or  persistently  as  the  educators  of  chil- 
dren. We  need  not  fear  that  the  human 
race  will  become  monotonous,  so  long 
as  it  receives  its  early  education  in  so 
many  different  ways. 

The  notions,  methods,  and  idiosyncra- 
sies of  teachers  are  an  interesting  study. 
They  often  arise  in  the  mind  of  some 
strong-willed  principal  or  superinten- 
dent, who  has  brooded  over  such  mat- 
ters until  he  is  sure  his  way  is  the  best, 
and  pauses  not  in  his  career  until  he 
induces  or  compels  scores  and  perhaps 
hundreds  of  teachers  to  follow  him. 

Sometimes  an  author  of  text-books 
will  experiment  upon  new  methods  of 
instruction;  his  publishers  of  course 
will  push  the  book  "for  all  that  it  is 
worth",  and  sometimes  for  much  more ; 
and  the  new  method  is  adopted  in  sev- 
eral schools  before  its  real  value  or  lack 
of  value  has  been  ascertained. 

So  we  have  all  sorts  of  things  taught 
in  all  sorts  of  ways.  One  set  of  youths 
are  given  languages  by  the  learning  of 
rules  of  grammar,  which  they  are  ex- 
pected to  remember  and  apply  when 
needed;  another  set  are  instructed  by 
furnishing  the  words  first  and  letting 
them  learn  the  grammar  afterward. 
Some  children  are  taught  to  read  by 
presenting  to  them  the  letters  one  by 
one;  others,  a  word  at  a  time;  still 
others  are  expected  to  grasp  a  sentence 
at  one  glance.  Some  tots  are  disciplined 
from^the  very  start  to  sit  still  and  mind 
their  books;  others  are  systematically 
amused,  with  a  certain  amount  of  in- 
stntction  thrown  in. 


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The  question  has  often  been  agitated 
by  certain  educators,  whether,  instead 
of  commencing  with  thought  and  work- 
ing on  into  feeling,  the  teacher  should 
not  commence  with  feeling  and  work 
into  thought.  For  instance,  it  is  pro- 
posed to  treat  children  more  as  nature 
has  treated  primitive  adults:  let  them 
feel  a  personal  interest  in  the  sun, 
moon,  stars,  trees,  plants,  shrubs,  flow- 
ers, mountains,  hills,  valleys,  groves, 
forests,  etc.,  etc.;  encourage  them  in 
talking  to  these  objects  of  nature,  and 
teach  them  ancient  myths  concerning 
them ;  and  thus  stimulate  feeling  before 
thought  is  cultivated. 

All  of  these  different  theories  show 
more  or  less  merit;  but  most  of  them 
have  a  tendency  to  run  away  from 
themselves,  and  from  the  inexorable 
fact  that  true  Education  is  Discipline. 
It  is  not  a  stuffing  process,  a  hot-house 
growth,  a  series  of  juvenile  dramas,  a 
group  of  emotional  songs,  or  a  collec- 
tion of  street  games  brought  into  the 
school-room.  It  is  not  a  series  of  long- 
winded  lecture^  given  by  fossilized  pro- 
fessors before  students  with  note-book 
in  hand.  It  is  not  alternate  pounding 
and  expounding  with  a  poor  puzzled 
child. 

It  is  the  systematizing  of  such  knowl- 
edge as  the  youth  already  possesses,  and 
the  furnishing  of  aid  in  the  gradual  and 
sure  acquirement  of  more.  It  is  the 
putting  of  all  his  present  powers  into 
healthful  action,  and  assisting  him  to 
acquire  new  ones.  It  is  not  so  much  to 
teach  him  the  thoughts  of  others,  as 
how  to  observe,  think,  and  decide  for 
himself. 

Just  so  far  as  education  departs  from 

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EVERY    WHERE. 


these  purposes  and  results,  it  does  not 
educate;  and  such  money  and  time  as 
are  laid  out  upon  it  are  to  a  great  ex- 
tent lost. 


THE      BOOB      PROBLEM. 

TTHERE  are  several  thousands  of  the 
youth  of  our  land,  to  whom  the 
term  "Boob"  has  been  applied,  by  some 
one  who  had  a  genius  for  naming.  It 
may  be  a  contraction  of  "booby",  or  a 
corruption  of  "bub",  or  a  rude  adapta- 
tion of  "babboon":  but  it  serves,  and 
is  used  more  or  less  throughout  the 
country. 

The  Boob  is  a  more  or  less  sturdy 
youth  who  has  just  cast  off  the  restraint 
of  youth,  and  has  not  yet  acquired  the 
natural  restraint  of  manhood  and  citi- 
zenship. Beyond  an  outward  show  of 
obedience  to  his  employer  or  instructor, 
he  acknowledges  no  master,  and  no 
control  whatever.  His  parents  do  not 
count,  except  in  financial  difficulties; 
constables  and  policemen  are  merely 
obstructions  to  overcome  or  evade ;  and 
people  not  Boobs,  he  considers  merely 
as  foils  for  his  fun. 

If  a  "student",  the  Boob  gets  along 
with  as  little  study  as  possible,  and  is 
satisfied  if  by  hook  or  crook  he  worries 
through  with  his  examinations  so  as  to 
make  the  required  class  next  year.  His 
ambition  is  to  join  some  college  society 
full  of  petty  villainies,  hideous  tricks, 
and  idiotic  "stunts" — instead  of  one  of 
the  studious,  genuinely  respectable  sort. 
He  tries  and  affects  to  look  down  upon 
the  large  number  of  real  students  who 
are  striving  for  real  improvement.  He 
is  liable  and,  apparently,  even  eager,  to 
acquire  habits  of  dissipation  which  may 
hang  to  him  and  ravage  within  him, 
throughout  his  life.  He  is  a  damage 
and  a  calamity  to  himself,  to  his  family, 
to  his  college,  and  to  his  country.  Both 
to  the  sociological  student,  and  to  the 
guardian  of  public  morals  and   safety. 


he  is  a  vexing  and  portentous  problem. 

If  a  pure  idler,  or  even  if  a  lad  work- 
ing in  an  office  or  shop,  the  Boob  is  no 
less  of  a  nuisance.  He  often  frequents 
public  halls,  and  tries,  in  some  disagree- 
able and  cowardly  manner,  to  make  a 
disturbance.  On  excursion-trains  or 
trolley-cars — especially  in  the  city,  and 
at  night,  he  makes  the  coaches  hideous 
with  unnecessary  clamor,  and  insulting 
actions  toward  decent  people  who  have 
bought  their  right  to  a  placid  and  unin- 
terrupted trip.  He  often  travels  in 
gangs  of  Boobs,  outnumbering  trainmen 
and  car-crews,  and  defying  them  to  pre- 
vent their  petty  villainies.  They  insult 
women,  and,  in  cowardly  numbers,  at- 
tack men  who  defend  those  under  their 
care. 

It  is  gratifying  to  know;  that  several 
hundred  of  these  animated  clods  of 
youthful  disgrace,  have  of  late  been 
hauled  off  the  cars  by  policemen,  and, 
in  spite  of  political  considerations,  sen- 
tenced to  terms  of  varied  lengths,  in  the 
work-house.  It  is  unfortunate  that  they 
could  not  have  been  consigned  for 
awhile  to  state-prison! 

The  case  of  young  Beattie,  recently 
sentenced  to  the  electric  chair,  near 
Richmond,  Va.,  for  shooting  his  wife  to 
death,  was  that  of  a  Boob.  He  was  fur- 
nished with  money  all  through  his  boy- 
hood; he  had  his  own  horses  and  car- 
riages, his  own  automobiles,  his  own 
circle!  of  disreputable  friends  in  the  so- 
called  "lower  world"  of  Richmond. 
Toward  one  of  these  friends,  he  kept  a 
disreputable  attachment,  even  after  hav- 
ing married  a  respectable  girl,  this  latter 
so  as  to  not  be  disinherited  by  his  father, 
who  had  become  disgusted  wath  his  con- 
duct. He  thought  he  w^ould  take  this 
wife  out  into  the  country  and  shoot  her 
— laying  the  crime  to  a  highwa)rman. 
His  muddled  brain,  steeped  in  alcohol, 
made  him  think  that  he  could  carry  this 
lie  safely  off — notwithstanding  the  un- 
doubtable  facts  of  the  case:  but  the 
jury,  not  wait^j,- ^Ig^yt^vT/^fe^an  to 


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voice  the  verdict,  all  shouted  "Guilty!" 
The  Van  Wormer  boys,  who,  some 
years  ago,  shot  their  uncle  at  his  very 
door  one  evening,  were  "Boobs."  Like 
hundreds  of  their  class,  they  did  not 
realize  the  many  methods  by  which 
Law,  nowadays,  ferrets  out  its  enemies 
and  violators.  They  did  not  reflect,  that 
the  telephone  is  a  bloodhound,  and  they 
would  be  tracked  before  daylight  came. 
There  are  plenty  of  problems,  in  this 
fast-flying  and  high-flying  age,  for 
straight-meaning  people  to  solve:  and 
that  of  the  Boob  is  one  of  the  most 
important.  It  is  due  to  all  classes  that 
he  should  either  be  reformed  quickly,  or 
banished  from  reputable  society. 

It  is  especially  due  to  the  large  and 
attractive  class  of  decent,  law-abiding 
boys,  who  may  thus  be  protected  from 
frequent  and  injurious  contact  with  the 
inferior  creatures. 


OUR  COY   NEIGHBOR  CANADA. 

T^HE  refusal  of  Canada  to  make  a 
"reciprocity"  deal  with  United 
States,  need  not  be  looked  upon  too 
solemnly  or  apprehensively.  There  is 
simply  an  attempted  bargain  fallen- 
through,  and  one  that  can  survive  its 
rejection,  and  be  practically  renewed  at 
a  later  date,  in  this  or  some  other  form. 

Probably  many  Canadians  voted 
against  it,  not  because  they  did  not 
want  reciprocity  of  some  sort,  but  be- 
cause they  did  not  like  something  or 
other  in  the  terms  of  this  particular 
proposition.  The  failure  of  this  will  be 
an  education  in  framing  future  ones. 

Doubtless  many  Canadians  voted 
af  ainst  it  on  account  of  the  megaphonic 
yell  that  was  raised  against  any  propo- 
sition coming  from  United  States.  This 
class  will  perhaps  turn  the  other  way, 
as  soon  as  a  louder  and  longer  and 
more  attractive  counter-yell  is  raised. 

Doubtless  many  voted  against  it  be- 
cause  they   considered   it   a   stepping- 


stone  toward  the  annexation  of  Canada 
to  this  country.  No  doubt  there  is  some 
reason  in  this  theory — although  it  is  a 
very  short  step  on  a  very  long  way. 

To  be  sure.  President  Taft  says  that 
his  experience  teaches  him  that  we  have 
"territory  enough  without  enlarging  our 
borders."  But  his  observation  must 
have  taught  him,  that  this  nation  has 
been  in  the  enlargement  business,  ever 
since  it  became  a  nation.  It  has  con- 
stantly been  turning  territories — ^mere 
colonies  on  the  start — into  states ;  it  has 
acquired  already  a  goodly  part  of  old- 
Mexico,  an  island  or  two  in  the  West 
Indies,  the  Philippines,  Alaska,  the 
Sandwich  group,  and,  many  think,  is  in 
danger  of  having  yet  to  take  over  the 
tempestuous  little  republic  of  Cuba. 
Some  of  this  acquiring,  it  has  done 
almost  in  spite  of  itself. 

.The  Hon.  Champ  Clark,  who  is  now 
Speaker  of  our  House  of  Representa- 
tives, said,  during^  discussion  of  the 
question:  "I  am  in  for  reciprocity,  be- 
cause I  hope  to  see  the  day  when  the 
American  flag  will  float  over  every 
square  foot  of  the  British  North  Ameri- 
cas, clear  to  the  North  Pole."  This 
remark  Mr.  Clark  is  said  to  have  made 
"jocularly" :  but  a  portion  of  the  Cana- 
dian press  took  it  in  earnest,  and  ex- 
ploited it  for  all  it  was  worth:  and  it 
was  no  doubt  of  considerable  value  in 
the  Canadian  campaign  that  followed. 
The  desire  for  annexation  is  said  to 
actually  exist  in  Mr.  Clark's  heart, 
according  to  his  own  personal  confes- 
sion, made  outside  of  public  speeches; 
and  there  are  a  good  many  in  both 
countries,  who  think  as  he  does. 

But  this  need  not  be  made  an  issue, 
on  either  side  of  the  line.  United 
States  is  not  gunning  for  new  countries. 
She  does  not  ask  England  to  give  up 
Canada,  or  Canada  to  secede  from  Eng- 
land and  join  Greater  America,  any 
more  than  she  is  doing  the  same  with 
Australia  or  India.uigif hfer^ypof^iti'^^' 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


timent  of  the  countries  concerned,  and 
of  the  world — ^must  decide,  when  the 
time  for  decision  comes — if  it  ever  does. 
Meanwhile,  the  fact  remains,  that  our 
two  great  countries  of  the  Western 
Temperate  Zone  Region,  ought  to  co- 
operate with  each  other  socially,  com- 
mercially, and  in  every  other  possible 
way:  and  if,  instead  of  this,  they  must 
oppose  each  other,  then,  of  course,  the 
weaker  must  eventually  lose  out. 


THE  WRECK  OF  THE  OLYMPIC. 

IT  could  not  legitimately  be  called  a 
"wreck" :  but  it  looks  well  in  a  title- 
heading,  and  the  last  ends  of  the  two 
words  alliterate  so  far  as  sound  is  con- 
cerned. It  would  have  resulted  in  a 
sure-enough  wreck,  in  the  case  of  a 
smaller  vessel,  to  be  rammed  by  a  sturdy 
and  powerful  war-cruiser. 

Every  accident  is  a  treatise  on  acci- 
dents, brim-full  of  lessons:  and  this  is 
particularly  so. 

One  is,  that  large  vessels  have  their 
perils,  as  well  as  small  ones:  and  that 
they  who  "go  down  to  the  sea"  in  enor- 
mous ships,  while  they  escape  many  of 
the  inconveniences  of  the  deep,  had  bet- 
ter make  their  wills  as  usual  before 
going. 

Another  is,  that  big  ships  ought  to 
keep  as  far  apart  as  possible,  when  sail- 
ing. If  the  Hawke  had  minded  her  busi- 
ness, and  tried  how  far  she  could  keep 
away  from  the  Olympic  instead  of  how 
near  her  she  could  safely  approach,  the 
accident  would  not  have  occurred — 
whether  her  suddenly  veering  around 
into  the  side  of  the  larger  vessel  was 
the  result  of  imperfect  machinery,  or  of 
a  drunken  steersman. 

Another  is,  that  an  ultra-big  craft 
like  the  Olympic,  holding  thousands  of 


passengers,  should  not  depend  entirely 
upon  herself  to  save  those  passengers, 
in  case  of  an  accident.  She  came  out 
all  right,  this  time :  but  what  if  she  had 
been  in  mid-ocean,  and  sustained  a  col- 
lision with  another  liner,  or  a  powerful 
tramp-steamer,  or  with  a  leviathan-ice- 
berg that  refused  to  move  an  inch  more 
than  absolutely  compelled?  A  complete 
wreck,  or  at  least  a  panic,  might  result 
in  the  loss  of  many  lives. 

Every  large  passenger-steamer  should 
have  her  convoy — sl  boat  of  respectable 
size,  within  signal,  or  at  most,  wireless, 
distance,  upon  which  she  could  depend 
for  immediate  assistance  when  needed. 
Thi^  lesser  ship  could  be  a  carrier  and 
if  necessary  a  life-boat,  all  in  one:  and 
might,  in  an  extreme  exigency,  save 
many  lives. 


CONCERNING  THE  FLY. 

T^HERE  can  be  no  denying  that  the 
little  winged  house-pest  is  a  nui- 
sance when  one  wishes  to  sleep,  to  read, 
to  eat,  or  do  anything  else,  and  there  is 
no  need  of  having  it  in  the  home,  if 
screens  are  properly  and  persistently 
used;  but  the  frenzied  campaign  just 
now  being  conducted  against  it,  will 
bear  a  certain  amount  of  analysis. 

It  may  carry  a  lot  of  microbes  to  some 
place,  but  it  also  may  take  the  same 
number  away  from  some  other  place. 
And  as  to  whether  this  live  freight  be- 
comes any  more  harmful  in  transit,  or 
is  deprived  of  the  power  of  injury — 
that  is  a  question  which  may  also  bear 
studying. 

Some  people   will  continue  to  think  * 
that  the  house-fly,  in  spite  of  its  bother- 
someness,  is  a  good  scavenger,  and  in- 
tended by  Nature  as  such. 


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The  Making  of  a  Hymn. 
By  Fanny  Crosby. 

npRUE  hymns  may  be  said,  in  one 
sense,  to  make  themselves ;  although 
they  must  be  given  human  instruments 
through  which  to  work.  No  one  should 
ever  attempt  to  write  a  hymn,  unless  the 
ideas  flow  easily  and  naturally.  But 
how  is  this  to  be  brought  about  ? — ^Some 
details  of  personal  experience  may  not 
be  uninteresting  to  the  readers  of  this 
journal — nearly  all  of  whom  are  likely 
to  be  more  or  less  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject. 

I  have  been  a  writer  of  hymns  for 
many  years,  and  the  number  of  them 
which  I  have  produced  thus  far,  extends 
into  the  thousands.  I  say  "thus  far" — 
for  though  I  am  eighty  years  old  (hymn- 
writers  should  never  hesitate  to  give 
their  age,  although  they  be  women)  I 
hope  for  and  expect  at  least  twenty 
years  more  upon  this  earth,  in  which  to 
sing  the  praises  of  my  Creator  and 
Redeemer ! 

"Take  us  into  the  hymn-workshop  or 
laboratory",  friends  sometimes  say  to 
me.  "Let  us  know  your  processes  of 
thought,  of  feeling,  of  accomplishment. 
Give  us  the  steps  you  employ,  as  nearly 
as  possible,  in  constructing  a  hymn." 

Well,  I  will,  as  accurately  as  I  can. 
Maybe  this  article  will  inspire  others 
to  write  sacred  songs  that  shall  do  good 
in  the  future. 

There  is  a  great  deal  said  nowadays, 
and  I  do  not  know  but  there  always 
has  been,  about  "moods"  in  writing. 
There  is  much  truth  in  the  doctrine. 
There  are  some  days,  or  at  least  hours, 


when  I  could  not  compose  a  hymn  if 
the  whole  world  were  laid  at  my  feet 
as  a  personal  recompense.  Fancy  writ- 
ingf  verses  when  one  has  that  "hell  of  a' 
diseases",  as  Robbie  Burns  called  it,  the 
toothache !  The  silent  cry  of  the  suffer- 
ing molar  would  run  through  it  all 
Imagine  yourself  trying  to  get  into 
sweet  accord  with  Heaven  while  your 
nerves  were  suffering  from  neuralgia  1 
It  could  not  be  done.  Sick  people  have 
written  good  poetry,  but  I  fancy  it  was 
in  their  intervals  of  partial  convales- 
cence. 

I  am  not  subject  to  very  many  un- 
pleasant sensations  on  account  of  ill 
health :  the  good  Lord  has  given  me  a 
sound  constitution,  and  a  body  which, 
though  not  particularly  strong  in  ap- 
pearance, is  fitted  to  endure.  But  there 
are  times  when  I  am  not  in  the  mood 


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K^^ecJ^^^BOgle 


lOO 


EVERY    WHERE. 


to  write,  and  when,  as  I  said  above,  it 
would  not  be  possible  for  me  immedi- 
ately to  compose  a  hymn. 

So  what  would  I  do,  if  it  were  neces- 
sary or  highly  desirable  that  a  hymn  be 
written  on  a  certain^day  or  night:  as 
for  some  occasion,  or  some  work  soon 
to  be  published? — ^If  I  were  not  in  the 
mood  to  write,  I  would  build  a  mood — 
or,  try  to  draw  one  around  me. 

I  should  sit  alone,  as  I  have  done  on 
many  a  day  and  night,  praying  God  to 
give  me  the  thoughts  and  the  feelings 
w^herewith  to  compose  my  hymn.  After 
a  time — ^perhaps  not  unmingled  with 
struggle — the  thought  would  come,  and 
I  would  soon  be  happy  in  my  work. 

It  may  seem  a  little  old-fashioned, 
to  always  begin  one's  work  with  prayer, 
but  I  never  undertake  a  hymn  without 
first  askng  the  good  Lord  to  be  my  in- 
spiration in  the  work  that  I  am  about 
to  do. 

Although  I  cannot  read  a  printed 
book,  having  been  deprived  of  sight 
almost  from  birth,  yet,  while  composing, 
I  feel  happier  and  more  at  ease,  if  I 
hold  a  small  volume  in  my  hand.  This 
may  be  a  matter  of  habit:  during  my 
many  years  of  teaching  at  the  New 
York  Institute  for  the  Blind,  I  always 
kept  a  small  book  in  my  hands ;  and  in 
reciting  my  own  poems  to  audiences,  I 
follow  the  same  method. 

When  at  last  I  have  arrived  at  the 
right  stage  of  thought  and  feeling,  and 
arrt  sure  that  I  am  in  condition  to  reach 
the  minds  and  hearts  of  my  constitu- 
ency, and  sinor  to  them  something  wor- 
thy for  them  to  hear,  I  cast  about  for 
a  few  minutes  as  to  the  measure,  and, 
possibly,  the  tune. 

Much  more  depends  upon  this,  than 
might  at  first  seem  to  be  the  case.  For 
if  there  is  a  false  accent  or  a  mistake  in 
the  metre,  the  hymn  cannot  stand  much 
chance  of  proving  a  success ;  or  at  least 
its  possibilities  are  very  much  lessened. 
Among  the  millions  of  hymns  that  have 
been  attempted  and  forgotten,  many  con- 
tain no  doubt  deep  and  pious  thought 
and  feeling,  but  have  been  crippled  and 
killed  by  tne  roughness  of  some  line,  or 
the  irregularity:  q{,  S9rne  .measure. 


Often  I  take  in  my  mind  some  tune 
already  well  known,  as  a  model,  or,  per- 
haps, more  accurately  speaking,  as  -a 
guide,  and  work  to  it.  This,  however, 
does  not  imply  that  the  tune  will  ulti- 
mately be  chosen  as  the  companion  of 
the  words:  for  it  has  probably  already 
its  own  true  and  lawful  mate,  with  which 
it  is  happy  and  useful.  Sometimes  a 
tune  is  furnished  me  for  which  to  write 
the  words. 

"Blessed  Assurance"  was  made  in 
this   manner.     Mrs.    Knapp    had   com- 


FANNY    CROSBY    WRITING    A    HYMN. 

posed  the  tune,  and  it  seemed  to  me 
one  of  the  sweetest  I  had  heard  for  a 
long  time.  She  asked  me  to  write  a 
hymn  for  it,  and  it  seemed  to  me,  while 
bringing  the  words  and  tones  together, 
that  the  air  and  the  hymn  were  intended 
for  each  other.  In  the  many  hundred 
times  that  I  have  heard  it  sung,  this 
opinion  has  been  more  and  more  con- 
firmed. 

After  any  particular  hymn  is  done,  I 
let  it  lie  for  a  few  days  in  the  writing- 
desk  of  my  mind,  so  to  speak,  until  I 
have  leisure  to  prune  it,  to  read  it 
through  with  the  eyes  of  my  memory 
and  altogether  get  it  into  as  presentable 
shape  as  possible.  I  often  cut  it  and 
trim  it  and  change  it. 

"How  can  you  remember  a  hymn?"  I 
am  often  asked,  ^'^Kf^ftiiV^ need  only 


AT    CHURCH. 


lOT 


reply  that  recollecting  is  not  entirely  a 
lost  art,  although  we  live  in  rushing 
days  of  memorandum-tablets  and  care- 
fully kept  journals  and  ledgers.  The 
books  of  the  mind  are  just  as  real  and 
tangible  as  those  of  the  desk  and  the 
library-shelves — if  we  only  will  use 
them  enough  to  keep  their  binding  flex- 
ible, and  their  delicate  pages  free  from 
dust ! 

I  have  no  trouble  in  sorting  and  ar- 
ranging my  literary  and  lyric  wares 
within  the  apartments  of  my  mind.  If 
I  were  given  a  little  while  in  which  to 
do  it,  I  could  take  down  from  its 
shelves  hundreds  if  not  thousands  of 
hymns,  that  I  have  written,  during  the 
sixty  years  in  which  I  have  been  prais- 
ingr  my  Redeemer  through  this  medium 
of  song.  Do  not  let  go  to  decay  and 
ruin  those  vast  interior  regions  of 
thought  and  feeling,  good  brother  or 
sister!  Your  memory  would  be  much 
to  you  if  you  were  ever  deprived  of 
some  of  the  organs  of  sense  that  now 
so  distract  you  from  deep  and  continued 
thought. 

After  the  hymn  is  finished^  and  tran- 
scribed by  some  friend,  it  waits  for  its 
tune,  and  steadfastly  hopes  that  it  will 
succeed  in  making  a  matrimonial  alli- 
ance, and  a  good  one.  I  have  generally 
had  the  advantage  of  very  sympathetic 
and  talented  composers.  Ainong  the 
first  of  these  was  the  late  William  B. 
Bradbury — who  was  already  noted  as 
an  author  of  hjmin-music. 

After  Mr.  Bradbury's  death,  I  wrote 
many  hymns  for  W.  H.  Doane,  who 
composed  much  beautiful  music.  One 
day  he  came  to  me  hurriedly,  and  ex- 
claimed, "Fanny,  I  have  just  forty  min- 
utes to  catch  the  train  for  Cincinnati; 
during  that  time  you  must  write  me  a 
hymn,  and  give  me  a  few  minutes  to 
catch  the  train." 

He  hummed  the  melody  to  which  he 
wanted  the  words  written;  and  in  fif- 
teen minutes  I  gave  thent  to  him,  and 
he  started  away.  Upon  his  arrival  home 
he  published  them;  and  I  have  been 
told  upon  good  authority  that  the  hymn 
is  now  sung  wherever  Christian  music 
is  known.     It  has  been  translated  into 


FITTING    A    HYMN    TO    A    TUNE. 

eight  or  nine  different  languages,  in- 
cluding even  Hindu  and  Chinese.  Many 
of  the  readers. of  this  paper  are  familiar 
with  it.     It  begins  as  follows: 

"Safe  in  the  arms  of  Jesus, 
Safe  on  His  gentle  breast. 

There  by  His  love  overshadowed. 
Sweetly  my  soul  shall  rest." 

I  could  relate  scores  of  incidents  con- 
nected with  this  hastily-written  hymn. 
One  old  lady  in  Scotland  said  to  Mr. 
Sankey :  "When  ye  gang  back  to  Amer- 
ica, gi'e  Fanny  Crosby  my  love,  an'  tell 
her  an  auld  Scot's  mither  sends  her 
blessin'.  The  last  hymn  my  daughter 
sang  before  she  died,  puir  dear  sweet 
girl,  was  that  one." 

Sometimes  the  thoughts  and  feelings 
of  many  years  will  concentrate  in  a  few 
minutes — especially  if  there  exists  some 
pressing  necessity;  and  I  suppose  Mr. 
Doane's  haste  helped  me  in  writing  a 
hymn  for  which  the  people  evidently 
were  waiting. 

I  hope  no  one  will  think  me  vain  in 
mentioning  these  incidents;  they  are 
intended  just  as  a  part  of  the  descrip- 
tion of  my  varying  methods.  Perhaps 
if  I  had  worked  longer  on  the  hymn,  I 
might  not  have  done  so  well. 

Mr.  Ira  B.  Sankey  has  set  many  of 
my  hymns  to^  music,  and  I  have  found 
in  him  an  acceptable  successor  to  the 
sainted  Bradbury,  tized  by  kj^v^^v  i^ 


I02 


EVERY   WHERE. 


A  Story-Sermon. 

'TEXT:  "Let  him  that  thinketh  he 
standeth  take  heed  lest  he  fall." 

It  was  a  winter  night  at  the  residence 
of  Frederick  Morgan — richest  fanner  in 
town.  Supper  had  been  cleared  away, 
and  the  family  basked  in  their  large 
living-room — all  comfortable  and  happy. 
Some  of  them  were  reading;  others 
playing  games;  still  others  gossiping  a 
little;  all  pleasant  and  harmonious  to- 
gether. 

The  open  fire-place — a  grand  old  cav- 
ern in  which  many  hundred  tree-trunks 
had  disappeared  forever,  now  had  with- 
in it  a  glistening  colony  of  flames  that 
crept  skyward  as  if  they  belonged  in 
the  regions  whence  came  the  sunbeams 
and  the  lightning.  There  was  nothing 
lacking  to  enhance  the  comfort  outside, 
except  a  driving  blizzard  of  a  snow- 
storm ;  and  almost  before  the  want  was 
felt  by  any  one,  there  came  a  dash  of 
gale-tortured  flakes  against  the  win- 
dows. 

"Pretty  well  fixed  we  all  are,  in  here", 
remarked  Morgan  to  his  wife,  who  sat 
at  a  work-table,  with  some  kind  of  sew- 
ing, in  which  love-magnetized  stitches 
were  put  for  thq  benefit  of  the  rest  of 
the  family.  "Pretty  comfortable.  I  met 
old  Elder  Whitlock  about  the  middle  of 
the  afternoon,  and  he  wanted  me  to  go 
over  to  the*  prayer-meeting  tonight. 
Funny.  *\Vhat  do  I  want  of  prayer- 
meetings,  such  weather  as  this?'  I  asked. 
'Home  is  prayer-meeting  enough  for  me. 
When  I  get  my  family  all  around  me, 
on  a  cold  winter  night,  with  everything 
nice  and  comfortable  in  the  room,  I 
don't  need  any  other  meeting,  now  I  can 
tell  you.' " 

The  wife  sewed  on,  in  silence.  She 
was  really  of  the  opinion  that  a  little 
asking  of  the  divine  aid  w^as  a  good 
thing,  once  in  a  while.  But  her  husband 
was  inclined)  to  skepticism  in  those  mat- 
ters, and  his  strong  influence  had  rather 
inclined  her  that  way.  Still,  she  sewed 
on  in  silence. 

"I  met  Doctor  Davis,  toiling  along 
through  the  snow,  on  my  way  home 
from  the  postoffice",  continued  Farmer 


Morgan.  "He  looked  tired,  and  half 
sick  himself.  'Well,  Doctor,  who  is 
there  out  this  way  that  thinks  he's  under 
the  weather?'  I  asked.  'It's  Turner,  two 
miles  east  of  you',  he  answered.  *I  wish 
you'd  go  in  and  see  him.  He's  badly 
off.' — ''It's  half  imagination,  and  the 
other  half  laziness',  says  I.  'If  he'd 
take  care  of  himself  as  he  ought  to,  and 
quit  thinking  he  zvas  sick,  he  wouldn't 
be  sick  at  all.' — The  Doctor  shook  his 
head  and  drove  on. — 'Doctor,'  I  halloaed 
after  him,  'when  you  want  to  see  a  real 
nice,  healthy  family,  that  doesn't  have  a 
hard  fit  of  sickness  from  one  year's  end 
to  another,  walk  into  my  house — pro- 
vided you  won't  charge  anything  for 
coming.' — He  shook  his  head  again  and 
drove  on."  And  the  wealthy,  prosper- 
ous farmer  laughed  again,  more  loudly 
than  ever. 

The  big  fireplace  blazed  brighter  than 
before:  it  really  outdid  itself.  The 
children  looked  rosier  and  happier  than 
usual.  Even  the  cat  purred  more  loudly 
than  was  his  wont,  and  rolled  in  glee 
as  the  prettiest  little  daughter  of  the 
family  came  past  and  petted  him.  The 
great  wailing  blizzard  outside  grew 
more  and  more  noisy,  and  added  to  the 
comparative  comfort  within  the  house. 
"Nothing  like  it",  laughed  the  farmer, 
as  he  looked  about  him.  "Good  sensible 
straightforward  living.  Better  than  all 
the  doctors,  and  all  the  meetings,  and 
all  the  sentiment,  and  all  the  religion, 

in  the  world." 

****** 

But  just  before  she  went  to  bed  that 
night,  the  prettiest  daughter  of  the 
house — an  especial  pet  of  her  father — 
was  troubled  a  little  with  her  breath- 
ing. The  mother  gave  her  something 
to  relieve  it,  but  it  appeared  to  have  no 
eflFect.  A  bright,  feverish  spot  appeared 
on  each  cheek — the  most  of  which  was 
pale  as  death.  The  little  one  began  to 
cry:  she  was  suffering  terribly — as  she 
had  never  done  before.  She  looked 
wonderingly  and  almost  reproachfully 
at  her  father,  because  he  did  not  do 
something  to  help  her.  Alas! — there 
seemed  nothing  that  he  could  do! 

"Hitch  'RoaptiztObfheiaatt)^  as  quick 


AT   CHURCH. 


103 


as  you  can,  and  bring  him  around  to 
the  front  gate",  he  shouted,  to  one  of 
the  boys.  "Throw  in  plenty  of  robes. 
I  must  have  Dr.  Davis  here  as  soon  as 
I  can  bring  him !" 

That  trip  was  a  terrible  contrast  to 
the  warmth,  the  comfort,  andi  the  gen- 
eral enjoyment  of  an  hour  before.  The 
storm  was  still  on;  the  horse — ^most 
powerful  in  the  farmer's  ample  stable — 
floundered  and  plunged  through  the 
snow,  urged  by  almost  frenzied  lashings 
of  the  whip.  The  cold  crept  through 
Farmer  Morgan's  overcoat:  he  did  not 
try  to  keep  it  out.  The  wind  threw 
great  handfuls  of  snow  in  his  face:  he 
brushed  them  away  and  kept  on.  How 
different  from  when  the  cold  was  sting- 
ing the  people  on  their  way  to  the  meet- 
ing, and  the  wind  was  throwing  snow 
at  his  shadow  through  the  well-defended 
windows ! 

Dr.  Davis,  tired  and  half-supperless 
as  he  was,  jumped  into  the  cutter  and 
rushed  home  with  him.  He  tried  to 
encourage  the  anxious  father  upon  hear- 
ing the  symptoms,  but  it  was  easy,  for 
one  so  intent,  to  catch  a  note  of  uncer- 
tainty and  anxiety  in  his  voice. 

"Roan"  went  into  thq  stable  steaming 
at  every  pore:  he  had  earned  a  good 
night's  rest,  if  not  a  still  longer  one. 
The  farmer  rushed  into  the  house  and 
The  Room. 

The  little  one;  was  still  suffering  ter- 
ribly, and  calling  for  her  father.  The 
mother  was  on  her  knees  by  the  bed. 

Dr.  Davis  made  a  careful  examina- 
tion, and  looked  pityingly  at  the  parents. 

"It's  an  even  chance  between  life  and 
death",  he  said,  solemnly. 

The  farmer  kneeled  beside  his  wife. 

«  *  *  «  ♦  4c 

It  was  life :  the  little  one  grew  better 
next  day.  But  Farmer  Morgan  did  not 
forget  the  lesson  he  had  been  taught  so 
suddenly  in  those  few  hours  of  terrible, 
crushing  anxiety.  He  called  on  Turner, 
to  that  poor  fellow's  great  surprise,  and 
asked  him  if  there  was  anything  he  could 
do  for  him;  he  attended  meeting  next 
Sunday,  and  soon  became  a  communi- 
cant of  the  church — an  action  in  which 
his  wife  only  too  gladly  joined  him ;  and 


was  often  heard  to  say,  when  called 
upon  to  speak  in  the  prayer-meeting, 
"Let  him  that  thinketh  he  standeth  take 
heed  lest  he  fall." 


"Awful"    Gardner. 

'T'  HE  great  religious  revivals  of  1858, 
were  marked  by  the  conversion  of 
a  prize-fighter  whose  name  was  known 
among  sporting  men,  from  one  end  of 
the  country  to  the  other.  This  was 
Orville  Gardner,  whose  fistic  prowess 
had  been  the  means  of  having  his 
first  name  changed,  in  common  speech 
among  his  associates,  from  "Orville", 
to  "Awful". 

If  Jeffries  or  Fitzsimmons,  or  Corbett 
should  now  desert  his  old  associates, 
join  one  of  the  churches,  and  work 
henceforth  with  might  and  main  for 
the  Gospel,  it  would  produce  no  more 
of  an  excitement  than  it  did  when  Gard- 
ner changed  the  whole  course  of  his 
life.  If  "Kid  McCoy"  should  go  back 
to  his  father,  the  Baptist  clergyman,  and 
work  henceforth  heart  and  soul  in  the 
reclaiming  of  lives  from  the  great  gulf 
of  future  eternal  woe,  it  would  not  be 
mentioned  in  the  papers  with  more  cir- 
cumstantial detail,  than  the  affair  in 
question. 

At  the  time  of  his  conversion  he  had 
three  men  in  training,  for  forthcoming 
prize-fights,  and  was  giving  them  les- 
sons and  attending  to  their  physical  wel- 
fare, each  day.  In  the  midst  of  this 
work,  he  was  urged  one  night  to  attend 
a  religious  meeting.  He  at  first  de- 
clined, saying  that  he  hadn't  entered  a 
house  of  worship  for  years,  and  he 
would  feel  awkward  and  queer  in  such 
a  place. 

After  more  urging,  he  finally  con- 
sented, saying  it  might  be  amusing  and 
give  him  a  little  fun  to  see  how  the 
deluded  people  behaved. 

It  proved  to  be  anything  but  an 
amusement  to  him :  he  saw,  as  the  meet- 
ing progressed,  what  a  terrible  sinner 
he  was  and  had  been:  and  before  the 
evening  was  over,  he  rose  and  asked 
for  the  prayers  Qlelh^^^ugomtipn. 


104 


EVERY   WHERE. 


The'  next  night  he  went  to  the  meet- 
ing again,  and  the  next ;  and  each  time, 
he  asked  for  prayers. 

But  upon  the  third  night,  he  found 
peace;  and  he  immediately  turned  all 
his  energy  toward  what  he  now  consid- 
ered as  the  great  worlc  of  his  life — the 
reclaiming  of  those  who  were  in  the 
same  deplorable  state  that  he  had  been. 

A  messenger  called  at  his  lodgings: 
he  was  from  the  men  Gardner  had  had 
in  training  for  the  prize-fight.  They 
wanted  to  know  if  he  was  not  coming 
back  to  them. 

"Yes,  I  am  going  back  to  them,"  re- 
plied the  ex-prize-fighter — for  such  he 
now  was — "but  not  to  give  them  box- 
ing-lessons. I  shall  try  to  get  them  to 
reform,  and  embrace  religion." 

His  success  was  marvelous,  among 
those  with  whom  he  had  been  one  of 
the  most  zealous  of  sinners.  He  knew 
how  to  talk  to  them,  and  to  make  them 
understand  him;  and  he  put  the  truths 
of  religion  into  the  racy  vernacular  of 
the  prize-ring.  "Give  the  devil  a  crack 
under  the  ribs,  now!"  he  used  to  say: 
"don't  let  him  git  you  down.  But  if  he 
does  git  ye  o\\  your  back,  bring  up  on 
yer  feet  ag'in  as  soon  as  you  can,  an' 
beat  him  in  the  next  round." 

A  very  staid  and  rather  aristocratic 
clergyman  who  was  accustomed  to  call- 
ing a  spade  a  longitudinal  piece  of  iron 
and  steel,  attached  to  a  handle  of  wood, 
and  used  for  making  indentations  in  the 
earth,  once  invited  him  into  his  pulpit, 
not  realizing,  as  he  afterwards  said, 
that  the  man's  methods  were  so  pro- 
nounced. He  was  somewhat  startled 
to  hear  the  new  evangelist  say, 

"My  friends,  never  put  on  the  gloves, 
when  you  are  fightin'  with  sin.  Go  at 
it  with  bare  knuckles,  an'  never  stop  till 
you've  made  a  hole  in  it,  as  big  as  both 
fists.  It's  got  its  trainers  an'  seconds 
all  around  it,  an'  is  ready  for  a  big  mill 
with  you,  every  day:  but  keep  on  an' 
you'll  knock  it  out." 

There  is  no  estimating  the  good  that 
this  reformed  prize-fighter  did:  they 
quote  him  to  this  day  in  the  Bowery 
missions,  and  tell  of  the  things  he  ac- 
complished. 


Some  Prayers. 

Q\  FTEN  the  preacher  preaches  through 
his  prayers.  While  seeming  to  m- 
struct  the  Lord,  he  is  really  instructing 
his  congregation.  The  listener  may  for 
the  time  be  more  amused  than  instructed 
or  thanj  soothed  into  a  reverential  atti- 
tude when  he  hears  his  minister  giving 
the  Lord  a  whole  lot  of  information  in 
his  prayer.  Sometimes  this  is  done  be- 
cause .the  occasion  forbids  any  other 
mode  of  reaching  the  hearer.  Such  was 
the  situation  of  Edward  Everett  Hale 
as  chaplain  of  the  Senate  of  United 
States,  when  he  prayed  that  the  Lord 
would  guard  the  treasury  of  the  coun- 
try :  for  he  feared  the  present  Congress- 
men would  not.  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe 
tells  the  story  of  a  zealous  Whig  minis- 
ter of  New  Haven  who,  during  the  occu- 
pation of  the  town  by  the  British,  was 
ordered  to  offer  public  prayers  for  the 
king,  which  he  did  as  follows :  "O  Lord, 
bless  Thy  servant,  King  George,  and 
grant  unto  him  wisdom  ;  for  Thou  know- 
est,  O  Lord,  he  needs  it."  All  the  patri- 
ots present,  agreed  to  the  proposition. 

Others  besides  this  \Vhig  minister 
have  made  their  political  proclivities 
felt  in  prayer.  Parson  Eaton  of  Harps- 
well,  Me.,  in  the  time  of  the  embargo, 
training  as  he  did  in  the  opposite  party, 
prayed  for  the  President  of  these  United 
States,  as  was  more  commonly  done  then 
than  now:  "Forasmuch,  O  Lord,  as 
Thou  hast  commanded  us  to  pray  for  our 
enemies,  we  pray  for  the  President  of 
these  United  States  that  his  heart  may 
be  turned  to  just  counsels,"  etc.  Some- 
times no  doubt  the  petitioner  may  not 
be  fully  aware  of  all  the  humor  that 
lurks  in  the  situation  or  if  he  feels  it 
most  intensely  may  underrate  the  powers 
of  his  listeners  to  take  it  in  as  he  does. 
Campmeeting  John  Allen,  grandfather 
of  the  famous  Nordica,  being  one  day 
introduced  into  the  Maine  legislature 
for  the  purpose  of  invoking  the  blessing 
of  Almighty  God  upon  that  august 
assembly,  prayed  for  them  most  fer- 
vently as  "sinners  far  worse  than  those 
on  whom  the  tower  of  Siloam  fell." — 
Morning  5'^ar.L3,g,t,zedby  ^v^v^viv 


Lack  of  Air  Killed  Moody. 

IT  was  only  a  few  weeks  before  he 
died,  that  I  had  my  last  look  at  Mr. 
Moody.  He  was  speaking  to  a  large 
audience  in  one  of  the  churches,  and 
commanding  their  breathless  attention. 
His  shrewd  common-sense,  delicious 
humor,  and  deep  but  good-natured  de- 
votion, held  the  audience  as  they  had 
seldom  been  before.  When  you  remem- 
bered the  good  he  had  done  in  both 
hemispheres,  and  its  far-spreading  re- 
sults, and  saw  him  there,  still  pounding 
away  on  the  same  grand  old  theologi- 
cal anvil,  you  could  not  but  feel  that, 
mentally  and  spiritually,  he  was  the 
peer  of  any  man  that  lives  on  this  great 
green  earth. 

But — physically! — I  know  I  will  be 
met  right  here  by  some  who  will  say: 
"What  matters  a  man's  physique,  if  his 
heart  and  soul  are  all  right?"  To  this 
I  will  answer — ^In  the  case  of  Mr. 
Moody,  ever  and  ever  and  ever  so  much. 
He  would  have  been  sixtythree  years 
old  on  the  5th  of  February  next.  He 
should  have  had  at  least  ten  to  fifteen 
years  of  good  work  before  him.  With 
all  the  accumulations  of  ability  and  in- 
fluence of  the  past  years — with  all  the 
Northfield  facilities — with  all  the  van- 
tage-ground which  he  possessed  in  the 
principal  cities  of  the  world — how  much 
he  could  have  done  in  those  next  ten 
or  fifteen  years! 

Looking  at  him  from  a  physician's 
point  of  view,  asf  he  stood  on  the  plat- 
form, this  is  what  I  saw :  a  short,  thick 
man,  almost  startlingly  portly ;  so  much 
so  as  to  inspire  at  very  first  glance  a 
feeling  of  danger  and  apprehension  on 


his  account.  His  breathing  was  short 
and  difficult — not  long,  easy  and  nat- 
ural, as  that  of  an  orator  should  be. 
His  motions,  with  such  large  masses  of 
flesh  to  neutralize  the  action  of  the 
muscles,  were  difficult  and  restrained. 
Almost  every  move  and  look  showed 
that  the  great  preacher  was  suffering 
for  air.  Indeed,  he  once,  during  the 
discourse,  begged  that  some  of  the  gas- 
lights under  the  gallery  might  be  turned 
out,  so  there  might  not  be  so  much  of 
the  precious  fluid  unnecessarily  con- 
sumed. Upon  my  word,  I  would  not 
have  been  surprised  to  see  the  mighty 
expounder  of  spiritual  life  fall  in  a  fit  of 
apoplectic  death,  before  his  sermon  was 
through ! 

Upon  inquiry,  I  found  that  he  could 
not  easily  climb  a  hill  on  foot,  for  short- 
ness of  breath;  that  a  carriage  was 
required,  even  at  Northfield,  to  take 
him  from  his  house  to  hall  or  church, 
on  account  of  a  hill  in  the  road ;  and, 
in  fact,  that  he  was  unable  to  undergo 
any  brisk  exercise  whatever,  that  re- 
quired any  exertion. 

What  would  have  saved  Mr.  Moody, 
you  ask?  Well,  of  course,  I  do  not 
mean  to  speak  ex  cathedra,  for  I  never 
examined  his  case  at  close  hand ;  but  I 
thoroughly  believe  that  if  he  had,  dur- 
ing the  first  part  of  his  life,  taken  more 
air  and  exercise,  and  less  food,  his 
sturdy-looking  body  would  not  have 
been  so  frail  as  it  proved  to  be,  when 
he  was  sixtytwo  years  old.  If  I  could 
have  known  him,  and  inveigled  him 
into  spending  two  or  three  hours  a  day 
in  the  open  air,  running,  jumping,  roll- 
ing, or  even  walking  briskly ;  he  would 
have  gathereiigiwgf %  ^tiH4t>g$^  and   les- 


105 


io6 


EVERY  WHERE. 


flesh,  and  acquired  a  much  better  body 
in  which  to  do  his  glorious  work.  With 
his  natural  mingled  common-sense  and 
enthusiasm,  he  would  have  soon  become 
a  believer  in  not  only  muscular,  but 
something  much  more  important — ^hy- 
gienic Christianity. 

I  should  have  had  him  breathe-in 
large  and  long  draughts  of  air,  before 
the  delivery  of  each  discourse;  spend- 
ing perhaps  an  hour  every  time  in  ab- 
sorbing the  life-sustaining  fluid.  This 
of  itself  would  have  gone  far  to  pre- 
vent that  crowding  of  the  organs  of 
the  heart  that  finally  eventuated  in  his 
death. 

When  in  that  western  city  he  was 
stricken,  it  was  Nature's  signal  to 
him — ordering  him  to  cease  work  and 
devote  himself  to  the  recovery  of  his 
health.  Here,  again,  I  do  not  want  to 
give  any  positive  opinion,  as  I  did  not 
see  him  after  that  portentous  event; 
but  I  learned  from  the  papers  that  after 
starting  for  home  by  train,  stricken  as 
he  was,  he  "ate  a  hearty  breakfast"  in 
one  of  the  railroad-station,  dining-halls. 
Mr.  Moody  should  have  been  put  upon 
very  carefully  selected  sustenance,  after 
the  terrible  warning  which  had  been 
given  him.  People  are  so  apt  to  think 
that  if  those  they  have  in  charge  can 
get  up  a  good  appetite,  and  indulge  it, 
to  its  fullest  extent,  it  is  a  sign  that 
they  are  growing  better! 

I  have  often  known  that  one  "hearty 
meal"  to  take  the  heart  all  out  of 
Nature  in  trying  to  repair  the  system; 
and  to  undo  in  half  an  hour  all  that 
had  been  accomplished  for  the  good  of 
the  patient,  in  months. 

I  have  no  fault  to  find  with  his  med- 
ical treatment  after  returning  home, 
because  I  do  not  know  what  it  was; 
but  have  read  that  his  physicians  averred 
there  was  no  structural  disease  of  the 
heart,  and  that  they  believed  he  would 
ultimately  recover.  But  I  have  no  hesi- 
tancy in  saying,  that  if  he  had  been 
in  my  care,  I  should  have  used  the  same 
methods  that  have  already,  to  my  own 
certain  knowledge,  saved  so  many  thou- 
sands of  people. 

I  will  repeat  what  I  said  then — that 


I  mention  public  men  in  this  way  onlj 
in  order  that  their  prominence  may 
make  the  lessons  I  want  to  teach,  more 
impressive  upon  the  minds  of  my  coun- 
trymen. 

A  Retired  Physician. 


Refusing  to  Grow  Old. 

<4l  NEVER  felt  such  a  shock  in  my 
life'',  said  a  society  woman  the 
other  day.  "I  happened  while  I  was 
South  to  hear  of  a  couple  of  old  school- 
mates and  intimate  friends  of  my  girl- 
hood, who  were  stopping  at  the  

Hotel,  and  thought  how  delightful  it 
would  be  to  be  together  again.  So  1 
engaged  my  rooms  at  the  same  place, 
and  when  I  arrived  found  myself  in  a 
perfect  nest  of  old  '  friends — people 
whom  I  had  not  seen  for  years  and 
years.  My  dear!  they  were  all  old 
women!  regular  old  ladies  who  wore 
long  trailing  skirts  in  the  morning  and 
sat  over  fancy-work  talking  gossip  in 
the  hotel  parlors  throughout  the  day. 
They  drove  a  little,  perhaps,  and  took 
what  they  called  constitutionals,  short 
little  walks  of  half  an  hour  or  so,  and 
each  one  with  some  pet  ailment  which 
she  discussed  ad  natiseam.  I  hardly 
knew  at  first  whether  to  feel  ashamed 
or  proud  of  myself,  I  felt  so  juvenile 
in  comparison — but  I  ended  by  being 
most  self-satisfied. 

"I  laugh  now  to  think  how  I  sur- 
prised them!  My  first  appearance  was 
in  the  evening,  and  then,  of  course,  the 
difference  was  not  so  marked,  although 
even  then  they  all  complimented  nie 
upon  my  looks,  and  asked  how  I  man- 
aged to  keep  so  young.  But  the  next 
morning  when  I  came  down  to  break- 
fast in  short  skirt,  shirt-waist  and  leg- 
gings, with  my  golfbag  full  of  sticks, 
and  announced  that  I  was  going  to  bicy- 
cle over  to  the  golf  links  for  a  game, 
their  amazement  knew  no  bounds.  At 
first  I  think  they  were  inclined  to  be 
shocked,  but  after  a  day  or  two  they 
began  to  feel  a  funny  kind  of  pride  in 
my  achievements;  it  was  like  being 
young      and  uigitipc^^-d^a^vj^cariously. 


THE    HEALTH-SEEKER. 


107 


When  strangers  arrived  they  would 
endeavor  to  draw  me  out  about  what 
I  had  been  doing  that  morning,  and 
then  would  invariably  mention,  in  a 
naif  sort  of  way,  that  we  were  at  school 
together.  That  always  made  me  smile 
inwardly,  as  I  followed  the  train  of 
their  tteughts,  and  detected  their  inno- 
cent and  personal  vanity  in  my  per- 
formances. 

"But  this  was  not  all.  After  I  had 
been  there  for  a  week  I  began  to  see 
quite  a  change  in  my  old  ladies — one  of 
the  most  venturesome  came  down  in  a 
curtailed  skirt,  which  had  evidently 
been  chopped  off  by  her  maid,  and  boldly 
announced  that  she  was  going  to  take 
a  bicycle  lesson.  Another  borrowed  my 
stock  for  a  pattern,  and  discussed  the 
cut  of  skirts,  while  still  another  hired  a 
meek-looking  nag,  and  ambled  about  for 
an  hour  or  so  after  breakfast,  and 
talked  volubly  and  extensively  of  the 
exhilaration  of  exercise. 

"In  short  I  effected  a  revolution,  and 
when  I  departed  after  a  fortnight's  visit 
I  left  the  little  community  in  a  state  of 
evolution.  To  what  lengths  they  will 
carry  their  enthusiasm,  and  how  youth- 
ful they  will  become,  there  is  no  tell- 
ing, for  the  exaggerations  of  a  convert 
are  well  known,  and  in  that  delicious 
and  stimulating  climate  eternal  youth 
may  well  be  deemed  possible." 


Hand-Healers. 


nn  HERE  is  a  great  deal  of  magtietism 
in  the  air.  Some  of  it  evidently 
seeks  storage  in  individuals,  and  from 
these  it  can  be  communicated  to  a  few 
of  their  fellow-mortals. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  a  vigorous 
current  of  electricity  often  breaks 
through  some  congestion,  and  sets  the 
processes  of  life  going  again.  Even  a 
mechanical  battery  sometimes  does  that. 
And  once  in  a  while  a  human  being  is 
naturally  constituted  so  that  he  can 
relieve  some  cases  by  transmitting  to 
them  a  part  of  the  magnetism  or  elec- 
tricity within  him. 

After  he  has  performed  a  few  cures. 


more  or  less  permanent,  an  intense  hope 
and  faith  are  excited  in  the  minds  of 
most  of  the  invalids  for  miles  around; 
and  they  come  in  throngs,  longing  and 
intending  to  be  cured.  This  hope  and 
expectation  itself  goes  a  great  way 
toward  starting  the  sluggish  blood  once 
more  upon  its  course,  and  inducing  the 
machinery  of  nature  to  resume  its 
wonted  motion. 

Under  these  circumstances  Schlatter 
no  doubt  benefited  scores  and  hun- 
dreds, at  Denver;  a  laborer  in  Michi- 
gan created  similar  excitement ;  and  Mr. 
Newell,  a  thirty-year-old  New  England 
blacksmith,  strong,  robust,  and  full  of 
health  and  magnetic  vitality,  left  the 
forge,  and  coined  from  fifty  to  a  hun- 
dred dollars  per  day,  by  the  laying  of 
his  hands  upon  afflicted  persons. 

Every  Where  once  saw,  in  a  small 
Massachusetts  city,  a  pathetic  sight. 
Scores  of  people,  with  all  sorts  of  ail- 
ments, from  rheumatism  to  deafness, 
thronged  the  hotel  corridor,  waiting  for 
their  turn  to  come.  The  "healer"  was 
the  above-mentioned  unassuming  coun- 
try blacksmith,  who  did  not  pretend'  to 
extraordinary  powers,  but  was  willing 
to  make  an  effort  to  cure  everybody,  by 
laying  his  hands  upon  them  for  a  little 
w^hile — at  two  dollars  each  if  they  could 
afford  it — free,  if  they  were  too  poor  to 
pay.  He  did  not  pretend  certainty  of 
curing  them ;  he  merely  hoped  it  would 
do  them  good. 

Some  of  them  went  away  evidently 
feeling  better;  more  hoping  that  they 
would  feel  better ;  and  most  feeling  no 
ways  different  than  before.  Some  after- 
wards found  themselves  benefited ;  more, 
perhaps,  not.  In  a  few  cases.  Every 
Where  was  told,  rheumatic  parties  had 
upon  receiving  the  shock  dropped  their 
crutches,  and  walked,  ran,  danced  or 
capered,  according  as  thej  sudden  relief 
prompted  them  to  do. 

But  however  any  one  might  be  tem- 
porarily relieved  by  this  beneficent  pro- 
cess, he  could  be  sure  that  if  the  same 
neglect  of  the  laws  of  hygiene  that  in- 
duced the  disease  at  first,  was  contin- 
ued, the  malady  would  sooner  or  later 

return.  Uigmzed  by  VJWVJ^lW 


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Daniel  Webster's  Personal  Habits. 

IJE  always  wore  the  Whig  "blue-and- 
buff",  while  in  debate.  He  is  de- 
scribed as  having  had  "a  stalwart  frame, 
a  dignified  manner,  and  a  full  sonorous 
voice;  while  his  open  and  commanding 
countenance,  full  of  intellect  and  pas- 
sion, mirrored  all  the  glow  his  eloquence 
could  express." 

But  early  the  next  morning  after  one 
of  these  wonderful  speeches,  he  would 
often  be  seen  in  the  old  *'Marsh  mar- 
ket", followed  by  a  servant  carrying  a 
large  basket.  Uix)n  his  arrival,  all  the 
mongers  pricked  up  their  ears  and  pre- 
pared for  an  exchange  of  wit  and  a 
traffic  of  information ;  for  the  great 
orator  knew  as  much  about  their  wares 
as  they  did  themselves.  They  never 
tried  to  fool  him  but  once  on  the  qual- 
ity of  the  many  and  various  provisions 
he  bought. 

He  was,  however,  sometimes  careless 
about  paying  his  accounts,  in  the  mul- 
tiplicity of  other  matters  in  which  he 
was  engaged.  Tradesmen  often  had  to 
sue  him;  and  then  he  always  "paid 
up"  promptly,  evidently  considering  the 
costs  as  a  fee  paid  for  being  reminded 
of  the  debt.  Once  a  butcher  sued  him, 
and  after  that,  discontinued  sending 
meat  to  his  house.  "What  do  you 
mean  by  withholding  my  supplies?" 
complained  the  statesman,  when  he  met 
the  butcher,  one  day.  "Why,  I  sued 
you,  and  I  supposed  you  wouldn't  want 
to  trade  with  me  any  more",  was  the 
reply.  "Well,  you  got  your  money  at 
last,  with  full  pay  for  all  your  trouble, 
didn't  you  ?"  demanded  Webster.  "Yes", 
repliecf  the  other.  "Well,  you  will 
again",  said  Webster.  "Sue  me  again, 
if    I    forget    to    pay   you.     Sue  me,  all 


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you  want  to;  but,  for  Heaven's  sake, 
don't  starve  me!" 

Once  a  tradesman,  noticing  that  Web- 
ster was  careless  and  forgetful  about 
his  accounts,  ventured  to  present  a  bill 
for  the  second  time — after  the  distin- 
guished jurist  had  already  paid  it.  As 
it  happened,  Mr.  Webster,  in  this  case, 
remembered  that  he  had  done  so;  but 
as  the  amount  was  small,  he  said  noth- 
ing, and  paid  it  over  again,  rather  than 
use  valuable  time  in  disputing  it. 

In  the  course  of  a  few  weeks,  the 
tradesman,  emboldened  by  his  former 
success,  presented  the  bill  again.  This 
time,  Webster  fixed  on  him  his  piercing 
eyes,  and  remarked,  pleasantly,  but,  it 
must  be  supposed,  rather  stingingly,  "I 
knew  you  kept  your  books  by  double 
entry;  but  when  it  comes  to  using  the 
triple  system,  you  really  must  excuse 
me."  The  other  winced  and  slunk 
away ;  and  it  is  safe  to  suppose  that  he 
went  home  and  marked  that  account  as 
paid  for  all  time. 

Webster  personally  saw  to  the  put- 
ting away  of  his  meats  and  vegetables. 
"Come  and  dine  with  me  today.  I  have 
a  splendid  haunch  of  venison  which  I 
•bought  two  weeks  ago,  and  it  has  hung 
just  long  enough  to  be  good  eating", 
he  w^ould  say  to  a  friend  whom  he  met 
on  the  street,  or  in  the  Senate-chamber. 
"I've  just  received  a  fine  salmon  from 
the  Kennebec:  come  and  help  me  get 
away  with  it":  he  would  say  to  an- 
other. 

He  used  every  spring  to  go  down  the 
Potomac  with  a  party  of  friends  to 
catch  shad,  which  he  opened,  nailed  on 
oaken  boards,  and  cooked  before  large 
wood  fires.  He  could  make  fine  chow- 
der, with  the  addition  of  rock  cod, 
crackers    and    g^JzecPS^r^Si^^i^iaving 


WORLD-SUCCESS. 


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piled  the  kettle  full  of  various  ingredi- 
ents, he  would  pour  in  half  a  gallon  of 
milk,  rub  his  hands,  and  say,  eagerly, 
"Now  for  the  fire.  As  Mrs.  Macbeth 
used  to  say,  *If  it  were  done,  when  'tis 
done,  then  'twere  well  it  were  done 
quickly.' "  His  chowders  were  always 
pronounced^  by  the  numerous  guests 
who  ate  them,  a  great  success. 

Webster  was  not  much  of  a  game- 
player.  He  occasionally  indulged  in 
whist,  but  his  partners  had  to  be  very 
indulgent  with  him,  on  these  occasions, 
for  he  played  rather  badly.  He  enjoyed 
best  the  simple  old  game  of  "seven-up." 
He  knew  nothing  of  chess,  checkers, 
backgammon,  billiards,  or  tenpins.  He 
had  the  reputation  of  never  gambling — 
although  in  his  time  the  practice  was 
very  open  and  prevalent  in  Washington. 

When  people  first  saw  him,  they  were 
generally  somewhat  disappointed  in  his 
height.  He  was  sturdy,  but  "not  near 
so  tall  as  his  reputation",  as  one  coun- 
try visitor  remarked  to  him  frankly. 
Although  pleasant  and  fascinating  in 
social  intercourse,  he,  of  course,  ap- 
peared at  his  best  whem  some  grand 
occasion  incited  him  to  put  forth  all  his 
powers.  At  other  times  he  was  often 
a  mere  parody  upon  himself. 

There  is  evidence  that  some  of  his 
grandest  flights — apparently  impromptu 
— were  the  results  of  long  thought  and 
close  study.  "How  did  you  happen  to 
think  of  that  grand  illustration — just  at 
the  right  time?"  asked  an  enthusiastic 
friend.  "I  thought  of  it  a  year  ago,  one 
day  when  I  was  fishing,  and  stored  it 
up  against  some  time  when  I  might 
want  to  use  it",  was  the  answer. 

The  grandest  day  of  his  life  was 
probably  when  he  made  his  celebrated 
reply  to  Hayne,  in  the  United  States 
Senate.  A  remark  that  he  made  after 
that  event,  is  a  great  object-lesson  for 
the  inciting  of  industry. 

"How  did  you  feel  while  delivering 
that  speech?"  some  one  asked.  His 
reply  was: 

"I  felt  as  if  everything  I .  had  ever 
heard  or  seen  or  learned  or  thought 
was  hanging  before  me,  just  within  my 
reach;   and  I  had  little  to  do  but  reach 


up  and  pluck  thunder-bolts  to  hurl  at 
my  antagonist." 

It  is  easy  to  understand,  that  the 
more  he  had  heard  and  seen  and  learned 
and  thought,  the  more  thunderbolts 
there  were  in  his  collection;  hence  all 
the  hard  work  of  the  past  came  to  the 
front  in  those  supreme  magnetic  hours. 


A  Hotel  Keeper's  "Luck." 

QNE  evening  a  man  and  his  newly- 
wedded  wife  arrived  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  drove  to  the  most  expensive 
hotel.  To  their  surprise,  they  found  it 
full — some  convention  being  at  that  par- 
ticular time  holding  in  the  city.  So 
they  drove  to  the  next  most  expensive 
hostelry.  This  also  was  running  up  to 
its  capacity,  and  not  a  room  was  to  be 
had. 

When  driving  away  from  the  fourth 
hotel,  the  man  asked  the  driver  if  he 
knew  of  any  of  the  smaller  places  where 
they  could  perhaps  make  him  comfort- 
able. The  jehu  said  he  thought  he 
knew  of  one — "kept  by  a  German." 
"Drive  us  there",  said  the  gentleman. 

The  German  was  not  used  to  the 
sight  of  such  prosperous-looking  people 
in  his  humble  hotel,  and  did  not  feel 
quite  equal  to  the  occasion — especially 
as  all  the.  best  rooms  in  his  house  were 
engaged.  "Sit  you  down  while  I  go 
and  talk  it  over  with  my  wife",  he 
replied. 

He  went  and  held  a  board-meeting 
with  his  better  half — with  whom  he  had 
not  long  before  conducted  a  restaurant, 
which  had  just  blossomed  out  into  the 
modest  little  hotel.  "They  look  like 
people  that  it  would  be  worth  while  to 
please  them",  he  said. 

The  wife  and  he  talked  it  over  for 
five  minutes,  and  then  decided  to  give 
the  new-comers,  who  looked  tired  and 
depressed,  their  own  private  rooms. 
The  youngr  German  landlord  went  back 
to  the  guest  and  his  bride,  who  still  sat 
in  the  cozy  little  parlor,  and  said:  "H 
that  you  will  wait  two  hours,  I  shall  haf 
everything  ready  for  you."  "I  will 
wait",  replied  the  gi^dW^^^^^^ 


no 


EVERY    WHERE. 


The  young  German  had  a  kind  of 
genius  for  "fixing  things  up",  and  his 
wife  was  a  w-orthy  second.  Before  the 
two  hours  came  round,  the  guests  were 
informed  that  their  rooms  were  ready. 

For  three  days  they  stayed  in  the 
miniature  hotel — in  perfect  enjoyment. 
Every  want  was  anticipated,  and  every 
request  obeyed  before  it  was  cold  on 
the  lips. 

"What  shall  we  charge  them?"  was 
the  subject  of  the  next  board-meeting. 

"Regular  rates"  proved  to  be  the  final 
decision.  "It  is  better  to  please  such  a 
man  as  that  than  to  make  a  lot  of 
money  out  of  him  because  he  gives  you 
the  chance." 

When  the  three  days  were  up,  and 
the  amount  of  the  bill  was  asked,  the 
reply  was:   "Ten  dollars." 

"Why,  I  thought  it  would  be  at  least 
fifty",  exclaimed  the  rich  man.  "We've 
had  here  what  we  >  couldn't  get  at  any 


other  hotel  for  that.  You  must  take  at 
least  fifty." 

But  the  German  insisted  on  his  regu- 
lar terms;  and  it  was  with  difficulty 
that  a  twenty-dollar  bill  was  at  last 
forced  intd  his  hand. 

The  bridegroom  had  large  business 
interests  in  New  York,  including  a 
hotel.  Some  time  after  the  occurrence 
mentioned  above,  there  rose  the  neces- 
sity of  procuring  for  it  a  new  manager. 
The  property-owner  happened  to  think 
of  the  young  German  in  Philadelphia. 
He  telegraphed  him  to  come  to  New 
York  and  look  over  the  situation. 

He  arrived  promptly,  and  the  result 
was,  that  he  managed  one,  two,  and 
finally  several  hotels;  and  a  twenty- 
dollar  bill  looks  very  small  to  him  now, 
for  he  is  worth  his  millions. 

There  are  thousands  of  people  that 
would  recognize  the  names  of  the  par- 
ties, if  we  should  publish  them. 


^:^^^^ 

^^1^^ 


Parson  Nimbus'  Philosophy. 

W  O'  drap  de  bucket  in  de  well,  but  not  cFar  to  de  watah. 

An'  let  it  hang  foh  quite  a  spell,  fo'gettin*  what  yo's  a'tah. 
When  yo'  done  win'  de  windlass  up  yo'  learns  in  jes*  a  minute 
Of  watah  yo'  won't  fin'  a  sup,  jes'  'case  dar's  nuthin'  in  it. 

Or  if  yo'  set  de  bar'l  out  when  rain  is  jes'  a  pourin', 
Den  Stan'  aroun'  an'  hang  about,  de  mighty  sto'm  adorin', 
Ef  yo'  ain't  got  de  bottom  in  dat  kaig  when  you  begin  it, 
Yo'  labor  won't  be  worf  a  pin,  dar  won't  be  nuthin'  in  it. 

Or  jes'  suppose  yo'  place  de  trap  where  Mistah  Coon  goes  walkin', 
Yo'  t'inks  yo'  is  a  lucky  chap  an'  don't  s'pect  any  balkin'. 
But  if  you  miss  to  set  de  jaw  wide  open  an'  den  pin  it, 
D|at  Mistah  Coon  won't  muss  his  paw,  de  trap  he'll  not  be  in  it. 


An'  so,  my  frien's,  I  wants  to  say,  to  make  my  meanin'  clearer. 

Half  doin'  t'ings  don't  evah  pay ;  mos'  dar  am  nevah  nearer ; 

So,  if  yo'  wants  to  get  de  prize,  jes'  set  yo'  sail  to  win  it ; 

Dar's  heaps  o*  luck  for  him  dat  tries ;  de  boat  takes  dem  dats  in  it^  ^ 

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August  20 — Railway  men  in  Great  Britain  be- 
gan to  return  to  work. 
A  $1,000,000  fire  destroyed  the  Opel  Sewing 
Machine  and  Bicycle  Works  at  Russelheim, 
Germany. 

21 — The  Cotton  bill,  with  the  steel,  iron  and 
other  amendments  added  by  the   Senate, 
passed  the  House. 
Both  Houses  of  Congress  voted  to  adjourn. 

22 — The  Special  Session  of  Congress  ad- 
journed sine  die  without  attempting  to 
pass  the  Cotton  bill  over  the  Presidents 
veto. 
The  French  Government  issued  a  firm  note, 
stating  that  French  rights  must  be  recog- 
nized in  Morocco. 
Da  Vinci's  famous  painting.  Mona  Lisa. 
was   found  missing  from   the   Louvre. 

22t — The  Postoffke  Department  ordered  that 
from  September  i.  second-class  mail  mat- 
ter should  go  by  fast  freight  instead  of  in 
mail  cars. 
Hotel  Frontenac,  at  St.  Lawrence  Park,  on 
one  of  the  Thousand  Islands,  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire. 

24— The  Constituent  .Assembly  of  Portugal 
elected  Manuel  de  Arriaga,  (Attorney 
General  in  the  Provisional  Government), 
President. 

25 — House  Leader  Underwood  severely  criti- 
cised President  Taft's  tariff  vetoes. 
Aviator  H.  N.  Atwood  completed  a  1,265- 
mile  trip  from  St.  Louis  to  New  York, 
landing  at  Governor's  Island  after  28 
hours  and  31  minutes  of  actual  flying 
time. 
More  than  thirtyfive  were  killed,  and  sixty 
hurt,  when  the  Chicago,  Buffalo  and  New 
York  Express  left  the  rails  at  Manches- 
ter, N.  Y. 

26 — The  Rivadavia,  biggest  of  battleships,  was 
launched  at  Quincy,  Mass. 

27 — Twenty  persons  were  injured  by  the 
ditching  of  a  New  Haven  train  at  Ben- 
venue,  Conn. 
A  false  alarm  of  fire  in  a  moving-picture 
show  at  Canonsburg,  Pa.,  resulted  in  the 
death  of  twentysix  people  and  the  injury 
of  many  more. 

28 — It  was  announced  in  Colon  that  the 
islands  of  Naos,   Flamenco,  Culebra  and 


Perico,  at  the  western  end  of  the  Panama 
Canal,  had  been  acquired  by  United 
States. 

Demonstrations  occurred  in  France  against 
the  high  cost  of  meat  and  provisions. 

Charleston,  S.  C,  was  swept  by  a  storm 
that  killed  five  people  and  did  $1,000,000 
damage. 
29— The  commission  government  plan  was  de- 
feated at  a  special  election  in  Paterson, 
N.  J. 

The  Louvre  was  reopened  for  the  first 
time  since  the  disappearance,  on  Aug.  22. 
of  the  "Mona  Lisa." 
30— Marquis  Saionji,  new  Premier  of  Japan, 
submitted  the  names  of  the  new  Cabinet 
ministers  to  the  Mikado. 

1.500  weavers  sacked  eighty  stores,  where 
eatables  were  for  sale,  at  St.  Quentin. 
France. 
31 — The  French  Cabinet  suspended  Theophile 
Homolle,  director  of  the  national  mu- 
seum, in  consequence  of  the  disappear- 
ance of  the  "Mona  Lisa." 

Reports  came  from  Paris  and  other  cities 
in  France  of  serious  expressions  of  dis- 
content because  of  the  high  price  of  food. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company  of  New  Jersey 
ceased  to  exist  with  the  closing  of  its 
transfer  books. 

September  i — President  Taft  issued  an  order 
prohibiting  bull-fighting,  dog-fighting  and 
cock-fighting  on  the  Panama  Canal  Zone. 

2 — The  Foot  Guards  (600  in  number)  of  the 
Governor  of  Canada  invaded  Albany  on 
a  three  days'  visit. 

3 — Madero     partisans     stoned     and     mobbed 
General    Bernardo    Reyes,    candidate    for 
President  of  Mexico. 
Four   liners   arrived    in    New   York,   carry- 

ing  3»359  returning  tourists. 
Socialists     held     an     anti-war     meeting,    in 
Berlin,  Germany. 

4— Four  people  were  killed  and  forty  in- 
jured, in  a  col.'ision,  near  Erie,  Pa.,  be- 
tween an  Erie  and  Pittsburgh  train  and 
a   West    Shore    freight. 

5 — Giuseppe      Costabile.     a      long-suspected 
Black   Hand  chief,  was  arrested  in   New 
York  with  a  bomb  concealed  beneath  his 
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coat,  and  five  other  suspects  left  the  city 
suddenly. 
5— A  company  was  formed  in  New  York  to 
operate  a    freight  and   passenger   service 
by  water  from  New  York  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, via  the  Panama  Canal,  with  fifteen 
steamers. 
Eightyone  persons  were  drowned  when  the 
Tucapel,  a  Chilian  steamer,  was  wrecked 
off  the  coast  of  Peru. 
The  Kaiser  reviewed  at  Kiel  the  German 
naval  fleet  of  ninetynine  warships. 
6 — Three  prisoners,  brought  from  Europe  to 
Boston,  revealed  the  existence  of  an  or- 
ganized Anarchist  crime  syndicate   ruled 
by  women. 
The  forces  of  the  ex- Shah,  Mohammed  Ali 
Mirza,   sustained    a    crushing    defeat   at 
Imamzadeh-Ja  far. 
7— Lieut.  T.  G.  Ellyson  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  suc- 
cessfully launched   a  hydro-aeroplane  by 
means  of  cables,  to  prove  that  such  may 
be  started  from  warships. 
8 — The  floods  in  China  were  reported  as  sub- 
siding. 
Capt.    Postnikoff   of   the    Russian    General 
Staff  was  sentenced  to  eight  years*  penal 
servitude  for  selling  secret  documents  to 
agents  of  three  powers. 
9— An    aerial    postal    service,    twenty    miles 
long,  was  inaugurated  in  England,  between 
Hendon  and  Windsor. 
Forty  persons  were  injured  at  Brest,  France, 

in  a  "cheaper- food"  riot. 
The     Zeppelin    dirigible,    Schwaban,    com- 
pleted  a   350-mile   journey    from    Baden- 
Baden  to  Berlen  with  six  passengers. 
10 — It  was  reported  that  Germany's  reply  in 
regard  to  the  Moroccan  question  was  un- 
acceptable to  France. 
Mt.  Etna  was  reported  very  active,  two  new 
craters  opening  8.000  feet  above  sea  level. 
II — The   Republic  of   Portugal  was   formally 
recognized  by  Great  Britain,  Spain,  Ger- 
many, Italy  and  Austria. 
12 — The  French  and  German  armies  pursued 
their  annual  manoeuvres  close  to  the  com- 
mon frontier. 
An  imperial  edict  was  issued   commanding 
the  Viceroy  to  suppress   the   rebellion  in 
China. 
.Announcement    was    made    that    Japan  will 
abandon  its  naval  station  at  Port  Arthur 
and  open  it  for  the  use  of  the  merchant 
marine. 
13 — France  despatched  to  Germany  her  reply 
to  the  proposals  of  the  latter,  after  con- 
sultation with   the   British    and    Russian 
Ambassadors. 
The   Conference  of   Governors    at    Spring 
Lake,  N.  J.,  declared  themselves  in  favor 
of   compulsory  compensation    for  injured 
workingmen. 
14— Premier  Stolypin  was  attacked  and  seri- 
ously wounded  while  attending  a  theater 
at  Kiev.    His  assailant  was  arrested. 


The  eruption  of   Mt.   Etna  continued   with 

redoubled  energy. 
Frost  did  $500,000  damage  to  crops  in  New 
England ;  Central  New  York  also  suffered, 
from  temperatures  below  freezing. 
The  British    Consul   in    Chungking,  China, 
ordered  all  American  and  British  citizens 
in  the  upper  districts  of  Szechuan  to  leave 
for  the  nearest  place  of  safety. 
15— President  Taft  exonerated  Dr.  Wiley  of 
all  blame  for  the  Rusby  affair. 
President  Taft  began  his  i3,ooa-mile  tour  of 
twentyfour  States. 
16— A    woman    suffrage    meeting    in    Cooper 
Union  was  addressed  by  the  Governors 
of  the  five  suffrage  States. 
18 — Peter    A.    Stolypin,  Premier    of    Russia, 
died,  and  150  lawyers  and  friends  of  the 
assassin  were  arrested. 
A  strike  was  declared  on  the  three  princi- 
pal railways  of  Ireland. 
Prohibition   was   lost   to   Maine   by   a   ma- 
jority of  twentysix  votes. 
19 — King  Alphonso  put  Spain  under  martial 
law  and  the  General  Labor  Union  ordered 
a  country-wide  strike. 
20— The  Olympic,  with  more  than  two  thou- 
sand    passengers     for    New    York,   was 
rammed   by    the    British   cruiser    Hawke. 
No   one  was   seriously  injured. 
Governor  Wilson  ordered  the  New  Jersey 
Labor   Commissioner   to   co-operate   with 
the  New  York  State  officials  in  an  effort 
to  settle  the  Lackawanna  strike. 
21— Reciprocity    was    defeated    in    a   political 

landslide  in  Canada. 
2j — Dimitry  Bogroff,  the  assassin  of  Premier 
Stolypin,  was  sentenced  to  death  by  court- 
martial. 
A   hurricane  and  deluge  of  rain  near  Mt. 
Vesuvius  killed  fifty  people. 
23— It  was  reported  from  Berlin  that  France 
and  Germany  had  adjusted  their  differ- 
ences over  the  Moroccan  situation. 
The     Argentine     battleship     Moreno     was 
launched  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  being  equalled 
only  by  her  sister-ship,  the  Rivadavia. 
24— Tt  was  reported  from  Port  Said  that  an 
Italian   steamship  had    been   captured   by 
the  Turks  at  Mersina,  the  port  of  Adana, 
Asia  Minor ;  Paris  reported  that  Italy  had 
landed  troops  at  three  points  in  Tripoli. 
25 — The  French  battleship  Liberte,  at  Toulon, 
was  destroyed  by  an  explosion  and  from 
350  to  400  officers  and  men  were  killed. 
Germany   exerted   her   influence   to   prevent 
war     between     Italy    and    Turkey    over 
Tripoli. 
Dimitry    Bogroff.    the   assassin   of    Premier 
.Stolypin,  was  hanged. 
26 — Arbuckle  Brothers  cut  the  price  of  sugar 
from  $7.50  to  $6.75. 
It    was    reported    that    Italian   cruisers   left 
the  ports  to  intercept  Turkish  transports. 
The  Bank  of  Egypt,  in  London,  failed.    L 

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DIED: 

COLLIXGWOOD.  FRANCIS— At  Avon-by 
thc-Sea,  August  i8,  aged  seventyseven 
years.  He  was  born  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute.  He  entered  the  Municipal  Civil 
Service  Association  in  1895,  and  was  asso- 
ciate engineer  to  the  late 'W.  A.  Roebling 
during  the  construction  of  the  Brooklyn 
Bridge.  He  received  a  gold  medal  from 
an  English  engineering  society  for  his  re- 
port on  the  Firth  of  Forth  bridge. 

COWGILL,  PROF.  THOMAS  W.— In  Reno. 
Nevada,  August  13,  aged  fiftyseven  years. 
He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  University, 
and  taught  and  lectured  at  several  colleges 
in  Ohio  and  Kansas.  In  1886  he  became 
Professor  of  English  and  History  at  the 
State  University  of  Nevada,  remaining  there 
until  1899,  when  he  was  made  Professor 
Emeritus.  His  Harvard  classmates  of  1883 
raised  a  fund  to  help  him  struggle  against 
the  inroads  of  tuberculosis. 

DEERING,  WILLIAM  ALLOWAY— In  New 
York  City,  August  11,  aged  fiftythree  years. 
He  was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Coburg. 
He  entered  journalism  in  Canada.  He  was 
for  twelve  years  on  the  editorial  staff  of 
The  New  York  Mail  and  Express,  becoming 
city  editor  and  managing  editor,  and  for  ten 
years  he  was  advertising  manager  of  The 
Sun. 

DEVIN9,  REV.  DR.  JOHN  B.— In  Brook- 
lyn, August  26,  aged  fiftyfive  years.  He 
was  born  in  the  Metropolis  and  was  a 
graduate  of  New  York  University  and  of 
the  Union  Theological  Seminary.  He  was 
successively  pastor  of  Hope  Chapel  and  of 
the  Broome  Street  Tabernacle,  New  York, 
and  for  several  years  was  on  the  staff  of 
The  New  York  Tribune.  From  this  jour- 
nalistic experience  he  advanced  to  the  edi- 
torship of  The  New  York  Observer,  his 
aim  being  to  cover  the  religious  news  as 
completely  as  the  newspapers  do  daily  hap- 
penings. He  toured  the  world  in  1903-4, 
remaining  in  the  Philippines  long  enough  to 
complete  a  book  of  "Observations."  He 
was  interested  in  fresh-air  work  and  sum- 
mer playgrounds  for  children. 
DIX,  EDWIN  A.— In  New  York  City.  August 
24,  at  the  age  of  fiftyone.  New  York  was 
his  birthplace  and  he  was  graduated  with 
first  honors   from  Princeton.     Although  he 


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studied  law  at  Columbia  University  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  both  New  York  and 
New  Jersey,  he  devoted  himself  to  literature 
and  travel.  He  ^^as  at  one  time  literary  edi- 
tor of  The  Churchman,  and  he  contributed 
frequently  to  magazines,  besides  writing 
several  books — among  them,  "Deacon  Brad- 
berry^  and  "Champlain,  the  Founder  of 
New  France." 

EVANS,  GEN.  CLEMENT  A.— In  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  July  2,  aged  seventy  years.  He 
was  born  in  Georgia  and  educated  at  the 
Augusta  Law  School.  When  twentytwo 
years  of  age,  he  was  a  County  Judge,  and  at 
twentysix  was  a  member  of  the  State  Sen- 
ate. During  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Confederate  Army,  and  rose 
from  rank  to  rank  till  he  commanded  his 
own  Brigade.  Stonewall  Jackson.  General 
Ewell  and  General  Lee  were  his  close 
friends.  After  the  war  he  entered  the  min- 
istry of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  serving  for  twentyfive  years.  Since 
i8go  he  had  worked  as  an  editor  and  writer. 
He  edited  a  twelve-volume  "Confederate 
Military  History."  A  few  years  ago  he  was 
chosen  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Con- 
federate Veterans. 

FIRMIN.  GENERAL  ANTENOR— At  St. 
Thomas,  Danish  West  Indies,  Sept.  19. 
A  native  of  Haiti,  he  became  a  revolution- 
ary leader,  and  in  1902,  after  President 
Sam  was  deposed,  he  was  mado  President. 
His  term  of  office  was  brief,  and  he  was 
exiled  by  Nord  Alexis.  When  General 
Simon  succeeded  Alexis  he  appointed  Fir- 
min  Haitian  Minister  to  Great  Britain. 
Deserting  this  post  to  help  overthrow 
Simon,  he  arrived  at  Port-au-Prince  after 
Leconte  had  been  proclaimed  President  and 
thus  lost  another  opportunity  to  secure  any 
permanent  p(  sition.  He  was  a  man  of  con- 
siderable education  and  culture,  and  wrote 
a  book  called  "President  Roosevelt  and 
Haiti." 

GREGORY,  RIGHT  REVEREND  ROBERT. 
D.  D.— In  London,  England.  August  2, 
aged  ninetytwo  years.  He  was  born  at  Not- 
tingham. Since  1891  he  had  been  Dean  at 
St.   Paul's,   resigning  on   May   i. 

GUNNER,  GEN.  RUDOLPH  EMANUEL— 
In  Dallas.  Texas.  August  26.  aged  seventy- 
eight  years.  Australia,  which  was  his  place 
of  birth,  was  remote  from  the  scenes  of  his 
active  life.     He  accompanied  Maximilian  to 

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Mexico  in  1864  and  became  Commander  of 
the  Imperial  Guard  of  that  unfortunate 
adventurer.  For  the  last  ten  years  he  had 
been  engaged  in  business  in  Dallas. 

HEREFORD,  BARON  JAMES  OF— At 
Epsom,  England,  August  18,  aged  eighty- 
three  years.  He  was  born  in  England,  and 
was  called  to  the  bar  in  1852,  rising  rapidly. 
He  became  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1869,  and 
the  same  year  was  elected  to  the  House  of 
Commons,  as  a  Liberal.    In  1873  Gladstone 

,  appointed  him  Solicitor  General  and  two 
months  later  Attorney  General,  when  he 
was  knighted.    In  1895  he  became  a  peer. 

HUTCHINGS.  "PROF."  WILLIAM  S'.— In 
Boston,  Mass.,  August  25,  aged  eighty  years. 
Although  he  studied  law,  he  turned  to  the 
stage,  and  in  1880  became  connected  with 
P.  T.  Barnum's  "greatest  show  on  earth"  as 
the  "Lightning  Calculator."  For  twentyeight 
years  he  was  a  lecturer  at  Austin  &  Stone's 
Museum,  Boston,  and  it  was  his  boast  that 
he  had  delivered  30,000  lectures  to  80,000,000 
people. 

ISRAELS,  JOSEF— At  the  Hague,  August 
12,  aged  eighty  seven  years.  He  was  born 
at  Gronigen,  Holland,  of  Jewish  parentage. 
He  studied  art  in  Amsterdam,  and  at  the 
Ecole  des  Beaux-Arts,  Paris.  He  acquired 
fame  through  his  interpretations  of  the  life 
of  the  fisher  folk  and  homely  peasant 
themes.  His  canvasses  have  sold  for  as 
much  as  $20,000.  His  etchings  are  prized 
for  simplicity  and  sureness  of  touch.  His 
pictures  are  found  in  the  best-known  arj 
galleries  at  home  and  abroad,  and  he  was 
the  recipient  of  many  gold  medals  and 
honorary  Orders. 

LEE,  REV.  THEODORE  STORRS— In  New 
York  City,  August  24,  aged  thirtyeight 
years.  Qeveland,  Ohio,  was  his  birthplace, 
and  he  was  educated  at  the  WiUiston  Sem- 
inary, Easthampton,  Mass.,  at  Amherst,  and 
at  the  Union  Theological  Seminary.  The 
missionary  field  attracted  him,  and  he  served 
seven  years  at  Mahratta  Mission,  India,  as 
missionary  pastor  of  the  Westchester  Con- 
gregational Church  of  White  Plains,  N.  Y. 

LOUDENSLAGER,  REP.  HENRY  C— At 
Paulsboro,  N.  J.,  August  12,  aged  fiftynine 
years.  He  was  born  in  Southern  New  Jer- 
sey. Early  in  his  career  he  was  in  the  pro- 
duce commission  business  in  Philadelphia. 
For  ten  years  he  was  Clerk  of  Gloucester 
County,  and  for  another  ten  he  was  a  Repre- 
sentative in  Congress  from  the  First  New 
Jersey  District.  While  the  Republicans  held 
sway  he  had  influential  committee  assign- 
ments, and  was  a  supporter  of  Speaker  Can- 
non. He  devoted  much  attention  to  pension 
legislation. 

MANDERSON,  GEN.  CHARLES  FREDER- 
ICK—On  board  the  steamer  Cedric,  Sep- 
tember 28,  aged  seventyfour  years.  Born 
in  Philadelphia,  he  studied  law  in  Canton, 


Ohio.  He  enlisted  with  the  Canton  Zouaves, 
and  did  meritorious  service  in  different 
campaigns  of  the  Civil  War,  receiving  severe 
spinal  wounds  in  1864,  when  he  was  bre- 
vetted  Brigadier  General.  Moving  to 
Omaha  in  1867,  he  rose  quickly  in  the  po- 
litical world  and  became  State  Senator  in 
1883.  He  served  at  Washington,  D.  C,  also, 
and  was  President  pro  tern  of  the  Senate 
at  one  time. 

PAGET,  RIGHT  REVEREND  FRANOS, 
p.  D. — ^In  London,  England,  August  2,  aged 
sixty  years.  He  was  born  in  England,  and 
was  educated  at  St.  Marylebone  and  at 
Shrewsbury  Schools  and  at  Christ  Church, 
Oxford.  After  some  work  as  tutor  and 
then  as  parish  priest,  he  became  regius  pro- 
fessor of  pastoral  theology  and  canon  of 
of  Christ  Church.  He  became  its  dean  in 
1892  and  in  1931  he  was  made  Bishop.  He 
wrote  many  ecclesiastical  books. 

PHIPPS,  MAJOR  A.  W.— In  Los  Angeles, 
California,  August  2,  aged  sixty  eight  years. 
In  early  life  he  was  a  reporter.  He  be- 
came a  friend  and  partner  of  Andrew  Car- 
negie, in  the  steel  business  in  Pittsburg, 
and  amassed  a  fortune.  He  had  long  been 
a  recluse,  living  in  unwarranted  fear  of 
the  Black  Hand  men. 

POMEROY,  MRS.  LAURA  SKEEI^In 
New  York;  City,  August  23,  aged  seventy- 
eight  years.  She  was  born  in  the  metropo- 
lis, and  spent  her  early  years  in  Pough- 
keepsie.  Studying  art,  she  became  inter- 
ested especially  in  sculpture,  and  the  bust 
of  Matthew  Vassar,  in  the  College  which 
he  founded,  was  executed  by  her. 

POSCHINGER,  HELVRICH  VON— In  Ber- 
lin, August  10,  aged  sixtysix  years.  He  was 
born  in  Muenchen  and  became  a  noted  po- 
litical writer  and  author  of  many  works 
on  the  life  of  Bismarck. 

THURSTON.  MRS.  KATHERINE  CECIL 
— In  Cork,  Ireland,  her  native  city,  Septem- 
ber 6.  Her  father  was  Alderman  Paul 
Madden,  for  many  years  Mayor  of  Cork. 
and  a  friend  of  Charles  Stewart  Parnell. 
She  was  educated  by  a  governess,  and  in 
1901  married  Ernest  Temple  Thurston,  a 
London  journalist  and  author,  who  inspired 
her  to  write,  and  collaborated  with  her  in 
producing  the  novels,  "The  Masquerader", 
"The  Gambler",  and  others.  In  1910  she 
obtained  a  divorce  from  her  husband. 

SECKENDORFF,  OO-UNT  MAX  G.— At 
Frankfort-on-Main,  'Germany,  August  28, 
aged  fiftynine  years.  His  birthplace  was 
Brussels,  Belgium,  although  he  w^as  of  Ger- 
man parentage.  After  a  private  school 
education  in  Germany,  he  entered  the  Ger- 
man Navy  and  served  through  the  Franco- 
Prussian  War,  when  he  came  to  America. 
After  life  on  a  Texas  ranch,  he  entered 
Journalism,  continuing  in  it  until  his  death. 

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Various  Doings  and    Undoings, 


Spaniards  have  a  great  many  vices;  but  it 

is    claimed   that   drunkenness    is    not   one   of 
them. 

Spanish  boys  become  soldiers  when  17  years 
old.  

Princeton  College  owns  up  to  being  104 
years  old. 

Judca  is  becoming  more  and  more  of  an 
orange-country. 

A  good  third  of  the  tourists  visiting  Egypt 
consists  of  Americans. 

The  most  valuable  bank-note  issued  in  this 
country,  is  the  $io,ooo  bill. 

Some  speculators  still  hold  that  a  sponge- 
farm  in  the  ocean  would  be  profitable. 

An  even  million  of  patents  have  been  issued 
during  the  past  75  yfars,  at  Washington. 

Insurance  against  hail-storms  is  a  new  en- 
terprise placed  in  some  Western  States. 

Bread-bakers  suffer  more  than  almost  any 
one  else  during  the  severest  heats  of  sum- 
mer. 


If  just  back  from  Paris,  reflect  upon  the 
fact  that  30,000  horses  per  annum  are  eaten 
there. 

Ready-made  iron  bridges  of  different 
lengths  are  kept  for  railroads  that  get  in  a 
hurry. 

A  small  fortune's  worth  of  stuff  is  dumped 
into  obscurity  every  year  by  the  rubbish-col- 
lectors. 


Fog-making  machines  are  now  used  in  some 
of  the  orchards  and  vineyards  to  fight  away 
the  frost. 


If  you  heard  all  the  babies  cry  that  are  born 
in  a  year,  you  would  know  how  37,000,000  of 
them  sound. 


Pet  dogs  in  London  wear  chamois  shoes 
when  in  the  house  to  protect  polished  floors 
from   scratches. 

A  few  ticket-speculators  have  actually  been 
arrested  in  New  York,  and  the  industry  is 
growing  disconsolate. 

Oleomargarine  is  sold  as  soap-grease  by 
some  who  have  been  forbidden  by  law  from 
disposing  of  it  as  butter. 

The  falling  elevator  and  the  prematurely 
folding-bed  are  still  in  a  race  for  supremacy 
as  recruiters  of  the  grave. 

A  man  in  New  York  named  Tammany,  was 
driven  out  of  business  by  people's  asking  him 
why  he  did  not  hire  a  hall. 

The  center  of  United  States'  population  has 
been  found,  in  Indiana:  and  nothing  was 
there  excepting — one  rattlesnake. 

Professional  marketers  are  growing  more 
and  more  common  in  the  cities :  and  the  more 
honest  of  them  bid  fair  to  stay. 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  talking  too  much — 
through  a  telephone:  occasionally  some  one 
gets  killed   while  at  the  receiver. 

Ether-drinking  still   exists   in   some   of  the 


WINCHESTER'S  HYPOPH08PHITE8  OF  lilME  AND  SODA  (Dr.  Churchlirs  Formula) 
and  WINCHESTER'S  SPECIFIC  PILIi  ARE  THE  BEST  REMEDIES  FOR 


Exhausted 


or 


NERVE  FORCE 


Debilitated 

They  conteln  no  Mercury,  Iron,  Ctnthtrldet,  Morphit,  Strychnit,  Opium,  Alcohol  or  Coc«lne.| 

TkeSpcdficPUllspaffelyTCfctaile,  has  b«en  tested  and  prescril>ed  by  physldaai  and  bat  proven  to  be  the  best  and  most  effectlTe  treatment  known  to 
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I  have  prescribed  Winchester's  Hvpophesp] 
tlM  happiest  results,  having  found  them  supet 


ihites  In  Cases  of  coasnmptlon.  chlorosis, 


asnmptlon.  chlorosis,  dyspepsia,  marasi 
H.  TBWSBUKY,  M.  D  ,  Portland,  Me. 


marasmus,  etc.. 


1  have  used  Winchester's  Hjpophosphitcs  in  several  very  severe  cases  of  cousumption.  with  the  best  possible  results.— F.  CRANG.  M.D.,  Centreville,  N.  Y. 
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too.  Stnrts  without  crankins.  Basic  p*t«nl— only  three  moTtnr 
parts— no  cams— no  sprocket*— no  rears— no  valves— the  utuiost 
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WHERE. 

European  regions,  and  the  efTect  of  the  stimu- 
Jus  is   four  times  that  of  alcohol. 

Kews  flics  swiftly  and  accurately  within  the 
walls  of  a  prison — and,  half  the  time,  not  one 
among  the  keepers  knows  how  it  is  done. 

More  and  more  telephones  are  being  put 
into  churches  for  the  benefit  of  afflicted  peo- 
ple who  cannot  come  and  hear  the  sermon. 

The  "sea  anemone"  has  no  eyes,  ears, 
tongue,  teeth,  or  feet,  and  still  it  can  see,  hear, 
eat  and  move  itself  from  one  rock  to  another. 

The  Philippine  Islands  contain  as  much 
land  as  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania 
and  Maryland.  There  are  about  1,200  of 
them. 

Two  hundred  different  kinds  of  horseshoes 
are  represented  by  models  in  the  patent  office : 
and  the  old  unpatented  one  is  still  generally 
used. 


"Jersey  justice"  once  in  awhile  sits  up  and 
takes  notice  of  people  when  they  are  swearing 
— fining  them  from  fifty  cents  up  for  each 
swear. 

A  new  half-cent  coin  has  been  half- 
promised  again  and  again  by  various  United 
States  officials :  but  has  not  yet  made  its  ap- 
pearance. 

Woman-smokers  to  the  number  of  nearly 
two  millions  in  this  country — so  tobacconists 
claim.  If  that  is  true,  it  is  about  one-fifth 
of  all  of  them. 

When  you  ride  through  a  tunnel,  pity  the 
scores  of  men  who  lost  their  lives  while  con- 
structing it.  There  were  nearly  200  in  the 
famous   Hoosac  one. 

An  ihventor  has  been  languishing  over  a 
new  steamer  which  he  hoped  to  produce,  the 
outside  of  which  would  roll  upon  the  water, 
and  run  60  miles  an  hour. 

People  are  never  buried  with  their  clothes 
in  Europe;  a  regular  shroud  or  burial-gown 
always  being  used.  Some  people  have  theirs 
ready  for  years  in  advance. 

America  did  not  monopolize  the  intense 
heat  of  the  past  summer.  France  has  seldom 
known  such  weather  and  hundreds  of  her 
soldiers  were  sunstruck  during  drill. 

Broadway  Alley  is  not  on  the  maps"^f 
Xew  York  City,  but  it  exists — connecting 
Twentysixth  and  Twentyseventh  Streets,  be- 
tween Lexington  and  Third  Avenues. 

Hard  coal  was  first  discovered  in  this  coun- 
try by  Philip  <;iuenther,  a  native  of  Holland, 
at  Summit  Hill,  Pa.  For  revealing  the  secret, 
he  was  given  title  to  300  acres,  but  the  title 
proved  defective,  and  he  lost  the  land,  while 
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Other  men  went  on  making  millions  from  his 
discovery. 

Whoever  visits  our  new  Pacific  possessions 
will  find  that  the  mosquitoes  arrived  there 
some  centuries  ahead  of  him,  and  that  they 
have  no  distaste  for  good  American  blood. 

A  man  in  the  South  is  enjoying  a  fortune 
made  through  the  selling  of  a  book  which 
he  published,  containing  pictures  of  the  next 
world,  in  which  all  the  angels  were  negroes. 

Court  rooms  on  the  west  sides  of  build- 
ings are  said  to  be  expediters  of  legal  pro- 
ceedings, being  very  warm  in  summer  and 
cold  in  winter,  thus  making  lawyers  and  judges 
shorter-winded. 

Cutting  off  one  ear  and*  branding  the  fore- 
head crosswise,  was  the  playful  little  penalty 
that  some  Black  Hands  put  upon  a  fellow 
Italian  because  he  neglected  to  leave  them 
some  money  in  a  specified  place. 

Stains  showed  which  way  the  molasses  had 
been  flowing  in  a  certain  New  York  ware- 
house: bad  boys  having  bored  gimlet  holes 
through  the  barrels,  and  extracted  a  lot  of 
stolen  sweetness  before  policemen  caught 
them.  

The  cathedrals  and  churches  of  Spain  are 
richer  than  any  in  the  world  outside  of  Rome 
and  Moscow.  Doubtless  the  precioiis  metals 
and  gems  on  the  altars  of  these  churches 
would  bring  $250,000,000  if  they  could  be  of- 
fered to  the  public. 

It  is  considered  by  some  travelers  on  the 
New  York  and  New  Haven  Railroad  an  im- 
position to  sell  passengers  seats  in  a  "parlor 
car,"  and  then  make  a  restaurant  of  the  same, 
filling  it  with  every  culinary  odor  imaginable, 
from  apple-pie  to  onions. 


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CLERGYMEN  USE  IT, — It  makes  the  voice  strong,  resonant  and  powerful. 
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ELOCUTIONISTS  USE  IT.— It  gives  a  depth  and  power  to  the  expression  that 
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"I  can't  mamma,"  protested  the  little  girl, 
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and  was  at  the  point  of  leaving  the  room, 
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Smith's?" 

'^God  sent  Mrs.  Smith  a  new  baby,"  an- 
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CONTENTS  FOR  NOVEMBER 


To  the  Last  Mosquitress  133 

IVUl  Carleton. 
A   Million  Dollars   for  a  Million 

Children  134 

Eagle  and  Aeroplane  140 

His  Primitive  Country  Friends  141 

A  Tame  Hedgehog  142 

Face  to  Face  With  Trouble  144 
Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

Th€  United  States  Department  pf 
Agriculture,  and  the  Future.    II    145 
Lyman  Beecher  Stowe. 

"Down  in  a  Coal-Mine"  150 

When  We  Have  Company  152 

H,  U.  Johnson. 

The  Blessing  of  Imperfection  153 

My  Guide  155 

Seraph  Maltbie  Dean. 

The  Rotary  Pumpkin  Seed  156 

The  Lady  and  the  Desk  158 

Up  and  Down  the  World: 

"Hello.  Popsie!"  159 

Graveyard-Literature  IS9 

The   Scientific   Way  of   Getting 

Home  160 


Twelve  Thoughts  161 

Editorial  Comment: 

Newspaper  Inaccuracy  162 

The  Perpetual-Motion  Fallacy  163 

Banished  Home  163 

Timby  at  Rest  164 

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Only  the  female  ones  bite. — Linnaeus, 

By  Will  Carleton. 

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Final  of  uncounted  numbers ! 
You,  for  some  sufficient  reason. 

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All  the  friends  that  you  have  known 

Twined  in  merriment  or  pain. 
From  your  gentle  side  have  flown, 

Or  at  sanguine  feasts  were  slain. 

Are  you  oldwife,  memVy-laden, 

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Or  some  fair  insectile-maiden, 

For  a  placid  future  hustling? 
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Handsome,  as  mosquitoes  go? 

Have  you  pedigree  to  tell? 

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Of  the  sinking  of  a  well 

In  proud  Caesar's  strong  proboscis? 
Did  fair  Cleopatra  pause 

In  her  international  cooing, 
To  extend  bejewelled  claws 

For  your  ancestress'  undoing? 

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In  the  lamplight's  faint  refulgence, 
Go  ahead  and  do  your  best. 

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Take  your  drop  of  blood,  I  say ! 

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Seven-year-old  Francesca  turns 
slowly  aw^y.  She  has  waited  longingly 
all  through  the  hot  school  hours  to  gain 
a  glimpse  of  the  wonderful  garden 
where  one  can  make  daisies,  and  lilies, 
and  tulips  grow,  and  where  seven  crisp 
vegetables  spring  up  out  of  the  ground 
as  if  by  magiQ  when  one  drops  into  the 
earth  a  tiny  brown  seed.  Listening  to 
these  oft-repeated  tales  of  the  Garden 
of  Wonders,  Francesca,  wide-eyed  with 
amaze,  had  ventured  to  ask  how  one 
gained  entrance  to  this  fairyland  of 
marvels. 

"You  go  to  Jefferson  Park,  on  the 
East  River.  Cielo!  it  is  simple  to  find 
— that !  And  it  is  that  you  ask  for  the 
Signora  Parsons.  Say  as  nicely  as  thou 
canst,  that  thou  desirest  one — how  do 
they  say  it? — tag.  If  thou  be  given 
one,  the  gate  of  the  garden  will  open 
for  thee.  If  not — "  a  shrug  9f  the 
shoulder  finished  the  rest. 

So  Francesca  had  come,  through  the 
warm,  still  afternoon  to  the  Jefferson 
Park  on  the  East  River,  and  timidly 
made  her  request  for  her  tag.  The  Sig- 
nora Parsons,  known  to  the  world  as 
Mrs.  Henry  Parsons,  philanthropist, 
reader  of  human  nature,  and  descendant 
of  an  old  and  wealthy  New  York  fam- 
ily, stood  on  the  veranda  of  the  newly 
constructed  shack  in  Jefferson  Park,  fan- 
ning herself,  and  calling  through  a  meg- 
aphone from  time  to  time,  directions  to 
the  children  who  filled  the  wide  spaces 
of  the  park  beyond.  As  Francesca 
turned  away,  the  founder  of  the  most 
wonderful  garden  in  New  York,  called 
after  her. 

"G^me  on  Friday.  Come  right  after 
school,  and  Til  see  what  I  can  do." 


The  little  Italian  flashed  back  a  radi- 
ant glance  of  gratitude  as  she  hurried 
on,  and  the  Signora  Parsons  dropped 
luxuriously  full  length  into  a  big 
steamer-chair  and  sighed. 

"That's  the  worst  of  this  work.  We 
haven't  room  for  all,  so  we  have  to  turn 
away  the  laggards,  and  sometimes — 
well,  being  human — it  hurts." 

She  sent  a  keen  glance  out  over  the 
brown  earth-heaps  of  Jefferson  Park's 
two  acres.  They  were  filled  with  at 
least  two  hundred  children — boys  and 
girls  whose  ages  ranged  from  six  to 
fourteen,  and  who  were  apparently  as 
busy  as  bees.  Even  under  th^  hot  sun 
they  were  digging,  spading,  and  root- 
ing up  weeds,  all  with  an  eager  interest 
and  zeal,  which  made  the  picture  an 
attractive  one.  The  fresh,  sweet  voices, 
calling  back  and  forth,  rose  in  a  medley 
of  confused  Italian  and  English,  the 
words  coming  plainly  through  the  soft 
air. 

"Ah,  basta  Martino;  thou  wilt  spoil 
my  radishes!" 

"Per  Bacco!  thou  spillest  my  onion- 
seed.  Thy  lettuce  is  set  in  too  far  to 
the  left.  The  roots  will  have  no  room 
to  spread.  Look  at  Marietta;  how 
even  are  her  carrot  rows.  If  thou 
plantest  not  better,  thou  wilt  have  no 
beans,  nor  peas,  nor  radishes  at  all  in 
harvest-time." 

Loud  wails  and  sobs  greet  this  an- 
nouncement, made  with  vigorous  Italian 
emphasis,  and  one  of  Mrs.  Parsons' 
corps  of  teachers  hurries  to  the  rescue. 
I  turn  to  the  good  genius  of  the  gar- 
den for  explanation.  She  is  sitting  up, 
alert,  keenly  interested,  and  ready  to 
give  me  the  story.  She  gives  a  dozen 
quick  orders  as  she  begins^ 

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"These" — she  waves  a  hand  toward 
the  two  hundred,  digging  gayly  away 
with  sunburned  cheeks  and  dancing 
eyes — "are  all  my  children.  And  they 
aren't  all  of  them  either.  I  have  moth- 
ered about  ten  thousand,  I  should  think. 
You  see  this  work  has  been  going  on 
about  eleven  years" — her  voice  sinks, 
and  she  gazes  a  little  dreamily  across 
the  shining  stretch  of  the  river  to  the 
asylum  on  Ward's  Island,  whose  im- 
provements and  changes  were  all 
planned  by  her  father,  John  Griscom, 
once  State  Commissioner  of  Immigra- 
tion— "and  in  all  that  time  I  have  never 
left  the  city  for  a  day  unless  I  had  to. 
The  children  need  me.  But  when  I 
look  around  on  all  this,  and  think  of 
the  first  garden  I  started  in  De  Witt 
Qinton  Park,  I  don't  feel  the  giving  of 
my  time,  or  labor  either,  as  a  sacrifice." 

I  look  at  her.  Seventythree  years 
old,  erect  as  an  arrow;  life,  free  and 
abundant,  speaking  from  every  line  of 
face  and  figure,  one  could  not  but  feel 
the  force  of  her  vivid,  dominant  per- 
sonality.    I  knew  how  she  had  begun 


her  labors  for  the  school-children  of 
the  East  Side,  whose  inherent  love  of 
beauty  makes  the  lack  of  it  in  their  sor- 
did lives  a  tragedy  of  the  commonplace, 
but  I  wanted  to  hear  her  tell  it  in  her 
own  rich,  humorous  way.  Therefore,  I 
remained  discreetly  silent. 

"To  start  this  work  was  the  most  dar- 
ing thing  a  woman  of  sixty  ever  did. 
I  was  a  coward,  as  most  of  us  are,  but 
I  got  over  my  cowardice  in  three  days. 
I  had  to.  I  was  passing  down  the  city 
streets  one  day,  and  my  attention  was 
drawn  to  the  various  vacant  lots  and 
unused  parks  of  the  section,  and  it  sud- 
denly occurred  to  me  that  here  was  a 
waste  of  perfectly  good  material.  Why 
should  these  parks  and  lots  be  allowed 
to  lie  idle?  I  hate  to  see  anything — 
human  or  inanimate — go  to  waste; 
that's  my  nature.  So  I  began  to  map 
out  a  plan  by  which  those  city  lots  could 
be  made  to  yield  some  sort  of  return. 
I  didn't  tell  a  soul.  I  wanted  to  get  my 
plan;  all  worked  out  before  I  said  any- 
thing about  it.  One  day,  when  the  plan 
was  pretty  well  elaborated,  I  went  to  the 

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Commissioner  of  Parks  to  get  him  to 
give  me  some  potted  plants  for  the  use 
of  a  certain  school  I  was  interested  in, 
and  to  him  I  explained  my  idea  in  the 
rough.  The  President  of  the  Board  of 
Education  happened  to  be  in  the  room, 
and  got  interested  in  hearing  me  hold 
forth.  When  I  finished,  he  turned  to 
me  and  said:  'Mrs.  Parsons,  will  you 
write  me  out  a  plan  of  that  garden?* 
This  was  just  what  I  wanted,  and  by 
two  o'clock  that  morning  I  had  the 
whole  plan  ag  carefully  mapped  out  as 
if  I  had  spent  weeks  on  it.  The  next 
day  at  ten,  I  carried  it  to  the  President, 
and  told  him  my  idea. 

"He  was  pleased.  He  was  more;  he 
was  Surprised,  delighted ;  and  he  thought 
that  with  the  money  in  hand,  the  plan 
could  be  carried  out  that  summer.  And 
I,  on  the  point  of  a  trip  abroad,  was 
asked  to  stay  •.  couple  of  weeks,  and 
work  it  out. 

"My  idea  was  to  utilize  the  vacant 
lots  in  the  parks  asi  farm  gardens,  and 
to  use  these  farms  as  a  means  of  train- 
ing, teaching,  and  giving  happiness  to 
the    hordes    of    children    who    overrun 


the  alleys  of  the  East  Side.  Where  do 
the  children  go  after  school?  To  the 
streets.  Where  do  they  play,  read,  cro- 
chet, quarrel,  and  tstke  care  of  the 
babies?  In  the  streets.  And  I  thought 
that  as  far  as  actual  knowledge  of  farm 
work  and  gardening  went,  an  ounce  of 
practical  observation  was  worth  a  ton  of 
theories ;  and  I  knew,'*  added  Mrs.  Par- 
sons, her  fine  face  lighting  up  with 
warmth  and  vivacity,  "that  those  very 
children  could  be  taught  to  make  the  best 
citizens  New  York  jever  had,  if  they 
could  be  made  to  understand  some  of 
the  national  problems — conservation  of 
the  forests,  Ihe  right  construction  of 
roads,  the  need  of  uplift  for  the  farmer 
— how  to  garden,  how  to  farm,  and  a 
dozen  other  things.  So  when  the  Park 
Department  promised  to  furnish  the 
ground,  the  soil,  a  gardener,  and  part 
of  the  equipment,  while  the  Board  of 
Education  was  to  furnish  teachers, 
seeds,  and  the  supervision  and  influence, 
I  was  the  most  delighted  woman  in  New 
York,  for  I  realized  that  I  was  start- 
ing a  movement  whose  influence  might 
be   felt   all    over   the  world;   and   that 


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is  precisely  what  is  happening  today." 
The  Signora  Parsons  heaved  a  sigh. 
"Those  first  days — shall  I  ever  forget 
them?  Just  as  I  thought  everything 
was  going  smoothly,  I  received  word 
thai;  the  two  departments  of  the  Board 
were  not  working  together,  and  that 
my  plan  was  likely  to  be  held  in  abey- 
ance for  months,  if  it  were  carried  out 
at  all.  When  I  heard  that,  I  shut  my 
teeth  hard.  Then  I  went  to  different 
people  and  tried  to  explain  my  idea.  1 
couldn't  seem  to  make  anyone  under- 
stand. So  without  a  convert,  or  aid  of 
any  kind,  I  started  my  own  garden  in 
a  vacant  space  in  De  Witt  Clinton  Park 
— a  most  depressing-looking  place — 
filled  with  old  cans  and  rubbish — ^but 
after  the  man  I  engaged  had  spaded  and 
leveled  the  ground  and  laid  it  oflf  into 
about  150  plots,  each  four  by  eight,  and 
I  had  secured  some  big  packages  of 
seed,  and  my  equipment  of  tools,  and 
the  gates  were  flung  open,  there  were 
five  hundred  children  simply  Sigog  and 
breathless  with  curiosity,  outside,  and 
they  surged  through  like  untamed 
Arabs,  alive  with  eagerness,  and  look- 


ing to  me  as  the  head  and  front  of  it  all. 

"Well,  the  Paolos,  and  Enricos,  and 
Guiseppes,  and  Mariettas,  and  Bea- 
trices, and  Marys,  and  Maggies,  and 
Annies,  and  Jimmies  and  Sammies  that 
poured  in !  Half  the  fathers  and  moth- 
ers of  the  neighborhood  had  come  to 
look  on,  and  made  a  fringe  of  faces  over 
the  picket-fence  which  must  have  been  a 
mile  long.  As  fast  as  they  appeared 
before  us,  each  child  was  registered,  and 
given  a  tag  with  a  string  to  tie  it  around 
his  neck,  which  made  him  the  rightful 
owner  of  a  plot  for  the  spring  planting- 
season.  The  children  came  right  off  the 
streets.  It  was  a  matter  of  first  come, 
first  served.  I  gave  out  spades  and 
trowels  and  seeds  and  wheelbarrows  as 
fast  as  I  could,  and  the  children  seized 
upon  them  as  if  they  were  trophies. 
From  the  instant  that  little  lame  Henry 
dropped  his  first  lettuce-seed  into  his 
little  brown  plot,  I  felt  that  the  idea 
was  bound  to  be  a  success.  Look  at  it 
now!" 

I  look.  It  is  planting  season,  and 
seeds  of  the  seven  kinds  of  vegetables 
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distributed  to  the  children  by  Mrs.  Par- 
sons' corps  of  competent  teachers. 
Each  child  handles  them  as  carefully 
as  if  they  were  gold.  A  girl  of  eight, 
in  the  ragged  dress  of  the  slums,  tries 
to  shield  her  small  packages  with  her 
soiled  apron,  as  a  sudden  breeze  threat- 
ens to  sweep  them  away,  "mothering" 
them  as  she  might  a  doll.  In  the  tiny 
summer-house  on  the  top  of  a  knoll, 
sits  a  weak,  white-faced  mother  with 
her  twins,  four  weeks  old,  and  a  little 
one  of  three  at  her  side.  Her  eyes  are 
closed,  and  she,  is  breathing  in  deep 
draughts  of  the  flower-fragrant  air. 
Two  little  cripples  hop  merrily  along 
to  their  plots,  rake  and  spade  dragging 
on  the  ground  behind.  Toddlers  of  all 
ages,  run  up  and  down  the  path,  get- 
ting in  thQ  way  of  the  "little  farmers" 
in  a  manner  which  calls  for  impatience, 
but  no  one  seems  to  feel  anyhow  but 
kindly.  Courtesy  and  consideration  for 
comrades  displays  itself  in  a  fashion 
largely  pathetic  to  one  who  can  read 
between  the  lines.  Rough,  careless  boy 
fingers  become  gentle  as  they  handle 
the  delicate  things  of  Nature.  In  the 
far  corner  of  the  garden  a  boy  is  dig- 
ging industriously  with  a  spade,  appar- 
ently leveling  one  of  the  paths  which 
lead  from  plot  to  plot.  He  is  measur- 
ing, comparing,  evening,  cheerfully 
whistling  as  he  works.  He  does  not 
seem  to  be  planting  seeds  like  the  rest. 
I  am  curious,  and  my  eyes  ask  a  mute 
question.  The  Signora  Parsons  smiles. 
"There  is  a  future  good-roads  citi- 
zen," she  says.  "Do  you  see  the  prin- 
ciple he  is  working  out?  Every  time 
that  boy  wheels  his  barrow  over  a  rough 
place  in  the  path,  it  causes  him  extra 
eflfort  and  it  also  makes  him  lose?  time. 
Now,  if  he  is  the  right  kind  of  a  boy, 
after  he  has  wheeled  his  barrow  over 
that  bumpy  place  a  few  times,  he  will 
begin  to  think.  And  he  is  very  likely 
to  go  down  on  his  hands  and  knees  and 
study  that  path  a  little.  That  is  prob- 
ably just  what  that  boy  has  been  doing. 
And  he  has  worked  out  a  plan  to  better 
that  path.  If  he  is  in  earnest  about  it, 
he  may  ask  questions  of  a  teacher.  And 
she  will  point  out  how  the  bumpy  place 


may  be  dug  around,  and  the  path  made 
even,  and  she  will  also  show  him  that  a 
path  made  slightly  arched  is  better  and 
stronger  than  any  other.  And  then  he 
will  get  to  work  and  do  it.  When  that 
boy  grows  up,  he  will  remember  that 
principle,  and  the  good-roads  problem 
will  hold  a  wider  meaning  for  him." 

These  little  farms  in  a  great  city  hold 
more  happiness  to  the  square  inch  than 
any  other  spot  in  the  world.  In  them 
the  children  know  the  pure  magic  of 
creative  joy.  While  law  and  order  are 
absolutely  maintained  within  the  farm 
limits,  Mrs.  Parsons  permits  no  set 
rules.  She,  teaches  kindness,  courtesy, 
thoughtfulness  and  tolerance.  "If  a  boy 
gets  all  these  things  into  his  head,"  she 
declares,  "he  is  going  to  make  a  pretty 
good  citizen."  Not  only  are  the  chil- 
dren aided  toward  sound  health,  good 
food  and  a  system  of  ethics,  but  the  plan 
upon  which  this  farm-garden  is  con- 
ducted has  made  it  possible  for  nearly 
five  thousand  adults  and  small  children 
to  derive  both  pleasure  and  profit  from 
the  beginning  of  April  to  the  end  of 
October  of  each  year.  Of  this  number 
150  are  crippled  children  for  whom  the 
rough  playground  of  the  street  is 
prohibitive;  four  hundred  babies  and 
younger  sisters  and  brothers  come  with 
the  "little  farmers",  and  an  equal  num- 
ber of  aduks  enjoy  the  garden  while 
convalescing  from  illness  or  childbirth 
— ^a  time  when  the  poorly-nourished 
mother  shows  a  strong  tendency  toward 
tuberculosis.  In  two  weeks  the  garden 
was  used  by  2,000  pupils  of  grammar- 
schools  who  came  in  classes  for  botani- 
cal study,  and  during  the  summer  and 
fall,  nature  material  is  furnished  to  125 
schools. 

The  sequence  of  work  accomplished 
by  Mrs.  Parsons  in  the  carrying  out  of 
her  plan  is  as  follows: 

1902 — iFirst  Children's  School  Farm 
founded  in  De  Witt  Clinton  Park,  New 
York. 

1904 — City  Appropriation  obtained. 

1906 — Children's  School  Farm  Incor- 
porated into  the  Department  of  Parks. 

1906 — Children's  Garden  Training 
Class   for  Teachers   established  at  the 

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New  York  University  Summer  School. 

1907 — International  Children's  School 
Farm  League  formed. 

Recently  the  Department  of  Parks  has 
given  a  tract  on  the  East  River,  and 
more  than  1,200  children  are  being 
trained  in  relays. 

When  the  crops  are  harvested,  twice 
a  year,  they  are  given  to  the  children, 
who,  in  turn,  take  them  home  to  their 
parents.  During  these  seasons  hun- 
dreds of  families  live  solely  on  vegeta- 
bles planted  and  cultivated  by  their  chil- 
dren. In  the  big  kitchen  which  is  main- 
tained as  an  offshoot  of  the  garden,  the 
girls  are  taught  to  cook  the  vegetables 
they  have  raised,  and  last  year  a  lunch- 
eon was  given  to  invited  guests  at  which 
the  entire  seven  courses  had  been  plant- 
ed, cultivated,  harvested,  cooked  and 
served  by  the  "little  farmers  of  the 
city." 

What  of  the  woman  who  has  done  it 
all?  "How  have  you  done  it?"  I  ask 
the  Signora  Parsons.  "Tell  me  of  your- 
self." Her  shrewd,  kindly  eyes  twinkle 
as  she  bends  them  on  me,  but  in  an 
instant  they  change.  She  sees  one  of 
her  young  girl  teachers  coming  up,  and 
she  challenges  her  gayly: 

"Your  table  is  coming.  You're  a  nui- 
sance with  your  table,  but  be  happy  be- 
cause it's  coming.  And  more  than  that, 
it's  got  cleats.    Now  aren't  you  happy?" 

The  black-eyed  girl  looks  rather 
blank.  Mrs.  Parsons  reads  her  in  an 
instant.  "What  is  a  cleat?"  she  asks 
her,  trying  to  frown. 

The  black-eyed  girl  shakes  her  head. 
Mrs.  Parsons  shakes  hers. 

"Don't  know  what  a  cleat  is,  and  you 
two  years  at  Cornell !  Well,  go  and  find 
out.  Don't  let  anybody  tell  you.  Find 
it  for  yourself."  Then  she  turns  back 
to  me. 

"I  was  born  in  one  day,"  she  states 
in  her  breezy,  succinct  fashion.  "Didn't 
grow  like  Topsy,  and  they  had  an  awful 
time  bringing  me  up.  I  was  the  most 
unruly  thing  ever  made,  but  now  that 
my  mother's  gone,  her  portrait  hangs 
at  the  foot  of  my  bed,  and  every 
night  I  look  at  it  the  last  thing,  and 
say,  'Well,  wherever  you   are,  I   hope 


you   know   that    Fanny's   made   good.' 

'Tve  brought  up  seven  children.  No- 
body but  a  Peale  could  have  done  it. 
I'm  a  Peale  on  my  mother's  side,  and 
only  the  versatility  of  those  Peales  car- 
ried me  through.  I  slept  with  one  eye 
open  for  ten  years,  and  ran  my  house 
with  one  toe  on  the  cradle,  singing  out 
to  the  others  not  to  wake  the  baby.  If 
you  want  to  engage  in  any  large  work, 
all  you  must  do  is  to  bring  up  seven 
children.  It's  a  good  training  for  sharp- 
ening the  senses." 

"How  did  you  know  so  much  about 
gardening?"  I  ask. 

"Went  through  life  with  my  eyes  and 
ears  open.  I  had  my  own  country-place 
for  years,  with  several  gardeners,  and  I 
didn't  go  to  sleep.  I  watched  them.  I 
found  out  many  things  too.  One  of 
them  is  that  in  manual  work  a  child 
never  goes  beyond  his  strength.  This 
garden  work  is  the  cure  for  nervous 
diseases. 

"Well,  the  social  life,  and  strain  of 
city  life  were  killing  me.  Irish  wash- 
erwomen have  their  sociabilities  over 
the  wash-tub,  but  they  have  no  nervous 
prostration.  My  children  were  turned 
over  to  me  by  the  doctors  to  live  or  die, 
and  I  had  to  work  out  the  problem.  I 
saved  them,  and  then,  as  I  was  fifty 
years  old,  and  had  a  lot  of  well-seasoned 
timber  in  me,  I  set  about  seeing  what 
I  could  do  for  somebody  else.  You  see 
my  father  and  grandfather  were  all  in- 
sane over  the  public  good,  and  I  suppose 
I've  inherited  it.  After  the  garden  was 
fairly  started,  I  knew  a  book  on  the 
subject  should  be  written.  I  told  my 
son,  who  is  the  Secretary  of  the  League, 
that  he  was  going  to  do  it,  and  that  the 
book  must  be  out  in  three  weeks.  He 
was  horrified,  and  refused  point  blank. 
I  said  to  him,  'Be  quiet;  you're  the 
coming  educator,  but  you  don't  know 
it.'  He  gave  in  then,  and  the  book  was 
written.  We  did  get  it  out  in  three 
weeks,  but  we  worked  till  four  in  the 
morning  for  that  time.  When  you  feel 
weak,  you  can  brace  up  on  a  proverb. 
Mine  was,  *Never  say  die.'  Now  that  I 
know  the  ^ork  won't  stop  with  me,  but 
will  go  on,  under  competent  instruction, 

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rm  the  happiest  woman  alive.  We  had 
a  model  exhibit  in  London  lately,  and 
everybody  who  saw  it  was  interested. 
The  scope  of  the  farm-gardens  is  broad- 
ening all  the  time.  Before  I  die,  I  hope 
to  see  three  things." 

I  look  at  her  again.  She  is  tapping 
a  finger  on  her  hand.  "And  those  three 
things?"  I  ask  curiously. 

"The    establishment    of    an    all-year 


training  class  to  go  out  to  spread  the 
work.  As  long  as  we  run  it  by  our- 
selves we  are  cramping  it.  The  second, 
a  million-dollar  endowment  for  the  de- 
partment, in  the  New  York  University, 
and  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  for 
the  chair;  to  be  called  the  University 
Agricultural  School.  Third,  a  million 
children  made  happy,  healthful  and  in- 
telligent all  over  the  world." 


Eagle  and  Aeroplane. 


ytTHO  are  you,  speeding  along  this  way 
^^      Above  my  head? 
Why  do  you  come  to  the  clouds  today? 

The  eagle  said. 
Had  you  not  heard  that  pathways  high 
Only  were  made  for  such  as  I? 
Did  you  not  know  that  from  your  birth, 
You  were  appointed  to  walk  the  earth? 
Do  as  you  long  were  wont  to  do: 
Stab  my  mountains  and  creep  them  through ; 
Swim  your  rivers  or  bridge  them  o'er; 
Ferry  the  seas  from  shore  to  shore ; 
Plunge  through  halls  of  the  starless  deep, 
Where  the  hosts  of  the  tempests  sleep 

And  count  their  dead; 
But  you  never  were  made,  as  I, 
On  the  wings  of  the  winds  to  fly! 

The  eagle  said. 

What  in  my  country  do  you  seek? 
What  is  of  wealth  on  the  mountain  peak? 
Which  of  the  gems  has  it  begot? 
Where  is  its  gold,  excepting  what 

The  sun  has  shed, 
You  who  squander  the  hoards  you  save— 
Haughty  slaves  of  the  yellow  slave? 

The  eagle  said. 
Dig  in  the  earth  for  earth  that  buys, 
Clutch  with  your  greedy  hands  and  eyes, 
What,  if  it  win  your  poor  heart,  will 
Serve  but  to  make  you  greedier  still — 

By  food  unfed; 
What  do  you  care  for  the  sky  above. 
More  than  to  aid  your  own  self-love? 

The  eagle  said. 


Even  your  daring  flight  today — 
So  the  gossiping  birdlets  say, 

With  gold  is  wed: 
You,  a  hero  of  skies,  indeed ! 
Back  to  your  stony  dens  of  greed, 

By  avarice  fed! 

Then  did  the  bird,  with  beak  and  wing, 
Straight  at  the  throat  of  the  air-man  spring, 
Looking  a  rage  he  could  not  speak. 
Tearing  away  with  claws  and  beak. 
But  from  the  bold  intruder  came 
Five  sharp  volleys  of  blinding  flame, 

And  piercing  lead: 
Symbol  of  heroism,  beware! 
Doff  the  emperorship  of  air! 

The  echoes  said. 

Maimed  and  bleeding,  and  sick  with  hate, 
Fluttered  the  bird  to  his  fierce-eyed  mate, 
Where,  on  a  ragged  rock  and  gray, 
She  with  her  callow  fledgelings  lay. 
Do  not  again  such  conflict  dare, 
Screamed  this  lioness  of  the  air: 
Men  will  yet  journey  here  in  crowds: 
You  are  no  more  the  King  of  Qouds. 
Man  is  the  only  mortal  who 
Whatever  he  wills  to  do,  will  do. 
Though  he  be  wayward  oft,  and  wild, 
Still  he  IS  God's  own  well-loved  child — 

From  angels  bred: 
If  he  will  only  do  and  dare, 
He  can  yet  rule  Earth,  Sea,  and  Air! 

The  eagless  said. 

— Harper's  Weekly. 

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His   Primitive    Country    Friends. 


r\LD  Mr.  Russell  greatly  enjoyed  his 
^^  summer  outings — always  spent  in 
the  same  little  green-clad  mountain  vil- 
lage. He  often  described  them  during 
the  winter,  in  his  city  home,  with  great 
glee;  and  looked  forward,  each  succeed- 
ing season,  to  those  which  were  still  in 
the  future.  He  called  the  people  he  met 
there,  "My  primitive  country  friends", 
and  in  speaking  of  their  odd  little  pecu- 
liarities, he  always  excused  them,  kindly 
and  humanely.  "They  mean  well ;  they 
are  good,  honest,  simple  folk",  he  used 
to  say.  "And  they  think  a  whole  lot  of 
fnel  They  would  do  almost  anythitig 
to  make  me  happy,  when  I  go  out  there 
summers.  I — am — quite  a  man  of  mark 
among  them.  In  the  city,  you  know, 
one  sort  of  gets  obliterated:  his  repu- 
tation is,  as  you  might  say,  smothered. 
He  isn't  exactly  what  you'd  call  'a  no- 
body', but  he  isn't  so  much  of  'a  some- 
body' as  he  really  deserves^  to  be. 

"Now  when  I  go  out  there  in  the  beau- 
tiful June  time,  I  sort  of  become  one  of 
them,  don't  you  know.  I  forgather  with 
them.   And  how  they  love  me !" 

The  whole  proposition  so  worked 
within  Mr.  Russell's  mental  regions  that 
he  decided  to  run  out  and  see  his  moun- 
tain friends  in  the  winter.  "I'll  run 
over  and  have  a  nice  little  visit  with 
'em  when  they  are  at  leisure",  he  said. 
"When  they  aren't  so  busy  taking  care 
of  us  city  people.  When  they  have  time 
to  express  their  own  ideas,  and  talk 
things  over  in  their  own  way.  Yes,  I 
must  go  up  and  see  them  in  the  winter, 
for  a  day  or  two." 

One  new  idea  often  begets  another, 
and  such  was  the  case  in  this  fine  old 
gentleman's  mind.  "Why  not  go  up 
there  disguised?  Why  not  enter  the  lit- 
tle village  as  a  stranger,  so  to  speak. 


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and  forgather  with  them  in  that  way 
for  a  few  days?"  And  this  was  the  be- 
ginning of  Mr.  Russell's  winter  expedi- 
tion into  the  mountain  country. 

With  the  help  of  an  old  actor-friend, 
he  fixed  himself  up  as  a  farmer  who 
wanted  to  buy  a  horse,  and  put  up  at 
one  of  the  little  hotels  that  still  re- 
mained open  in  the  thrifty  little  moun- 
tain tillage. 

A  creditor  of  ten  years'  standing 
would  not  have  known  him,  when  he 
registered,  and  his  old  actor-friend, 
whomy  he  had  invited  along  with  him  to 
share  the  festivities,  helped  him  to  keep 
up  the  disguise.  When  he  announced 
the  secondary  object  of  his  coming,  it 
was  astonishing  how  many  people  in  the 
vicinity  had  horses  which  they  could — 
reluctantly,  of  course — spare.  The  whole 
mountain  village  seemed  alive  with 
equestrian  products. 

That  evening,  he  sat  down  with  the 
rest  in  the  old  country  store,  and  talked 
with  the  good-natured  but  blunt-spoken 
countrymen  and  villagers  that  crowded 
in~  Nearly  every  one  of  them  had  a 
horse  or  knew  of  one  for  sale:  but  they 
were  wary  enough  not  to  put  all  their 
conversation  upon  the  subject. 

"Your  voice  sounds  a  little  like  a  man 
named  Russell,  that  lives  in  Boston", 
said  one  of  the  villagers,  who  kept  the 
postoffice.  Mr.  Russell  knew  this  vil- 
lager very  well,  and  had,  during  the 
lively  summer  months,  received  letters 
and  papers  from  him. 

"But  you  don't  resemble  him  in  ap- 
pearance", continued  the  postmaster,  in 
a  consoling  tone.  "He  has  a  kind  of  a 
sneakin'  look,  that  Nature  has  deprived 
you  of.  Awful  particular  about  his 
mail :  we  used  to  wonder  if  there  wasn't 
something  in  it  he  didn't  want  his  wife 

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to  get  hold  of.  Now  this  hoss  I  was 
telHn'  you  of"— 

"Was  you  talkin'  about  old  Russell?" 
broke  in  another.  "I  know  him:  he's 
b'en  here  year  after  year,  an'  tried  to 
lord  it  over  us  fellers  as  ef  he  owned 
us.  One  of  the  worst  old  hypocrites  I 
ever  saw.  Why!  he'll  go  to  church 
every  Sunday,  an'  set  there  as  ef  he  was 
at  a  pertracted  meetin',  an'  hed  jest  been 
convicted  of  oughriginal  sin  fer  the  first 
time:  an'  then  he's  got  a  class  in  the 
Sunday-school,  an'  makes  the  child'n 
think  he's  an  overgrown  lamb :  an'  then 
he'll  go  back  to  the  houghtel,  an'  set 
there  the  whole  night  in  one  o'  the 
other  feller's  rooms,  a-playin'  poker. 
He  makes  his  wife  b'lieve  he'sf  got  the 
innersominia,  or  somethin'  like  that,  an' 
that  he  has  to  walk  the  streets  to  save 
himself  from  kickin'  aroun'  in  the  bed. 
This  'ere  hoss  that  Vve  got,  that  I  was 
tryin'  for  to  tell  you  about,  a  few  min- 
utes ago" — 

"I  heerd  you  a-speakin'  about  the  old 
man  Russell",  spoke  up  another  mem- 
ber of  the  interesting  crowd.  "I  know 
more  about  that  old  feller,  than  any  one 
else  in  this  town.  He's  got  a  sort  of 
ide'  that  he's  good-lookin' :  mebby  some 
one  told  him  he  was,  fifteen  or  twenty 
years  ago,  to  make  him  feel  good.  He 
grins  on  every  woman  in  town — 'big  an' 
little,  young  an'  old — ^whenever  he  meets 
'em.  My  wife  says  it's  lucky  his  clo'es 
don't  fit  his  ide*s  of  himself,  or  there 
wouldn't  be  shears  'nough  in  the  coun- 
try to  cut  *em.  My  oldest  daughter  says 
ef  turkey  gobblers  strutted  aroun'  like 
he;  does,  they'd  wear  off  all  their  flesh 
before  Thanksgivin'.  This  hoss  I  was 
tellin'  you  about,  is  wuth  two  hundr'd 
dollars  ef  he's  wuth  a  cent.  I'll  show 
him  to  ye  tomorrow" — 

"Was  you  fellers  over  there,  talkin' 
about  old  man  Russell?"  spoke  up  still 
another,  who  had  thus  far  limited  his 
demonstrations  to  target-practice  at  the 
stove,  with  sundry  tobacco-quids.  "Now 
/  think  he  is  consid'ble  of  a  man,  an' 
does  as  well  as  he  knows  how.  Of 
course  I  don't  pertend  that  he's  any- 
thing extra:  he  ain't  the  smartest  man 
that  ever  lived,  nor  the  brightest;  he'll 


never  set  Boston  afire,  ef  he  lives  there 
a  thousan'  winters.  They  say  he 
wouldn't  hev  never  been  wuth  nothin' 
nohow,  ef  his  father  hadn't  knowed 
more  than  he  did,  an'  left  him  a  few 
thousan'  plunks.  But  he's  a  good,  de- 
cent feller  enough,  an'  ef  ye  kin  only 
git  the  blind  side  of  him,  ye  kin  make 
him  pay  double  prices  fur  everything  he 
gits.  Them's  the  sort  o'  folks  we  want 
here,  summers.  I  ain't  got  no  hoss  to 
sell,  but  I  think  my  neighbors  here'U 
treat  ye  tol'ble  fair,  ef  you  mind  yer 
steps  an'  look  out  for  'em." 

Mr.  Russell  did  not,  on  this  trip,  add 
to  the  contents  of  his  stables.  He  sol- 
emnly paid  his  reckoning  at  the  little 
hotel,  next  morning,  and,  together  with 
his  actor-friend,  took  the  first  train  to 
Boston.  The  little  station  was  half- 
surrounded  by  horses  in  various  states 
of  preservation — ^but  no  sales  were  re- 
ported. 

The  old  actor  who  accompanied  Mr. 
Russell  agreed  never  to  say  a  word 
about  it  again  and  again: but  somehow 
Mr.  Russell  did  not  like  the  expression 
on  his  face  when  he  made  the  promise. 
Besides,  he  did  it  too  often,  and  too 
spontaneously. 


A  Tame  Hedgehog. 

IT  is  surprising,  even  amongst  persons 
pretending  to  some  fair  amount  of 
educated  intelligence,  how  gross  is  the 
general  ignorance  of  natural  history, 
extending  even  to  the  animals  of  our 
household  and  our  domesticated  pets. 

From  some  cause,  houses  are  often 
infested  with  beetles  and  cockroaches, 
generally  mice  and  rats,  and  not  unfre- 
quently  spiders  in  abundance.  Now,  all 
your  beetle-traps,  rat-traps,  mouse  ditto, 
poisons,  or  infallible  insect  powders,  are 
as  nothing  compared  to  the  services  of 
a  hedgehog,  who  will  clear  the  kitchens 
and  cellars  in  a  very  short  space  of  time. 

Many  have  become  aware  of  the  ser- 
viceable nature  of  this  creature,  but 
when,  in  answer  to  some  complaint  of  a 
neighbor  or  acquaintance  about  being 
tormented  with  cockroaches,  mice  and 

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rats,  we  have  advised  the  keeping  of  a 
hedgehog,  we  have  generally  met  with 
the  reply:  "But  we  never  can  get  one 
to  live ;  they  always  die  in  a  month." 

At  first  this  used  to  -  perplex  us 
greatly,  and  when  in  our  turn  we  also 
began  to  suffer  under  this  beetle  griev- 
ance, the  experience  of  our  neighbors 
deterred  us  from  trying  our  own  rem- 
edy. At  length  the  enemy  grew  so  bold, 
and  increased  so  greatly  in  force,  that 
one  day  in  pure  desperation  we  deter- 
mined to  buy  a  hedgehog. 

When  we  got  home  we  christened 
him  Peter  and  gave  him  a  mansion  be- 
neath a  disused  kitchen  kettle,  with 
plenty  of  hay,  a  large  supply  of  water, 
and  a  good  supper  of  bread  and  milk, 
which  we  had  always  been  told  was 
amply  sufficient  to  satisfy  the  creature's 
appetite. 

We  soon  discovered  why  our  acquaint- 
ances could  not  keep  their  hedgehogs 
alive.  Belonging  to  the  order  carnivora, 
these  animals  when  in  a  domestic  state 
rarely  have  any  meat  given  them.  Many 
persons,  indeed,  have  a  fixed  idea  that 
the  vermin  they  destroy  are  enough  to 
sustain  life,  or  they  vaguely  attribute  to 
the  hedgehog  the  fabled  chameleon  abil- 
ity of  living  on  air. 

One  of  our  family,  Miss  Gladys,  who 
has  a  passion  for  every  creature  belong- 
ing to  animal  nature,  undertook  to  tame 
Peter,  and  ascertain  his  habits,  tastes, 
and  likings.  Of  course  she  fed  him; 
that  is  the  first  key  to  animal  affection. 
He  soon  came  to  recogpiize  the  hand  on 
which  he  depended  for  daily  food.  He 
makes  but  one  meal  per  diem,  and  that 
about  nine  o'clock  P.  M. ;  and  if  the 
hour  goes  by  without  his  food  being 
placed,  he  utters  a  peculiar  noise  resem- 
bling a  groan,  sneezes  frequently,  with 
the  force  and  fervency  of  a  cat,  and  tes- 
tifies much  uneasiness.  He  requires 
meat  pretty  frequently,  and  is  very  par- 
tial to  a  bone  with  a  good  deal  on  it. 
He  unrolls  himself  at  the  touch  of 
Gladys,  and  places  his  bristles  down, 
so  that  she  can  stroke  him ;  he  will  even 
play  occasionally,  stretching  out  his 
paws — so  like  a  monkey's — and  will 
sometimes  lick  the  hand  of  his  feeder. 


Though  it  is  not  to  be  denied  he  has 
his  tempers  and  is  sometimes  surly,  and 
consequently  very  prickly. 

He  was  extremely  light  when  he  first 
came  into  our  possession,  but  after  a 
course  of  good  feeding  hef  became  quite 
fat,  and  spread  considerably  in  his  pro- 
portions. In  a  fortnight  he  had  cleared 
away  every  cockroach  and  beetle  on  the 
premises,  though  previously  we  had 
without  effect  tried  every  known  anti- 
dote to  destroy  these  pests;  cucumber- 
parings  which  they  devoured,  and  which 
did  not  kill  them — ^as  we  had  been  as- 
sured they  would — ^pans  of  beer,  with 
little  ladders  to  give  them  access  to  the 
liquor,  which  they  drank  and  ran  away 
again;  the  topers,  instead  of,  as  we 
fondly  hoped,  drowning  themselves  in 
the  strong  drink.  Peter  knocked  them 
all  oflf,  and  wanted  more,  judging  from 
the  noise  he  made  every  night  after 
dark,  resembling  a  cat  walking  about 
in  walnut  shells. 

Indeed,  our  bristly  pet  at  first  alarmed 
us  considerably  by  knocking  about  the 
saucepans  and  kitchen  utensils  with  a 
force  which  once  or  twice  convinced  us 
that  burglars  were  on  a  visit.  He  made 
these  noises,  we  found,  in  researches 
after  rats  and  mice,  with  which,  in  its 
free  state,  the  hedgehog  satisfies  his  car- 
nivorous instincts.  He  is,  indeed,  more 
valuable  in  the  destruction  of  rats  than 
either  cat  or  dog. 

Descending  one  morning  early  into 
the  kitchen  inhabited  by  Peter,  we  were 
horrified  on  seeing  the  floor  soiled  with 
large  spots  of  blood,  and  marks  of  claw- 
like feet  in  the  same  sanguine  color. 
We  examined  the  cat,  who  was  suspected 
of  being  secretly  an  enemy  to  Peter,  but 
Puss  was  perfectly  serene  and  unwound- 
ed.  Then  the  hedgehog  was  dragged 
out  of  his  hole,  and,  to  our  dismay,  we 
found  the  poor  creature's  eyes  were 
closed,  one  of  them  being  apparently 
torn  out.  The  carcass  of  a  rat,  half- 
devoured,  being  discovered,  we  came  to 
the  conclusion  that  the  creatures  had 
been  engaged  in  mortal  combat,  in 
which  poor  Peter  had  lost  his  beautiful 
eyes — eyes  of  dark-blue,  which  though 
not  over  bright,   were  nice   intelligent 

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ones.  We  were  sorry  to  think  that,  for 
the  rest  of  his  days,  he  must  grope  in 
the  dark ;  but,  in  a  month's  time,  he  had 
perfectly  recovered  his  eyesight,  even 
the  orb  where  only  a  vacuum  could  be 
seen. 

Peter  has  become  a  household  pet,  but 
truth  demands  we  should  not  conceal 
his  faults.  He  is  by  no  means  cleanly 
in  his  habits ;  he  is  untidy  in  his  eating ; 
and  is  positively  addicted  to  thieving. 
In  winter  he  never  appears  to  be  warm 
enough,  but  goes  about  foraging  for 
bedclothes — stealing  all  the  stray  towels, 
house-flannels,  and  pieces  of  cloth  or 
carpet  which  fall  in  his  way.  These  are 
faults  intolerable  in  the  sight  of  tidy 


housewives;  but  somehow  the  old  quill 
has  grown  to  be  a  necessary  evil,  for  he 
keeps  the  house  free  from  vermin,  and 
therefore  is  worth  the  trouble  he  gives. 
It  is  said  that  this  animal  is  invulner- 
able to  -any  poison,  and  that  he  can  feed 
with  impunity  on  the  most  venomous 
creatures.  That  he  is  capable  of  being 
tamed,  and  susceptible  to  attachment, 
the  writer  can  vouch  for.  At  the  same 
time,  it  is  suggested  to  every  one  who 
keeps  or  intends  to  keep  a  hedgehog, 
that  he  is  like  a  good  many  human 
beings:  he  prefers  good  eating  and 
drinking  to  starvatwn,  and  that  his  exis- 
tence is  prolonged  or  shortened  accord- 
ing to  the  sufficiency  of  his  diet. 


Face  To  Face  With  Trouble. 

By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


W  OU  are  face  to  face  with  trouble, 
*         And  the  skies  are  murk  and  gray. 
You  hardly  know  which  way  to  turn, 

You  are  almost  dazed,  you  say. 
And  at  night  you  wake  to  wonder 

What  the  next  day's  news  will  bring ; 
Your  pillow  is  brushed  by  phantom  Care 

With  a  grim  and  ghastly  wing. 

You  are  face  to  face  with  trouble ; 

A  child  has  gone  astray; 
A  ship  is  wrecked  on  the  little  sea; 

There's  a  note  you  cannot  pay; 
Your  brave  right  hand  is  feeble; 

Your  sight  is  growing  blind; 
Perhaps  a  friend  is  cold  and  stern, 

Who  was  ever  warm  and  kind. 

You  are  face  to  face  with  trouble ; 

No  wonder  you  cannot  sleep; 
But  stay,  and  think  of  the  promise 

The  Lord  will  safely  keep, 
And  lead  you  out  of  the  thicket. 

And  into  the  pasture-land; 
You  have  only  to  walk  straight  onward, 

Holding  the  dear  Lord's  hand. 


Face  to  facel  with  trouble; 

And  did  you  forget  to  look, 
As  the  good  old  father  taught  you, 

For  help  in  the  dear  old  Book? 
You  have  heard  the  tempter  whisper. 

And  you've  had  no  heart  to  pray,  • 
And    God    was    dropped    from    your 
scheme  of  life, 

O !  for  many  a  weary  day. 

Then  face  to  face  with  trouble; 

It  is  thus  He  calls  you  back 
From  the  land  of  dearth  and  famine 

To  the  land  that  has  no  lack. 
You  would  not  hear  in  the  sunshine ; 

You  hear  in  the  midnight  gloom ; 
Behold,  His  tapers  kindle 

Like  stars  in  the  quiet  room. 

O !  face  to  face  with  trouble, 

Friend,  I  have  often  stood; 
To  learn  that  pain  hath  sweetness. 

To  know  that  God  is  good. 
Arise  and  meet  the  daylight, 

Be  strong  and  do  your  best ! 
With  an  honest  heart,  and  a  childlike 
faith, 

That  God  will  do  the  rest. 


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The    United   States    Department   of    Ag^ri- 
culture,   and    the   Future. 


By  Lyman  Beecher  Stowe. 


II. 

TTHE  greatest  administrative  task  of 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  is  the 
management  of  the  National  Forests. 
These  forests  cover  an  area  of  over 
195,000,000  acres — an  area  greater  than 
that  of  many  countries.  They  embrace 
about  one-fifth  of  the  forest  land  of 
the  Nation.  They  are  composed  exclu- 
sively of  regions  that  are  more  valu- 
able for  the  production  of  timber,  than 
for  mining  or  agriculture.  Just  as  soon 
as  any  portion  can  be  shown  to  be  more 
valuable  for  farming  or  mining  than 
for  forest  products,  that  portion  is 
transferred  to  private  owners,  who 
agree  to  develop  it  satisfactorily  along 
the  new  lines. 

I  remember  being  in  the  office  of  the 
Forest  Service  in  Washington,  talking 
with  Mr.  Pinchot,  then  Chief  Forester, 
when  a  man  called  who  had  discovered 
valuable  copper  deposits  on  National 
Forest  land.  Mr.  Pinchot  told  him  his 
claim  had  been  mvestigated,  and  report- 
ed upon  favorably,  and  that  he  might 
take  over  the  land  as  soon  as  the  trans- 
fer could  be  effected.  Once  a  National 
Forest  does  not  mean  always  a  National 
Forest,  as  is  commonly  supposed. 

In  spite  of  the  vigorous  educational 
campaign  of  the  Forest  Service,  the 
popular  fallacy  has  not  yet  been  com- 
pletely exorcised  that  the  National  For- 
ests are,  as  it  were,  under  lock  and  key 
—their  resources  hoarded  for  future 
generations.     To  rob  the  present  gen- 


eration of  one-fifth  of  the  forest  re- 
sources of  the  nation  for  the  benefit 
of  future  generations,  would  be  indeed 
quixotic  nonsense.  On  the  other  hand, 
so  wastefully  to  use  the  forests  of  today 
as  to  entail  upon  posterity  a  forest  fam- 
ine, is  a  policy  of  short-sighted  greed. 
The  Government's  policy  is  the  mean 
between  these  two  extremes.  It  aims  at 
the  maximum  use  of  the  forests  in  the 
present,  consistent  with  their  preserva- 
tion for  the  future.  How  vitally  neces- 
sary is  provision  for  the  future,  may 
readily  be  understood  from  the  fact 
that  we  are  even  now  consuming  our 
forest  resources  three  times  as  rapidly 
as  they  are  being  replenished. 

As  a  result  of  the  work  of  the  Forest 
Service,  many  of  the  leading  lumbermen 
of  the  country  have  introduced  scientific 
forestry  methods  in  the  management  of 
their  timber  lands.  Naturally  they  have 
done  this  for  purely  commercial  reasons. 
What  lumbermen  as  a  class  now  think 
of  forestry,  may  be  gathered  from  the 
fact  that  they  have  beg^n  to  endow 
chairs  of  lumbering  in  forestry  schools. 
Ten  years  ago  this  great  industry,  of 
so  vital  importance  not  only  to  the  men 
engaged  in  it,  but  to  the  entire  public, 
was  tobogganing  to  its  own  ruin.  To- 
day its  leaders  are  actually  co-operating 
with  the  Government  in  the  national 
preservation  of  the  forests.  The  pre- 
vention of  waste  which  may  be  traced 
to  the  work  of  the  Forest  Service,  has 
alone  added  vastly  more  to  the  National 
wealth,  than  the  entire  cost  of  the  ser- 

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vic€    from   its  opening  to  the  present 
time. 

The  more  notable  achievements  of  the 
Service  in  decreasing  the  drain  upon 
our  forests  by  providing  for  their  more 
effective  use,  have  been  along  these  four 
lines :  the  determination  of  the  strength 
of  various  kinds  of  timber,  study  of 
methods  for  making  timber  more  dur- 
able, thef  substitution  of  economical  for 
wasteful  methods  of  lumbering,  and  the 
introduction  of  better  methods  of  gath- 
ering forest  products  other  than  lum- 
ber. By  its  timber  tests  the  Service  has 
found  that  various  little-used  woods  are 
suitable  for  structural  purposes.  By  its 
study  of  methods  of  preservation,  it  has 
made  possible  an  enormous  reduction  in 
the  drain  upon  our  forests  for  railroad 
ties.  Such  was  the  drain  originally, 
that  had  there  been  a  tree  growing  at 
either  end  of  every  railroad  tie  on  every 
mile  of  track  in  United  States,  all  the 
timber  thus  produced  would  have 
been  needed  for  renewal  purposes  alone. 
The  Forest  Service  has  proved  to  lum- 
bermen that  the  high  stumps,  tops,  and 
logs  formerly  left  to  rot,  can  be  utilized 
without  added  expense.  The  wholesale 
destruction  of  our  Southern  forests  has 
been  stopped  through  the  discovery  of  a 


new  method  of  extracting  turpentine 
which  prevents  boxing,  and  so  killing 
the  trees,  besides  gathering  a  greater 
value  in  the  commodity. 

As  much  timber  is  cut  and  sold  each 
year  on  our  National  Forests,  as  is  con- 
sistent with  preserving  their  continuous 
productivity.  In  order  to  encourage  the 
settlement  of  the  country  by  home-mak- 
ers, near  the  National  Forests,  they  are 
permitted  to  use  a  certain  amount  of 
timber  yearly  without  charge.  They 
need  only  secure  permits  from  the  local 
field  officers.  Curiously  enough  to  the 
uninitiated,  one  of  the  chief  uses  of  the 
forests  is  for  grazing.  Grazing  rights 
are  now  allowed  for  very  moderate 
rentals  on  all  National  Forests  except 
those  whose  watersheds  furnish  water 
for  domestic  use.  There  are  strict  reg- 
ulations to  prevent  harm  to  young 
growth,  to  water-supplies,  and  to  the 
range  itself,  by  fixing  the  time  of  enter- 
ing and  leaving,  limiting  the  number  of 
head  to  be  grazed  by  each  applicant, 
and  the  part  of  the  range  to  be  occu- 
pied. 

Hundreds  of  thousands  of  recrea- 
tion-seekers are  beginning  to  use  the 
National  Forests.  The  Service  encour- 
ages this  new  use  of  the  Forests^  by 

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marking  camping-sites  and  distances. 
The  Forest  Rangers  cheerfully  give 
advice  and  assistance,  mingled  witli 
friendly  warnings  as  to  carelessness  in 
the  use  of  fire.  With  the  growth  of 
population  and  the  building  of  roads 
and  trails,  the  National  Forests  will 
more  and  more  become  gigantic  pleas- 
ure-grounds for  the  people  of  the  West. 

When  we  know  that  the  annual  value 
of  the  Forest  products  of  United  States 
exceeds  that  of  all  the  mines  of  every 
description,  we  begin  to  realize  what  it 
means  to  posterity  to  hand  down  unim- 
paired this  National  heritage.  The  For- 
est Service  of  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture has  already  saved  to  the  future 
one-fifth  of  this  titanic  heritage:  while 
at  the  same  time  increasing  instead  of 
lessening  its  present  usefulness. 

Another  branch  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture,  which  bears  to  the  future 
a  particularly  vital  significance,  is  the 
Bureau  of  Entomology.  This  Bureau 
seeks  to  destroy  all  injurious  insects. 
It  constantly  approximates  more  nearly 
this  ideal,  the  even  very  partial  realiza- 


tion of  which  would  mean  the  saving 
each  year  of  thousands  of  lives  and  mil- 
lions of  dollars,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
indirect  benefits  resulting  from  the  bet- 
ter general  health  of  the  whole  people. 
Insects  kill  yearly  more  merchantable 
timber  than  do  forest  fires. 

It  was  reported  in  May,  1907,  that  the 
pine  timber  was  dying  on  an  extensive 
private  estate  adjoining  a  National  For- 
est near  Idaho  Springs,  Colorado.  The 
Bureau  at  once  sent  an  expert  to  inves- 
tigate. He  reported  that  63,000  feet  of 
timber  were  infested  by  the  Black  Hills 
beetle,  and  that,  unless  its  ravages  were 
stopped,  it  would  kill  all  the  timber 
both  on  the  estate  and  in  the  adjoining 
National  Forest. 

The  owner  was  given  detailed  in- 
structions how  to  check  the  scourge. 
These  he  neglected,  until  the  insects  had 
extended  their  depredations  by  swarm- 
ing from  the  infested  to  other  trees.  A 
re-examination  six  months  later  discov- 
ered that  the  scourge  had  increased 
four-fold,  until  240,000  feet  were  in- 
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the  Government  knew  more  about  it 
than  did  his  manager.  He  ordered  the 
latter  to  carry  out  the  Government 
instructions. 

During  the  next  six  months,  the  in- 
fested trees  were  converted  into  lum- 
ber, and  the  outside  slabs,  containing 
the  bark,  burned.  After  the  instructions 
had  been  fulfilled,  it  was  found  that  the 
infestation  had  been  stopped,  not  only 
without  expense  to  the  owner,  but  at  a 
net  profit  of  $1,200,  resulting  from  the 
sale  of  the  240,000  feet  of  timber.  The 
economic  saving  to  the  Nation,  when 
practically  all  large  timber  owners  have 
learned  to  follow  the  advice  of  the 
Government  in  controlling  insect  pests, 
will  be  incalculable. 

A  number  of  years  ago,  an  expert  of 
the  Bureau  of  Entomology  estimated 
that  $700,000,000  was  a  very  conser- 
vative figure  at  which  to  place  the 
yearly  loss  due  to  insect  pests  in  United 
States.  Each  year  this  National  toll  is 
being  cut  down  under  the  leadership  of 
Director  Howard  of  the  Bureau  and  his 
assistants,  who  are  generals  in  the  war 
of  the  entomologists  upon  the  insects. 
The  arsenic  spray  for  killing  the  cotton- 
worm,  together  with  the  method  for 
controlling  the  cotton-boll  weevil,  have 
practically  stopped  an  annual  tax  which 
threatened  to  exterminate  the  entire 
cotton  industry.  A  knowledge  of  the 
methods  of  controlling  the  Hessian  fly, 
together  with  improved  cultural  meth- 
ods, have  saved  wheat  values  aggregat- 
ing from  $100,000,000  to  $200,000,000 
annually.  Through  the  partial  control 
of  the  coddling  moth,  the  apple-crop  has 
increased  in  value  between  $6,000,000 
and  $8,000,000  a  year.  Thus  is  the  one- 
time $700,000,000  annual  tribute  levied 
upon  the  Nation  by  malignant  insect 
myriads  being  constantly  reduced. 

If  those  roads  that  led  to  Rome  had 
been  like  most  of  the  roads  in  United 
States  today,  Rome  would  not  have 
been  the  mighty  world  centre  that  she 
was.  There  are  2,155,000  miles  of  pub- 
lic roads  in  United  States.  Only  a  little 
over  seven  per  cent,  of  them  are  im- 
proved. The  others  are  bad  at  their 
best,  and  impassable  at  their  worst.    We 


spend  yearly  about  $80,000,000  on  our 
2,155,000  miles  of  highways.  Upon  her 
only  150,000  miles,  England  spends 
about  $90,000,000.  The  average  cost 
of  hauling  a  ton  a  mile  on  our  roads,  is 
twentyfive  cents.  The  highways  of 
France  are  such  that  her  average  rate 
is  but  twelve  cents.  The  length  of  haul 
in  this  country  averages  9.4  miles.  Ac- 
cording to  the  figures  of  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission,  about  250,000,- 
000  pounds  are  hauled  yearly  over  our 
common  roads.  Were  our  highways 
equal  to  those  of  France,  with  the  haul- 
age rate  correspondingly  lower,  the  sav- 
ing to  our  producers  would  approxi- 
mate $305,000,000  a  year. 

In  an  effort  to  bring  our  roads  up  to 
the  standard  of  England  and  France, 
the  Department  of  Agriculture,  through 
its  Office  of  Public  Roads,  is  now  en- 
gaged in  a  great  advisory  and  educa- 
tional road-betterment  campaign.  As 
object-lessons  this  Office  has  constructed 
over  200  short  stretches  of  model  roads 
throughout  the  country.  Road-materi- 
als from  every  section  of  United  States 
are  te^ed  at  the  laboratory,  so  that 
everywhere  roads  of  maximum  efficiency 
may  be  constructed  at  minimum  cost. 
A  systematic  and  harmonious  plan  for 
the  improvement  of  the  roads  of  each 
State  has  been  worked  out. 

The  Government  Road  Engineers  are 
provided  gratis  to  supervise  State  and 
County  road  improvements.  Each  year 
a  number  of  graduates  of  technical 
schools  are  given  an  apprenticeship  in 
road-engineering  under  the  Government 
experts.  The  two  great  road-problems 
of  the  day — ^the  prevention  of  dust  and 
the  use  of  waste  products  in  road- 
building,  are  approaching  satisfactory 
solution.  By  acting  as  a  bureau  of 
information  and  clearing-house,  the 
Office  of  Public  Roads  gives  the  unity 
and  effectiveness  of  central  and  authori- 
tative leadership  to  the  great  movement 
for  road  betterment  which  is  now 
sweeping  over  the  country. 

The  future  field  for  usefulness  for  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  is  being  in- 
creased by  the  vast  reclamation-projects 
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Department.  If  our  enormous  national 
investment  in  this  work  is  to  prove 
profitable,  it  is  essential  that  these  lands 
as  reclaimed  shall  be  properly  culti- 
vated. 

Five  million  acres  of  arid  lands  are 
now  being  irrigated.  Agricultural  ex- 
perts estimate  that  this  area  will  support 
100,000  settlers.  Here  is  a  chance  for 
the  right  kind  of  immigrants!  There 
are  in  United  States  79,000,000  acres  of 
wet  lands  which  may  be  made  suitable 
for  agriculture  by  drainage.  There  are 
150,000,000  acres  of  occupied  farm 
lands  whose  production  might  be  in- 
creased by  twenty  per  cent.,  without 
additional  labor  in  management  or  cul- 
tivation, merely  by  proper  drainage. 
The  method  of  cultivation  known  as  dry 
farming  is  making  thousands  of  acres 
productive  where  the  cost  of  irrigation 
would  be  prohibitive.  As  a  result  of 
the  reclamation  projects  plus  dry  farm- 
ing, half  a  billion  of  now  waste-lands 
will  in  the  course  of  time  be  available 
for  agriculture. 

The  soil  is  the  one  natural  resource 
which,  the  more  it  is  used,  the  more 
productive  it  becomes:  provided  only 
it  is  used  properly.  It  may  be  made  to 
feed  and  clothe  generation  after  gener- 
ation ad  infinitum.  In  spite  of  the  fact 
that  the  average  yearly  value  of  the 
products  of  the  soil  of  United  States 
has  now  reached  $8,000,000,000,  the 
yield  per  acre  is  only  one-half  to  one- 
third  that  of  European  countries.  Fur- 
thermore, since  our  country  is  still  so 
sparsely  settled,  about  one-quarter  only 
of  the  land  nominally  under  cultivation 
is  actually  in  use.  The  Department's 
Bureau  of  Soils  is  now  making  a  soil 
survey  of  United  States.  The  results 
will  indicate  both  the  proper  use  of  the 
soils  not  now  under  cultivation,  and 
how  to  increase  to  the  highest  point  the 
productivity    of    the    cultivated    soils.  • 


This  survey  has  already  covered  150,000 
square  miles  and  penetrated  every  State 
and  Territory  excepting  Maine  and 
Nevada. 

Although  this  is  an  area  greater  than 
that  of  the  British  Isles,  it  is  less  than 
two-thirds  that  of  the  one  State  of 
Texas.  The  experts'  estimate  that  the 
results  of  this  survey  should  easily 
double  within  the  next  twenty  years  the 
average  yearly  value  of  the  soil  prod- 
ucts of  the  Nation.  This  would  raise 
their  value  to  $16,000,000,000. 

The  passage  by  Congress  about  two 
years  ago  of  the  Denatured-alcohol  Act 
opened  up  such  vast  possibilities  that  it 
is  difficult  to  forecast  them  without  un- 
derstatement. Every  farmer  may  now 
set  up  his  own  still,  and  by  the  use  of 
his  farm  wastes,  produce  his  own  source 
of  light,  heat,  and  motive  power.  It  is 
now  no  wild  flight  of  imagination  to 
picture  every  small  farm-house  heated 
and  lighted  as  well  as  the  houses  of  the 
rich  and  every  farmer  taking  his  produce 
to  market  in  his  own  electric  truck. 
The  passage  of  this  bill  was  the  outcome 
of  a  long  fight,  guided  by  the  chemists 
of  the  Department  of  Agriculture, 
against  the  blind  prejudice  of  unreason- 
ing fanatics. 

One  need  be  no  rash  prophet  to  pre- 
dict that  the  use  of  denatured-alcohol  in 
the  production  of  electrical  power,  the 
opening  up  to  agricultural  development 
of  half  a  billion  acres  of  waste  lands, 
the  doubling  or  tripling  of  the  fertility 
of  the  soils  now  under  cultivation,  the 
controlling  of  insect  and  animal  pests, 
and  the  improvement  of  the  public  high- 
ways, will  in  their  combined  eflFect  turn 
the  now-ominous  immigration  from 
country  to  city,  to  a  healthy  emigration 
from  city  to  country.  The  prosperity  of 
a  nation  must  follow  the  prosperity  of 
its  rural  population  as  surely  as  day 
must  follow  night. 


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"Down  in  a  coal-mine,  underneath  the 

ground, 
Where  no  ray  of  sunlight  ever  can  be 

found ; 
Digging  dusky  diamonds,  all  the  season 

round : — • 
Down  in  a  coal-mine  underneath  the 

ground !" 

T^  HE  lyric  of  which  the  above  quota- 
tion constitutes  the  chorus,  is  still 
a  favorite  song  of  the  miners ;  and  you 
will  often  hear  it,  when  they  are  in 
musical  mood.  One  would  think,  at 
first,  that  the  regiments  that  advance 
daily  into  these  subterranean  fields  to 
storm  Nature's  barricade  of  rocks,  and 
loot  her  of  her  treasures  of  "dusky  dia- 
monds", would  hardly  care  for  music; 
but  music  is  sentiment,  and  sentiment 
goes  everywhere.  Even  in  these  metallic 
days,  when  machinery  drives  away  their 
comrades  constantly,  year  after  year, 
doing  the  work  that  was  once  their  own ; 
when  more  and  more  wheels  and  levers 
and  cogs  and  bolts  and  live  wires  be- 
come their  comrades;  they  still  chant 
love-ditties,  drinking-lyrics,  domestic 
ballads,  and  local  satires.  In  the  last- 
named,  they  often  improvise,  and  sing 
to  their  foreman  in  rhyme,  what  they 
would  not  dare  to  say  in  plain  prose: 
much  to  his  unavailing  discomfiture. 
^  There  is,  indeed,  much  that  is  inter- 
esting and  romantic  oni  and  under  this 
large  city  that  King  Coal  has  made,  in 
these  fifty-odd  years.  In  1845,  here 
was  a  gloom-strewn  valley  with  a 
swamp  in  it;  now  we  see  a  hundred 
thousand  inhabitants,  ten  railroads,  i4i 
miles  of  streets,  seventyfive  of  electric 
street-car  tracks,  six  public  libraries, 
four  colleges,  nine  banks,  125  incorpor- 
ated manufacturing  establishments,  and 


no  less  than  seventy  churches  of  differ- 
ent and  varying  denominations, 
•^•^his  is  doing  pretty  well,  for  an  in- 
land town;  and  its  success  arises  from 
the  fact  that  it  has  so  much  under  the 
land,  as  well  as  above.  This  great  city, 
although  apparently  so  new,  is  really 
the  blossom  and  fruit  of  seeds  planted 
here  by  Nature  many  centuries  ago. 

It  has  fuel  enough  in(  its  vast  cellar- 
age to  keep  hundreds  of  cities  warm, 
and  turn  the  cranks  of  thousands  of 
mills.  The  black  jewels  that  these 
miser  hills  laid  up  for  centuries,  are 
glistening  in  every  day's  sun;  and 
Scranton  is  constantly  turning  her  coal- 
veins  into  palaces. 

To  come  here  for  a  day  or  two  and 
not  explore  one  or  more  of  these  coal- 
mines, seems  a  sin  against  one's  self, 
and  his  future  stores  of  knowledge; 
and  so  the  round  sun  was  not  very  high 
in  the  heavens,  before  I  found  myself 
in  the  office  of  one  of  them,  ready  to 
take  a  pilgrimage  among  these  con- 
stantly violated  tombs  of  vegetation. 
^  The  superintendent  retained  my  hat, 
coat,  collar,  cuffs  and  necktie  in  the 
office,  and  arrayed  me  in  a  costume  that 
would  take  no  harm  even  if  it  filched  a 
small  car-load  of  coal-dust;  and  in  a 
few  minutes  we  were  upon  the  mam- 
moth elevator,  ready  to  sink  hundreds 
of  feet  toward  the  fiery  center  of  the 
earth. 

^  Two  immense  spools  covered  with 
steel  threads  and  turned  by  steam,  let 
us  down  in  a  jiffy,  and  we,  were  at  the 
entrance  of  a  long  road  in  the  rock, 
which  gloomed  away  into  the  distance — 
feebly  lighted  at  intervals  v^ith  electric 
bulbs. 

^  Behold!  we  were  not  to  walk,  or  to 
take;  the  conventional  mule  train:    here 


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was  a  miniature  trolley  line,  hundreds 
of  feet  under  the  big  ones  in  the  city 
overhead;  here  was  a  little  motor-car, 
about  as  large  as  a  kitchen  range ;  here 
were  empty  coal-trucks,  ready  to  go 
after  their  loads.  The  first  electric 
street-car  I  ever  saw  in  America,  was 
at  Scranton;  and  now  the  first  electric 
mining-car. 

"Heads  down!" 

It  was  a  time  for  humility,  if  one  did 
not  wish  the  humble  lot  of  being  car- 
ried out  of  the  establishment  on  a 
stretcher.  The  rocks,  as  well  as  the  live 
wire,  were  just  above  us;  and  away  we 
went  into  the  semi-darkness,  at  twenty 
miles  an  hour.  How  different  from  the 
old  methods  of  mining!  What  does 
dame  Nature  think  of  such  inroads 
among  her  domains?  What  will  she 
eventually  do  to  resent  this  mechanical 
insolence?  Suppose  she  should  take  it 
into  her  head  to  give  us  a  little  sample 
of  one  of  her  earthquakes  just  now ;  or 
let  a  part  of  the  great  restless  city  so 
far  above,  nestle  cozily  down  upon  us! 
Wouldn't  that  constitute  a  fine  little 
railroad  accident?  It  would  be  a  num- 
ber of  deaths  in  a  grave;  the  killing 
and  burying  of  a'  few  men  all  at  once. 
How  strange  to  stay  here  century  after 
century,  entombed  in  the  heart  of  these 
mountains!  And  yet,  not  so  bad  as  to 
have  one's  dust  scattered  wherever  it 
happened,  almost  as  soon  as  those  who 
have  loved  him  are  also  dead. 
l^Ve  halt  in  the  gloom  at  a  junction. 
Here  is  a  stationary  engine,  working 
away  as  contentedly  as  if  it  were  in  the 
sunshine.  We  strike  into  another  tun- 
nel, containing  a  horse-car,  or,  rather, 
a  mule-car,  track,  and  walk  away  toward 
workshops  where  they  are  digging  out 
the  coal. 

^hese  long  narrow  caves  in  the  rock 
are  not  stifling,  as  one  might  suspect; 
but  full  of  the  most  delicious  air;  for. 
everybody  in  here  is  constantly  fanned 
by  machinery  at  the  top.  Into  these 
corridors  are  thrown  gusts  of  oxygen 
that  reach  throughout  their  length ;  and 
other  tunnels,  running  parallel  to  these, 
carry  the  bad  air  out,  to  mingle  once 
more  with  the  open. 


^We  are  borne  to  a  workshop— 
where  men  are  following  up  the  vein 
of  coal,  and  taking  out  great  chunks  of 
the  glistening  anthracite  mineral,  which 
are  promptly  loaded  into  cars  and 
hauled  away. 

^A  sturdy  miner,  "blacked  up"  as  if 
he  were  in  the  burnt-cork  line,  bores 
with  long  augers  a  hole  into  the  glossy 
mass;  then  he  pushes  in  a  paper-roll 
full  of  powder;  then  he  lights  it  with 
a  fuse,  and  gives  us  all  an  opportunity 
to  step  back  where  we  will  not  be  liable 
to  interfere  with  any  of  the  pieces  of 
rock  or  coal  that  might  wish  to  alight 
somewhat  near  where  we  are  now 
standing.  Of  course,  we  wish  to  be 
accommodating  and  not  obstruct  or  in- 
terfere with  the  enterprise;  and  accom- 
pany him  a  little  distance  away.  The 
dull  explosion  is  followed  by  the  scram- 
bling sound  of  falling  coal;  and  crow- 
bars and  pickaxes  soon  loosen  more  of 
it.  As  fast  as  it  is  taken  out,  a  sufficient 
number  of  wooden  posts  are  inserted  to 
keep  the  smoothly-cleaved  ceiling  that 
is  thus  formed,  in  place. 
l/'Would  you  like  to  see  the  barn?" 
A  queer  place  for  stables;  but  there 
they  were :  stalls  where  tribe  after  tribe 
of  mules  make  their  home  in  the  dark- 
ness. It  is  always  night  to  them,  and 
darkest  night  at  that,  except  as  fitfully 
relieved  by  lanterns  or  lamp.  When 
these  animals  once  come  down  here, 
they  bid  a  permanent  farewell  to  the 
sun,  moon,  and  stars,  and  to  all  outdoor 
life :  their  existence  henceforth  is  to  be 
that  of  gigantic  moles.  Yet  they  drift 
into  a  sort  of  content — so  far  as  a  mule 
ever  is  contented — and,  it  is  said,  even 
seem  happy,  at  times,  when  they  have 
eaten  a  relishing  meal  or  effected  a 
peculiarly  vicious  kick. 

They  have  something  besides  man- 
kind, upon  which  to  vent  their  pugnac- 
ity. The  Asiatic  rat,  with  all  his 
energy  and  intellect,  has  become  a  quad- 
rupedal miner,  and  infests  these  places 
for  such  provender  as  he  can  loot  from 
the  cribs  and  mangers;  and  he  often 
fights  the  mule  very  pretty  little  bat- 
tles for  a  ration  of  oats.  He  even  be- 
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of  these  animals — an  heroic  thing  to  do, 
one  would  think.  Miners  trap  the  rats 
by  hundreds,  but  never  exterminate 
them,  or  wholly  drive  them  away:  a 
rat  is  a  rat. 

Back  again  on  the  impis-h  little  trolley 
train;  entrenched  once  more  on  the 
huge  elevator  that  works  with  the  big 
spools  and  the  steel  threads;  and  in  a 
little  more  time  than  it  takes  a  star  to 
twinkle,  we  are  enfranchised  from  pris- 
oners whose  dungeon-roofs  were  liable 
at  any  time  to  come  crashing  upon  their 
heads,  to  free  men  *  once  more — with 
power  to  drink  in  and  enjoy  the  grand 
Autumn  sunshine — ^that  is  trimming  the 
roofs  of  this  coal-town  with  the  choic- 
est gold.  The  release  seems  all  the 
more  welcome,  as  we  remember  stories 


told  by  the  miners  just  seen,  of  terrible 
hours  they  have  spent  under  these  heavy 
blocks  of  coal,  in  the  companionship  of 
both  living  and  dead  comrades. 

The  boys  who  attend  the  apparatus 
by  which  coal  is  sorted,  sifted,  and 
chewed  into  smaller  lumps  by  mammoth 
sieves  and  great  spiked  rollers,  are  en- 
joying their  noon-hour — recking  not  that 
those  same  rollers  sometimes  make  mis- 
takes, and,  alas!  chew  up  a  lad.  The 
blackened-faced  sturdy  little  fellows  are 
playing  an  apology  for  football — using 
a  rag  instead  of  a  sphc;re — for  which 
they  race,  struggle,  and  fight,  with  al- 
most as  much  ferocity  as  if  they  were 
college  men. 

How  grand  the  day  is.  What  a  grand 
thing  it  seems,  to  be  atop  of  the  earth ! 


When    We     Have    Company. 

By  H.  U.  Johnson. 


O  AY,  mister,  did  you  ever  see 

^     The  sun  in  an  eclipse, 

And  then  remark  how  bright  it  is 

Soon  as  the  shadow  skips? 
The  shade  is  picture  of  our  home 

When  we're  alone,  you  see; 
The  beaming  sunshine  represents 

When  we  have  company. 

When  no  one's  there,  papa  is  cross, 

Mamma  is  on  the  scold, 
And  just  for  any  little  thing 

Will  on  our  ears  lay  hold; 
But  let  the  Joneses  come  about, 

They're  sweet  as  they  can  be; 
Both  pa  and  ma  are  wreathed  in  smiles 

When  we  have  company! 


Pa  ne'er  says  grace  when  we're  alone, 

Or  on  the  table  waits; 
Each  fellow  then  just  helps  himself, 

No.  matter  for  the  plates ; 
But  let  the  Smiths  just  visit  us. 

He's  pious  as  can  be; 
He  passes  victuals  all  about, 

When  we  have  company! 

To  all  us  children  it  is  then, 

"Some  chicken-pie,  my  dear?" 
You  bet  our  hearts  are  all  aglow 

From  such  sweet  words  of  cheer, 
And  we  just  wonder  why  it  is 

It  ever  thus  should  be. 
That  pa  ne'er  swears  and  ma  doesn't  scold, 

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The    Blessing    of   Imperfection. 


f  T  can  easily  be  said  of  Imperfection, 
as  the  good  old  lady  did  the  first 
time  she  saw  the  Atlantic  Ocean:  "I 
have  at  last  found  something  that  there 
is  plenty  of."  There  can  be  no  doubt 
that  the  world  contains  enough  first- 
class  imperfection,  to  satisfy  the  most 
enthusiastic  pessimist.  Where  do  we 
not  encounter  it?  The  earth  is  covered 
with  it,  it  is  in  the  air,  and  the  sky  is 
by  no  jneans  without  it.  Nature  her- 
self seems  to  love  it,  and  to  conspire 
with  it. 

The  earth  is  of  imperfect  figure,  flat- 
tened at  the  poles,  with  marked  irregu- 
larities of  outline.  It  has  never  been 
finished,  and)  never  will  be,  until  it  be- 
comes necessary  to  burn  it  up.  All 
is  imperfect — ^all  lacks  something  that 
ought  to  be  added. 

Nothing  is  in  its  right  place:  every- 
thing is  in  marching  order.  Not  only 
the  rivers,  but  the  lakes,  are  in  motion. 
Our  Superior,  our  Huron,  our  Michi- 
gan, our  Erie,  our  Ontario,  are  all 
marching  lakes — or,  otherwise  speak- 
ing, gigantic  rivers,  now  hundreds  of 
miles  wide,  now  a  few  rods  narrow :  all 
making  their  roads  to  the  sea,  with  a 
grand  noisy  celebration  at  Niagara,  on 
the  way  down.  Everything  is  in  a 
state  of  imperfection  and  discontent. 
The  ocean  itself  is  a  source  and  well- 
spring  of  great  rivers  constantly  flow 
ing  into  the  clouds — restless  forever. 

Not  only  air,  but  ether,  is  full  of  im- 
perfection. The  moon,  they  say,  has 
not  yet  developed  an  atmosphere:  it  is 
a  poor  imitation  of  a  small  planet.  The 
sun  evidently  has  a  disease  which  causes 
it  frequently  to  break  out  in  spots,  and 
seriously  inconvenience  us.  At  one 
place,  among  the  orbits  of  the  planets, 
where  there  ought  logically  to  be  one, 


there  are  fragments  of  a  wrecked  world, 
running  about  the  sun  as  asteroids. 
Many  of  the  stars  have,  since  the  rec- 
ords of  astronomers  began,  made  a 
deathbed  of  the  sky,  and  disappeared  in 
the  graves  of  illimitable  space. 

No  planet — no  star — is  in  a  perfectly 
satisfactory  position — if  it  were,  it  could 
stay  there:  and  nothing  stays  anywhere. 
The  sun,  besides  having  a  whirling 
motion  of  its  own,  hurries  through 
space  along  with  its  brother  and  sister 
stars — and  strikes  out  a  vast  orbit  of 
trillions  of  miles.  Everything  is  on  the 
march:   nothing  is  in  its  right  place. 

And  when  we  come  back  to  earth 
again,  and  inspect  human  beings,  we 
are  bound  to  admit  that  they  are  most 
decidedly  imperfect.  When  we  see  an 
infant  making  its  triumphal  progress 
abng  the  street,)  in  its  own  little  char- 
iot, adorned  with  jewels  and  half  smoth- 
ered with  ermine  robes,  we  feel  at  first 
as  if  that  was  the  very  perfection  of 
incipient  humanity:  but  the  peripatetic 
nurse  can  tell  you,  and  the  fond  mother 
could  tell  you  if  she  would,  that  this 
little  angel  has  lead  in  its  wings;  that 
there  are  ^  heavy  discounts  upon  the 
credit-balances  of  its  divine  qualities; 
and  the  father  could  probably  make  affi- 
davit that  the  chariot  is  not  the  only 
vehicle  with  which  the  little  emperor  is 
carried  from  place  to  place. 

As  the  babe  grows  larger  and  be- 
comes what  they  call  a  child,  it  gets 
more  and  more  imperfect,  if  it  is  to  be 
expected  to  live.  When  a  child  is  over- 
good,  it  is  well  to  have  it  examined  im- 
mediately by  the  family  physician,  to 
ascertain  what  its  disease  is.  The 
mother  is  constantly  fighting  to  keep 
the  absolutely  good  child  out  of  the  sick 
bed.     "Too  pure  for  earth"  is  an  epi- 


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taph  that  is  almost  proverbial.  The 
faults  of  children  make  them  dear  to 
their  parents — often  in  two  senses. 

As  the  child  grows  to  the  woman 
and  the  man,  athough  it  may  be  on  the 
way  toward  perfection,  it  never  arrives 
there  whUe  living.  If  you  want  a  per- 
fect friend,  go  to  the  cemetery  for  him: 
the  people  there  can  be  accused  of  noth- 
ing but  indolence. 

With  all  these  imperfections  staring 
us  in  the  face,  what  are  we  to  do?  To 
bewail  them?  To  add  to  them?  To 
conspire  with  them?  To  lie  down  and 
let  tiiem  walk  over  us?  Or  are  we  to 
meet  them  bravely,  and  contemplating 
the  strength  procured  by  fighting  them, 
to  count  them  among  our  blessings? 

There  is  nothing  worse  than  imper- 
fection on  its  way  to  imperfection: 
nothing  better,  in  this  world  at  least, 
than  imperfection  on  its  way  toward 
perfection. 

Let  us  commence  life  each  day,  real- 
izing that  we  have  a  fight  to  make 
against  the  imperfections  that  we  shall 
encounter  during  the  next  twentyfour 
hours.  Let  us  take  the  world  as  it  is, 
and  make  it  a  little  nearer  as  we  would 
like  to  have  it.  Let  us  realize  that 
we  have  a  thousand  faults  to  fight, 
within  ourselves.  No  warrior  need  ever 
lament  that  he  has  a  lack  of  worlds  to 
conquer;  there  are  worlds  within  his 
own  nature,  that  must  be  subdued,  if  he 
would  triumph. 

As  humanity  grows  intelligent,  it 
transfers  its  theater  of  operation  more 
and  more  to  the  mind.  It  has  been 
found  that  while  improvement  of  body 
is  not  to  be  despised,  improvement  of 
mind  is  infinitely  more  important.  The 
Achilles  of  today  is  not  an  armed  brute : 
he  is  a  trained  mental  athlete.  It  has 
been  ascertained  that  a  pigmy  Japanese 
can  aim  a  gun  as  straight  as  a  gigantic 
Cossack.  It  is  well  known  that  Napo- 
leon, although  he  looks  big  in  history 
and  as  large  as  any  one,  in  his  portraits, 
was  really  only  a  little  taller  than  a 
dwarf,  until  you  begin  to  estimate  his 
intellect. 

The  mind  itself  is  notoriously  imper- 
fect,   and    the    psychologist's    work    is, 


largely,  to  get  along  with  these  imper- 
fections. In  fact,  psychology  ought  to 
be  largely  the  Science  of  Remedying 
Mental  Imperfection. 

What  are  we  going  to  do  about  this? 

Let  us  consider  Imperfection  as  a 
blessing;  because  it  is  the  father  of 
motion,  of  action,  of  eflFort.  Our  physi- 
cal limitatk>ns  throw  us  on,  to  the  mas- 
ter of  all  things — ^mind.  When  a  man 
finds  that  he  can  go  no  farther  with  his 
body,  he  makes  his  mind  help  him  out. 
The  hunter  could  not  himself  hit  the 
wild  bird  in  the  sky :  and  so  he  invented 
the  far^eaching  and  wide-spreading 
shot-gun.  The  warrior  could  not  walk 
into  the  fort:  and  so  he  invented  the 
cannon.  The  very  incompleteness  and 
imperfection  of  our  bodies  tends  toward 
the  cultivation  of  our  intellects. 

The  imperfection  of  our  minds,  tends 
toward  their  own  cultivation.  The  man 
with  an  absolutely  "contented  mind" 
may  have  a  "continual  feast",  but  it 
will  be  a- swinish  one,  and  tend  to  men- 
tal indigestion  if  not  mental  appendi- 
citis. I  will  admit  that  there  is  a  jerky, 
spasmodic,  unreasonable  discontent,  that 
should  be  shunned  and  cured :  but  there 
is  a  noble  discontent,  that  should  be  cul- 
tivated— z  discontent  rising  from  the 
fact,  not  of  the  man's  lack  of  apprecia- 
tion, but  from  the  lack  of  perfection. 

That  is  the  reason,  that  out  of  a  great 
many  pupils  in  the  preparatory  schools, 
a  few  go  on  and  take  the  college  course. 
It  is  because  they  know  and  feel  the  im- 
perfection of  their  knowledge;  they 
know  that  they  cannot  afford  to  go 
without  a  single  chance  of.  improve- 
ment ;  they  know  that  there  are  yet  mil- 
lions of  things  to  know.  They  are  not 
like  the  young  lady  who  came  home 
from  a  year  at  boarding-school,  and 
told  her  parents,  "Fm  glad  I  went:  I 
did  feel  a  little  ignorant  before:  but, 
thank  Heaven,  I  now  know  all  that 
Plato  and  the  other  ancient  philoso- 
phers did,  and  a  good  deal  that  they 
didn't." 

Even  as  the  body's  imperfectk)ni  sets 
men  to  cultivating  the  mind,  so  the 
mind's  imperfections  set  them  to  culti- 
vating the  soul.    The  soul^can  see  far- 

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ther  than   can   the  mind:   by  means  of  not  perfect — thati  our  surroundings  are 

faith  and  those  lightning  flashes  called  not  perfect — that  our  fellow-beings  are 

intuition,    it    can  outstrip  the  intellect,  not  perfect — and  let  us  always  strive  to 

And  no  soul  will  ever  feel  that  it  has  aim  toward  perfection,  but  on  no  ac- 

not   imperfections   to  overcome,   when  count  to  repine  because  we  do  not  pos- 

there  is  the  perfection  of  the  great  God  sess  it :   let  us  rather  take  and  consider 

above  it — always  calling  it  on  and  up.  it  as  an  incentive  to  activity,  and,  as 

So    let    us    thank   God  that  we  are  such,  a  blessing. 


My  Guide. 

By  Seraph  Maltbie  Dean. 

f  DO  not  know  whence  comes  the  strange  desire, 

The  eager  longing,  the  deep-hidden  fire 
That  fills  my  soul;  this  only  do  I  know, 

I  follow  Love  wherever  she  may  go. 
Drawn  by  the  magnetism  of  her  grace, 

There  is  for  me  no  sense  of  time  or  place, 
No  future,  unless  I  myself  resign 

Unto  Love's  service,  and  her  will  divine. 
Forth  from  that  gracious  presence  Fear  swift  flies, 

Since  nothing  evil  dwells  beneath  Love's  eyes. 

Following  my  Guide  the  rugged  way  grows  smooth — 

Such  power  hath  Love  man's  every  ill  to  soothe — 
And  life's  sharp  thorns  lose  all  their  stinging  harm 

When  touched  by  one  who  bears  a  secret  charm. 
The  birds  sing  round  her  path,  the  blossoms  smile, 

And  sunshine  with  its  arch  and  witching  wile 
Plays  midst  the  grasses  where  she  treads,  and  weaves 

Its  changing  lights  upon  the  fluttering  leaves. 
And  the  gay  brooklet  scatters  wild  and  free 

The  shining  spray  about  her  in  its  glee : 

Then  do  you  ask  why  Love  I  choose  for  guide? 

I  only  know  I  cannot  leave  her  side ; 
The  path  she  takes  is  radiant  as  the  star 

That  gleams  upon  us  from  the  depths  afar. 
They  who  would  follow  must  forever  cast 

Behind  them  fear,  even  from  first  to  last. 
With  her  is  only  joy,  and  hope,  and  light, 

And  life  which  leads  to  perfect  bliss  of  sight ; 
No  sin  is  in  the  home  where  dwells  my  Guide, 

But  peace  eternal,  Love  the  queen,  the  bride. 


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[a  fairy  story  for  children.] 


TT  is  so  long  since  fairies  disappeared 
from  United  States  that  most  chil- 
dren have  forgotten  when  it  was  com- 
mon to  see  them  playing  about  the 
"drifts"  of  the  gold  mines  in  California. 
No  child  can  truthfuly  say  that  he  ever 
met  one  skating  on  the  lake  in  Prospect 
Park  or  bewitching  the  engineers  on 
the  "L"  roads  so  that  the  trains  went 
down  one  flight  of  stairs  at  the  Battery 
and  up  on  the  other  side  to  get  to  the 
uptown  track.  I  fancy  that  the  fairies 
stayed  longer  in  the  shadows  of  the  big 
redwood  trees  in  Calaveras  County,  Cal- 
ifornia, than  in  any  other  place.  There 
were  so  many  fortunes  in  gold  turned 
out  of  the  Calaveras  mines  that  I  am 
sure  the  fairies  had  something  to  do 
with  it.  I  have  dug  there  hard  enough 
and  long  enough  wth  pick  and  shovel 
and  could  not  find  much  gold ;  so  I  am 
sure  the  fairies  must  now  have  gone 
away.  I  will  tell  as  a  truth  that  I  would 
just  as  soon  find  a  complaisant  fairy,  as 
to  find  gold;  and  it  would  be  more 
pleasant  in  the  long  run.  If  you  had  a 
fairy  who  would  do  just  as  you  wished, 
he  would  bring  you  all  the  gold  you 
needed  and  would  do  everything  you 
wanted  him  to.  That  would  be  very 
nice.  But  Calaveras  County  is  a  long 
way  even  fromj  San  Francisco;  and  if 
there  are  any  fairies  left  there  I  could 
not  find  them. 

I  will  tell  you  a  fairy  story  which  has 
Its  scene  in  Calaveras.  Once  there  was 
a  miner  who  was  feared  by  every  other 
miner  because  he  had  a  rough  voice 
and  a  forbidding  face ;  but  he  was  never 
known  to  hurt  anyone.  He  spoke  very 
little;  and  when  I  saw  him,  with  his 
red  shirt,  leather  strap  for  a  belt,  trou- 

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sers  tucked  in  his  heavy  boots,  black 
slouch  bat,  long  beard  which  covered 
most  of  his  face,  and  shaggy  uncut  yel- 
k>w  hair,  his  blue  eyes  seemed  to  me  to 
be  full  of  fun  rather  than  crossness. 

In  fact,  he  was  just  the  sort  of  man  a 
fairy  would  pick  out  to  have  a  little  fun 
with.  He  was  called  "Dandy  Jim"  in 
sport.  He  seemed  to  me  to  be  homesick ; 
and  when  he  came  into  the  mining-camp 
store  one  day  and  asked  if  they  had  any 
pumpkin-seed,  I  was  sure  of  it.  Soon 
after  this  I  went  away;  but  afterwards 
returned  to  the  camp,  and  there  they 
told  me  the  story. 

It  seems  that  "Dandy  Jim"  got  a 
package  of  seeds  from  the  store,  and 
the  only  package  they  had  there.  There 
was  something  odd  about  these  seeds. 
The  first  time  that  Jim  asked  for  them 
none  were  to  be  found.  The  next  day 
he  came,  and  sure  enough  on  the 
counter  was  a  package  which  had  on  it 
the  words,  "the  seed  of  the  rotary 
pumpkin."  The  store  men  did  not 
know  where  it  came  from,  and  Jim  took 
it  with  a  puzzled  little  look,  paid  his 
account  in  full  with  a  gold  nugget  which 
he  had  picked  up  that  morning,  and 
went  away.  Jim  had  always  been  poor ; 
and  when  others  made  money  he  had 
never  "struck  it  rich"  until  now,  and  it 
is  my  belief  that  the  fairies  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  placing  the  pumpkin- 
seeds  in  the  store  and  with  the  finding 
of  gold  by  Jim  that  day.  At  any  rate 
his  luck  changed  and  he  found  gold 
every  day  while  the  pumpkin-seed  was 
getting  ready  to  send  its  vine  up  to  the 
top  of  the  ground.  Everyone  said  that 
he  was  getting  rich  because  he  spent 
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following  notice   appeared  one   day   in 
a  country  paper : 

"James  Watson,  Esq.,  a  wealthy  mine- 
owner  in  California,  who  left  here  in 
1849,  has  sent  the  Governor  of  this 
State  a  check  for  twenty  thousand  dol- 
lars to  provide  for  bringing  poor  chil- 
dren from  New  York  to  the  health-giv- 
ing State  of  Maine  next  summer,  and  he 
hopes  there  are  fairies  in  Maine." 
'  Some  one  sent  this  paper  to  Calav- 
eras, and  it  made  certain  of  the  miners, 
who  came  from  dear  old  Maine,  drop  a 
tear.  But  one  and  all  agreed  that  the 
wish  about  the  fairies  showed  that  Jim's 
head  was  not  as  near  right  as  his  heart, 
and  they  all  said  that  he  had  been  queer 
at  times. 

And  a  queer  thing  happened  at  Jim's 
place  one  day.  It  seems  that  when  he 
had  reached  home  with  his  pumpkin- 
seed,  all  the  seeds  had  been  lost  except 
one.  This  was  queer,  because  the  paper 
had  not  been  opened;  and  it  looked  as 
if  the  seeds  had  all  been  rolled  into  one, 
which  was  ofl  such  great  size,  being  as 
big  as  the  palm  of  a  baby's  hand,  that 
Jim  whistled  aloud  when  he  saw  it. 

"Never  mind,"  he  said  tx)  himself; 
"if  I  have  one  pumpkin  I  will  have  seed 
enough  to  plant  again;  and  this  one 
will  be  ready  to  make  a  pie  of  by 
Thanksgiving  Day."  Just  as  soon  as 
he  had  the  seed  in  the  ground  he  began 
to  send  out  word  that  he  wanted  all  the 
miners  to  come  around  and  eat  pump- 
kin-pie with  him  at  Thanksgiving,  which 
was  some  months .  away.  They  all 
laughed  and  said  they  would,  thinking 
it  a  Joke. 

Well,  what  happened  that  was  really 
queer  was  this:  Jim  was  watering  his 
one  pumpkin-seed,  one  day,  when  the 
ground  began  to  move.  A  green  vine 
pushed  up  through  the  soil  just  beneath 
his  feet,  and  he  was  surprised  to  see 
that  on  the  end  of  this  vine  was  already 
a  green  pumpkin  about  the  size  of  a 
small  boy's  head.  The  vine  kept  push- 
ing up,  and  so  fast  that  it  rolled  the 
pumpkin  around  a  little.  The  motion 
increased  so  that  in  a  few  minutes  the 
pumpkin  was  spinning  round  and  round 
in  a. lively  way  on  the  smooth  ground. 


and  pulling  the  pumpkin-vine  tight  as 
if  it  wanted  to  jerk  up  roots  and  all. 
Very  soon  the  vine  came  up  so  fast  and 
•the  pumpkin  gained  such  speed  and 
force  that  it  swung  clear  from  the 
ground  at  the  end  of  a  vine  ten  feet 
long;   and  presently  reached  Jini. 

The  pumpkin  being  on  the  end  of  the 
vine,  Jim  was  caught  around  the  legs 
just  as  ostriches  are  in  Africa  when  the 
natives  throw  a  long  cord  at  them  with 
a  ball  at  each  end.  These  cords  wind 
around  the  ostriches'  legs,  and  throw 
them  down.  Just  about  the  same  thing 
happened  to  Jim.  The  pumpkin  was 
now  out  at  the  end  of  fifteen  feet  of 
vine ,  and  it  was  whirling  round  and 
round  soj  that  it  wrapped  Jim  up  com- 
pletely from  his  feet  to  his  waist,  and 
would  have  gone  farther  had  not  he 
whisked  out  his  big  knife  and  cut  the 
vine.  At  this  the  pumpkin  shot  up 
through  the  air  in  a  straight  line,  just 
like  a  cannon  ball,  and  struck  a  tree. 
The  seeds  flew  from  the  large  fruit 
like  sparks  from  a  Fourth  of  July  pin- 
wheel;  showing  that  it  had  turned 
around  very  fast  in  the  air  after  the  vine 
had  been  cut. 

After  this  happening,  our  hero  gave 
up  all  idea  of  having  a  Thanksgiving 
pumpkin-pie,  until  one  day  he  heard  a 
miner  telling  about  "Jim's  big  pump- 
kin-patch." Jim  now  understood  why 
it  was  called  a  rotary  pumpkin.  It  had 
thrown  its  seeds  wth  such  force  that 
they  scattered  all  over  a  large  space; 
and  I  think  the  fairies  covered  them  up. 
He  found  that  he  had  at  least  half  4 
hundred  pumpkins.  While  he  did  not 
know  when  they  would  start  to  fly  off 
into  space,  one  after  another,  like  a 
flight  of  wild  ducks,  the  pumpkins 
seemed  like  any  others,  erowing  ripe  in 
the  sun,  day  after  day,  and  he  thought 
perhaps  he  had  dreamed  out  his  first 
adventure;  and  when  no  one  was 
around,  he  laughed  so  long*  and  loud 
that  he  was  very  jolly. 

Just  before  Thankssfiving  Day,  Jim 
resolved  to  make  the  biggest  pumpkin- 
pie  that  was  ever  known.  He  made  a 
wooden  frame  for  it,  fully  four  feet 
across  and  six  inches  deep.     He  could 

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not  use  fire  to  bake  the  pie,  because  that 
would  burn  the  frame;  so  he  worked  a 
long  while  baking  it  with  hot  stones 
which  he  placed  under  it.  He  found  it 
to  be  good,  and  sd  did  the  miners  when 
they  came  to  eat  some  of  it.  Every  one 
was  urged  to  eat  his  fill,  and  they  did. 

But  the  rotary  power  had  gone  from 
the  seed  int6  the  pie  I  The  first  one  to 
show  this  was  a  one-legged  miner,  who 
suddenly  began  to  spin  around  like  a  top. 
Before  the  others  had  lost  their  surprise, 
they  began  to  turn  like  other  tops.  There 
is  a  force  which  is  called  centripetal, 
which  drew  the  miners  together  as  they 
whirled ;  and  in  a  few  minutes  they  were 
jammed  close  together  around  the  one- 
legged  miner,  and  pressed  tighter  and 
tighter;  he  was  nearly  suffocated. 

Now  the  whole  crowd  spun  as  one, 
being  unable  to  separate,  in  a  solid 
mass:  their  many  legs  kicking  up  a 
great  cloud  of  dust.  Jim  had  just 
enough  centripetal  force  to  keep  him 
near  the  solid  circle;  and.  he  kept  re- 
volving around  it  just  as  the  moon 
spins  around  the  earth.  There  were 
loud  cries,  and  I  think  Jim  would  have 
been  lynched  if  the  miners  could  have 
stopped  dancing  long  enough;  but  the 
fairies  kept  them  at  it.  Their  course 
was  now  through  the  camp  and  now  up 
hill  and  down;  and  all  the  afternoon 
they  whirled,  and  the  remains  of  the 
pie,  carrying  the  wooden  frame,  also 
revolved  not  far  away  in  circles  of  its 
own,  so  that  the  revolving  mass  had  two 
satellites — ^Jim  and  the  pie-frame. 

Just  about  dusk  the  whole  party  fell 
into  a  small  pit,  with  the  exception  of 
Jim.    They  were  too  tired  to  move. 

The  next  morning  they  found  gold 
all  around  them,  and  so  forgave  their 
queer  friend;  but  he  and  the  pie-frame 
were  missing.  They  may  be  whirling 
yet  somewhere;  but  I  think  that  the 
fairies  are  looking  out  for  him.  Any- 
way, the  pie-frame  was  just  the  size  of 
the  ring  around  which  fairies  dance, 
and  so  that  may  be  useful  in  their  Land. 


The  Lady  and  the  Deek. 

COME  one  has  evidently  suffered  the 
invasion  of  his  work-room  by  the 
good  lady  who  presides  over  his  desti- 
nies, and  upon  his  return  found  things 
set  to  most  calamitous  rights.  He 
seems  to  have  retaliated  by  looking 
through  the  lovedi  one's  own  desk,  and 
evolving  the  satire  which  follows: 

What  a  woman's   desk  should  con- 
tain ; — 

Well-sharpened  pencils. 

Pens  that  will  write. 

Well-filled  ink  bottles. 

A  paper-knife  or  letternDpener. 

Stamps  and  stationery. 

Calendars  up  to  date. 

An  eraser  or  penknife. 

Blotters  fit  to  use. 

Envelopes  and  paper-wrappers. 

Rubber  bands  and  sealing-wax. 

Penwiper  and  postal  cards. 

What  one  woman's  desk  does  con- 
tain : — 

Unanswered  letters. 

Note-books  by  the  dozen. 

Souvenir  spoons. 

Pencils  with  broken  points. 

Several  new  books. 

Late  fashion  plates. 

Newspaper  clippings  by  the  score. 

A  tray  of  pins. 

A  useless  fountain  pen. 

A  pair  of  pointless  scissors. 

Two  thimbles. 

A  card  of  hooks  and  eyes. 

One  tape-measure. 

A  broken  ruler. 

Envelopes  of  all  sorts  and  kinds. 

Headache  powders. 

Indelible  ink. 

Several  miniature  encyclopedias. 

Many  poems,  original  and  otherwise. 

Empty  boxes. 

Valuable  stamps. 

A  wax  taper  from  the  catacombs  in 
Rome. 

Two  ink  bottles. 

Dust  and  confusion. 


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"Hello,  Popsiel" 

An  old  man,  with  long  gray  hair  and 
white  beard,  walked  into  a  police 
station  carrying  a  sweet-faced  two-year- 
old  girl,  with  blond  hair  and  light  blue 
eyes.    The  little  one  was  all  smiles. 

"Sergeant,"  said  the  man,  "I  found 
this  pretty  little  baby  at  a  street-cor- 
ner.   She  was  crying  for  her  mamma." 

The  sergeant,  who  was  very  fond  of 
children,  asked  baby  her  name. 

"Edna,"  said  the  tot.  "I  want  to  go 
to  bed." 

"Where  do  you  live,  Edna?"  asked 
the  sergeant. 

"With  my  mamma",  lisped  the  little 
girl. 

She  was  carried  to  the  back  room. 
She  soon  got  tired  of  playing  with  the 
policemen's  clubs  and  big  Tom,  the  sta- 
tion-cat; the  sergeant  made  a  littSe 
bed  for  her  on  one  of  the  benches,  and 
a  few  moments  later  she  was  sound 
asleep. 

At  9  P.  M.  Policeman  Michael  Casey 
walked  into  the  station-house. 

"Are  you  on  house  duty?"  asked  Ser- 
geant Walsh. 

"I  am,"  replied  Casey,  saluting  his 
sergeant.    "Anything  to  do.  Sergeant?" 

"There's  a  lost  child  sleeping  in  the 
back  room",  said  the  sergeant.  "As 
soon  as  she  wakes  up,  you  had  better 
take  her  down  to  Headquarters  and  turn 
her  over  to  the  matron." 

"All  right",  replied  Casey,  and  then 
he  walked  back  into  the  rear  room. 

The  policeman  just  glanced  at  the 
baby.  He  picked  up  a  newspaper  and 
began  to  read. 

Half  an  hour  later  the  little  one  woke 
up. 


"Hello,  popsie",  she  called. 

"All  right,  little  one,"  said  Casey, 
"I'U  be  with  you  in  a  minute,"  and  he 
buried  his  face  in  his  newspaper  again. 

"Say,"  called  the  baby,  "why  don't 
you  kiss  me?" 

Casey  dropped  his  paper  and  walked 
over  to  where  the  child  was  lying.  He 
picked  up  the  little  girl  and  started  with 
her  to  the  front  room. 
"Hello!"  said  the  sergeant.  "Why, 
she  takes  to  you  as  though  you  were 
her  father.  I  guess  you  had  bettef 
carry  her  to  Headquarters,  now." 

"I  guess  ril  take  her  home",  said 
Casey. 

"Home?"  exclaimed  the  Sergeant. 
"Do  you  know  where  she  lives?" 

"Why,  she's  my  own  baby!"  replied 
Casey. 


Oraveyard-Literature. 


I 


N  an  old  country  cemetery,  one  can 
always  find  some  quaint  and  amus- 
ing epitaph.  In  many  cases  interesting 
bits  of  family  history  completely  cover 
the  stone's  grim,  weather-beaten  face, 
and  we  read  first  where  the  "dearly 
beloved"  wives,  noble  sons,  and  "lovely 
and  amiable"  daughters  were  born,  of 
all  the  dangers  through  which  they 
safely  passed,  and  the  causes  which  led 
to  their  final  departure. 

In  the  following  little  account  of  Eli- 
jah, we  learn  the  pathetic  ending  of  his 
noble  resolve  to  "put  down"  the  reb^I' 
lion: 


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"Elijah  went  away  from  home 
The  great  rebellion  to  put  down, 
To  fight  hard  battles  was  his  lot 

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He  was  not  hurt  by  shell  or  shot. 
The  rebel  weapons  all  did  fail 
Typhoid  fever  did  prevail. 
At  last  Diphtheria  that  dread  pest, 
Took  him   from   earth   to   heaven   we 
trust." 

Another,  with  a  better  idea  of  rhyme, 
which  makes  a  little  explanation  neces- 
sary, records:     . 

"Beneath  this  crumbling  pile  of  stones 
Lie  the  remains  of  Henry  Jones. 

His  name  was  Hicks,  it  was  not  Jones ; 
But  Jones  was  put  to  rhyme  with 
stones." 


The  Scientilic  Way  of  aetting 
Home. 

TTHERE  is  a  scientific  way  of  getting 
home;  and  many  of  our  readers, 
returning  from  a  summer  of  pleasure 
or  health-seeking,  will  be  in  a  position 
to  avail  themselves  of  it. 

It  is  well  for  the  most  active  and 
able  member  of  the  family,  or  some  one 
in  its  employ,  to  act  as  advance  agent 
for  the  rest,  go  ahead,  and  make  the 
house  ready.  It  should  be  clean,  well- 
aired,  and  in  good  living  shape,  before 
the  rank  and  file  of  the  family  go 
into  it. 

The  old  places  in  which  things  were 
put  before  the  leaving,  should  be  made 
ready  to  have  the  putting  done  again. 
The  sooner  a  family  gets  back  to  the 
old-time  orderly  ways  (if  there  is  any 
such  thing  in  it  as  order)  the  happier 
it  will  be. 

Do  not  go  home  too  precipitately, 
rushing  along  as  if  you  had  received  a 
telegram  that  the  house  was  on  fire, 
and  you  hoped  to  arrive  by  train  and 
carriage  in  time  to  put  it  out.  Unless 
there  is  some  imperative  reason  for 
making  the  journey  as  soon  as  possible, 
tour  a  little  on  your  way  home — lei- 
surely and  restfuUy;  and  when  you  get 
there  you  will  not  be  too  tired  to  enjoy 
the  familiar  environments. 

Try  to  reach  home  rather  early  in 
the  day,  if  possible,  so  that  you  will  not 
have  to  pass  half  the  night  in  getting 


yourself  adjusted  to  the  new-old  condi- 
tions, and  wake  in  the  morning  feeling 
as  if  you  had  been  dragged  from  one 
end  of  the  house  to  the  other  and  back 
again. 

Have  the  "advance  agent"  lay  in  a 
week  of  supplies  before  you  and  the 
family  arrive,  so  you  will  not  be  in 
a  hurry,  and  pay  starvation-prices  and 
secure  wasteful  essentials  because  of 
your  startlingly  unexpected  needs. 

Go  home,  not  only  in  fancy,  but  in 
good  healthy  imagination,  a  week  or 
two  before  you  start.  Have  everything 
well  arranged  in  your  mind,  and  you 
will  see  that  it  is  much  more  easily  r^- 
ulated  in|  the  tangible  form. 

Giving  the  kitchen  "a  regular  tear- 
ing-out, and)  feeling  that  it  is  clean  once 
more",  is  a  very  common  performance, 
and  one  that  is  a  good  deal  better  than 
nothing;  but  there  is  something  much 
superior:  viz.,  keeping  it  clean.  Every- 
day, systematic  attention  will  do  more 
for  it  than  all  the  periodical  dirt-hunts 
you  can  organize. 

But  this  constant  vigilance,  which  is 
the  price  of  cleanliness,  must  be  done 
systematically  land  constantly;  and  it 
can  thus  be  made  wonderfully  easy. 

If  by  bad  management  or  careless 
cooking,  any  substance  remains  attached 
to  a  utensil,  do  not  go  to  scouring  and 
scratching  it,  but  take  the  fire  into  part- 
nership with  you  in  your  cleansing. 
Put  water  into  the  dish  and  place  it  on 
the  stove  or  range,  and  the  adhesive 
matter  will  soon  be  willing  to  come  off 
without  much  urging. 

Copper,  like  friendship,  is  one  of  the 
easiest  things  in  the  world  to  keep 
bright,  if  you  do  not  neglect  it.  Qean 
it  each  time  you  use  it,  and  it  will  smile 
back  at  you  every  time  you  look  at  it. 
Procrastination  is  the  thief  of  cleanli- 
ness, as  well  as  of  time.  A  mixture  of 
bran,  salt,  and  vinegar  is  excellent  for 
brightening  copper. 

Many  housewives  take  excellent  care 
of  the  sides  and  interiors  of  their  cook- 
ing-vessels, but  neglect  the  bottoms  of 
the  same,  thinking  it  is  of  no  use  to 
keep  them  clean,  as  the  fire  so  soon  un- 
does all  the  work  of  it.    This  is  a  great 

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mistake.  In  allowing  the  black  fire-rust 
to  gather  on  the  bottom  of  the  utensil, 
you  are  encouraging  an  extra  barrier 
between  what  you  cook  and  the  fire 
^ith  which  you  cook  it.  It  is  a  non- 
conductor of  heat.  As  soon  as  the  beau- 
tiful aluminum  is  cheap  enough  to  bring 
it  within  the  reach  of  all,  it  will  make  it 
much  easier  for  you  to  keep  your  uten- 
sils bright. 

Bird-shot  used  to  be  extensively  used 
for  cleaning  glasses;  but  the  delicate 
adornments  of  today  will  not  stand  such 
warlike  measures,  and  often  get  broken 
with  it.  Coarse,  heavy  glasses  will 
stand  it,  but  nothing  delicate  should  be 
subjected  to  it. 

Gather  a  pail-full  of  ordinary  sand 
from  any  wash-out  on  the  roadway,  pass 
it  through  a  common  sieve,  and  put  it 
away  for  reference.  Then  when  you 
are  cleaning  a  bottle  pour  half  a  cup- 
full  into  it  and  shake  it  about — ^but  not 


too  long;  as  you  might  scratch  the 
glass. 

But  for  the  very  finest  glasses,  the 
honest  old  potato  is  one  of  the  best 
cleansing-agents  in  the  world.  Cut  it 
into  chunks  about  the  size  of  the  smaller 
dice,  and  shake  them  around  in  the  bot- 
tles. It  will  take  longer  to  achieve  the 
result  sought,  but  all  danger  of  scratch- 
ing is  obviated. 

It  is  a  good  idea  to  manufacture,  so 
to  speak,  very  fine  sand,  for  very  fine 
polishing.  To  do  this,  take  ordinary 
sand,  such  as  you  can  find  almost  any- 
where, put  it  into  a  tub,  and  stir  it  till 
all  the  muddy  substances  come  out  of  it 
and  join  the  water,  while  the  sand  stays 
at  the  bottom.  Do  this  again  and  again, 
till  the  water  remains  clear  after  stir- 
ring: then  run  the  sand  through  the 
finest  sieve  you  can  get,  and  you  have  a 
soouring-preparation  that  will  do  the 
most  delicate  and  thorough  work. 


Twelve     Thoughts. 


If  God  does   not  love  poor  people, 
why  does  he  make  so  many  of  them? 
-^ 

Before  you  decide  to  live  by  your 
wits,  be  sure  that  wits  of  your  kind  are 
in  demand. 

The  greater  part  of  a  loss,  is  the  loss 
of  time,  nerve,  and  energy,  caused  by 
worrying  about  it. 

Never  buy  goods  at  an  indefinite 
price,  unless  you  wish  to  get  them  at 
ck)uble  their  value. 

When  you  "start  off  to  meet  the  sun- 
rise", do  not  let  its  brilliance  blind  you 
to  the  obstacles  in  the  road. 
^^ 

Beware  of  an  eloquent  auctioneer, 
unless  you  are  a  very  good  judge  in- 
deed of  the  goods  he  is  selling. 

White  crape  at  thq  door  and  flowers 
at  the  funeral,  do  not  go  very  far 
toward  relieving  the  darkness  of  death. 


Be  sure  you  love  your  intended  wife, 
(or  husband),  well  enough  to  stand  the 
objectionable  portion  of  your  new  rela- 
tives. 

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It  is  intended  that  we  should  be  criti- 
cal when  it  is  just  for  us  to  be  so,  or 
we  would  not  be  enabled  to  see  spots 
on  the  sun. 

<^ 

We  sometimes  over-pity  animals, 
through  forgetting,  that  they  do  not  see, 
feel,  or  suffer  from  the  same  stand- 
point as  ourselves. 

<^ 

Learn  how  to  be  both  dignified  and 
familiar  with  your  friends  at  the  same 
time,  and  you  need  never  have  any 
trouble  with  them. 

You  can  be  a  powerful  king  and  a 
contented  subject — as  soon  as  you  know 
how  to  rule  yourself,  and  thoroughly 
use  the  knowledge. 


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NEWSPAPER  INACCURACY. 

PROBABLY  there  are  few  people  in 
the  world,  but  have  noticed  that 
newspapers  do  not  always  tell  the  truth. 
In  fact,  they  cannot  invariably  get  things 
accurate,  for  they  have  to  "come  out" 
promptly  on  time,  with  such  information 
as  they  have  been  able  to  procure  up  to 
the  hour  they  are  going  to  press.  So, 
when  you  are  reading  the  "morning 
news"  over  the  coffee,  rolls,  and  oat- 
meal, you  do  not  know  whether  the  fat 
head-lines  and  the  emphasized  para- 
graphs and  all  the  rest  of  it,  are  really 
the  truth,  or  something  wrought  out 
mostly  by  the  creative  skill  of  some  re- 
porter or  night-editor. 

Thus,  the  late  lamentable  accident  of 
the  dam's  breaking  at  Austin,  Pa.,  was 
the  cause,  in  the  papers,  the  first  morn- 
ing after  it  occurred,  of  the  loss  of  1,200 
lives.  Next  day,  there  were  at  least  800 
or  1,000;  next  day  after  that,  500;  then 
100;  and  now  it  is  thought  that  there 
may  have  been  seventyfive  drowned,  or 
consumed  by  fire,  or  killed  in  some 
other  way. 

The  New  York  World  is  utterly  out 
of  patience  with  this  sort  of  thing,  al- 
though it  has  often  itself  to  participate 
in  the  same  kind  of  mistakes:  and  in  a 
recent  i3sue  voices  its  discontent  as 
follows : 

"The  outbreak  of  war  between  Italy 
and  Turkey  has  promptly  shown  how 
much  the  readers  of  war  news  are  in- 
debted to  improved  modern  methods  of 
collecting  and  disseminating  misinfor- 
mation. 

"We  have  seen,  in  the  vivid  imagina- 
tion of  the  wires,  Tripoli  thrice  bom- 
barded when  it  was  not  bombarded,  the 
(Governor's  house  blown  up  before  a  shot 


was  fired,  and  troops  that  were  not  pres- 
ent sent  ashore  to  complete  the  destruc- 
tion. Italians  have  landed  in  force  at 
Prevesa,  though  a  mainland  invasion  is 
the  last  thing  Italy  desires.  Two  de- 
stroyers were  sunk  there  and  four  ran 
away ;  that  is  more  destroyers  than  Tur- 
key possessed  in  the  beginning,  but  other 
destroyers,  or  the  same  ones,  are  being 
sunk  elsewhere  daily,  or  scattering  to  de- 
ceive their  pursuers,  or  still  hiding  in  the 
harbor  at  Prevesa.  Turkey  has  no 
battleships,  at  least  of  a  modern  type; 
yet  one  division  of  the  fleet  lost  three 
imaginary  battleships  in  a  great  naval 
engagement  that  did  not  take  place  out- 
side the  Dardanelles,  where  later  all  the 
fleet  arrived  in  safety  without  even  know- 
ing as  an  equally  veracious  despatch  had 
it,  that  war  had  been  declared. 

"Tame  would  be  the  struggle  where 
one  side  suffered  all  the  disasters.  Italy 
also  has  shed  the  blood  of  heroes.  Two 
barge-loads  of  invaders  were  sunk  by 
mythical  Turkish  guns  with  impalpable 
shells  while  making  the  unmade  landing 
in  Tripoli.  Italians  have  been  massacred 
in  heaps  in  Tripoli  and  Bengazi,  where 
quiet  is  said  to  prevail,  and  from  the  arid 
interior  of  the  country  tribes  of  Ghazis 
that  never  heard  of  the  war  are  march- 
ing to  the  coast  to  cut  off  the  fleeing 
Giaours  who  have  not  yet  been  too  often 
killed. 

"The  patient  press  feels  obliged  to 
print  every  ridiculous  bit  of  rumor  or 
gossip  European  editors  can  put  into 
type  and  the  Associated  Press  waste  its 
time  in  transmitting.  There  will  be  in 
fact  no  war.  Turkey  will  yield  to  the 
great  powers  as  she  has  yielded  before, 
and  lose  Tripoli  as  she  has  lost  Rou- 
mania,  Greece,  Servia,  Bnlq^aria,  Bosnia. 

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Herzegovina,  Egypt,  Tunis.  She  cannot 
fight  in  Tripoli.  She  has  neither  ships 
to  transport  men  thither  nor  money, 
without  which  war  cannot  be  carried 
on." 

However  the  "war"  turns  out,  the 
foregoing  words  are  true,  in  spirit,  and 
the  same  facts  are  apparent  in  the  narra- 
tion of  matters  much  nearer  home.  A 
joumal's  motto  ought  to  be,  not  only 
"All  the  news  that's  fit  to  print",  but 
"All  the  news  that  is  really  news,  and 
not  downright  silly  fiction." 


THE  PERPETUAL-MOTION  FALLACY. 

pOR  a  good  many  years  in  different 
r^ons  a  certain  percentage  of  the 
available  ingenuity  of  this  world  has 
been  expended  upon  the  problem  of 
"perpetual  motion." 

There  is  such  a  thing — ^but  man  can- 
not make  it.  The  whole  universe  is,  evi- 
dently, a  perpetual  motion — and  we  can 
do  nothing  better  than  hitch  to  it— if  we 
are  in  pursuit  of  movement  and  me- 
chanical power.  The  lad  who  puts  a  tiny 
water-wheel  in  the  brook  on  his  father's 
farm,  is  as  near  the  achievement  as  any 
one  ever  can  be :  for  the  stream  "runs  on 
forever",  and  the  machine  with  it.  If  he 
should  construct  a  windmill  delicate 
enough  to  feel  every  breath  of  air,  he 
would  have  another  machine  of  constant 
revolution — attended  with  more  or  less 
power.  A  tide-mill  is  a  piece  of  per- 
petual motion,  for  it  is  always  running — 
whether  the  tide  goes  in  or  out.  What- 
ever method  can  be  used  to  harness 
Nature,  is  as  near  the  desired  boon  as 
mankind  can  ever  get. 

The  Staten  Island  man  who  has  just 
sailed  across  the  ferry  to  New  York 
bringing  what  he  calls  a  perpetual  mo- 
tion, has  worked  upon  this  same  princi- 
ple. His  machine  is  in  the  form  of  a 
clock,  and,  perhaps,  will,  as  long  as  it 
lasts,  never  require  winding.  The  back 
of  this  time-indicator  is  formed  of  a 
coil  of  3,000  feet  of  zinc  wire.     Every 


change  of  temperature — however  slight 
— induces  the  metal  to  contract  or  ex- 
pand— and  every  change  in  the  condi- 
tion of  the  wires  causes  a  leaden  ball 
to  tumble  intx)  a  wheel,  which,  it  is 
asserted,  furnishes  enough  power  to  run 
the  clock  for  eight  hours,  and  restore 
the  ball  to  its  former  position,  ready  to 
be  dropped  again.  There  are  sixty  of 
the  balls — adapted  to  various  changes 
of  temperature.  "It  is  impossible,"  the 
inventor  says,  "that  there  should  not  be 
enough  change  of  temperature  within 
eight  hours  to  make  at  least  one  of  them 
drop." 

This  seems  all  true,  and  very  ingeni- 
ous: but  it  is  the  same  old  story.  The 
constant  restlessness  of  the  elements  ne- 
cessitates continual  changes  of  tempera- 
ture, and  really  moves  the  machinery: 
just  as  the  never-ceasing  motion  of  the 
water  or  the  air  runs  the  water-wheel  or 
the  windmill. 

Perpetual  motion  already  exists,  and 
has  done  so  for  ages — but  not  as  the 
work  of  man. 


BANISHED  HOME. 

A  YOUNG  burglar  from  Norway 
was  recently  arrested  in  Brook- 
lyn. He  had  raided  not  far  from  a 
dozen  houses,  by  his  own  confession; 
and  no  one  knows  how  many  that  were 
not  included  in  his  more-or-less  candid 
statement  before  the  judge — made  after 
being  detected  "with  the  goods  on  him." 

He  had  a  rich  father  in  Norway,  and 
he,  averse  to  letting  his  son  go  into  the 
New  York  state-prison  for  a  term  of 
years,  cabled,  and  made  an  oflfer,  if  the 
State  of  New  York  would  send  him 
home,  to  keep  him  thereafter  in  his 
house,  and  see;  that  he  did  not  commit 
any  more  burglaries,  and  that  he  never 
on  any  account  would  be  allowed  to 
come  back  again  tx)  America. 

Every  Where  has  not  been  able  to 
find  what  particular  statute  of  New 
York  prescribes  this  penalty:   but  sup- 

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poses  that  there  must  be  one — written 
or  unwritten,  or  the  judge  would  not 
have  imposed  it — or,  if  there  were  none, 
he  would  have  been  criticised  or  con- 
demned for  going  beyond  his  powers. 
It  is  a  very  interesting  precedent,  and 
we  shall  look  with  interest  to  know  how 
many  confessed  or  convicted  burglars 
and  other  disturbers  of  the  public  peace, 
will  be  deported  home  to  the  care  of 
their  parents. 

It  will  also  wonder  and  perhaps  ascer- 
tain who  will  take  the  task  of  keeping 
the  young  man  from  breaking  out  of  the 
family  residence,  in  case  the  father  is 
called  to  the  far-off  land  where  no  bur- 
glaries occur. 


TIMBY    AT    REST. 

LJOW  far  can  a  nation  afford  to  be 
ungrateful,  to  those  who  have 
saved  it? — This  is  a  question  that,  soon 
or  late,  must  be  answered  in  every  case. 
Why  should  the  man  to  whose  genius 
and  patriotism  the  republic  owes  its  very 
existence,  be  allowed  to  die  in  poverty 
and  obscurity? 

This  question  was  asked,  over  and 
over  again,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  on 
the  1 2th  of  October  last.  Columbus, 
who  bravely  but  accidentally  discovered 
this  country,  supposing  that  he  had 
reached  the  East  Indies  from  a  new 
direction,  was  honored  in  every  possible 
way.  Theodore  Ruggles  Timby,  who 
saved  our  country  from  dissolution  by 
the  greatest  naval  invention  ever  known, 
was  rescued  from  a  receiving-vault  in 
one  of  the  Brooklyn  cemeteries,  where 
his  dead  body  had  lain  for  two  years, 
and  was  quietly  taken  to  Jersey  City, 
whence  it  was  dispatched  by  rail  to 
Washinofton — there  to  be  buried  at  last 
in  the  bosom  of  the  great  inventor's 
family. 

It  had  been  demanded,  at  a  mass- 
meeting  held  in  the  historic  Plymouth 
Church,  that  the  body  of  this  man  who 


devised  the  turret  of  our  victorious 
"Monitor",  should  at  least  be  given 
equal  honors  with  that  of  Ericsson, 
who  superintended  the  building  of  the 
little  boat  that  carried  the  mighty  and 
portentous  engine  of  war — as  any  good 
and  ingenious  mechanic  might  have 
done.  It  was  believed  that  a  war-ship 
would  be  detailed  to  carry  the  inventor 
to  our  nation's  capital,  amid  the  echoes 
of  artillery  fired  from  one  of  his  own 
matchless  and  unprecedented  turrets. 

Men  went  to  Washington,  with  a 
view  of  having  this  plan  carried  out. 
It  would  have  been  a  magnificent  trib- 
ute, and  one  that  was  worthy  of  this 
great  country. 

There  was  no  hesitancy  on  the  part 
of  "the  powers  that  be",  in  acknowledg- 
ing Timby 's  just  claims,  but  this  curi- 
ous point  was  raised,  by  one  of  the 
richest  nations  on  the  face  of  the  ear^Ji : 
"It  will  not  do  to  give  too  much  promi- 
nence to  tthe  Timby  matter,  for  his  de- 
scendants may  use  the  fact  to  demand  a 
(royalty  on  all  the  turrets  that  this  coun- 
try has  made  and  used  during  the  past 
fifty  years — thus  infringing  upon  his 
patent,  and  paying  him  no  royalty 
whatever." 

And  this  is  the  gratitude  of  a  nation ! 
— To  cheat  a  man  out  of  the  honors  he 
deserves  for  saving  it,  in  order  to  pre- 
vent rendering  his  loved  ones  the  com- 
pensation to  which  he  was  entitled. 

The  grand  old  inventor  received  such 
honors  as  those  faithful  to  his  memory 
were  able  to*  give  him.  The  casket  con- 
taining his  body  was  brought  to  Battery 
Park,  New  York,  and  in  a  spacious 
pavilion  there,  was  placed  where  it 
could  lie  in  state  for  the  whole  day. 
Thousands  of  people  were  thus  given 
an  opportunity  to  view  the  remains  of 
the  greatest  inventor  of  the  nineteenth 
century. 

The  casket  was  opened.  Though  two 
years  had  passed  since  he  had  been  laid 
away,  the  face  of  the  dead  man  was  in- 


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tact,  and  firm  as  if  in  life;  and  to  the 
more  imaginative  ones  who  viewed  it, 
seemed  to  be  giving  his  countrymen  a 
mild  reproach  for  the  way  they  had 
treated  him. 

The  pagoda  in  which  he  lay,  was 
within  a  few  yards  of  the  statue  to 
Ericsson,  the  inscriptions  upon  which 
gave  that  distinguished  Swede  all  the 
credit  of  the  victory  over  the  Merrimac. 
The  small  but  distinguished  party  who 
surrounded  Timby,  insisted  that  they 
were  conducting  no  war  against  Erics- 
son: that  there  was  glory  enough  for 
all,  as  it  might  be  proven  that  they 
deserved  it:  and  that  it  was  not  that 
they  loved  Ericsson  the  less,  but  Timby 
many  times  more. 

After  the  ceremonies,  consisting  of 
prayer,  music,  and  speeches,  were  over, 
the  body  of  Dr.  Timby,  accompanied  by 
a  huge  representation  of  a  Monitor 
formed  of  flowers,  was  put  on  board  a 
launch,  and,  accompanied  by  a  party  of 
friends,  it  made  the  circuit  of  Gov- 
ernor's Island.  Upon  this,  still  stands 
the  famous  Castle  Williams,  the  round- 
ed structure  which  first  flashed  to  Timby 
the  first  idea  of  the  revolving  turret. 
The  rays  of  the  western  sun  fell  lov- 
ingly upon  it,  as  did  the  eyes  of  those 
who  stayed  by  the  honored  remains, 
until  they  arrived  where  they  were  to  be 
transferred  to  one  of  the  railroad-trains 
that  vibrate  between  the  metropolis  and 
the  capital. 

Next  day,  the  journey  was  continued, 
and  it  is  a  notable  fact  that  it  was  upon 
a  train  which  three  days  before  had  been 
eqm'pped  with  an  appliance  which  com- 
pletely removes  the  old  trouble  of  the 
heating  of  car-axles — heretofore  a  diffi- 
cult and  dangerous  problem.  This  in- 
vention  was   also  made  by  the  distin- 


guished man  who  invented  the  turret, 
and  lay  dead  in  the  fast-moving  hearse 
of  the  baggage-car. 

At  Washington,  impressive  ceremo- 
nies were  held,  and  the  tired  body  of 
the  man  who  at  ninety  years  of  age 
died,  poor  and  disappointed,  was  laid  at 
rest. 

It  will  some  day  be  told  as  a  strange 
happening,  that  all  this  honor  paid 
Timby,  was  done,  not  by  officers  of  the 
Government,  but  by  private  individu- 
als; that  neither  navy  nor  army  were 
represented;  that  no  mayor.  Congress- 
man, or  member  of  the  Administration, 
was  present;  and  that  had  it  not  been 
for  the  determined  efforts  of  one  brave 
woman  and  one  brave  man,  the  body  of 
Theodore  Ruggles  Timby  might  now  be 
moldering  in  the  potter's  field  of  one  of 
the  smaller  cemeteries. 


SEEING    MEN    DIE. 

TT  HE  people  of  our  country  are  devel- 
oping an  appetite  if  not  a  mania, 
for  "thrills":  and  those  of  a  tragic 
kind.  They  perhaps  will  not  admit  that 
they  like  to  see  a  real  tragedy — ^but 
many  of  them  do.  "Hair-breadth  Es- 
capes'V  "Dips  of  Death",  etc.,  etc.,  are 
very  popular  at  public  shows. 

When  Eugene  Ely  was  killed  from 
his  aeroplane,  at  Macon,  Georgia,  the 
crowd  rushed  after  him,  despoiled  his 
machine  and  tore  it  to  pieces  for  souve- 
nirs, and,  it  is  asserted,  did  not  leave 
even  the  dead  body  inviolate,  but  took 
portions  of  the  clothing  away.  The 
same  thing  has  happened  in  other  local- 
ities and  upon  this,  and  other  sorts  of 
occasions. 

Let  us  have  some  respect  for  the  dead 
— if  we  cannot  for  the  living. 


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Doric  Beginnings  of  a  Church. 

TTHE  United  Brethren,  of  whom  Rev. 
Milton  Wright,  father  of  the  cele- 
brated aeroplane-inventors,  Wilbur  and 
Orville  Wright,  is  one  of  the  Bishops, 
originated  in  Ohio  and  Michigan,  and 
from  humble  beginnings,  has  grown  to  a 
strong  body  of  Christians.  Some  idea  of 
the  methods  of  its  beginning,  may  be 
gathered  in  the  following  article  from 
the  Watchword,  its  official  organ,  pub- 
lished at  Dayton,  Ohio: 

One  cold  day  in  November,  1857,  Mr. 
Bamaby  was  at  his  home  in  Gratiot 
County,  Michigan,  braiding  a  whip-lash. 
Two  men  on  horseback  rode  up  to  his 
place  and  one  dismounted.  Horses  were 
an  unusual  sight  in  that  time;  their 
horses  had  horns,  oxen  being  the  com- 
mon beasts  of  burden  and  travel. 

One  of  the  men  on  horseback  dis- 
mounted and  came  to  the  door.  "We 
are  United  Brethren,"  he  said,  "sent  by 
the  annual  conference  as  missionaries  to 
this  country.  At  Dewit  we  heard  of  you, 
and  have  come  to  hunt  you  up."  Mr. 
Barnaby  was  a  minister  of  the  Methodist 
Protestant  Church,  and  for  three  years 
had  been  preaching  in  private  houses  and 
in  the  woods  of  that  country,  being  the 
only  minister  thereabouts.  The  United 
Brethren  preachers  were  cordially  wel- 
come, and  spent  the  night  with  Mr.  Bar- 
naby, when  he  learned  much  about  the 
United  Brethren  Church,  and  after  read- 
ing its  Discipline,  came  to  love  it. 

Mr.  Barnaby  had  first  heard  about  the 
United  Brethren  people  some  time  before 
this.  He  had  been  out  to  buy  a  couple  of 
cows,  and  on  his  way  home  passed  a 
team  of  "movers"  in  a  covered  wagon. 


the  people  having  stopped  at  the  roadside 
to  make  some  repairs.  Mr.  Barnaby  put 
up  at  the  North  Star  House,  a  tavern 
along  the  way,  where  he  told  the  tavern- 
keeper  that  he  soon  would  have  other 
guests,  as  he  had  passed  them  near  his 
place.  The  tavern-keeper  inquired  as  to 
the  kind  of  team  the  movers  were  driv- 
ing, and  when  told  that  it  was  a  pair  of 
black  oxen  he  said,  "They  will  not  stop 
here;  they  are  United  Brethren,  and 
don't  stay  much  in  taverns;  they  stay 
with  one  another." 

The  United  Brethren  missionaries  held 
a  meeting  in  a  schoolhouse  at  the  corner 
of  Mr.  Barnaby's  farm,  and  a  class  was 
formed  there.  "Class"  was  the  name 
given  to  groups  of  people  organized  as 
United  Brethren  churches.  Mr.  Bamaby 
and  his  wife,  and  another  man  and  wife 
joined.  The  following  year  the  other 
man  moved  away.  The  presiding  elder 
came  to  hold  a  quarterly  conference,  and 
Mr.  Barnaby  was  present,  being  class 
leader,  class  steward,  and  local  preacher. 
The  presiding  elder  asked  him,  "Do  you 
hold  prayer-meetings  ?" 

"Yes,  twice  a  day,"  replied  the  class 
leader. 

"Do  the  members  turn  out?"  the  pre- 
siding elder  asked,  somewhat  surprised. 

"Yes,  the  whole  class  is  present  every 
time." 

This  caused  still  greater  surprise,  but 
when  he  learned  that  the  membership  of 
the  class  consisted  of  Mr.  Barnaby  and 
his  wife,  he  could  understand  how  all 
were  present  twice  a  day  at  prayer- 
meeting,  the  meeting  being  held  in  his 
own  home. 

In  the  early  days  the  quarterly  con- 
ference meetings  were  occasions  of  great 

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interest.  Mr.  Barnaby  lived  close  to  the 
church,  and  was  depended  upon  to  find 
homes  for  the  people  who  would  come 
to  the  quarterly  conference.  The  meet- 
ings usually  be^an  on  Saturday  morning 
and  lasted  throughout  Sunday  and  some- 
times a  very  precious  meeting  would  be 
held  on  Monday  morning:. 

On  one  occasion  the  preacher  in 
charge  said  to  Mr.  Barnaby,  "I  will  de- 
pend on  you  to  find  homes  for  the  peo- 
ple." He  went  around  to  find  out  how 
many  each  family  in  the  neigrhborhood 
would  entertain.  After  he  had  secured 
homes  in  this  way  for  as  many  as  possi- 
ble, he  announced  that  all  the  rest  should 
come  to  his  house.  When  they  got  to 
his  home  and  were  counted,  he  found 
there  were  thirty-two  people  to  be  enter- 
tained, besides  six  ox-teams.  They  filled 
the  bedrooms,  and  the  rest  slept  on  the 
floor.  They  had  a  "hallelujah  time" 
until  midnight. 

Those  occasions  were  of  great  spiri- 
tual profit.  There  was  no  caste.  The 
log-house  and  the  ox-team  represented 
the  situation  of  all  the  settlers. 


Bordette's  Temperance  Speech. 

TT  HE  former  humorist  of  the  Burling- 
*•  ton,  la.,  Hawkeye,  is  now  a  cler- 
gyman, and  delivers  some  very  good 
discourses  in  his  church,  concerning 
sobriety — a  quality  in  which,  for  several 
years,  as  he  himself  confesses,  he  was 
woefully  lacking  Following  is  his  opin- 
ion concerning  beer: 

"Men  have  fought,  bled  and  died,  but 
not  for  beer. 

"Arnold  Winkelried  did  not  throw 
himself  upon  the  Austrian  spear  because 
he  was  ordered  to  close  his  saloon  at 
nine  o'clock. 

"William  Tell  did  not  hide  his  arrow 
under  his  vest  to  kill  the  tyrant  because 
the  edict  had  gone  forth  that  the  free- 
bom  Switzer  should  not  drink  a  keg  of 
beer  every  Sunday. 

"Freedom  did  not  shriek  over  a 
whisky  barrel  as  Kosciusko  fell. 

"Warren  did  not  die  that  beer  might 
flow  as  the  brooks  do,  seven  days 
a  week. 


"Even  the  battle  of  Brandywine  was 
not  fought  that  whisky  be  free. 

"No  clause  in  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence declares  that  a  Sunday-con- 
cert garden,  with  five  brass  horns  and 
one  hundred  kegs  of  beer,  is  the  in- 
alienable right  of  a  free  people  and  the 
corner-stone,  of  a  good  government. 

"Tea — mild,  harmless,  innocent  tea, 
the  much-sneered-at  t«nperance  bever- 
age, the  feeble  drink  of  effeminate  men 
and  good  old  women — tea  holds  a 
brighter,  more  glorious  page,  and  is  a 
grander  figure  in  the  history  of  this 
United  States,  than  beer. 

"Men   liked  tea,  but  they  hurled  it. 
into  the  sea  in  the  name  of  liberty,  and 
they  died  rather  than  drink  it  until  they 
made  it  free.  It  seems  to  be  worth  fight- 
ing for,  and  the  best  of  men  have  done  so. 

"The  history  of  United  States  is 
incomplete  with  tea  left  out.  As  well 
might  the  historian  omit  Faneuil  Hall 
and  Bunker  Hill,  as  tea.  But  there  is 
no  story  of  heroism  or  patriotism  with 
rum  for  its  hero. 

"The  battles  of  this  world  have  been 
fought  for  grander  things  than  free 
whisky.  The  heroes  who  fall  in  the 
struggles  for  rum  fall  shot  in  the  neck, 
and  their  martyrdom  is  clouded  by  the 
haunting  phantoms  of  the  jimjams. 

"Whisky  makes  men  fight,  it  is  true, 
but  they  usually  fight  other  drunken 
men.  The  champion  of  beer  does  not 
stand  in  the  temple  of  fame ;  he  stands 
in  the  police  court.  Honor  never  has 
the  delirium  tremens.  Glory  does  not 
wear  a  red  nose,  and  fame  blows  a 
horQ,  but  never  takes  one." 


Beecher's  Playfulnees. 

LJENRY  WARD  BEECHER,  when 
**  on  his  vacations,  was  peculiarly 
playful  and  undigfnified.  At  the  Twin 
Mountain  House,  where  he  stopped  for 
so  many  summers,  it  was  one  of  his 
delights  to  worry  the  life  half  out 
of  the  clerical  force  in  the  office  of 
the  hotel,  by  various  antics.  Once 
the  large  broad-shouldered  proprietor, 
Oscar  Barron,  threatened  to  put  him 
out  of  the  office  if  he  did  not  subside. 

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"It  isn't  in  your  size  to  do  it",  said 
Beecher,  laughingly.  Whereat  the  boni- 
face  grasped  the  world-famed  divine  in 
his  arms,  carried!  him  up  stairs  in  spite 
of  his  kicking  and  struggling,  opened 
the  door  of  his  room,  and  deposited  him 
in  a  heap  on  the  floor.  It  was  not  very 
long  before  Beecher  followed  mine  host 
down  to  the  office  again,  bearing  with 
him  all  sorts  of  mock  complaints  and 
protestations;  but  he  managed  to  keep 
at  a  most  respectful  distance  from 
Barron  all  the  rest  of  the  day. 


Hymn  by  Fanny  Oroeby. 

THERE  ARE  MOMENTS. 

Tune,    ''Shall    We   Know   Each    Other 
Therer 

nPHERE    are    moments — blessed    mo- 
*  ments — 

That  in  spirit  we  recall- 
There  are  seasons  of  refreshing — 

Oh  how  precious  to  us  all! 
When  we  feel  the  sacred  presence 

Of  our  great  High  Priest  and  King, 
Atid  as  if  by  inspiration 

Of  His  wondrous  love  we  sing! 

There  are  moments — ^blessed  moments — 

When  Si  radiance  from  the  skies 
Seems  to  burst  in  all  its  glory 

On  our  faithrillumined  eyes; 
And  we  hear  a  voice  proclaiming, 

While  in  song  our  voices  blend, 
"I  am  Alpha  and  Omega, 

The  beginning  and  the  end." 

There  are  moments — blessed  moments — 

When  such  perfect  joy  we  see, 
That  we  stand  upon  the  threshold 

Of  ai  life  that  soon  shall  be ; 
And  again  the  Master  speaketh 

While  in  silent  prayer  we  blend: 
He  again  confirms  the  promise, 

"I  am  with  you  to  the  end !" 


Bound  to  Be  Helpful. 

^^I   AM  troubled  greatly  by  insomnia," 
said  the  parishioner. 
"Possibly  I  ought  to  preach  at  night/' 
suggested  the  pastor,  quietly,  but  never- 
theless pointedly. 


The  Blind  Girl's  Vision. 

pANNY  CROSBY,  in  her  famous 
book,  "Fanny  Crosby's  Life-Story", 
gives  an  account  of  what  she  considered 
a  vision,  which  is  so  sane,  and  so  faith- 
fully told,  that  we  reproduce  it.  After 
she  had  commenced  in  earnest  the  writ- 
ing of  hymns,  she  says,  it  seemed  to  her 
as  if  the  great  work  of  her  life  had 
really  begun:  and  she  commenced  the 
delicious  toil  which,  with  an  occasional 
pause  for  rest,  she  has  continued  ever 
since.    She  says: 

"If  at  any  time  I  have  been  tempted 
tQ  leave  this  work,  and  turn  my  poeti- 
cal efforts  in  other  directions,  I  have 
invariably  been  brought  back  and 
spurred  to  fresh  vigor,  by  the  memory 
of  a  dream  that  I  had,  not  long  before 
my  taking  of  this,  what  seemed  to  me 
a  sacred,  trust. 

"It  was  really  more  thanj  a  dream — 
more  even  than  a  vision :  it  was  a  kind 
of  reality — ^with  my  senses  all  at  their 
fullest — ^though  the  body  was  asleep. 

"I  was  in  an  immense  observatory, 
and  before  me  the  largest  telescope  I 
had  ever  imagined.  I  could  see  every- 
thing  plainly  (for,  in  my  most  vivid 
dreams,  the  sense  of  sight  appears  fully 
restored).  Looking  in  the  direction 
pointed  out  by  my  friend,  I  saw  a  very 
bright  and  captivating  star,  and  was 
gradually  carried  toward  it — ^past  other 
stars,  and  any  amount  of  celestial  scen- 
ery that  I  have  not  strength  even  to 
describe. 

"At  last  we  came  to  a  river,  and 
paused  there.  'May  I  not  go  on?'  I 
asked  of  my  guide.  'Not  now,  Fanny', 
was  the  reply  'You  must  return  to 
the  earth  and  do  your  work  there,  be- 
fore you  enter  those  sacred  bounds; 
but  ere  you  go,  I  will  have  the  gates 
opened  a  little  way,  so  you  can  hear 
one  burst  of  the  eternal  music' 

"Soon  there  came  chords  of  melody 
such  as  I  never  had  supposed  could 
exist  anywhere;  the  very  recollection 
of  it  thrills  me.  And  in  the  writing  of 
my  hymns,  the  memory,  of  that  journey 
toward  the  star,  always  cheers  and 
inspires  me."  /^  i 

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Mouth-Breathing  and  Nose- 
Breathing. 

A^  PERSON  need  be  very  unobservant 
^^  and  ignorant  indeed  who  does  not 
note  the  constantly  increasing  number 
of  people,  old  and  young,  who  have  con- 
tracted the  most  undeniable  and  hurtful 
habit  of  breathing  through  the  mouth. 
The  writer  has  counted  at  least  a  dozen 
in  the  course  of  one  day  of  observa- 
tion ;  and  feels  that  it  is  high!  time  par- 
ents, nurses,  and  others,  should  considei 
the  matter  seriously. 

It  may  be  that  what  Dr.  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Hohnes  said  about  "calling  the 
Doctor"  has  been  given  in  this  maga- 
zine, but  it  will  bear  repetition. 

"Doctor — 'The  patient  may  almost  al- 
ways be  saved  if  the  Doctor  is  called 
in  time.' — ^Anxious  Mother — 'How  soon 
should  that  be?' — Doctor — 'At  least  one 
hundred  years  before  the  child  is  born, 
Madam'. " 

So  with  mouth-breathing.  The  moth- 
er— ^yes,  and  grandmother — should  know 
before  the  child  is  born,  that  it  is  of  the 
greatest  importance  that  the  new-born 
baby  should  not  even  discover  the  pos- 
sibility of  any  but  the  right  way  of 
breathing,  i.  e.,  through  the  nostrils. 

Instead  of  that,  however,  mother  and 
nurse,  often  finding  that  a  child  sleeps 
longer  when  head  and  face  are  muffled, 
so  effectually  shut  away  fresh  air  that  a 
special  effort  to  breathe  has  to  be  made 
by  the  child,  and  the  mouth  is  called  in 
for  assistance.  It  should,  however,  be 
known  that  the  reason  a  child  sleeps 
tonger  when  face  and  head  are  covered 
is  because  the  carbonic  acid  gas  <sent 
out  of  its  own  lungs  acts  as  an  anaes- 
thetic, putting  the  child  into  an  unnat- 


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ural  sleep.  If  ignorant  mothers  only, 
suffered  for  the  many  mistakes  of  which 
they  are  guilty!  When  we  think  of 
the  frightful  mortality  among  children 
(more  than  one-third  dying  before  the 
age  of  five),  it  certainly  seems  that  there 
should  be  schools  or  classes  where 
mothers  could  be  trained  for  the  respon- 
sibility accepted  with  marriage. 

"The  Profession  of  Motherhood" 
should  surely  be  as  natural  and  orderly 
a  matter  of  selection  as  that  of  nurse 
or  doctor,  and  preparation  for  the  same 
as  much  a  matter  for  consideration  by 
women  about  to  marry  as  for  nurse  or 
doctor  to  receive  the  training  demanded. 
It  has  been  claimed  that  as  cat  and  dog 
mothers  care  for  their  young  from  in- 
stinct, mothers  of  the  human  race  in 
some  mysterious  way  are  fitted  for  their 
work;  but  that  is  far  from  being  true, 
and  in  proof  may  be  mentioned  the  htm- 
dreds  of  times  when  the  writer  has  sug- 
gested to  mothers  and  nurses  in  parks 
and  on  the  sidewalks,  that  the  winking, 
clinging  babies  would  be  made  more 
comfortable  and  their  eyesight  improved 
by  turning  them  away  from  the  glare  of 
strong  light,  and  as  should  be  added, 
lining  carriage-parasols  with  some  soft 
shade  of  green  or  blue  instead  of  the 
white  glare  so  often  seen. 

Every  year  very  young  children  are 
compelled  more  and  more  to  wear 
glasses,  doomed  and  hampered  for  life, 
and  often  if  not  always  as  the  result  of 
careless  neglect,  when  they  were  "help- 
less dwellers  on  the  shores  of  time." 

Even  with  the  well-born,  normal  baby, 
the  wonderful  intricate  mechanism  of 
the  body  could  not  possibly  be  expected 
to  bear  all  the  abuses  to  which  it  is  often 
ignorantly  subjected;    not   from   inten- 

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tion,  but  from  ignorance.  For  instance, 
there  are  obstructions  in  the  nostrils: 
from  cold  very  often  caused  by  lack  of 
oxygen,  which  plenty  of  fresh  un- 
breathed  air  should  supply  day  and 
night.  Such  obstructions  in  the  nostrils 
compel  opening  of  the  mouth,  a  habit 
often  persisted  in  even  when  the  first 
cause  is  removed. 

Catarrh  and  "throat  troubles"  are 
sure  to  follow  the  long-continued  habit 
of  breathings  through  the  mouth,  and 
particles  of  dust  find  entrance  to  the 
lungs,  that  would  be  screened  out,  was 
the  breathing  done,  as  Nature  intended, 
through  tlie  hairy-lined  nostrils,  so  con- 
structed as  to  keep  out  foreign  matter. 

Not  only  should  a  desperate  effort  be 
made  to  teach  correct  methods  of 
breathing,  but  the  importance  of  dia- 
phramatic  intentional  breathing  should 
be  impressed  on  all.  In  New  York  City 
alone,  nearly  10,000  persons  die  annu- 
ally of  consumption,  and  as  vital  statis- 
tics do  not  lie,  what  is  said  of  the 
importance  of  deep,  constant  correct 
breathing  cannot  be  overestimated. 
They  are  not  theories  or  guesses:  they 
are  facts. 

People  go  to  the  mountains  and  sea- 
side, and  remaining  so  much  out  of 
doors  are  benefited;  but  on  returning 
to  the  city  they  persistently  shut  out  of 
homes,  office,  or  shop  the  air  which 
would  keep  them  immune  to  disease  did 
they  remember  to  make  use  of  nature's 
best  gift — oxygen,  every  time  and  all 
the  time. 


Self-Treating  Osteopathists. 

|Uf  ANY  people  are  prejudiced  against 
Osteopathy.  Especially  is  this  the 
case  with  physicians  who  obtain  their 
livelihood  in  another  department  of 
medicine :  and  this  is  of  course  no  great 
wonder. 

And  that  same  spirit  of  "fakeism" 
that  competes  with  and  sometimes  dis- 
credits the  honest  old-school  physician, 
is  sure  to  follow  Osteopathy:  and 
among  the  reliable  and  efficient  honest 
practitioners  in  the  art  of  manual  relief. 


there  are  and  will  arise  many  who 
"magnify  their  office"  as  many  times  as 
they  can  get  lenses  of  credulity  with 
which  to  do  it. 

But  as  in  every  department  of  life, 
we  should  aid  the  specialist  whom  we 
employ. 

We  are  accustomed,  when  our  watches 
give  out,  to  hand  them  over  to  some 
trusted  jeweler:  but  that  need  not  pre- 
vent us  from  doing  what  we  can  to  take 
care  of  them  while  in  our  own  hands. 
Naturally  we  do  not  feel  like  dropping 
them,  or  twirling  them  about  on  the 
chain,  or  leaving  them  exposed  so  that 
dust  will  get  into  them.  If  our  auto- 
mobiles get  out  of  order,  a  skilled  re- 
pairer is  called  into  requisition:  but 
that  should  not  prevent  our  watching  out 
for  the  machines  ourselves,  in  any  case 
possible.  If  a  valuable  horse  is  sick, 
we  are  prone  to  call  in  a  veterinary  sur- 
geon: but  that  does  not  prevent  our 
doing  everything  we  can  for  him  before 
the  equine  physician  arrives. 

There  are  a  hundred  things  we  can 
do  for  ourselves,  without  consulting 
any  physician.  For  instance,  if  a  slight 
itching  occurs  on  the  face,  or  other  part 
of  the  body,  we  do  not  have  to  send  for 
a  doctor,  to  remove  it :  a  slight  rubbing 
with  one  of  the  fingers,  without  cost  or 
overmuch  trouble,  suffices. 

This  itching  was  caused,  no  doubt, 
by  some  little  congestion  in  the  veins 
through  which  the  blood  had  difficulty 
in  making  its  passage.  The  aid  that  you 
gave,  started  the  blood  going  again; 
the  itching  ceased:  the  congestion  was 
removed — at  least  for  the  time  being — 
perhaps  permanently.  If  not.  Nature 
will  again  and  again  incite  you  to  the 
treatment. 

If,  instead  of  a  slight  itching,  a  pain 
comes  in  some  portion  of  the  body,  it 
is  also,  probably,  due  to  congestion,  and 
can  be  gradually  removed  by  gentle  rub- 
bings with  the  hand.  "I  have  never  had 
an  attack  of  rheumatism,  that  I  could 
not  rub  away  in  half  an  hour's  time", 
said  Rev.  Edward  Beecher,  brother  of 
the  distinguished  pastor  of  Plymouth 
Church. 


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No  doubt  he  did  this  rubbing  largely 
by  instinct:  following  the  natural  im- 
pulse in  regard  to  the  motions  he  made. 
But  the  process  was,  virtually,  one  of 
Osteopathy:  although  Dr.  Still's  school 
of  medicine — or  rather  lack  of  medi- 
cine— had  not  as  yet  come  to  the  fore. 

It  is  really  strange,  how  much  a  body 
can  do  for  itself,  if  the  intellect  that  is 
within  it  will  remain  passive,  and  give 
the  instincts  that  are  stowed  in  the  sub- 
conscious mind  a  chance  to  use  the 
knowledge  and  skill  that  are  stored 
within  it. 


"Something  in  My  Eye." 

A  LADY  was  traveling  on  one  of  the 
^^  many  railroad  lines  that  stretch 
up  and  down  through  our  country. 
Like  many  other  tourists  of  the  par- 
allel irons,  she  was  suddenly  afflicted 
with  being  struck  by  a  cinder. 

It  was  not  the  first  one,  by  any  means, 
that  had  come  her  way  during  that  jour- 
ney, but  it  was  the;  first  one  that  struck 
her,  fully  and  unmistakably,  in  the  eye. 

It  was  almost  like  a  heavy  blow ;  and 
the  after-smart  was  of  course  terrible — 
destroying  most  of  the  pleasure  of  the 
trip  for  several  miles. 

Of  course,  everybody  did  something 
for  her:  sympathy  is  always  to  the 
fore,  on  such  occasions,  and  it  is  won- 
derful what  bits  of  knowledge  are  called 
out  of  fellow-mortals,  by  the  magnet  of 
suffering. 

One  of  her  fellow-passengers  told  her 
to  blow  her  Grecian  nose  smartly,  from 
the  nostril  opposite  the  afflicted  eye. 
She  did  this,  several  times,  till  her  head 
rang  again ;  and  you  could'  actually  see 
those  around  her  inclining  their  faces  at 
about  the  same  angle  as  hers,  in  sym- 
pathy. 

Then  an  ancient  father  in  Israel  ap- 
peared, with  a  huge  silk  handkerchief, 
which  he  applied  tenderly  to  the  under 
lid  of  the  eye,  having  first  turned  that 
attachment  of  the  smarting  organ  wrong 
side  out.  "Sometimes  the  cinder  will 
attach  itself  to  the  handkerchief  and 
come    away    with    it",  he  said.     "Now 


wink.  Doesn't  your  eye  feel  just  a  little 
better?'' 

The  lady  winked,  but  was  obliged  to 
admit  that  in  spite  of  all  expedients 
tried  thus  far,  including  the!  last-named 
one,  she  felt  rather  worse  than  ever. 

Quite  a  number  of  other  methods 
were  tried,  but  to  no  particular  pur- 
pose. The  train  stopped  at  a  way-sta- 
tion, and  while  they  were  "changing  the 
baggage",  the  window  was  raised  for 
fresh  air.  Additional  efforts  were  still 
being  made,  constantly  and  strenuously, 
to  remove  the  cinder. 

A  gentleman  happened  to  be  standing 
on  the  station-platform  directly  opposite 
the  window  by  which  the  lady  sat,  and 
saw  what  was  going  on.  He  raised  his 
hat  politely. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,  Madame,"  he 
said,  "but  I  see  your  trouble,  and  would 
like  to  prescribe  for  you.  I  know  what 
has  happened :  you  have  caught  a  cinder 
in  your  eye,  and  have  been  submitting 
to  all  sorts  of  barbarous  old-fashioned 
methods  for  removing  it.  Now  let  me 
propose  one,  which  I  never  knew  to 
fail." 

The  lady  assented,  languidly  and  un- 
expectantly.  She  was  getting  tired  of 
methods,  and  began  to  think  that  the 
cinder  would  have  to  undergo  a  slow 
and  systematic  process  of  decay  in  there, 
before  it  left  her  unclogged  by  its  hate- 
ful presence. 

"Turn  the  eyelid  back  as  well  as  you 
can,"  continued  the  gentleman,  "and 
shake  it  up  and  down.  Shake  it !  shake 
it,  I  say ! .  Do  you  call  that  shaking,  if 
I  may  be  so  bold  as  to  ask? — Again! 
bravely! — That's  more  like  it!" 

The  train  started  off;  but  before  it 
was  many  feet  away,  there  was  a  head 
thrust  through  an  open  window,  and  a 
voice  calling  back  to  the  impromptu 
advisory  surgeon. 

"It's  out!  it's  out!  it's  out!  Thank 
you,  sir,  thank  you,  thank  you !" 

"Welcome",  muttered  the  gentleman, 
turning  away,  with  a  smile  upon  his 
face.  "Am  glad  she  had  the  pluck  to 
stick  to  it.  I  never  knew  the  process  to 
fail,  when  properly  applied.'^ 

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Platform  SeU-Possession. 

4*LJ0W  do  you  feel  when  facing  an 
audience?"  is  sometimes  asked. 
The  best  answer  is,  "Try  it,  and  you 
will  know."  Indeed,  almost  everybody 
does  try  it,  nowadays.  It  is  an  age 
when  people  address  people  by  the 
quantity,  more  than  ever  before,  and 
the  sensation  of  trying  to  speak  when 
a  number  are  listening  to  you,  is  one 
that  can  be  experienced  by  all. 

The  great  test  is.  Self-possession. 
Anybody  with  a  fair  amount  of  sense, 
can  say  things  good  enough  to  hold  an 
audience  for  a  while,  on  any  subject  he 
understands.  He  can  hold  their  atten- 
tion, taken  one  by  one,  or  by  twos  or 
threes;    why  not  all  of  them  together? 

The  answer  is:  When  talking  with 
a  few,  he  maintains  self-possession,  and 
has  command  of  all  his  facts  and  facul- 
ties ;  but  when  he  finds  himself  hoisted 
a  few  feet  or  inches  above  the  rest,  and 
sees  them  looking  at  him,  and  knows 
they  are  all  waiting  for  him,  then  his 
presence  of  mind  fails,  something  gets 
between  him  and  his  facts,  and  he  "has 
nothing  to  say." 

Which  assertion  is  a  mistake.  He  has 
plenty  to  say ;  it  is  all  in  there,  but  he 
can't  get  to  it.  The  stock  is  all  on  the 
shelves,  perhaps  "all  wool  and  a  yard 
wide",  but  he  cannot  clear  away  the 
rubbish  soon  enough  to  reach  it.  There 
is  too  much  wool-in-the-raw  there.  The 
floor  is,  to  use  an  old-fashioned  Yankee 
expression,  "cluttered'*  with  it. 

If  he  have  something  he  wishes  to 
recite — ^something  that  he  could  speak 
so  nicely  in  the  seclusion  of  his  little 
room — it  will  not  come  at  his  bidding. 
It  is  off  on  a  tour  somewhere ;  he  "for- 


gets"; and  perhaps  fails.  If  he  in- 
tended to  speak  extemporaneously,  the 
ideas  refuse  to  show  up;  he  knows 
what  he  wants  to|  say,  but  he  can't  say 
it ;  that  sea  or  lake  or  pond  of  faces  out 
there  confuses  and  abashes  him;  he  is 
not  himself,  or  any  considerable  part  of 
himself;  and  there  his  body  is,  with- 
standing a  terrible  failure,  caused  by 
the  absence  of  his  good-enough  mind. 

Your  remedy  or  preventive  for  this 
is  to  resolve  that  whatever  may  happen 
— ^however  large  the  crowd  may  be — 
you  will  keep  your  self-possession.  De- 
cide that  the  crowd  do  not  own  you; 
you  either  own  them,  or  it  is  at  least  a 
partnership  affair.  At  all  events,  you 
own  yourself.  Crowd  back  this  some- 
thing-orHDther  in  the  brain  that  wants 
to  get  in  the  way.  If  three  or  four 
urchins,  or  a  drunken  man,  shouldered 
themselves  between  you  and  your  hear- 
ers, you  would  hustlq  them  out.  Do  so 
witib  this  misty  something-made-of-noth- 
ing  that  gets  between  you  and  your 
ideas  even  now.  Keep  the  brain  as 
clear  as  a  bell ;  then  reach  back  into  the 
storehouse  and  get  the  ideas  as  you 
want  them.  Webster,  when  he  made 
his  celebrated  reply  to  Hayne,  felt  as  if 
he  had  everything  he  had  ever  read, 
heard,  or  thought,  waiting  for  him  to 
reach  up  and  get  it  when  he  wanted  it. 
"I  had  little  to  do  but  to  pluck  thunder- 
bolts and  fling  at  him,"  he  remarked. 

Do  not  be  distracted  by  what  takes 
place  in  the  audience.  You  are  not  to 
be  at  the  mercy  of  any  one  who  happens 
to  make  a  movement  in  the  space  in 
front  of  you.  Some  speakers  are  thrown 
off  their  balance  if  a  dog  comes  into  the 
room.  A  harmless,  unintellectual  cat, 
purring  and  rubbing  his  way  along  the 

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stage,  has  broken  up  many  a  good  train 
of  thought.  One  orator  stopped  and 
chided  an  innocent  member  of  the  audi- 
ence for  disagreeing  with  him  too  appar- 
ently, when  it  turned  out  that  the 
offending  listener  was  only  shaking  a 
fly  off  his  nose.  Another  was  so  angry 
at  the  noise  made  by  a  pair  of  "squeaky" 
boots,  that  he  showed  his  rage,  and  lost 
all  the  sympathy  of  his  hearers,  some 
of  whom  themselves  had  the  same  kind 
of  foot-wear. 

Remember  that  for  a  certain  lengtli 
of  time,  the  room,  the  platform,  the 
audience,  the  occasion — are  all  yours. 
They  have  been  given  you  by  the  chair- 
man, or  by  the  audience,  and  you  are 
really  protected  in  them  by  law.  No- 
body has  a  right  to  interrupt  you  until 
you  are  through,  to  use  a  Hibernicism. 
So  go  ahead  and  possess  the  land;  say 
what  you  got  up  to  say,  as  nearly  as 
possible,  and  as  much  more  as  occurs 
to  you,  on  the  same  lines ;  do  not  utter 
anything  without  your  judgment  back 
of  it;  and  sit  down  feeling  that  you 
have  done  just  what  you  rose  for  the 
purpose  of  doing,,  and  have  not  made 
a  donkey  ofl  yourself. 

"But  ought  not  the  excitement,  the 
fervor,  of  an  occasion,  to  help  any  one?" 
is  asked.  Certainly  it  ought;  you  can 
make  it  assist  you,  if  you  keep  your 
self-possession.  So  does  a  goodly 
amount  of  steam  help  the  limited  ex- 
press-train, as  long  as  it  keeps  on  the 
track,  and  the  thSrottle-valve  and  air- 
brake are  within  the  driver's  control. 
You  may  speak  faster  or  slower — with 
more  or  less  nerve — ^with  more  or  less 
freedom — according  to  the  subject — to 
the  occasion — ^to  the  inspiration  you 
get  from  the  audience:  but  keep  al- 
ways your  self-possession,  whatever  may 
happen. 

It  has  been  said  that  a  perfectly-bal- 
anced speaker  can  not  control  an  audi- 
ence: but  whoever  originated  this  re- 
mark, failed  to  consider  the  difference 
between  balance  and  inertia.  Some  of 
the  swiftest  motions  in  the  world  are 
perfectly  well-balanced.  The  reason 
that  a  certain  little  two-wheeled  vehicle 
called  the  bicycle  is  a  graceful,  swift- 


gliding  chariot  instead  of  an  awkward 
wreck,  is  that  the  rider  soon  learns  to 
posture  himself  perfectly,  from  the  be- 
ginning to  the  end  of  his  journey.  The 
best  speakers  are  usually  the  best- 
balanced. 


A  New  Departure  for  Children. 

TN  "A  Language  Book",  by  James 
Douglas  Williams,  the  author  en- 
deavors to  help  the  child  give  correct 
expression  to  the  relation  of  words  in 
a  sentence,  the  relation  of  sentences  in 
a  paragraph,  and  the  relation  of  para- 
graphs in  a  theme.  "Thus,"  he  claims, 
"through  observation  and  practice,  his 
mind  will  become  trained  to  habits  of 
orderly  thinking,  and  he  will  acquire 
such  facility  in  expression  and  knowl- 
edge of  the  form  side  of  language,  as 
will  enable  him  to  exercise,  in  an  in- 
telligent'and  interesting  manner,  his  gift 
of  speech." 

The  author's  greeting  to  his  young 
constituency,  is  as  follows: 

Dear  Girls  and  Boys: 

Wherever  you  live  and  whatever  your 
parentage  this  little  book  has  a  message 
for  all  of  you. 

If  you  are  at  home  in  this  universe 
of  truth  and  beauty,  then,  instinctively, 
you  will  be  doing  beautiful  and  true 
things,  thinking  beautiful  and  true 
thoughts,  speaking  beautiful  and  true 
words.  If  you  are  not  doing  these 
things,  then,  that  means  you  are  an  exile. 

Every  race  and  every  locality  has 
something  strange  and  wonderful  to  tell 
about  nature  and  her  ways.  The  most 
interesting  thing  about  it  all  is  that  na- 
ture's laws  are  the  same  for  all  of  us: 
although  her  methods  of  expression  are 
various. 

If  you  live  in  the  city  you  are  becom- 
ing acquainted  with  many  nationalities. 
You  may  be  fortunate  enough  to  num- 
ber among  yourselves  a  little  German,  a 
little  Italian,  a  little  Scandinavian,  a  lit- 
tle Russian,  and  a  young  voice  from  each 
of  the  other  great  nations  of  the  earth. 
Remember  you  are  all  Americans,  and 
that  your  ways  of  seeing  and  thinking 

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arc  the  richer  because  you  are  sharing 
them  with  one  another. 

If  you  live  in  the  country  you  have 
the  advantage  of  companionship  with 
those  who  work  with  the  land,  making 
things  grow;  you  are  living  among 
birds,  the  animals  of  the  farm,  and  the 
wild  things  of  the  woods ;  every  one  of 
these  creatures  is  a  revelation  of  nature. 

Each  of  you,  too,  is  one  of  nature's 
voices.  When  you  walk,  or  gesture,  or 
feel,  or  speak,  you  are  expressing  your- 
self— a  part  of  nature.  It  is  for  you  to 
choose  whether  you  shall  speak  clearly 
and  sincerely  through  your  various 
languages.  This  can  be  done  by  form- 
ing right  habits  of  self-expression,  and 
that  means  right  habits  of  life. 


Discover  from  Where  You  Are. 

^"PHE  wandering  mass  of  luminous 
*  matter  rightly  named  "Brooks' 
Comet",  is  now  visible  in  the  sky,  not 
very  far  from  the  "Big  Dipper."  There 
are  twentyfive  other  ones  somewhere  in 
the  universe,  that  may  justly  bear  his 
name. 

He  was  a  photographer  in  the  little 
town  of  Phelps,  New  York,  when  his 
first  efforts  at  discovering  comets  were 
made.  He  constructed  his  own  tele- 
scope, and  spent  night  after  night 
searching  for  comets.  His  "observa- 
tory" was  not  an  expensive  structure, 
towering  toward  the  sky :  but  a  humble 
little  platform,  in  the  back-yard  of  his 
residence,  where,  well  wrapped  up,  he 
spent  night  after  night  detecting  the 
bright-hued  but  elusive  hoboes  of  the 
sky. 

When  he  became  too  much  chilled  to 
stand  it  any  longer  without  temporary 
shelter    from    the    cold    night-air,    he 


would)  go  into  the  house,  and  his  faith- 
ful wife  would  carefully  tuck  him  up 
in  bed,  where  he  would  not  only  get 
warm  again,  but,  perhaps,  take  a  short 
nap.  Still,  he  realized  that  the  earth 
was  constantly  revolving  beneath  addi- 
tional skies,  and  what  he  might  not  dis- 
cover at  one  hour,  he  might  at  another: 
and  if  the  night  continued  clear  was 
soon  again  at  his  post. 

The  distinguished  Indianologist,  Rev. 
J.  W.  Sanborn,  once  told  the  writer  of 
this  article,  that  when  he  was  deputed 
personally  to  take  Mr.  Brooks  one  of 
the  many  certificates  of  titles  and  de- 
grees that  have  been  bestowed  upon  him, 
he  failed  to  find  him  at  his  residence- 
he  being  out  of  town.  His  wife  was 
home,  however,  received  the  visitor  with 
graceful  courtesy,  and  accepted  the 
honor  for  her  husband.  Before  going, 
Mr.  Sanborn  asked  if  he  might  see  the 
distinguished  astronomer's  observatory. 
"Certainly",  replied  Mrs.  Brooks,  with 
a  smile:  and  forthwith  conducted  him 
to  the  above-mentioned  platform  in  the 
above-mentioned  back-yard. 

An  old  neighbor  of  Mr.  Brooks  in- 
formed the  above-mentioned  writer  of 
this  article,  that  he  used  many  times  to 
see  him  on  his  way  to  the  telegraph- 
office,  in  the  early  morning  hours. 
"What's  up,  Brooks?"  he  would  inquire. 
"Nothing,"  would  be  the  reply,  "except 
that  I  have  bagged  another  comet." 
This  news  from  that  little  platform  in 
the  back-yard  of  a  village,  was,  in  an 
hour  or  two,  interesting  the  whole  civ- 
ilized world. 

Prof.  Brooks  has  for  over  twenty 
years  been  superintendent  of  the  Smith 
observatory  at  Geneva,  New  York,  and 
Professor  of  Astronomy  at  Hobart  Col- 
lege, and  has  medals  and  degrees  of 
honor  from  all  over  the  world. 


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September   28 — A   town    in    Costa   Rica    was 
partly  destroyed  by  an  earthquake,  which 
also  dried  up  temporarily  the  Cano  Grande 
River. 
29 — Italy  declared  war  against  Turkey,  sank 
a  Turkish  destroyer,  occupied  Tripoli  and 
blockaded  the  Tripolitan  Coast. 
30 — Many  people  were  killed  and  much  prop- 
erty destroyed  by  the  bursting  at  Austin, 
Pa.,  of  the  dam  of  the  Bayless  Pulp  and 
Paper  Mill. 
October   i — Turkey  made  a   fresh  appeal   to 
the  powers  against  Italy's  action.     King 
Peter  called  his  Cabinet  to  consider  the 
situation. 
•  A  bronze  statue  of  Parnell  was  unveiled  in 

Dublin. 
2 — Germany   actively    undertook   to    mediate 
between   Italy    and    Turkey.     Bombard- 
ment of  Tripoli  was  postponed. 

Mrs.  Theodore  Roosevelt  was  thrown  by 
her  horse  and  considerably  injured  at 
Oyster  Bay. 

The  returns  from  Mexico's  elections  indi- 
cated that  Gen.  Madero  had  received  a 
practically  unanimous  vote  for  the  Presi- 
dency. 
3 — Solicitor  McCabe  was  relieved  from  duty 
on  the  Pure  Food  and  Drug  Board,  leav- 
ing Chief  Chemist  Wiley  in  command  of 
the  situation. 

There  were  renewed  reports  that  Tripoli 
had  been  bombarded  by  the  Italian  fleet. 

A  fierce  engagement  took  place  between 
troops  and  monarchist  conspirators  in 
Oporto,  Portugal. 

One  hundred  and  fortyfive  fishing  vessels 
and  other  craft  were  wrecked  off  the 
coast  of  Holland  in  a  storm. 
4 — Tripoli  was  shelled,  the  Turks  replying 
feebly,  but  doing  no  damage;  efforts  to 
form  a  Turkish  ministry  were  unavailing. 

The  Irish  railroad  men's  strike  was  settled, 
both  sides  making  concessions. 

Dr.    Poeras,    Panama    minister    to    United 
States,  was  recalled  by  his  government. 
5— The  Turkish  fleet  moved  from  the  Dar- 
danelles to  the  Bosphorus. 

Italian  landing  parties  occupied  the  Siil- 
tanea  fort  in  Tripoli. 

The  fnneral  of  Rear  Admiral   Schley  took 


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place  with  full  military  honors  in  Wash- 
ington. I 
6 — The  collapse  of  a  dam  in  the  Black 
River,  Wisconsin,  caused  great  loss  of 
property  at  the  Dells  and  at  Hatfield, 
Wisconsin. 

The  Laurier  Ministry  resigned  and  Premier- 
elect  R.  L.  Borden  accepted  the  call  to 
form  a  new  Canadian  Cabinet. 

Turkey  issued  another  appeal  to  the 
Powers  to  stop  the  war  waged  by  Italy. 

Ten  thousand  persons  were  killed  during 
fighting  between  Chinese  government 
troops  and  insurgents. 
7 — Italy  shelled  an  Albanian  town.  Rome 
warned  the  public  against  intervening  till 
Tripoli  was  in  the  hands  of  her  army. 

A  $300,000  fire  destroyed  the  plant  of  the 
International      Harvester     Company     in 
Richmond,   Va. 
8 — An  Italian  squadron  captured  a  town  in 
Bomba  Bay. 

A  60-foot  sperm  whale  stranded  on  a  shoal 
off  Otean  City,  N.  J. 

$150,000  worth  of  tea  was  destroyed   in  a 

$350,000  fire  in  New  York  City. 
9 — Portugal  put  several  hundred  monarchist 
suspects  in  prison  and  called  the  Cortes 
to  constitute  a  high  court  for  immediate 
trial. 

Spaniards  sufTercd  heavy  losses  in  driving 
tribesmen  into  the  interior  of  Morocco. 

Turkey  recalled  her  decision  to  expel  all 
Italians  and  to  place  cereals  as  contra- 
band of  war,  upon  the  representations  of 
the  German  Ambassador. 
10 — Turkish  troops  made  an  unavailing  night 
attack  in  an  attempt  to  recapture  Tripoli. 
The  first  of  the  Italian  army  of  occupa- 
tion landed  600  miles  east  of  the  city  of 
Tripoli  and  the  rest  sailed. 
II — The  trial  of  James  B.  McNamara  for 
murder  growing  out  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Times  explosion  and  fire,  on  October  i, 
1910,  was  begun  at  Los  Angeles. 

Chinese  rebels  captured  Wuchang  and 
threatened  Hankow. 

The  Portuguese  Government  recalled  all  its 
warships  and  assembled  the  entire  fleet  in 
the  Tagus,  steam  up. 
12 — The  Italian  rommander-ig-Chief.  JTancva, 

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ordered  an  advance  against  all  the  Turkish 
positions  in  Tripoli. 

The  Chinese  rebels  continued  to  capture  im- 
portant cities;  the  Minister  of  War  and 
the  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Army 
were  ordered  to  the  Yangtse  Valley. 

Latest  returns  in    the    California   elections 
gave  a  small  majority  for  woman  suffrage. 
13— The  Duke  of  Connaught  was  installed  as 
Governor-General  of  Canada. 

The  revolution  in   China  was   reported  as 
spreading. 
i4--President  Taft  broke  ground  at  San  Fran- 
cisco for  the  site  of  the  Panama  Exposi- 
tion. 

General  Li  Yuan  Heng  demanded  recogni- 
tion of  his  authority  by  the  foreign  Con- 
suls and  promised  protection  if  they  re- 
mained neutral. 
15— Yuan  Shi  Kai,  China's  great  reformer,  re- 
fused to  return  to  power  without  imperial 
pledges  of  immediate  effective  reforms 
and  observance  of  the  Constitution. 

The  Porte  maintained  its  irreconcilable  at- 
titude with  respect  to  Italy  and  Tripoli. 
Several  Neapolitan  fishing-boats  were 
seized  near  Smyrna. 

The  Italian  battleship  Giulio  Cesare  was 
launched  at  Genoa. 
16— Thirtysix  sticks  of  dynamite,  with  a  fuse, 
were  found  on  a  bridge  near  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Cal.,  four  hours  before  President 
Taft's  train  was  due. 
I7_-Chinese  officials  predicted  the  early  sup- 
pression of  the  revolt. 

The   Canadian    steamer   Emperor    sunk   at 
the  Sault  Ste.  Marie  Canal,  blocking  navi- 
gation. 
18— All-day  fighting  at  Hankow,   China,  left 
the  situation  practically  unchanged. 

Cistern-ships  were  ordered  made  ready  to 
convey  drinking-water  from  Italy  to 
Tripoli,  owing  to  the  appearance  of  cho- 
lera among  the  troops. 
19— Nelson  W.  Aldrich  submitted  a  revised 
plan  for  monetary  legislation,  retaining 
the  basic  ideas  of  the  original  propo- 
sition. 

Two  Japanese  torpedo  boat-destroyers  sailed 
for  Hankow,  China. 
20— The  steamship  George  W.  Clyde  was  re- 
ported by  wireless  as  disabled  thirtyone 


miles  off  the  Cape  Charles  Lightship.    A 
revenue  cutter  went  to  her  assistance. 

Three  tentative  jurors  were  passed  in  the 
McNamara  trial  in  Los  Angeles. 

Pekin  was  profoundly  stirred  by  the  news 
that  the  government  had  concealed  for 
more  than  twentyfour  hours  a  rebel  vic- 
tory at  Hankow. 
21 — ^Vital  parts  of  the  machinery  of  the 
Frepch  battleship  Mirabeau  having  been 
tampered  with,  three  of  the  crew  were  put 
in  irons. 

The  Portuguese  cruiser,  San  Rafael,  was 
stranded,  north  of  Oporto,  with  a  total 
loss. 
22 — City  Attorney  J.  R.  Beavers  was  killed 
and  two  white  men  wounded,  by  negroes 
at  Coweta,  Oklahoma. 

The  Admirals  commanding  the  Chinese 
fleet  about  Hankow  wired  at  Pekin  that 
they  lacked  coal  and  rice,  and  asked  that 
the  commander  of  the  land  forces  be  sent 
to  their  aid. 
23— Judge  Bordwell  refused  to  disqualify  a 
talesman  in  the  McNamara  case  because 
he  believed  the  Los  Angeles  explosion 
was  caused  by  dynamite. 

President  Taft  signed  the  proclamation  of 
United  States'  neutrality  in  the  Turko- 
Italian  war. 
24— Sian,  an  imperial  stronghold,  and  Kiu- 
kiang,  a  large  town,  were  captured  by  the 
Chinese  rebels. 

Fourteen  battleships  anchored  in  the  Hud- 
son River,  off  Manhattan  Island. 
25— China's     National     Assembly     impeached 
Cabinet    Minister    Sheng,  demandmg   his 
dismissal. 

Fung  Sen,  a  Tartar  General,  and  new  mili- 
tary Governor  of  Canton,  was  assassinated 
by  a  bomb  which  killed  twentyone  other 
persons  and  wounded  eighteen. 

Two  hundred  Mexican  troops  were  slain  in 
a  battle  with  rebels  near  Milpa  Alpa. 
26— The  Chinese  Government  deposed  Sheng- 
Hsuan-Huai,  Minister  of  Posts  and  Com- 
munications. 

Fire  broke  out  on  the  French  battleship. 
Justice,  at  Toulon. 

A  new  ministry  was  formed  at  Nicaragua. 

United  States  brought  suit  in  Trenton, 
N.  J.,  against  the  Sted  Trust. 


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DIED: 

BUSS.  CORNELIUS  N.— In  New  York  City, 
October  9,  aged  seventyeight  years.  Fall 
River,  Mass.,  was  his  birthplace.  He  had  a 
strong  influence  in  the  political,  banking 
and  commercial  circles  of  New  York  Qty 
and  was  Secretary  of  the  Interior  under 
President  McKinley. 

BOGGS.  GEN.  WILLIAM  R.— At  Winston- 
Salem,  N.  C,  September  15,  aged  eighty- 
three  years.  He  was  one  of  the  few  re- 
maining Confederate  generals.  Augusta, 
Georgia,  was  his  birthplace  and  he  was  a 
graduate  of  West  Point  in  1853.  Entering 
the  Confederate  service  in  1861,  he  attained 
the  rank  of  Brigadier  General.  After  the 
war  he  became  an  architect  and  civil  en- 
gineer, and  for  five  years  was  Professor 
of  Mechanics  at  the  Virginia  Mechanical 
College. 

BROOKS,  BYRON  ALDEN— In  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  September  28,  at  the  age  of  sixtysix 
years.  His  birthplace  was  Theresa,  N.  Y. 
He  was  graduated  from  Wesleyan  College 
and  became  a  patent  expert  for  the  Union 
Typewriter  Company,  and  the  inventor  of  a 
well-known  machine,  devoting  his  life  to  the 
improvement  of  writing  machines.  He  was 
interested  in  various  educationad  and  philan- 
thropic enterprises  in  Brooklyn. 

CURTIS,  WILLIAM  E.— In  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  October  5,  aged  sixtyone  years.  His 
native  town  was  Akron,  Ohio.  He  was  on 
the  staff  of  the  Chicago  Inter-Ocean  and 
the  Chicago  Record-Herald  for  many  years, 
accomplishing  many  journalistic  feats,  and 
was  widely  known  for  his  travel-letters  in 
those  papers.  Under  President  Arthur  and 
J.  G.  Blaine  he  did  notable  service  in  the 
Pan-American  movement. 

DONAHUE,  TIMOTHY  J.— In  Brooklyn, 
September  2$.  He  was  born  in  County 
Kerry,  Ireland,  sixtyfive  years  ago.  He 
came  to  America  when  eighteen  years  of 
age  and  for  fortythree  years  was  an  In- 
spector at  the  New  York  Custom  House. 
He  was  the  most  dreaded  sleuth  in  the  De- 
partment because  of  his  skill  in  discovering 
concealed  dutiable  articles. 

FLAMENG,  LEOPOLD— In  Paris,  Septem- 
ber 5,  aged  eighty  years.  He  was  born  of 
French  parents,  at  Brussels,  going  to  France 
in  1853,  where  he  became  noted  as  an  en- 
graver. His  works  have  been  exhibited  at 
the  Salon  since  1859,  and  he  was  decorated 


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with  the  Legion  of  Honor  in  1870.  He  had 
engraved  or  etched  many  of  the  best  pictures 
of  Leonardo  da  Vinci,  Rembrandt,  Murillo, 
Gainsborough  and  others. 

FRANCHETTI.  BARONESS  ALICE— In 
Leysin,  Switzerland,  October  22,  at  the  age 
of  thirtyseven  years.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Adolph  Hallgarten,  of  New  York,  and  in 
1899  married  the  Baron  Leopoldo  Fran- 
chetti  of  Rome.  She  devoted  herself  to 
philanthropic  and  educational  work  in  Italy, 
and  was  held  in  high  esteem  in  that  country. 

HARLAN,  ASSOCIATE  JUSTICE  JOHN 
M. — In  Washington,  D.  C,  October  14,  in 
his  seventyninth  year.  He  was  the  oldest 
member  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  and  a  famous  constitutional  authority. 
He  was  a  native  of  Boyle  County,  Kentucky, 
and  educated  at  Centre  College  and  at  Tran- 
sylvania University.  He  served  in  the  Civil 
War,  was  appointed  one  of  the  Louisiana 
Commission,  and  in  1877  accepted  a  seat  on 
the  Supreme  Bench.  Fearless  and  indepen- 
dent, he  was  a  consistent  upholder  of  the 
Constitution. 

HOUSSAYE,  HENRY— In  Paris,  France; 
September  24,  at  the  age  of  sixtythree  years. 
In  Paris,  his  native  city,  he  studied  art,  and 
then  turned  to  literature,  publishing  a  "His- 
tory of  Apelles",  when  but  nineteen  years 
old.  Sojourning  long  in  Greece,  he  wrote 
a  work  on  Alcibiades  and  the  Athenian 
Republic  that  won  the  Academy's  prize  of 
20,000  francs.  The  early  history  of  Gaul 
next  claimed  his  attention,  and  a  brilliant 
work  on  Napoleon  gave  him  the  coveted 
seat  in  the  Academy.  He  won  the  Legion 
of  Honor  decoration  while  fighting  as  an 
officer  of  Mobiles  during  the  siege  of  1870, 
and  was  personally  very  popular  in  Paris. 

ISRAEL,  MORRIS— In  New  York  City, 
October  20,  aged  seventyfive  years.  He  was, 
until  recently.  President  of  the  Charleston, 
S.  C,  Savings  Institution.  He  was  well 
known  all  through  the  Sbuth  and  was  iden- 
tified with  every  important  commercial  and 
philanthropic  movement  in  the  South  At- 
lantic States. 

JENKINSON,  ISAAC-In  Richmond,  In- 
diana, October  25,  at  the  age  of  eightysix 
years.  His  native  town  was  Piqua,  Ohio. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  when  twenty- 
five  years  old,  and  edited  several  Ohio 
papers  in  succession.  He  was  one  of  the 
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diana  and  the  last  of  the  Indiana  electors 
for  Abraham  Lincoln.  For  fivt  years  he 
was  United  States  Consul  at  Glasgow, 
Scotland. 

KING.  THOMAS  M.— At  Irvington-on-the- 
Hudson,  September  13,  aged  sixtyseven 
years.  His  birthplace  was  Freeport,  Pa. 
He  became  a  clerk  in  the  employ  of  the 
Alleghany  Valley  Railroad  while  a  youth, 
but  resigned  to  enlist  in  the  Civil  War,  and 
was  appointed  finally  to  railroad  service  in 
the  East.  In  1867  he  returned  to  his  original 
railroad,  becoming  in  time  general  superin- 
tendent of  a  division  of  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Railroad.  In  1885  he  was  advanced  to 
be  second  vice-president.  He  secured  the 
entrance  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  into  Phila- 
delphia and  the  projection  and  construction 
of  the  terminals  at  New  York,  and  exten- 
sions and  terminals  elsewhere. 

LEWIS,  IDA  M.— In  Lime  Rock  Lighthouse. 
oflF  Newport,  R.  I.,  October  24,  at  the  age  of 
seventy  three  years.  She  was  official  keeper 
of  the  light  for  thirty  years.  Congress  con- 
confirming  the  appointment  by  Special  Act. 
Numerous  medals  and  a  pension  were 
awarded  her  in  recognition  of  the  eighteen 
lives  saved  through  her  heroism. 

LOOMIS,  CHARLES  BATTELI^In  Hart- 
ford, Conn.,  September  23,  aged  fifty  years. 
The  well-known  humorist,  author  and  lec- 
turer was  born  in  Brooklyn  and  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Polytechnical  Institute,  but  en- 
tered business  before  he  was  graduated.  He 
began  writing  for  magazines  while  still  very 
young  and  has  contributed  prose  and  verse 
to  all  of  the  standard  periodicals.  He  was 
the  author  of  "Just  Rhymes",  "The  Two- 
Masted  Catboat",  and  many  collected  series 
of  short  stories.  His  humor  was  always 
clean  and  wholesome. 

McCULLOUGH,  MRS.  MYRTLE  REED— 
In  Chicago,  August  17,  aged  thirtyseven 
years.  She  was  born  in  Chicago  and  was 
one  of  the  city's  best-known  authors.  She 
wrote  "Lavender  and  Old  Lace".  "Love  Let- 
ters of  a  Musician",  and  a  clever  parody  of 
the  sentimental  nature-writers,  called 
"Studies  in  Unnatural  History." 

PATRICK,  REV.  WILLIAM— At  Kirkintil- 
loch, Scotland,  September  28.  He  was  born 
in  1852,  at  Glasgow,  and  was  educated  at 
Glasgow  University  and  at  Heidelberg.  In 
1900  he  went  to  Canada,  and  since  that  time 
had  been  Principal  of  Manitoba  Presbyterian 
College,  Winnipeg,  Canada. 

SANBORN.  DR.  EUGENE  B.— In  Machias. 
Maine,  September  24.  He  was  born  in  that 
State  in  1838,  going  to  New  York  when  a 
boy,  and  studying  there  at  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  served  as  a 
surgeon  through  the  Civil  War  and  was  dis- 
charged with  honors.  After  the  war  he  ob- 
tained a  place  on  the  New  York  Board  of 
Health  and  in  1879  was  appointed  Deputy 


Health  Officer  of  the  Port,  serving  through 
three  cholera  sieges. 

SMITH,  GEORGE  S.— In  London,  England. 
July  27,  aged  fiftynine  years.  He  was  bom 
in  England.  When  fifteen  years  of  9gt 
he  originated  the  system  of  circular  adver- 
tising through  the  mails,  beginning  by  ad- 
dressing envelopes  with  his  own  hand.  He 
amassed  a  large  fortune. 

SQUIERS,  HERBERT  G.— In  London,  Eng- 
land. October  19,  aged  fiftytwo  years.  His 
birthplace  was  Madoc,  Canada.  He  was 
educated  in  the  States,  being  graduated  at 
the  United  States  Artillery  School.  He  en- 
tered the  diplomatic  service  in  i8g5  and  be- 
came First  Secretary  of  the  American  Le- 
gation at  Pekin  in  1897.  He  was  honored 
by  the  American  and  British  Governments 
for  his  work  during  the  Boxer  uprising. 
President  Roosevelt  appointed  him  Minister 
to  Cuba  in  1902,  and  to  Panama  in  1905. 

STEELE,  ALONZO— At  Thornton,  Texas. 
July  8,  aged  ninetyfour  years.  He  was  bom 
in  Texas  and  served  in  the  Mexican  war. 
doing  gallant  service  under  General  Sam 
Houston  at  San  Jacinto,  where  he  was 
seriously  wounded. 

SWEENY,  PETER  B.-At  Lake  Mahopac. 
N.  Y,  August  30,  at  the  age  of  eightysix. 
His  father  had  been  a  hotel  keeper  in  Ho- 
boken.  The  boy,  after  studying  law.  entered 
the  office  of  the  distinguished  James  T. 
Brady.  He  became  Public  Administrator  of 
New  York  in  1852,  and  five  years  later  be- 
came District  Attorney.  Going  abroad  for 
his  health,  he  studied  the  municipal  im- 
provements of  Paris,  which  he  later  em- 
ployed when  he  became  Commissioner  of 
Parks  under  the  Tweed  regime.  He  wa^ 
credited  with  being  one  of  the  "Big  Four" 
of  that  faction.  He  was  twice  indicted  for 
defrauding  the  city,  but  escaped  on  a  nolle 
prosequi. 

WALKER,  RT.  HONORABLE  SAMUEL— 
In  Dublin,  Ireland,  August  13,  aged  seventy- 
nine  years.  He  was  born  in  Ireland,  County 
Westmeath,  and  became  a  barrister  in  1855. 
He  filled  many  high  offices  in  Ireland,  beiniz: 
Solicitor  General.  Attorney  General,  Lord 
Justice  of  Appeals  and  M.  P.  for  London- 
derry. He  was  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland 
from  1892  to  1895,  and  began  a  second  term 
in  1902.    He  was  made  a  Baron  in  igo6. 

WORDSWORTH.  RIGHT  REV,  JOHN. 
BISHOP  OF  SALISBURY— In  London. 
England,  August  16,  aged  sixtyeight  years. 
He  was  born  in  Harrow.  In  1867  he  was 
ordained  as  Prebendary  of  Lincoln,  Select 
Preacher  and  Professor  of  Theology  at  Ox- 
ford. He  served  for  eighteen  years,  and 
was  then,  in  1885,  created  Bishop  of  Salis- 
bury. He  was  well  known  as  an  educator 
and  writer  on  religious  subjects.  A  year 
ago  he  attended  the  fortythird  convention 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Cin- 
cinnati. 

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Russia  occupies  nearly  one-sixth  of  the 
globe. 

New  York  has  more  inhabitants  to  the  acre 
than  Paris. 

There  arc  514  miles  of  tunnel  in  the  world, 
if  they  were  all  placed  end  to  end. 

London  hair-dealers  sell  about  five  tons  of 
the  natural-artificial  ornament  every  year. 

A  frankfurter  and  roll  killed  a  hungry  New 
York  boy  who  ate  too  much  of  them  at  a 
time. 

Very  few  kings  reign  a  comfortably  long 
period,  without  being  shot-at  an  uncomfort- 
able number  of  times. 

Threatened  with  the  tuberculosis,  at  twen- 
tyfive  years  of  age,  Don  Alfonso  of  Spain 
is  advised  to  try  Switzerland  air. 

Hawaiian  servants  think  their  employers  are 
putting  on  airs  if  they  are  not  allowed  to  ad- 
dress them  by  their  Christian  names. 

Inventing  or  inventing  at  new  kinds  of 
aeroplanes  is  said  to  be  the  steady  occupa- 
tion of  10,000  men  and  boys  in  this  country. 

Indians  are  still  not  uncommon  on  Long 
Island.  One  of  them,  at  Sea  Cliff,  is  91 
years  old,  and  bids  fair  to  outdo  a  hundred. 

The  work  of  abolishing  bull-fights  in  Cuba 
is  meeting  with  some  success ;  and  meanwhile 
the  prize-fights  in  our  own  country  go  merrily 
on. 

There  are  still  white  slaves  in  some  parts  of 
Hungary — compelled  to  work  gratis  fifty  days 


per  annum — for  the  profit  of  the  lord  of  the 
manor. 

Out  of  all  the  ex-soldiers  that  still  live,  not 
one  in  ten  thousand  will  say  that  he  ever  was 
"bayoneted."  

Your  name  or  portrait  cannot  be  used  for 
advertising  by  any  concern  without  your  con- 
sent: so  the  Supreme  Court  at  Washington 
decides.  

Save  the  old  coins.  One  was  found  not 
long  ago  in  a  Pennsylvania  potato-patch, 
which  is  1,1 1 1  years  old,  and  worth  a  good 
many  dollars. 

George  B.  McClellan,  son  of  the  Civil  War 
General,  and  formerly  Mayor  of  New  York, 
is  now  professor  of  Public  Affairs  at  Prince- 
ton College. 

There  are  thirteen  millions  of  Mohamme- 
dans in  Europe — many  in  Turkey,  more  in 
Russia,  and  thousands  scattered  in  other  parts 
of  the  continent. 

It  is  said  that  some  insect-eating  plants  first 
intoxicate  their  victims  by  a  liquor  which  they 
exude — thus  furnishing  a  vegetable  parallel  to 
certain  venders  of  drinks. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  tailors  of  the  world 
intend  to  erect  a  monument  over  the  grave 
of  Adam — as  to  his  little  mistake  in  eating 
the  apple  they  owe  their  prosperity. 

Qawing  hair  out  of  the  beards  of  aged 
Issachites  forms  part  of  the  sport  of  certain 
bad  New  York  boys — some  of  whom  have 
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Scorn  not  the  toad.  He  captures  and  de- 
vours wasps,  yellow- jackets,  ants,  beetles, 
worms,  spiders,  snails,  bugs,  grasshoppers, 
crickets,  weevils,  caterpillars  and  moths. 

An  insurance  association  entirely  composed 
of  women  is  one  of  the  growing  institutions 
of  the  country.  Thus,  the  old  man  is  getting 
a  chance  to  have  something  left  him,  after  all. 

Sings  a  Kentucky  paper: 
"And   now   the   family  goes   away. 
To  dance  and  to  sing: 
While  father  lives,  from  day  to  day. 
On  any  old  thing." 

South  American  ants  have  been  known  to 
construct  a  tunnel  three  miles  in  length,  a 
labor  for  them  proportionate  to  that  which 
would  be  required  for  men  to  tunnel  the  At- 
lantic from  New  York  to  London. 


United  States  uses  in  its  different  depart- 
ment-offices 10,000  type-writing  machines  per 
annum — which  sounds  strange  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  thirty  years  ago  it  had  not  one,  and 
they  were  very  rarely  found  anywhere. 

Turkeys  shipped  from  one  part  of  the  coun- 
try to  another  frequently  contain  notes  from 
some  would-be  lovesick  young  man  or  woman 
looking  to  a  correspondence  with  some  eligible 
party  who  may  happen  to  receive  them. 

New  York  City  has  15,000  licensed  saloons, 
and  there  are  said  to  be  5,000  places  where 
liquor  is  sold  "illegally".  What  kind  of  an 
effect  is  the  metropolis  having  upon  the  rest 
of  the  country,  and  on  the  world  at  large? 

The  American  Indians  smoked  many  kinds 
of  plants,  such  as  sumac,  red  willow  bark,  and 
the  leaves  of  the  kinnikinick  or  bear-berry; 
and  tobacco,  doubtless,  was  a  discovery  result- 
ing from  a  selection  of  the  most  seductive. 

A  western  man  says  that  one  year,  shortly 
after  he  went  to  Kansas,  crops  failed,  and  the 
only  support  he  and  his  family  had  was  a  flock 
of  hens.  The  hens  paid  the  grocery  bills, 
clothed  the  family,  and  paid  a  mortgage  on 
the  land.  

"As  things  are  now,  we  have  a  'trust'  to 
float  anything,  from  rotten  eggs  to  a  steel 
rail",  asserts  a  correspondent  of  the  Brooklyn 
Eagle.  "They  kill  off  all  who  dare  to  com- 
pete, then  extort  from  the  public  the  highest 
figure  the  traffic  will  bear.** 

It  is  natural  for  a  rooster  to  crow,  but  in 
order  to  do  so  he  must  raise  his  head.  A 
simple  device  to  stop  the  bird  from  crowing, 
it  is  said,  is  to  nail  a  board  twelve  inches 
above  the  perch  in  the  chicken-coop.  This 
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to  the  proper  angle  for  crowing,  thereby  sup- 
pressing the  clarion  notes. 

The  40,000  elephants  annually  destroyed  for 
manufacturing  purposes  have  their  lives  sacri- 
ficed mainly  in  the  service  of  billiard-players. 
This  is  quite  unnecessary,  as  celluloid  billiard 
balls  are  now  made  as  truly  and  are  as  pleas- 
ant to  play  with  as  those  of  ivory. 

Tremendous  exertions  to  abolish  foot-bind- 
ing in  China  have  been  made,  but  with  no  con- 
siderable result  One  Chinese  maiden  is  said 
to  have  put  the  case  to  Her  Ladyship  in  these 
words :  "We  squeezy  foot ;  you  squeezy  waist ; 
same  object— both  getee  husband." 

A  German  in  Philadelphia,  when  being  ex- 
amined to  see  whether  he  was  entitled  to  natu- 
ralization papers,  got  along  very  well  till  asked 
the  question,  "What  does  the  President  do 
with  the  bills  sent  him?"  "Pays  'em,  of 
course",  he  replied,  without  hesitation. 


"I  have  stopped  ballooning,"  says  Eh-.  Julian 
Thomas,  who  was  once  a  master  of  the  pro- 
fession, "for  aeroplaning  overshadows  it.  I 
dare  not  go  into  that,  for  sometimes,  now- 
adays, I  lose  consciousness  for  a  few  sec- 
onds :  and  that  might  cause  a  fatal  tumble." 


Certain  butterflies  produce  sounds  during 
certain  movements.  The  "whip"  butterfly, 
when  surprised,  makes  a  noise  like  the  snap 
of  a  lash,  by  opening  and  shutting  its  wings 
in  quack  succession.  Some  hibernating  butter- 
flies, when  disturbed,  make  a  faint  hissing 
sound,  by  slowly  depressing  and  raising  their 
wings.  The  noise  thus  produced  resembles 
that  made  by  blowing  slowly  through  closed 
teeth.  Other  sounds  resemble  the  friction  of 
sandpaper. 

Capt.  Baldwin,  who  has  worked  in  air  forty 
years,  with  hot-air  balloons,  gas  balloons, 
dirigibles  and  aeroplanes,  says  the  greatest 
danger  of  aviation  is  overoonfidence  on  the 
part  of  the  aviator.  He  insists  that  the  best- 
informed  bird-men  are  tyros  in  air  navigation. 
He  testifies  that  there  are  air-holes,  eddies, 
cross-currents  up  and  down,  cushions  and 
twisters  that  puzzle  the  veteran,  frequently 
causing  wholly  unexpected  and  freakish 
movements  in  aeroplanes  and  requiring  qiii:k 
and  skilful  tactics  to  avoid  disaster. 


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BY  WILL  CARLETON 

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LACK  OF   ECONOMY. 

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did  you  really  kill  him? 

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tragedy  ? 

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DIFFICULTIES    ACCUMULATE. 

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THE  giant's  regret. 

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down  on  the  heads  of  his  enemies. 

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wrong  room. 
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table  manners. 

Teacher — ^Do  they  eat  the  flesh  of  whales, 
Joseph  ? 

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Teacher— What  do  they  do  with  the  bones? 

Joseph  (hesitatingly)— They  lay  them  by 
the  plate,  sir. 


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Bearberry  and  Buchu  Compound 

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A  REAL  REMEDY  for  the  KIDNEY 

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BEARBERRY  AND  BUCHU  COMP.  (Adams)  is  a  Perfect  compound  of  these 
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Song— The   Christmas  Tree 

197 

"That  Little  White-IIaircd  Scotcli 

Will  Carleton. 

Devil" 

227 

Block  Reconstruction 

199 

The  Love- Madonna 

228 

Bernard  J.  Xewman. 

Of  the  Burning  of  Books 

229 

Two  Villages 

Louisa  Brannan. 

The  Angels'  Song 

204 

210 

At  Church  : 
Church  Grumblings 

Edward  H.  Stevens. 

230 

Margaret  E.  Songster. 

Hymn-Tampering 

231 

Jeremiah 

211 

Failed  to  Locate  It 

232 

A  Notable  Biography 

The  Music  of  the  World 
Lucy  B.  Jerome. 

Correcting  the  Records 
A  Miner's  Madrigal 

214 
218 

220 

The  Health-Seeker: 
Two  Medical  Tricks 
Trees  Have  Dyspepsia 
They  Tuck  and  Live 

2.U 

235 
235 

Henry  Irvin  Xicholas. 

WoRLD-SrccESS : 

L(X)k  After  Your  Voice 
The  Brighter  Side 
Book  Reviews 

221 
222 
223 

The  Famous  Sherman  Law 
Opiwrtunities  of  a  Country  Edi- 
tor 
Do  Heathen  Need  the  Calculus? 

236 

237 
238 

Eighteen  Thoughts 

224 

Babies  for  Bait 

238 

U Envoi — An  Allegory 

A.  Donald  Douylas. 

225 

Time's  Diary 

Some  Who  Have  Gone 

239 
241 

Editorial  Comment: 

Doings  and  Undoings 

243 

The  Lesson  of  a  Tragedy 

226 

rhilosophy   and   Humor 

250 

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The  Summer  mom  around  us 

Is  softly  bright  to  see; 
But  when  the  noon  has  found  us, 

To  shadows  cold  we  flee. 
We  gain  the  forest  cover. 
And  leaves  about  us  hover, 
The  sun's  domain  disputing; 

In  treasure  land  are  we — 
For  many  blooms  are  fruiting; 

But  not  the  Christmas  Tree. 


The  Autumn  woods  a-glowing, 
Are  proudly  fair  to  see; 

Though  homesick  winds  be  blowing., 
In  Sorrow's  saddest  key. 

The  color-waves  have  risen, 

Like  ghosts  of  fire  in  prison; 

Their  lives,  both  strong  and  tender. 
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W^ith  snow-drifts  chill  to  see, 
And  lusty  fires  are  roaring 

In  festive  jubilee. 
And  youngsters'  voices  calling, 
Upon  the  ear  are  falling, 
With  balmy  touch  caressing 

The  hearts  of  yon  and  me ; 
Theti,  oil  a  nii;]it  ni  blessing, 

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I  N  any  comprehensive  plan  for  the  bet- 
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the  homes  of  the  people  must  be  given 
careful  consideration.  The  only  excuse 
a  city  has  for  being  is  that  it  may  serve 
the  convenience  of  man.  All  schemes 
for  beautifying  its  streets,  parks  or 
buildings,  or  plans  for  rapid  transit  of 
the  people,  or  of  goods,  are  for  the  ben- 
efit of  its  residents. 

The  aim  of  city  planning  is  that  a 
more  habitable  place  of  living  may  be 
made  for  the  multitudes  that  crowd  to- 
gether; but  the  best-developed  scheme 
within  the  vision  of  the  city  planner 
would  fail  if  it  did  not  include  the 
homes  of  the  people.  Here  the  health 
of  .a  city  centers,  and,  without  health  or 
healthful  conditions,  naught  eUe  avails 
much;  for  where  is  the  gain  if  a  city 
has  the  most  beautiful  parks  and  boule- 
vards while  her  people,  to  the  number 
of  several  hundred  thousands,  live  in  or 
in  the  neighborhood  of  hovels,  rear 
dwellings,  poorly-constructed  or  dilapi- 
dated buildings,  dead-end  alleys,  or 
amid  bad  sanitation,  with  foul  cesspools, 
surface  drainage  and  stagnant  puddles, 
with  an  inadequate  water  supply,  six, 
eight  and  ten  houses  to  one  hydrant,  or 
drawing  water  for  washing,  cooking 
and  drinking  from  hydrants  a  half  mile 
distant?  Where  is  the  gain  in  radial 
streets  if  the  death  rate  is  high — twen- 
tyfour,  twentyfive  and  twentyeight  per 
thousand  people,  in  congested  wards — 
and  the  sick  list  outstrips  it  beyond  accu- 
rate reckoning?  City  planning,  to  be 
comprehensive,  must  taJke  in  the  con- 
gested areas  and  transform  them  so 
that  they  cannot  start  waves  of  conta- 


gious diseases  and  cannot  weaken  the 
vitality  or  lower  the  morality  of  the 
people. 

Th-e  Philadelphia  Housing  Commis- 
sion, interested  in  a  better  Philadelphia, 
where  every  family  shall  have  a  whole- 
some home,  advocates  block  reconstruc- 
tion as  an  essential  feature  of  all  city 
planning,  and  one  that  should  receive 
first  consideration  whenever  money  for 
comprehensive  city  improvement  is  to 
be  appropriated. 

To  demonstrate  the  need  and  its  feas- 
ibility, the  Commission  has  taken  an 
average  block  in  the  congested  area  as 
an  example.  Th-e  particular  block  se- 
lected is  not  the  worst  one  nor  is  it  the 
best  that  could  be  found,  there  are  many 
blocks  infinitely  worse  and  many  much 
better.  It  is  an  average  congested  block 
similar  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  others 
in  the  city  that  is  exacting  its  price  in 
ill  health,  bad  morals  and  unhappiness 
from  its  people. 

Several  investigators,  familiar  with 
the  technicalities  of  a  housing  investi- 
gation, took  a  census  of  the  block;  an 
expert  plumber  was  assigned  to  the 
drainage  system,  cesspools,  water-clos- 
ets and  sewer  connections;  the  work 
was  carefully  and  accurately  done,  and 
the  results  obtained  are  thoroughly  re- 
liable. Numerous  photographs  were 
taken  and  a  model  was  made  represent- 
ing the  conditions  as  they  appear  on  the 
surface.  In  all,  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
five  houses  were  visited.  0;ily  two  of 
these  are  licensed  tenements;  two  oth- 
ers, not  licensed,  have  three  families 
doing  their  own  cooking  in  their  own 
kitchens.     Twentytwo  houses  have  two 


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A   DEAD   END   ALLEY — FIVE    HOUSES,    ONE    HYDRANT. 

families  each.  The  re- 
main ingf  one  hundred 
and  twentynine  are  in 
one-family  dwellings. 

Fourteen  of  these 
dwellings  are  owned  by 
the  people  living  in 
them.  Of  the  one  hun- 
dred and  fiftyfive  used, 
sixtyfive  are  rear  build- 
ings, some  built  in  the 
back  yards,  others  on 
tiny  alleys  three,  five  and 
eight  feet  wide,  entrance 
to  which,  in  the  majority 
of  cases,  is  through  a 
narrow  passageway  be- 
neath the.  front  building 
but  on  a  level  with  the 
siidewalk.  There  are 
eleven  dead-end  alleys  in 
the  block  and  one  dead- 
end  street   fourteen   feet 


wide.  These  rear  houses 
are  by  some  called  "band- 
box" houses  and  by  oth- 
ers "horizontal  tenements/' 
They  ate  two  and  one-half 
and  three  stories  high,  one 
room  to  a  floor,  and  built 
in  rows  of  three  to  ten 
houses.  They  present  many 
of  the  worst  features  of  the 
actual  tenement  in  that 
there  is  no  yard<  and  no 
privacy,  while  the  water 
and  toilet  facilities  are  used 
in  common.  In  addition  t(» 
these  buildings  there  arc 
five  stables  and  lofts  and 
one  hundred  and  sixtysix 
out-buildings  including  toi- 
let compartments,  .  sheds, 
coops,  and  similar  shanties. 
The  result  is  very  little 
land  remains  not  built  upon 
and  there  is  no  place  for 
the  children  to  play  or  for 
the  parents  to  sit  out  of 
doors  in  the  summer  save 
the  walks  or  doorsteps. 

Twentythree  of  the  build- 
ings,  including  stables,  are 


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constructed  of  wood;  sixtythree  are  in 
bad  structural  condition;  one  is  so 
far  gone  that  the  walls  are  bulging 
and  the  beams  between  the  basement 
and  first  floor  are  crumbling  from  dry 
rot.  To  reach  the  first  floor  in  this  house, 
the  tenant  must  pass  through  a  base- 
ment filled  with  old  bedding  and  other 
truck  belonging  to  the  landlord  and 
make  his  way  to  the  rear,  scale  a  lad- 
der,   push    up   a   trap   door   and   climb 


ate  but  costly  price  of  $1.50  per  month. 
Another  dwelling  is  built  above  three 
water-closets  and  is  reached  by  an  out- 
side, wooden  and  rickety  stairway  to  a 
platform,  across  the  alley,  and  thence 
to  the  door.  The  house  has  one  room 
and  is  so  dilapidated  that  there  are  wide 
cracks  in  the  walls  to  the  open  air.  The 
tenant  complains  of  difficulty  in  heating 
the  place  in  the  winter.  He  pays  $2.50 
per  month  for  his  '*home.'' 


A    FURNISHED-ROOM     HOUSE    DH.APIDATED    AND    UNSAFE, 
ADJOINIXr,    A    PRIVY    WELL. 


into  his  room  which  is  a  kitchen,  liv- 
ing room  and  sleeping  room  in  one. 
Tw-o  small  windows,  on  one  side  only, 
two  feet  square,  furnish  ventilation  and 
light.  The  house  itself  is  twelve  feet 
square  and  the  roof  is  ten  feet  above 
}the  level  of  the  alley.  Only  in  one  part 
of  the  room  can  an  adult  stand  up 
straight.  This  is  rented  as  a  furnished 
house  to  a  colored  family,  at  the  moder- 


A  few  of  the  rear  houses  rent  for 
$5.50  per  month ;  in  one  such,  two  and 
one-half  stories  high,  the  top  floor  is 
used  as  a  sleeping  room.  The  roof 
slants  from  the  south  side,  where  it  is 
five  feet  above  the  floor,  to  the  north 
side,  where  it  touches  the  floor.  Sev- 
eral rear  houses,  renting  for  $9.00  per 
month,  have  four  men  occupying  the 
top  floors;    here  the  roofs  also  slant, 

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EIGHT  COMPARTMENTS  ABOVE  ONE  FOUL  VAULT.     A  DILAPI- 
DATED PRIVY  HOUSE  EIGHTEEN  INCHES  FROM  THE  HOUSE. 


are  half  the  time  out 
of  order;  either  the 
doors  or  seats  are 
broken  or  the  flush 
will  not  work.  Some 
toilets  leak  into  the 
trap  box  and  from 
there  through  the 
walls  into  the  cel- 
lars of  the  adjoin- 
ing houses.  Many  are 
foul.  Where  yard  toi- 
lets are  not  provided 
privy-wells  or  cess- 
pools serve  the  peo- 
ple. There  are  eigh- 
teen such  in  the  block 
with  fortyseven  com- 
partments above  them. 
One  well  has  eight 
compartments  above  it. 
It  is  built  in  a  court 


though  not  so  badly. 
These  top  rooms  have 
1059  cubic  feet  of  air 
space ;  the  minimum 
the  law  allows  in  tene- 
ment buildings  is  400 
cubic  feet  for  each  man, 
or  1600  cubic  feet  for 
four.  Such  rooms  have 
small  windows  with 
from  six  to  ten  square 
feet  of  surface.  Many 
of  the  houses,  as  well 
as  the  rooms,  are  over- 
crowded. The  rentals 
vary,  though  the  av- 
erage for  the  rear 
houses  is  about  $8.00 
per  month — the  colored 
families  pay  from  $1.00 
to  $2.00  more  per  month 
for  the  same  conven- 
iences than  their  Italian 
and  Irish  neighbors. 

The  sanitary  condi- 
tion of  the  block  is  bad. 
Only  the  new  law  tene- 
ments have  toilet  facili- 
ties inside  the  buildings, 
the  other  houses  have 
yard  water-closets  which 


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close  to  eight  dwellings  and  serves  eight 
families. 

The  children  play  about  it  in  the 
narrow  court.  The  odors  and  flies  rise 
from  it  to  the  windows  of  the  houses 
above.  Another  privy  well  is  in  an  alley 
eight  feet  wide  and  serves  ten  dwellings. 
Four  other  vaults  are  covered  by  four 
compartments   each ;    one   is  twentyfive 


stagnant  water  collects  about  them  and 
in  some  instances  about  the  yard  water- 
closets.  The  odor  is  offensive  and  the 
possibility  for  the  spread  of  contagion 
by  common  usage  and  the  millions  of 
flies  that  gather  there  is  exceedingly 
great.  Although  the  streets  around  the 
block  are  underdrained,  these  hot-beds 
of  disease,  still  remain. 


UNSAFE   PRIVY    COMPARTMENTS  ABOVE   A    WELL   TWENTY- 
FIVE   FEET  DEEP    AND  FULL. 


feet  deep  and  contains  from  fifteen  to 
twentyfive  loads  of  filth.  The  doors  of 
the  compartments  above  the  latter  are 
off  their  hinges  and  all  privacy  is  aban- 
doned. A  room  above  these  compart- 
ments, formerly  occupied,  is  now  with- 
out a  tenant.  Ten  vaults  have  two  com- 
partments each  above  them  while  only 
three  are  covered  by  a  single  compart- 
ment.   Many  of  these  are  full  and  foul, 

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Few  of  the  houses  have  sinks  and 
plumbing.  Where  there  are  sinks,  they 
often  drain  through  the  wall  to  the 
yard  or  to  the  rain-leader.  In  one  case, 
the  tenant,  wishing  to  save  his  wife  the 
numerous  steps  to  the  yard  hydrant, 
personally  met  the  expense  of  putting 
in  running  water  and  a  sink  and  then 
ran  the  drain,  untrapped,  into  the  rain- 
leader. 
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Two     Villages. 

By  Louisa  Brannan. 


NEWCASTLE. 

IT  was  a  quaint  old-fashioned  place 
with  one  business  street.  The  town 
hall,  built  of  red  brick,  was  alone,  mod- 
ern, substantial,  imposing.  There  stood 
the  general  store,  long,  low,  ramblingf, 
weatherbeaten ;  the  blacksmith  shop,  the 
restaurant. 

Just  back  a  little  way,  and  across 
from  the  hall,  stood  the  church — white, 
green-shuttered,  sleeping  among  the 
elm-trees.  Quite  far  up  on  the  hillside, 
lay  the  city  of  the  dead,  silent,  lonely, 
sacred. 

When  I  recall  the  village  and  its  peo- 
ple, I  feel  thankful  for  the  lessons  they 
have  taught  me — lessons  of  life,  of  love, 
of  human  sympathy,  of  helpfulness,  of 
trust. 

I. — THE    MINISTER. 

The  Rev.  Asa  Adams  was  a  tall,  stal- 
wart, broad-shouldered,  magnetic  man. 
Although  past  forty,  he  had  a  boyish 
face,  and  the  heart  of  a  child.  Seven 
winsome  children  graced  his  home.  His 
sermons,  while  they  contained  the  essen- 
tial elements  of  theology,  were  heart- 
searching,  sympathetic,  lie  felt  the 
spiritual  and  moral  pulse  of  his  con- 
gregation. He  understood  the  people, 
for  he  had  lived  their  lives  with  them 
and  held  heart-to-heart  communion  with 
each  man,  woman  and  child  in  the  con- 
gregation. This  energetic,  keen-eyed, 
soulful  man  went  about  among  the  peo- 
ple of  Newcastle. 

The  minister  was  a  natural  nurse. 
Morning  after  morning  found  him  re- 
turning after  a  night's  vigil  with  a  sick 
man,  or  an  ailing  child.  He  coaxed  the 
children  to  take  the  doctor's  bitter 
draughts,  for  the  children  all  loved  him. 
The  pastor  buried  the  dead  and  mourned 


with  his  congregation.  In  the  few 
social  events  he  was  in  their  midst,  boy- 
ish, mirthful.  He  was  a  friend,  true 
and  loyal,  fearless  of  speech  in  the  cause 
of  friendship  and  right.  The  Rev.  Asa 
Adams  was  a  friend  who  brought  out 
the  best  in  every  one  he  met.  It  seemed 
quite  impossibld  for  one  to  be  mean  or 
low  in  his  presence,  yet  he  neither 
preached  or  scolded.  He  simply  lived 
as  a  man  should  live,  and  thought  as  a 
man  should  think. 

II. — THE  DOCTOR. 

The  doctor  was  just  coming  from  the 
store,  w^here  he  had  purchased  some 
smoking  tobacco,  some  raisins,  and  two 
pounds  of  bacon,  for  one  of  his  patients 
on  the  Alillsborough  road. 

He  was  about  to  untie  his  tall,  yellow 
horse,  when  he  was  interrupted  by  Van 
Auld,  tlie  storekeeper. 

*T  say.  Doc,  could  you  go  a  little  out 
of  your  way,  a  mile  or  so,  to  deliver  this 
message  ?    You  get  twenty  cents  for  it." 

"Twenty  cents  be  hanged,"  said  Dr. 
Styloft.     No,  I  don't  go." 

**YouVe  got  to.  I  can't  get  a  man, 
woman  or  child  in  Newcastle  to  go.  It 
is  to  old  Squire  Diigall,  and  his  daugh- 
ter is  dying." 

"All  right,  Van  Auld;  I  guess  I  can 
go,  but  rU  be  hanged  if  I  stir  an  inch 
until  I  get  the  twenty  cents.  Hurry  up. 
Cinnamon !  We'll  have  to  hurry  up,  old 
girl.  I  don't  see  why  I've  got  to  be 
bothered  with  old  Squire  Dugall's 
daughter.  I've  nothing  to  do  with  her 
dying.  Poor  Squire!  the  last  one,  the 
last  one !  He's  buried  six.  Get  up,  Cin- 
namon! We  must  be  there(  in  time. 
The  Squire  will  have  to  take  the  train 
at  Galion,  poor  man." 

The  doctor  delivered  his  message  and 


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rode  on.  Then  he  stopped  at  a  little 
tumbledown  house.  The  good  man 
sighed  as  he  entered  without  knocking, 
but  his  face  brightened  at  the  cheery 
aspect  of  the  room.  "Ah,  good-morn- 
ing, Mrs.  Good.  Fm  glad  to  see  you 
looking  so  fresh.  Who's  been  here  to 
see  you,  fairies,  eh?" 

"Yes,  Doctor,  if  you  call  Miss  Amy 
Beech  a  fairy.     She  rode  out  with  the 


worked  and  be  so  confounded  beautiful. 
Why,  many  a  princess  would  give  her 
kingdom  for  her  face  and  figure. 

"If  it  wasn't  for  her  and  the  minister, 
I  don't  know  what  I  would  do.  They 
do  most  of  the  nursing  about  these 
parts.  However,  there  is  one  thing  they 
can't  help  me  do,  and  that  is  to  pull 
teeth. 

"Now,   I   don't   mind    sawing  off   a 


"iMOURNED     WITH     HIS     CONGREGATION.'" 


milkman  this  morning,  and  tidied  and 
cheered  me  up.  She  had  to  go  back 
early  to  finish  some  sewing.  It  does 
seem  strange  that  such  a  busy  woman 
would  find  so  much  time  to  spend  on 
others." 

"Yes,  and  what  beats  me,"  said  the 
doctor,  "is  how  a  woman  can  be  so  hard 


man's  arm,  not  a  bit ;  but  as  to  extract- 
ing teeth,  that  is  one  of  a  country  doc- 
tor's trials.  You  just  ask  any  of  them." 
"I  suppose  you  know,  doctor,  that 
Granny  Stone  is  dead?" 

"Shu,  now,  I  didn't  know  it." 
"Yes,  Miss  Amy  laid  her  out  yester- 
day." 

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"Well,  well;  Tm  glad  Miss  Amy  was 
there.  She  beats  a  good  many  under- 
takers I  know.  Queer  now,  isn't  it,  that 
we  always  associate  Miss  Amy  Beech 
with  dead  people,  and  she  so  jolly-like, 
isn't  it?  Well,  I  must  be  going!  I've 
got  to  call  at  Epsom's;  I  hate  such 
places.  I  never  know  whether  the  pigs 
have  gotten  into  the  house,  or  the  fam- 
ily strayed  into  the  hog-pen." 

The  doctor's  calls  were  soon  over. 
He  talked  much  and  fast,  this  busy  little 
man.  He  was  a  small,  short,  round- 
man,  with  a  round  face,  rosy  cheeks 
and  smiling  lips.  He  had  little  sun- 
shine in  his  life.  He  had  to  have  it  in 
his  heart.  Riding  homeward  he  mused : 
"I'm  tired  of  this  life.  Sometimes  I 
want  to  break  away  from  it  all.  They 
say  I'm  a  fool  for  wasting  my  talents 
here.  Maybe  I  am,  but  I  can't  leave. 
I  love  them  so.  The  old  people,  the 
young  people  who  welcomed  me  when  I 
first  came  here,  the  young  people  now, 
and  the  little  children  that  I  helped  rob 
the  stork's  nest  for — I  love  them  all. 
And  Miss  Amy!  Well,  I'm  a  lonely 
bachelor;  never  wanted  any  bride  but 
my  profession.  And  she's  more  like  a 
saint  than  a  woman.  Somehow  it  would 
he  a  sacrile.e:e  for  just  a  common  man 
to  love  her." 

III. — THE    MERCHANT. 

The  only  store  at  Newcastle  was  a 
great  wooden  structure,  with  four  large 
glass  front  windows.  A  partition  ran 
through  the  center  almost  the  length  of 
the  building.  The  two  sides  were  con- 
nected at  the  back  by  a  wide  passage- 
way. In  this  space  were  stored  the 
groceries,  with  just  a  little  corner  de- 
voted to  drugs.  In  one  side  of  the 
building  were  arranged  the  drygoods 
and  notions,  wifh  one  window  reserved 
for  the  public  library — small,  but  ex- 
ceedingly well  selected) — ^yet  a  little 
place  was  stacked  with  shoes  and  men's 
clothing.  In  the  other  side  of  the 
building  were  stored  hardware,  large 
bins  of  coal,  and  merchandise  of  vari- 
ous kinds.  Even  the  meat-market  was 
not  forgotten. 

The  great  cellar   was   filled  with   all 


kinds  of  vegetables,  and  in  the  attic  a 
small  printing-press  was  set  in  motion. 

Van  Auld,  the  proprietor  of  this  con- 
cern, was  a  small,  dark  man,  energetic, 
enterprising,  resourceful.  Here  was  a 
genius  as  great  as  any  that  ever  ruled 
the  oil  market,  or  schemed  his  way  to 
victory  in  the  wheat  pit.  Rockefeller 
might  have  failed  in  Newcastle;  Van 
Auld  would  in  all  probability  have 
failed  in  the  oil  world.  The  Chicago 
financier  dealt  with  corporations.  Van 
Auld  controlled  individuals  and  mould- 
ed their  careers  to  his  own  financial 
welfare.  This  man,  handsome  of  face, 
kind  in  manner,  suave  in  disposition, 
was  the  despot  of  Newcastle.  He  fed, 
clothed  and  warmed  the  people.  He 
was  their  banker  as  well  as  their  grocer. 

From  time  to  time  his  large  iron  safe 
held  the  savings  of  scores  of  his  custom- 
ers. They  came  to  him  with  their  dif- 
ficulties, for  he  was  justice  of  the  peace. 
Never  was  a  learned  judge  more  wise 
and  politic  than  he.  He  tempered  his 
justice  with  mercy,  and  no  one  ever 
came  to  him  in  trouble,  but  he  could 
tell  them  a  way  to  avoid  it.  He  was 
the  guardian  of  the  people.  Without 
his  support  they  would  have  been  like 
little  children.  As  it  was,  in  spite  of 
their  ignorance  and  love  of  ease,  they 
were  in  the  main  a  self-supporting  peo- 
ple. Van  Auld  was  a  true  Democrat. 
No  soul  coming  to  him  in  ignorance  or 
distress  ever  found  bim  false,  but  woe 
to  the  corporation  with  which  he  was 
dealing!  Numerous  were  the  ways  in 
which  he  outwitted  them — cheated  them 
— with  methods  wily,  versatile,  smooth 
as  oil  and  hard  of  detection.  He  was 
never  found  out,  but  day  by  day  grew 
richer,  sleeker  and  more  idolized  by  the 
people  of  Newcastle. 

Although  a  married  man,  he  was 
childless;  but  all  the  children  of  the 
village  loved  him  like  a  father.  He 
played  with  them,  settled  their  childish 
quarrels,  and  gave  them  their  first  les- 
sons in  finance. 

It  was  in  the  debating-society  that  he 
showed  especial  ability.  There  was  not 
a  boy  in  the  village  but  wished  him  for 
a  colleague,  and  every  one  feared  him 

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as  an  opponent.  In  hard  and  knotty 
questions — in  those  rare  instances  when 
Elphaz,  the  wise  man,  pitted  his  intel- 
lectual strength  against  his — did  the 
merchant  in  any  measure  find  his  equal. 

IV. — THE   DRESSMAKER. 

"Can   you   have   my   dress   done    by 
Friday,  Miss  Beech?"  said  Mrs.  Darns- 


You  have  enough  to  do  without." 
"They  are  my  recreation,  you  know." 
"Don't     you    ever    read    any,    Miss 

Beech?     You   should   try   to   cultivate 

your   mind.     You    owe   that   much   to 

society." 

"Well,   really,   Mrs.   Darnsbrough,   I 

haven't  any  mind  to  cultivate  any  more. 

It  has  been  taken  up  with  dollars  and 


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"can     you     have    my    dress    done    by    FRIDAY?" 


brough,  the  stylish  woman  of  the  vil- 
lage. 

"Yes,  I  guess  so,  I  have  only  one 
dress  to  finish ;  but  you  know,  old  Mrs. 
Moss  is  sick,  and  she  takes  quite  a  bit 
of  my  time.  I  never  sew  much  in  the 
evening  any  more.  The  children  come 
in  once  in  a  while  to  get  help  on  their 
doll-clothes." 

"Amy,  why  do  you  bother  with  them  ? 


cents  and  the  latest  styles  so  long.  I 
really  think  a  dressmaker  gets  very  friv- 
olous." 

"Well,  Miss  Beech,  good  dressing 
tends  to  self-respect.  Somehow  I  feel  I 
amount  to  nothing  unless  well  dressed. 
I  know  they  say  I'm  vain,  Miss  Beech, 
but  you  know  ever  since  Alice  died  I've 
just  had  to  dress.  You  know  how  vain 
and  foolish  I  am,  Miss  Beech." 

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"Oh,  yes,  Mrs.  Darnsbrowgh,  I  know 
all  about  it.  I  don't  care  anything  about 
dress,  although  I  used  to,  but  I  never 
could  afford  it,  so  I  got  over  wanting 
to  dress.  You  know,  mother  died  when 
I  was  seventeen,  and  the  younger  chil- 
dren had  so  many  wants,  I  couldn't 
then.  When  Matilda  grew  up  a  little, 
I  learned  dressmaking,  and  I  thought 
.things  would  be  better.  One  by  one 
th-ey  all  had  consumption  and  died. 
There  was  just  Matilda  and  I  left. 
Father  had  gone  first,  after  that  the 
other  three.  Then  there  were  the 
funeral  expenses.  Matilda  soon  fol- 
lowed the  others.  I've  paid  her  funeral 
expenses  and  this  little  house  will  pay 
mine.  Oh,  Mrs.  Darnsbrough,  I've 
never  told  any  one  before,  but  I  shall 
go  like  the  rest.  That  little  cough  of 
mine  frightens  me.  Oh,  my  beauty,  it 
is  all  I  ever  had  in  the  world  that  I 
wanted.  Work  or  sorrow  does  not  spoil 
it,  but  sickness  will." 

*' Were  you  ever  in  love,  Miss  Beech  ? 
I  know  you  must  have  a  great  many 
admirers.  Why  don't  you  marry,  now  ? 
You  are  only  thirtyeight." 

'*Oh,  love !  that  is  not  for  me.  I  never 
had  any  time  to  love,  and  I  have  a  very 
cold  heart  anyway.  Good-by.  Yes, 
HI  have  your  dress  done." 

"Oh,  Amy  J)eech,  never  had  any  time 
to  love?  How  could  you  tell  her  that? 
You  talk  about  being  cold-hearted,  even 
while  love  consumes  your  heart.  You 
know,  Amy  Beech »  you've  been  in  love 
these  ten  years  with  Dr.  Styles.  Oh, 
well!  it  has  never  killed  me  yet,  and  I 
guess  I  can  go  on  living  just  the  same." 

That  evening  Dr.  Styles  was  aroused 
from  a  fireside  nap  by  neighbors,  who 
had  found  Miss  Amy  asleep  in  her  chair. 
The  warm  heart  had  stopped  beating. 
They  could  not  awaken  her.  Death  h?.d 
not  robbed  her  of  her  charms.  They 
laid  her  away.  So  many  nr'ssed  her — 
the  sick  she  had  nursed,  the  down- 
hearted she  had  cheered,  the  lonely  little 
children  she  had  loved — all  missed  her; 
but  none  so  much  as  one  who  i«i  anguish 
of  heart  spoke  to  the  minister. 

"Oh,  Adams !  to  think  she  never  knew 
it.     It  would  comfort  me  now  if  I  had 


told  her  that  I  loved  her.  She  and  you 
were  the  only  perfect  ones." 

"Perfect,  Styles!  don't  call  me  per- 
fect. There. are  times  when  I  forget  my 
God.  It  is  such  a  temptation  to  me — 
there  is  none  like  unto  it — to  stir  the 
emotions  of  the  human  heart,  to  make 
my  audience  laugh  or  weep  at  will.  It 
is  at  times  like  these,  when  the  minister 
is  lost  in  the  actor,  that  I  forget  my  God 
and  my  sacred  calling." 

"I've  seen  you  when  you  were  like 
this,  Adams." 

"And  Styles,  whom  did  you  see? 
The  Christ?" 

"No,  no,  I  saw  the  Rev.  Asa  Adams." 

"You  are  a  wise  man,  doctor,  and  I 
guess  you  understand  everybody  but 
yourself." 

v. — THE    minister's    WIFE. 

"A  beautiful  soul  has  ascended  to  the 
Maker.  A  rare  flower  has  left  the  earth 
to  blossom  in  Paradise",  said  Mrs. 
Adams,  as  she  took  off  her  hat  and 
gloves.  She  had  just  returned  from 
Miss  Beech's  funeral  and  Mrs.  Darns- 
brough had  stopped  to  have  a  cup  of 
tea. 

"Mrs.  Adams,  she  was  just  lovely, 
too  good  for  this  town." 

"Yes,  Mrs.  Darnsbrough,  what  a 
world  of  good  she  did !  She  didn't  have 
much  education,  yet  in  spite  of  that  fact 
she  was  a  very  intelligent  woman." 

"How  can  you  bear  it  here,  Mrs. 
Adams  ?  I  hear  your  folks  are  well-to- 
do,  that  you  moved  in  the  most  exclu- 
sive set  iri  Boston." 

"It  is  this  way :  I  got  a  little  democ- 
racy in  College.  Take  a  lot  of  girls  to- 
gether and  they  will  generally  cure  each 
other  of  their  little  snobbish  ways.  Of 
course  along  with  my  democracy  I  ab- 
sorbed some  very  unpractical  notions 
also.  When  we  first  came  here  we  had 
mothers'  meetings,  and  what  foolish, 
unpractical  things  they  were!  Those 
little  talks  about  how  the  children 
should  be  fed  and  how  te  dress  them 
properly,  and  all  that.  I  soon  found  it 
better  to  help  fashbn  a  little  skirt  for 
baby  out  of  Bessie's  outgrown  one,  and 
teach  the  mother  how  to  make  a  nour- 

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ishing  meal  out  of  the  little  flour  and 
one  egg  in  the  pantry.  Many  a  time  I 
have  lain  awake  at  night  thinking  out 
such  problems  as  how  to  make  a  rug 
out  of  Widow  Smith's  old  carpet,  and 
how  to  make  a  dress  for  little  Ellen  out 
of  her  mother's  old  plaid  shawl.  There 
was  another  idea  I  had.  It  was  about 
admonishing  the  boys  and  girls  to  get 
an  education.  Now,  there  is  Mary  Till- 
man with  an  invalid  mother,  a  drunken 
father  and  three  little  brothers.  How 
can  she  attend  school?  I  just  loan  her  a 
book  once  in  a  while  and  try  to  give  her 
little  practical  talks.  She  is  half-way 
satisfied  with  her  lot,  and  I  don't  want 
to  make  her  otherwise.  There  is  Tom 
Wells  working  hard  to  support  his 
mother  and  little  sisters.  Asa  helps 
him  with  his  studies,  and  I  keep  still, 
though  I  would  like  to  see  him  go  to 
school. 

"Life  is  so  different — real  life,  I 
mean — from  what  it  seemed  at  college. 
I  can't  think  of  those  spreads  we  used 
to  have,  without  tears  in  my  eyes.  I 
wish  the  world  was  as  easily  put  in  har- 
mony as  we  girls  used  to  think  it. 
Sometimes,  Mrs.  Damsbrough,  it  seems 
that  a  dollar  is  so  large;  and  it  gets 
larger,  and  larger,  until  it  blots  out  the 
sun.  It's  pinch  at  home  until  I'm  dead 
tired  and  sick  of  life.  Then  I  go  out 
among  the  people,  and  everywhere  I  see 
suffering,  and  all  because  of  the  want 
of  a  dollar.  Asa  says  money  doesn't 
make  happiness,  but  I'm  afraid  it  does." 

"It  helps,  Mrs.  Adams,  but  your  hus- 
band is  right.  Our  minister  is  almost 
always  right.  You  see  this  gown,  a 
Paris  one;  out  of  place  in  Newcastle, 
I  know,  but  I  wear  it  to  make  me 
happy.  Somehow  it  does  a  little,  but 
how  little !  If  I  could  only  see  it  soiled 
by  little  fingers  or  ruined  by  little  muddy 
shoes,  how  happy  I  would  be!  Over 
there  in  the  churchyard  lies  my  husband, 
and  there  our  only  child.  When  Rob- 
ert died  I  prayed,  'O  God,  Thy  will  be 
don?  V    Since  Alice  went  I  never  pray." 


"Maybe  if  you  would  change  your 
residence  you  would  feel  better." 

"No,  I  must  stay  here  where  I  can  go 
to  see  them  every  day,  stay  here  imtil  I 
die  of  grief.  Yet  I've  never  wanted  for 
money,  Mrs.  Adams.  I've  had  all  the 
money  I  ever  wanted.  I  will  not  say  it 
hasn't  helped  me  to  bear  my  trials,  for 
it  has  helped  me;  yet  as  you  look  at 
your  sleeping  children  tonight,  be  glad 
and  happy." 

"Oh,  Mrs.  Darnsbrough,  I  wish  I 
could  help  you.  I  wish  that  I  could 
show  you  the  way.  I  can  only  pray  for 
you,  maybe  some  time  you  can  pray  for 
yourself." 

That  night,  after  the  children  were 
sleeping  and  the  minister  had  not  yet 
come  in  for  the  night,  Mrs.  Adams  sat 
by  the  fire  thinking  of  Mrs.  Darns- 
brough. "Oh,  if  her  warm  mother 
heart  could  be  turned  toward  some 
motherless  child — some  needy  child — 
could  she  but  forget  her  jewels  and  her 
Paris  gowns,  that  look;  so  ridiculous 
here;  could  she  be  less  selfish  in  her 
grief,  what  a  blessing  she  could  be !  If 
some  one  could  show  her  the  way!  I 
can't.  I  don't  know  how  to  do  it.  Oh, 
that  I  had  the  wisdom  of  Elphaz,  that  I 
might!" 

A  familiar  step  sounded  on  the  porch, 
and  with  a  glad  light  in  her  eyes,  the 
minister's  wife  sprang  to  her  feet.  As 
her  lips  touched  those  of  her  husband, 
it  was  no  formal  greeting.  As  she 
looked  into  the  manly  face  and  thought 
of  her  sleeping  children,  she  felt  glad 
and  thankful  to  be  the  wife  of  this  noble 
and  pure  man.  She  felt  glad  that  she 
could  work  by  his  side,  though  oft  dis- 
couraged, sick,  and  scarce  able  to  bear 
the  load,  all  too  heavy  for  her  frail 
strength. 

This  w^oman,  reared  in  luxury,  above 
the  average  woman  in  intelligence,  re- 
finement and  culture,  vivacious,  enter- 
taining, who  could  have  graced  a  pala- 
tial home,  was  content — ^yes,  more  than 
content — she  was  blissfully  happy. 


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The    Angels'    Song. 

By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


TT  HEY  came  by  the  path  of  the  golden 
moon 
In  the  midst  of  the  silent  night: 
The  lambs  and  the  sheep  they  were  fast 
asleep, 
No  prowHng  wolf  was  in  sight. 
The    shepherds    watched,    as    on    other 
nights 
They   had    watched   when   the  world 
was  still: 
Not    a    sound    was    heard    nor    a   bare 
branch  stirred 
On  the  crest  of  the  quiet  hill. 

They  came  by  the  path  of  the  golden 
moon 
From  the  heart  of  the  heaven  above ; 
They  came  in  a  throng  with  a  wonder- 
ful song 
Of  the  Lord's  unending  love. 
And  suddenly  all  the  world  awoke 

To  list  to  the  jubilant  strain: 
It  was  peace  on  earth,  it  was  joy  and 
mirth, 
Till  the  great  sky  rang  again. 

The  angels  sang  as  they  ever  sing, 

In  the  presence  of  God  Most  High, 
And    the    "Glory    to    God"    spread    all 
abroad 

In  a  flood  over  earth  and  sky. 
It  was  "peace  on  earth  and  to  men  good 
will," 

For  the  Child  who  is  born  this  day, 
Will  lead  the  race  to  the  dwelling-place, 

Where  the  saints  of  the  ages  stay. 

\\'hen    the    song    had    ceased    and    the 
throng  were  gone 

On  the  path  of  the  rifted  flame, 
7'o  the  heaven  above,  the  home  of  love, 

From  which  unto  earth  they  came ; 


The   shepherds   each   with   his   staff  in 
hand, 
Went  hurrying  fast  to  see 
What  heaven  had  sent,  what  heaven  had 
meant, 
In  their  souls  from  thence  to  be. 

And  lo !  they  came  to  a  lowly  shed, 

To  a  stable  small  and  dim, 
And    the    Child    was    there    with    His 
mother  fair. 
And  the  Star  shone  full  on  Him. 
The  shepherds  knelt  and  their  prayers 
they  said, 
And  their  faces  were  aglow ; 
That  simple  throng  who  had  heard  the 
song 
Of  the  angels  long  ago. 

They  came  by  the  path  of  the  golden 
moon, 
They  sang  in  the  silent  night; 
They    sang    of    peace,    and    that    wars 
should  cease, 
And  the  sorrowful  world  grow  bright. 
Alas !  there  are  years  when  the  promise 
waits. 
And  we  linger  and  pray  full  fain, 
That  our  Lord  may  bend  like  a  loving 
Friend, 
That  the  Prince  of  Peace  may  reign. 

For  wars  and  tumults  and  deadly  feud 

Are  yet  on  the  earth  today ; 
O,  Christ-child  come,  from  the  heavenly 
home, 

O,  come  in  the  world  to  stay! 
O,  gather  us  all  in  a  clasp  divine. 

Let  us  kneel  as  the  shepherds  knelt, 
Let  the  war-cry  cease,  let  the  chrism  of 
peace, 

Today  in  our  hearts  be  felt! 


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^^'M'OT  even  a  rabbit,  Mama?" 

^^      "No,  darUng." 

"But,  Mama,  don't  they  always  have 
animals  in  the  country?" 

"Yes,  in  some  parts  of  the  country, 
Algernon;  but  where  we  are  going, 
there  are  no  animals,"  answered  his 
mother.  i 

The  little  boy's  lips  quivered;  but  he 
repressed  the  tears  because  his  mother 
had  taught  him  that  it  was  unmanly  to 
cry  when  disappointed.  Mrs.  Scott  saw 
the  brave  effort  that  he  was  making, 
took  the  child  on  her  knee,  and  ex- 
plained the  situation  to  him. 

"Algernon,  you  are  seven  years  old 
now,  and  that  is  old  enough  to  under- 
stand what  Mama  is  going  to  tell  you. 
Last  summer,  you  know,  Papa  and  I 
went  abroad  and  left  you  at  home  alone 
with  the  nurse;  this  summer,  we  are 
going  to  take  you  with  us  to  the  coun- 
try, where  we  can  all  be  together.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Tracy  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hunter  are  going  with  us.  We  all  want 
rest  and  perfect  quiet,  so  we  do  not 
want  to  bei  annoyed  by  the  care  or  the 
noise  of  any  animals." 

One  little  sob  escaped  him.  The 
mother  nervously  flicked  imaginary 
dust  from  his  shoulders,  hitched  him  a 
little  higher  on  her  lap,  and  continued, 
determinedly:  "We  have  rented  three 
cottages  on  a  high  hill,  all  by  them- 
selves. I  think  there  is  an  old  barn 
somewhere  near  the  edge  of  the  woods ; 
but,  aside  from  that,  which  the  farmer 
will  not  rent,  the  whole  hill  will  be  ours. 
You  can  play  in  the  woods,  pick  flowers, 
play  in  a  big  pile  of  sand  that  the  build- 
ers left,  and  have  a  nice,  pleasant  sum- 
mer, dear,  without  any  animals — there 
will  be  butterflies  and  birds,  you  know. 


Now  kiss  Mama  and  say  you  will  not 
make  any  fuss  about  it." 

"It  will  be  better  than  being  left 
alone  with  nurse,  anyhow,"  grudgingly ; 
but,  in  a  moment,  his  face  rippled  with 
smiles.  He  kissed  his  mother  with  the 
generosity  of  nonnal  childhood,  and 
rushed  out  to  play.  Mrs.  Scott  realized 
that  a  little  child  had  been  obliged  to 
give  up  a  simple  pleasure  just  to  grat- 
ify the  whim  of  a  nervous  woman. 

After  a  week  of  preparation,  the 
three  city  homes  were  closed,  and  as 
many  families,  with  one  servant  each, 
left  for  their  quiet  hill  in  the  country. 

Mrs.  Scott  had  lost  her  nerves,  and 
arranged  to  sleep  with  all  the  windows 
of  their  cottage  open,  irrespective  of 
the  comfort  of  the  rest  of  the  family; 
Mrs.  Tracy  had  lost  her  complexion 
from  late  hours  and  rich  food,  and  de- 
cided to  lie  with  her  head  out  of  the 
window  to  catch  the  dew  on  her  face; 
Mrs.  Hunter  was  losing  a  lung,  and 
declared  that  she  would  sleep  on  the  bal- 
cony of  their  cottage,  as  there  was 
nothing  of  which  to  be  afraid.  These 
arrangements  were  made  amid  the  good- 
natured  banter  of  the  husbands,  who 
were  glad  to  be  allowed  to  sleep  in  the 
old-fashioned  way. 

All  went  well  the  first  night.  The  air 
was  glorious,  the  dew  was  heavy,  and 
the  quiet  was  wonderful — so  they  all 
agreed  the  next  morning,  as  they  prom- 
enaded their  respective  piazzas,  breath- 
ing deep  of  the  purest  air  they  thought 
they  had  ever  known,  awaiting  the  call 
to  breakfast.  The  cottages  were  so 
close  to  each  other,  that  they  did  not 
need  to  raise  their  voices  in  conversa- 
tion ;  this  made  the  quietude  even  more 
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The  grocery-boy  stopped  his  horse  at 
the  foot  of  the  hill,  and  walked  up  for 
his  orders.  There  was  .  only  the  one 
team  as  there  was  only  one  general 
store  in  the  village.  The  horse  was  so 
old  that  the  proprietor  warned  the  boy 
not  to  take  him  up  that  hill.  Mrs.  Scott 
was  not  even  to  be  annoyed  by  the  sight 
of  a  horse. 

The  second  night,  all  went  wdl,  and, 
in  the  morning,  they  declared  they  all 
began  to  feel  better.  The  grocery-boy 
came  early,  and,  during  the  remainder 
of  the  day,  there  was  not  a  sound  that 
they  did  not  make  themselves.  The 
women  thought  that  their  choice  of  a 
location  was  ideal;  the  men  wondered 
between  themselves  how  tong  their 
wives  would  like  it,  and  how  soon  the 
servants  would  give  notice.  They  were 
soon  to  know. 

Toward  sundown,  a  man  walked  out 
of  the  near-by  woods,  across  one  of  the 
yards,  and  on  down  the  hill.  A  little 
later,  one  of  the  village  women  strolled 
by,  ostensibly  picking  flowers,  but  cast- 
ing curious  side-glances  in  the  direction 
of  the  cottages.  They  did  not  see  her 
return,  but  thought  nothing  of  it  at  the 
time. 

During  the  third  night,  they  were  all 
wakened  by  a  hideous  noise.  No  one 
could  describe  it,  because  they  only  real- 
ized the  last  of  it.  They  compared 
notes  in  the  morning,  and  one  said  it 
sounded  like  a  cry  of  agony;  another, 
that  some  one  screamed  several  times; 
another  thought  it  might  have  been  the 
roar  of  a  wild  animal.  The  man  who 
came  out  of  the  woods  was  discussed; 
then,  the  woman  who  had  passed  the 
cottages — some  one  remembered  that 
they  had  not  seen  her  return.  Could 
the  man  have  come  back  and  murdered 
her?  Surely,  they  had  heard  of  mur- 
ders being  committed  in  the  woods! 

The  men  searched,  but  found  noth- 
ing worse  than  a  toad  and  a  chipmunk, 
they  told  their  wives;  the  woman's 
linen  handkerchief  they  said  nothing 
about. 

By  night,  the  excitement  had  worn 
off,  and,  of  course,  they  did  not  expect 
to    b^    disturbed    a^^ain.     The    wom^n, 


however,  were  still  nervous,  and  did  not 
go  to  sleep  as  early  as  usual. 

The  terrific  noise  was  heard  again. 
They  were  not  as  sound  asleep  as  they 
were  the  night  before,  so  they  heard  it 
more  distinctly;  it  sounded  like  a  suc- 
cession of  roars. 

Mrs,  Tracy  jerked  her  head  into  the 
room,  sprang  up,  and  dragged  the  nar- 
rowed end  of  her  cot  in,  banging  down 
the  window.  Mr.  Tracy  said  she  made 
more  noise  than  the  beast  itself.  Mrs. 
Hunter  rushed  in  from  the  piazza  and 
climbed  into  her  husband's  bed;  Mrs. 
Scott  had  her  windows  down  and 
securely  fastened  before  Mr.  Scott 
•realized  that  there  was  any  noise. 
They  did  not  dare  light  the  lamps  for 
fear  of  attracting  the  beast — if  beast  it 
was. 

They  lay  awake  and  whimpered  the 
rest  of  the  night.  Just  before  dawn, 
Mr.  Hunter  looked  out  of  the  window, 
to  satisfy  his  wife.  At  the  edge  of  the 
woods,  he  saw  two  fiery-looking  spots 
near  the  trunk  of  a  tree.  In  the  uncer- 
tain light,  he  thought  they  might  be  the 
eyes  of  a  crouching  animal.  He  raised 
the  window  and  called  softly  to  the 
other  men.  Mr.  Scott  said  in  muffled 
tones  that  if  was  rather  a  peculiar  light 
for  the  eyes  of  an  animal ;  but  prob- 
ably they  had  peculiar  animals  up  here 
— it  sounded  so,  anyway.  They  sug- 
gested that  they  dress,  take  their  revol- 
vers, and  go  over  to  investigate.  At 
first,  the  women  would  not  hear  of  such 
a  thing. 

They  all  collected  in  one  house, 
choosing  Mr.  Scott's,  as  Algernon  was 
still  sleeping.  The  servants,  whispering 
"wolf  and  "bear",  declared  that  they 
would  not  stay  in  that  God-forsaken 
country-place  another  night. 

Finally,  the  men  started  for  the 
woods,  amid  the  tearful  protests  of  their 
wives.  There  was  a  report;  then  an- 
other. The  listening,  trembling  women 
screamed;  the  men  over  in  the  woods 
laughed,  and  returned  to  the  house. 

"Well,  what  was  it?"  in  chorus. 

"The  phosphorescence  of  decaying 
wood."  said  Mr.  Tracy. 

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left.  The  women  decided  to  stay  one 
more  night  and  see  if  the  mystery  could 
be  explained. 

They  decided  to  have  luncheon  to- 
gether, and,  while  they  were  trying  to 
prepare  it,  unaided,  the  men  walked  to 
the  village,  determined  to  make  inquir- 
ies. Maybe  there  was  some  reason  why 
the  cottages  had  been  vacant  for  two 
seasons. 

They  happened  to  meet  the  man  who 
was  willing  to  tell  all  he  knew.  There 
had  been  a  suicide  in  one  of  the  cot- 
tages, three  years  before.  The  man 
had  been  an  artist.  It  was  whispered 
that  he  screamed  nights;  but  their  in- 
formant guessed  no  one  had  ever  really 
heard  it.  The  men  returned  to  lunch- 
eon with  the  determination  to  try  some 
other  part  of  the  country  for  "quiet"  if 
they  heard  the  noise  again.  They  did 
not  tell  their  wives  what  they  heard. 

That  night,  they  all  decided  to  stay 
up,  the  better  to  place  the  noise.  They 
felt,  intuitively,  that  they  had  not  heard 
the  last  of  it.  The  three  families  con- 
gregated on  one  porch  and  talked  in 
subdued  tones.  About  ten  o'clock,  they 
saw  some  one  with  a  lantern  moving 
slowly  up  the  hill.  As  he  came  nearer, 
they  distinguished  the  angular  form  of 
the  farmer,  their  landlord.  He  went 
toward  his  old  bam,  which  was  situated 
about  an  eighth  of  a  mile  from  the  cot- 
tages, calling  heartily,  "Evenin*,"  as  he 
went  by.  He  was  gone  about  fifteen 
minutes,  and,  when  he  returned,  Mr. 
Scott  asked  him  to  come  up  to  the 
piazza  and  have  a  chat. 


"This  is  the  first  time  we  have  seen 
you  smce  we  came  up  here",  said  Mr. 
Hunter. 

"So?"  said  the  farmer.  "Why,  I 
come  up  twice  a  day;  but  I  g^ess 
you're  all  a-bed,  mos'  generally,  when  I 
come  up  at  night,  fur  I  don't  see  no 
lights.  You  see,  it's  late  when  I  get 
th'  chores  done  'round  th'  farm;  but  I 
always  come  up  th'  las'  thing  before  I 
turn  in.  Th'  ol'  woman'll  tell  you  that 
I'm  reg'lar  as  clock-work  about  it. 
Then,  in  th'  mornin',  I  come  up  th'  back 
way,  through  th'  woods — it's  nigher,  an' 
I  don't  hev  so  much  time." 

The  city  people  looked  at  each 
other.  One  of  the  men  remarked  that 
there  seemed  to  bd  wild  animals  in  the 
woods. 

"O  no,"  replied  the  farmer,  "nuthin' 
worse  than  a  jack-rabbit  hereabouts." 

"But  we  heard  the  most  dreadful 
roars  twice,  and,  if  you  come  up  so 
often,  you  must  know  what  it  is,"  ven- 
tured Mr.  Hunter. 

The  old  man  suddenly  became  con- 
vulsed with  laughter.  "Why,  it  must 
ha'  been  ol'  Jeremiah !  He  do  get  lone- 
some sometimes!" 

"What  do  you  mean?  Is  there  some 
one  else  on  this  hill?  When  we  took 
the  cottages,  you  gave  us  to  under- 
stand^" 

The  farmer  doubled  up  like  a  jack- 
knife,  slapped  his  hand  on  his  knee, 
jerked  his  thumb  in  the  direction  of  the 
barn,  and  finally  chuckled,  "My  ol* 
donkey r 

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^^T*  ELLIN G,  not  so  much  what  she 
did,  as  what  she  was,  and  how 
she  became  what  she  was." 

This  is  the  preface  to  one  of  the 
most  interesting  books  of  the  year, 
**Harriet  Beecher  Stowe:  the  Story  of 
Her  Life."  It  is  by  her  son,  Charles 
Edward  Stowe,  and  her  grandson,  Ly- 
man Beecher  Stowe :  and  contains  some 
of  the  most  interesting  of  matter,  con- 
cerning one  who  may  safely  and  justly 
be  called  the  most  famous  authoress 
that  America  has  yet  produced. 

Everybody  knows  what  she  did:  that 
is,  everybody  who  reads  "the  literature 
of  America.  Not  to  know  *'Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin"  is  to  show  one's  self  not 
only  unknown,  but  unknowing.  Those 
who  speak  about  the  great  American 
novel  as  if  it  were  something  yet  to 
come,  do  not  realize  that  it  had  already 
been  written  years  ago.  In  it  the  great- 
est event  in  this  country  since  the  Revo- 
lution, was  portended,  although  not 
mentioned.  It  was  the  signal  for  the 
dividing  line  between  two  great  histori- 
cal epochs. 

So,  it  is  perfectly  safe  and  sane  to 
say  that  nearly  everybody  knows  what 
Mrs.  Stowe  did,  and  the  main  subject 
of  interest  concerning  her  now,  is  to 
tell  what  she  was. 

Lucky  for  us  it  is,  that  there  are  still 
living  one  of  her  own  sons,  and  one  of 
her  own  grandsons,  and  that  they  in 
consequence  of  their  personal  knowl- 
edge of  her  and  thQ  interest  with  which 
they  naturally  regard  her,  are  able  to 
tell  more  of  her  and  ar^  able  to  tell  it 
more  accurately  than  probably  any  one 
else  in  the  world  could  do.  Of  course 
there  may  be  some  partiality  expected 


from  the  close  relationship  that  existed 
between  them.  But  they  are  both  prac- 
ticed writers,  both  have  a  habit  of  anal- 
ysis, and  both,  being  members  of  the 
famous  Beecher  family,  have  naturally 
that  same  independence  of  thought,  that 
enabled  one  Beecher  to  say  what  he 
thought  about  another  Beecher,  no  mat- 
ter what  the  respect  and  love  might 
have  been  between  them. 

The  book  is  published  by  the  Hough- 
ton Mifflin  Company,  and  the  price  of 
it  is  $1.50.  It  will  pay  any  one  to  read 
it  in  its  entirety,  but  we  shall  take  the 
liberty  of  quoting  what  we  consider  one 
of  the  most  interesting  chapters  in  the 
book.  It  is  entitled  "On  the  Thresh- 
old", and  it  gives  an  idea  of  the  time 
when  the  mind  and  character  of  this 
remarkable  woman  were  in  perhaps  the 
most  formative  state. 

"on  the  threshold. 

"Harriet    was    between    twelve    and 
thirteen   when   she  came  to   Hartford, 
Connecticut,  to  attend  a  school  recently 
established    by    her    sister    Catherine. 
The    schoolroom    was   over   a   harness 
store,  which,  after  the  fashion  of  the 
day,  had  for  a  sign  two  white  horses. 
Great    was   the   surprise   and   pleasure 
with  which  Harriet  gazed  upon  this  tri- 
umph of  artistic  skill  as  it  then  appeared 
to  her.     One  of  the  young  men  who 
worked  in  the  harness  shop  in  the  rear 
of  the  store  had  a  fine  tenor  voice,  and 
often  delighted  her  by  singing  in  school 
hours : — 
"  *When  in  cold  oblivion's  shade, 
Beauty,  wealth,  and  power  are  laid. 
When  around  the  sculptured  shrine. 
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Where  immortal  spirits  reigti, 
There  shall  we  all  meet  again.' 

"The  expense  of  her  board  was  pro- 
vided for  by  a  kind  of  exchange  com- 
mon in  those  days.  Mr.  Isaac  D.  Bull, 
of  Hartford,  sent  a  daughter  to  Miss 
Pierce's  school  in  Litchfield,  who 
boarded  in  Doctor  Beecher's  family  in 
exchange  for  Harriet's  board  in  his 
own.  The  very  soul  of  neatness  and 
order  pervaded  the  whole  establishment, 
and  Mrs.  Stowe  has  said  that  her  own 
good,  refined,  particular  stepmother 
could  not  have  found  a  family  better 
suited  to  her  taste  had  she  searched 
the  whole  town.  Mr.  Bull,  *a  fine  vig- 
orous man  on  the  declining  slope  of 
life,  but  full  of  energy  and  kindness,' 
kept  a  large  wholesale  drug  store,  and 
his  oldest  son  had  established  a  retail 
drug  store  of  his  own  at  the  sign  of  the 
Good  Samaritan.  Harriet  frequently 
contemplated  with  reverence  a  large  pic- 
ture of  the  Good  Samaritan  relieving 
the  wounded  traveler,  which  formed  a 
conspicuous  part  of  this  sign. 

"Harriet  occupied  a  little  hall  bed- 
room which  looked  out  over  the  Con- 
necticut River.  Mrs.  Bull  took  her 
young  boarder  into  her  heart  as  well  as 
into  her  house.  If  Harriet  was  sick, 
nothing  could  exceed  her  watchful  care 
and  tender  nursing.  The  daughter,  Miss 
Mary  Ann  Bull,  was  a  beauty  of  local 
celebrity,  with  long  raven  curls  falling 
from  a  comb  on  the  top  of  her  head. 
She  had  a  rich  soprano  voice  and  was 
one  of  the  leading  singers  in  the  choir 
of  the  'Congregational  Church.  She 
received  frequent  and  impressive  calls 
from  a  solemn  young  man  who  lived 
next  door.  The  three  brothers  were 
also  singers,  and  the  family  circle  was 
often  enlivened  by  quartette-singing  and 
flute-playing. 

"In  Hartford  Harriet  found  what  she 
had  long  craved,  real  and  lasting  friend- 
ships with  girls  of  her  own  age.  One 
of  these  friends  was  Catherine  Cogs- 
well, a  daughter  of  Hartford's  leading 
physician.  The  other  was  Georgiana 
May.  Georgiana  had  two  younger  sis- 
ters and  a  number  of  brothers.  She  was 
older  and  more  sedate  than  Catherine, 


and  consequently  less  attractive  to  the 
other  girls,  but  the  friendship  that 
sprang  up  between  her  and  Harriet 
endured  undimmed  through  life.  Mrs. 
Stowe  has  described  Catherine  Cogs- 
well as  'one  of  the  most  sunny-tem- 
pered, amiable,,  lovable,  and  sprightly 
souls  she  had  ever  known.'  Her  com- 
panionship was  so  much  in  demand  that 
it  was  difficult  for  Harriet  to  see  much 
of  her.  Her  time  was  all  bespoken  by 
the  various  girls  who  wanted  to  walk  to 
or  from  school  with  her,  and  at  the  half- 
hour  recess  Harriet  was  only  one  of  the 
many  suppliants  at  her  shrine.  Yet 
among  the  many  claimants  there  was 
always  a  little  place  kept  here  and  there 
for  Hattie  Beecher.  Catherine  and  Geor- 
giana were  reading  Virgil  when  Harriet 
entered  the  school  and  began  the  study 
of  Latin,  but  by  the  end  of  the  first 
year  she  had  made  a  translation  of  Ovid 
into  verse  that  was  so  creditable  as  to 
be  read  at  the  final  exhibition  of  the 
school. 

"Harriet  was,  at  this  time,  much  in- 
terested in  poetry,  and  it  was  her  dream 
to'  be  a  poet.  Consequently,  she  began 
to  write  a  metrical  drama  which  she 
called  'Cleon.'  Cleon  was  a  Greek  lord 
residing  at  the  court  of  the  Emperor 
Nero,  who  after  much  searching,  doubt- 
ing, and  tribulation  became  a  convert 
to  Christianity.  This  theme  filled  her 
thoughts  sleeping  and  waking,  and  blank 
book  after  blank  book  bore  testimony 
to  hgr  industry,  till  finally  her  sister 
Catherine  pounced  upon  her  and  de- 
clared that  she  must  not  waste  her  time 
trying  to  write  poetry,  but  must  disci- 
pline her  mind  by  the  study  of  But- 
ler's 'Analogy.'  Young  as  she  was,  she 
was  set  to  instructing  a  class  of  girls 
as  old  as  herself  in  the  'Analogy';  a 
task  for  which  she  had  been  fitted  by 
listening  to  Mr.  Brace's  lectures  at  the 
Litchfield  school.  She  wrote  out  ab- 
stracts of  the  'Analogy',  and  mastered 
chapter  after  chapter  just  ahead  of  her 
pupils.  This  she  did  in  addition  to  her 
regular  work  as  a  pupil  in  the  school. 
From  then  on  she  became  both  pupil 
and  teacher. 

"At  this  period,  too,  she  read  for  tlie 


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first  time  Baxter*s  'Saints'  Everlasting 
Rest/  and  she  often  said  that  no  book 
ever  affected  her  more  powerfully.  As 
she  walked  the  pavements  she  wished 
that  they  might  sink  beneath  her,  and 
she  awake  in  heaven. 

"Among  her  manifold  duties  was  the 
instruction  of  her  jolly,  little,  round- 
faced  brother,  Henry  Ward.  One  time 
in  desperation  she  said,  *Now,  Henry, 
please  do  stop  your  fun  and  attend  to 
your  grammar  lesson!  Now,  Henry, 
listen!  His  is  the  possessive  pronoun. 
You  would  not  say  him  book;  you 
would  say  his  book.' 

"  'Why  can't  I  say  himbook,  sister 
Hattie?  I  say  hymnbook  every  Sun- 
day.' This  sally  quite  destroyed  the 
gravity  of  the  exasperated  little  teacher. 

"Shortly  after  going  to  Hartford 
Harriet  made  a  call  upon  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Hawes,  her  father's  friend,  and  her  spir- 
itual adviser,  which  left  an  enduring 
impression  upon  her  mind.  It  was  her 
father's  advice  that  she  join  the  church 
in  Hartford,  as  he  had  received  a  call 
to  Boston,  and  the  breaking  up  of  the 
Litchfield  home  was  imminent.  Accord- 
ingly, accompanied  by  her  two  school 
friends,  she  went  one  day  to  the  pas- 
tor's study  to  consult  him  concerning 
the  contemplated  step.  In  those  days 
much  stress  was  placed  on  religious 
experience,  and  more  especially  on  what 
was  termed  a  conviction  of  sin,  and  self- 
examination  was  carried  to  an  extreme 
calculated  to  drive  to  desperation  a  sen- 
sitive, high-strung  nature.  The  good 
man  listened  to  the  child's  simple  and 
modest  statement  of  her  Christian  expe- 
rience, and  then  with  an  awful  though 
kindly  solemnity  of  speech  and  manner, 
said,  'Harriet!  do  you  feel  that  if  the 
universe  should  be  destroyed  (alarming 
pause)  you  could  be  happy  with  God 
alone?'  After  struggling  in  vain  to  fix 
in  her  mind  the  meaning  of  the  sounds 
which  fell  on  her  ears  like  the  measured 
tolling  of  a  funeral  bell,  the  child  of 
fourteen  stammered  out,  'Yes,  sir!' 

"  'You  realize,  I  trust,  in  some  meas- 
ure, at  least,  the  deceitfulness  of  your 
own  heart,  and  that  in  punishment  for 
your  sins  God  might  justly  leave  you  to 


make  yourself  as  miserable  as  you  have 
made  yourself  sinful.' 

•'Having  thus  effectually,  and  to  his 
own  satisfaction,  fixed  the  child's  atten- 
tion on  the  morbid  and  over-sensitive 
workings  of  her  own  heart,  the  good, 
and  truly  kind-'hearted  man  dismissed 
her  with  a  fatherly  benediction.  He 
had  been  alarmed  at  her  simple  and  nat- 
ural way  of  entering  the  Kingdom.  It 
was  not  theologically  sound  to  make 
short  cuts  to  salvation.  The  child  went 
into  the  conference  full  of  peace  and 
joy,  and  she  came  out  full  of  distress 
and  misgivings,  but  the  good  Doctor 
had  done  his  duty  as  he  saw  it. 

"It  was  a  theological  age,  and  in  the 
Beecher  family  theology  was  the  su- 
preme interest.  It  fills  their  letters  as 
it  filled  their  lives.  Not  only  was  the 
age  theological,  but  transitional,  and 
characterized  by  intense  intellectual  ac- 
tivity, accompanied  by  emotional  excite- 
ment. The  winds  of  doctrine  were  let 
loose,  blowing  first  from  this  quarter 
and  then  from  that.  Doctor  Beecher 
spent  his  days  in  weathering  theologi- 
cal cyclones,  but  the  worst  of  all  arose 
in  his  own  family,  among  his  own  chil- 
dren. Great  as  were  his  intellectual 
powers,  he  was  no  match  for  his  daugh- 
ter Catherine  and  his  son  Edward, — the 
metaphysical  Titans  who  sprang  from 
his  own  loins.  It  was  almost  in  a  tone 
of  despair  that  this  theological  Samuel, 
who  had  hewn  so  many  heretical  Agags 
in  pieces  before  the  Lord,  wrote  con- 
cerning his  own  daughter:  'Catherine's 
letter  will  disclose  the  awfully  interest- 
ing state  of  her  mind.  .  .  .  You 
perceive  she  is  now  handling  edged 
tools  with  powerful  grasp.  ...  I 
have  at  times  been  at  my  wits'  end  to 
know  what  to  do.  ...  I  conclude 
that  nothing  safe  can  be  done,  but  to 
assert  ability  and  obligation  and  gtiilt 
upon  divine  authority,  throwing  in  at 
the  same  time  as  much  collateral  light 
from  reason  as  the  case  admits  of.' 
Catherine  was  at  this  time  breaking  out 
of  the  prison-house  of  the  traditional 
orthodoxy,  and  her  brother  Edward  was 
in  many  ways  in  s)mipathy  with  her, 
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Beecher  was  contending  with  might 
and  main  for  the  traditional  Calvinism, 
and  yet  in  his  zeal  for  its  defense  he 
often,  took  positions  that  surprised  and 
alarmed  his  brother  ministers,  seriously 
disturbed  their  dogmatic  slumbers,  and 
caused  them  grave  doubts  as  to  his 
orthodoxy.     So 

"  'Cannon  to  right  of  them, 
Cannon  to  left  of  them,    .    .    . 
Volley'd  and  thunder'd/ 

"Harriet,  keenly  alive  and  morbidly 
sensitive  to  the  spiritual  atmosphere  in 
which  she  was  compelled  to  live,  was 
driven  nearly  distracted  by  the  strife  of 
tongues  and  division  of  opinion  among 
those  to  whom  she  looked  for  counsel 
and  for  guidance. 

"The  events  of  family  history  that  led 
to  this  situation,  so  decisive  in  its  influ- 
ence on  Harriet's  mental  development 
and  subsequent  literary*  activity,  were  as 
follows :  When  Harriet  was  in  her  elev- 
enth year  her  sister  Catherine  had  be- 
come engaged  to  Professor  Alexander 
Fisher  of  Yale  College.  He  was  a 
young  man  of  brilliant  talents,  and  spec- 
ially noted  for  his  mathematical  genius 
As  an  undergraduate  at  Yale  he  distin- 
guished himself  by  original  and  valuable 
contributions  to  mathematical  astron- 
omy. Immediately  on  graduation  he 
was  appointed  a  professor  of  mathemat- 
ics, and  sent  abroad  by  his  alma  mater 
to  devote  some  time  to  study  and 
the  purchase  of  books  and  mathematical 
instruments.  The  ship  Albion,  on  which 
he  sailed,  was  wrecked  on  a  reef  off  the 
coast  of  Ireland.  Of  the  twentythree 
cabin  passengers  only  one  reached  the 
shore.  He  was  a  man  of  great  physical 
strength,  and  all  night  long  clung  to  the 
jagged  rocks  at  the  foot  of  the  cliff, 
against  which  the  sea  broke,  till  ropes 
were  lowered  down  from  above,  and  he 
was  drawn  up  limp  and  exhausted.  He 
often  told  of  the  calm  bravery  with 
which  Professor  Fisher  finally  met  his 
end. 

"Up  to  this  time  in  her  life  Cather- 
ine had  been  noted  for  the  gayety  of  her 
spirits  and  the  brilliancy  of  her  mind. 


An  inimitable  story-teller  and  a  great 
mimic,  it  seemed  her  aim  to  keep  every 
one  laughing.  Her  versatile  mind  and 
ready  wit  enabled  her  to  pass  brilliantly 
through  her  school  days  with  compara- 
tively little  mental  exertion,  and  before 
she  was  twentyone  she  had  become  a 
teacher  in  a  school  for  girls  in  New 
London,  Connecticut.  It  was  about  this 
time  that  she  met  Professor  Fisher,  and 
they  soon  became  engaged. 

"When  the  news  of  his  death  reached 
her,  to  the  crushing  of  earthly  hopes 
and  plans  was  added  an  agony  of  appre- 
hension for  his  soul.  He  had  never 
been  formally  converted ;  and  hence,  by 
the  teachings  of  the  times,  his  soul  as 
well  as  his  body  was  lost.  She  writes 
to  her  brother  Edward:  'It  is  not  so 
much  ruined  hopes  of  this  life,  it  is  dis- 
may and  apprehension  for  his  immortal 
spirit.  Oh,  Edward,  where  is  he  now? 
Are  the  noble  faculties  of  such  a  mind 
doomed  to  everlasting  woe?'  Anxious- 
ly, but  in  vain,  she  searched  his  letters 
and  journals  for  something  on  which 
she  might  build  a  hope  of  his  eter- 
nal welfare.  'Mournful  contemplations 
awakened  when  I  learned  more  of  the 
mental  exercises  of  him  I  mourned, 
whose  destiny  was  forever  fixed,  alas,  I 
know  not  where!  I  learned  from  his 
letters,  and  in  other  ways,  as  much  as  I 
could  have  learned  from  his  diary.  I 
found  that,  even  from  early  childhood, 
he  had  ever  been  uncommonly  correct 
and  conscientious,  so  that  his  parents 
and  family  could  scarcely  remember  of 
his  doing  anything  wrong,  so  far  as 
relates  to  outward  conduct;  and  year 
after  year,  with  persevering  and  unex- 
ampled effort,  he  sought  to  yield  that 
homage  of  the  heart  to  his  Maker  which 
was  required,  but  he  could  not ;  like  the 
friend  who  followed  his  steps  he  had  no 
strength.  ...  It  seemed  to  me  that 
my  lost  friend  had  done  all  that  unas- 
sisted human  strength  could  do;  and 
often  the  dreadful  thought  came  to  me 
that  all  was  in  vain,  and  that  he  was 
wailing  that  he  ever  had  been  bom  in 
that  dark  world  where  hope  never 
comes,  and  that  I  was  following  his 
steps  to  that  dreadful  scene.' 

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The  Music  of  The  World. 


By  Lucy  B.  Jerome. 


T  T  was  in  the  New  York  subway.  Not, 
however,  during  the  rush  hours, 
when  the  human  Zoo  seems  at  its  fierc- 
est, but  at  four  o'clock,  when  the  throngs 
of  gift-buyers  were  still  intent  on  crowd- 
ing the  aisles  of  the  down-town  shops, 
and  issuing  forth  burdened  with  the 
fruits  of  their  buying.  The  mitten  lay 
at  the  side  of  a  subway  seat  built  for 
four,  and  the  woman  who  glimpsed  it 
in  passing,  held  her  skirts  aside  that  she 
might  not  brush  it  farther  out  into  the 
aisle  where  it  would  be  trodden  under- 
foot, and  sank  smiling  into  her  seat. 

She  was  so  tired  in  fact  that  she  did 
not  think  of  the  mitten  again,  although 
it  would  have  been  most  like  her  to 
have  picked  it  up  and  held  it  carefully 
in  her  lap,  while  she  kept  an  anxious 
lookout  for  its  possible  owner.  It  was 
just  the  sort  of  a  mitten  to  invite 
thoughtfulness  and  care,  being  big,  and 
broad  and  generous,  and  one  could 
imagine  just  what  kind  of  a  hand-clasp 
would  come  from  the  warm,  cordial 
hand  it  covered.  It  was  of  knit  gray 
wool  with  a  white  banding  across  the 
wrist  that  denoted  an  attempt  at  con- 
trast and  beauty,  and  it  reached  clear 
down  the  arm  in  a  manner  that  spoke 
of  the  anxiety  of  some  one  that  that  par- 
ticular arm  should  be  kept  warm.  In 
some  mysterious  way  the  mitten  told 
all  these  facts  to  anyone  who  looked  at 
it;  so  when  the  woman  felt  a  sudden 
light  touch  on  her  shoulder  and  saw  it 
picked  up  hurriedly  and  dropped  into 
her  lap  by  a  man  who  had  come  clear 
from  the  rear  end  of  the  car  to  do  it, 
she   was   hardly   surprised.     But  there 


was  only  time  to  flash  a  smile  of  ac- 
knowledgment and  a  "Thank  you,  but 
it  isn't  mine,"  before  the  man  was  out 
of  the  door,  it  being  an  express-station, 
and  no  time  to  spare.  She  looked  at 
the  mitten  a  moment,  and  then  tossed 
it  smilingly  on  the  seat  opposite. 

At  Fiftyninth  street  a  man  got  in. 
He  walked  straight  over  to  the  vacant 
seat  and  sat  square  on  the  mitten  with- 
out observing  it.  He  pulled  out  a  news- 
paper and  buried  himself  from  view. 
At  the  next  station  a  woman  entered  the 
car.  She  saw  the  seat  at  the  man's  side 
and  took  it.  Two  stations  beyond  she 
left.  The  man,  changing  his  position  to 
get  a  better  light  on  his  paper,  suddenly 
saw  the  mitten.  He  had  six  Christmas 
bundles  in  his  possession,  and  he  was 
holding  some  of  them  while  others  were 
protruding  from  his  pockets,  making  it 
difficult  for  him  to  hurry.  But  he  dis- 
posed of  those  bundles  so  quickly,  by 
throwing  them  on  the  seat,  that  one 
wondered  how  he  hadj  done  it;  and  in 
a  second  he  was  speeding  after  the 
woman. 

"Madam,"  he  called:  "Madam! 
you've  left  your  mitten!" 

Breathless,  he  reached  the  door. 
Smiling,  the  woman  looked  back  at 
him.     "It  isn't  mine,  thank  you." 

The  man  looked  blank.  But  he  didn't 
throw  the  mitten  down.  It  wasn't  the 
kind  of  a  mitten  you  could  do  that  to. 
He  went  slowly  back  to  his  seat,  and 
when  he  sat  down  again,  he  placed  the 
mitten/  carefully  at  his  side. 

The  people  who  had  entered  the  train 
cross     and     grumpy     from     overmuch 


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Christmas  strain,  were  now  quite  a  dif- 
ferent set  of  beings.  The  pretty  girl 
who  had  eyes  like  pansies  and  who  sat 
just  across  from  the  man  with  the  mit- 
ten, was  smiling  radiantly ;  the  old  man 
who  faced  her,  let  his  hard  fighting- 
eyes  soften  as  they  rested  on  her  glow- 
ing face;  and  the  young  fellow  in  the 
seat  just  behind,  looked  as  if  he  wished 
he  had  a  share  in  the  business  of  the 
mitten.  But  everybody  was  smiling, 
and  an  unconscious  air  of  relaxation 
and  ease  and  Christmasy  good  cheer 
had  stolen  into  the  car.  So,  when  the 
German,  stout  and  beaming  with  his 
good  gray  eyes  a  little  clouded  by  peer- 
ing into  dark  corners  of  three  or  four 
cars,  walked  slowly  through  the  train, 
no  one  save  the  pansy-girl  and  the  young 
fellow  in  the  seat  just  behind,  saw  the 
gray  mitten  with  its  white  banding  that 
enveloped  his  hanging  left  hand. 

**Awful  nuisance,  this  Christmas  busi- 
ness", growled  the  heavy-set  man  laden 
with  packages,  plunging  in  and  sitting 
solidly  down  in  the  mitten-seat.  "Noth- 
ing but  a  regular  woman's  bargain-day. 
If  it  weren't  for  the  kiddies,  I'd  cut  it 
out  quick.  Hi,  there!  Look  at  this! 
Some  fellow's  got  the  cold  hand." 

The  young  fellow  in  the  seat  just  be- 
hind, looked  at  the  pansy-girl,  and  their 
glances  met.  They  had  both  seen  the 
man  with  the  gray  mitten  pass  down  the 
aisle,  and  as  plainly  as  words  their  eyes 
spoke:  "Isn't  that  the  man?"  said  the 
girl's,  while  the  young  fellow's  an- 
swered confidently ;  "Sure."  A  second's 
hesitation,  and  the  young  fellow  stood 
^  up  beckoning  to  the  man  across  the 
way.  "He's  down  there,"  he  said,  a 
trifle  vaguely ;  but  the  older  man  under- 
stood like  a  flash.  "Where?"  he  asked, 
quickly.  "I  think  in  the  corner.  Any- 
way, he's  got  the  mate." 

The  man  across  the  way  held  the 
mitten  up.  Everyone  looked  at  it.  The 
smile  ran  round  the  car  again.  Some 
way,  the  mitten  seemed  like  an  old 
friend.  The  German  hurried  forward, 
his  fat  good-natured  face  creased  with 
smiles.  "Ya ;  dot  iss  mine.  Ya,  dis  is 
de  broder."  He  held  up  his  other  hand. 
"I  dank  you  all,  mein  friends;   for  see 


you,  it  iss  not  goot  to  haf  but  one  of 
anydings  at  dis  time  of  Christ  kinder. 
And  Lotte,  mein  wife — she  vill  say; 
*Ya;  it  may  be  goot  to  haf  one  mittens, 
but  better  it  iss  to  haf  two.  Two  and 
two  make  de  music  of  dis  world.  Dat 
iss  not  only  true  of  mittens,  but  of 
hearts.  And  mein  heart  is  de  broder 
heart  for  de  Christmas  Day." 

He  settled  back  in  his  seat  with  an 
air  of  comfortable  contentment  good  to 
see:  while  even  the  mittens,  in  some 
incomprehensible  fashion,  seemed  to 
join  in  the  atmosphere  of  kindness  and 
good  will  and  to  clasp  hands  as  if  say- 
ing silently;  "Two  and  two  make  the 
music  of  the  world." 


Oorrecting  the  Records. 

A  STURDY  but  tactful  tradesman  in 
^^  one  of  the  Pennsylvania  coal-re- 
gions became  quite  proud  of  his  physical 
strength,  and  acquired  an  idea  that  few 
if  any  could  match  it.  One  evening  he 
sat  writing  long  after  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren had  gone  to  bed. 

"What  might  yez  be  writin'  so  long 
into  the  inthrails  of  the  night,  Pat?"  in- 
quired his  good  helpmeet,  from  the  next 
room. 

"I  am  doin'  a  very  interestin'  task, 
Kathleen",  was  the  reply.  "I  am  a 
whritin  down  the  names  of  all  the  peo- 
ple in  this  town  that  I  can  thrash." 

The  next  day  she  told  Mrs.  O'Hooli- 
gan,  and  she  told  her  husband.  He 
straightway  came  over  to  Pat's  shop, 
and  asked  him  if  he  had  been  rightly 
informed.  The  reply  was  in  the  affirm- 
ative. 

"Is  my  name  on  the  list?"  asked 
OTIooligan." 

"It  is  so",  replied  Pat. 

"I  kin  throw  yez  out  of  the  window 
and  back  again,"  exploded  the  other. 
"And  I  can  do  it  now." 

"Yez  can?"  inquired  Pat,  bristling  up. 

"I  can." 

"You're  sure?" 
1  am. 

"Oh  then,  if  that's  so,  HI  scratch 
your  name  off  the  list." 

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A    Miner's    /VLadrigal. 

By  Henry  Irvin  Nicholas. 


IT'S  the  pick  and  the  shovel, 

Twixt  mine  and  the  hovel, 
And  the  long-shift  night  and  the  long- 
shift  day. 
With  a  flaring  light  and  thoughts  of 

pay. 

With  stomachs  to  feed, 
And  hearts  that  bleed. 
While    muscles    grow    tense    and   the 

breath  comes  thick, 
And  the  heart  beats  time  to  the  shovel 
and  pick. 
And  the  breakers  crash. 
And  electrics  flash. 
And   it's   neither  here  and  it's  neither 

there, 
That  the  men  drop  dead  for  the  lack  of 
air: 
For  coal  must  be  mined. 
And  men  must  be  dined. 
And  the  hand  that  swings  the  shovel 

and  pick. 
Is  classed  along  with  the  dead  and  the 
quick. 
And  he  sings  his  song, 
His  fellows  among. 
In  his  dreams  he  sees  far  beyond  the 

seas, 
A  maid  on  her  knees  on  the  Tuscan  leas, 
The  flash  of  an  eye, 
'Neath  an  Alpine  sky. 
And  the  Tuscan  hills  with  their  bab- 
bling rills. 
And  the  wine  that  fills  up  the  cup  that 
thrills. 
His  thoughts  upon  the  billows  ride. 
'Mid  Tuscan  hills  he  sees  his  bride. 
And  he  tightens  his  grip  on  shovel  and 

pick. 
And  his  blows  come  quick  and  the  coal 
rains  thick, 

2JO 


As  the  din  keeps  time 

To  sweet  love's  own  rhyme. 

When  he  draws  his  pay  he's  a  tord  that 

day. 
And  he  stops  to  pray  in  a  wondrous 
way. 
Over  the  seas  so  far  away. 
He  sees  his  Tuscan  bride  today ! 


Then  he  hies  him  back,  for  the  times 

are  slack. 
The  twain  bears  a  sack — changed  from 
back  to  back. 
And  back  to  the  mine, 
With  ^  love  divine. 
While  his  hair  turns  gray  and  his  form 

is  bent, 
For  he's  bills  to  pay  for  bread  and  the 
rent ; 
And  red  lips  to  kiss 
In  his  humble  bliss. 
And  he's  prayers  to  pray  and  thought^? 

to  Uiink, 
As  he  toils  by  day  for  their  meat  and 
drink. 
It's  the  pick  and  the  shovel, 
'Twixt  the  mine  and  the  hovel, 
And  a  long-shift  night  and  a  long-shift 

day. 
And   a   flaring  light   and   thoughts   of 

pay, 

With  stomachs  to  feed. 
And  hearts  that  bleed — 
And  it's  neither  here  and   it's  neither 

there. 
That  the  man  drops  dead  for  the  lack 
of  air — 
For  men  must  be  dined. 
And  coal  must  be  mined. 

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Look   After  Your  Voice. 


TTHIS  paper  might  better  be  entitled 
*  "Voices  That  I  Have  Not  Heard", 
for  it  is  inspired  by  the  exhaustion 
attendant  upon  an  attempt  to  hear  cer- 
tain remarks  made  at  recent  large  meet- 
ings. Of  the  score  or  more  of  speakers, 
upon  these  occasions,  scarcely  half  a 
dozen  were  audible  to  more  than  a  tenth 
of  the  immense  audiences.  Half-a- 
dozen  more  were  fairly  acceptable,  while 
two  or  three  of  them  spoke  excellently. 
The  rest,  from  nasality,  monotony,  false 
intonations,  or  other  defects,  were  more 
or  less  positively  offensive. 

"How  much  precious  time  and 
money",  commented  one  bright  woman, 
"are  spent  .in  learning  tto  play  upon 
man-made  instruments,  while  compara- 
tively little  is  devoted  to  the  best  use  of 
that  most  wonderful  instrument,  the 
human  speaking-voice !" . 

The  opportunities  for  education  in 
music  are  very  great  in  almost  every 
city  of  our  land.  It  is  taught  in  public 
schools,  and,  by  choral  societies,  to  the 
masses.  Conservatories  are  numerous, 
and  so  are  "masters."  In  consequence, 
we  are  an  appreciative  and  critical  peo- 
ple, regarding  all  musical  performances. 
Nearly  everybody  feels  competent  to 
diagnose  the  case  of  a  tenor  who  is  "not 
quite  true" ;  a  soprano  who  is  "a  trifle 
off",  or  a  chorus  which  is  not  properly 
drilled.  An  orchestra  or  a  violinist 
whose  instruments  are  out  of  tune 
would  simply  not  be  tolerated.  Yet  in 
a  great  meeting  lately  held  in  Carnegie 
Hall,  scarcely  one  of  the  speakers  used 
his  voice  properly,  while  most  of  them 
could  not  be  heard  twenty  feet  away. 

The  public  mind  does  not  seem  to  be 
gwake  to  the  importance  of  the  posses- 


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sion  of  a  correct  and  agreeable  speak- 
ing-voice. Any  way  of  talking  our 
wonderful  mother-tongue,  seems  to.  be 
accepted  as  good  enough.  People  who 
would  frown  and  fume  if  called  upon  to 
listen  to  an  untuned  piano,  will  strain 
their  ears  in  patient  listening  to  a 
human  voice  at  its  worst.  They  will 
applaud  noble  sentiment,  but  they  seem 
to  have  no  way  of  showing  their  dis- 
gust at  defective  expression. 

It  is  a  singular  development  of  our 
modern  life,  that  the  women-speakers 
at  the  meetings  which  have  been  men- 
tioned, usually  succeeded  in  making 
themselves  heard,  while  the  men,  in 
spite  of  their  ibroad  shoulders  and 
apparently  fine  lung-power,  were  fre- 
quently ,  implored  to  speak  "louder, 
louder!"  After  each  of  these  adjura- 
tions they  would  make  a  violent  effort, 
and  would  become  audible — only  to  re- 
lapse— ^presently,  into  their  former  indis- 
tinct mumble.  No  one  would  forgive 
a  singer  who  should  give  us  a  few 
clear  notes,  and  then  run  down  the  scale 
in  a  series  of  confused  and  gradually 
dying  sounds.  And  yet,  at  one  of  these 
meetings,  a  grand  man,  whose  name  all 
Americans  revere,  spoke  in  just  that 
way,  and  much  that  a  so-called  "silver- 
tongued"  jurist  remarked,  had  to  be 
taken  on  trust  by  his  audience.  Neither 
they  nor  anybody  else  seems  to  consider 
that  it  is  an  insult  to  a  gathering  of 
intelligent,  or  any  other  sort  of  people, 
to  call  them  together  to  engage  in  vain 
and  tiresome  attempts  to  hear  what  is 
unbearable. 

A  man  or  woman  without  a  voice 
should  influence  the  world  solely 
through  his  life  and  pen.    If  he  or  she 

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aspires  to  speak  in  public,  he  or  she 
should  have  at  least  the  lungs  and 
breath  to  make  himself  or  herself  heard. 
One  can  forgive  a  speaker  amost  any 
fault  but  inandibleiiess. 

Still,  it  is  discreditable  that  an  as- 
pirant to  the  platform,  should  not  try 
to  make  his  power  of  speech  the  very 
best  of  which  his  physical  material  will 
admit.  The  singer  goes  through  years 
of  untiring  practice  in  foreign  lands  in 
order  to  achieve  perfection.  If  a  speak- 
er take  half-a-dozen  lessons  of  a  voice- 
teacher,  he  considers  himself  sufficiently 
equipped  for  the  career  of  an  orator. 
It  is  singular  that  speakers  do  not  per- 
ceive that  the  most  commonplace  obser- 
vations become  almost  eloquent  when 
they  are  properly  delivered,  in  a  full, 
round,  pleasing  voice;  while  the  most 
original  and  beautiful  sentiments  make 
little  impression  when  they  are  mum- 
bled or  improperly  inflected  in  the 
delivery. 

The  word  "elocution"  has  been 
brought  into  disrespect  by  a  pushing 
and  incompetent  class,  who  once  as- 
sumed it.  These  are  mostly  of  a  gen- 
eration which  is  now  passing  off  the 
stage.  The  newer  graduates  of  our 
"Schools  of  Expression"  are  usually  of 
a  better  type.  They  are  mostly  free 
from  affectations,  quick  to  catch  mean- 
ings, and  expert  in  extracting  the  meat 
from  a  sentence.  A  specialty  has  lately 
been  made  among  them,  in  training  the 
voice  for  ordinary  speaking — which  is  a 
very  different  thing  from  rendering 
blank  verse,  or  resounding  lyrics. 

Nothing  so  indicates  the  lady  or  the 
gentleman,  as  the  manner  in  which  one 
manages  the  voice.  Yet  parents  will 
send  children  to  dancing-schools  for 
years — pay  enormous  bills  for  violin-  or 
piano-teaching,  take  great  pains  with 
dress  and  apparel  and  carriage — and 
give  no  attention  whatever  to  the  speak- 
ing-voice of  those  children — that  infal- 
lible test  of  thorough  culture,  without 
which  all  the  rest  will  be  generally  con- 
sidered "a  mere  bluff."  Excellent  and 
refined  people  may  have  disagreeable 
notes  in  their  voices.  They  may  not  be 
fitted  to  speak  in  public,  and  they  may 


never  attempt  it — but  they  should  make 
serious  and  long-continued  attempts  to 
cure  their  faults  of  voice,  for  the  sake 
of  the  people  whom  they  meet  daily,  and 
upon  whom  they  exert  an  influence.  No- 
body can  afford  to  neglect  the  training 
of  the  voice,  and  those  in  public  life 
ought  to  be  filled  with  shame  and  con- 
fusion of  face,  at  the  way  in  which  they 
abuse  it. 


The  Brighter  Side. 

C  OME  ONE  committed  a  murder  last 
"^         tiight. 

But  hundreds  of  thousands  were  kind. 
For  the  wrong  that  is  done  is  forever 
in  sight. 

To  the  good  we  are  fearfully  Mind. 
Someone  deserted  his  children  today. 

But  millions  of  fathers  are  true; 
The  bad  deeds  are  not  such  a  fearful 
array 

Compared  to  the  good  that  men  do. 

Somebody  stole  from  his  brother  last 
night. 
But  millions  of  honest  men  live; 
Some  one  was  killed  in  a  murderous 
fight. 
But  thousands  were  glad  to  forgive 
Their  brothers   the   wrongs   that   were 
fancied  or  real; 
The  crimes  that  we  hear  of  each  day 
Compared  to  the  good  deeds  that  we 
could  reveal 
Make  not  such  a  fearful  array. 

I  would  answer  the  men  who  stand  up 
and  declare 
That  the  world  is  much  given  to  vice, 
That  the  sum  of  man's   crimes   every 
day,  everywhere 
Can't  compare  with  man's  sweet  sac- 
rifice. 
That   for   every   black    soul    there   are 
.thousands  pure  white, 
The  sum  of  the  sinners  is  few, 
And  I  know  in  my  heart  that  the  world 
is  all  right, 
When  I  think  of  the  good  that  men  do. 
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Book    Reviews. 


Poems     of     Fancy:     by    A.    Donald 
Douglas. 

It  is  seldom  that  so  young  an  author 
as  Mr.  Douglas  writes  poetry  of  as 
good  quality  as  are  the  contents  of  the 
above-named  book.  The  critic  looks  in 
vain  for  an  imperfect  measure;  or  a 
glaring\y  faulty  rhyme.  The  two  fol- 
lowing poems  give  some  idea  of  the 
height  of  Mr.  Douglas'  style,  the  height 
of  his  fancy,  and  the  depth  of  his  sen- 
timent : 

"l   BYDEi   MY   TYME." 

Though   sullen  clouds   are   rolling  o'er 
my  sky, 
And   tempests   shake    foundations   of 
my  world; 
Though    Heaven's    distant,    and    black 
Hell  is  nigh, 
And  on   my   sea  the  pirates'  flag  is 
furled : 

I  bide  my  time. 

What    though    fell    tyrants    wear    my 
golden  crown, 
My    innocence    be    trampled    on    by 
shame. 
What  though  my  highest  stars  yet  tum- 
ble down. 
And  those  unworthy  block  my  way  to 
fame? 

I  bide  my  time. 

Sweet  hope  ne'er  dies  within  the  human 
breast, 
While  truth  and  honor  are  not  empty 
name, 
And  time  will  come  when  virtue  shows 
its  crest: 
Till  then  I   wait — till  then  I   say   to 
Fame: 

"I  bide  my  time." 


MATER    MEA. 

My   mother   dear,   when   often    I   look 

back 
O'er  former  times'  sweet  blossoming, 

golden  field, 
When  I  was  young,  when  coming  Life's 

attack 
Was  hidden   me  by  your  protecting 

shield : 
I  see  a  face  enlightening  all  the  sky : 
'Tis  thine,  for  darkness  fled  when  thou 

wert  nigh. 

There  met  my  gaze  no  breakers'  jagged 
teeth. 
Nor  driving  storms  that  wreck  Life's 
foundering  ships. 
The    sky    was    ever    clear;    the  gentle 
breath 
Of  happiness   was   wafted   from   thy 
lips. 
Thy  tears  my  sea;    thy  sheltering  lap 

my  earth; 
Thy  smile  my  sun ;   thy  frown  the  tem- 
pest's birth. 
The  work  is  for  sale  at  book-stores 
and  by  its  publishers,  the  Every  Where 
Publishing  Company,  New  York. 

We  predict  that  if  Mr.  Douglas  per- 
severes in  his  art,  he  will  in  time  step 
into  the  front  rank  of  American  poets. 


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"The     Little     Lady     Bertha":     by 

Fanny  Alricks  Shugert. 

This  is  a  short  story  of  something 
like  one  hundred  and  twentyeight  pages, 
dealing  with  that  period  of  English  his- 
tory when  Christianity  was  first  intro- 
duced from  across  the  Channel. 

We  follow  the  little  Lady  Bertha 
from  the  time  that  her  mother,  the  good 
Queen  Ingoberge,  is  banished  from  the 
wicked   court   of   Paris  by  her   uns^ra- 

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cious  husband  Cherberg,  to  that  happy 
day  when  the  young  Princess  is  weddid 
to  the  pagan  Ethelbert,  King  of  Kent. 
Her  lovely  gentle  character  and  wisely- 
directed  influence  prepare  the  mind  of 
the  open-hearted  King  for  the  later  ar- 
guments and  preaching  of  Augustine, 
through  whose  forcible  teaching  he  is 
finally  converted  and  baptized. 

History  tells  us,  that  Ethelbert^  fourth 
King  of  thfe  Saxons,  ascended  the  throne 
in  560  and  was  married  to  Bertha,  or 
Bercta,  in  575.  He  gave  to  England 
in  600  the  earliest  Anglo-Saxon  code. 
Dying  in  616,  he  was  later  canonized, 
his  day  being  the  24th  of  February. 
Visitors  to  Canterbury  must  needs  gaze 
upon  the  small  parish  church  of  St. 
Martin's  with  as  much  reverence  as 
upon  the  magnificent  Cathedral,  for  here 
Ethelbert  was  baptized^ — the  first  Chris- 
tian king  in  England. 

Mrs.  Shugert's  story  is  simple  in  the 
extreme.  There  are  no  very  exciting 
incidents,  no  detailed  descriptions  of 
scenery  or  particular  episodes,  but  she 
manages  to  convey  to  us  a  sense  of  the 
new  spirit  that  gradually  pervaded  all 
life  as  Christianity  made  its  way  among 


the  people,  which  it  did  with  surprising 
ease.  Jacqueline,  the  faithful  nurse  of 
the  little  Lady  Bertha,  accompanies  her 
charge  from  France  to  England,  and  in 
turn  becomes  the  attendant  of  Bertha's 
little  ones.  One  of  these,  the  Princess 
Ethelburga,  repeats  her  mother's  expe- 
rience to  a  certain  degree,  becoming  the 
happy  bride  of  the  pagan  prince  Edwin, 
King  of  Northumbria,  who  in  timg  is 
converted  to  the  Christian  faith,  and 
whose  reign  was  a  most  beneficent  one. 

Although  her  sketches  of  life  and 
character  give  but  fleeting  glimpses  of 
the  customs  and  thought  of  the  time, 
the  author  is  accurate  as  to  historic 
facts.  A  hunting  excursion  and  the  ac- 
cidental straying  away  of  a  young  page 
give  opportunity  to  depict  the  influence 
of  the  new  faith  upon  the  common 
people. 

A  perusal  of  the  little  volume  will 
undoubtedly  influence  many  to  go  to 
their  histories  for  more  detailed  study. 
For  this  reason  Sunday  school  libraries 
may  find  it  of  value  to  place  it  on  their 
shelves.  It  is  published  by  the  Every 
Where  Publishing  Company,  New 
York. 


Eighteen   Thoughts. 


When  business  is  dull,  prepare  for  it 
when  it  is  not. 

^^ 

Better  a  hundred  clouds  in  your  sky, 
than  one  on  your  mind. 

Forgetting  is  not  the  losing  of  facts, 
but  the  mislaying  of  them. 

The  waste  that  haste  makes,  is  some- 
times the  best  of  economy. 
-« 
"Pride  goeth  before  a  fall":    and  a 
good  many  times  afterward. 
<^ 
A  breach  of  faith  injures  every  one 
whom  the  injured  one  knows. 
<^ 
One  sudden  curve  ox\  a  lon^  straight 


road  is  as  dangerous  as  twenty  on  a 
crooked  one. 

<^ 
Never  beat  a  man  at  his  own  game, 
if  you  want  to  beat  him  at  yours. 
^& 
If  the  rain  fell  only  on  the  just,  the 
unjust  would  drive  them  out  of  it. 
^& 
Courtesy  often  makes  its  way  where 
kindness  gets  blocked  on  the  road. 
<^ 
If  you  always  knew  exactly  what  you 
ate,  you  would  take  some  long  fasts. 
^& 
A    murder    is    sometimes    years    in 
bringing  itself  to  its  dread  conclusion. 
^^ 
When  you  have  made/%  hit",  take  ^ 


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still  firmer  hr  kl  of  the  hammer:    you'll  comes,  instead  of  gold,  the  very  worst 

need  it.  kind  of  dross. 

In    order    to    strike    most    efficiently  jf           ^eep  all 'your  good  thoughts 

while  the  iron  ,s  hot  ,  you  must  keep  ^^  yourself,  it   will   prevent   new  ones 

neatmg  it.                ^  ^^^^  entering  in. 

Cowardice    is   demoralized    prudence,  "^ 

and  is  often  real  bravery,  when  properly  One  of  the  meanest  men  I  ever  knew, 

reorganized.  boasted  that  he  was  sure  he  was  going 

^^  to    Heaven — thus   discouraging   several 

Silence,   when   speech  is   needed,  be-  against  taking  the  trip  themselves. 


L ' E n V o i. — A n   Allegory. 

By  a.  DoxVALd  Douglas. 
The  young  man  sctteth  forth  upon  the  sea  of  life. 

1. 

^^OW  are  we  called  to  sever  for  a  time 

Since  you  and  I  have  played  the  little  game, 
When  I  set  sail  unto  another  clime, 

And  there  besiege  the  golden  walls  of  fame. 

Will  then  the  angels  of  our  souls  proclaim 
That  we  cannot  forget   the  silver  past. 

Or  will  it  vanish  as  a  cloud  that  came 
Out  of  Regret,  but  fled  at  the  stern  blast 
Of  winds  at  whose  command  I  launch  my  bark  at  last? 

IL 

The  sea  would  not  appear  an  angry  god. 

If  soft  'twas  whispered  you  could  not  forc^et : 
I  would  not  hear  the  voice  below  the  flood, 

If  in  your  heart  you  held  me  sacred  yet. 

Fd  dare  the  menace  of  the  storm  Regret 
And  bid  defiance  to  the  deep's  hoarse  roar, 

Nor  would  I  heed  the  meshes  of  the  net 
Of  dark  Temptation,  luring  to  the  door 
Of  Blackness,  whence  you  ne'er  behold  the  sunlight  more. 

III. 

I  do  not  beg  a  crown  of  garish  gold, 

Nor  bid  you  bring  the  treasures  of  the  sea. 
No !    Let  the  warm  of  mem'ry  ne'er  fade  cold, 

And  in  its  lighted  fane  remember  me. 

Though  distance  veil  our  eyes,  our  souls  are  free 
To  wander  in  communion  hand  in  hand 

Until  the  storms  of  rough  adversity 
Have  calmed  to  laughing  ripples  on  life's  sand: 
Then  will  I  skim  the  sea  to  spring  on  your  fair  land ! 

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THE    LESSON    OF    A   TRAGEDY. 

QNE  of  the  worst  and  meanest  crimes 
that  ever  occurred  in  this  country, 
was  expiated  on  November  24,  at  7:19 
A.  M.,  in  Richmond,  Virginia.  By  the 
newer,  and,  some  think,  improved  meth- 
od of  killing  those  who  have  killed 
others,  a  young  man  twentysix  years  old 
was  quietly  seated  in  an  electric  chair, 
and,  in  a  few  seconds,  despatched  into 
the  Great  Beyond.  The  whole  train  of 
occurrences  has  been  such  a  shock  and 
a  grief  to  the  people  of  America  and 
other  countries,  that  it  is  entitled  to 
what  lessons  can  be  learned  from  it. 

First,  there  is  a  reasonable  margin  of 
doubt,  as  to  whether  electrocution  is  a 
'*painless"  death.  If  the  newer  method 
of  killing  was  intended  as  a  bit  of  kind- 
ness, there  is  still  a  mystery  as  to 
whether  the  goods  were  delivered.  No 
one  has  come  back  to  tell  us  what  were 
the  sensations,  or  if  there  was  any  at  all. 
Men  one-tenth  or  nine-tenths  hanged, 
have  said  that  a  second  or  two  after  the 
first  clench  of  the  rope  around  their 
necks,  they  lost  all  consciousness.  How 
far  sensibility  goes  along  with  three 
successive  electric  shocks,  of  highest 
voltage,  through  the  body,  must  be  left 
to  conjecture.  Some  believe  that  there 
is  an  eternity  of  suffering  in  the  f^w 
seconds  before  the  convict  is  pronounced 
dead. 

Second,  is  not  a  murderer,  however 
brutal  may  have  been  the  fatal  act,  en- 
entitled  to  a  painless  death?  Would 
any  reasonable  fellow-mortal  wish  him 
more  suffering  than  he  already  has  en- 
dured, with  the  loss  of  his  life  as  a 
finale?  Ought  not  the  tediousness  of 
the  trial,  the  suspenses  of  delay,  the 
hardships,  mental  and  physical,  of  jail- 


life,  to  be  counted  in?  Should  not  a 
fatal  and  pangless  anaesthetic  be  made 
to  serve?  Ought  he  not  to  be  thrown 
into  a  dreamless  sleep  with  no  earthly 
awakening?  Would  you  electrocute  an 
objectionable  dumb  animal,  rather  than 
give  him  chloroform?  Let  humanita- 
rians see  if  they  can  get  a  little  nearer 
to  this  question. 

But  it  is  said,  by  one  of  the  tele- 
graphic items,  that  thej  physicians  gave 
Beattie  "a  soothing  draught",  just  be- 
fore he  went  into  the.  death-room. 
Maybe  that  was  the  reason  he  faced  the 
horror,  with  apparent  coolness  and  brav- 
ery. Maybe  he  was  half-stupefied,  as 
are  wild  animals  in  captivity  when  show- 
people  do  ''dangerous"  "stunts"  with 
them.  Let  us  hope  that  this  was  the 
case:  and  that  the  process  of  capita! 
punishment  can  be  performed,  in  the 
case  of  people  with  or  without  means, 
under  the  influence  of  anaesthetics. 

Third,  Was  Beattie's  defense  "up  to 
date"?  If  the  case  had  been  tried  in 
some  cities — ^notably  if  in  New  York — 
would  not  the  question  of  insanity  have 
been  urged?  Would  it  not  have  been 
as  strong  and  plausible  as  that  of  Thaw, 
who  escaped  from  a  prisoner's  dock 
into  the  wards  of  an  asylum,  and  is  even 
now,  it  is  said,  studying  law  so  it  will 
teach  him  how  to  get  free  ? 

Would  a  man  with  a  correctly-bal- 
anced mind  have  hired  some  half-de- 
mented relative  to  purchase  for  him  a 
shot-gun  with  which  to  kill  his  wife, 
and  then  bring  it  home  with  him  along- 
with  the  dead  body,  or  leave  it  where 
it  could  be  found?  Would  he  suppose 
for  a  moment  that  he  could  make  people 
believe  that  the  deed  was  done  by  some 
waylayer,  out  of  resentment  because  he 


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was  taking  too  much  of  the  road  with 
his  automobile?  Or  after  having  com- 
mitted the  crime,  would  he  have  said  to 
this  relative,  ''I'd  give  a  million  dollars 
not  to  have  done  it"?  Would  he  have 
been  stolid  and  smiling  amid  all  the  ter- 
rible accusations  flashing  and  glooming 
around  him? — It  might  seem  to  one 
prejudiced  at  all  in  his  favor,  that  a  case 
of  possible  insanity  would  have  been 
alleged  w-ith  enough  strength  to  create 
at  least  a  tentative  doubt  in  the  minds 
of  the  jury — enough  so  as  to  produce  a 
disagreement,  and  perhaps  obtain  future 
delays. 

"All  that  a  man  hath,  he  will  give  for 
his  life" — or  his  children's  life:  and 
while  the  above-suggested  defense 
might  have  been  a  poor  and  unsuccess- 
ful one,  it  is  strange  that  it  was  not 
tried — even  if  the  prisoner's  counsel,  in 
order  to  do  so,  was  obliged  to  admit  his 
having  actually  done  the  deed. 

Fourth,  the  whole  greusome  affair 
should  be  a  lesson — a  whole  text-book 
— ^to  the  thousands  of  parents  who  love 
their  children  better  than  they  do  those 
children's  best  interests.  The  father  of 
the  self-confessed  murderer,  who  seems 
to  have  had  a  talent  for  making  money, 
evidently  lavished  it  on  his  son  and 
namesake,  and  thus  implanted  in  him  a 
love — not  necessarily  for  the  money, 
but  for  the  pleasures  that  it  procured. 
The  love  for  one's  child  comes  very 
near  being,  actually,  a  love  for  one's  self ; 
and  is,  to  a  great  degree,  selfish.  This 
father  is  now  paying  the  penalty  of  this 
selfishness,  though  no  one  can  help  pity- 
ing him  in  his  crushed  and  abject  posi- 
tion. Out  of  business,  with  health  im- 
paired, a  cloud  of  dishonor  hanging 
above  his  home  and  those  whom  he 
loves  that  remain  to  him — ^his  lot  is  in- 
deed a  hard  one. 

But  no  one  who  gives  his  children  a 
free  rein  and  lets  them  do  as  they 
choose,  knows  which  one  may  or  may 
not  ruin  the  happiness  of  his  life. 


THAT     LITTLE     WHITE-HAIRED     SCOTCH 
DEVIL." 

pROBABLY  none  of  the  numerous 
libraries  that  Andrew  Carnegie  has 
presented  to  the  more  or  less  grateful 
recipients  of  his  literary  bounty,  has 
contained  anything  more  redolent  of 
sound  sense,  than  an  after-dinner  speech 
that  he  delivered  before  a  Sunday-schooi 
class.  It  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  the 
older  he  grows,  the  better  speeches  he 
makes. 

He  is  especially  amusing  and  instruc- 
tive when  he  drops  into  reminiscence, 
and  recounts  the  incidents  of  boyhood 
days.  His  self-reliance  and  dogged  de- 
termination "bob  up  serenely"  to  quote 
from  an  old  song,  from  the  very  first — 
his  methods  being  a  conspicuous  con- 
trast to  those  of  the  average  boy  of  to- 
day. When  he  received  $2.50  per  week 
(which  his  "parents  thought  too  much") 
he  worked  hard  to  make  up  for  the  ex- 
cess in  the  stupendous  amount.  Many 
boys  of  today  (and  of  that  day)  would 
think  it  too  little,  and  would  work  a  little 
less,  if  they  could  manage  it,  so  as  to 
bring  matters  dow^n  to  what  they  con- 
sidered even — if  they  considered.  When 
his  wage  was  raised  to  $5.00  "per",  he 
ran  all  the  way  home  to  put  the  first 
payment  in  the  hands  of  his  mother. 

He  soon  became  a  telegraph-operator, 
and  once  when  the  train-dispatcher  was 
out  for  the  day,  and  there  was  an  acci- 
dent somewhere  on  the  line,  he  quietly 
took  his  place,  and  assumed  the  respon- 
sibility of  the  w^Iiole  situation.  "That 
little  white-haired  Scotch  devil  has  been 
running  the  trains  all  day",  was  the  re- 
mark made  concerning  him,  Avhen  the 
regular  dispatcher  came  back. 

Very  few  boys  of  today  or  of  any 
day,  would  or  could  have  done  that — 
although  more  could,  had  they  been 
trained  to  the  self-reliance  necessary. 
There  was  a  good  deal  went  before  that 
achievement,  that  the  other  boys  did  not 
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possess,  and  which  perhaps  they  were 
not  naturally  qualified  to  possess. 

Every  boy  in  the  world,  probably, 
would  like  to  be  a  success,  if  he  could 
do  so  without  taking  the  trouble:  and 
once  in  a  while  there  is  one  that  is  will- 
ing" and  able  to  take  the  trouble. 

There  are  a  good  many  roads  to  suc- 
cess, but  they  are  built,  substantially,  of 
the  same  material.  Whoever  wants  to 
"get  there",  should  take  one  of  them: 
whoever  wants  to  be  a  failure,  can  lie 
under  the  trees  in  the  meadows. 


THE  LOVE-MADONNA. 

[see    FRONTISPIECE.] 

TT/HAT  a  study  would  be  the  hun- 
dreds and  thousands  of  Madon- 
nas that  have  been  painted!  Humble, 
indeed,  is  the  artist  that  has  not  essayed 
this  glorious  task,  at  one  time  and  an- 
other. A  lifetime  could  be  spent  in 
examining  the  Madonnas  of  the  world, 
classifying  them,  and  studying  the  art- 
ists that  produced  them.  Of  course, 
many  would  be  unworthy  of  notice ;  for 
it  is  easy  enough  for  any  one  who  can 
handle  a  brusli  and  mix  paints,  to  por- 
tray a  beautiful  woman  gazing  upon  a 
beautiful  child,  and  call  the  picture  a 
Madonna. 

But  many  who  have  undertaken  the 
subject  have  made,  not  only  an  ideal 
picture  of  Mary  and  her  divine  child, 
but  also  one  of  their  own  minds  and 
hearts.  Some  of  them  have  worshipped 
while  they  painted. 

The  first  Madonna  artists  seem  to 
have  taken  a  purely  religious  view  of 
the  subject.  The  mother  of  Christ  was 
depicted  mainly  as  a  witness  to  the  fact 
that  the  child  was  divine.  In  these  pic- 
tures, an  effort  was  made  to  fill  the  face 
with  majesty,  rather  than  love. 

There  is  a  legend  that  St.  Luke  was 
the  first  painter  of  a  picture  of  the 
Madonna.  If  the  accounts  are  to  be 
credited,  Luke  was  the  most  versatile  of 


all  the  primal  evangelists.  During  his 
eighty  four  years,  he  was  an  author 
whose  w^orks  were  to  be  read  forever,  a 
physician  who  w'ill  always  be  remem- 
bered and  mentioned  as  such,  and  after 
whom  hospitals  are  named  to  this  day, 
and,  last,  but  not  least,  tlie  initiator  of 
the  Madoinia  school  of  j)ictures.  If  this 
last  is  true,  he  set  the  fashion  for  the 
style  of  Madonna  alK)ve-mentioned. 
This  is  well  descri])cd  by  Estclle  Hurll, 
as  giving  the  Virgin  '*a  meagre,  ascetic 
countenance,  large,  ill-shaped  eyes,  and 
an  almost  peevish  expression ;  her  head 
draped  in  a  heavy  dark  blue  veil,  falling 
in  stiff  folds."  But  she  adds,  very 
truly :  "Unattractive  as  such  pictures  are 
to  us  from  an  artistic  standpoint,  they 
inspire  us  with  respect,  if  not  with  rev- 
erence. Once  objects  of  mingled  devo- 
tion and  admiration,  they  are  still  re- 
garded with  awe  by  many  who  can  no 
longer  admire." 

If  Luke  was  really  the  originator  of 
this  style  of  Madonna,  we  can  imagine 
that  we  trace  in  it  some  of  the  same 
spirit  toward  woman  as  woman,  that 
seems  to  have  actuated  his  great  co- 
laborer,  St.  Paul. 

In  the  fifteenth  century,  a  more 
human  element  crept  into  the  artist- 
treatment  of  the  Ma(k)nna.  It  was  in- 
augurated by  Pcrugino,  who  seems  to 
have  been  given  the  idea  that  the 
mother  worshipped  the  child,  as  it  lay  in 
her  arms.  The  Virgin  thus  becomes 
more  of  a  mother:  and  is  full  of  adora- 
'tion  for  the  babe  of  whose  motherhood 
she  has  been  given  the  honor  and  glory. 

But,  perhaps,  to  Raphael,  most  bril- 
liant artist  of  the  sixteenth  century,  is 
to  be  given  the  credit  of  first  glorifying 
in  pictures  of  the  Madonna,  a  true  and 
complete  idea  of  mother-love.  He  was 
the  greatest  interpreter  of  that  mysteri- 
ous, heaven-given  relationship  between 
mother  and  child.  He  dared  to  break 
the  conventionalities,  and  let  the  Virgin 
press  her  lips  to  the  cheek  of  the  divine 
babe,  or  to<  embrace  it  in  motherly  pro- 

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lection.  From  that  time  on,  the  mother 
of  Christ  is  allowed  by  the  succeeding 
artists  to  taste  the  full  and  sweet  de- 
lights of  motherhood,  before  yielding 
him  up  to  the  service  of  earth  and  the 
ministry  of  heaven.  She  w^atches  him 
tenderly  in  his  sleep;  she  cuddles  him 
in  her  arms ;  she  presses  him  to  her 
bosom.  She  shows  in  a  thousand  ways, 
that  her  mission  is  not  only  to  be  the 
mother  of  Christ,  but  to  teach  true 
motherhood  to  all  the  mothers  of  men. 

In  the  portrait-Madonna  by  Gabriel 
Max,  which  we  use  this  month  as  our 
frontispiece,  we  have  one  of  the  most 
refreshing  pictures  upon  the  subject — 
powerful  and  instructive  in  its  fine  sim- 
plicity. It  is  easy  to  see  of  what  the 
mother  is  thinking,  as  she  firmly  presses 
the  babe's  head  to  her  tender  cheek. 
The  thought  of  what  this  loved  and 
lovely  child  must  do  and  dare,  shows 
itself  in  her  brooding  eyes. 

The  babe,  apparently,  while  clinging 
to  and  rejoicing  in  the  protection  of  its 
mother,  is  already  looking  out  into  the 
great,  wide,  wicked  world,  for  which  it 
must  do  and  from  which  it  must  suffer 
so  much. 


OF   THE  BURNING   OF   BOOKS. 

"W^ITH  plenty  of  shelf-room  and  shel- 
tering-room,  with  plenty  of  peo- 
ple who  can  be  hired  cheaply  to  take 
care  of  books,  with  plenty  of  authors  to 
whom  they  may  be  invaluable  for  refer- 
ence, a  few  smart  literary  "Aleks"  are 
agitating  or  trying  to  agitate  the  ques- 
tion, "Why  not  burn  up  the  more  ob- 
scure and  less-read  books,  and  make 
room  for  new  ones?" 

A  more  foolish  idea  was  never  sent 
out  from  the  addled  brain  of  a  self-con- 
ceited literary  jackanapes.  How  does 
he  know^  what  are  the  really  valuable 
books?  How  is  he  to  decide  with  any 
certainty,  what  annals,  what  illustra- 
tions, what  sentiments,  the  world  is  to 


need,  in  coming  generations?  Even  if 
he  have  judgment  enough  to  follow  any- 
thing else  than  his  own  impulses  and 
prejudices,  he  may  be  too  near  in  the 
matter  of  time,  to  the  authors  whom  he 
condemns,  to  realize  their  true  worth 
or  worthlessness. 

Cowper  was  a  poor  neglected  author 
while  Hayley  was  poet  laureate  of  Eng- 
land: and  the  latter's  books  were  pub- 
lished in  rich  binding,  while  those  of 
the  poet  whom  he  so  benignly  patron- 
ized, had  hard  work  to  get  published  at 
all.  But  who  reads  Hayley  now,  and 
who  does  not  read  Cowper?  If  the 
books  of  each  were  to  be  placed  side  by 
side,  with  a  view  of  burning  one  set  of 
them,  which  would  be  sacrificed? 

And  yet  Hayley  is  necessary  to  the 
student  who  would  learn  the  tendencies 
of  his  times,  and  tha  literary  character 
of  his  age. 

Supposing  some  one  who  had  power 
to  do  the  silly  deed,  should  have  de- 
stroyed the  obscure  novelists  from 
whom  Shakespeare  drew  his  plots? 
Suppose  some  one  had  decreed  that 
Epictetus  was  "no  good"  ?  Suppose  that 
the  angry  fellow-villagers  who  stripped 
their  public  library  of  Cooper's  works, 
and  burned  them  in  the  public  square, 
had  been  able  to  sweep  the  earth  clean 
of  his  name  and  his  books? — They 
would  have  done  it  if  they  could.  Then 
his  stories— both  the  superior  ones,  and 
the  inferior  ones — the  world  would 
have  lost:  and  it  would  have  been  an 
irreparable  disaster  to  the  literature  of 
America. 

There  have  very  few  books  been  given 
the  honor  of  type,  but  carry  a  certain 
amount  of  instruction  with  them — for 
the  benefit  of  those  who  seek  for  it. 
How  much  better  would  it  Jiave  been 
for  the  world,  had  not  the  vengeance  of 
conquerors  been  turned  upon  libraries 
as  well  as  arsenals — upon  not  only 
human  beings,  but  the  books  that  they 
loved ! 


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Church  GrumblingB. 

IT  seems  to  me,  as  if  we  went  to  ex- 
tremes, in  our  treatment  of  pastors. 
An  old  clergyman,  unless  he  have  a 
force  of  intellect  and  energy  that  makes 
its  way  in  spite  of  everything,  is  often 
neglected,  unheeded,  and  finally  drop- 
ped; while  a  >^ung,  fresh  fellow,  just 
out  of  school,  is  petted,  and,  perhaps, 
spoiled. 

There  are  few  geniuses  in  the  pulpit, 
like  Beecher,  and  Talmage,  and  Storrs, 
and  Cuyler, — all  of  whom  kept  their 
supremacy  until  death  took  them  away. 
To  be  sure,  Beecher  was  in  the  pulpit 
the  Sunday  before  he  died;  and  within 
a  fortnight  was  met  by  a  friend  on  his 
way  to  Gloucester,  Mass.,  traveling 
through  a  snowstorm,  to  deliver  a  lec- 
ture there.  Cuyler  was  in  demand,  even 
after  he  abdicated  his  pulpit,  in  all  sorts 
of  churches,  wherever  he  would  go. 
Storrs  died  in  harness — and  a  gold- 
plated  one.  Talmage,  although  he  had 
no  well-established  church  at  time  of  his 
death,  was  honored  as  one  of  the  nota- 
ble residents  of  Washington,  and  in 
demand  everywhere.  But  these  men 
were  ultra-famous,  and  exceptions  to 
the  general  rule. 

The  average  old  pastor,  cannot  preach 
as  well  as  he  could  when  younger,  and 
his  audiences  are  liable  to  dwindle  in 
size,  and  lag  in  attention.  He  is  perhaps 
made  to  feel,  if  at  all  sensitive,  that 
some  one  else  is,  overtly  or  covertly, 
slated  for  his  position.  He  knows  that 
he  never  was  what  could  be  called  bril- 
liant, and  while  he  preaches  what  he  be- 
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the  "catchy"  phrasing  of  the  times.  He 
constantly  loses  hold  on  his  church,  and, 
probably,  in  a  few  years  is  relegated  to 
a  smaller  one,  or  to  private  life. 

In  his  place,  comes  a  young  fellow, 
full  of  vim  and  self-assertion.  He  may 
know  a  lot,  or,  perhaps,  a  very  little: 
but  it  is  assumed  to  be  the  former.  He 
easily  makes  friends  with  everybody; 
he  is  the  life  of  the  social,  the  inter- 
locutor of  the  prayer-meeting,  the  joy 
of  the  wedding,  the  consoler  at  the  fu- 
neral, and  a  welcome  factor  in  private 
parties. 

Of  course,  he  is  petted  galore.  H 
single,  the  girls  weave  their  most  fasci- 
nating webs  for  him,  and  do  their  very 
best  to  catch  him — regardless  of  theol- 
ogy* or  anything  mentally  or  spiritually 
connected  with  it.  If  he  be  already  a 
married  man,  his  wife  is  made  Presi- 
dent of  everything  she  will  endure,  and 
the  baby  is  mothered  by  all  the  women 
in  the  church.  He  is  "the  thing" — per- 
haps mainly  because  he  is  a  "young 
thing." 

Whether  he  draws  people  any  nearer 
td  God,  is  another  question:  maybe  he 
does,  and  maybe  he  does  not.  But  there 
is  no  doubt  that  he  is  "popular",  and 
for  a  time  pleases  the  majority  of  the 
church.  He  is  also  liable  to  get  spoiled, 
and  somewhat  conceited. 

The  recent  lamentable  happening  in 
regard  to  the  misconduct  of  a  clergyman 
in;  Massachusetts,  in  which  a  charge  of 
murder  is  involved,  should  be  a  warning 
to  churches,  not  to  choose  a  pastor  until 
they  have  thoroughly  investigated  his 
former  record.  Some  of  them  take  this 
precaution:    they    have .  written,    tele- 

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graphed,  and  telephoned  all  over  the 
country,  to  settle  the  matter  of  his  per- 
fect desirability.  There  is  something 
required,  of  the  shepherd  of  a  flock 
more  than  mere  personal  winsomeness. 
Edward  H.  Stevens. 


Hymn-Tampering. 

PLAGIARISM,  pure  and  simple,  in 
the  field  of  literature,  has  been  no 
uncommon  thing.  The  kindest  construc- 
tion that  we  may  place  upon  the  acts  of 
some  men,  is  that  they  know  not  where 
their  thought  ends  and  the  other  man's 
begins.  Indeed,  we  must  be  pardoned 
if  we  wonder  whether  their  minds  had 
done  any  of  the  work. 

To  the  mind  of  the  writer  has  been 
suggested  another  class  of  men,  that 
deal  with  the  ideas  of  others.  Largely 
do  they  figure  in  the  annals  of  Hymn- 
ology.  These  men  knew,  or  at  least 
thought  they  knew,  what  they  were 
about. 

Upon  analysis,  we  find  that  their 
reasons  for  tampering  with  the  thoughts 
of  other  minds,  are  various:  that  a 
truer  theology  might  be  sung;  that  a 
greater  beauty  of  expression  might  be 
given ;  that  an  exquisite  phrase  in  one 
hymn  might  find  the  right  setting  in 
that  of  another.  And  so  on  ad  infini- 
tum. Nowhere  in  the  realm  of  thought 
have  the  ideas  of  men  been  so  changed 
and  interchanged:  sometimes  with,  and 
ofttimes,  it  is  to  be  feared,  without,  the 
consent  of  the  original  writers. 

Not  long  since,  a  well  known  author 
had  sung  to  her  one  of  her  supposed 
compositions.  When  the  hymn  was 
ended  the  author  said :  "That  is  not  my 
hymn.  Some  of  the  thoughts  are  mine, 
but  the  hymn  is  changed." 

Thomas  Moore's  beautiful  hymn  as  it 
was  originally  written,  is  as  follows: 

Come,    ye    disconsolate,    where'er    you 

languish 
Come,  at  the  shrine  of  God  fervently 

kneel ; 
Here  bring  your  wounded  hearts,  here 

tell  your  anguish — 


Eartli    has    no   sorrow   that   Heaven 
cannot  heal. 

Joy  of  the  desolate,  light  of  the  stray- 
ing, 
Hope   when   all  others   die,   fadeless 
and  pure. 
Here  speaks  a  comforter  in  God's  name 
saying. 
Earth   has   no   sorrow   that   Heaven 
cannot  cure. 

Go  ask  the  infidel  what  boon  he  brings 
us. 
What  charm  for  aching  hearts  he  can 
reveal, 
Sweet  as  that  heavenly  promise  Hope 
sings  us — 
Earth  has  no  sorrow  that  God  cannot 
heal. 

But  it  does  not  appear  in  this  form, 
in  any  of  the  hymnals.  "Shrine  of  God" 
in  the  first  stanza,  is  changed  to  "mercy 
seat."  The  second  stanza  has  under- 
gone a  like  change,  and  the  last  has 
been  substituted  almost  entirely  by  an- 
other. 

"A  Few  More  Years  Shall  Roll",  by 
H.  Bonar,  and  also  known  under  the 
title,  "A  Pilgrim's  Song" — receives  va- 
rious treatment.  Its  so-called  exquisite 
refrain,  with  its  delicate  shades. 

Then  O  my  Lord,  prepare 
My  soul  for  that  great  day ; 

Oh  wash  me  in  Thy  precious  blood, 
And  take  my  sins  away ! 

is  in  some  hymnals  omitted  and  in  the 
so  doing,  the  hymn  is  robbed  of  its  most 
striking  feature. 

The  history-of  "Come  let  us  join  our 
friends  above",  by  Charles  Wesley,  is 
probably  one  of  the  most  amusing  cases 
of  hymn-changing.  It  first  appeared  as 
a  funeral  hymn : 

One  family  we  dwell  in  Him 

One  church  above,  beneath, 
Though  now  divided  by  the  stream. 

The  narrow  stream  of  death. 
One  army  of  the  living  God, 

To  His  command  we  bow ; 
Part  of  His  host  have  crossed  the  flood, 

And  part  are  crossing  n^w. 

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From  it  came: 

The  saints  on  earth  and  all  the  dead 

But  one  communion  make; 
All  join  in  Christ,  their  living  head, 

And  of  His  grace  partake. 

This  was  altered  to: 

The  saints  on  earth  and  those  above 

}>ut  one  communion  make; 
Joined  to  the  Lord  in  bonds  of  love, 

All  of  His  grace  partake. 

In  Murray's  hymnal : 

"Let  saints  below  join  saints  above." 

Again : 

"Let  saints  on  earth  in  concert  sing", 
is  changed  to : 

"Let  all  below  in  concert  sing." 

In  the  Marlborough  College  Hymnal: 

"Come  let  us  join  our  friends  above, 
Whose  glory  is  begun." 

This  continues  until  we  find  the  com- 
bination of  the  original  and  the  altered 
forms  of  the  text  coming  out  as  one 
hymn  and  used  extensively  in  many  of 
our  churches.  Possibly  the  satisfaction 
gotten  from  this  hymn's  history,  is  that 
all — both  in  heaven  and  upon  earth — 
have  been  invited  to  sing. 

Isaac  Watts'  "Come,  Holy  Spirit, 
Heavenly  Dove  with  all  Thy",  etc., 
appears  in  at  least  twenty  different 
texts,  each  one  rejecting  certain  expres- 
sions found  in  the  original. 

"Crown  Him  with  many  crowns",  by 
Matthew  Bridges,  has  the  honor  of 
opening  with  this  phrase,  which  is  also 
used  in  four  distinct  hymns  now  in  com- 
mon use. 

"No  respecter  of  persons"  arc  these 
hymn-tamperers.  High  and  low  are 
'treated  alike.  "Oh  for  a  closer  walk 
with  God",  the  most  beautiful  and  the 
most  tender  of  Cowper's  compositions, 
although  usually  left  untouched,  is  not 
always  given  as  its  author  sent  it  forth. 

All  denominations  have  drawn  from 
the  fount  of  hymnology,  bringing  away 
just  as  much  or  just  as  little  as  their 
particular  sects  seemed  to  require,  mix- 
ing— let  us  not  say  the  false  with  the 


true — but  rather  according  to  their  sec- 
tarian view-point,  chiseling  the  idea  into 
what  was  to  them  more  perfect  form — 
more  correct  thought. 

In  one  instance,  when  Charles  Wes- 
ley had  drawn  from  this  fount,  it  is  said 
that  he  overcame  what  seemed  to  him 
wrong  expression,  by  omission  and  by 
change.  Undoubtedly  this  is  but  one  of 
many  instances  where  he  infused  Wes- 
leyan  views  into  tho  creations  of  other 
men. 

One  thing  is  certain:  never  has  the 
work  of  an  imagination  set  on  fire  by 
the  Divine  Spirit,  been  without  its  re- 
ward. The  power  of  God  is  shown  in 
that  His  beauty  shines  above  and 
through  the  errors  of  man. 

Hymnology  stands  for  the  uplifting 
of  hearts  toward  God.  "Psalms  of 
praise  were  the  first  fruits  of  creation. 
Hymns  were  the  earliest  utterances  of 
human  nature,  in  the  morning  light  of 
the  world — ^man's  first  response  to  the 
voice  of  his  Creator — the  earth's  first 
eclioes  to  the  music  of  the  heavens  when 
'the  morning  stars  sang  together,  and  all 
the  sons  of  God  shouted  for  joy.' " 


Failed  to  Locate  It. 

A  YOUNG  clergyman  was  preaching 
a  sermon  when  suddenly  he  lost 
the  thread  of  his  discourse  and,  do  what 
he  would,  he  could  not  find  it  again. 

The  congregation  was  greatly  embar- 
rassed and  was  wondering  what  the 
matter  was,  when  he  startled  it  by  ex- 
claiming suddenly : 

"Pardon  me,  my  brethren,  for  paus- 
ing in  my  senuon,  but  it  seems  to  me 
that  I  smell  fire  somewhere — and — it 
might  be  as  well  to  see  that  it  has  not 
broken  out  in  the  church  or  in  any  of 
the  nearby  houses." 

He  thought  to-  stampede  the  audience, 
and  thus  get  out  of  his  embarrassment: 
but  was  surprised  to  see  that  they  kept 
their  places ;  in  fact,  part  of  them  were 
asleep.  One  old  pillar  of  the  church  bel- 
lowed out : 

"Wherever  the  fire  that  you  smell 
may  be,  it  isn't  in  your  sermon,  parson !" 


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in  all  trades,  excepting 
has  drifted  into  the  har- 
bor of  the  proverbs:  and  it  is  not  to  be 
supposed  that  a  part  of  the  physicians 
have  not  their  own  ways  to  delude  those 
with  whom  they  deal. 

If  you  have  a  good  well-trusted  and 
well-tried  family-doctor,  keep  him  as 
long  as  you  can :  and  do  not  cast  him 
aside  for  some  new,  half-known  candi- 
date for  your  favor,  and  your  bank- 
cheques.  There  are  a  large  number  of 
honest,  conscientious  physicians  in  the 
world:  but  they  do  not  include  nearly 
all  of  those  who  have  taken  medical 
degrees. 

The  doctors  themselves  are  keenly 
sensitive  to  this  fact,  and  sometimes 
expose  each  others  Norman  Bamesby, 
M.D.,  has  taken  a  hand  at  this,  and  in 
a  book,  entitled  "Medical  Chaos  and 
Crime",  (published  by  Mitchell  Kenner- 
ley,  New  York  and  London,)  he  gives 
the  two  following  instances : 

"A  well-known  physician,  an  acquaint- 
ance of  mine,  practicing  in  New  York 
City,  whose  reputation  is  of  the  best, 
told  me  recently  that  his  great  success 
in  medicine  was  not  due  to  any  unusual 
skill  or  knowledge,  but  to  the  fact  that 
he  was  *a  good  business  man  and  knew 
when  to  take  advantage  of  the  other 
fellow's  ignorance.*  A.fter  further  inves- 
tigation of  my  friend  and  his  methods, 
I  discovered  that  he  was  rated  so  highly 
simply  because  he  could  cure  the  ills  he 
personally  caused.  For  a  patient  to 
consult  him  and  get  away  without  hav- 
ing to  return  is  almost  unheard  of.    His 


first  diagnosis  when  he  finds  that  the 
patient  is  a  drivelling  hypochondriac  is 
*stomach  trouble,*  'gastric  catarrh,'  *gas- 
tralgia,'  or  some  other  reverberating 
name,  which  means  nothing  in  particu- 
lar, but  greatly  impresses  the  patient. 
His  first  treatment  in  such  a  case,  al- 
most without  exception,  is  to  adminis' 
ter  to  this  poor  creature  large  and 
repeated  doses  of  potassium  iodide  in 
some  form,  with  instructions  to  return 
if  he  feels  nausea,  headache,  pain,  or  a 
bad  taste  in  the  mouth. 

**Now  it  happens  that  potassium 
iodide,  given  in  large  and  repeated 
doses  and  taken  with  a  small  quantity 
of  water,  causes  these  exact  symptoms, 
viz.,  nausea,  headache,  pain  in  the  stom- 
ach and  a  bad-tasting  mouth.  Conse- 
quently the  dupe  goes  back  for  relief, 
financial  and  otherwise,  and  so  the 
iodide  is  gradually  reduced,  while  the 
pocketbook  is  being  relieved  of  its  con- 
tents. In  the  course  of  the  second  or 
third  week  the  poor,  frail,  shadow  of  a 
patient  wanders  into  the  office  once 
more.  My  friend  now  takes  pity  upon, 
him  by  withdrawing  all  of  the  iodide, 
thus  effecting  a  brilliant  cure  of  the  dis- 
ease with  the  high-sounding  name.  The 
delighted  patient,  naturally,  is  most 
grateful.  Having  other  friends  afflicted 
with  stomach  trouble,  he  tells  tfiem  of 
the  clever  doctor  who  has  dragged  him 
from  the  jaws  of  death.  They,  too, 
flock  to  the  master  physician,  and  of 
course  are  eventually  'cured',  the  time 
in  each  case  depending  on  the  limit  of 
patience  and  the  extent  of  the  bank 
account. 

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tor  H.  of  New  York,  illustrates  the 
shameless  greed  too  often  associated 
with  deathbed  consultations.  'I  went 
into  a  small  cigar  store,  the  other  day,' 
remarked  H.,  *and  was  roundly  abused 
by  the  proprietor  when  he  found  I  was 
a  doctor.  I  asked  him  what  he  meant, 
and  he  told  me  that  his  wife  had  recently 
died,  and  that  the  family  doctor  had  in- 
sisted on  calling  in  six  specialists  for 
consultation. 

"  *He  called  those  men  in,'  said  the 
poor  fellow,  'and  all  the  money  I  had  in 
the  world  was  eleven  hundred  dollars. 
The  first  demanded  three  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  the  rest  of  them  got  the  bal- 
ance. They  were  called  in  and  paid 
within  twentyfour  hours,  and  at  the  end 
of  that  time  my  wife  was  dead  and  I 
was  obliged  to  borrow  money  to  bury 
her.' 

"This  seems  almost  incredible,  but 
Doctor  H.  made  enquiries  and  found  the 
man's  story  to  be  substantially  correct. 
The  family  doctor,  of  course,  had  re- 
ceived a  commission  on  all  the  fees  col- 
lected, in  addition  to  his  own  bill. 

"No  less  reprehensible,  though  more 
frankly  brutal,  was  the  conduct  of  the 
noted  surgeon  in  the  following  case  of 
appendicitis,  which  I  select  from  scores 
of  similar  instances  because  of  the  un- 
usually high  reputation  of  the  hero 
thereof : — 

"Mr.  and  Mrs.  K.  were  a  young 
couple  just  beginning  to  get  a  start  in 
the  w^orld.  Their  little  home  was  partly 
paid  for.  Only  a  thousand  dollars  was 
needed  to  clear  oif  the  mortgage,  and 
this  they  had  succeeded  in  getting  to- 
gether, by  dint  of  much  saving  and  self- 
denial,  when  the  wife  suddenly  developed 
an  attack  of  acute  appendicitis.  Her 
husband  was  greatly  alarmed,  and  made 
enquiries  as  to  who  was  the  best  surgeon 
in  town.  He  was  recommended  to  one  of 
the  best  surgeons  in  the  country,  whom 
we  will  call  Doctor  Y.  So  he  rushed 
to  the  doctor's  office  and  begged  him 
to  come  at  once  to  see  his  wife.  Doc- 
tor Y.  said  he  would  come  without  de- 
lay, and  the  young  husband  hurried 
home  to  await  his  arrival. 

"Meanwhile,  Doctor  Y.  made  enquir- 


ies over  the  telephone  as  to  K.'s  finan- 
cial condition,  and  soon  found  out 
about  the. thousand  dollars  in  the  bank 
With  this  information,  he  visited  and 
examined  Mrs.  K.  The  case  was  one 
of  acute  (catarrhal)  appendicitis,  as  he 
had  conjectured  from  the  somewhat  in- 
coherent description  of  the  husband. 
Turning  to  the  latter,  he  said  in  his  very 
forceful  and  emphatic  manner: — 

"  This  is  a  bad  case  of  appendicitis ; 
if  she  is  not  operated  on  at  once,  she 
will,  die.' 

"The  reader  can  imagine  the  conster- 
nation that  ensued.  Of  course  the  hus- 
band implored  the  doctor  to  do  every- 
thing possible  to  save  his  dear  one's  life. 
This  was  the  psychological  moment,  as 
Doctor  Y.  well  knew.  So  he  replied, 
brusquely : — 

"  'All  right,  Mr.  K.,  the  operation  will 
cost  one  thousand  dollars,  and  I  must 
have  the  money  before  I  begin.' 

"Poor  K.  gasped.  He  knew  that 
great  surgeons  do  no*^  ordinarily  oper- 
ate for  mere  glory  or  gratitude,  but  he 
had  never  expected  anything  like  this. 
His  struggle  was  short,  however,  for  he 
loved  his  wife.  Doctor  Y.  was  the  best 
surgeon  in  the  city,  and  Mrs.  K.  should 
have  his  services  as  long  as  he  could 
foot  the  bill.  So  with  a  sigh  of  regret 
as  he  thought  of  the  home  passing  from 
them,  and  of  the  years  of  hard  struggle 
to  come,  he  agreed  to  the  doctor's  rapa- 
cious fee.  Doctor  Y.  came  again  that 
evening  with  his  assistants,  and  per- 
formed the  operation,  and  performed  it 
well.  It  was  all  over  in  less  than  twenty 
minutes,  and  when  he  left  the  house  he 
carried  Mr.  K.'s  hard-earned  savings. 

"Doctor  Y.  is  unquestionably  a  great 
surgeon.  His  skill  and  fame  have 
brought  him  cases  from  all  over  the 
country,  and  he  is  a  w^ealthy  man.  He 
did  not  need  this  thousand  dollars;  it 
meant  almost  less  to  him  than  a  dollar 
meant  to  the  poor  clerk.  How  much 
manlier  it  would  have  been  to  have 
offered  to  take  the  patient  to  his  clinic 
and  operate  on  her  free  of  charge,  or 
else  to  have  performed  the  operation  at 
the  house)  for  a  nominal  fee  of,  say,  a 
hundred  dollars!     But  that  would  not 

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have  been  'good  business/  and  personal 
sacrifices,  unless  of  a  spectacular  char- 
acter, do  not  often  appeal  to  the  rich 
and  famous." 


Trees  Have  Dyspepsia. 

^OT  only  the  inferior  animals,  but 
the  vegetables  and  forests,  are  ob- 
ject lessons,  to  tell  us  what  and  what 
not  to  do.  Thus  even  a  tree  may  over- 
feed. 

A  mysterious  disease  which  has  at- 
tacked many  orange  trees  in  Florida 
has  been  discovered  to  be  indigestion. 
Its  cause  is  the  same  as  that  which  so 
often  brings  on  dyspepsia  in  human 
beings — overfeeding.  Excessive  culti- 
vation and  too  much  nitrogenous 
manure  affect  the  orange  tree  just  as 
too  many  heavy  table  dTiote  dinners 
affect  a  man.  Instead  of  looking  pale 
and  taking  pepsin  tablets,  however,  the 
orange  tree  turns  a  very  dark  green, 
and  a  reddish-brown  sap  exudes  from 
the  twigs.  The  tips  bend  upwards  and 
shape  themselves  into  S-like  curves. 
The  fruit  turns  a  lemon-yellow  color 
before  it  is  half  ripe,  and  has  a  very 
thick  rind.  As  it  ripens  the  fruit  splits 
open  and  becomes  worthless.  The  red- 
dish-brown resin  gets  on  the  fruit 
before  it  is  ripe  and  renders  it  unsal- 
able. 

Most  of  the  diseases  of  the  orange 
tree  are  due  to  a  lack  of  cultivation,  and 
it  was  thought  that  a  tree  would  not 
take  more  nutriment  from  the  soil  than 
it  required.  This  is  not  so,  for  the  tree 
takes  up  all  it  can  get,  and  then,  like  a 
small  boy  who  has  eaten  too  much  plum 
pudding,  becomes  sick.  The  dark  green 
color  which  the  foliage  then  assumes  is 
very  handsome,  but  it  means  no  oranges, 
or  at  least  none  that  are  any  good.    The 


disease  is  known  as  die-back,  because 
the  twigs  begin  to  die  at  the  tips  and 
gradually  die  back  to  the  branches.  To 
cure  the  disease  all  that  is  required  is 
to  withhold  the  fertilizer,  but  when  the 
disease  has  gone  too  far  and  g^m  pock- 
ets begin  to  form  on  thef  bark  there  is 
no  cure  for  it. 


They  Tuck  and  Live. 

gVERY  WHERE  met  a  lady  the  other 
day  who  had  been  house-hunting. 
"Widows,  widows,"  said  the  pavement- 
traveler,  dolefully,  "I  have  met  nothing 
else  on  the  long  gloomy  trip.  A  widow 
occupies  House  No.  i ;  two  of  them  are 
in  House  No.  2 ;  a  widow  owns  House 
No.  3,  but  is  now  in  Europe ;  and  Nos. 
4  and  5  had  within  them  no  men  of  any 
account.  Why  are  there  so  many  lords 
of  creation  in  the  cemeteries  while  their 
wives  are  still  living? 

"I  conclude  that  it  is  because  women 
know  how  to  take  care  of  their  health, 
and  men  do  not.  Even  such  of  the  lat- 
ter as  may,  are  too  careless  to  attend 
to  it.  There  are  a  thousand  little  fix- 
ings, and  tuckings,  and  foldings,  and 
dosings,  and  mercy  knows  what  all,  that 
a  woman,  commences  doing  as  soon  as 
she  is  old  enough,  and  she  never  stops. 

"The  little  girl  even  protects  her  doll 
from  the  draughts.  But  the  boy  seldom 
takes  any  care  except  what  his  mother 
holds  out  to  him;  and  spurns  most  of 
that.  As  he  grows  up  to  be  a  strong 
man,  he  gets  more  and  more  careless; 
eats,  drinks,  smokes,  toils  nights,  wor- 
ries himself  half  to  death  over  business 
matters,  and  repulses,  more  or  less  gen- 
tly, or,  sometimes,  with  a  snarl,  his 
wife's  gentle  efforts  to  coddle  him. 

"Is  it  any  wonder  that  the  houses  arc 
largely  owned  by  widows?" 


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The  Famous  Sherman  Law. 

IJOW  many  people  know  exactly  what 
it  is  ? — It  is  mentioned  in  the 
papers,  nowadays,  more  than  any  other 
one  of  the  statutes :  but  it  may  be  ques- 
tioned if  one  person  out  of  ten  thousand 
of  our  most  intelligent  Americans,  if 
asfced  to  give  even  a  synopsis  of  it, 
could  do  so  without  some  assistance — 
and  not  knowing  exactly  where  to  get 
that  assistance. 

The  author  of  the  famous  law,  was 
John  Sherman,  an  Ohioan — ^born  at  Lan- 
caster, in  that  state.  He  was  one  of  a 
very  numerous  family  of  children — one 
of  whom  was  the  celebrated  General 
William  Tj  Sherman,  whose  achieve- 
ments in  the  American  Civil  War  of 
1861,  passed  his  name  into  history. 

John  Sherman,  his  father  having  died 
and  left  his  family  in  very  poor  circum- 
stances, was  adopted  by  a  relative,  stud- 
ied and  practiced  law  with  one  of  his 
brothers  at  Mansfield,  Ohio,  became  a 
member  of  Congress,  and  a  United 
States  Senator,  and  at  once  became  a 
leader  in  that  body.  He  was  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  during  President  Hayes' 
administration.     He  died  in  1900. 

His  life  was  full  of  splendid  achieve- 
ments in  statesmanship:  but  he  will  be 
remembered  longest  by  the  law  which 
bears  his  name  and  claims  his  parentage 
— which  is  as  follows: 

THE  SHERMAN*  LAW. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assem- 
bled: 

Section  i — Every  contract,  combi- 
nation in  the  form  of  trust  or  other- 
wise, or  conspiracy,  in  restraint  of  trade 
or  commerce  among  the  several  states, 


or  with  foreign  nations,  is  hereby  de- 
clared to  be  illegal.  Every  person  who 
shall  make  any  such  contract,  or  engage 
in  any  such  combination  or  conspiracy, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and,  on  conviction  thereof,  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding 
$5,000,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceed- 
ing one  year,  or  by  both  said  punish- 
ments in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  2 — Every  person  who  shall 
monopolize,  or  attempt  to  monopolize, 
or  combine  or  conspire  with  any  other 
person  or  persons  to  monopolize  any 
part  of  the  trade  or  commerce  among 
the  several  states,  or  with  foreign  na- 
tions, shall  be  deemed  gr^ilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and,  on  conviction  thereof, 
shall  be  punished  by  fine  not  exceeding 
$5,000,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceed- 
ing one  year,  or  by  both  said  punish- 
ments, in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Section  3 — Every  contract,  combina- 
tion in  form  of  trust  or  otherwise,  or 
conspiracy,  in  restraint  of  trade  or  com- 
merce in  any  territory  of  the  United 
States,  or  the  District  of  Columbia,  or 
in  restraint  of  trade  or  commerce  be- 
tween any  such  territory  and  another, 
or  between  any  such  territory  or  ter- 
ritories and  state  or  states  or  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  or  with  foreign 
nations,  or  between  the  District  of 
Columbia  and  any  state  or  states  or 
foreign  nations,  is  hereby  declared  ille- 
gal. Every  person  who  shall  make  any 
such  contract  or  engage  in  any  such 
combination  or  conspiracy,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and, 
on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished 
by  fine  not  exceeding  $5,000,  or  by  im- 
prisonment not  exceeding  one  year,  or 
by  both  said  punishments,  in  the  discre- 
tion of  the  court. 


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Section  4 — The  several  Circuit  Courts 
of  the  United  States  are  hereby  invested 
with  jurisdiction  to  prevent  and  restrain 
violations  of  this  act;  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  several  district  attorneys 
of  the  United  States,  in  their  respective 
districts,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Attorney  General,  to  institute  proceed- 
*  ings  in  equity  to  prevent  and  restrain 
such  violations.  Such  proceeding's  may 
be  by  way  of  petition  setting  forth  the 
case  and  praying  that  such  violation 
shall  be  enjoined  or  otherwise  prohib- 
ited. When  the  parties  complained  of 
shall  have  been  duly  notified  of  such 
petition  the  court  shall  proceed,  as  soon 
as  may  be,  to  the  hearing  and  determi- 
nation of  the  case;  and  pendijig  such 
petition  and  before  final  decree,  the 
court  may  at  any  time  make  such  tem- 
porary restraining  order  or  prohibition 
as  shall  be  deemed  just  in  the  premises. 

Section  5 — ^Whenever  it  shall  appear 
to  the  court  before  which  any  proceed- 
ing under  Section  4  of  this  act  may  be 
pending,  that  the  ends  of  justice  require 
that  other  parties  should  be  brought 
before  the  court,  the  court  may  cause 
them  to  be  summoned,  whether  they 
reside  in  the  district  in  which  the  court 
is  held  or  not;  and  subpoenas  to  that 
end  may  be  served  in  any  district  by 
the  marshal  thereof. 

Section  6 — Any  property  owned  un- 
der any  contract  or  by  any  combination, 
or  pursuant  to  any  conspiracy  (and 
being  the  subject  thereof)  mentioned  in 
Section  i  of  this  act,  and  being  in  the 
course  of  transportation  from  one  state 
to  another,  or  to  a  foreign  country, 
shall  be  forfeited  to  the  United  States, 
and  may  be  seized  and  condemned  by 
like  proceedings  as  those  provided  by 
law  for  the  forfeiture,  seizure  and  con- 
demnation of  property  imported  into  the 
United  States  contrary  to  law. 

Section  7 — Any  person  who  shall  be 
injured  in  his  business  or  property  by 
any  other  person  or  corporation  by 
reason  of  anything  forbidden  or  de- 
clared to  be  unlawful  by  this  act  may 
sue  therefor  in  any  Circuit  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  the  district  in  which 
the  defendant  resides  or  is  found,  with- 


out respect  to  the  amount  in  contro- 
versy, and  shall  recover  threefold  the 
damages  by  him  sustained,  and  the  costs 
of  suit,  including  a  reasonable  attor- 
ney's fee. 

Section  8 — That  the  word  "person" 
or  "persons"  wherever  used  in  this  act 
shall  be  deemed  to  include  corporations 
and  associations  existing  under  or  au- 
thorized by  the  laws  of  either  the  United 
States,  the  laws  of  any  of  the  territo- 
ries, the  laws  of  any  state,  or  the  laws 
of  any  foreign  country. 

Approved  July  2,  1890. 


Opportunities  of  a  Country 
Editor. 

'T'HE  Gazette  is  receiving  in  every 
**■  mail  a  batch  of  editorial  refer- 
ences to  several  of  the  candidates  for 
the  presidency.  These  references  we 
are  asked  to  copy  free  gratis  by  the 
sender  who  is  no  other  than  the  political 
manager  of  the  candidates  themselves. 
Among  these  grateful  and  aspiring  poli- 
ticians we  notice  that  Champ  Clark's 
manager  has  us  on  his  mailing  list  (  ?) 
Senator  La  FoUette  of  Wisconsin,  or  his 
manager,  is  also  favoring  us  with  large 
and  nicely  bound  booklets  describing 
how  he  has  bossed  the  political  destinies 
of  Wisconsin  and  saved  it  from  eternal 
ruin  and  damnation.  Also  Woodrow 
Wilson  of  New  Jersey,  or  his  manager, 
has  taken  the  pains  to  send  us  an  allur- 
ing booklet  containing  a  list  of  his  suc- 
cesses in  the  field  of  literature  and  what 
remarkable  things  have  happened  in 
New  Jersey  since  he  took  hold  of  the 
ship  of  state.  Also  William  Jennings 
Bryan  favors  us  with  a  free  copy  of 
each  issue  of  the  Commoner,  Also  Jud- 
son  Harmon  or  his  manager  favors  us 
with  99  page  booklet  showing  how 
Harmon  saved  the  commonwealth  of 
Ohio  some  $400,000,000  by  his  astute 
manner  of  governing  the  Buckeye  peo- 
ple. We  will  admit  it  but  we  have  not 
heard  from  Taft's  manager  as  yet,  but 
are  living  in  hopes  that  he  will  soon 
report  for  duty,  and  get  busy. 

Why    do    these    famous    public   men 
want  free  and  gratuitous  ooiicet  in  the 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


I  ludson  Gazette,  and  thousands  of  other 
little  weekly  papers? 

Believe  us  when  we  say  that  they  do 
not  care  a  tinker's  darn  for  us  or  ours, 
but  they  want  the  readers  of  this  paper 
and  others  to  get  a  good  impression 
of  them  to  start  a  sentiment  in  progress 
that  will  eventually  land  them  at  the 
head  of  this  nation  of  ninety  millions  of 
people. 

We  have  nothing  against  any  of  these 
public  men  or  their  cheap  publicity  cam- 
paign. They  are  being  led  on  by  the 
lust  for  political  power,  the  ambition  to 
gain  high  office  until  they  or  their  man- 
agers stoop  to  almost  any  device  to  gain 
the  ear  of  the  people,  and  their  good 
will. 

We  say  to  each  and  all  that  they  can- 
not buy  news  space  in  the  Gazette, 
neither  will  any  free  gratis  notices  be 
published.  — [Hudson,  Mich.,  Gazette.^ 


Do  Heathen  Need  the  Calculus  ? 

lyriSSION  BOARDS  in  certain  de- 
^  nominations    are    becoming    very 

particular  as  to  whom  they  send  as 
missionaries  in  foreign  fields,  to  reclaim 
the  heathen  from  the  inherited  error  of 
their  ways.  Not  in  the  matter  of  mor- 
ality and  Christian  experience — for,  we 
believe,  they  have  always,  been  watchful 
in  that  respect:  but  concerning  their 
education. 

It  has  gradually  dawned  upon  the 
minds  of  some  of  these  boards,  that  in 
order  to  win  the  heathen  to  Christ,  mis- 
sionaries should  have  college  educa- 
tions, with  all  the  newest  studies  brought 
down  to  the  latest  date.  How  can  an 
Asiatic  or  an  African  or  a  Chinaman 
be  really  religious,  unless  he  knows  or 
at  least  unless  his  teacher  knows,  all  the 
ins  and  outs  of  "the  higher  education"  ? 
they  apparently  ask. 

Of  course  they  are  not  foolish  enough 
to  suppose  that  a  college  graduate  is 
at  all  thorough  in  all  the  studies  at 
which  lie  or  she  has  had  a  dash,  in  the 
current  college  course:  no  one  is  at  all 
thorough  in  any  study,  nowadays,  un- 
less he  or  she  has  made  a  specialty  of 
it.     "But,"  the  boards  above-mentioned 


seem  to  think,  "they  should  at  least  have 
come  in  contact  with  these  studies." 

And  so  it  is,  that  in  many  cases,  old 
missionaries,  who  have  spent  years  in 
active  service,  learned  and  won  their 
heathen  constituency,  have  picked  up  a 
language  or  two,  and  are  perfectly  quali- 
fied for  more  years  of  service,  are  re- 
called and  stood  one  side  for  students 
just  out  of  college,  who  are  educated 
"up  to  date." 

Nobody  of  sense  feels  like  belittling 
the  benefits  of  a  college  course:  but 
everybody  with  perception,  has  noticed 
that  it  takes  the  average  student  a  few 
years  of  contact  with  the  world,  to  be 
of  much  practical  use  to  himself  or  any 
one  else. 

And  it  has  been  suggested  that  if 
some  of  the  members  of  these  boards 
themselves  were  given  an  examination, 
they  might  not  be  found  to  be  so  very 
thoroughly  saturated  with  scholastic 
lore. 

It  may  be  worth  while  to  suggest 
that  in  the  selection  and  retention  of 
missionaries,  previous  experience,  Chris- 
tian hearts,  blameless  lives,  and  tireless 
energy,  should  be  potent  considerations. 


Babies  for  Bait 


'T'HAT  infants  have  an  earning  capac- 
^  ity  in  at  least  one  country  is  made 
clear  by  this  story  from  the  current  issue 
of  The  American  Traveler's  Gazette: 
"A  sailor  who  spent  some  years  in  Cey- 
lon asserts  that  the  Cingalese  mothers 
regularly  hire  out  their  babies  as  croco- 
dile bait.  These  are  his  words:  'Baby 
bait  is  the  only  thing  for  crocodiles,  and 
everybody  uses  it. 

"  'You  rent  a  baby  down  there  for  two 
shillings  a  day.  Of  course,  no  harm 
ever  comes  to  the  infants,  or  else  the 
mothers  wouldn't  rent  them.  The  babies 
are  simply  set  on  the  soft  mud  bank  of  a 
crocodile  stream,  and  the  hunter  lies  hid- 
den near  them — a  sure  protection.  The 
crocodile  soon  rises  up.  In  he  comes,  a 
greedy  look  in  his  dull  eyes,  and  then 
you  open  fire.  Some  Cingalese  women 
make  as  much  as  eight  shillings  a  week 
out  of  renting  their  babies  for  bait.'  " 

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I  October  27 — The  Portuguese  cruiser  San  Ra- 
fael was  stranded,  with  a  total  loss. 
28 — It  was   reported   that   Hankow   had   been 
retaken  by  the  Chinese  Government ;  also, 
that  a  Chinese  loan   for  $i8,ocx>,ooo  had 
been  arranged  with  a  Belgian  syndicate. 
Twenty  persons  were  killed  and  over  thirty 
injured    in    a    head-on    collision   on  the 
Union    Pacific   eighty   miles    from    Chey- 
enne,  Wyoming. 
29 — Pekin  was  in  a  state  of  panic  and  a  general 
exodus  of  Manchus  began. 
Turkish  troops  attacked  Homs,  near  Tripoli, 

and  were  repulsed  with  heavy  loss. 
The   ex- Shah's   Turcomans,  aided  by  Rus- 
sian troops,  defeated  a  Persian  government 
force. 
30 — The  United  States  Supreme  Court  upheld 
the  constitutionality  of  the  Safety  Appli- 
ance Act  and  placed  control  of  railways 
doing    interstate   business   under    the    In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission. 
Governor   Dix  of  New    York    signed    the 

School  Teachers'  Equal  Pay  Bill. 
An  imperial  edict  granted  a  constitution  to 

China. 
The     northwestern     approaches    to   Tripoli 
were  reported  as  retaken  by  the  Turks. 
31 — The  Chinese  throne  in  name  of  the  infant 
Emperor  granted   further  concessions  to 
the    rebels,  putting    the    Chinese    on    an 
equality  with  the  Manchus. 
The  Italian  Government  denied  the  Constan- 
tinople    reports    of    Italian    reverses    at 
Tripoli. 
November   i — Secretary  of  the   Navy   Meyer 
reviewed  the  fleet  of  ninetynine  ships  of 
war  in  thd  Hudson  River. 
Yuan    Shi   Kai   was  appointed    Premier   of 
China. 
2 — The  Chinese  Assembly  adopted  the  British 
Constitution  as  the  model  on  which  the 
new  Chinese  government  is  to  be  modeled. 
Six    thousand    London    taxicab    chauffeurs 

struck. 
The  Taylor  system  of  scientific  shop  man- 
agement was  indorsed  by  the  War  Depart- 
ment. 
President  Taft  reviewed  the  warships  in  the 
Hudson  River,  from  the  Mayflower, 


3 — The      Chinese       revolutionists      captured 
Shanghai. 

The  Franco-German  agreement  regarding 
Morocco  was  made  public,  France  ceding 
territory  in  the  Northern  French  Congo 
as  large  as  California. 

Yuan  Shi  Kai  resigned  the  Premiership  of 
China. 
4 — Secretary  Wilson  issued  an  order  quaran- 
tining cattle  in  fourteen  States,  from 
North  Carolina  to  California,  because  of 
Texas  fever. 
5 — Turkey  officially  asked  United  States  to 
intervene  to  suppress  Italian  atrocities  and 
to  impose  peace. 

Hang-Chow  was  captured  by  Chinese  revo- 
lutionists. 

C.     P.     Rodgers,     cross-continent     aviator, 
reached    Pasadena,  California,    en    route 
from  New  York  City. 
6 — Latest  oflfkial   returns  showed   that    Pro- 
hibition had  won  in  Maine. 

Russia  sent  an  ultimatum  to  Persia  demand- 
ing an  apology  for.  and  reversal  of  re- 
cent action  prejudicial  to  the  Czar's  in- 
terests. 

Francisco  I.  Madero  was  inaugurated  Presi- 
dent of  Mexico. 
7 — The  Viceroy  at  Nanking  committed  sui- 
cide. 

Dr.  Wu  Ting  Fang  announced  that  he  had 
joined  the  revolutionists. 

Mme.  Curie  was  awarded  the  Nobel  prize 
of  $40,000  for  chemistry. 
8 — A.  J.  Balfour  resigned  the  leadership  of 
the  Unionist  party  in  England. 

The  United  States  Circuit  Court  unani- 
mously approved  the  plan  for  the  disin- 
tegration of  the  American  Tobacco  Com- 
pany as  submitted  recently  to  them  by  the 
trust  itself. 
9 — Germany's  Crown  Prince  astonished  the 
Reichstag  by  demonstrations  hostile  to  the 
Chancellor. 

Premier  Asquith  stated  that  Great  Britain 
desired  to  co-operate  with  the  other 
powers  in  mediating  between  Italy  and 
Turkey. 
10 — A.  Bonar  Law  was  chosen  to  succeed  A. 
J.  Balfour  in  the  House  of  Commons. 


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Manchus  massacred  many  Chinese  in  Nan- 
king; 90,000  fled  from  that  city. 
The  Turks  and  Arabs  suffered  another  de- 
feat. 
II— King  George  and  Queen  Mary  sailed  from 
England  to  attend; the  Durbar  in  India. 
Chinese  students  of  twelve  American  uni- 
versities    protested     to     President     Taft 
against     suggested     interference     in     the 
Chinese  revolution. 
12— President  Taft  reached  the  White  House 
after  his  journey  of  15,000  miles. 
Chinese   rebels   beheaded   the   Governor   of 
Shonsi    Province,    his    wife    and    thirty 
Manchus,  and  the  Tartar  General  at  Foo 
Chow. 
13— Wu  Ting  Fang  called  on  the  Regent  to 
abdicate;  Manchuria,  Che  foo  and  Chang- 
chow  declared  independence. 
Russia  threatened  to  occupy  two  of  Persia's 
northern  provinces. 
14 — The  Missouri    Supreme    Court    fined  the 
International  Harvester  Company  $50,000 
for  restraining  trade  and  ordered  the  trust 
ousted  from  the  State. 
The  indicted  meat-packers,  through  habeas 
corpus  proceedings,  attacked  the  constitu- 
tionality of  the  Sherman  act. 
Representatives  of  Spain  and  Germany  con- 
ferred regarding  the  cession  to  the  latter 
of  Spanish  Guinea. 
15 — Yuan  Shi   Kai   accepted   the  Premiership 
of  China  and  received  the  diplomatic  corps. 
The    Turkish    forces    in    Tripoli    attacked 
Derna    and    Tobruk,  but    were    repulsed, 
with  considerable  loss. 
The  Senate  Committee  on  Interstate  Com- 
merce began  its  hearings  on  proposed  anti- 
trust legislation. 
Governor  Mann  of  Virginia  refused  to  inter- 
fere in  the  case  of  Henry  C.  Beattie,  Jr., 
accused  of  wife  murder. 
16 — The     Duke    of     Connaught    opened     the 
Canadian  Parliament. 
Russia  ordered  troops  to  Persia  because  no 

reply  was  received  to  her  ultimatum. 
Yuan  Shi  Kai  named  a  Cabinet  for  China, 
of  representatives  of  every  faction;  30,000 
imperial    troops    joined    the    rebel    forces 
marching  on  Peking. 
17 — British,  French  and  Russian  troops  made 
separate     demonstrations     in     Tien-Tsin; 
most  of   the  men   selected  by  Yuan   Shi 
Kai  for  his  Cabinet  declined  to  serve. 
Switzerland  experienced  the  severest  earth- 
quake shock  in  fifty  years. 
A     press    campaign    against    W.    Morgan 
Shuster,  the  American  Treasurer-General 
of  Persia,  was  begun  in  St.  Petersburg. 
18 — General  Bernardo  Reyes    was    seized    by 
United    States    Government    officials,    for 
plotting   on    American    soil    against   the 
Mexican  Government. 
19— Federal  authorities  in  Texas  seized  arms 


and  ammunition  hidden  there   for  future 
use  by  Mexican  rebels. 
It  was    reported   that   Russia   had   severed 

diplomatic  relations  with  Persia. 
The  new  Russian  Ambassador,  G.  Bakhme- 
tieff,  arrived  in  America. 
20 — Persia  placed  her  case  against  Russia  in 
England's  hands  and  asked  other  powers 
to  aid  her,  expressing  willingness  to  take 
her  case  to  the  Hague  Tribunal. 
President  Caceres  of  the  Dominican  Repub- 
lic was  assassinated. 
21— A  despatch  from  Caracas  said  that  Gen- 
eral Castro  had  won  in  a  battle  in  Vene- 
zuela. 
The  French  mission  at  Kien-Chang,  China, 
was  assailed. 
22 — The  Persian  government  informed   Eng- 
land that  it  would  yield  to  Russia's  ulti- 
matum, apologize  and  remove  Mr.  Shus- 
ter's  gendarmes. 
The  board  of  inspection  made  its  first  ex- 
amination of  the  wreck  of  the  Maine. 
King  George  cancelled  the  appointment  of 
the    Rev.    Frederick    Percival    Farrar   as 
domestic  chaplain  to  himself  and  Queen 
Mary. 
23 — Thirty  persons  were  killed  when  a  train 
plunged  through  a  bridge  over  a  swollen 
river  in  France. 
24 — The  first  school  for  detectives  in  America 
was  opened  at  Police  Headquarters,  New 
York  City. 
The    Turks    were    reported    in    possession 

again  of  most  of  the  oasis  of  Tripoli. 
Persia's    Foreign     Minister    apologized    to 
Russia   for  the  seizure  of  the  ex- Shah's 
brother's  property. 
Fra   Angelico's    stolen    painting,  the    "Ma- 
donna della  Stella",  was  recovered  by  the 
police. 
Henry   Clay   Beattie,  Jr.,  was  executed   for 
the  murder  of  his  wife;  in  a  signed  state- 
ment he  confessed  his  guilt. 
J5— The  Young  Gaekwar  of   Baroda,  sopho- 
more  aat    Harvard,    whose    father    rules 
2,000,000  subjects,  jumped   from  a  trolley 
in  Boston  and  suflFercd  a  slight  concussion 
of  the  brain. 
26— Nanking  was  bombarded  after  the  revo- 
lutionists had  driven  the  imperialists  into 
the  city. 
An  all-day  fight  outside  of  Tripoli  resulted 
in  victory  for  the  Italians ;  an  all-day  fight 
outside  Derna  was  indecisive. 
27— Foreign  Secretary  Grey  told  the  House  of 
Commons   the   Government's   side  of  the 
Anglo-German  Morocco  trouble  and  Law, 
leader  of  the  Opposition,  approved. 
The  German  cruiser  Berlin,  and  the  gunboat 

Eber,  were  recalled  from  Agadir. 
The   Pope  formally    created    eighteen    new 
members  of  the  Sacred  College, 


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DIED: 

ALDAY,  REV.  DR.  JOHN  H.— At  Asbury 
Park,  N.  J.,  October  22,  at  the  age  of 
eightythree  years.  He  was  a  native  of 
Kingston,  Jamaica.  He  gave  up  the  pro- 
fession of  medicine  to  become  a  Methodist 
Minister,  and  was  attached  to  a  church  in 
Philadelphia.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  Ocean  Grove. 

BELLEW,  KYRLE— In  Salt  Lake  City, 
November  2,  at  the  age  of  fiftyfour  years. 
He  was  born  at  sea,  near  Calcutta,  and  edu- 
cated by  his  father  for  the  army,  but  en- 
tered on  a  sea  life  instead,  meeting  many 
adventures.  He  then  entered  upon  a  the- 
atrical career,  being  a  member  in  turn  of 
Irving's,  Lester  Wallack's,  Daly's  and  other 
companies,  organizing  finally  a  company  of 
his  own.  He  and  Mrs.  James  Brown  Pot- 
ter also  formed  a  dramatic  partnership.  He 
was  a  most  finished  and  polished  actor.  He 
wrote  several  plays.  From  1900  to  1902  he 
led  an  exploring  expedition  to  Northern 
Queensland. 

CAMPBELL,  LADY  COLIN— In  London, 
England,  November  2.  She  was  a  native 
of  Ireland,  daughter  of  Edmond  Maghlin 
Blood,  of  ancient  family.  In  1881  she  mar- 
ried Lord  Colin  Campbell,  obtaining  a  sepa- 
ration later,  after  a  sensational  trial.  Be- 
ing then  penniless,  she  turned  to  her  pen, 
and  became  a  leading  London  journalist, 
brilliant  and  versatile,  on  the  staff  of  the 
London  World  and  other  papers.  She 
wrote  also  a  few  books. 

CASSELL.  MRS.  FLORA  H.— Killed  in  a 
runaway  accident,  November  17,  near  Den- 
ver, Colorado.  She  was  fiftynine  years  of 
age  and  was  a  hymn-writer  of  national 
prominence.  At  one  time  she  was  President 
of  the  Nebraska  W.  C.  T.  U.  She  was  a 
close  friend  of  Frances  E.  Willard. 

CLARK,  REV.  GEO.  W.,  D.D.— At  Hights- 
town,  N.  J.,  November  10,  aged  eighty 
years.  His  birthplace  was  South  Orange, 
N.  J.;  his  college,  Amherst,  Mass.,  where 
he  graduated  in  1853,  taking  a  course  after- 
ward at  Rochester  Theological  Seminary. 
He  filled  various  pulpits  in  his  native  State 
until  1877.  In  1880,  he  became  a  missionary 
of  the  Baptist  Publication  Society,  and  wrote 
several  books  for  it,  which  had  a  large  sale. 
Among  them  are  "Harmony  of  the  Gospels", 
"Harmonic    Arrangement    of    Acts",    "The 


Mighty    Worker",    and    "Clark's    People's 
Commentary." 

CREUZBAUR,  ROBERT— In  Brooklyn,  Oc- 
tober 23,  aged  eightyeight  years.  His  father 
was  captain  of  artillery  under  Napoleon; 
his  mother  an  Austrian  baroness.  They 
came  to  America  and  he  served  in  the  Con- 
federate Army  during  the  Civil  War,  as  an 
engineer.  He  applied  "dry  farming"  in 
Texas,  with  success,  and  came  north  to  in- 
troduce his  inventions.  He  laid  out  the 
Newtown  Creek-Flushing  Bay  canal. 

EVANS,  MRS.  ELIZABETH  EDSON— At 
Aibling,  Upper  Bavaria,  September  14,  at 
the  age  of  seventynine  years.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Willard  Putnam  of  New- 
oort,  N.  H.,  marrying,  in  1868,  Edward  Pay- 
son  Evans,  author.  Since  1870  they  had 
lived  in  Europe.  She  contributed  verse  and 
prose  to  newspapers  and  magazines.  Among 
her  writings  are  the  novels,  "Laura,  an 
American  Girl";  "Transplanted  Manners"; 
"A  History  of  Religions";  "The  Story  of 
Kaspar  Hauser",  and  "The  Christ  Myth." 

HART,  MATTHEW  J.— At  New  Bedford,^ 
Mass.,  August  5,  aged  fiftyfour  years.  He 
was  born  in  Lancashire,  England.  He  was 
President  of  the  National  Federation  of 
Weavers,  and  was  widely  known  in  labor 
union  circles  for  his  efforts  to  better  con- 
ditions in  the  textile  industry  of  the  coun- 
try. 

HEMINGWAY,  HOMER-In  New  York 
City,  October  21,  at  the  age  of  seventycight 
years.  Watertown,  Conn.,  was  his  birth- 
place, and  here  he  introduced  the  manu- 
facture of  sewing-silk  into  United  States. 

JELLY,  DR.  GEORGE  F.— In  Wakefield, 
Mass.,  October  24,  at  the  age  of  sixtynine 
years.  He  was  born  in  Salem,  and  was 
graduated  from  Brown  University  and  from 
the  Harvard  Medical  School,  becoming  one 
of  the  most  widely-known  alienists  in 
United  States.  For  almost  thirty  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Board  of  Insanity. 

JOHNSON,  WILLIAM  B.— In  Brookline, 
Massachusetts,  August  i,  aged  seventytwo 
years.  He  was  born  in  England.  He  be- 
came a  pupil  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  founder  of 
Christian  Science,  and  for  nineteen  years 
was  clerk  of  the  Mother  Church,  resigning 
that  office  two  years  ago. 

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JONES,   PROR  GEORGE    W.—At    Ithaca, 
N.  Y.,  October  30.    He  was  born  seventy- 
four  years  ago,  in  Corinth,  Me.,  and  was  a 
graduate  of  Yale.    He  was  one  of  the  best- 
known  mathematicians  in  the  country,  and 
had  been  on  the   faculty    of    Cornell    for 
thirtyone  years. 
KOMURA,  MARQUIS  JUTARO-In  Tokio, 
Japan,  November  24.    One  of  the  most  pro- 
gressive   of    Japanese    statesmen,   he    was 
graduated     from     Harvard     in     1877    and 
studied    law    in    Rochester.     Returning    to 
Japan,  he  served  as  a  Judge,  and  later  en- 
tered the  Foreign  Office.     He  was  at  one 
time   Privy   Councillor  and  became  known 
to  Americans  when  sent  here  as  Minister  at 
Washington,    He  was  one  of  the  peace  com- 
missioners at  Portsmouth. 
MATHER,  ROBERT— In    New    York    City, 
October  24.     He   was   born   at    Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah,  fiftytwo  years  ago.     Employed 
in  railroading  by  day,  he  managed,  by  night 
study,  to  prepare  himself  for  Knox  College, 
and  later,   was  graduated  in  law.     At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of    the    Westinghouse 
Electric  and    Manufacturing   Company  and 
a  Director  of  many  banks  and  other  cor- 
porations. 
PULITZER,  JOSEPH— In   Charleston   Har- 
bor,  S.  C,   October  29.     He  was  born  in 
Hungary  sixtyfour  years  ago.     Coming  to 
America,  penniless,  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
he   joined    the   Union   Army.     He   entered 
journalism  in  St.  Louis  and  served  in  the 
Missouri  Legislature.    He  became  owner  of 
the  New  York  World,  winning  through  his 
original  methods,  his  titanic  genius,  and  his 
unswerving   devotion   to   the   good   of   the 
people,  a  unique  place  amongst  editors. 
PYLE,   HOWARD— In  Florence,   Italy,   No- 
vember 9.     He  was  born    in    Wilmington, 
Delaware,  in  1853.    He  studied  art  in  Phila- 
delphia and  in   the   Art  iStudents'  League, 
New  York,  and  became  known  the  world 
over  as  a  writer  and  illustrator  for  periodi- 
cals,  and    especially    of    children's    books. 
His    charming    and    excellent    work    won 
recognition  at  the  Chicago,  Atlanta,   Paris 
and  Buffalo  expositions. 
RATHBONE,   MAJOR    HENRY    R.— Near 
Hanover,  Germany,  August  14,  aged  seventy- 
four  years.    He  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y., 
and  served  with  distinction  in  the  Civil  War. 
He  was  a  military  aide  to  President  Lin- 
coln and  was  wounded  in  trying  to  defend 
him  at  the  time  of  the  assassination.     In 
1887  he  was  appointed   Consul-<jeneral  at 
Hanover.    He  lost  his  reason  shortly  after- 
ward and  murdered  his  wife,  which  brought 
about  his  incarceration  in  the   Hildesheim 
Asylum. 
RAY,  BRIG.  GENERAL  P.  H..  U.  S.  A.— At 
Fort  Niagara,  New  York,  October  30.     He 
was  born  in  1841.     He  served  in  the  Civil 


War,  the  Spanish  War,  and  in  Indian  cam- 
paigns. For  his  services  in  attending  Gree- 
ley on  his  Arctic  expedition  he  was  made 
a  fellow  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society, 
and  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  International 
Polar  Congress  in  Vienna.  He  accom- 
panied the  first  expedition  to  the  Yellow- 
stone River  in  1872  and  was  in  charge  of  the 
Government's  interests  in  Alaska  during  the 
first  Klondike  rush. 

RIALPH,  FRANK  DE— In  Milford,  Pa., 
September  s,  aged  seventyone  years.  He 
was  a  Spaniard  by  birth,  Barcelona  being 
his  native  town.  He  studied  music  with 
BcrHoz.  He  accompanied  the  Spanish 
Army  in  the  Moroccan  wars,  and  then  the 
singer  Tietjens  called  the  attention  of  Col. 
Mapleson  to  his  voice,  and  he  filled  various 
posts  at  the  London  opera-house,  coming 
later  to  New  York,  where  he  became  a  well- 
known  singing-teacher.  He  published  a 
book  on  the  teaching  of  music  and  did 
much  to  restore  Campanini's  voice. 

SPERRY,  NEHEMIAH  DAY— In  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  November  13.  He  was  born 
in  Woodbridge,  Conn.,  in  1827.  and  became 
a  house-builder.  Entering  politics,  he  held 
important  offices  in  his  State  and  served  for 
fourteen  years  in  Congress.  He  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Republican  party 
and  a  trusted  friend  of  Lincoln.  He  was 
nicknamed  N.  D.  because  never  defeated 
while  running  for  office.  He  pledged  his 
entire  fortune,  with  Daniel  Drew,  to  guar- 
antee the  building  of  the  Monitor  and  its 
success  in  overcoming  the  Merrimac.  In 
later  years  he  became  known  as  the  father 
of  rural  free  delivery. 

WARING,  JOHN  B.— In  Flushing.  L.  I., 
October  30.  He  was  born  seventyseven 
years  ago  in  Long  Ridge,  N.  Y.  Of  an 
inventive  turn,  he  was  responsible  for  a  use- 
ful invention  for  each  year  of  his  life, 
among  these  being  two  successful  pens,  a 
machine  to  separate  silk  from  the  cocoon, 
besides  drills,  air-compressors,  etc.  He 
served  through  the  Civil  War  and  invented 
a  spike  for  spiking  cannons,  and  for  this 
was  raised  to  the  rank  of  major  and  trans- 
ferred to  the  Ordnance  Department.  He 
was  a  brother  of  the  late  Colonel  George  E. 
Waring,  the  yellow  fever  martyr. 

WASDIN,  DR.  EUGENE— At  Gladwynne, 
near  Philadelphia,  November  17.  He  was 
born  in  1859  in  Georgetown,  S.  C.  After 
graduating  from  the  Charleston  Medical 
College  he  entered  the  United  States  Pub- 
lic Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service. 
He  was  the  foremost  yellow  fever  expert  in 
the  country  and  was  decorated  by  Italy's 
King  for  his  work  in  suppressing  the  yellow 
fever  epidemic  in  that  country.  He.  oper- 
ated upon  President  McKinley  after  the 
shooting  in  Buffalo.  ^  ^ 

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Various  Doings  and  Undoings, 


The  sun,  the  moon,  and  a  star  were  all  seen 
at  once  from  Atlantic  City  one  day. 

Gamblers,  when  arrested  in  New  York  for 
j>lying  their  trade,  now  state  their  "occupation" 
as  **speculators**. 

Cats  are  now  taxed  $1.20  a  head  in  the  city 
of  Munich,  and  provided  with  special  collars 
and  metal  license  checks. 

Claude  Duval  seems  to  be  multi- reincarnated 
in  numerous  automobile-robbers,  who  infest 
lonely  roads,  and  halt  unwary  travelers. 

Smallpox  has  been  devastating  several 
Rhode  Island  villages,  and  the  little  State  is 
termed  as  hardly  large  enough  to  contain  the 
pustules  created  therein. 

There  are  613,873  old  age  pensioners  in 
England  and  Wales,  with  a  total  for  the 
United  Kingdom  of  907,461,  of  whom  333,050 
are  men  and  574,411  women. 

Auto  Rural  Mail  Delivery  is  being  experi- 
mented upon  by  the  Government  at  Wash- 
ington— very  tardily  indeed :  as  it  should  have 
been  an  established  fact,  years  ago. 

Motion-picture  men  must  pay  royalty  on 
scenes  reproduced  from  copyrighted  books :  so 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court  decides, 
after  long  litigation  in  the  lower  ones. 

A  ninctyonc-year-old  dancer  is  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth Riley  of  New  York,  who  will  trip  the 
"light  fantastic"  every  time  you  will  play  one 
II f  the  old  girl-tunes  she  used  to  love. 

The  records  of  Greenup  County,  Ky.,  show 


the  names  of  a  jury  of  women  drawn,  several 
years  ago,  to  try  a  woman  for  murder,  that 
being  the  law  if  the  prisoner  so  elected. 

Finger-print  experts  claim  that  out  of  65,005 
thumb-ends  and  finger-ends  they  have  exam- 
ined, no  tw^o  were  alike.  They  say  the  tex- 
ture does  not  change  even  after  death. 

Railroad  companies  report  that  most  of  the 
accidents  suffered  by  women  in  railway  sta- 
tions and  in  getting  on  or  off  trains  are  dut 
to  high-heeled  shoes  or  to  hobble-skirts. 

The  Crystal  Palace  in  London  has,  tempo- 
rarily at  least,  escaped  the  fate  of  Madison 
Square  Garden,  thanks  to  Lord  Plymouth's 
deposit  of  5620,000  to  stay  its  sale  at  auction. 

A  bulky  volume  of  London  statistics  has 
been  issued  by  the  London  County  Council. 
It  shows  that  Greater  London  has  an  area  of 
^93  square  miles  and  a  population  of  7,252,- 
96a.  

Kissing  her  merely  by  mail,  is  what  a  St. 
Louis  woman  claims  against  her  husband — 
claiming,  therefore,  a  divorce.  "A  thousand 
kisses  in  his  letters — none  at  home", — she 
asserts. 

Lepers  who  have  been  in  this  country  for 
years,  are  occasionally  discovered:  but  t'jc 
disease  need  not  spread  by  contagion,  unless 
the  health-habits  of  people  get  bad  enough  to 
allow  it. 

Mrs.  Samantha  F.  Breniholtz,  who  was 
chief  telegraph  operator  at  Gettysburg  while 
the  battle  was  being  fought  and  sent  many  offi- 


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aged  seventyfive  years. 

President  Harris  of  Amherst  College  has 
resigned,  thinking  some  younger  man  should 
fill  his  place:  arid  any  number  of  younger  men 
are  perfectly  willing  to  try  it  as  long  as  they 
can  keep  young  enough. 

Kansas,  which  is  always  producing  lurid 
things,  has  seen  a  schoolma*am  tarred  and 
feathered  by  men,  because  the  women  thought 
she  was  too  popular.  She  has  had  several  of 
them  arrested,  and  sued  others  for  damages. 

For  the  first  time  in  history  the  "Court 
Circular"  has  been  published  out  of  the  United 
Kingdom  and  has  been  sent  to  London  by 
wireless  telegraphy.  It  announced  that  the 
King  and  Queen  left  Gibraltar  for  Port  Said. 

The  American  Osteopathic  Association  has 
issued  a  challenge  to  the  medical  men  to 
divide  800  patients  between  them  and  "award 
the  palm  to  the  school  that  at  the  conclusion 
of  the  respective  treatments  has  the  most  sub- 
jects alive." 

Neighbors  used  to  call  Israel  Mark,  of 
Rayonne,  N.  J.,  Izzy  Mark,  but  when  they 
began  to  call  his  helpmate  Mrs.  Easy  Mark 
and  the  children  took  it  up  and  shouted  it. 
the  couple  decided  to  appeal  to  the  court  for 
a  new  name. 


After  Police  Judge  James  Wilson  had  fined 
several  autoists  for  speeding  at  Wabash,  Ind.. 
he  called  his  own  name.  He  had  prepared 
and  filed  a  similar  charge  against  himself,  and 
promptly  pleaded  guilty  and  entered  judgmenr 
against  himself. 

After  a  career  of  eleven  months  as  the 
only  woman  deputy  sheriff  in  United  States, 
Miss  Lucy  Beech  Johns,  of  Fayette  County. 
Pa.,  will  surrender  her  badge  on  December  4. 
and  on  December  19  be  married  to  John  C. 
Gricr,  of  Pittsburgh. 

Women  will  have  their  own  department 
store  in  Chicai;o,  if  you  please — not  a  m?.ii 
employed  in  it — 30,000  square  feet  of  "bar- 
i2:ains",  half  a  million  of  housewives  expected 
as  customers— and  cost  of  living  reduced  fif- 
teen  to   twcntyfive   per  cent. 

The  mo.st  fortunate  part  of  his  early  expcrf- 
cncc.  Booker  Washington  feels,  was  that 
which  gave  him  the  opportunity  of  getting  into 
direct  contact  and  of  communing  with  and 
takinjr  lessens  from  the  old  class  of  colored 
people  who  have  been  slaves. 

Wordsworth  was  one  of  the  late  Clark  Rus- 
hcll's    favorite   authors.     But   he   said:   **If   I 
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uorse  punishment  on  you  than  to  sentence  you 
to  read  'The  Excursion'  ri^ht  through." 

A  burglar  was  frightened  away  from  the 
window  at  night,  by  a  crimping-iron  pointed 
at  him  by  a  woman — he  thinking  it  was  a  re- 
volver. In  accordance  with  the  recent  law 
forbidding  the  possession  of  weapons  in  peo- 
ple's houses  crimping-irons  should  now  be 
barred.  

While  Guiteau  was  on  his  way  to  court,  one 
day,  to  be  tried  for  the  murder  of  Garfield, 
William  Jones  tried  to  shoot  him,  and  thus 
obtained  notoriety  all  over  the  country.  He 
has  now  obtained  some  more — by  being  ac- 
cused of  making  his  wife  crazy  by  cruelty 
toward  her. 

A  young  lady  made  a  large  lot  of  money 
by  selling  "wishbone  brownies"  fantastically 
painted  and  decked,  and  bearing  the  inscrip- 
tion: 

"Once  I  was  a  wishbone 
And  grew  upon  a  hen; 
Xow  I  am  a  little  slave 
And  made  to  wipe  your  pen." 

Every  year  the  September  tides  wash  deep 
into  the  sand  and  articles  lost  in  the  summer 
are  caught  by  beachcombers.  The  waves  cause 
the  articles  to  settle  about  the  supports,  and 
jewels  by  the  dozen  that  bathers  have  lost 
during  the  summer,  come  to  light.  Diamonds, 
pearls,  opals,  and  all  sorts  of  other  jewels  are 
picked  up. 


Lacked  Nerve. 

It  is  evident  to  most  of  us,  as  we  advance 
in  years,  that  we  lack  the  force,  energy  and 
vitality  that  was  ours,  in  our  youth.  This, 
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Ballads  by  Will  Carleton: 

The  Deacon's  Last  Dance 
The  C<5untry  Doctor 

Two  Villages 

Louisa  Brannan. 

Block  Reconstruction 

Bernard  J.  Newman. 


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276 


Xew  Year's  Gifts 

Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

Nineteen  Thoughts  to  Think  About  277 

Helping  a  Bride  Through  278 

The  Sheep  ai  the  Stack  280 

A  Pioneer  Suffragette  281 

An  Afternoon  with  Fanny  Crosby  283 

Too  Good  is  Good  for  Nothing  286 

Charles  Edward  Stowe. 
"A     Little     Book     of     Homespun 

Verse"  288 

Social  Dramactte  289 

Played  it  Clear  Through  289 

Editorial  Comment: 

A  Prodigy  Qub  290 

Every  Where's  Opinion  of  Itself  291 


"Fake'*  Damages  291 
The  Growing  Prevalence  of  "Skat"  .292 

A  Dramatic  Execution  292 
"Eat  and  Be  Merry" — H  You  Can  293 

At  Church  : 
From  the  Diary  of  a  City  Clergy- 
man 294 
Blending  Denominations  295 
Short  Farewell  Sermon  296 
Pulpit  Gems  296 

The  Health -Seeker: 

Dialogue  with  Death  297 

The  Xoise- Plague  299 

Weather  and  Nerves  299 

World- Success:- 

Keeping  One's  Mind  in  Trim  300 

The  American  Army  301 

A  Comedian-Lecturer  302 

Good-Measure  302 

Time's  Diary  303 

Some  Who  Have  Gone  305 

Various  Doings  and  Undoings  307 

Philosophy  and  Humor  314 


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The  Deacon'B  Last  Dance. 

DROTHER,  do  you  recollect,  in  some  spiritual  vacation, 

Of  the  lively  night  we  spent  over  in  the  "Heathen  Nation"  ? 
(That  was  what  our  people  called  it,  since  it  hadn't  the  same  appearin' 
As  a  place  that  antedated  it  a  dozen  years  in  clearin'). 
[So  said  Ahab  Adams,  banker— owning  holdings  few  could  purchase. 
To  his  brotlier,  leading  pastor  'mongst  a  hundred  city  churches.] 

Those  hard  times  out  in  the  wood-lots — 'how  as  boys  we  used  to  pass  'em  1 
Not  a  person  went  ag'iti  us,  but  we  had  the  words  to  sass  'em ! 
'Ceptin'  Dad  and  Mother:   Dad  held  within  the  voice  ingredients 
That  could  close  the  dictionary  on,  all  words  except  obedience. 
And  amongst  the  other  orders  this  one  through  my  memory  glances : 
"Whatsoever  else  you  do,  don't  you  go  to  any  dances !" 

Sunday  came — we  'tended  church ;  learned  once  more  that  we  was  sinners  : 
Had  a  mother-meal  at  home—food  enough  for  fifteen  dinners; 
Fed  the  horses,  stalled  the  cattle,  soothed  small  pains  that  shot  across  us. 
An*  went  up  to  bed  at  nine,  by  the  clock  that  helped  to  boss  us. 

Then  I  recollect  you,  brother — ^my !  who  now  would  ever  think  it ! 
Whispered,  "Youth  is  full  of  syrup :  let  us  go  and  help  to;  drink  it  !'* 
Then  we  sneaked  out  of  the  window — still  as  chaos  'fore  creation — 
Startin'  for  an  all-night  dance — over  in  the  "Heathen  Nation." 

Mercy !  didn't  it  make  a  flutter,  when  the  people  saw  appearin' 
Four  strong  husky  youthful  Christians,  ccrnie  from  Deacon  Adams'  clearin'l 
Still  those  sinners — not  disposed  to  wastin'  time  with  small  surprises. 
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262  EVERY   WHERE. 

They  rushed  to  us  gcxxl  an'  hearty — not  as  brands  pkicked  from  the  bumin' 
But  as  Deacon  Adams*  prisoners  from  cold  storage  now  returnin'. 
An'  the  fiddle — ^how  ik  thrilled  us ! — every  kind  of  thought  revealin' : 
Scoldin',  cryin',  grumblin',  shoutin',  whisp'rin',  singin',  warblin*,  squealin' — 
Brother,  have  you  any  wonder,  as  we  read  those  memory-pages, 
That  we  fellers  went  to  dancin'  jest  as  if  we  danced  for  wages  ? 

Was't  a  wonder  that  we  shrunk,  apprehensive  mid  the  laughter. 
When,  at  midnight,  father  rushed  in — 'havin'  followed  slyly  after? 
Any  wonder  if  the  father,  when  he  felt  the  animation 
From  the  headsi  and  hearts  and  heels  of  that  risin*  generation, 
When  he  saw  them  wildly  dancin'  till  the  timbers  seemed  to  totter, 
Recollected  youthful  pastimes,  when  his  blood  was  somewhat  hotter  ? 
'Specially  when  a  fair-faced  girl,  with  a  red  head  like  a  beacon. 
Pranced  up  softly  to  him,  saying,  "Dance  a  hornpipe  with  me,  Deacon?" 

Is  it  any  wonder  that  he  threw  all  restraint  aside,  untethered, 
An'  let  loose  a  hundred  antics  that  for  forty  years  he'd  gathered  ? 
Brother,  don't  you  recollect  how  he  whirled  an'  jumped  an'  twisted? 
He  showed  them  there  people  capers  that  they  didn't  know  existed. 
An'  hei  murmured  unto  me,  in  the  red-hot  of  the  revel, 
'Tfeivid  danced  before  the  Lord — I  will  try  it  on  the  devil !" 

Everybody  on  the  job  cheered  our  Dad  like  all  creation: 

He  was.  soon  the  crackerjack  of  the  whole  dumbed  Heathen  Nation) 

But  remember  our  surprise,  an'  the  laughs  that  jumped  around  us. 

When  our  dear  old   Mother  entered — ^havin'   missed  an'  chased  an'  found 

But  she  al'ays  had  some  fun  layin'  round  witli  her  religion : 
An'  her  toes  took  wings  forthwith,  that  would  give  points  to  a  pigeon ! 
She  eclipsed  the  red-head  gal — took  the  cake  without  much  bother, 
Makin'  folks  around  there  love  her — even  more  than  they  did  father. 
Well,  I  guess  you'll  hev  to  own  it,  that  'ere  fast  night  zms  a  sprinter ! 
And  the  sort  of  genial  climate  that  you  don't  get  every  winter ! 

That   was  Dad's   and  Mom's   last   dancin':    but   they   brewed  such  admira- 
tion. 
That  their  influence  never  died  in  that  wicked  Heathen  Nation: 
An'  you  recollect,  when  Dad  a  revival  there  inserted, 
More  than  half  the  folks  around  there,  swung  right  in  an'  got  converted. 
Then  you  says — "In  cornerin'  sinners,  do  not  feel  too  much  above  'em  • 
Kind  of  make  'em  understand  that,  like  David,  youVe  QPl^ze/b'^^'Ooslc 


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The  Country  Doctor. 

(Re-published,  by  Request.) 

Tp  HERE'S  a  gathering  in  the  village,  that  has  never  been  outdone 

Since  the  soldiers  took  their  muskets  to  the  war  of  'sixtyone ; 
And  a  lot  of  lumber  wagons  near  the  church  upon  the  hill. 
And  a  crowd  of  country  people,  Sunday-dressed  and  very  still. 
Now  each  window  is  pre-empted  by  a  dozen  heads  or  more. 
Now  the  spacious  pews  are  crowded  from  the  pulpit  to  the  door ; 
For  with  coverlet  of  blackness  on  his  portly  figure  spread, 
Lies  the  grim  old  country  doctor,  in  a  massive  oaken  bed. 

Lies  the  fierce  old  country  doctor, 

Lies  the  kind  old  country  doctor, 
Whom  the  populace  considered  with  a  mingled  love  and  dread. 

Maybe  half  the  congregation,  now  of  great  and  little  worth, 
Found  this  watcher  waiting  for  them,  when  they  came  upon  the  earth ; 
This  undecorated  soldier,  of  a  hard,  unequal  strife. 
Fought  in  many  stubborn  battles  with  the  foes  that  sought  their  life. 
In  the  night-time  or  the  day-time,  he  would  rally  brave  and  well. 
Though  the  summer  lark  was  fifing,  or  the  frozen  lances  fell ; 
Knowing  if  he  won  the  battle,  they  would  praise  their  Maker's  name. 
Knowing  if  he  lost  the  battle,  then  the  doctor  was  to  blame. 

'Twas  the  brave  old  virtuous  doctor, 

Twas  the  good  old  faulty  doctor, 
'Twas  the  faithful  country  doctor — fighting  stoutly  all  the  same. 

When  so  many  pined  in  sickness,  he  had  stood  so*  strongly  by. 
Half  the  people  felt  a  notion  that  the  doctor  couldn't  die; 
They  must  slowly  learn  the  lesson  how  to  live  from  day  to  day. 
And  have  somehow  lost  their  bearings — now  this  landmark  is  away. 
But  perhaps  it  still  is  better  that  his  busy  life  is  done: 
He  has  seen  old  views  and  patients  disappearing,  one  by  one; 
He  has  learned  that  Death  is  master  both  of  Science  and  of  Art; 
He  has  done  his  duty  fairly,  and  has  acted  out  his  part. 

And  the  strong  old  country  doctor. 

And  the  weak  old  country  doctor. 
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By  Louisa  Brannan. 


(Continued  from  December  Issue.) 


VI. — ELPilAZ^    THE    WISE    MAN. 

T^HE  little  grey-haired  man,  stoop- 
shouldered  from  bending  over  his 
books,  was  trying  to  solve  some  elec- 
trical problem.  He  was  always  trying 
to  solve  some  problem,  and  had  gained 
for  himself  the  name  of  Elphaz,  the 
wise  man.  He  was  aware  of  a  presence 
in  the  r'oom,  and  as  he  turned  his  head 
he  was  greeted  by  a  hoarse  chuckle 
from  the  bad  boy  of  the  village.  He 
turned  abruptly  in  his  chair  with  the 
remark,  "Come  Sydney,  I've  got  to 
have  some  help  with  my  machine.  You 
are  the  only  boy  around  that  I  can  trust 
with  my  precious  wires  and  chemicals. 
I  wouldn't  trust  their  awkward  fingers, 
besides  they  are  a  pack  of  c<5wards; 
every  one  of  them  would  bawl  like 
babies  at  a  burn  or  shock." 

"Well,  yes.  Til  help,  Elphaz;  I  don't 
care  for  a  little  burn.  I  guess  there  is 
some  Indian  blood  in  me.  I  could  smile 
at  the  stake.  I  can  take  scalps,  too. 
Fve  a  rabbit  scalped  now.'  I  want  to  see 
its  brain  work." 

"You  imp!  You  devil  in  disguise.^ 
why  will  you  do  these  things?" 

**Oh,  because,  you  softy,  how  do  you 
suppose  I'll  find  out  things  if  I  don't 
try?  I'll  be  a  great  man  some  day,  and 
maybe  I'll  find  out  something  that  will 
cure  that  kid  of  yourn." 

That  night  after  the  boy  had  gone, 
Elphaz,  the  wise  man,  bent  over  the 
form  of  his  little  sleeping  son,  his  only 
companion,  and  the  very  heart  of  his 
existence. 


"Oh,  that  my  little  son,  with  his  noble 
soul,  might  have  but  a  fraction  of  the 
strength  of  that  boy!"  he  groaned. 

He  little  realized  as  he  stood  there  in 
an  agony  of  thought,  that  years  hence, 
the  boy  he  was  helping  with  his  sym- 
pathy and  common  sense,  would  be  the 
means  of  causing  his  son  to  walk  as 
other  children  walk. 

VII. — ^THE  BAD  BOY. 

He  was  the  worst  boy  in  the  village. 


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Every  boy  hated  him,  and  all  the  dogs 
and  cats  fled  at  his  approach.  Only  one 
little  girl  seemed  to  understand  him. 

"That  boy  will  come  to  a  bad  end  if 
some  one  does  not  do  something  with 
him,"  said  the  minister  to  the  store- 
keeper. 

"He  could  become  a  first-rate  business 
man  if  he  could  be  made  to  care,"  said 
Van  Auld,  thoughtfully. 

"I  guess  it  will  be  his  business  to 
hang,"  replied  the  minister.  "He  is  the 
first  boy  I  have  ever  seen  in  whom  I  am 
not  interested." 

"Well,"  said  the  doctor,  "I  can  stand 
anything  else  but  this  torturing  busi- 
ness— ^there  is  enough  pain  in  this 
world,  God  knows,  without  brutes  in 
human  disguise  making  more,"  he  added, 
as  he  threw  away  his  cigar  with  a  ges- 
ture of  impatience  and  disgust. 

"YouVe  all  agreed.  The  boy,  accord- 
ing to  common  consent,  is  no  good." 
Elphaz,  the  wise  man,  poked  the  fire 
vigorously. 

"You  call  me  the  wise  man ;  then  lis- 
ten to  my  wisdom.  All  evil  is  but  good 
gone  mad.  The  waters  of  a  dangerous 
river  can  be  made  tb  serve  man,  if  only 
properly  confined  and  controlled.  The 
cruelty  in  that  boy's  make-up  can  be 
turned  to  good  account,  but  there  must 
be  some  one  to  love  him,  believe  in  him, 
and  show  him  how  to  live.  Pastor,  you 
must  love  him,  and  Van  Auld,  you  must 
show  him  how  to  live.  I  believe  in 
him." 

However,  it  remained  for  the  doctor 
to  do  the  part  allotted  to  the  merchant. 
The  doctor  was  preparing  for  a  ride, 
when  a  sound  caused  him  to  take  off  his 
great-coat.  It  was  the  sound  of  hasty, 
burden-laden  feet,  which  always  spells 
danger  to  a  doctor's  trained  ear.  It 
may  be  that  he  will  hold  a  human  life 
in  his  hands.  Bill  Hind's  leg  was  baH.ly 
crushed.  Delay  meant  the  loss  of  the 
limb.  The  doctor's  first  thought  was  to 
'phone  for  Elphaz.  He  then  began  to 
restore  and  prepare  his  patient. 

"Where  is  the  minister?"  said  he,  as 
Elphaz  entered. 

"Out  of  town." 

"God.  help  us — I  can't  do  this  with 


your  help  alone.  Van  Auld  is  no  good. 
You  know  he  can't  endure  the  sight  of 
,  suffering  and  faints  at  the  sight  of 
blood." 

"Out  there  is  Sydney  Lang,  the  bad 
boy.  Doctor,  I  believe  in  him,  trust  him 
for  my  sake." 

He  was  called  in.  Such  a  nurse  was 
never  before  found  in  Newcastle.  The 
doctor  was  astonished.  There  was  the 
boy,  cool,  unmoved — ^but  active  and 
alert,  strong  in  the  scientific  facts  that 
the  wise  man  had  taught  him.  Bill 
Hind's  limb  was  saved  and  a  great  am- 
bition was  born  in  the  heart  of  the  boy. 
The  doctor  encouraged  him,  and  the 
stone  that  was  set  rolling  moved  on. 
The  minister,  ashamed  of  his  harsh  crit- 
icism, was  now  a  faithful  ally  of  Elphaz, 
the  wise  man,  and  together  they  helped 
the  boy  with  his  books.  Van  Auld,  with 
his  strong  sixth  sense,  almost  solved  the 
financial  problem,  all  but  five  hundred 
dollars.  Mrs.  Darnsbrough,  the  stylish 
woman,  met  this  difficulty  by  giving  her 
check  for  the  amount  and  going  with- 
out a  new  winter  coat. 

"Mr.  Van  Auld,"  she  said,  "I  thought 
when  darling  Alice  died  there  was  noth- 
ing else  in  life  mattered,  so  I  tried  to 
smother  my  heart  in  satins  and  furs; 
but  your  talk  today  has  taught  me  that 
there  are  others  than  our  own.  Perhaps 
God  removes  from  our  lives  our  dear- 
est idol,  because  we  forget  Him  in  our 
earthly  adoration.  I  thank  you,  wise 
friend,  for  making  me  see  myself  in  all 
my  shallowness  and  selfishness." 

Six  years  were  numbered  with  the 
past,  and  Sydney  Lang  stood  by  the 
doctor's  sick  bed.  Life  was  to  be 
spared  to  the  patient  physician  but  a 
little  longer.  He  had  healed  others,  he 
could  not  heal  himself.  He  was  going 
to  join  his  love  in  Heaven,  and  had 
asked  young  Dr.  Lang  to  take  his  place. 

"No,  I  couldn't  take  your  place,"  re- 
plied the  young  doctor,  with  deep  emo- 
tion. "I  haven't  the  patience.  I  could 
never  endure  a  country  doctor's  life. 
His  petty  trials  are  too  numerous,  his 
share  of  gratitude  too  small;  surgery, 
not  medicine,  is  what  I'm  fit  for.  I 
shall  go  into  a  h<^|),itaj^and,^^^5re- 


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EVERY   WHERE. 


I  want  to  become  a  great  surgeon,  not 
for  fame  or  the  money  that  is  in  it.  I 
long  to  serve  my  fellow-men.  I  want 
to  help  other  people  as  the  people  of 
Newcastle  have  helped  me.  You  all  had 
a  part  in  it.  I  could  not  help  seeing 
your  patient  service,  doctor.  The  min- 
ister was  a  little  hard  on  me  sometimes, 
but  the  soul-love  shone  through  his  oft- 
times  bitter  words.  Miss  Amy's  unsel- 
fish devotion  made  me  ashamed  to  lead 
the  life  I  had  begun.  Van  Auld  taught 
me  how  to  secure  an  education  and  Mrs. 
Darnsbrough  gave  me  the  only  finan- 
cial assistance  I  received;  but  Elphaz, 
the  wise  man,  helped  me  most  of  all, 
because  he  believed  in  me,  made  me  love 
the  useful  and  beautiful,  and  taught  me 
to  realize  my  own  powers.  He  taught 
me  that  to  be  able  to  cause  suffering  to 
others  was  no  fault,  but  a  quality  to  be 
desired,  if  love,  not  cruelty,  prompted. 
The  surgeon  must  cause  the  patient  to 
suffer  if  he  -would  ease  the  pain.  I  love 
you  all,  you  who  have  believed  in  me 
and  shown  me  how  to  live." 

COVERTA. 

Creeping  along  between  its  banks — 
high,  rocl^r,  barren — the  mighty  Snake 
— deep,  treacherous,  terrible — ^flowed  on 
to  the  fair  O^lumbia.  On  a  tiny  penin- 
sula bounded  east,  west  and  north  by 
this  writhing  river  lay  Cbverta,  a  little 
Western  village.  Its  streets  were  shaded 
with  tall  poplars,  with  here  and  there  a 
graceful  elm,  which  the  people  had 
tended  and  carefully  watered.  Its  beau- 
tiful well-kept  lawns  were  brightened 
with  rare  carnations,  chrysanthemums, 
and  a  great  profusion  of  roses,  perfect, 
luxuriant. 

Every  home,  every  lawn,  every  street, 
spoke  of  endless  industry  and  care. 
The  thoroughfare  was  lined  with  long 
grain-wagons,  drawn  by  from  four 
to  ten  horses.  The  river-warehouses 
groaned  with  their  wealth  of  golden 
grain  awaiting  the  coming  of  the  river- 
steamers.  High  green  hills  lay  between 
it  and  a  country  of  fields,  broad,  fertile ; 
while  east,  west,  and  north,  bare  blue 
hills  kept  out  the  winter's  cold — ^hiUs 
that  turned*  to  deepest  purple,  morn  and 


THE     FORESTER. 

eve.    This  was  Coverta,  a  little  obscure 
hamlet  in  Eastern  Washington. 

As  I  looked  at  the  little  town,  my 
thoughts  went  back  a  decade  of  years  to 
Newcastle  and  the  lessons  I  had  learned, 
and  I  wondered  if  here,  midst  this  busy 
life,  any  found  time  to  bear  another's 
burden  or  relieve  another's  pain. 

I. — THE  FORESTER. 

"You're  burned  pretty  badly,  Brown, 
but  you  will  be  all  right  in  a  week  or 
two.  We  will  soon  have  you  back  to 
work,  but  you  must  not  think  of  return- 
ing to  your  station  under  present  con- 
ditions." 

"Don't  baby  me,  Doc,  but  I'll  ^rtay 
here  a  week  or^sc^J|^qu^^^g|.^  My 


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flesh  heals  like  a  baby's  and  my  consti- 
tution is  like  India  rubber." 

"In  a  way  you  lead  a  very  healthy 
life,  being  always  in  the  open,  but  it 
would  kill  me.  The  loneliness  must  be 
something  awful — and  the  long  rides — 
they're  what  takes  the  tuck  out  of  me, 
all  right." 

"Why,  Doc,  a  sixty-mile  jaunt  in  the 
saddle  is  nothing  for  me.  The  more  I 
ride  the  better  I  feel.  By  Jumbo,  Doc, 
what's  that  lingo  you're  getting  off 
about  loneliness?  I'm  never  lonely. 
I've  got  my  woods,  and  there  is  my 
little  friend  the  blue- jay.  I  can  always 
visit  with  him.  I'd  a  darned  sight 
rather  visit  with  him  than  the  whining, 
complaining  mortals  that  you  are  herded 
with.  B3'  the  way,  it  was  Master  Blue 
Jay  that  decided  me  on  being  a  forester. 
When  I  was  a  little  chap  I  made  ac- 
quaintance with  his  birdship — a  pecu- 
liarly saucy  one  of  the  tribe.  I  used  to 
enjoy  being  scolded  by  him.  After  a 
while  my  folks  packed  me  off  to  school. 
I  was  deucedly  lonesome,  and  I  used  to 
go  out  and  sit  on  a  log  and  moon.  One 
day  who  should  scold  me  but  a  blue- 
jay.  After  a  while  I  went  to  college, 
and  in  a  tree  on  the  campus  lived  a 
blue-jay.  I  then  went  out  on  a  hunt- 
ing-trip to  the  forest — same  blue- jay. 
Dear  old  blue- jay,  how  he  does  love  the 
pine  woods!  I  thought  I  would  come 
out  here  and  live  with  him.  Doc,  I  tell 
you  one  thing:  if  you'll  just  get  down 
and  get  acquainted  with  the  birds,  and 
ants,  and  bees,  and  the  little  wild 
things  of  the  forest  and  field,  you'll 
never  be  lonely.  Everywhere  you  go 
you  will  find  friends,  and  these  wild 
creatures  will  learn  to  love  you  and 
come  at  your  call." 

"Yes,  Brown,  they  do  for  some. 
Only  a  person  who  is  perfectly  pure 
and  sincere  can  attract  them,  I've  heard 
it  said." 

Dr.  Deleplane  smiled  sadly,  for  he 
had  seen  too  much  of  sin  and  its  result- 
ing misery,  and  battled  so  long  with  his 
own  weaknesses,  to  fully  agree  with  the 
forester. 

"When  did  vou  first  notice  the  fire, 
Brown?" 


"  Twas  Thursday  morning.  I  was 
standing  on  a  Butte  overlooking  the 
Seven  Devils.  These  snow-crowned 
beauties  were  especially  attractive  that 
morning.  Seven  prettier  mountains 
can't  be  found  anywhere.  All  at  once  I 
heard  a  crackling  of  underbrush,  and  I 
saw  deer  fleeing  to  the  south,  then  a 
bear,  and  the  birds  seemed  to  fly  in 
great  flocks,  straight  toward  the  Seven 
Devils.  The  air  was  unusually  blue  and 
seemed  heavy  and  oppressive.  I  knew 
my  call  to  duty  had  come.  It  was  well 
that  the  deputy  game-warden  had  stayed 
at  my  cabin  the  night  before,  and  was 
even  then  within  call.  Ah,  there  was 
great  work  for  me  then !  and  in  an  hour 
we  had  warned  the  ranchers,  but  not 
before  the  fire-brands  were  shooting 
among  our  trees.  Our  fire  lines  were 
at  least  thirty  feet  wide,  but  there  was 
a  strong  wind  blowing,  and  the  brands 
were  hurled  high  in  the  branches  of  the 
dead  pines,  which  burned  like  tinder. 
The  fire-fighters  began  to  arrive,  and 
by  the  Jumping  Jinkins  we  did  fight  for 
an  hour !  Why,  I  picked  up  fire-brands 
and  never  knew  that  they  hurt  me.  Just 
as  we  had  about  given  up  the  fight,  the 
wind  turned,  and  we  were  saved.  You 
ask  me  to  tell  you  how  we  did  it.  How- 
can  I  tell?  I  had  no  time  to  look 
around  to  see  what  others  were  doing, 
and  I  was  that  blamed  excited  I  didn't 
know  what  I  was  doing,  myself.  And 
ff  I  had  I  never  could  spin  a  yarn 
smooth  like  some  fellows.  Better  get 
some  newspaper-man  to  write  up  a  fire- 
fight  for  you.  They  can  do  a  better  job 
than  I  can.  I'd  like  to  wring  the  necks 
of  those  careless  campers,  who  go  oflf 
and  leave  their  camp-fires  uncovered. 
Do  you  suppose  singed  eyebrows  will 
grow  again  ?  Not  that  I  ought  to  care, 
for  when  I  go  back  there  will  be  noth- 
ing but  the  bobcats  to  look  at  me.  Oh, 
Lordie,  yes,  there  are  the  blue-jays! 
They  will  sit  on  the  branches  and 
scream,  'Ralph  Brown,  how  ugly,  how 
ugly!'  Goodnight,  Doc,  I'll  drop  in 
and  see  Hal  a  bit." 

The  doctor  smiled  as  the  forester 
closed  the  door.  "I  just  enjoy  that  fel- 
low, so  robust,  so  strong,  plenty/g&^f- 


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confidence,  power  of  description  small, 
according  to  his  tell.  He  is  certainly 
long-winded  enough,  and  makes  up  in 
quantity  what  he  lacks  in  quality.  He's 
a  good  fellow,  brave  and  strong.  You 
seldom  see  eyes  of  •  that  deep  violet 
shade,  and  when  you  do,  set  it  down. 


from  over  the  hills  from  the  mines  in 
the  distant  mountains,  physical  wrecks, 
victims  of  a  premature  blast,  a  cave-in 
or  a  gas  explosion. 

Hal  was  a  jolly,  good-natured  sort  of 
a  fellow,  one  of  those  persons  who  are 
always  giving  and  never  seeking  a  re- 


THE    END   OF   THE   LOVE-AFFAIR. 


their  owner  doesn't  handle  much  rub- 
bish." 

II. — THE  NURSE. 

They  called  him  Hal.  His  house  they 
called  "The  Refuge";  and  so  it  was, 
for  the  sick  and  broken  were  sheltered 
there  for  six  long  years.  Broken — what 
other  word  describes  it?     They  came 


turn — tall,  blonde,  handsome,  with  merry 
blue  eyes,  a  friendly  nature,  kind  and 
gracious.  His  was  a  soul  pure  and 
white,  but  very  human.  He  sinned  not, 
not  because  he  could  not,  but  because 
he  would  not.  Here  was  a  nature, 
strong  to  resist,  strong  to  act,  strong 
to  accomplish. 
Six  years  before  ,^^ij|;i©-©(9itt|teve 


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269 


affair  had  driven  Hal  Vernon  to  this 
secluded  spot.  He  did  not  let  this  affair 
of  the  heart  spoil  his  life.  There  were 
other  things  in  life  for  him.  Tonight 
he  was  lonesome,  for  he  had  but  one 
patient,  the  civil  engineer.  It  was  a 
pleasant  surprise  when  the  forester  en- 
tered the  room  without  knocking. 

"Hello,  Hal,  old  fellow!  It  does  a 
feltow  good  to  see  the  twinkle  of  your 
bonnie  blue  eyes,  and  to  catch  the  glint 
of  your  girlie,  goldie  locks,  after  having 
nothing  but  coyotes  and  rattlesnakes  for 
company  the  past  three  months.  Say, 
now,  got  De  Vore  here  again,  have  you  ? 
Another  Thunder  Mountain  cave-in  ?'' 

"No  typhoid  this  time.  He  was  up 
North  on  am  irrigation  ditch.'' 

"Boss,  there,  I  reckon." 

"Naw,  bossing  is  not  in  his  line  lately, 
too  much  booze  for  that  kind  of  a  job." 

"Say,  Hal,  what  a  wreck  that  fellow 
has  made  of  himself!  They  say  he 
speaks  and  write^  four  languages;  live 
ones,  -besides  all  the  dead  ones.  What 
became  of  his  Spanish  class  the  electri- 
cian got  up  for  him?" 

"He  was  drunk  so  much  that  the  boys 
got  tired.  His  class  in  painting  Mrs. 
Marlow  chaperoned,  went  the  same  way 
— ^young  ladies  all  quit.  Did  you  ever 
see  any  of  his  work?  That  pastel  of 
Lake  Waha  is  exquisite." 

"Say,  Hal,  I've  often  thought  that 
De  Vore  was  an  old  fool  to  come  to 
this  place  to  reform,  with  saloons  as 
thick  as  honey-bees  and  temptation  on 
every  side.  It  is  their  way,  though, 
these  professors;  when  they  have  slop- 
ped over  in  the  East,  they  make  a 
straight  streak  for  the  West.  Why, 
bless  you,  it  doesn't  take  long  for  such 
fellows  as  Coyote  Bill  or  Whispering 
Willie  to  send  them  to  perdition  with 
fire-water. 

"Hal,  that  is  why  I  love  my  life  as  a 
ranger.  I  don't  have  to  rub  up  against 
these  fellows  with  their  vices,  their  pro- 
fanity, and  their  foul  stories.  I'm  all 
alone  there  in  the  dear  old  forest, 
guarding  the  trees  from  harm.  When 
I  do  run  up  against  men  they  are  help- 
ing me  fight  fire.    They  are  helping  me 


to  save  my  trees  and  their  homes. 
There  is  no  time  for  sinning.  It  seems 
so  queer  to  me  that  men  want  to  de- 
ceive women,  get  drunk,  swear  and 
fight,  and  all  that.  I  never  want  to.  I 
hate  such  thingsj  There's  not  a  bit  of 
use  in  them." 

"Well,  you  see.  Brown,  my  boy,  I'm 
different.  I  could  see  how  a  man  could 
do  all  of  them,  the  whole  catalog  of 
sins.  I've  had  my  fights  with  the 
tempter,  boy,  but  I  always  come  out  on 
top.  I've  never  done  anything  to  be 
ashamed  of.  My  life  is  an  open  book. 
Let  him  read  whof  will.  It's  the  yield- 
ing that's  shameful.  There  is  no  use  in 
it  whatever.  Why,  I  have  nothing  but 
contempt  for  the  man  who  has  yielded 
like  De  Vore!" 

"And  yet,  Hal,  you  care  for  him.  I 
wouldn't  touch  the  brute." 

"Yes,  some  unseen  force  draws  me  to 
help  all  those  who  suffer  or  have  sinned. 
It  is  the  love  of  soul,  boy,  it  is  the  love 
of  soul.  You  will  never  knpw  what  it 
means.  The  doctor  does;  he  has  it, 
too.  That  is  why  they  come  to  me 
with  their  trials  and  temptations. 

"The  average  Western  minister  is  a 
failure,  because  he  wraps  tlie  robe  of 
his  righteousness  around  him  all  too 
tight.  Just  like  you,  Ralph.  If  you  are 
going  to  do  anything  out  here,  you've 
got  to  be  a  better  mixer." 

"Mixer,  indeed.  I'm  no  foreign  mis- 
sionary, Hal,  I'm  looking  out  for  Ralph 
Brown.  Good-by,  old  fellow.  I'll  look 
up  Solomon  Davidson.  They  say  what 
he  doesn't  know  about  electricity  isn't 
worth  knowing.  His  old  dad  before 
him  knew  a  lot.  Sol  grew  up  on  elec- 
tricity, nursed  it  from  the  bottle,  so  to 
speak.  Sol  was  an  invalid  when  a 
child.  Some  big  doctor  back  East 
cured  him.  They  say  Sol's  governor 
helped  the  doctor  through  school,  or 
something  of  that  sort.  I  hardly  be- 
lieve that,  though,  for  Sol  told  me  him- 
self, and  they  were  very  poor ;  and  if  it 
hadn't  been  for  the  old  man's  life  insur- 
ance, he'd  never  got  through  college. 
Nevertheless,  Sol's  a  white  fellow  and 
he's  got  brains." 


(Continued  in  February  Number.) 


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By  Bernard  J.  Newman. 
(Concluded  from  December  Issue.) 


C  EVEN  hundred  and  twentyone  of  the 
people  of  the  block  draw  all  their 
water  from  eightyone  yard  hydrants.  In 
one  alley,  nine  houses  draw  all  their 
water  for  washing,  scrubbing,  cooking 
and  drinking  from  one  yard  hydrant.  In 
a  court  eight  houses  share  two  yard 
hydrants.  Several  houses  have  no  water 
in  the  house  or  yard  and  have  to  draw 
all  they  use  through  the  fence  from 
hydrants  in  their  neighbors'  yards.  In 
one  instance  three  houses  fronting  on 
a  street  draw  their  water  from  a  com- 
mon hydrant  in  the  yard.  It  is  expect- 
ing too  much  of  any  family  so  situated 
to  ask  them  to  be  decently  clean. 

One  would  naturally  think  that  a  city 
that  has  paid  so  many  millions  of  dol- 
lars to  lay  sewers  would  require  all 
owners  to  underdrain  their  properties 
and,  indeed,  that  the  owners  would 
themselves  see  the  advantage.  In  this 
block  four  alleys  have  surface  drainage 
to  the  building  line  while  in  many 
other  cases  the  rain-leaders  empty  upon 
the  yard  pavement.  Ten  dwellings  in 
one  alley,  which  is  i6o  feet  long  and 
five  feet  to  eight  feet  wide,  throw  all 
their  water  from  washing  and  slops 
onto  the  pavement  where,  together  with 
the  roof  drainage,  it  trickles  down  to 
the  sewer  opening  at  the  building  line. 
If  contagious  disease  appears  in  the  last 
house  in  the  rear,  all  the  water  used  in 
washing  the  clothing  and  body  of  the 
patient  is  thrown  onto  the  pavement. 
Tiny  children  play  there,  men  and 
women  pass  to  and  fro  and  track  this 
water  into  their  homes,  while  they  all 
breathe  the  germ-laden  air.  Moreover, 
the  members  of  the  family  where  the 


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case  of  contagious  disease  is  must  them- 
selves come  forth,  although  under  quar- 
antine, to  use  the  privy  or  the  hydrant. 
How  can  the  people  in  the  other  nine 
houses  escape  contamination? 

A  second  court,  completely  hemmed 
in  by  eight  dwellings,  also  throws  its 
waste  water  onto  the  pavement ;  in  win- 
ter it  freezes,  in  summer  it  pollutes  the 
air.  Other  courts  are  in  a  similar  con- 
dition. In  many  alleys  the  underdrain 
comes  in  only  part  way  so  that  the  slops 
from  the  house,  thrown  in  front  of  the 
door,  drain  down  the  pavement  and, 
where  the  cement  is  broken,  the  water 
lies  stagnant  to  create  a  stench  or  to 
collect  flies  and  to  breed  sickness.  Be- 
fore one  house,  itself  over-crowded, 
with  the  wall  of  the  house  in  front  only 
three  feet  away,  a  depression  in  the 
pavement  collects  the  house  slops  and 
holds  them  there  until  they  stagnate. 

The  worst  feature  of  these  conditions 
is  that  while  the  ignorant,  who  thus 
empty  their  house  water,  suffer,  those 
who  are  cleanly,  though  poor,  have  to 
suffer  also.  Their  poverty,  which  is 
their  misfortune  and  not  their  fault, 
brings  with  it  the  added  heavy  penalty 
in  the  consequences  from  the  slovenli- 
ness of  their  neighbors. 

To  these  bad  sanitary  conditions  is 
added  the  further  danger  from  rubbish, 
ashes,  garbage  and  other  refuse  in  cel- 
lar and  yard  which  is  often  piled  up  in 
boxes,  barrels,  cans  and  baskets,  in  any- 
thing, in  fact,  that  is  convenient  and 
that  will  hold  its  share.  These  recepta- 
cles, without  cover,  are  set  out  for  col- 
lection, often  to  be  upset  by  the  stray 
dogs  or  the  careless  children,  or  to  be 

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TEN    HOUSES  TO  ONE  H\T)RANT. 

blown  about  by  the  wind.  Occasionally 
chickens,  turkeys,  rabbits,  dogs,  cats, 
g-oats  and  like  pets  are  housed  in  the 
sheds,  in  the  yards,  or  in  the  rooms  of 
the  houses.  The  stables  make  the  air 
odoriferous  and  the  compost  loft  is  par- 
ticularly obnoxious.  Some  of  the  cel- 
lars are  damp  and  in  a  few  cases  vile 
from  cesspool  and  toilet  seepage.    * 

In  the  cellar  of  one 
house  the  drain  has 
sagged  at  the  center 
so  that  the  point  of 
connection  with  the 
sewer  is  higher  than 
the  drain.  The  test 
cap  has  been  re- 
moved and  when  the 
flush  is  particularly 
heavy  it  flows  over 
into  the  cellar.  By 
a  peculiar  species  of 
culpable  ignorance,  a 
filtering  plant  for  a 
soda  water  fountain 
has  been  erected 
here,  the  drain  from 
which  empties,  im- 
trapped,  into  the 
open  sewer.  All  told, 
there  are  about  three 
hundred  violations  of 
sanitary  conditions  in 


ibhe  block,  but,  unfortunately, 
the  majority  are  outside  the 
pale  of  the  law. 

Eleven  hundred  and  six  peo- 
ple are  housed  here,  or  311  to 
the   acre.    This   congestion    is 
greater  than  it  seems  because 
it  means  1106  people  in  small 
houses,  not  in  tenements,  and 
,^'v       crowded    so    closely    together 
iifi     there  is  no  chance  for  house 
lU|     or  block  ventilation.    Even  the 
^B     strongest    breeze    cannot    lift 
jHt     the  odors,   so   completely  are 
'^^     they   blocked    in    by    the    sur- 
rounding walls  and  buildings; 
thus    the    stagnant    air   hangs 
low    about   the   buildings    and 
the    people    suffer    in    conse- 
quence. 

Is  it  any  wonder  that  in  one 
year  twentyone  cases  of  the  most  seri- 
ous transmissible  diseases  were  reported  ? 
The  number  of  cases  reported  always 
fall  short  of  the  actual  nurnber  sick.  Or 
is  it  any  wonder  that  the  death  rate  is 
high?  The  rate  for  the  ward,  of  which 
this  block  is  a  part,  is  18.32  per  1000 
people.  In  three  years  629  arrests  were 
made  here.    This  means  one  person  out 


SURFACE  DR.MNAGE  IN  A  COURT  FORMED  BY  EIGHT  HOUSES. 

NO  BrX)CK  VENTILATION  IS  POSSIBLE  HERE.      OFFENSIVE 

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of  every  five  was  arrested  each  year  for 
three  years. 

In  two  alleys  nearly  every  boy  has 
been  arrested  during  the  past  year. 
Most  of  the  boys  in  the  block  who  have 
been  sent  to  the  reformatories  come 
from  the  rear  houses.  It  is  not  that  the 
people  are  naturally  worse  than  their 
countrymen  so  much  as  it  is  that  their 
surroundings  bring  out  the  worst  con- 


the  room  was  dark.  A  high  fence,  three 
feet  away,  blocked  the  light  from  door 
and  windows.    She  had  no  incentive. 

While  such  conditions  exist,  such 
blocks  will  present,  year  after  year, 
their  abnormal  quota  of  needy,  sickly 
and  vicious  people  and  all  that  charity, 
or  the  free  dispensaries  and  hospitals, 
or  the  courts,  reformatories  and  jails 
can  accomplish  is  simply  to  care  for  a 


BACK  YARDS  WITH  OUT-HOUSES,  CHICKEN  COOPS  AND  SHEDS. 


duct  there  is  in  tliem;    not  giving  the 
best  even  a  small  fighting  chance. 

It  was  a  Scotch  woman,  an  office 
cleaner  in  one  of  the  tall  office  buildings 
who  said,  when  asked  why  she  cleaned 
offices  for  others  and  left  her  own  home 
dirty,  "What's  the  use  for  me  to  clean 
up?  Dirt's  everywhere.  I  cannot  keep 
the  place  clean;  even  the  cellar's  damp 
and  filled  with  water  to  my  knees  half 
the  time.  It's  na  use,  and  the  room's 
dark,  na  one  can  see."    She  was  right, 


percentage  of  the  cases  thus  created. 
They  cannot  possibly  keep  pace  with 
all  of  the  new  cases  daily  appearing*. 
These  methods  are  only  temporizing 
with  the  real  solution  which  lies  in 
transforming  such  blocks  into  whole- 
some, sanitary  areas. 

A  feasible  scheme  for  such  a  trans- 
formation is  found  in  block  reconstruc- 
tion. The  accompanying  photograph  il- 
lustrates what  might  be  done.  Let  the 
city  condemn  the  old  area  with  all  its 

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ugliness  and  defects  as  unsanitary  and 
compensate  the  owners  for  their  prop- 
erty. If  there  is  not  sufficient  legisla- 
tion to  permit  such  condemnation,  let  it 
be  secured, — the  need  is  vital.  When 
the  area  has  been  cleared,  close  the  inte- 
rior streets  and  cut  through  a  new  street 
forty  feet  wide,  lay  out  the  land  in 
building  lots  so  as  to  provide  a  park 
and    playground    in  the   center   of   the 


rooms,  all  the  unsanitary  conditions  of 
a  neglected  neighborhood. 

By  careful  planning,  the  new  con- 
struction can  house  practically  the  same 
number  of  families  and  stores,  and  at 
approximately  the  same  rentals  as  the 
old,  while  the  unoccupied  land  will  af- 
ford ample  private  yards  beside  the 
common  park  and  playground  with  all 
its  paraphernalia.     The  contrast  makes 


THE  BLOCK  AS  SEEN  FROM  A  ROOF. 
INTERIOR. 


COMPACTLY  BUILT  UP 


block,  then  sell  the  replotted  land  with 
building  restrictions  so  that  the  charac- 
ter of  the  new  buildings  may  be  con- 
trolled and  the  best  type  of  houses  for 
congested  areas  may  be  erected.  This 
reconstruction  will  eliminate  all  privy 
vaults,  all  rear  houses,  all  bad,  dilapi- 
dated and  congested  buildings,  all  over- 
crowding of  ground  ^ace,  bad  sanita- 
tion, surface  drainage  and  dark  interior 


its  own  argument  for  the  desirability  of 
the  reconstruction.  As  it  now  stands, 
the  congested  bjock  has  fiftyone  stores 
and  one  hundred  and  eightyfive  apart- 
ments. The  remodeled  block  provides 
for  fiftyfour  stores  and  one  hundred  and 
fiftyeight  apartments. 

Nor  is  the  cost  prohibitive.  The  im- 
mediate net  cost  in  large  cities  would 
probably   be   $100,000    for    each   block. 

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The  ultimate  cost  would  be  insignificant 
for  the  increased  land  values,  the  re- 
duced sick  and  criminal  lists  would  lift 
a  burden  now  becoming  intolerably 
heavy  from  the  city.  Nor  need  the 
city  enter  upon  this  improvement  for 
every  block.  Selected  blocks  recon- 
structed would,  of  themselves,  force  an 
improvement  of  the  other  blocks  in 
their  neighborhoods. 

In  presenting  this  plan,  the  Housing 
Commission  is  aware  that  it  is  new  in 
America  and  that  it  will  have  to  make 
its  own  converts,  but  it  is  an  essential 
part  of  city  planning,  and  will  have  to 
be  seriously  considered  if  any  headway 
is  going  to  be  made  with  the  problem 
arising  from  the  massing  of  people  in 
large  numbers  on  small  areas. 

Improvements,  however,  in  these 
areas,  do  not  have  to  wait  for  the  ac- 
ceptance of  this  plan.  An  immediate 
relief  measure    is    before   the    city   any 


a  total  outlay  of  $38,500,  would  destroy 
twentyfive  rear  houses  and  six  front 
houses,  only  one  of  which  is  in  good 
repair.  It  would  open  up  ten  dead-end 
alleys,  eliminate  six  privy  vaults  with 
seventeen  compartments  above  them, 
and  give  seventeen  rear  houses  street 
frontage.  Sewer  drainage  would  be 
substituted  for  surface  drainage.  Block 
ventilation  would  be  secured,  health  and 
living  conditions  would  be  improved, 
while  only  one  hundred  and  fiftyeight 
people  would  be  displaced.  Is  this  not 
worth  the  cost  to  the  city? 

There  is  still  another  way  by  which 
the  city  can  effect  an  improvement  in 
such  a  block;  namely,  through  legisla- 
tion. In  many  of  our  large  cities,  as  in 
Philadelphia,  there  is  a  good  tenement 
law  giving  to  tenement  houses  a  close 
supervision  which  protects  the  people 
against  their  own  slackness  and  the 
greed  of  unrighteous  owners,  but  usu- 


MODEL   SHOWING  ACTUAL  CONDITIONS.       I55    HOUSES,    185   APARTMENTS,    166  OUT- 
BUILDINGS.     NO  FREE  LAND  SPACE  AND  BUT  FEW  BACK  YARDS. 


time  it  is  ready  to  consider  it  through 
the  opening  of  streets.  Take  this  block 
again  as  an  example.  Little  Perth 
street,  fourteen  feet  wide  and  104  feet 
long,  can  be  opened  through  to  Bain- 
bridge  street.  A  new  street  can  be  cut 
in  from  Seventh  to  Perth  along  the 
rear  line  of  the  lots  that  front  on  Bain- 
bridge  street.    Such  a  scheme,  involving 


ally  there  is  no  similar  supervision  for 
non-tenement  houses.  Such  a  law  is 
absolutely  essential  both  for  the  land- 
lord and  the  tenant.  Were  it  enacted, 
the  city  could  remedy  many  of  the  in- 
sanitary and  unhealthful  conditions  now 
so  prevalent. 

Inspectors  could  be  sent  into  all  dwell- 
ings where  there  was  a  suspicion  of  the 


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presence  of  a  nuisance,  to  discover  and 
effect  its  elimination.  Such  inspection 
would  reveal  many  of  the  three  hundred 


refuse  to  issue  building  permits  but  to 
destroy  squatters'  huts  erected  there  as 
well. 


RECONSTRUCTED  BLOCK  MODEL  SHOWING  A  FEASIBLE  PLAN  FOR  RE-HOUSING  A  CON- 
GESTED AREA.     158  apartments;   no  out-houses ;   no  rear  houses; 

INDIVIDUAL  yards;    COMMON   PARK  AND  PLAYGROUND. 


unsanitary  conditions  existing  in  this 
block  which  now  are  inaccessible  to  the 
city  unless  a  citizen  files  a  complaint. 
Equally  as  important  as  its  enactment 
are  the  funds  for  its  enforcement. 

Every  Nuisance  Division  should  have 
at  its  disposal  a  fund  sufficiently  large 
to  enable  it  to  abate  nuisances  when  the 
owners  delay  or  refuse,  and  to  file  a  lien 
upon  the  property,  which  lien,  when 
paid,  should  go  back  to  the  original 
fund  for  further  use  instead  of  into  the 
city  treasury.  Thus  this  department 
would  have  constantly  at  its  disposal 
ample  means  to  perform  its  duties  and 
to  abate  all  nuisances. 

So  also  the  city  should  have  the 
power  to  declare  unbuilt-up  sections 
where  the  land  is  marshy,  grossly  un- 
sanitary, and  below  the  ultimate  street 
level  to  be  unhabitable  and  not  only  to 


But  over  and  above  all,  a  Housing 
Code  is  needed,  not  only  giving  to  non- 
tenements  the  supervision  and  care  now 
governing  tenements,  but  vesting  in  the 
city  the  power  to  condemn  insanitary 
buildings  and  to  vacate  and  destroy 
them;  or  if  the  number  of  such  build- 
ings, in  a  given  section,  is  dispropor- 
tionately numerous,  then  this  law  should 
give  the  city  power  to  condemn  the 
whole  area  as  insanitary  and  to  clear 
away  the  old  buildings,  replot  the  land 
and  sell  it  with  the  building  restrictions. 
By  such  a  provision  the  city  would  be 
able  to  eliminate  bad  sanitation  when- 
ever and  wherever  it  existed,  and  so 
safeguard  the  public  against  greed,  shift- 
lessness,  or  ignorance  of  the  bad  land- 
lord or  the  bad  tenant.  Ultimately  this 
will  be  done.  The  cost  of  bad  areas  is 
already  too  high. 


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New  Years  Gifts. — By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

nn  O  Adam  and  Eve  in  the  long  ago, 

When  the'  guile  of  the  serpent  had  wrought  them  woe, 
Came  the  heavy  gloom  of  a  bitter  day 
As  forth  from  Eden  they  took  their  way. 
The  Garden  was  girt  by  an  angel  band, 
A  sword  of  flame  in  each  menacing  hand, 
And  never  again  could  they  linger  there 
Nor  feel  the  touch  of  the  Eden  air. 

Heavy  and  black  were  the  clouds  above 

The  fated  pair  in  their  new-born  love ; 

For  closer  and  dearer  each  seemed  to  each, 

And  the  sharp  heart-throbs  were  as  tender  speech. 

Little  they  dreamed  as  they  wandered  on 

That  the  earth  should  be  verdant  to  look  upon ; 

That  through  labor  and  sorrow  life  grows  more  dear. 

That  their  faces  were  set  to  a  blithe  New  Year. 

To  the  man  in  his  strength  as  he  tilled  the  ground. 

Came  faint  far-echoes  of  sweetest  sound. 

The  Eden  lore  was  his  own  to  use, 

The  field  and  the  fallow  were  his  to  choose. 

As  a  child  he  had  strolled  amid  Eden  flowers, 

As  a  child  had  slumbered  in  Eden  bowers ; 

But  of  valor  and  courage  he  felt  the  thrill, 

And  the  man  who  could  strive  might  be  happy  still. 

To  the  world's  great  mother  came  marvellous  bliss : 
The  loss  of  Eden  was  naught  to  this. 
The  gates  of  heaven  swung  wide  for  her : 
Her  soul  knelt  down  as  a  worshipper. 
In  the  hosts  of  the  seraphs  were  none  so  blest 
As  she  with  her  first-born  close  to  her  breast. 
The  winds  were  hushed  and  the  skies  grew  clear. 
As  Eve  made  friends  with  a  bright  New  Year. 

Still  evermore  to  the  sons  of  men 

And  the  daughters  of  women,  there  conies  again 

The  pulse  of  a  wonderful  rare  delight 

When  a  New  Year  slips  from  the  realm  of  night ; 

When  the  morning  breaks  in  the  dawn  of  day, 

And  the  Year  that  was  weary  hath  passed  away, 

Gone  with  its  burdens  of  woe  and  sin, 

And  the  fight  is  on,  and  they  fight  to  win. 

All  the  way  down  from  the  long  ago, 
The  tide  of  Time,  with  its  ebb  and  flow. 
Has  brought  the  ships  o'er  the  ocean  wave: 
They  come  into  port  with  their  banners  brave. 

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i\ii(I  each  as  its  pennon  proudly  lifts, 
Brings  to  the  shore  a  freight  of  gifts : — 
Tissues  woven  of  sun  and  rain, 
Harvests  that  guerdon  the  teeming  wain. 

Spring  with  its  laughter  and  song  and  wing, 
Summer  with  bounty  broadcast  to  fling, 
Joy  of  the  cradle  and  joy  of  the  hearth, 
Treasure  unfolding  in  smiling  garth. 
And  day  by  day  as  the  world  goes  round, 
There  are  depths  of  gladness  in  Love's  profound : 
And  life  grows  hallowed,  and  homes  grow  dear, 
As  we  cheerily  hail  each  gay  New  .Year. 


Nineteen   Thouahts  to  Think   About. 


Half  the  '^improvements"  result  in 
retrogression. 

Art  would  not  be  so  "long",  if  it  were 
not  so  broad  and  deep. 
-^ 

Crudity  often  has  gems  in  it,  when 
you  polish  downi  to  them* 

The  younger  a  man  is  when  he  "gets 
old",  the  sooner  he  will  die. 
-« 

No  animal  ever  died,  that  was  not 
mourned  by  some  other  animal. 

Horticulture  is  Agriculture,  dressed 
up  in  colors,  and  putting  on  airs. 

"Beauty  unadorned"  soon  grows  mo- 
notonous to  people  of  real  taste. 

Actions    may     "speak    louder    than 
words" :  but  they  are  greater  liars. 
-^ 

The  ashes  of  a  dead  love  often  have 
dangerous  coals  still  lurking  within 
them. 

-^ 

The  breakage  of  the  world  is  one  of 
the  greatest  adders  to  improved  pro- 
duction. 

'^ 

Men  with  great  talents  are  like  light- 
houses:   so    many    people    depend    on 


them  that  are  dashed  upon  the  rocks, 
if  the  lamps  are  allowed  to  go  out. 
-^ 
The  desirability  of  altitude  depends 
very  much  upon  the  attitude  of  the  one 
who  attains  it. 

A  boy  in  the  class-room  is  worth  ten 
on  the  baseball-grounds — if  the  latter 
run  all  to  sports. 

<^ 

A  boy  on  the  baseball-grounds  is 
worth  ten  in  the  class-room — if  the  lat- 
ter run  all  to  study. 

There  are  always  idle  crowds  enough 
on  the  streets  of  the  world,  to  do  its 
work — ten  times  over. 

Clannishness,    like    Charity,    should 
begin   at  home,   and  extend  very  cau- 
tiously into  adjacent  districts. 
-^ 

When  a  woman  calls  her  husband  "a 
brute",  she  virtually  admits  that  he  is 
not  accountable  or  responsible. 

People  with  big  brain  must  keep  it 
well  balanced — or  it  will  eventually  tip 
them  over  in  one  direction  or  another. 
-^ 

Women  may  be  divided  into  two 
classes,  so  far  as  bravery  is  concerned: 
those  that  are  not  afraid  of  lions,  and 
those  that  are  not  ii.fe3^dv;§t|jiyQ?i^ 


Helping   a   Bride    Through. 


I. 


T^HE  great  express  train  had  been 
through  the  whole  night  gradually 
losing  time.  Snow  was  falling  all  along 
the  track:  not  in  good  honest  stupid 
flakes  whose  final  location  one  could 
depend  upon,  but  in  small  dusty  parti- 
cles that  would  go  anywhere  and  liked 
nothing  better  than  to  drift  into  cuts 
and  stop  a  train  if  it  could. 

In  the  comfortable  berths  of  the 
sleeping-cars,  all  was  snug  enough; 
indeed  it  is  for  some  a  rather  pleasant 
pastime,  to  lie  well  rolled  up  in  warm 
blankets,  peer  out  of  the  frosty  window 
into  a  willd  winter  night  as  it  flies  past 
you,  and  then  pull  down  the  thick  cur- 
tain, cuddle  into  a  cat-like  bundle  of 
coziness,  and  fall  asleep. 

But  some  time  in  the  watches  almost 
everybody  was  awakened  by  the  disturb- 
ance of  a  long  silence;  we  had  been 
lying  still  longer  than  any  station  ought 
to  detain  us. 

One  by  one  the  painfully  audible 
snores  of  heavier  sleepers  subsided  into 
a  waking  quiet.  Brakemen  and  porters 
began  to  be  heard  passing  to  and  fro 
through  the  car.  Finally  they  con- 
versed in  half -subdued  tones,  and  now 
and  then  one  could  hear  the  word 
"stalled." 

It  was  not  long  before  everybody  on 
board  knew  that  the  train  had  been 
brought  up  in  a  deep  cut  full  of  drifts ; 
that  the  wind,  upon  the  contrary,  was 
more  active  than  ever,  and  with  great 
good  nature  piled  this  white  dust  higher 
and  higher  upon  the  blockade  already 
established.  So  there  we  were,  jailed  in 
tons  of  snow ;  and  instead  of  the  pros- 
pect of  arriving  home  in  the  early  morn- 
ing, we  were  virtually  as  far  away  as 
if  Lake  Superior  yawned  between  our 

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There  were  enough  provisions  on 
board  to  give  everybody  a  fairly  good 
breakfast;  and  two  of  the  most  hardy 
porters  dug  their  way  out  in  the  storm 
with  a  view  of  buying  more  from  the 
neighboring  farmers.  The  human  atoms 
of  this  little  disjointed  world  that  had 
been  separately  flying  along  through  the 
night  began  to  get  together ;  and  people 
became  acquainted  who  would  never 
have  thought  of  knowing  each  other  if 
the  weather  had  behaved  itself. 
(  "It's  a  long  train,"  said  a  tall,  lank 
man,  who,  having  burned  four  gigantic 
cigars  in  the  smoking-room,  had  taken 
a  ramble  through  the  coaches.  "We've 
got  enough  passengers  with  us  to  start 
a  new  town  here  among  the  snow-banks. 
They're  all  pretty  good-natured,  too, 
considering  that  they're  away  from 
home.  But  it's  something  to  have  a 
home — even  to  be  away  from."  He 
looked  sad  for  a  moment. 

"Only  there's  a  young  woman  in  one 
of  the  forward  day-coaches,  that  cries 
every  minute  of  the  time.  She  just 
leans  her  head  over  on  the  seat-back  in 
front  of  her,  and  weeps.  She  wouldn't 
eat  any  breakfast,  they  say,  except  her 
own  sobs.  She  won't  tell  what's  the 
matter.  Now  I  hate  to  have  a  woman 
around,  crying,  when  she  won't  tell  what 
the  matter  is.  Can't  some  of  the  ladies 
in  the  car  here  go  and  find  out?" 
( A  quiet,  sweet-faced,  middle-aged 
lady,  richly  dressed,  and  with  diamonds 
that  would  have  bought  half  the  train, 
rose  and  started  for  the  door.  "The 
poor  girl  will  tell  me"  she  laughed, 
giving  the  tall  man  a  look  of  courteous 
good-natured  feminine  scorn,  as  if  to 
say,  "Of  course  you  ought  to  know  that 
she  wouldn't  take  any  of  your  rough 
sex  into  her  confidence." 

'The  tall  gaunt  man  fidgeted  around 
for  quite  a  long^^f tM!fty  0\JW5^K:  ^^^ 


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lady  to  come  back  and  report,  and  had 
finally  just  organized  a  game  of  whist 
or  euchre,  when  the  lady  re-appeared, 
with  a  look  of  suppressed  merriment  on 
her  face. 

"The  poor  girl  informed  me  at  last," 
she  said,  in  answer  to  our  looks  of  in- 
quiry. "You  never  could  have  got  her 
to  tell  it  in  the  world!'' — with  a  look 
at  the  tall  gaunt  man.  "She  made  me 
half  promise  not  to  tell  it,  before  she 
would  let  me  know  what's  the  matter. 
She's  quite  a  pretty  girl,  too,  if  her  face 
wasn't  pasted  with  tears." — At  this  all 
the  gentlemen  evinced  a  new  and  eager 
sympathy.  "Hurry  up  and  tell  the  half 
you  didn't  promise  not  to,"  said  the 
lady's  husband. 

But  the  lady  required  considerable 
urging  before  she  would  tell.  She 
laughingly  said  that  secrets  had  a  cer- 
tain mercantile  value,  and  made  her 
husband  promise  to  buy  her  a  number 
of  extra  presents,  on  her  next  birthday, 
in  case  we  were  released  from  our  pres- 
ent incarceration.    At  last  she  said : 

"Well,  the  trouble  is  just  this:  the  girl 
is  engaged  to  be  married  this  evening 
at  six  o'clock  in  a  little  town  ten  miles 
ahead  of  here,  named  Independence — 
called  so  I  presume  on  account  of  its 
freedom  from  servility  to  stage-coaches ; 
for  the  trains,  for  some  reason,  all  stop 
there — ^that  is,  if  they  ever  get  there. 
The  girl  has  been  away  somewhere  to 
nurse  a  sick  sister,  and  could  not  leave 
any  sooner.  She  expected  to  get  home 
last  night,  and  be  ready  for  the  cere- 
mony this  evening;  she  is  a  poor  girl, 
evidently,  and  hasn't  much  to  get  ready 
with.  About  half  of  Italy  is  shovelling 
out  the  snow  ahead  of  us;  but  it  is 
going  to  be  a  historical  blizzard,  and 
we've  got  to  stay  here  all  day.  So  the 
wedding  will  have  to  be  postponed,  and 
that,  to  the  poor  girl's  untutored  imagi- 
nation, means  future  bad  luck,  loss  of 
her  husband's  affection,  and  any  amount 
of  collateral  sorrow  and  misfortune. 
She  says  her  grandmother  always  used 
to  quote  to  her.  Tut  off  the  day,  you'll 
be  sorry  alway';  and  she's  known  it 
actually  to  happen,  two  or  three  times. 
She  thinks  her  whole  life  is  blasted." 


"And  so  it  is,  if  she  thinks  so",  spoke 
up  the  tall  lean  man,  trumping  the 
wrong  ace,  or  committing  some  other 
card-atrocity  that  made  his  partner  yell 
out  as  if  he  had  had  his  pet  corn  mal- 
treated. "  'As  a  man  thinketh  so  is  he ;' 
but  as  a  woman  thinketh" — 

"Who  knows  what  any  woman  think- 
eth?" asked  his  partner,  who  was  the 
sweet- faced  woman's  husband.  "Do 
you  want  to  make  the  spirit  of  Hoyle 
descend  into  his  grave  and  turn  the 
body  over?    Lead  a  small  trump,  now!" 

"I'm  in  no  condition  to  play  cards," 
replied  the  tall  man,  sadly  though  good 
naturedly,  rising  from  his  seat.  "Some- 
bociy  else  must  take  my  place.  My  wed- 
ding was  a  postponed  one." 

"Tell  us  all  about  it,  please,"  pleaded 
the  lady. 

"The  tell-us-all-about-it  stories  are 
generally  bores,"  replied  the  man,  "and 
this  one  would  be.  I'm  going  out  to 
see  the  descendants  of  ancient  and 
mighty  Rome  wield  a  modern  Ameri- 
can shovel."  And  we  saw  no  more  of 
him  that  day. 

II. 

In  the  evening  we  had  a  very  good 
supper  in  our  sleeping-car,  v/ith  as 
much  good  cheer  as  we  could  gather. 
The  porter  that  waited  on  us  \vas  a 
peculiarly  intelligent  and  amiable  mem- 
ber of  the  fraternity,  and  gave  us  food 
and  information  in  alternate  courses. 
He  informed  us,  among  other  things, 
that  the  storm  was  more  powerful  than 
ever;  that  the  great  question  of  the 
afternoon  had  seemed  to  be  not  whether 
the  Italians  would  be  able  to  shovel  the 
snow  out  of  the  cut,  but  whether  the 
snow  would  be  able  to  bury  the  Italians ; 
and  that  it  would  probably  be  morning 
again  before  the  additional  force  of  men 
and  locomotives  were  able  to  dig  us  out 
— longer  if  the  storm  increased  much. 

The  tall  gaunt  man  had  disappeared, 
and  we  asked  our  porter  what  had 
become  of  him.  He  replied  that  Lower 
Nine,  as  he  called  him,  had  been  doing 
a  very  curious  thing.  He  had  gone  up 
to  the  young  lady  who  was  crying  in  the 
front  passenger  car,  whispered  a  few 

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words  in  her  ear,  brightened  her  up  con- 
siderably, sent  to  the  sleeper  for  his 
overcoat,  gloves,  and  arctics,  and  then 
started  out  into  the  snow  and  cold. 

He  had  come  back  in  the  course  of  an 
hour,  looking,  as  near  as  we  could  make 
out  from  the  description,  like,  an  ani- 
mated snow  man  from  somebody's  front 
yard. 

With  him  were  four  strong  young 
farmers,  and  they  all  burrowed  their 
way  to  the  car  in  which  was  the  young 
lady.  They  wrapped  her  up  carefully 
in  blankets  that  they  brought  along,  and 
started  with  her  out  into  the  open. 
One  of  the  farmers  told  a  brakeman 
who  rendered  a  little  stray  aid  on  the 
occasion,  that  four  strong  horses  and  a 
**cutter"  had  been  engaged  to  draw  the 
girl  to  Independence;  and  the  tall 
gaunt  man  was  escorting  her. 

We  all  drank  Lower  Nine's  health, 
gave  him  three  cheers  in  his  absence, 
and  wished  him  a  pleasant  ten-mile 
drive. 

We  were  wrenched  from  our  white 
fastenings  next  morning,  and  passed 
through  Independence  at  9  A.  M.  As 
we  looked  out  of  the  frosty  windows, 
we  discovered  that  the  whole  town  had 
come  to  the  station  to  see  the  tall  gaunt 
man  to  the  train !  He  was  the  center  of 
a  crowd  running  up  into  the  hundreds, 
in  spite  of  all  the  frost  and  snow;  a 
brass  band  was  playing  "Hail  to  the 
Chief" ;  cheer  after  cheer  went  up  from 
the  crowd  as  it  bade  him  good-bye ;  and 
the  bride,  whose  face  was  now  one  very 
pretty  garden  of  smiles,  kissed  him  the 
last  thing  before  he  boarded  the  train. 

Of  course  we  received  Lower  Nine 
with  bursts  of  enthusiasm,  and  made 
him  tell  us  the  whole  adventure.  "It 
was  a  trip  through  the  Arctic  regions," 
were  among  the  things  he  said.  "The 
mercury  was  twenty  degrees  below  zero. 
The  bride  was  covered  with  furs,  robes, 
horse-blankets,  and  over-coats,  and  sur- 
rounded with  hot  bricks.  We  floun- 
dered through  the  snow,  in  places,  like 


blind  moles.  We  lipped  over  five  times, 
and  then  I  stopped  keeping  count.  We 
got  there  an  hour  before  time  for  the 
wedding,  rallied  the  friends,  reassured 
die  bridegroom,  and  pulled  thei  wedding 
off  in  great  style.  The  poor  little  thing 
wanted  to  pay  me  what  I  had  expended 
in  getting  her  through;  and  I  told  her 
it  was  a  dollar  for  the  driver  and  fifty 
cents  for  each  horse,  and  I  would  make 
her  a  wedding  present  of  the  amount." 

"How  much  was  it  really  ?"  asked  the 
sweet-faced  lady  with  the  diamonds. 

"It  cost  me  fiftyone  dollars  and  forty- 
three  cents  to  get  the  Independence 
young  lady  a  Christmas  wedding,  and 
save  her  from  a  sad,  unfortunate,  and 
generally  disappointed  life,"  replied  the 
gaunt  man,  drawing  a  gigantic  cigar 
from  his  pocket,  and  starting  for  the 
smoking-room. 


The  Sheep  at  The  Stack. 

(See  Frontispiece.) 

MAKE  ready,  my  laddies!  it  soon  will  be 
night, 
The  clouds  they  are  falling  in  pieces  of  white ; 
The  drifts  they  are  creeping  abroad  in  the  land. 
And  blanketing  even  the  trees  as  they  stand 
Asleep  in  the  howl  of  the  storm. 

No  grasses  tonight  will  grow  under  your  feet— 
The  catde  arc  calling  for.  something  to  eat  ; 
But  do  not  forget  it,  while  filling  the  rack. 
To  grain  and  to  shelter  the  sheep  at  the  stack 
In  sheds  that  are  cozy  and  warm. 

They  huddle  together  the  whole  o'  the  day, 
And  nibble  a  bit  at  the  ends  o*  the  hay ; 
But  hardly  consider  that  living  is  sweet, 
Unless  it  be  growing  or  flung  at  their  feet, 
Or  easily  hung  to  the  back. 

Make  ready,  my  laddies,  and  think  as  you  go, 
They're  not  to  be  worried  because  they  are  so; 
There's  lots  in  the  world  to  forget  and  forgive; 
We've  several  neighbors,  my  laddies  that  live 
The  same  as  the  sheep  at  the  stack. 


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A   Pioneer    Suffragette. 


"VJ^HEN  the  history  of  the  temper- 
ance, the  anti-slavery,  and  the 
Woman's  Suffrage  movements,  begin- 
ning- almost  simultaneously  more  than 
two  ^generations  ago,  is  written  or  read, 
Miss  Anthony's  name  appears  at  fre- 
quent intervals  as  an  originator  or  pro- 
moter of  many  of  the  measures   that 


SUSAN   B.    ANTHONY. 

attended  their  development  and  prog- 
ress. Born  of  Quaker  and  Baptist 
stock  in  Massachusetts  in  1820,  she 
adhered  rather  to  her  father's  than  to 
her  mother's  religious  faith,  in  her 
early  youth,  until  the  head  of  the  fam- 
ily received  a  reprimand,  first  for  mar- 
rying a  Baptist;  second,  for  wearing  a 
large  cloak  with  a  cctfnfortable  cape; 
and,    finally,    he    was    expelled    from 


"meeting''  for  allowing  the  youth  of 
both  sexes  to  assemble  in  one  of  his 
rooms  and  receive  dancing-lessons  that 
the  young  men  might  not  patronize  a 
liquor-selling  public  house. 

Her  father,  after  removal  to  New 
York  State,  became  one  of  the  richest 
cotton-manufacturers  of  Washington 
County;  and  yet  he  desired  that  his 
children,  girls,  as  well  as  boys,  should 
fit  themselves  for  some  profession ;  and 
Miss  Susan,  a  bright  scholar,  now  be- 
came a  teacher.  When  the  father  failed, 
in  the  financial  crash  of  1837,  the  chil- 
dren, of  whom  there  were  several,  not 
only  succeeded  in  supporting  themselves, 
but  assisted  him  to  regain  his  commer- 
cial standing. 

One  of  Miss  Anthony's  first  public 
"demonstrations"  was  made  in  the  New 
York  Teachers'  Association,  when  she 
"struck"  the  assembly  for  higher  wages, 
and  a  recognition  of  equal  rights,  in  that 
regard,  for  the  alleged  weaker  sex. 
She  was  also  interested  in  temperance 
at  that  time.  In  1852,  the  Woman's 
Rights  movement  received  its  first  pub- 
lic impetus  by  the  organization  of  the 
New  York  State  Woman's  Rights  Asso- 
ciation, iMrs.  Elizabeth  Cady  Stanton 
being  president,  and  Miss  Anthony  sec- 
retary. She  was  one  of  the  first  to 
declare  for  the  ballot  to  promote  the 
temperance  cause,  as  she  had  "no  time 
to  dip  out  vice  with  a  teaspoon,  while 
the  wrongly-adjusted  forces  of  society 
were  pouring  it  in  by  the  bucketful." 

The  questions  of  equal  rights  for  the 
sexes,  of  temperance,  and  of  the  aboli- 
tion of  slavery,  followed  each  other 
until  all  three  were  inscribed  on  the 
banners  of  the  hardy  and  fearless  com- 
pany   of    "cranks"   of   both    sexes,    at 


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wlioni  the  "respectable*'  and  "conserva- 
tive" community  of  that  day  looked 
askance,  and  avoided. 

The  issue  of  arms  absorbed  attention 
in  1861,  and  Miss  Anthony's  labors 
were  directed  to  the  abolition  of  slav- 
ery, as  the  only  permanent  solution  of 
the  struggle.  With  Mrs.  Stanton  she 
was  instrumental  in  sending  nearly 
400,000  petitions  for  the  abolition  cause 
to  Q)ngress.  They  were  circulated 
throughout  the  North  and  West,  and 
furnished  just  the  right  texts  required 
for  Sumner  and  other  radical  Senators 
to  use,  in  keeping  the  subject  before  all 
the  people.  Like  every  effort  in  which 
she  was  deeply  interested,  her  labors 
here  were  Herculean. 

The  war  over,  the  Woman's  Suffrage 
movement  again  came  to  the  fore,  and 
to  promote  this  the  "Revolution"  paper 
was  started  in  1868,  with  Mrs.  Stanton 
and  Parker  Pillsbury  as  editors  and 
Miss  Anthony  as  business  manager. 
Probably  this  furnished  the  most  har- 
assing episode  in  her  life ;  as  at  the  end 
of  three  years  there  was  a  debt  of  $10,- 
000  to  be  lifted.  She  had  been  kept 
from  the  lecture-field  by  her  duties,  and 
those  in  S3rmpathy  with  her  did  not  go 
so  far  as  to  consider  the  "Revolution" 
"any  part  of  their  funeral." 

The  paper  was  sold,  but  only  to  die. 
Her  debts  were  not  so  enormous  as  Sir 
Walter  Scott's  when  he  went  to  work 
ito  pay  off  his  creditors,  but  Miss 
Anthony,  with  her  usual  bravery,  under- 
took the  task  of  earning  the  money, 
though  from  the  fashion  that  generally 
prevails  in  business  affairs,  she  would 
have  been  justified  in  compromising 
some  claims  and  repudiatingi  others. 

That  was  not  her  idea  of  justice, 
however,  and  the  lecture-platform  be- 
came her  stamping-ground,  for  it  was 
there  she*  was  most  effective  in  stamp- 
ing out  the  prejudice  which  in  her  mind 
prevailed  against  the  inevitable  recog- 
nition of  the  equal  rights  of  women. 
She  was  an  interesting  lecturer,  and  was 
in  demand  all  over  the  country. . 

An  incident  in  her  life  occurred  in 
1872  which  illustrated  the  indomitable 
adherence  of  the  woman  to  what  she 


believed  to  be  right.  She  determined 
to  vote  for  President  that  year,  and  was 
arresjed  and  tried,  and  the  judge  took 
the  case  from  the  jury  and  imposed  a 
fine  of  $100.  She  told  the  court  that 
she  voted,  "not  as  a  woman,  but  as  a 
citizen  of  United  States."  Previous  to 
the  trial  she  had  canvassed  the  county 
three  weeks,  so  that  all  jurors  might  be 
instructed  in  citizens'  rights.  She  got 
up  a  series  of  meetings,  and  made  it 
appear  that  her  cause  was  the  cause  of 
the  people. 

The  judge  decided,  after  arguments 
had  been  submitted,  that  the  question 
at  issue  was  one  of  law,  not  of  fact,  and 
imposed  the  fine.  Miss  Anthony  re- 
torted: "Resistance  to  tyranny  is  obe- 
dience to  God,  and  I  shall  never  pay  a 
penny  of  this  unjust  claim!"  and  she 
never  did.  The  inspectors  who  received 
the  ballots  of  herself  and  friends  were 
fined  and  imprisoned,  but  were  par- 
doned by  President  Grant. 

Miss  Anthony's  career  is  such*  as 
could  have  been  followed  by  none  but 
a  woman  of  remarkable  gifts  and  at- 
tainments. Her  mind  was  stored  with 
all  the  data  affecting  the  political  par- 
ties of  her  day,  and  the  men  who  par- 
ticipated in  public  affairs.  She  lived 
to  see  the  small  band  of  earnest 
reformers  who  were  sneered  at  and 
scoffed  at,  become  honored  and  ap- 
plauded for  their  sincerity,  and  their 
indomitable  preseverance.  No  matter 
what  may  be  the  opinion  as  to  the  ex- 
pediency of  many  of  the  measures  ad- 
vocated by  her  and  her  companions,  it 
is  natural  that  the  qualities  manifested 
in  their  struggles  for  what  they  be- 
lieved to  be  right,  command  respect. 

It  requires  more  than  an  ordinary 
amount  of  courage  for  one  well-bom, 
and  accustomed  to  the  conventionalities 
of  society,  to  set  at  defiance  the  opin- 
ions of  friends  and  foes  alike,  on  the 
firm  conviction  that  the  affairs  of  life 
are  conducted  on  a  wrong  basis — that 
injustice  reigns,  and  the  majority  are 
in  the  wrong.  For  their  sincerity,  their 
bravery,  and  their  hatred  of  wrong, 
such  women  as  Miss  Anthony  will  al- 
ways be  honored. 


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An  Afternoon    With   Fanny   Crosby. 


[The  following'  up-to-date  descrip- 
tion of  the  famous  hymn-writer,  Fanny 
Crosby,  is  so  youthful  and  sympathetic, 
that  we  borrow  it  for  our  "At  Church" 
Department.  It  is  from  the  pen  of 
Katherine  Moody  Spalding. — Editors 
Every  Where.] 

IT  is  always  a  pleasure  to  spend  an 
afternoon  in  the  company  of  a  con- 
genial friend;  and  when  this  privilege 
is  multiplied  and  the  one  congenial 
friend  becomes  a  large  company,  the 
pleasure  is  all  the  greater.  So  it  was 
with  our  afternoon  with  Fanny  Crosby, 
the  blind  hymn  writer,  ninetyone  years 
"young." 

As  a  picture  must  have  a  background, 
so  must  a  story  have  a  setting :  and  this 
one  is  about  a  trip  on  the  "Park  City", 
the  staunch  little  ferry  that  runs  from 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  to  Port  Jeffer- 
son, Long"  Island,  eighteen  miles  across 
the  Long  Island  Sound.  On  this  event- 
ful day  the  pathway  was  one  of  spark- 
ling ripples  and  dancing  waves :  for  the 
sun  shone  upon  a  sea  of  glass,  and  thg 
breezes  were  as  caresses  to  the  moving 
waters  that  rose  in  tiny  ripples  to  meet 
them.  This  is  not  always  so,  let  us 
assure  you:  for  there  are  times  when 
thesfe  same  salt  seas  buffet  the  craft,  and 
toss  even  the  biggest  of  them  to  the 
great  discomfort  of  the  passengers. 

It  was  a  crowded  deck  upon  which 
a  little  band  of  four  appeared  a  few 
minutes  before  time  for  leaving:  and  a 
comfortable  seat  was  secured  for  the 
distinguished  traveler,  only  by  courtesy 
of  a  passenger  who  had  previously  cap- 
tured it  for  bags  and  wraps. 

Miss  Crosby  was  keenly  sensitive  to 
the  beauty  of  the  day,  which  was  one  of 
those  rare  August  ones  when  Septem- 


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ber  seems  to  have  sent  an  advance  mes- 
senger into  the  summer. 

She  bubbled  over  with  "mischief"  as 
she  calls  her  good  spirits,  and  was  the 
merriest,  and  wittiest,  and  keenest  of 
all  those  there.  Because  two  of  the 
company  had  spent  much  time  in  India 
and  Palestine,  the  conversation  quickly 
led  into  descriptions  and  impressions  of 
those  places. 

All  of  the  things  heard  and  talked 
about  were  very  interesting,  but  it  was 
of  the  occasions  for  the  writing  of 
some  of  her  best  known  hymns  that 
aroused  in  Miss  Crosby  the  spirit  of 
reminiscence.  Others  were  drawn  into 
the  circle  and  listened  to  her  words, 
though  not  until  later  was  she  conscious 
of  her  audience. 

It  was  upon  the  return  when  there 
was  more  room  and  quiet  on  the  deck, 
that  she  told  us  of  her  hymns  which 
have  done  so  much  to  inspire,  uplift, 
and  comfort  humanity  since  she  gave 
the  words  to  a  waiting  world,  and  in- 
spired composers  put  them  to  music 
forever  associated  with  them. 

"One  day,"  she  said,  "I  entered  a 
large  hall  where  D.  L.  Moody,  the  evan- 
gelist, was  holding  meetings.  The  place 
was  crowded  and  as  I  was  about  to  go 
away,  being  unable  to  g^et  in,  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Moody,  the  son  ot  the  evangelist, 
came  out  of  a  side  door,  and  recogniz- 
ing me,  took  me  back  into  the  church 
with  him  and  conducted  me  to  the  plat- 
form. The  vast  audience  was  singing 
'Blessed  Assurance'  as  we  entered  and 
Mr.  Moody,  seeing  me,  lifted  his  hand 
as  he  stood  before  the  people  and 
shouted,  'Praise  the  Lord,  here  comes 
the  authoress!' 

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said,  as  she  recalled  the  name  of  Bishop 
McCabe.  Another  time  she  was  attend- 
ing evangelistic  meetings  and  this  dis- 
tinguished Methodist  divine  was  in 
charge.  She  was  conducted  to  the  plat- 
form in  lieu  of  any  seat  on  the  crowded 
floor,  and  as  she  reached  it  the  bishop 
said  to  her,  "Turn  around  and  face  the 
audience!"  and  she  was  made  to  greet 
them.  She  was  taken  by  surprise,  and 
laughingly  threatened  revenge. 

Some  time  after,  she  was  in  the 
Savoy  hotel  in  New  York,  at  a  banquet 
at  which  were  distinguished  guests, 
among  them  both  Bishop  McCabe  and 
the  celebrated  Bishop  Andrews.  The 
latter  rather  overwhelmed  Miss  Crosby 
by  an  austere  and  dignified  manner :  and 
she  refrained  from  playing  any  pranks 
upon  Bishop  McCabe,  although  she  still 
had  the  incident  of  the  platform  in 
mind.  Nothing  happened  during  the 
dinner,  until  it  was  nearly  over:  when 
Bishop  McCabe  was  obliged  to  leave 
the  room  before  the  others.  As  he  was 
in  the  middle  of  the  floor,  she  called 
out  to  him,  "Bishop  McCabe,  for  con- 
science' sake,  keep  sober!" 

Seeing  her  exuberant  spirits  and  asso- 
ciating them  with  the  rare  day,  one  of 
the  quartet  asked  if  the  weather  ever 
affected  her  spirits.  "No,"  she  replied, 
"I  do  not  mind  the  weather  unless,  per- 
haps, a  long-continued  spell  of  rain,  but 
I  am  susceptible  to  my  environment.  I 
like  to  be  with  congenial  people.  Some 
people  annoy  me  very  much.  I  am  con- 
scious of  any  strong  personal  magnet- 
ism. If  a  man  or  woman  is  bad  at 
heart  I  know  it,  and  do  not  want  to  be 
near  any  such." 

"Are  you  always  so  happy?"  we 
asked. 

"No,  I  am  not  always  on  the  moun- 
tain top,"  she  replied:  and  then  we 
were  reminded  of  the  beautiful  lines  of 
hers  and  which  have  never  before  been 
published.    They  are  as  follows: 

marah's  waters. 
Not  alway  on  the  mountain 

The  sweetest  flowers  we  find ; 
But  sometimes  in  the  valley, 

With  cypress  branches  twined. 


We  see  their  buds  unfolding. 
Their  blossoms  bending  low, 

A  hallowed  fragrance  breathing 
Where  Marah's  waters  flow. 

O,  Valley  of  Submission, 

Where  once  the  Son  of  God, 
Our  precious,  loving  Saviour, 

In  lonely  silence  trod. 
And  when  our  hearts  are  breaking. 

To  Him  we  there  may  go, 
And  feel  that  He  is  nearest 

Where  Marah's  waters  flow. 

O,  Valley  of  Submission, 

Where,  leaning  on  His  breast. 
We  tell  Him  all  our  sorrows 

Amid  the  calm  of  rest. 
Though  oft  He  gently  leads  us 

Where  verdant  pastures  grow. 
His  glory  shines  the  brightest 

Where  Marah's  waters  flow. 

"One  evening  I  was  in  the  Bowery 
Mission,  and  after  a  talk  about  God's 
mercy  I  asked  if  there  was  any  young 
man  in  the  room  who  had  wandered 
from  home  and  a  good  mother.  After 
an  appeal  of  the  kind  during  which  I 
asked  any  such  to  come  to  the  altar,  a 
young  man  arose  and  coming  to  us  on 
the  platform,  we  prayed  for  him  and  he 
went  away  with  a  new  look  of  determi- 
nation on  his  face.  Some  years  after  I 
was  in  a  convention  hall  in  Worcester 
when  a  man  came  to  me  after  the  meet- 
ijig  and  told  me  he  was  that  one.  He 
had  lived  a  consistent  Christian  life  ever 
since.  It  was  the  incident  in  the  Bow- 
ery Mission  which  led  me  to  write  the 
song,  'Rescue  the  Perishing',  and  it  was 
that  hymn  that  many  years  afterward 
was  being  sung  as  this  long-since  con- 
verted man  sat  in  the  audience  from 
out  of  which  he  cam€  forth  to  take  mc 
by  the  hand  and  recall  to  my  mind  the 
occasion  of  its  writing." 

He  3|e  *  3|e  He  * 

As  the  dear  old  lady  talked  to  us,  the 
boat  had  been  steadily  leaving  the  Long 
Island  dunes  far  behind;  and  the  shore 
of  Connecticut,  at  first  but  dimly  out- 
lined, had  been  growing  nearer  and 
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Suddenly  from  the  cabin  came  the 
sound  of  song.  An  orchestra  had  been 
playing  a  program  of  selected  music 
during  the  trip,  but  it  was  a  voice  borne 
to  those  keenly  sensitive  ears  on  the 
deck  which  had  attracted  her  attention. 

"Oh,  I  must  hear  that  singing." 
When  moved  by  emotion  Miss  Crosby 
nearly  always  exclaims,  Oh!  She  was 
conducted  to  a  place  of  better  vantage, 
and  word  sent  to  the  musicians  of  her 
presence  and  pleasure  in  their  music, 
and  a  request  that  the  gentleman  sing 
again. 

The  singer  proved  to  be  one  of  the 
leading  tenor  soloists  of  Bridgeport; 
and,  with  the  courtesy  of  a  true  gentle- 
man, consented  to  sing  for  her  if  the 
musicians  could  find  some  music  to  ac- 
company him.     This  was  done. 

At  the  first  strong,  full  notes  from 
this  well-trained  throat,  the  travelers 
gathered  at  the  windows  and  crowded 
the  entrances.  Miss  Crosby,  on  a  cush- 
ioned settee,  listened,  absorbed,  oblivi- 
ous to  all  else.  The  air  was  vibrant 
with  the  spirit  of  the  moment,  as  the 
singer  carried  us  all  on  the  wings  of  his 
song.  One  of  the  quartet  sat  by  the 
dear  old  lady,  with  hands  clasped  in  her 
own.  Not  one  of  us  dared  to  look  at 
the  other. 

As  the'  song  ended  and  the  music 
ceased,  just  for  an  instant  there  was  a 
silence — a  silence  that  could  be  felt,  a 
silence  punctuated  by  the  throbbing  of 
the  propeller,  every  stroke  of  the  blade 
bringing  us  nearer  the  dock:  for  we 
were  already  within  the  inner  harbor. 

Then  the  silence  was  broken  as  dear 
Fanny  clapped  her  hands,  those  delicate 
sensitive  hands,  in  glee.  Rising  to  her 
feet,  we  knew  she  was  going  to  address 
us. 


When  speaking,  she  likes  to  have  a 
little  book  in  her  hand:  but  without  it, 
she  spreads  her  hands  upon  her  bosom. 
Knowing  this,  we,  who  knew  her  cus- 
tom, felt  that  something  was  coming  as 
we  saw  her  assume  this  position.  Nor 
were  we  disappointed.  Addressing  her- 
self to  the  musicians,  she  talked  of  the 
great  pleasure  they  had  given  her  at 
that  moment,  of  the  privilege  of  giving 
of  their  talent  for  music  to  the  world, 
of  consecrating  it  to  their  Heavenly 
Father :  and  concluded  by  invoking  the 
blessing  of  God  upon  them  and  us. 
The  men  had  instinctively  uncovered 
their  heads  as  she  proceeded,  and  the 
moment  was  one  of  deepest  meaning. 
We  were  overcome  with  emotion;  and 
when  we  dared  to  look  into  each  other's 
eyes,  we  were  seeing  through  a  mist  of 
tears. 

There  was  Ihtle  time  left,  for  the 
boat  was  already  close  to  the  pier:  but 
these  were  filled  wth  handclasps  and 
words  of  appreciation  from  many. 
*Some  spoke  their  names,  others  said, 
"You  do  not  know  me,  but  I  know  and 
love  your  hymns,"  and  that  was  enough. 
That  exultant  "Oh !"  came  from  the 
authoress  as  she  reached  after  the  offered 
hands  and  gave  them  other  messages, 
and  to  the  bereaved  and  mourning, 
tenderest  sympathy. 

A  few  moments  later,  and  the  little 
company  of  four  entered  a  waiting 
auto:  and  the  boat  and  its  good  cap- 
tain were  left  behind,  and  the  company 
that  for  the  afternoon  had  been  inspired 
and  edified  by  the  presence  and  words 
of  this  dear  old  lady,  scattered.  But 
the  blessing  of  those  hours  will  linger 
long  upon  those  who  felt  the  benedic- 
tion of  the  presence  of  one  of  God's 
saintly  women. 


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By   Charles   Edward  Stowe. 


HTHE  poet  Longfellow,  in  one  of  his 
earlier  poems,  pictures  a  youth, 
who,  seizing  a  banner,  begins  with  mad 
enthusiasm  the  ascent  of  a  mountain  in 
mid-winter.  He  rises  higher  and  high- 
er, ever  shouting  the  exultant  cry  "Ex- 
celsior!" He  leaves  behind  him  the 
fields  and  the  houses  where  his  neigh- 
bors live,  the  sheep-folds  and  the  cattle 
browsing  in  the  pastures.  His  voice  is 
fainter,  and  fainter,  and  at  last  is 
hushed,  as  he  is  frozen  in  the  eternal 
snows.  This  is  an  eloquent  comment  on 
the  futility  of  saintliness  that  thinks 
itself  too  good  and  great  for  human 
nature's  daily  food. 

Such  saints  hang  like  Mahomet's 
coffin  somewhere  between  earth  and* 
heaven.  They  feel  themselves  too  good 
to  live  among  their  sinful  fellow-beings. 
Everywhere  they  carry  the  chill  of 
death  with  them.  The  atmosphere  they 
inhale  is  too  rarified  to  support  human 
life,  and  they  are  dead  to  all  that  living 
men  and  women  care  for,  and  they  suf- 
focate you  whenever  you  approach 
them.  These  are  those  of  whom  Jesus 
spoke  when  he  said  that  they  "trusted 
in  themselves  that  they  were  righteous 
and  despised  others." 

These  are  the  saints  that  scare  the 
sinners  out  of  their  wits,  and  make 
them  take  to  their  heels!  Such  saints 
did  not  like  Jesus,  because,  as  they  said, 
he  was  the  friend  of  publicans  and  sin- 
ners. Hence  the  wonderful  attractive- 
ness of  Jesus.  Jesus  was  not  great  in 
accordance  with  human  standards.  So- 
cially he  was  not  great,  for  he  was  a 
|>oor  working-man,  and  the  companion 


of  working-men.  He  was  known  as 
**the  carpenter's  son".  He  was  despised 
as  the  friend  of  publicans  and  sinners ; 
he  was  classed  by  the  saintly  people  of 
his  day  as  a  dangerous  man,  a  socialist, 
or  communist — all  because  he  received 
sinners,  and  ate  with  them.  They 
thought  that  if  he  dealt  with  a  sinner  at 
all  he  ought  to  have  done  it  at  the  end 
of  a  ten-foot  pole.  Then  he  was  known 
to  talk  with  women  that  were  notorious 
sinners:  they  showed  for  him  great 
personal  regard,  wept  over  his  feet,  and 
lavished  precious  ointment  on  his  head : 
and  this  was  very  suspicious — perhaps 
he  was  no  better  than  they!  Simon 
said,  "If  this  man  were  a  prophet,  he 
would  have  known  what  manner  of 
woman  this  is,  that  she  is  a  sinner!" 
The  very  moral  greatness  of  Jesus  was 
shown  in  the  fact  that  he  could  talk 
with  such  women,  and  not  despise  them  ; 
that  he  could  mingle  with  the  lowest,  as 
one  of  them,  without  any  word  of  scorn 
ever  dropping  from  his  lips;  and  that 
his  great  sympathetic  human  heart 
yearned  into  sympathetic  love  for  every 
form  of  human  guilt,  misery  and  woe. 
He  associated  with  the  mean  and  made 
tlicm  generous,  with  the  small  and  the 
unknown  and  opened  to  them  the  vistas 
of  unending  life.  He  helped  them  in 
their  struggles,  cheered  them  in  their 
misgivings,  strengthened  them  in  their 
weakness,  consoled  them  in  their  sor- 
rows, and  encouraged  them  in  their 
failures.  He  gave  them  joy  for  grief, 
and  hope  for  despair.  In  the  language 
of  scripture,  "he  bore  all  their  sick- 
nesses and  healed  their  diseases."    Jesus 


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said,  "Be  ye  perfect  even  as  your  Father 
in  heaven  is  perfect" ;  but  he  explained 
what  he  meant  when  he  added,  "He 
makes  His  sun  to  shine  on  the  evil  and 
the  good  and  sends  rain  on  the  just  and 
the  unjust."  It  is  His  glory  that  He 
keeps  alive  the  very  refuse  of  human- 
ity and  feeds  them  from  day  to  day, 
spreads  before  them  all  the  glory, 
beauty  and  tenderness  of  the  universe, 
though  they  care  nothing  for  it,  and 
flaunt  their  atheism  in  His  face. 

That  God  is  the  great,  loving  servant 
of  all,  was  the  tribute  of  Jesus  to  His 
perfection.  The  life  of  God  according 
to  Jesus  was  not  a  life  of  remote  and 
chilling  isolation,  but  a  life  full  of  warm 
human  sympathy.  For  the  truest  divin- 
ity, according  to  Jesus,  is  the  complet- 
est  humanity.  *^He  that  hath  seen  me 
hath  seen  the  Father",  he  said. 

When  we  show  men  love,  sympathy, 
kindness,  tenderness  and  forgiveness, 
we  show  them  the  Father.  For  if  God 
is  to  be  revealed  to  men  at  all  it  must 
be  through  human  hearts  and  loves. 
Many  and  many  a  mother  has  so  lived 
that  of  her  the  child  might  say,  "Hav- 
ing seen  my  mother  I  have  seen  the 
Father!"  God  is  love;  but  we  only 
learn  to  know  what  love  is  through 
someone  who  loves  us. 

This  spirit  of  religion  as  Jesus  taught 
it  is  the  spirit  of  a  genuine  democracy. 
The  aim  of  the  most  approved  politics 
of  today  is  to  bring  humanity  to  the 
front,  to  call  up  into  places  of  responsi- 
bility .and  power,  those  who  have  the 
qualities  'but  who  hitherto  have  lacked 
the  opportunity.  It  is  the  aim  of  mod- 
ern politics  to  rescue  from  disfranchise- 
ment the  classes  that  in  times  gone  past 
have  beeni  overshadowed  by  rank ;  and 
to  make  each  man  count  something  in 
the  general  management  of  public  af- 


fairs, and  in  the  general  effort  for  a 
better  and  higher  life  for  all  mankind. 
Washington  and  Lincoln  had  the  power 
they  did  and  will  ever  have  in  this 
nation  because  they  were  the  servants 
of  the  people.  They  lived  to  serve  us, 
and  we  therefore  live  to  love  and  honor 
them.  More  and  more  we  want  all 
things  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  and 
for  the  people !  This  is  the  spirit  of  Lin- 
coln. "He  that  is  greatest  among  you 
let  him  be  your  servant!"  said  Jesus, 
and  this  is  today  the  spirit  of  our  mod- 
ern democracy. 

"Then  gently  scan  your  brother  man, 

Still  gentler  sister  woman. 
Though  they  may  gang,  a  kennie  wrang 

To  step  aside  is  human. 

'Tis  He  alone  who  made  our  hearts, 

Decidedly  can  try  us. 
He    knows   the    chords,    their    varying 
parts, 

The  springs,  their  various  bias. 

Then  at  the  balance  let's  be  mute. 

We  never  can  adjust  it. 
What's  done  we  partly  may  compute ; 
But  know  not  what's  resisted." 

What,  then,  is  the  work  of  the  minis- 
ters and  the  churches  of  Clirist  if  not  to 
be  among  men  as  he  was  among  men  ? 
To  cheer,  to  encourage,  in  the  name  of 
Him  who  would  not  break  the  bruised 
reed  nor  quench  the  smoking  flax. 

To  try  to  make  bad  men  better  by 
preaching  hell-fire  and  hell-torments  is 
as  hopeless  as  it  would  be  to  try  to  raise 
a  batch  of  dough  by  blowing  a  resur- 
rection trumpet  over  it.  You  can't 
hatch  eggs  by  thunder  and  lightning! 
What  they  want  is  the  brooding  warmth 
of  the  mother-bird's  wings. 


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TTHIS  modest  but  significant  title 
adorns  the  title-page  of  Margaret 
E.  Sangster's  latest  book  of  poems. 
For  year  after  year,  the  pages  of  Every 
Where  have  been  enriched  with  the 
products  of  this  author's  gifted  pen: 
for  we  not  only  thought,  but  knew,  that 
she  represented  a  phase  of  home  life, 
that  few  American  poets  had  reached. 
Like  that  of  the  still-read  and  revered 
Mrs.  Hemans,  her  note  has  always  been 
clear  and  true,  and  well  adapted  to  make 
Home  brighter,  sweeter,  happier,  and 
more  and  more  secure.  The  deep  relig- 
ious fervor*  that  ringfs  through  most  of 
her  lines,  kindles  aspirations  to  reach 
the  great  Foundation  Home  above. 

The  motive  of  her  verse  is  always 
lofty  and  beneficent.  She  evidently 
feels  that  a  poetic  gift  carries  with  it  a 
responsibility ;  and  that  it  should  always 
be  used  to  make  the  world  better  and 
happier.  She  clings  invariably  to  the 
religious  principles  in  which  her  earli- 
est childhood  was  trained,  and  never 
runs  the  risk  of  a  word  that  should 
draw  her  readers — old  or  young — from 
the  landmarks  of  sane  and  healthful 
life — mental,  social,  and  spiritual.  Ra- 
tional entertainment  and  substantial  im- 
provement, ought  to  be  the  main  objects 
of  every  literary  production:  and  Mrs. 
Sangster,  throughout  her  work,  follows, 
both  consciously  and  unconsciously,  this 
heaven-ordained  rule. 

The  spirit  in  which  Mrs.  Sangster 
writes,  is  always  hearty,  deep,  and  sin- 
cere. She  has  evidently  experienced  the 
feelings  which  she  portrays,  and  this 
fact  enables  her  to  communicate  it  the 
more  forcibly  to  her  readers.  No  writer 
can  touch  the  heart  of  his  audience,  un- 
less his  own  heart  has  been  already 
touched.    The  surest  way  to  the  brain. 


is  through  the  heart.  The  author  who 
does  not  mean  and  feel  what  he  says,  is 
surely  on  his  way  to  the  cemetery  of 
oblivion.  The  public  may  be  attracted 
to  him  for  a  little  time,  but  soon  feels 
that  there  is  an  essential  quality  lack- 
ing— and  passes  on  to  something  that 
comes  nearer  to  the  true  foundations  of 
existence. 

As  to  the  thought  and  material — ser- 
vants of  the  motive  and  spirit — Mrs. 
Sangster  does  not  try  to  soar  above  the 
comprehension  of  the  average  intellect 
of  the  world:  there  is  nothing  in  her 
writings  that  cannot  be  easily  under- 
stood by  the  average  human  mind.  Her 
efl^ort  seems  to  be,  not  to  make  plain 
thought  (or  as  is  often  the  case  with 
writers,  lack  of  thought)  complex  and 
difficult  of  being  understood:  but  to 
simplify  and  interpret  nature  and  art,  to 
her  readers :  not  to  produce  a  series  of 
rhymed  riddles  and  epigrams,  but  verses 
such  as  her  clientele  can  understand, 
enjoy,  and  use,  for  their  entertainment 
and  instruction. 

As  to  her  language,  it  is  never  stilted, 
or  strained.  She  does  not  indulge  in 
polysyllabic  words  and  incomprehensi- 
ble phrases.  Her  words,  while  she 
does  not  indulge  in  dialect,  are  always 
those  of  the  common,  every-day  people. 
No  one  needs  an  unabridged  dictionary, 
in  order  to  read  her  understandingly. 
No  time  has  to  be  lost  in  ferreting  out 
what  she  does  or  does  not  mean,  or 
whether  she  does  not  mean  anything  at 
all — as  with  some  writers. 

Mrs.  Sangster  does  not  attempt  to 
display  any  of  that  which  may  be  called 
architectural  skill,  in  the  structure  of 
her  stanzas.  The  same  old  measures 
are  used  in  this  book,  that  have  become 
familiar  to  generation  ^fter  generation 

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of  poetry-readers.  Her  lines  are  always 
correct  in  rhythm,  and  her  rhymes  are 
perfect.  She  does  not  always  rhyme  the 
first  and  third,  as  well  as  the  second  and 
fourth  lines  of  a  quatrain:  she  is  no 
doubt  perfectly  capable  of  doing  this,  if 
she  wishes,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
she  yet  will,  in  every  instance. 

The  work  is  published  by  the  Sturgcs 
&  Walton  Company,  New  York,  and  is 
tastefully  print^  and  bound,  with  a  fine 
up-to-date  portrait  of  its  author,  as  a 
frontispiece. 


Social  Dramaette. 

J^RS.STRAYT AHEAD,  reading  her 
half  of  the  paper  at  breakfast 
table, — ^John,  I'm  drifting  into  nervous 
prostration. 

Mr.  S.,  rising  in  terror  ("she  was  a 
bride''). — Mercy,  Ethel,  let  us  choose 
our  family  physician,  and  I  will  tele- 
phone to  him  immediately ! 

Mrs.  S.,  with  renewed  nerve. — I  am 
better  now.  But  hear  this,  John,  and 
understand  the  cause  of  my  woe : 

"A  divorce  is  on  the  tapis  between 
two  society  leaders  who  were  married 
only  last  year.  They  are  both  of  good 
family,  and  apparently  very  much  at- 
tached to  each  other;  and  the  develop- 
ments are  a  great  surprise  to  their 
friends.  The  cause  of  this  singular 
estrangement  is  (Continued  on  the 
eighth  page)." 

"Miss  Gladys  R.  Gladstone,  a  beauti- 
ful young  lady,  who  claims  to  be  a  rela- 
tive of  the  pre-eminently  famous  Glad- 
stone of  England,  was  found  insensible 
upon  the  pavement  yesterday  morning 
at  five  o'clock,  by  a  policeman  who  had 
slipped  out  for  a  few  minutes  to  get  the 
morning  air.  Nothing  was  at  first 
known  of  the  cause  of  her  mishap,  and 
it  was  not  for  two  hours  after  being 
taken  to  her  father's  home  on  8s6t5 
street,  that  she  was  able  to  speak." 

"She  then  unfolded  a  fearful  story, 
which  is  as  follows:  She  was  (Contin- 
ued on  the  loth  page)." 

"—A  reporter  of  the  Daily  Puffball 
has  ascertained  the  names  of  the  elop- 


ers. They  are  (Continued  on  the  12th 
page)." 

" — The  two  lovers  were  walking  to- 
gether on  23d  street,  attracting  much 
attention  even  amid  the  hurrying  throng 
by  their  distinguished  appearance.  Sud- 
denly she  drew  a  silver-plated  revolver, 
and  (Continued  on  the  29th  page)." 

" — For  it  is  certain  that  a  radical 
change  is  to  take  place  in  the  fashion  of 
hats  and  sleeves.  The  latter  will  be 
much  abridged,  and  (Continued  on  the 
31st  page)." 

"Now  if  that  isn't  just  as  bad,  John, 
as  the  old  story-papers  that  used  to  stop 
right  in  the  rapidest  parts  of  the  move- 
ment, and  say,  'Continued  in  our  next 
number!'  And  you've  got — you've  got 
— all  the  pages  that  these  things  are 
continued  on." 

John,  rising  hastily  and  carrying  the 
whole  paper-mill  around  to  her  ("she 
was  a  bride").  Here  are  the  missing 
links  and  pendants  of  your  beautiful 
little  stories,  Gladys.  I  will  match  them 
all  up  for  you.    But  it  seems  to  me — 

Mrs.  S.,  drying  an  incipient  tear. — It 
seems  to  you  what,  John? 

Mr.  S.,  timidly. — ^That  you  are  still 
on-  the  road  to  nervous  prostration, 
darling. 


Played  It  Olear  Through. 

TT  HEY  were  engaged.  But  they  quar- 
relled, and  were  too  proud  to 
make  it  up. 

He  called  a  few  days  ago  at  her  fath- 
er's hou6e  to  see  the  old  gentleman — on 
business,  of  course.  She  answered  the 
front-door  bell.     Said  he: 

"Ah,  Miss  Jepkin,  I  believe.  Is  your 
father  in?" 

"No,  sir,"  she  replied ;  "pa;  is  not  in 
at  present.  Do  you  wish  to  see  him 
personally?" 

"I  do,"  was  his  response,  feeling  that 
she  was  yielding;  "on  very  particular 
personal  business."  And  he  turned 
proudly  to  go  away. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,"  she  exclaimed 
after  him,  as  he  reached  the  lowest  step, 
"but  who  shall  I  say  called?" 


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A  PRODIGY  CLUB. 

pRECOCIOUSNESS  is  a  very  doubt- 
ful  blessing — if  one  at  all.  The 
mathematical  ability  with  which  little 
Zerah  Colburn  felt  himself  encumbered 
in  1810,  when  only  six  years  of  age, 
although  a  temporary  advantage,  did 
not,  apparently,  make  him  any  happier, 
or  longer-lived. 

For  a  six-year-old,  he  was  certainly 
entitled  to  a  place  in  the  prodigy-con- 
tingent. He  multiplied  numbers  with 
each  other  that  contained  four  and  five 
figures  each ;  he  used  as  mental  toys  the 
little  matters  of  involution,  evolution, 
compound  payments  and  the  Rule  of 
Three,  and  could  answer,  at  the  end  of 
four  short  seconds,  the  question  of  how 
many  seconds  there  were  in  the  snug 
little  period  of  eleven  years.  It  took 
him  only  a  small  fraction  of  a  minute, 
to  inform  any  inquiring  admirer  as  to 
how  much  was  the  square  of  999,999. 

Little  Zerah's  father  also  had  a  turn 
for  Mathematics,  but  he  preferred  num- 
bers that  were  preceded  by  the  sign  of 
dollars.  Hence  it  was,  that  while  ordi- 
nary boys  of  his  age  were  playing  in 
the  fields  and  on  the  hillsides  of  Ver- 
mont, Zerah  was  being  exhibited  all 
over  the  Green  Mountain  State,  for  the 
money  there  was  in  his  prodigious  little 
intellect.  He  was  the  wonder  and  ad- 
miration of  college-professors,  and  a 
favorite  with  everybody  who  knew  one 
figure  from  another. 

After  the  poor  little  prodigy  had  been 
taken  all  through  the  eastern,  middle, 
and  southern  states,  .his  thrifty  father 
took  him  to  England,  to  show  him  for 
pounds,  shillings,  and  pence.  He  was 
then  not  quite  eight  years  old,  but  he 
certainly  made  the  transatlantic  mathe- 


maticians lift  up  their  lieads  and  take 
notice.  The  little  lad  was  taken  to 
Paris,  after  being  shown  oflf  in  Eng- 
land, and,  among  other  things,  informed 
the  Parisian  scholars  that  the  number 
4,094,967,297  was  not  a  prime  number, 
as  they  had  asserted,  but  could  readily 
be  produced  by  multiplying  641  with 
6,700,417. 

Notwithstanding  all  the  money  that 
had  been  taken  in  at  the  places  wheTe 
little  Zerah  and  his  talents  had  been  hip- 
podromed,  the  father  seems  to  have  had 
a  most  pronounced  faculty  of  keeping 
himself  poor.  It  may  be  that  the  expen- 
sive luxuries  of  Paris  were  too  rich  for 
his  financial  blood.  At  any  rate,  he  was 
glad  to  return  with  his  boy  to  England, 
and  let  him  stay  there  several  years  at 
the  Earl  of  Bristol's  expense. 

When  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, the  old  gentleman  suddenly  sug- 
gested to  him  that  he  should  become  an 
actor.  This  seems  as  absurd  now,  as 
the  renowned  Mr.  Dick's  proposal  that 
David  Copperfield  should  be  "a  brazier" ; 
but  he  consented,  and  took  enough  les- 
sons from  the  celebrated  Charles  Kem- 
ble,  to  convince  everybody  concerned 
that  he  had  better  stick  to  his  mathe- 
matics. 

His  father  died  when  Zerah  was 
twenty  years  old,  and  the)  boy  returned 
to  America,  where  he  was  a  clergyman 
and  teacher  of  languages — 'his  wonderful 
power  of  computation  having  left  him 
about  the  time  he  came  of  age.  For  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  he  gave  no  evi- 
dence of  any  special  ability,  and  died  at 
the  early  age  of  thirtysix. 

A  youthful  prodigy  who  is  still  living, 
is  Master  William  J.  Sidis,  who,  at  the 
tender  age  of  ten  or  thereabout,  gave 
the   professors   of   Harvard   College  a 


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lecture  on  that  great  mathematical  puz- 
zle— ^the  fourth  dimension:  which  im- 
plies, that  in  addition  to  length,  breadth, 
and  thickness,  all  substances  have  an- 
other dimension,  which  ordinary,  un- 
mathematical  people  cannot  understand. 

This  young  gentleman  and  several 
others,  who  are  almost  equally  preco- 
cious, have,  it  is  said,  formed  themselves 
into  a  "Prodigy  Club",  into  which  ordi- 
nary youth  are  not  admitted. 

It  may  be  that  they  will  "make  good" 
as  they  grow  older:  but  there  is  an 
opinion  abroad  that  the  poor  little  fel- 
lows will  share  the  fate  of  most  early 
blossomers,  and  wither  away  and  die. 


EVERY  Where's  opinion  of  itself. 

TT  has,  during  the  pasi  few  years  that 
it  has  been  in  existence,  talked  about 
almost  everything  else  in  the  universe: 
once  in  a  while  it  zvants  to  say  a  few 
words  concerning  itself.  It  wants  its 
readers  not  only  to  enjoy,  but  to 
NOTICE  what  it  is  doing. 

It  is  the  only  journal  in  the  world  that 
makes  constant  and  systematic  effort  to 
develop  THE  WHOLE  HUMAN  NA- 
TURE, 

There  are  excellent  religious  papers — 
each  striving  to  promote  not  only  relig- 
ion in  general,  but  its  own  denomina- 
tional interests — and  Every  Where  re- 
joices in  their  success. 

There  are  several  fine  health  journals, 
and  they  do  much  good,  to  those  who 
can  afford  to  take  them. 

There  are  financial,  trade,  and  thrift 
papers;  society  papers;  political  papers; 
comic  journals;   and  so  on. 

But  Every  Where  is  all  these  com- 
bined. Everybody  finds  in  it  something 
for  himself  or  herself. 

It  is  a  jourtial  for  both  sexes  and  all 
classes. 

It  is  a  clean  and  at  the  same  time  an 
entertaining  Magazine.  It  thinks  it  has 
solved  the  problem  how  to  be  decent 
unthout  being  dull.    It  will  not  admit. 


even  among  its  advertisements,  any- 
thing that  is  not  fit  for  all  the  family  lo 
read. 

It  is  not  an  over-large,  padded  maga- 
zine. It  does  not  deluge  you  with  a  lot 
of  words  that  you  care  nothing  about, 
and  are  fatigued  after  sztnmming  through 
them;  or  ivith  a  lot  of  pictures  at  which 
you  glance,  and  which  you  then  forget. 
You  feel  after  reading  it  that  you  have 
had  a  good,  sensible,  entertaining  time. 

Every  Where  makes  no  extravagant 
promises  for  the  future;  but  those  who 
have  read  it  from  month  to  month  say 
it  has  improved  with  ez^ery  number,  and 
it  can  see  no  reason  in  the  world  to  stop 
improving.  Its  course  will  always  be 
upward,  and  its  march  omvard;  and  if 
anybody  at  the  end  of  the  year  says  he 
has  not  had  more  than  his  money's 
worth  we  wiU  send  the  amount  back  to 
him,  mth  some  approved  remedy  for 
dyspepsia. 

And  now,  and  any  day,  the  whole 
year  round,  and  every  fnonth  in  every 
year,  is  the  time  to  subscribe. 


"fake"  damages. 

JT  is  singular  how  many  forms  Decep- 
tion for  the  sake  of  obtaining 
money,  will  assume.  A  certain  number 
of  people  are  always  working  hard  to 
escape  from  work:  and  one  of  their 
methods  is  to  get  "hurt",  or  pretend 
they  are,  and  be  paid  for  it  by  those 
who  have  money  to  "give  up." 

One  amusing  instance  of  this  class  of 
industry,  is  that  of  "the  banana-peel 
woman",  who  for  several  years  made 
sad  various  corporations,  by  claiming 
damages  from  them  for  imaginary  in- 
juries—generally from  slipping  on  a 
banana-peel  "carelessly"  left  upon  their 
premises.  It  would  almost  seem  as  if 
the  fates  that  controlled  West  India 
fruitage,  "had  it  in"  for  her— that  is,  it 
does  now:  for  she  dealt  with  so  many 
different    companies,    that    for    a   l«ng 

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time,  one  did  not  know*  about  the  other. 

Ai  last,  some  ingenious  and  pains- 
taking attorney  looked  up  her  calamity- 
record,  largely  owing  to  its  uniform 
pomological  character,  and  she  was  con- 
victed of  attempted  fraud,  and  sentenced 
to  a  term  of  imprisonment,  in  a  place 
where  banana-peelings  will  not  be  par- 
ticularly in  evidence. 

Corporations  and  their  employes  are 
often  careless  enough  of  the  public's  in- 
terests: but  they  have  certain  rights, 
nevertheless,  one  of  which,  is  not  to  be 
swindled;  and  not  to  be  mulcted  in 
damages  for  which  they  are  not  to 
blame.  All  those  who  are  really  injured 
by  the  negligence  of  factories  and 
transportation-companies,  or  private  in- 
dividuals, should  of  course  have  finan- 
cial redress:  but  professional  damage- 
seekers,  of  which  there  are  no  doubt 
hundreds  if  not  thousands  in  the  coun- 
try, should  be  brought  to  book  as  fast 
as  they  are  discovered,  and  given  a 
chance  to  investigate  facilities  for  ob- 
taining damages  in  the  state-prisons. 

Not  by  any  n^pans  the  least  of  the 
harm  such  creatufj^  do,  is  to  throw 
doubt  on  real  viojpjs,  and  thus  make  it 
more  difficult  f<*r  them  to  get  relief 
legally,  in  cases  where  they  are  deserv- 
ing of  the  same. 


THE  GROWING  PREVALENCE  OF  ''SKAT." 

PARENTS  should  look  well  to  their 
children,  and  where  they  go — and 
with  particular  carefulness  in  regard  to 
drug-stores.  Many  a  child  and  youth 
has  been  demolished  as  to  health  and 
character,  by  morphine  and  cocaine: 
but  as  soon  as  these  abominations  are 
stamped  out  in  any  particular,  either 
theoretically  or  practically,  they  are 
ready  to  get  in  their  baleful  work  in 
another  form;  and  there  are  plenty 
of  unprincipled  druggists  to  help  the 
process  along. 

The  police  of  New  York  are  watch- 


ing for  a  peculiarly  subtle  violation  of 
the  law  in  this  matter:  and  that  is  in 
the  sale  of  heroin,  or  "skat",  as  it  is 
colloquially  called.  The  stuff  is  derived 
from  morphine,  and  has  all  its  hideous 
qualities,  magnified  and  intensified. 

One  of  the  worst  things  about  its  use, 
is  that  young  girls  are  given  finely-pow- 
dered portions  of  it,  as  "snuff",  which 
they  gaily  take  at  dances  and  other 
places,  considering  the  action  as  merely 
"a  lark",  enjoying  the  temporary  effect 
it  has  upon  them,  and  supposing  that  it 
will  do  them  no  harm:  a  matter  in 
which  they  are  sooner  or  later  woefully- 
undeceived. 

Is  there  no  way  to  protect  the  human 
body  and  mind,  and  give  our  race  a  fair 
chance? 


A  DRAMATIC   EXECUTION. 

np  HE  dispatches  tell  us,  that  William 
Turner,  a  negro  preacher,  was 
hanged  by  due  process  of  law,  upon  the 
stage  of  the  large  Opera  House  at  Jack- 
son, Georgia.  This  was  a  very  singular 
place  to  put  a  man  to  death,  and  of  a 
kind  that  has  never  been  used  before. 
It  was  not  done  for  the  sake  of  making 
a  show  of  the  function,  but  for  conven- 
ience: there  being  no  other  good  and 
safe  place.  In  front  of  the  stage,  were 
seated  relatives  of  the  man  who  had 
been  killed  by  the  malefactor,  officers 
of  the  law,  and  certain  others  who  were 
able  to  get  admission,  by  right  or  favor, 
or  stealth. 

The  audience  seems  to  have  been  a 
very  quiet  and  decorous  one,  and  there 
was  no  hitch  in  the  performance.  The 
prisoner  publicly  confessed  that  he  was 
guilty,  and  the  exercises  came  duly  to 
an  end. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  this  perform- 
ance, if  so  it  may  be  called,  was  very 
interesting,  dolefully  so,  in  fact — and 
that  it  deeply  impressed  everybody  pres- 
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it  were  so  wrought  upon,  that  it  will 
make  them  more  careful  of  their  con- 
duct, so  as  not  themselves  to  be  led  into 
murdering. 

Without  any  purpose  of  discussing 
whether  capitaJ  punishment  is  right  or 
not,  we  are  led  to  suggest  that  in  such 
cases  as  it  must  occur,  a  large  portion 
of  the  public  should  be  allowed  to  wit- 
ness it.  If  Dr.  Webster,  who  murdered 
Parkman,  years  and  years  ago,  had  hap- 
pened to  be  present  at  an  execution  dur- 
ing his  boyhood,  or  later,  he  might  have 
hesitated  a  long  while,  before  making 
Cambridge  University  the  scene,  of  a 
terrible  tragedy.  If,  too,  Beattie  of 
Richmond  had  seen  an  electrocution, 
the  dread  of  such  a  process  upon  him- 
self might  have  saved  his  victim's  life. 
Thousands  and  thousands  of  homicides 
might  doubtless  have  been  prevented,  if 
more  publidty  had  been  given  to  the 
punishment  of  previous  offenders. 

A  large,  well-guarded  hall,  and  a 
finely  appointed  stage,  would  be  a  much 
more  convenient  and  cheerful  place  in 
which  to  perform  the  unpleasant  but 
neodssary  task:  and  the  moral  effect 
upon  such  portions  of  the  community  as 
need  frightening  to  be  kept  from  doing 
wrong,  no  doubt,  would  be  beneficial. 

Punishment  by  the  law  is  intended 
not  as  a  revenge,  but  as  a  preventive  of 
future  crimes :  and,  since  it  must  exist, 
the  more;  publicity  that  can  be  given  to 
it,  the  better. 


EAT  AND  BE  MERRY  — IF  YOU   CAN. 


I 


S  "much  of  the  manufactured  'cat- 
sup' sold  by  the  cheaper  groceries, 
made  of  floor-sweepings  from  canning 
factories"  ?  Are  "analine  dyes  and  cop- 
peras, as  well  as  benzoate  of  soda, 
used  as  coloring  and  preservatives  of 
the  discolored  and  decayed  products 
canned  for  consumption  by  outlaw  pre- 
serving factories"? — "Yes!"  claimed^a 
speaker    to    the    State    Federation    of 


Women's   clubs,    not  many    days    ago. 

**We  must  all  eat  our  peck  of  dirt" 
seems  to  have  been  not  only  an  asser- 
tion for  immediate  use,  but  a  prophecy 
— ^to  extend  through  many  a  year. 

"The  bread  that  mother  used  to 
make",  is  a  rarity:  the  staff  of  life 
may  be  the  stab  of  death,  bought  at 
some  bakery.  And  when  it  comes  to 
the  terrible  stuff  that  is  used  in  facto- 
ries in  making  some  of  the  trash  sold 
as  "victuals" — a  recapitulation  of  them, 
after  having  had  a  "full  meal",  is  enough 
to  make  a  sensitive  man  or  woman  faint. 

These  facts  have  been  proved  again 
and  again — and  there  seems  no  way  of 
preventing  them  from  occurring,  over 
and  over.  The  present  human  race  are 
doubting  that  the  patriarchs,  living  upon 
pure  food,  clear  air,  and  natural-spring 
water,  lived  hundreds  and  hundreds  of 
years;  and  thinking  that  twentieth-cen- 
turyites  are  doing  a  great  "stunt",  if  for 
seventy  or  eighty  years,  they  succeed  in 
clinging  to  the  outside  of  the  earth,  and 
not  falling  into  it. 

It  was  also  claimed,  at  this  same  meet- 
ing, that  many  a  drunkard  is  created  by 
the  eating  of  sour  bread,  and  that  bad 
food  is  responsible  for  crime  and  insan- 
ity, as  well  as  bad  health.  "Even  Ham- 
let" it  was  asserted,  "needed  only  a 
square  meal  to  clear  the  dreams  out  of 
his  maddened  brain." 

The  suggestion  "Eat,  drink,  and  be 
merry,  for  tomorrow  you  die",  seems 
nowadays  to  have  a  certain  amount  of 
cause  and  effect  bound  up  in  it. 

But  the  trouble  does  not  all  lie  in 
public  bakeries  and  factories :  like  char- 
ity, it  often  begins  at  home.  Servants 
are  not  watched  carefully  enough ;  peo- 
ple do  not  watch  themselves  carefully 
enough.  Many  a  farm,  with  all  facili- 
ties for  keeping  it  healthful  close  at 
hand,  is  a  plantation  of  disease.  Many 
a  home  kitchen  is  a  nest  of  horrors. 
Many  a  gaily-dressed  human  body  is  a 
perambulating  storage  of  filth.        t 

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JAN,  I,  1 8.— The  first  day  of  the  wedc, 
the  first  day  of  the  month,  and  the 
first  day  of  the  year!  Something  that 
does  not  happen  very  many  times  in  a 
century ;  and  it  seems  a  peculiarly  good 
date  upon  which  to  make  first-class 
resolves. 

Some  people  do  not  believe  in  them 
— but  I  do;  and  I  have  resolved  this 
morning  to  be  more  patient  and  faith- 
ful than  ever  in  my  work. 

Church  was  full  this  morning,  and 
everything  went  oflf  pretty  well.  I 
preached  from  the  text,  "What  doth  it 
profit  a  man  if  he  gain  the  whole 
world,  and  lose  his  own  soul?"  I  was 
afraid  some  of  the  wealthier  members 
of  my  congregation,  several  of  whom 
are  worldly  to  a  great  degree,  would 
be  offended  at  certain  of  the  things 
said;  but  to  my  surprise  they  smiled 
complacently  all  the  way  through,  and 
seemed  very  much  pleased.  I  find  out 
by  conversation  with  some  of  them,  that 
they  thought  I  was  hitting  So-and-so, 
and  had  no  idea  I  was  hammering  away 
at  them, 

Tuesday,  Jan.  3. — The  Young  Folks' 
Prayer-meeting  was  well  attended,  and 
exercises  went  off  very  well,  but  I  must 
say  there  was  more  or  less  flirting 
among  the  members.  Young  people 
will  be  young  people,  wherever  you  put 
them;  and  the  tendrils  of  their  hearts 
are  reaching  out  for  something  human 
as  well  as  divine. 

Wednesday,  Jan.  4. — A  couple  came 
here    this    afternoon    to    get    married. 


They  were  not  a  romantic  pair:  each 
had  been  wedded  before,  and  they 
seemed  used  to  the  process.  I  was 
awa^  making  calls,  but  they  told  my 
wife  they  would  stay  till  I  came  back. 
This  was  about  dinner-time,  and  we 
invited  them  to  our  table,  to  which 
they  came,  though  they  first  stipulated 
that  they  should  pay  for  the  meal.  To 
this  we  laughingly  acquiesced,  in  order 
to  make  them  feel  at  ease.  The  man 
said  he  had  been  asleep  part  of  the 
time  in  his  chair  while  waiting  for  me. 
After  dinner  was  over,  and  a  reason- 
able time  had  elapsed,  I  delicately 
hinted  that  I  was  now  at  liberty  to  tie 
the  important  knot;  but  hesitation  still 
reigned,  and  evidently  something  was 
on  their  minds.  At  last  the  woman 
spoke  up  and  said,  "I  ain't  a-going  to 
get  married,  till  the  children  go  to 
bed." 

This  was  very  disappointing  to  our 
dear  Httle  ones,  w^o  had  sat  demurely 
and  quietly  in  one  corner  so  as  "to  see 
the  show,"  as  they  afterwards  rather 
irreverently  put  it;  but  they  dutifully 
retired,  without  the  least  sign  of  petu- 
lance or  disappointment — after  bidding 
our  visiiors  a  courteous  good-night.  I 
was  proud  of  and  at  the  same  time  a 
little  sorry  for  them. 

The  ceremony  was  performed  very 
soon  after  this  little  event:  the  groom 
giving  me  five  dollars  for  the  wedding- 
fee,  and  a  dollar  for  their  dinner,  which 
he  insisted  upon  me  taking.  I  dutifully 
(and  she  said  "beautifully")  handed 
over  the  whole  amount  to  my  good 
wife.  "It  was  a  prosaic  affair,  but  a 
little  refreshing  to  see  a  wedding  that 


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there  was  no  nonsense  in",  she  said  as 
she  pocketed  the  money. 

Saturday,  Jan.  20. — ^The  editor  of  one 
of  the  dailies  sent  in  his  card.  He  ex- 
plained that  the  reason  he  came  him- 
self instead  of  sending  a  reporter,  was 
because  the  matter  was  one  of  the 
utmost  importance.  He  had  heard  that 
there  was  an  incipient  scandal  in  our 
church,  and  he  wanted  the  first  reliable 
information  of  it — which  he  was  sure 
I  would  be  able  to  give.  "It  will  be  a 
good  thing  for  our  paper  to  get  a 
*scoop*  on  the  others,"  he  explained, 
"and  I  am  willing  to  pay  you  twenty- 
five  dollars  for  the  exclusive  informa- 

of  things  the  whole  night,  and  at  the  ', 
top  of  them  you  seem   to   have  made   , 
your  appearance.    Perhaps  you  are  here  / 
to  explain  the  menagerie  that  has  fillefi^^ 
"the    witching   hours    of    night"    witfj 
someAing  much  worse  than  witches! 
Death. — I  explain  many  things;  but 

\'?iinJk^^if./.?X?Jv^P-n.  v,uii.ei..eQ  awk- 
wardly, but  replied  that  I  would  have 
to  do  all  the  praying,  as  he  was  not  in 
practice. 

I  quite  believed  this,  and  proceeded 
to  the  invocation  alone.  I  prayed  for 
the  poor  people  now  threatened  by 
the  blight  of  newspaper  scandal;  and 
pleaded  with  the  great  Friend  above 
that  He  would  lead  them  into  the 
paths  of  innocence  and  peace.  Then  I 
prayed  for  the  man  who  was  trying  to 
gather  material  with  which  to  blacken 
their  names;  and  that  he  might  be 
awakened  to  a  sensQ  of  justice  and 
right,  and  led  to  follow  die  Golden 
Rule. 

Then  I  rose,  all  ready  to  answer  him ; 
but  he  had  gone! — I  have  preached 
people  out  of  rooms,  and  on  one  or  two 
occasions  felt  impelled  to  order  them 
out;  but  this  is  the  first  time  I  ever 
prayed  one  out.  I  hope  he  heard  that 
part  of  my  invocation  that  related  to 
him,  and  that  God  will  hear  and  answer 
it  all. 

Sunday,  Jan,  22. — I  was  doubly  an- 
noyed today.  Dr.  H ,  a  pushing,  in- 
genious, showy  physician,  who  has  a 
hundred  ways  of  advertising,  although 


he  would  not  put  a  notice  in  a  news- 
paper for  the  world,  came  in  late,  and 
occupied  a  seat  as  far  front  as  he  cou^d 
get.  When  the  service  was  about  half 
fiirough,  in  came  a  man  hurriedly, 
walked  up  to  the  pew  in  which  the 
physician  was  sitting,  whispered  in  his 
ear,  and  went  out,  apparently  in  great 
haste.  The  Doctor  also  rose,  and  re- 
tired from  the  room,  with  an  air  as  if 
the  health  of  the  whole  world  depended 
on  him — though  maybe,  in  charity,  I 
shouldn't  say  that.  Still,  there  was  no 
doubt  that  every  one  in  the  congrega- 
tion knew  sooner  or  later  that  that  was 

Dr.  H ,  and  supposed  that  he  had 

been  hurriedly  called  away  to  see  a 
patient 

Now  if  I  had  not  happened  to  know 
that  this  same  physician  has  been  dur- 
ing tlie  past  year  called  out  of  half  a 
dozen  churches,  by  the  same  man, 
whom  he  pays  for  doing  so — I  wouldn't 
have  fek  quite  so  indignant.  What 
call  be  done  to  stop  such  reprehensible 
methods  ? 


Blending  Denominations. 

I T  seems  sad,  to  anyone  who  has  read 
*  the  Morning  Star  for  many  years, 
to  mark  its  disappearance  from  his 
study-table,  and  to  learn  that  the  Watch- 
man,  of  Boston,  has  absorbed  it. 

The  Morning  Star  has,  for  the  greater 
part  of  a  century,  been  the  principal 
printed  organ  of  the  Free  Baptist 
Church — a  small  but  exceedingly  lively 
organization,  which  was  one  of  the  last 
fruits  in  America  of  the  celebrated 
Whitefield's  preaching.  He  preached 
one  of  his  greatest  evangelistic  sermons 
at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  died  two 
days  afterward.  It  made  such  an  im- 
pression on  the  mind  of  Benjamin  Ran- 
dall, that  he  became  a  clergyman,  and 
continued  so  all  the  rest  of  his  life.  He 
differed  from  the  Baptists,  whom  he  had 
joined,  on  the  subjects  of  free  salvation 
and  open  communion;  and  upon  this 
variance  of  creed,  a  new  denomination 
was  founded,  with  the  above-mentioned 
name-selected^,  i|J§^s|y^^^^  that 


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of  the  Methodists  from  the  satirical 
names  applied  to  it  by  opponents. 

The  cult  spread,  and  has  grown — 
slowly  but  substantially — ever  since.  It 
has  established  churches  in  several  dif 
ferent  states,  and  two  well-known  col- 
leges— Bates  in  Maine,  and  Hillsdale  in 
Michigan.  It  has  published  biographies 
of  some  of  its  leaders,  and  at  times  sev- 
eral different  denominational  journals — 
most  or  all  of  which  have  been  absorbed 
by  the  Morning  Star.  It  has  clung 
stoutly  to  the  doctrines  which  Randall 
promulgated — which  by  the  way  are 
the  very  ones  long  maintained  by  the 
English  regular  Baptist  Oiurch. 

Their  distinctive  doctrines  meanwhile, 
have  to  a  great  extent  permeated  the 
original  Baptist  Church  in  America,  and 
several  of  its  clergymen  have  come  out 
for  open  communion.  This  fact  has  led 
a  good  many  of  the  more  progressive 
members  of  both  orders,  to  effect  prac- 
tically, a  union  of  the  two,  in  all  their 
vital  interests;  of  which  this  consolida- 
tion of  publishing  interests  is  one  of  the 
most  important  items. 

The  later  issues  of  the  Morning  Star 
have  been  particularly  bright  and  schol- 
arly, under  the  direction  of  Dr.  George 
H.  Mosher:  and  it  is  a  gratification  to 
know  that  his  help  will  to  a  great  degree 
be  extended  to  the  Watchman,  which 
says,  in  describing  the  formal  acts  of 
consolidation,  that  it  believes  it  to  be 
the  first  instance  of  the  actual  consum- 
mation of  union  of  two  bodies  in  Chris- 
tian Service,  in  this  country. 


pies :  and  by  their  fruits  ye  shall  know 
diem.  Brothers,  I  am  going  away  to  a 
better  place.  I  have  been  called  to  be 
chaplain  of  a  penitentiary,  and  may  the 
Lord  have  mercy  on  your  souls.  Good- 
bye." 


Pulpit  Gems. 


^OD  made  flowers,  and  man  made 
Botany.  God  made  stones  and 
man  made  Geology.  God  made  the 
stacs  and  man  made  Astronomy.  I  like 
flowers  and  stones  and  stars  better  than 
I  do  Botany,  Geology  and  Astronomy. 


K 


e      wife  they  would  stay  till  I  came  back. 

It      This   was   about   dinner-time,   and    we 

a  invited  them  to  our  table,  to  which 
they  came,  though  they  first  stipulated 
that  they  should  pay  for  the  meal.  To 
this  we  laughingly  acquiesced,  in  order 

m      to  make  them  feel  at  ease.     The  man. 

"^s.  _  said  he  had  been   asleep  part  of   the 

Far,  far  along  the  highway  of  history, 
who  were  the  conquerors?  Who  were 
the  martyrs?  Men  of  the  mountains! 
Who  march  into  the  city  with  less  edu- 
cation, less  capital  than  their  competi- 
tors, and  soon  lead  the  march  toward 
€he  land  of  plenty  and  wealth? 


Short  Farewell  Sermon. 

A    COUNTRY  minister  in  a  certajp 
locality  took  permanent  leave  of 
his  congregation  in  the  following  pa- 
thetic manner: 

"Brothers  and  sisters,  I  come  to  say 
good-bye.  I  don't  think  God  loves  this 
church,  because  none  of  you  ever  die. 
I  don't  think  you  love  one  another,  be- 
cause I  never  marry  any  of  you.  I 
don't  think  ypu  love  me,  because  you 
have  never  paid  my  salary :  your  dona- 
tions are  mouldy  fruit  and  wormy  ap- 


If  we  were  to  believe  in  the  survival 
of  the  fittest  there  would  not  be  much 
chance  for  some  of  us.  But  the  glory 
of  the  gospel  is  this:  that  God  comes 
to  the  infant,  to  the  marred  and  spoiled, 
to  those  who  have  thwarted  and  resisted 
Him,  and  that  He  is  prepared  to  make 
them  over;  and  if  you  will  let  Him, 
He  will  make  you  over,  too. 


Abysses  of  mysteries  with  regard  to 
God's  secret  will  and  decrees  are  opened 
which  meet  us  ever  and  anon  in  the 
Bible  just  as  they  do  in  nature.  Deter- 
mined to  sound  those  depths,  unquiet 
and  irreverent  souls  venture  where 
angels  fear  to  tread,  grow  dizzy,  fall, 
and  are  lost.  But  reverent  and  believ- 
ing souls  commit  these  mysteries  to  the 
powers  of  God  and  accept  them  as  they 
are  written. 

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Dialogue  With  Death. 

IJIGH-ROLLER  (gasing  from  his 
bed,  as  morning  breaks,  with 
mixed  curiosity  and  terror), — ^Now, 
who  are  youf  I've  been  seeing  all  sorts 
of  things  the  whole  night,  and  at  the 
top  of  them  you  seem  to  have  made 
your  appearance.  Perhaps  you  are  here 
to  explain  the  menagerie  that  has  filled 
"the  witching  hours  of  night"  with 
someAing  much  worse  than  witches ! 

Death. — I  explain  many  things;  but 
am  myself  a  mystery. 

H.-R. — ^Well,  my  mysterious  friend, 
suppose  you  inform  me  as  to  from  what 
country  came  the  largest  snake  I  ever 
saw — who,  in  the  morning  about  one  or 
two  o'clock,  came  waltzing  across  the 
floor  again  and  again,  and  frightened 
me  almost  out  of  my  wits.  Mercy,  how 
I  must  have  yelled! 

D. — ^That  serpent  came  from  the  land 
of  Debauchery.  It  got  track  of  you 
while  you  were  traveling  through  that 
country;  it  lay  just  out  of  sight  during 
many  long  evenings  when  you  were 
camping  in  the  valleys  of  dissipation; 
and  it  now  for  the  first  time  makes  bold 
to  come  into  this  chamber,  and  show  its 
loathsome  form,  full  in  your  sight. 
How  do  you  like  it,  did  you  say? 

H.-R. — ^Well,  you  see,  I'm  trying  to 
put  as  merry  a  face  on  the  matter,  and 
on  mattersi  in  general  as  I  can,  but,  to 
tell  it  right,  I  don't  like  it  one  little  bit. 
And  if  you,  as  director  of  the  Zoo,  or 
whatever  it  is  that  owns  him,  have  the 
authority,  I  wish,  as  a  personal  favor, 
that  you  would  get  him  put  back  into 
captivity,  and  in  that  case  you  may 
consider  the  next  champagne  supper  as 
on  me. 


D. — I  have  no  control  over  him:  he 
will  live  as  long  as  there  are  people  like 
you.  ' 

H.-R. — There  were  thirteen  separate 
devils  that  came  along  in  one  proces- 
sion; and  if  the  matter  is  within  your 
jurisdiction,  I  would  like  to  have  the 
parade,  tomorrow  night,  go  around  the 
other  comer. 

D. — It  goes  where  there  is  some  one 
in  a  condition  to  enable  him  to  see  it. 
No  parade  enjoys  itself  without  it  feels 
that  it  is  being  witnessed.  No  one 
else  in  the  house  saw  it  last  night  but 
you — although  they  heard  you  describe 
it,  over  and  over  again.  You  may  be 
sure  it  will  be  around  again  tonight,  if 
you  are  still  in  a  proper  condition  to 
look  at  it. 

H.-R. — ^Well,  I  could  have  got  along 
with  the  snake,  and  the  devils;  but 
that  fellow  who  tried  to  roast  me  up  on 
a  red-hot  gridiron — if  you  have  any- 
thing to  do  with  that  particular  bakery, 
I  wish  you  would  tell  him  to  henceforth 
confine  his  operations  to  cereals. 

D. — ^You  heated  that  gridiron  your- 
self: have  been  gradually  doing  so,  for 
many  years. 

H.-R. — My  darkly-costumed  friend 
speaks  in  parables. 

D. — 'Your  darkly-costumed  friend 
knows  pretty  nearly  what  he  is  talking 
about.  He  has  kept  track  of  your 
goings  and  comings  for  a  good  many 
years. 

H.-R. — When  did  you  get  your  eyes 
on  me  before? 

D. — At  the  bedside  of  your  mother. 
She  begged  of  you  then  never  to  drink 
another  glass  of  intoxicating  liquor. 
To  satisfy  her,  and  let  her  die  happy, 
you  promised;    and  the  grass  was  not 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


green  over  her  grave,  before  you  broke 
that  solemn  oath. 

H.-R. — How  did  you  know  about 
this?  ^  You  weren't  there!  You  didn't 
hear  it!  And  however  that  might  be, 
it's  mean  of  you  to  twit  me  about  it 
now,  when  I  am  sick! 

D. — I  was  there;  I  did  hear  it;  and 
I  have  a  right  to  mention  it  to  you  now : 
the  right  that  comes  from  a  desire  to 
serve  you. 

H.-R. — Singular  service,  I  must  ad- 
mit! 

D. — I  saw  you  at  the  funeral  of 
your  wife.  I  attend  a  great  many 
funerals:  I  have  an  interest  in  them. 
You  felt  very  badly  that  day.  You 
reflected  that  your  drinking  had  killed 
her.  Why,  my  dear  Mr.  High-Roller, 
you  just  as  much  killed  that  wife  (al- 
though no  judge  or  jury  would  say  so, 
while  in  court),  as  if  you  had  thrown 
a  bottle  at  her  head,  and  crushed  her 
skull,  instead  of  draining  the  contents 
of  innumerable  bottles  and  demijohns! 
Your  children — ^your  business  partners 
— ^your  friends — ^your  townsmen — ^your 
countrymen — ^you  have  either  killed  or 
given  deadly  wrong  to  every  one  of 
them,  by  your  habits. 

H.-R. — ^Look  here,  my  unpleasantly 
frank  friend,  are  you  aware  that  I  was 
my  own  man,  and  belonged  to  myself? 

D. — There  never  was  a  greater  mis- 
take. Are  you  aware  that  you  were  an 
object  of  charity  to  start  with,  until 
you  got  old  enough  to  labor?  Do  you 
know  that  the  rest  of  the  world  helped 
clothe  you,  school  you,  feed  you? 
That  your  native  country  threw  about 
you  the  mantle  of  its  protection?  And 
that  God,  having  surrounded  you  with 
so  many  blessings,  possessed  a  right  to 
the  greatest  that  was  in  you  ?  Belonged 
to  yourself,  indeed! 

H.-R. — Look  here,  my  very  frank  and 
sincere  but  not  over-polite  friend,  I 
may  not  belong  to  myself,  but  I  believe 
this  room  does ;  and  whoever  you  are, 
I  will  trouble  you  to  step  out  of  it,  and 
take  yourself  away. 

D. —  {laughing,  hoarsely) — That  is  a 
great  joke!  Why,  man,  everybody's 
house  is  mine,  when  it  is  near  time  for 


me  to  come  for  him !  There  never  was 
a  President  that  could  order  me  out  of 
the  White  House,  or  a  king  that  could 
keep  me  away  from  his  throne,  when  I 
had  business  with  him.  Step  out  of  this 
room,  indeed!  My  very  dear  sir,  you 
may  call  your  most  intelligent  and  high- 
priced  physician,  and  all  he  can  do  is  to 
coax  me  to  "keep  away  for  a  little  time ; 
your  most  faithful  clergyman  can  only 
try  to  prepare  you  to  meet  me,  and  pray 
God  to  make?  me  merciful ;  and  as  for 
ordinary  people — ^judges,  statesmen,  ora- 
tors, millionaires — ^they  are  as  much 
afraid  of  me  as  you  are.  No,  my  friend : 
I  may  have  come  here  to  stay  longer 
than  you  wish:  to  remain  with  you  till 
you  are  ready  to  be  carried  out. 

H.-R. — ^Who,  then,  in  the  name  of  all 
that  is  reasonable,  are  you? 

D. — 'My  name,  sir,  is  Death! 

H.-R. — {screaming) — ^Look  here!  I 
have  understood  from  my  physician  and 
my  friends  that  I  was  coming  out  of 
this  fit  of  sickness  all  right! 

D.— Of  course,  it  was  their  interest 
to  flatter  you :  it  is  always*  best  to  en- 
courage an  invalid.  But  I  am  obliged 
to  admit  that  it  is  an  even  question 
whether  you  live  for  another  day. 
There  is  a  great  probability  of  your 
dying  before  sunset. 

H.-R. — ^(screaming  again) — Oh,  save 
me !  save  me ! 

D. — ^You  must  save  yourself,  if  you 
are  saved  at  all — and  with  the  assist- 
ance of  the  great  God  who  made  yov.. 
There  is  a  bare  possibility  of  your  li/- 
ing  through  this,  but  only  a  very  bare 
one.  I  am  not  in  a  hurry  for  you— 
Heaven  knows  I  have  enough  to  see  to 
this  very  day,  without  you!  I  had 
rather  take  you  finally  from  the  ranks 
of  hale  and  hearty  old  age,  that  had 
worked  out  its  earthly  destiny,  and  was 
willing  to  go  into  the  next  world  of 
which  it  had  had  cheery  and  beckoning 
glimpses. 

So  I  will  tell  you  what  to  do :  First, 
pray  to  God  to  help  you  in  every  step 
and  in  every  purpose ;  then  resolve  that 
you  will  never  drink  another  drop ;  then 
obey  all  the  directions  of  your  physi- 
cian, who,  I  am  informed,  is  a  good 

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one;  then  study  the  laws  of  life,  and 
conform  to  them;  and  if  you  do  get 
out  of  this,  cut  the  acquaintance  of  3M 
those  roystering  creatures  that  would 
pull  you  down  with  them. 

H.-R. — (Turning    on    his    pillow) — 
Thanks:    FU  think  about  it. 


The  Noise-Plague. 

T^  HE  noises  of  a  great  city  have  been 
classified  as  follows: 

1.  Noises  produced  by  horses  and 
wheeled  vehicles. 

2.  Noises  produced  by  street  ped- 
dlers, beggars,  street  musicians,  etc* 

3.  Noises  produced  by  bells,  whis- 
tles, clocks,  etc. 

4.  Noises  produced  by  animals  other 
than  horses,  as  cats,  birds,  etc. 

5.  All  noises  which  come  from  the 
inside  of  our  houses,  as  persons  learn- 
ing to  play  musical  instruments,  train- 
ing the  voice,  etc.,  etc. 

6.  Explosives. 

The  first  group  consists  of  noises  that 
are  more  or  less  necessary,  but  much 
can  be  done  to  lessen  their  eflfect. 
Asphalt  paving  on  all  the  streets  is  the 
one  thing  needed  above  all  others. 

The  old  loose,  cast-iron  manhole 
cover  appears  at  frequent  intervals  in 
the  otherwise  noiseless  asphalt  street, 
and  sends  forth  a  sudden  and  ear-split- 
ting sound  every  time  a  wheel  passes 
over  it.  This  noise  is  wholly  unneces- 
sary, and  there  is  no  excuse  for  its  con- 
tinuance. 

The  manhole  covers  should  be  as- 
phalted, and  properly  fitted  to  their 
frames,  so  as  to  make  a  continuously 
smooth  pavement. 

Noises  produced  by  street  peddlers, 
beggars,  street  musicians,  etc.,  etc.,  are 
entirely  unnecessary,  and  such  people 
should  be  treated  as  public  nuisances. 
Thus  the  few  thousands  engaged  in 
buying  and  selling  rags  and  bottles 
should  no  longer  be  able  to  disturb  the 
peace  and  quiet,  and  actually  injure  the 
health  of  the  rest  of  the  inhabitants  of 
New  York.  Their  business  would  not 
suffer,  for  the  traffic  in  rags,  etc.,  would 


still  go  on.  The  street  musicians  ought 
also  to  be  suppressed. 

The  third  group  of  New  York  noises, 
includes  those  produced  by  bells,  whis- 
tles, clocks,  etc.  These  are  nearly  all 
unnecessary.  Church-bells  and  clocks 
that  strike  the  hours  were  useful  when 
clocks  and  watches  were  rare.  But 
none  of  these  conditions  exist  in  New 
York  today. 

Noises  produced  by  animals,  such  as 
cats,  birds,  dogs,  etc.,  are  unnecessary. 
Think  of  the  vast  increase  in  the  aggre- 
gate number  of  hours  of  restful  sleep 
that  would  be  obtained  by  the  inhabi- 
tants of  this  city  if  all  the  cats  were 
removed  from  our  back-yards,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  decrease  in  soul-losing 
profanity. 

Noises  from  the  inside  of  our  houses 
comprise  the  fifth  group.  If  the  music- 
teachers  could  be  induced  to  take  their 
pupils  into  the  country  to  train  their 
voices  and  teach  them  instrumentation, 
life  for  many  would  be  all  the  sweeter. 
The  well-to-do  folks  set  a  bad  example. 
At  a  fashionable  reception  my  lady's 
drawing-room  becomes  a  pandemonium 
of  shouting,  screeching  women,  each 
doing  her  best  to  make  herself  under- 
stood. 


Weather  and  Nerves. 

A  N  actuary  in  a  large  insurance  com- 
pany  is  obliged  to  stop  work  in 
damp  weather,  finding  that  he  makes  so 
many  mistakes  which  he  is  only  con- 
scious of  later  that  his  work  is  useless. 
In  a  large  factory  from  ten  to  twenty 
per  cent,  less  work  is  brought  out  on 
damp  days,  and  days  of  threatening 
storm.  The  superintendent,  in  receiv- 
ing orders  to  be  delivered  at  a  certain 
time,  takes  this  factor  into  calculation. 
There  is  a  theory  among  many  persons 
in  the  fire  insurance  business,  that  in 
states  of  depressing  atmosphere  greater 
carelessness  exists,  and  more  fires  fol- 
low. Engineers  of  railway  locomotives 
have  some  curious  theories  of  trouble, 
accidents  and  increased  dangers  in  such 
periods,  attributing  it  to  the  machinery. 

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Keeping  One's  Mind  in  Trim, 

A  MRS.  MAYBRICK,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, was  sentenced  to  prison 
for  life  for  the  supposed  poisoning  of 
her  husband,  and  served  fifteen  years 
before  she  was  finally  released. 

It  seems  that  "for  life"  in  English 
prisons  means  for  twenty  years,  with 
deductions  of  time  for  good  behavior: 
and  Mrs.  Maybrick's  case  took  the  reg- 
ular  course  of  treatment  in  cases  of 
murder — notwithstanding  many  people 
in  both  Europe  and  America  considered 
her  innocent,  and  made  great  efforts  in 
her  behalf,  from  year  to  year. 

Mrs.  Maybrick's  course  of  conduct  in 
this  grimy  environment,  as  described  by 
herself  in  her  book,  would  seem  to  indi- 
cate that  she  was_  something  of  a  phil- 
osopher. The  account  is  useful  to  peo- 
ple in  a  great  many  situations.  She 
says: 

"In  saying  a  word  on  what  is,  per- 
haps, best  described  a  'prison  self-disci- 
pline', I  trust  the  reader  will  acquit  me 
of  any  motive  other  than  a  desire  that 
it  may  result  in  some  sister  in  misfor- 
tune deriving  benefit  from  a  similar 
course.  That  the  state  of  mind  in 
which  one  enters  upon  the  life  of  a  con- 
vict has  some  influence  on  conduct — 
whether  she  does  so  with  a  conscious- 
ness of  innocence  or  otherwise — should, 
perhaps,  go  without  saying.  Neverthe- 
less, innocent  or  guilty,  a  proper  self- 
respect  cannot  fail  to  be  helpful,  be  the 
circumstances  what  they  may ;  and  from 
the  moment  I  crossed  Woking^s  grim 
threshold  until  the  last  day,  when  I 
passed  from  the  shadow  and  the  gloom 
of  Aylesbury  into  God's  free  sunlight,  I 
adhered  strictly  to  a  determination  that 


I  would  come  out  of  the  ordeal — if  ever 
— precisely  as  I  had  entered  upon  it; 
that  no  loving  eyes  of  mother  or 
friends  should  detect  in  my  habits,  man- 
ners, or  modes  of  thought  or  expres- 
sion, the  slightest  deterioration. 

"Accordingly,  I  set  about  from  the 
very  start  to  busy  myself — and  this  was 
no  small  helpfulness  in  filling  the 
dreary  hours  of  the  seemingly  endless 
days  of  solitary  confinement — keeping 
my  cell  in  order  and  ever  making  the 
most  of  such  scant  material  for  adorn- 
ment as  the  rules  permitted.  Little 
enough  in  this  way,  it  may  be  imagined, 
falls  to  a  convict's  lot.  Indeed,  the  sad 
admission  is  forced  that  nearly  every 
semblance  of  refinement  is  maintained 
at  one's  peril;  for  'motives'  receive 
small  consideration  in  the  interpretation 
of  prison  rules,  however  portentously 
they  may  have  loomed  in  the  process 
that  placed  an  innocent  woman  under 
the  shadow  of  the  scaffold,  and  only  by 
grace  of  a  commutation  turned  her  into 
a  'life'  convict. 

"Come  what  would,  I  was  determined 
not  to  lose  my  hold  on  the  amenities  of 
my  former  social  position :  and,  though 
I  had  only  a  wooden  stool  and  table, 
they  were  always  spotless,  my  floor  was 
ever  brightly  polished,  while  my  tin  pan- 
nikens  went  far  to  foster  the  delusion 
that  I  was  in  possession  of  a  service  of 
silver. 

"Confinement  in  a  cell  is  naturally 
productive  of  slothful  habits  and  indif- 
ference to  personal  appearance.  I  felt 
it  would  be  a  humiliation  to  have  it 
assumed  that  I  could  or  would  deteri- 
orate because  of  my  environment.  I 
therefore  made  it  a  point  never  to  yield 
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the  almost  universal  outcome  of  prison 
life.  I  soon  found  that  this  self-im- 
posed regimen  acted  as  a  wholesome 
moral  tonic:  and  so,  instead  of  falling 
under  the  naturally  baneful  influences  of 
my  surroundings,  I  strove,  with  ever- 
renewed  spiritual  strength,  to  rise  above 
them.  At  first  the  difference  that 
marked  me  from  so  many  of  my  fellow ' 
prisoners  aroused  in  them  something 
like  a  feeling  of  resentment;  but  when 
they  came  to  know  me,  this  soon  wore 
off,  and  I  have  reason  to  believe  that 
my  example  of  unvarying  neatness  and 
civility  did  not  fail  in  influencing  others 
to  look  a  bit  more  after  their  personal 
appearance  and  to  modify  their  speech. 
At  any  rate,  it  had  this  effect:  Ayles- 
bury Prison  is  the  training-school  for 
female  warders  for  all  county  prisons. 
Having  served  a  month's  probation 
here,  they  are  recommended,  if  efficient 
in  enforcing  the  prison  'discipline',  for 
transference  to  analogous  establish- 
ments in  the  counties.  It  happened  not 
infrequently,  therefore,  that  new-com- 
ers were  taken  to  my  cell  as  the  model 
on  which  all  others  should  be  patterned. 
"I  partook  of  my  meals,  coarse  and 
unappetizing  as  the  food  might  be, 
after  the  manner  I  had  been  wont  in 
the  dining-room  of  my  own  home;  and, 
though  unseen,  I  never  permitted  my- 
self to  use  my  fingers  (as  most  prison- 
ers' invariably  did)  where  a  knife,  fork, 
or  spoon  would  be  demanded  by  good 
manners.  Neither  did  I  permit  myself, 
cither  at  table  (though  alone)  or  else- 
where, to  fall  into  slouchy  attitudes, 
even  when,  because  of  sickness,  it  was 
nearly  impossible  for  me  to  hold  up  my 
head.  I  speak  of  this  because  of  the 
almost  universal  tendency  among  pris- 
oners to  mere  anhnality.  'What  mat- 
ters it?'  IS  the  general  retort.  Accord- 
ingly, the  average  convict  keeps  herself 
no  cleaner  than  the  discipline  strenu- 
ously exacts,  while  all  their  attitudes 
express  hopeless  indifference,  callous 
carelessness,  to  a  degree  that  often  low- 
ers them  to  the  behavior  of  the  brutes 
of  the  field.  The  repressive  system  can 
neither  reform  nor  raise  the  nature  or 
habits  of  prisoners." 


The  American  Army. 

CECRETARY  of  War  Stimson,  in  his 
annual  report,  informs  the  country 
that  the  American  army  is  not  prepared 
for  a  war  with  a  great  power.  The* 
chief  fault  he  finds  with  it  is  that  it  is 
too  widely  scattered  in  small  detach- 
ments. It  should  be  concentrated  so  as 
to  permit  of  manoeuvers  on  a  large 
scale.  Imagine  the  whole  army  concen- 
trated at  one  point — sixtyfive  thousand 
men.  If  the  enemy  could  only  be  kind 
enough  to  attack  at  the  point  of  con- 
centration, those  sixtyfive  thousand 
hardened  warriors  would  be  able  to  put 
up  quite  a  fight.  If,  however,  they 
were  at  San  Diego  and  the  enemy 
landed  at  Portland,  Maine — or  vice 
versa — it  would  be  different.  Indeed, 
if  the  enemy  attacked  the  same  coast 
line  upon  which  this  formidable  force 
was  concentrated,  there  would  be  room 
enough  for  both  to  wander  about  for  a 
month  before  they  came  into  contact. 
It  is,  therefore,  not  for  lack  of  concen- 
tration that  the  American  army  is  not 
prepared  to  meet  a  foreign  foe,  but 
because  the  American  army  is,  in  fact, 
not  an  army  at  all,  but  a  small  body  of 
very  good  men  who  are  scarcely  numer- 
ous enough  to  police  one  big  state. 
They  count  for  nothing  among  armies 
that  can  turn  out  a  million  of  drilled 
troops  in  a  week,  like  those  of  Germany, 
France,  Austria  and  Russia.  Even  Italy 
could  mobilize  more  troops  ten  times 
over  than  we  could,  and  Italy  could 
not  whip  Abyssinia,  and  has  a  hard 
time  conquering  the  wild  Arabs  of 
Tripoli. 

We  have  no  army.  We  are  not  only 
unprepared  to  make  war  with  a  great 
power,  but  unprepared  to  meet  on  any 
soil  but  our  own  such  powers  as  Italy, 
Switzerland  or  Belgium.  Last  spring, 
when  President  Taft  concentrated  our 
whole  available  military  resources  on  the 
Mexican  border,  there  never  were  more 
than  ten  thousand  troops  there.  The 
long  and  short  of  it  is,  we  have  no  army 
at  all.  We  do  nothing  but  pass  resolu- 
tions in  favor  of  universal  peace,  pro- 
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pensions,  which  with  our  naval  and 
army  budget  amount  to  more  every  year 
than  the  military  budget  of  a  power  like 
France,  which  could  mobilize  a  million 
men  in  a  week  and  have  three  millions 
under  arms  in  a  month.  We  are  living 
in  a  fool's  paradise,  and  some  fine  day 
we  shall  awake  from  our  Utopian 
dream  of  peace  to  find  ourselves  help- 
less before  some  great  power  which 
drills  all  its  able-bodied  men,  and  can 
produce  them  at  short  notice. 

We  do  not  need  the  conscription  of 
Europe  to  make  us  invulnerable  to  for- 
eign attack,  but  we  need  some  rational 
system  of  national  defense  which  would 
make  us  the  military  equal  of  Canada, 
which  boasts  its  ability  to  mobilize  two 
hundred  thousand  troops  more  or  less 
familiar  with  the  use  of  arms.  We  have 
an  immense  population,  and  abundance 
of  raw  material,  but  the  material  is  so 
raw  that  it  could  do  nothing  before  a 
modern  army  like  that  of  France  or 
Germany,  or  even  of  Japan. — Detroit 
Free  Press, 


A  Oomedian-Leoturer. 


I 


N  Chicago  the  late  lamented  Joseph 
Jefferson  while  addressing  pupils  of 
the  Musical  Colkge,  drew  this  distinc- 
tion between  acting  and  oratory: 

"Many  talented  orators  have  gone  on 
the  stage  and  failed ;  many  actors  have 
attempted  oratory,  and  they  have  failed. 
The  orator  impresses  the  audience  by 
what  he  says;  the  actor  is  impression- 
able, and  is  impressed  by  what  the  audi- 
ence says  to  him. 

"Acting  is  not  nature;  it  is  art.  It 
would  be  natural  for  a  man  to  come 
upon  the  stage  and  sit  down  and  read 
a  newspaper  for  half  an  hour,  but  it 
would  be  tedious  to  the  audience. 

"If  you  are  dogmatic  and  dictatorial 
by  nature,  choose  oratory.  If  you  are 
impressionable  and  easily  influenced  by 
surroundings,  choose  acting." 

"What  do  you  think  of  beginning 
young?"  was  asked. 

"Well,  I  began  young,"  answered  Mr, 
Jefferson:    "in  long  skirts.     Whenever 


a  property-baby  was  needed,  I  was  on 
hand." 

Any  one  acquainted  with  the  late 
William  Warren,  the  favorite  comedian 
of  a  few  years  ago,  might  say  that  it 
was  his  thoughts  expressed  by  Mr.  Jef- 
ferson. The  dead  and  the  living  actor 
were  blood-cousins,  and  were  often  seen 
*  together  strolling  the  streets  of  Boston. 
They  were  natural  men.  They  did  not 
act,  then— neither  did  they  ever  act  alike, 
and  each  knew  the  fact.  It  is  doubtful 
if  one  even  liked  the  other's  acting. 

But  both  were  artists,  always  stu- 
dents, and  it  was  there  they  met  on 
common  ground.  It  would  not  be  sur- 
prising if  the  younger  learned  some- 
thing from  the  older  cousin.  It  is 
pleasant  to  think  so. 


Oood  Measure. 


IITWORAH  is  not  quick,"  said  the  mis- 
^^  tress  of  the  house,  "and  I  have 
had  others  who  were  better  cooks,  but 
she  is  such  a  'good-measure'  girl  that 
every  one  in  the  family  likes  her.  I 
mean,"  she  added,  with  a,  little  laugh  at 
her  caller's  puzzled  look,  "that  she  is 
always  willing  and  pleasant  about  the 
little  extras  that  so  many  girls  resent. 
If  she  is  washing,  and  some  one  comes 
with  an  additional  garment,  she  cuts 
short  all  apology.  'Sure,  I'll  do  it;  it 
might  as  well  go  in  while  I'm  at  it',  she 
says.  If  she  is  baking,  and  the  children 
want  to  do  a  little  pie-making  or  cooky- 
cutting  on  their  own  account,  Norah 
never  counts  the  inconvenience  to  her- 
self. 'A  corner  of  the  table  and  a  few 
more  dishes  don't  be  worth  botherin* 
about',  she  cheerfully  declares.  She  is 
always  cheery  and  happy  about  her 
work,  and  ready  to  make  it  good  meas- 
ure, whatever  she  is  doing." 

But,  when  one  comes  to  think  of  it,  it 
is  only  the  "good-measure"  service  that 
ever  is  cheerful  and  happy.  The  spirit 
that  is  fearful  of  being  imposed  upon, 
always  on  guard  over  its  rights,  and 
determined  to  resist  encroachment,  can- 
not be  free.  It  receives  as  it  gives — 
scant  measure.  ^  ^ 

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November  28— The  Navy  Department  received 

$8,000,000  for  three  battleships  and  two 

cruisers  which  would  soon  have  gone  to 

the  scrap  heap. 

29 — The    Chinese    rebels  continued  successful 

in  approaching  Nanking. 
30 — The     British     Government     applied     the 
closure  on  470  amendments  to  the  insur- 
ance   bill    and    the    Opposition  left  the 
House  of  Commons  in  a  body. 

Fifty  persons  were  injured  when  a  grand- 
stand collapsed  at  a  ball  match  at  Jack- 
son, Miss. 
December  i — The  McNamara  brothers  con- 
fessed to  having  dynamited  the  Los 
Angeles  Times  building. 
2 — Namking  was  taken  by  the  Chinese  insur- 
gents. 

King  George  and  Queen  Mary  arrived  in 
Bombay. 

Chow  fa  Maha  Vagiravudh  was  crowned 
King  of  Siam;  President  Taft  cabled 
greetings. 
3 — Ten  thousand  persons  marched  to  the 
American  Legation  in  Teheran  and  ap- 
pealed to  the  Minister  to  urge  the  gov- 
ernment to  apply  the  American  principles 
of  fair  play  and  justice. 

King  Alphonso  ordered  his  aunt,  the  In- 
fanta Eulalia,  to  suspend  the  publication 
of  a  book  written  by  her;  she  wired  an 
indignant  refusal. 
4— Persia's  National  Council  appealed  for 
aid  to  the  American  Congress  and  the 
Parliaments  of  other  countries. 

The  sixtysecond  Congress  began  its  ses- 
sions in  Washington. 
5 — ^James  B.  McNamara  was  sentenced  to 
life  imprisonment  and  John  J.  McNamara 
to  fifteen  years. 
6— Prince  Chun,  regent  of  China  and  father 
of  the  child-Emperor  abdicated;  Shih- 
Hsu  and  Hsu-Shih  Chang  were  appointed 
to  succeed  him  as  guardian  to  the  throne. 

Persian  students  in  Switzerland  appealed  to 
President    Taft    for    protection    against 
Russian  oppression. 
7 — King  George  and  Queen  Mary  arrived  at 
Delhi,  India. 

Persia's  appeal  for  aid  was  read  in  the  Na- 
tional House  of  Representatives  at  Wash- 
ington. 


Rebel  leaders  in  conference  at  Wuchang  de- 
dded  to  accept  a  constitutional  monarchy 
with  a  Chinese  at  the  head. 
8 — The  special  Maine  investigation  board  re- 
ported an  explosion  from  the  outside  by 
some  form  of  low  explosive. 

Two  hundred  workmen  were  drowned 
when  a  bridge  they  were  constructing 
over  the  Volga  River,  Russia,  collapsed 
under  pressure  of  ice. 

The  German  Reichstag  dissolved  after  a 
four  years'  service. 
9 — One  hundred  or  more  men  were  entombed 
by  an  explosion  in  a  Cross  Mountain 
mine  at  Briceville,  Tenn. 
10 — The  annual  report  of  Postmaster- General 
Hitchcock  showed  a  surplus  for  the  first 
time  since  1883. 

Fifty  persons  were  injured  by  a  bomb  ex- 
plosion during  a  cinematograph  exhibi- 
tion, at  Liege,  Belgium. 
II — One  thousand  imperial  soldiers  were  re- 
ported killed  or  wounded  in  a  three  days' 
battle  north  of  Hankow. 

Prominent  men  in  Washington  urged  the 
immediate  abrogation  of  the  Russian 
treaty. 

A  train  on  the  New  York  Central  Railroad 
was  wrecked  in  a  collision,  forty  passen- 
gers being  slightly  injured. 

Sixteen  persons  were  killed  and  thirty  in- 
jured in  a  railway  accident  in  Oporto, 
Portugal. 

12 — King  George  and  Queen  Mary  were 
proclaimed  Emperor  and.  Empress  of 
India,  the  capital  to  be  changed  from 
Calcutta  to  Delhi. 

The  House  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs 
unanimously  recommended  the  abrogation 
of  the  1832  treaty  with  Russia. 

The  Sherwood  Service  Pension  bill  passed 

the  House. 

13— The  House  of  Representatives,  by  a  vote 

of  300  to  I  passed  the  resolution  calling 

for  the  abrogation  of  the  Russian  treaty. 

Louise  Victoria,  Princess  Royal  of  England, 
her  husband,  the  Duke  of  Fife,  their  two 
daughters,  and  many  other  passengers, 
suflFered  shipwreck  off  the  northwest  coast 
of  Africa. 
14— The  Federal  Grand  Jury  at  Indianapolis 
began  its  dynamite  investigation. 

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was  cropping  out  in  Tibet,  the  Chinese 
garrison  being  driven  out  of  the  town  of 
Shera. 

15 — The  House  of  Lords  passed  Lloyd 
George's  National  Insurance  bill. 

16 — The  new  Russian  Ambassador,  M.  Bakh- 
metieff  informed  President  Taft  in  a 
friendly  interview,  that  Russia  would  re- 
gard the  Sulzer  resolution,  in  its  present 
form,  insulting. 
A  two-minute  earthquake  shock  siartled 
Mexico  City,  but  occasioned  no  deaths 
and  but  little  damage. 

17— A  $75,000  fire  occurred  in  Trenton,  N.  J. 
The  Mexican  Congress  voted  down  a  grant 
to  the  Standard  Oil  Company  to  construct 
a  pipe-line  in  its  territory. 

18 — General  Tuan-Fang  was  assassinated  in 
China  by  his  own  troops. 
Secretary  MacVeagh  urged  banking  and 
currency  reform  and  the  imposition  of 
specific  instead  of  ad  valorem  tariff  duties. 
President  Taft  informed  the  Senate  that 
he  had  formally  notified  the  Russian  Gov- 
ernment of  the  termination  of  ihe  treaty 
of  1832,  to  take  effect  December  31,  1912. 

19 — The  Senate  unanimously  ratified  Presi- 
dent Taft's  notification  to  Russia  of  the 
termination  of  the  treaty  of  1832. 
United  States,  Great  Britain,  France,  Ger- 
many, Japan  and  Russia  united  in  an 
effort  to  assist  the  Shanghai  Peace 
Conference. 

20 — The  House  completed  Congressional  rati- 
fication of  the  abrogation  of  the  treaty  of 
1832  with  Russia. 
Three  Mexicans,  one  a  General,  were  ar- 
rested and  confessed  to  being  implicated 
in  a  plot  to  assassinate  President  Madero. 

21 — Persians  attacked  Russians  at  two  places 
respectively    200    and     260    miles     from 
Teheran. 
Premier  Yuan  refused  to  agree  to  a  repub- 
lican form  of  government. 

22 — A  bill  declaring  a  tariff  war  against 
United  States  on  the  termination  of  the 
treaty  of  1832  was  introduced  in  the 
Russian  Duma. 
In  Sydney,  Australia,  the  Federal  Court 
fined  members  of  a  coal-combine  $2,500 
each  and  enjoined  them  from  "continu- 
ing their  monopoly". 

23— It  was  reported  that  King  George  had 
reached  camp  after  having  shot  eighteen 
tigers  and  three  rhinoceri. 

24— Five    hundred     Persians    were    reported 
slain  in  Tabriz  by  the  Russians. 
The     Persian     Government     accepted     the 

Russian  ultimatum. 
The    Mexican    rebel,    General    Reyes,  fled 
from    near    Monterey,    Mexico,  Captain 
Prieto  in  pursuit. 

25 — The    Persian    Cabinet    notified    W.    Mor- 
gan   Shuster   of   his   dismissal    from  the 
oflice  of  Treasurer-General. 
General    Reyes,  Mexican    rebel    chief,    sur- 
rendered  to   General  Trevino. 


Where  Are  My  Parents  Tonight? 

TTHERE  should  be  anxious  thoughts 
by   parents    whose    son   is   absent 
from  home  evenings  and  Si'ndays. 

Is  he  wandering  the  streets  with 
vicious  companions  ?  Is  he  in  the  drink- 
ing saloon,  indulging  in  the  habit  of 
dissipation?  Is  he  in  the  gambling-den, 
engaged  in  games  of  chance?  Is  he 
in  an  establishment,  playing  cards  for 
checks,  each  one  of  which  represents  a 
certain  amount  of  money? 

Well  may  the  parent's  heart  swell 
vvitii  painful  emotions,  and  the  eye  fill 
with  tears  of  uncertainty,  at  the  thought 
that  he  may  be  on  the  downward  road. 

These  feelings  are)  natural  and  right. 
But  what  would  the  father  or  mother 
say,  if  told  that  the  boy  had  at  the  same 
moment  uttered  the  words :  Where  are 
my  parents  tonight?  Are  they  seated 
around  the  card-table  in  the  brilliantly 
lighted  and  elegantly  furnished  parlors 
of  Mr.  Diamondust,  playing  at  poker, 
freeze-out,  high-five  or  progressive 
euchre,  for  valuable  prizes? 

What  a  sad  and  humiliating  spectacle ! 
—The  boy,  gambling  in  a  little  back 
room  down  town,  his  father  and  mother 
doing  the  same  thing  in  an  up-town 
mansion!  Is  the  boy  doing  worse  than 
liis  parents? 

The  very  essence  of  gambling  is  stak- 
ing some  valuable  article — money  or 
something  of  money-value,  on  the  game. 
In  both  cases  they  are  violatmg  the 
laws  of  God  and  man,  and  their  conduct 
is  exceedingly  reprehensible. 

If  the  boy  is  to  be  condemned,  what 
shall  be  said  of  the  parents  ?  To  them 
is  committed  the  charge  of  rearing  him 
in  ways  of  respectability  and  usefulness, 
guarding  him  from  temptation  to  go 
wrong  and  do  wrong.  God  and  com- 
munity hold  them  responsible  for  the 
proper  training  and  wholesome  restraint 
of  their  boy,  and  setting  him  examples 
of  propriety  and  right. 

If  they  fail  in  these  and  instead  lead 
him  into  vice  and  error  by  example,  as 
above  shown,  they  are  greatly  to  blame 
if  he  rushes  forward,  dashes  over  the 
precipice,  and  plunges  headlong  to  ruin. 


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DIED: 

ALLEN,  COL.  ETHAN— In  New  York  City, 
December  7.  He  was  born  in  New  Jersey, 
eighty  years  ago,  and  was  graduated  at 
Brown  University,  and  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  i860.  He  resigned  from  the  office  of 
Assistant  United  States  District  Attorney 
to  organize  a  brigade  during  the  war,  and 
later  managed  Greeley's  campaign  for  the 
Presidency.  In  1870  he  organized  the 
Cuban  League  of  American  Sympathizers 
and  revived  it  in  1896. 

BALL,  THOMAS— In  Montclair,  N.  J.,  No- 
vember 16,  in  his  ninetythird  year.  He  was 
born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.  He  became  a 
painter  and  a  sculptor  of  distinction,  making 
his  home  in  Florence,  Italy,  from  1895  to  i8p7. 
Among  his  famous  sculptures  are  the  eques- 
trian statue  of  Washington  in  Washington 
and  the  Lincoln  "emancipation  group"  in 
that  city.  As  a  youth,  he  sang  in  the  title 
role  of  the  oratorio  "Elijah"  when  it  was 
first  produced  in  America. 

COX,  SPEAKER  JOHN  FREMONT— In 
Homestead,  Pa.,  November  6,  aged  fifty- 
nine  years.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  leaders  of  the  Republican  Party 
in  Western  Pennsylvania  and  was  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
State. 

DAVIDSON,  PROF.  GEORGE— In  Slan 
Francisco,  December  3,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
six  years.  He  was  born  in  Nottingham, 
England,  but  was  brought  to  United  States 
as  a  child.  He  received  the  degree  of  Sc.  D. 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  For 
thirty  years  he  was  head  of  the  United 
States  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey  of  the 
Pacific  Coast.  He  had  published  more  than 
200  papers  on  astronomy,  engineering,  navi- 
gation, geography  and  other  scientific  sub- 
jects. 

DRYDEN,  EX-SENATOR  JOHN  Y.— In 
Newark,  N.  J.,  November  24,  aged  seventy- 
two  years.  His  birthplace  was  Farmington, 
Me.  In  1875  he  organized  in  Newark  the 
Prudential  Insurance  Company,  the  first  in- 
dustrial insurance  company  in  America. 
He  was  twice  a  member  of  the  Electoral 
College  and  served  a  term  in  the  United 
States  Senate.  He  wrote  standard  treatises 
on  insurance  problems. 

DUDLEY,  IRVING  B.— In  Baltimore,  Md., 
November  27,  aged  fifty  years.     He  was  a 


native  of  Jefferson,  Ohio,  and  was  a  gradu- 
ate of  Kenyon  College  and  of  the  law 
course  at  George  Washington  University. 
He  practiced  in  San  Diego,  Cal.,  until  1857, 
when  President  McKinley  appointed  him 
as  Minister  to  Peru.  In  1906  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Rio  de  Janeiro  with  the  rank  of 
Ambassador.  Illness  obliged  him  to  return 
on  leave,  a  few  months  ago. 

ESTRADA,  PRESIDENT  EMILIO  —  In 
Guayaquil,  Ecuador,  December  22.  He 
was  inaugurated  President  of  Ecuador 
September  i,  191 1,  but  became  ill  on  the 
i8th  of  that  month. 

FANG,  GEN.  TUAN— Assassinated  at  Tsc- 
chow,  Shansi  Province,  China,  December 
18.  He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men 
in  China— a  scholar,  art  connoisseur,  soldier 
and  statesman.  He  had  once  been  Viceroy 
of  the  province  of  Chihli.  While  Governor, 
during  the  Boxer  trouble,  he  assembled  all 
the  foreigners  and  protected  them.  In  1906 
he  visited  United  States  at  the  head  of  a 
commission  to  study  educational  and  indus- 
trial conditions. 

GJORSTEN,  H.  F.— In  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
December  2,  at  the  age  of  fifty  years.  He 
was  prominent  among  Norwegians  in 
United  States  and  had  served  his  State  as 
Senator. 

GROSE,  ADOLPH— In  London,  England, 
December  8.  He  was  born  at  Dijon,  France, 
in  1837,  but  emigrated  to  England  and  be- 
came a  British  subject.  Here  he  became 
well  known  as  a  sculptor  and  etcher.  The 
"Stoning  of  St.  Stephen"  won  him  the  gold 
medal  at  the  Salon  in  1867. 

HALLOWELL,  SUSAN  MARIA  —  In 
Wellesley,  Mass.,  aged  seventysix  years. 
She  was  born  in  Bangor,  Me.,  and  taught 
in  the  High  School  there,  till  called  to  be 
professor  of  botany  at  Wellesley  College, 
when  it  was  founded  in  1875. 

HOOKER,  SIR  JOSEPH  D.— In  London, 
England,  November  16,  aged  ninetyfive  years. 
He  was  born  at  Halesworth,  and  took  the 
degr»  of  M.  D.  at  the  University  of  Glasgow, 
and  became  famous  as  a  naturalist  and  sur- 
geon. He  visited  India  in  1847  to  study 
tropical  plants  and  was  captured  by  the  Rajah 
of  Sikkim.  Later  he  visited  Palestine,  Mor- 
occo, the  Rockies  and  California.  In  1865 
he  was  appointed  Director  of  the  famed 
Royal  Gardens  at  Kew,  acclimatizing  therein 


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many  rare  plants.  He  had  been  President 
of  the  British  Association  and  of  the  Royal 
Society. 

McClelland.  GBORGE  B.— in  Kansas, 
December  15.  He  was  a  native  of  Ogdens- 
burg,  N.  Y.,  and  ran  away  from  home  when 
sixteen  years  old.  He  became  a  crack  rifle 
shot,  and  in  1872  joined  Buffalo  Bill's  show. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  doctor  in 
Oklahoma  and  he  organized  a  regiment  of 
old  Indian  braves  when  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can War  broke  out.  To  multitudes  of  dime 
novel  readers  he  was  familiar  as  "Diamond 
Dick." 

MERRY,  WILLIAM  LAWRENCE— In  Bat- 
tle Creek,  Mich.,  December  14,  aged  seventy- 
seven  years.  He  was  born  in  Brazil,  the 
son  of  a  New  York  merchant.  After  four 
years  in  Panama  as  agent  for  a  line  of 
ships,  he  became  general  manager  in  Nicara- 
gua for  two  steamship  companies.  He  en- 
gaged in  the  wholesale  grocery  business  in 
San  Francisco  in  1867  and  became  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In  1890 
the  Nicaraguan  Government  appointed  him 
Consul  General  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  in 
1897  he  was  appointed  to  the  United  States 
Consular  Service  in  Central  American 
countries. 

PARKER,  CAPTAIN  JOHN  N.,  U.  S.  N.— 
In  New  York  Crty,  December  12,  at  the  age 
of  fiftyeight  years.  Born  in  Ohio,  he  was 
graduated  in  1874  from  the  Naval  Academy. 
He  was  aide  to  President  Harrison,  who 
sent  him  to  Samoa  to  obtain  a  coaling  sta- 
tion. Three  years  ago  he  went  to  Samoa 
as  its  Governor.  His  term  expired  last 
spring. 

PRATT,  GEN.  WILLIAM  H.— In  Easton. 
California,  November  5,  in  his  eightyfourth 
year.  He  was  born  in  Say  brook.  Conn. 
He  went  to  San  Francisco  in  1849  on  the 
pioneer  steamer  California,  In  1861  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  appointed  him  Receiver  of 
Public  Monies  at  the  Humboldt  Land 
Office.  He  served  in  the  Indian  War  in 
1863,  and  later  was  made  Indian  agent  at 
Harper  Valley  Reservation.  In  1890  he 
was  appointed  United  States  Surveyor 
General. 

RANDEGGER,  ALBERTO— In  London, 
England,  December  17,  at  the  age  of 
seventynine  years.  He  was  born  in  Trieste, 
studied  music  and  became  well  known  as 
a  composer,  conductor  and  professor  of 
singing.  He  was  conductor  of  Her  Ma- 
jesty's Theatre  in  1880  and  for  many  years 
had  conducted  the  Covent  Garden  and  Nor- 
wich festivals.  In  1897  he  married  Louise 
Baldwin,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

RANKIN,  MRS.  McKEE— In  New  York 
City,  December  14.  The  once  well-known 
actress  was  seventy  years  old.  She  had 
been  on  the  stage  since  a  little  child,  play- 
ing star  parts  in  "East  Lynne",  "The  Two 
Orphans",  "The  Danites"  and   other  plays, 


her  stage  name  being  Kitty  Blanchard.  She 
married  the  equally  popular  actor,  McKee 
Rankin,  and  theirs  was  the  first  American 
company  to  make  a  tour  abroad  (in  1880). 

ROGERS.  REV.  DR.  GUINNESS— In  Lon- 
don, August  20,  aged  eightynine  years.  He 
was  bom  at  Enniskillen,  Ireland.  He  began 
his  career  as  a  minister  in  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  in  1846. 
In  1868  he  was  Chairman  of  the  London 
Union  in  the  metropolis.  In  1874  he  be- 
came Chairman  of  the  Congregational 
Union  of  England  and  Wales.  He  wrote 
many  religious  books,  among  them  "Ser- 
mons on  the  Life  of  Christ",  "Priests  and 
Sacraments",  and  "The  Christian  Ideal." 

SMITH,  A.  GARY— In  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  De- 
cember 8,  aged  seventyfour  years.  He  was 
bom  in  New  York  City.  He  learned  the 
boat-building  trade,  and  then  studied  marine 
painting  under  the  well-known  artist,  M. 
F.  H.  de  Haas.  He  finally  gave  up  paint- 
ing to  devote  himself  to  the  designing  of 
yachts,  in  which  he  attained  first  rank, 
among  his  successes  being  the  cup-winner 
Puritan  and  the  Meteor,  built  for  Kaiser 
Wilhelm,  besides  many  other  speedy  yachts 
and  schooners. 

TAYLOR,  REAR  ADMIRAL  JOHN  YEAT- 
MAN,  U.  S.  N.— In  Washington,  D.  C. 
Nov.  16.  He  was  an  accomplished  linguist, 
scholar  and  musician.  He  served  as  sur- 
geon with  Farragut  during  the  Civil  War 
and  performed  remarkable  surgical  feats. 
He  was  at  one  time  a  medical  director  of 
the  Navy. 

TRIPP.  BARTLETT— In  Yankton,  S.  D., 
December  8.  His  birth  occurred  in  1829,  in 
Harmony,  Me.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.  In  i86q  he  made  Dakota 
his  home  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  first 
Constitutional  Convention  of  the  Territory 
in  1883,  and  became  its  President.  He  was 
appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Dakota  by  President  Cleveland, 
who  sent  him  also  as  Minister  to  Austria- 
Hungary. 

UHLHORN,  THEODORE  G.— In  New  Or- 
leans, August  2,  aged  sixty  years.  He  was 
born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  He  served  in 
the  Confederate  Army  during  the  Civil 
War.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
Cashier  of  the  Sub-Treasury  at  New  Or- 
leans. 

WHITMAN,  REV.  B.  L.— In  Seattle,  No- 
vember 27,  at  the  age  of  fortynine  years. 
His  birthplace  was  Torbrook,  N.  S.  He 
was  graduated  at  the  Newton  (Mass.) 
Theological  Institution  and  became  one  of 
the  most  widely-known  ministers  in  the 
Baptist  church  in  America.  He  had  been 
President  of  Colby  University,  Waterville, 
Me.,  and  of  Columbian  University,  at 
Washington,  resigning  to  become  pastor  of 
Calvary  Baptist  church,  Philadelphia,  and 
later  became  pastor  at  Seattle. 


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There  are  71,131  post-offices  in  United 
States;  and  think  of  the  stuff  that  goes 
through  them! 

Aatomobile  tin-peddlers'  wagons  have  ap- 
peared in  some  of  the  States,  and  farmers  are 
wondering  "what'll  come  next." 

Some  Australian  homing  pigeons,  in  cover- 
ing a  distance  of  301  miles,  flew  at  an  average 
speed  of  scventyfive  miles  an  hour. 

The  second  largest  ranch  in  the  world  is  in 
Texas.  It  extends  to  a  million  acres  and  pro- 
duces a  revenue  of  over  $250,000  a  year. 

Unmarried  ladies,  take  courage.  Most  re- 
cent census  reports  state  that  there  are  sev- 
eral more  million  men  than  women  in  the 
world. 

A  Western  woman,  aged  eightythree,  has 
married  a  man,  aged  ninetytwo.  Is  she  not 
aware  that  it  is  dangerous  to  wed  any  one  so 
much  older  than  herself? 

Unboiled  water  still  turns  a  good  deal  of 
machinery — there  being  no  less  than  60,000 
water-mills  in  the  country — furnishing  about 
one-third  of  the  total  power. 

A  great  many  people  tell  things  to  their 
diaries  that  they  never  would  divulge  to  any 
living  person;  and  then  the  little  records  are 
found  and  "give  them  away". 

Electric  lights  in  the  Catacombs  at  Rome 
are  now  often  used,  while  mass  is  being  said. 
This  is  a  striking  contrast  to  the  timid  ser- 
vices of  the  old-time  Christians. 


Eastern  irrigation  is  getting  to  be  quite  the 
thing — especially  among  market-gardeners, 
who  report  that  it  often  increases  by  fifty 
per  cent,  the  value  of  their  crops. 

Do  up  your  tresses  at  night,  girls,  so  you 
will  not  gnaw  them  in  your  sleep.  A  young 
lady,  of  Des  Moines,  died  with  a  ball  of  hair 
two  inches  in  diameter  in  her  stomach. 

The  ant  does  not  always  labor:  some  spe- 
cies spend  a  part  of  their  time  in  ornamenting 
their  hill-houses  with  pebble-stones  of  uni- 
form size,  mice's  teeth,  purloined  beads,  etc. 

Nine  thousand  students  attend  the  Univer- 
sity of  Berlin.  It  is  distressing  to  think  of 
the  knowledge  that  will  be  lost,  as  so  many 
students  grow  older  and  find  that  they  know 
less.  

Echoes  of  the  Civil  War  still  reverberate 
among  the  battlefields.  Sometimes,  shells  that 
had  lain  unexploded  for  forty  years,  "go  off', 
having  lain  there  all  this  time  waiting  their 
chance. 

Peculiarly  loved  in  a  railroad  coach  is  the 
lady  who,  in  a  harsh,  strident  tone,  reads  a 
story  to  her  little  son  to  keep  him  contented: 
when  he  is  old  enough  to  read  the  same  thing 
to  himself. 

A  curious  kind  of  insurance  exists  in  Den- 
mark. By  paying  down  two  hundred  and 
forty  dollars  at  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  her 
parents  insure  for  her  an  annuity  of  twenty- 
five  dollars  if  she  should  not  be  married  at 


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rBrBOnBi  W  pinions — Ican  certify  to  theeitrcaMpurttr  or  Winchesters  Hypophosphites.— Dr.  L.  PITKIN.  New  York. 

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The  Belle  of  the  Railroad 

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The  Millionaire  Himself  Amuses  ^«;6 

mil  Carleton. 

"We  Democrats" 

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George;  Washington's  Accounts 

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At  Church: 

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Two  Villages 

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Rev.  Charles  Edward  Sfowe,  D.D. 

Louisa  Brannan. 

If  Many  Churches  Would  Adver- 

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Our  Mother-land 

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An  Idea  Free  to  Pastors 

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Saint  Valentine 

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Two  Nieces  of  Robert  Burns 

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The  Gospel  of  Hot  Water 

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The  Editor. 

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Thirtyninc  Thoughts 

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And  of  Course  He  Died  Young 

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The  Druggists,  the  Board  and  the 

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World-Success  : 

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Failure  and  Success— I. 

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The  Lady  and  the  Parrot 

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Sandford's  Manual  of  Color 
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Time's  Diary 

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Some  Who  Have  Gone 

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Still  Some  Hope  for  the  Honest 

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Doings  and  Undoings 

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The  Boones  and  the  Jeffersons 

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The   Belle   of  The   Railroad. 

By  Will  Carleton. 

(Veteran  Engine-driver* s  Story.) 

Q  H,  no !  Tm  not  toiling  on  railroads,  although  I  wasn't  built  for  to  shirk : 

I  just  limp  around  in  the  shops,  here,  and  criticise  other  folks'  work. 
And  there's  plenty  more  classy  can  do  that,  and  haven't  got  my  chance  to  explain. 
And  never  went  down  an  embankment,  along  with  an  engine  or  train. 

'Twas  on  a  bright  morning — the  winter  of  eighteen  and  eighty,  and  one : 
The  Boss  of  our  shop  says,  "An  engine  blue-blooded  as  sin,  is  just  done: 
And  who  shall  we  get  for  to  drive  her,  that's  shown  he  can  dare  and  can  do  ? 
My  Boss  says  his  Boss  says  the  honor  is  mostly  pertainin'  to  you. 

"You  take  her,  and  court  her,  and  drive  her,  as  long,  let  it  be  understood. 
As  you  two  can  manage  together,  and  do  what  we  call  'making  good' ; 
And  don't  fret  her  too  much  at  starting — an  engine's  a  woman,  you  know ; 
The  more  that  you  study  her  temper,  the  better  at  last  she  will  go. 

"This  here  is  a  love-child:   there's  people  that  works  in  the  place,  don't  forget. 
Put  part  of  their  souls  in  her  make-up,  to  have  her  the  niftiest  yet. 
And  when  they  do  that  for  an  engine,  the  fact  is  close-guessed,  if  not  known, 
That  they  pile  up  a  sort  of  prescription,  that  gives  her  a  soul  of  her  own." 

I  went  in  there  where  she  was  standing;  I  looked  for  first  time  in  her  eyes. 
The  boys,  they  had  kept  her  in  cover,  God  bless  'em,  their  friend  to  surprise ; 
And  if  there  was  ever  an  engine  that  mortals  an  angel  might  call, 
'Twas  her  that  stood  there  'mongst  the  others — the  certified  Queen  of  them  all. 

I  said  "Shall  we  travel  together,  my  Beauty?"  ('twas  foolish,  I  guess) 
But  out  of  her  glorious  splendor,  I  thought}  that  she  smiled  me  a  "Yes" ; 
Her  picture  was  taken,  in  grand  size ;  that  night,  to  the  big  dance  it  came : 
I  christened  her  "Belle  of  the  Railroad^*— and  that  was  thereafter  her  name. 


My  best  girl,  she  almost  grew  jealous :  she  says,  with  her  dear  little 

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"You'd  better  go  marry  this  wonder  youVe  thinking  and  raving  about : 
I  wish  she'd  get  smashed !"  then  a  moment,  her  face  was  like  snow  to  the  view : 
And  she  clasped  my  hand,  saying,  "Forget  it !  for  that  would  perhaps  murder 
your 

Well,  Belle  and  I  journeyed  together,  two  years,  through  the  sto.m  and  the  sun, 
With  a  love  which  is — what  is  the  word  for't?  "Platonic",  I  think  is  the  one; 
And  she  learned  to  talk  back  to  me  often :  she  knew  how  to  laugh  and  be  sad, 
And  to  sulk,  and  to  give  me  my  lesson,  when  things  veered  a  bit  to  the  bad. 

But  never  was  schedules  filled  sleeker,  or  passengers  treated  more  grand, 
Than  they  was  by  the  "Belle  of  the  Railroad"  with  me  holding  fast  to  her  hand ; 
And  never  was  confidence  closer,  that  more  and  more  steadfastly  grew. 
Than  that  which  gained  slowly  and  surely,  and  then  made  its  home  with  us  two. 

But  life  has  its  curves  unexpected,  and  bridges  to  trap  you  and  me ; 

And  that  was  a  terrible  winter — of  eighteen  and  eighty  and  three : 

Two  years  we  had  been  the  star-sprinters,  in  sunshine,  and  starlight,  and  shade. 

And  compliments  gemmed  us  like  roses,  'most  all  of  the  journeys  we  made. 

But  one  night,  we  scrapped  with  a  blizzard,  that  everything  ugly  contained ! 
And  the  "Belle  of  the  Railroad"  kept  working,  and  never  one  second  complained  ; 
Not  an  inch  could  we  see  from  the  pilot ;  but  still  we  was  bound  to  "make  good"  ; 
And  work  to  our  time-card  as  nearly  as,  battling  that  snow-storm,  we  could. 

"Keep  up  to  your  best,  my  brave  beauty !"  I  yelled,  and  believed  she  could  hear, 
"It  isn't  very  far  to  the  term'nus — ^the  rest  and  the  shelter  are  near." 
But  a  broken  rail — sneak-thief  of  safety ! — the  Belle  drew  a  long  wailing  breath. 
Then  fell  on  her  side,  and  went  rolling  a  hundred  feet  down  to  her  death. 

She  bravely  wrenched  free  from  the  coaches — the  passengers  stayed  safe  and 

sound, 
The  fireman  jumped  into  the  darkness — we  buried  him  when  he  was  found; 
But  the  Belle  wrapped  her  dear  arms  around  me,  as  together  we  made  the  grim 

dive; 
And  my  best  gfirl  came  next  day  and  found  me — all  crippled,  and  bruised — but 

alive. 

We  buried  the  Belle  in  a  garden :  'twas  sentiment,  maybe  you'll  say. 

But  what  are  the  goods  of  life  good  for,  if  one  blocks  the  heart's  right  of  way  ? 

I  built  up  a  monument  o'er  her,  and  oft  my  best  girl — now  my  wife — 

Strews  flowers  o'er  the  Belle  of  the  Railroad,  and  thanks  her  for  saving  my  life. 


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QNE  of  the  most  striking  character- 
istics of  really  great  men  is  not 
only  their  strong  hold  upon  generali- 
ties, but  their  wonderful  grasp  of  detail. 
A  truly  efficient  mind  must  have  some 
of  the  characteristics  of  the  elephant's 
"trunk" — ^able  to  uproot  the  tree,  or 
grasp  a  pin  from  the  floor. 

Napoleon  possessed  these  powers  in 
combination,  and  a  great  share  of  his 
early  success  was  owing  to  his  wonder- 
ful insight  into  and  control  over  those 
"little"  things,  such  as  often  show  them- 
selves so  important  when  left  out.  His 
famous  crossing  of  the  Alps  was  not 
the  headlong  clamber  and  frantic  plunge 
that  naturally  come  to  the  imagination 
when  the  affair  is  mentioned.  It  was  an 
engineering  feat,  a  sanitary  problem,  a 
close  study  of  equilibriums,  and  an  exact 
science  of  commissary  stores.  Every 
brigade,  regiment,  company  and  squad 
found  its  baggage  and  its  meals  waiting 
for  it  at  different  designated  points  on 
the  rough  road.  They  naturally  had  the 
utmost  confidence  in  a  commander, 
young  as  he  was,  who  could  bring  mat- 
ters around  like  that.  When  he  was 
invading  Italy  for  the  first  time,  he 
policed  the  country  behind  him  as  care- 
fully as  if  it  were  a  portion  of  the 
France  he  had  just  left. 

His  military  power  began  to  fail,  it 
is  curious  and  instructive  to  observe, 
at  just  about  the  time  his  grasp  of 
detail  reached  its  waning  period.  "I 
cannot  be  everywhere!"  he  petulantly 
exclaimed,  when  the  news  arrived  of  a 
great  naval  defeat:  but  the  fact  was 
diat  his  mind  itself,  owing  largely,  no 
doubt,  to  physical  aihnents,  had  lost  its 
ubiquitous     character.     The     Russians 


always  congratulated  themselves  that 
he  forgot  to  have  his  cavalry-horses 
properly  shod  when  he  invaded  their 
land  of  snows;  and  he  lost  the  Battle 
of  Waterloo  by  not  learning  accurately 
the  location  of  a  ditch  and  the  time  it 
should  take  for  a  relieving  force  to 
arrive. 

Our  most  illustrious  military  hero, 
General  George  Washington,  was  one 
of  the  most  accurate  and  painstaking  of 
commanders.  "Mad  Anthony  Wayne" 
declared  that  he  would  be  willing  to 
storm  that  locality  which  is  so  often 
quoted  as  the  center  of  all  unpleasant- 
ness, provided  that  Washington  would 
give  him  the  plans  and  specifications. 
Even  in  his  rude  and  bleak  winter  camp 
at  Valley  Forge,  the  American  General 
in  Chief  kept  up  all  the  forms  and  dis- 
cipline of  military  life,  as  far  as  possible. 
Throughout  his  whole  career,  a  close 
and  conscientious  regard  for  detail  char- 
acterized his  every  known  action. 

In  no  particular  is  this  fact  better 
illustrated  than  in  his  financial  accounts ; 
they  are  all  written  with  a  neatness  and 
an  accuracy  that  are  a  lesson  to  the 
young  men  of  today.  Especially  so 
were  those  between  him  and  his  coun- 
try. 

As  is  well  known,  Washington  did 
not  accept  any  salary  for  his  services 
during  the  five  long  years  in  which  he 
fought  for  liberty.  He  merely  drew 
money  to  repay  his  expenses.  In  his 
speech  to  Congress  accepting  the  ap- 
pointment of  General,  he  said: 

"As  no  pecuniary  consideration  could 
have  tempted  me  to  assume  the  ardu- 
ous employment  at  the  expense  of  my 
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wish  to  make  any  profit  from  it.  I  will 
keep  an  exact  account  of  my  expenses. 
Those,  I  have  no  doubt,  they  will  dis- 
chargee, and  that  is  all  I  desire." 

The  book  in  which  he  placed  this 
account  of  expenses  was  for  many  years 
preserved  in  the  archives  of  our  national 
capitol.  It  is  now  a  faded  and  tattered 
relic  of  the  past — many  of  the  entries 
hardly  recognizable. 

The  editor  of  Every  Where,  upon  a 
visit  to  Washington,  succeeded  in  ob- 
taining a  facsimile  of  every  page  of 
this  remarkable  piece  of  bookkeeping; 
and  some  of  the  pages  are  reproduced 
here,  with  explanations. 

It  was  on  June  isth,  1775,  that  Wash- 
ington was  unanimously  elected  by 
Congress,  then  assembled  at  Philadel- 
phia, as  Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
American  forces:  and  having  accepted 
the  responsible  position,  he  set  about 
the  work,  with  his  accustomed)  thor- 
oughness and  energy. 

The  purchase  of  the  horses  men- 
tioned was  probably  very  soon  after  the 
15th,  when,  as  one  of  the  wisest  things 
ever  done  by  any  legislative  body.  Con- 
gress elected  him  head  of  the  anny. 
Indeed,  the  selection  and  purchase  may 
have  been  made  before  the  formal 
measure  was  taken:  for  the  event  was 
of  necessity  foreseen  and  provided  for. 

The  main  army  of  the  patriots  was 
then  located  at  Cambridge,  near  Boston. 
He  had  sent  his  own  "horses  and 
chariot",  in  which  he  had  evidently 
come  from  home,  back  to  Mt.  Vernon, 
on  the  banks  of  the  Potomac,  and  had 
substituted  these  fresh  animals,  and  a 
"phaeton",  for  his  military  journey  to 
Cambridge. 

The  "chariot"  of  those  days  was  a 
four-wheeled,  covered,  heavy  affair,  with 
perhaps  rather  too  much  comfort  for 
swiftness  along  heavy  roads :  the  "pha- 
eton" was  an  open  vehicle,  much  lighter, 
and  more  suited  to  Washington's  imme- 
diate purpose. 

The  concluding  entry  upon  this  first 
page  relates  to  Thomas  Mifflin,  who 
was  a  delegate  from  Pennsylvania  to 
the  Continental  Congress ;  he  had  shown 
himself   an   enthusiastic  and   a   zealous 


patriot,  and  Washington  appointed  him 
his  quartermaster  general.  His  career 
afterward  was  a  very  creditable  one. 

General  Charles  Lee  is  also  men- 
tioned in  this  item.  He  was  one  of  Ac 
most  picturesque  characters  of  the 
Revolutionary  War:  but  his  conduct 
throughout  the  whole  of  it  made  him 
"more  bother  than  he  was  worth."  He 
was  now,  however,  in  the  prime  of  life, 
one  year  older  than  Washington  (who 
was  43),  and  had  been  a  soldier  since  he 
was  II,  when  his  father,  himself  a  Brit- 
ish general,  made  him,  it  is  said,  a  com- 
missioned officer.  He  was  regarded,  for 
some  time,  as  a  great  acquisition  to  the 
American  army :  for  he  had  fought  both 
in  Eyrope  and  America,  and  was  a  thor- 
ough soldier,  though  an  unprincipled 
man. 

Undter  the  date  of  July  15th  is  an  in- 
teresting item,  illustrating  the  fact  that 
war  has  its  secret  and  bloodless  cam- 
paigns, as  well  as  its  open  ones.  The 
money  here  mentioned  evidently  went 
to  pay  a  secret  emissary,  who  in  other 
words  may  be  called!  a  spy.  His  name 
is  not  mentioned  in  the  account-book, 
but  is  indicated  with  a  dash :  thus  show- 
ing the  General's  carefulness  in  pro- 
tecting those  who  werq  willing  to  take 
desperate  risks — sometimes  for  money, 
as  in  this  case — sometimes  for  the  love 
of  country,  as  in  that  of  Nathan  Hale. 
The  party  mentioned  in  this  item  not 
only  brought  back  information  of  the 
enemy's  movements,  but  also  left  circu- 
lars in  different  places — even  among  the 
British  soldiers,  it  is  said — stating  the 
American  side  o^  the  discussion. 

It  is  to  be  presumed,  from  his  having 
to  be  persuaded  with  money,  that  this 
spy  was  not  a  particularly  patriotic 
character. 

Another  item  of  peculiar  interest  on 
this  page  is  that  in  which  is  mentioned 
the  cleaning  of  a  house  which  was  des- 
ignated as  Washington's  headquarters. 
This  is  the  same  dwelling  in  which 
Longfellow  afterwards  was  to  live  for 
so  many  years,  and  where  he  died. 

On  the  fifth  page  of  our  account-book 
we  find  a  number  of  household-items: 
the   General  is   apparently  pursuing  a 

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domestic  life,  almost  within  cannon-shot 
of  the  British,  who  are  occupying  Bos- 
ton. Mr.  Austin,  whoever  he  was, 
seems  to  have  furnished  a  goodly  num- 
ber of  prosaic  provisions,  and  Jehoia- 
kim  Yonkin  was  not  without  his  uses  in 
that  respect.  Mr.  Howes  also  had  an 
account  against  the  future  Father  of  his 
Country,  and  James  Campbell  brought 
"necessaries  for  the  house."  We  also 
find  mentioned  here  several  other  wor- 
thies or  unworthies — whichever  they 
may  have  proved — evidently  selling  their 
wares  to  supply  the  military  residence. 

The  first  warlike  entry  on  this  page 
is  one  of  a  pound  and  ten  shillings  for 
the  recovery  of  his  pistols,  which  it 
would  seem  some  unpatriotic  and  care- 
less citizen  had  not  only  stolen  but 
broken :  they  had  not  only  to  be  "recov- 
ered" but  "repaired".  Then  follows  the 
expenses  of  "Major  French,  a  pris- 
oner", to  Hartford,  where  no  doubt  the 
Major   was    given    a    taste  of   patriot 


prison-life:  and  a  snug  little  amotmt 
for  the  expenses  of  the  General  and  his 
party  "while  reconnoitering  the  south 
and  west  shore  of  Boston  Harbor." 

Pages  two,  four,  and  six  are  mostly 
blanks  and  the  few  credits  in  them 
relate  largely  to  moneys  received  from 
the  new  Government — generally  from 
commissaries,  paymasters,  etc. 

It  will  be  noticed  that  Washington 
had  considerable  trouble  in  reconciling 
his  charges  with  the  different  kinds  of 
currency  in  vogue — ^the  "York",  the 
"Pennsylvania",  and  the  "Lawful"— all 
of  which  differed  from  each  other.  But 
through  it  all,  he  maintained,  as  is  uni- 
versally admitted,  the  most  complete 
accuracy :  and  amid  "war's  alarms"  and 
excitements  kept  close  account  of  his 
many  expenditures. 

A  copy  of  Benedict  Arnold's  ac- 
counts, as  he  rendered  and  failed  to 
render  them,  would  be  interesting  as  a 
contrast ! 


The  Fool  That  Drops  the  Match. 


TT  has  been  said,  that  anywhere, 

The  biggest  fool  afloat. 
Is  he  who  makes  a  rocking-chair 

Of  some  one  else's  boat : 
But  equal  with  him  in  the  race, 

The  eggs  of  woe  to  hatch. 
Is,  in  unknown  or  known  disgrace. 

The  fool  that  drops  the  match. 

What  is't  to  him,  if,  in  his  haste 

A  fragrant  weed  to  try. 
The  folds  of  woman's  pride  and  taste 

Hang  dangerously  nigh? 
What  if  a  precious  life  recede 

With  flame-enhanced  despatch? 
He  did  not  do  the  shameful  deed : 

He  only  dropped  a  match. 

What  is't  to  him,  if  stores  of  wealth 


In  flame  may  disappear. 
Or    friends    that    walked    in    joy    and 
health, 

May  nevermore  come  near? 
What  if  explosions  upward  spring, 

A  hundred  lives  to  snatch? 
He  didn't  do  much  of  anything: 

He  only  dropped  a  match. 

Incendiary — ^guilty  one 

(As  yet  not  doing  time) 
You'll  learn  the  lesson,  ere  you're  done. 

That  carelessness  is  crime. 
But  when  your  future  home  you  view. 

And  lift  its  red-hot  latch. 
No  matter  then  how  often  you 

May  drop  the  lighted  match! 

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Two    Villages. 

By  Louisa  Brannan. 
(Continued  from  January  Issue.) 


III. — THE    CIVIL    ENGINEER. 

TP  HE  nurse  was  tired  out  and  discour- 
a^^ed,  and  he  felt  that  he  could 
bear  up  no  longer.  "What  is  the  use 
to  be  kind  and  patient?"  he  thought. 
"Why  prolong  the  struggle  with  a  man 
like  De  Vore?"  For  the  second  time 
Hal  had  pulled  the  engineer  out  of  the 
jaws  of  death,  and  the  ungrateful  being 
had  cursed  him  to  his  face.  Mrs.  Mar- 
low  had  been  kind  to  him,  very  kind, 
and  he  had  called  her  a  meddling  old 
h)rpocrite.  The  doctor  had  done  his 
level  best,  and  De  Vore  had  sneered 
and  called  him  a  quack.  To  be  sure, 
the  doctor  wasn't  made  of  stuff  that 
great  men  are  madei  of,  but  he  did  his 
best,  and  had  plenty  of  good,  kind,  com- 
mon sense,  and  that  counts  for  much 
with  a  doctor.  So  many  in  the  village 
had  tried  to  help  De  Vore,  and  to  all 
he  turned  the  same  sour  visage,  except 
to  the  doctor's  little  daughter,  Ardis. 
The  engineer  always  smiled  when  the 
child  came  into  the  room,  and  talked  to 
her  of  her  dog  and  pony,  and  even  went 
so  far  as  to  accept  half  a  stick  of  candy 
she  offered  him. 

Hugo  De  Vore  had  been  handsome, 
and  was  still  not  ill-looking,  though  dis- 
sipation and  bitterness  had  deeply  lined 
his  face.  He  had  been  an  instructor  in 
languages  in  an  Eastern  college,  a 
widely-traveled  man,  a  social  favorite, 
and  an  artist  of  some  repute.  He  played 
the  violin  with  rare  expression.  From 
the  ruin  wrought  by  drink  and  cocaine 


he  had  honestly  tried  to  rise,  studied 
engineering  and  come  to  Washington, 
where  he  was  employed  on  some  of  the 
great  construction-works.  He  fell  again 
and  again,  and  at  last,  through  drunken 
carelessness,  was  caught  in  a  cave-in  and 
badly  hurt.  Hal  patched  him  up  and 
sent  him  forth,  only  to  battle  with  temp- 
tation again,  and  to  fall  lower,  and 
lower,  until  he  was  a  wreck,  physically 
and  morally,  without  a  care  to  be  other- 
wise. 

For  this  sad  condition,  De  Vore 
blamed  the  world.  According  to  his 
standard  there  was  not  an  honest  man 
nor  a  true  woman  in  the  world,  and  it 
was  getting  worse  and  worse  every  day. 
His  was  a  nature  ever  willing  to  receive, 
but  he  gave  nothing  without  hope  of 
return — a  nature  incapable  of  sacrifice. 

Without  sacrifice  the  soul  cannot 
grow,  but  must  ultimately  perish.  The 
nurse,  for  self-comfort,  repeated  to 
himjself  a  sentence  he  had  heard  the 
electrician  say:  "My  father  used  to  say 
that  there  was  good  in  every  one,  and 
that  no  soul  was  so  pure  that  it  was 
without  spot  or  stain",  but  then  the 
electrician  was  a  dreamer,  an  unprac- 
'tical  man,  who  had  been  petted  in  his 
boyhood,  weak  and  suffering  a  big  part 
of  his  life.  Such  a  man  was  apt  to  be 
over-charitable  for  the  failings  of  others 
and  womanish  about  their  sufferings. 
So  thought  Hal  of  the  electrician. 

IV. — ^DOCTOR    DELEPLANE. 

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his  childhood,  and  was  as  ye)t  an  indif- 
ferent horseman.  These  two  things  a 
Western  mountain  doctor  must  be — a 
good  surgeon  and  a  good  horseman. 
In  addition  to  these  qualifications,  he 
must  possess  common  sense  and  enough 
knowledge  to  pass  the  difficult  examina- 
tions of  (the  West ;  he  must  be  self-reli- 
ant and  a  good  mixer.  Dr.  Deleplane 
was  far  from  a  good  horseman,  and  not 
exactly  self-reliant.  He  possessed  a 
good  and  pure,  but  not  a  strong  nature. 
There  were  times  when  he  longed,  oh, 
how  he  longed  for  some  strong  arm  to 
lean  upon,  for  the  counsel  of  some  older 
or  more  skilled  physician. 

He  had  traveled  all  day  over  a  diffi- 
cult trail,  and,  as  toward  evening  he 
neared  his  destination,  he  was  very 
weary.  The  longed-for  rest  was  not  for 
him,  for  he  was  soon  bending  over  the 
cradle  of  a  little  child  sick  unto  death. 
Twice  already,  the  mother  said,  had  the 
hand  of  death  taken  a  little  child  from 
them.  The  doctor  attributed  its  death 
to  improper  nursing,  so  all  night  with- 
out sleep  or  rest  he  tended  the  child. 

The  first  five  miles  of  the  doctor's 
home  journey  lay  over  a  rocky  trail,  at 
most  not  over  a  foo:t  wide,  and  in  plgices 
there  was  no  foothold  except  inter- 
twined roots  mixed  with  loose  stones, 
and  so  steep  that  his  tough  little  cayuse 
*breathed  hard  as  it  made  its  ascent.  On 
one  side,  far  down  below,  was  the  swift 
Grande  Ronjle  River,  on  the  other 
Joseph  Creek.  That  creek,  on  the  banks 
of  which,  poor  exiled  Joseph  was  wont 
to  wander. 

The  next  stage  of  the  doctor's  jour- 
ney was  over  a  level,  treeless  prairie, 
and  was  quickly  accomplished;  then 
came  a  stretch  of  deep  pine  forest, 
where  the  brush  tore  the  rider's  clothes, 
and  where  fallen  logs  must  be  jumped 
by  the  nimble  cayuse.  The  doctor  saw 
ahead  of  him  the  welcome  sight  of  the 
school-teacher's  cabin. 

Harriet  Maynard  was  one  of  the 
many  Western  girls  who  live  all  alone 
on  their  claims,  and  earn  the  money  for 
commuting  by  teaching  the  nearest  dis- 
trict school.  Two  dogs  and  a  cat  kept 
her  company. 


The  weary  horseman  was  in  hopes 
of  rest  and  refreshment,  but  alas  I  there 
was  jio  response  to  his  knock.  Miss 
Maynard  was  not  at  home.  Then  came 
temptation,  and  the  doctor  pulled  a 
flask  from  his  pocket  and  drank  a  deep 
draught,  then  resumed  his  journey.  As 
he  rode  he  mused,  "I'm  tired  of  this 
life;  if  it  was  to  friends  I  ministered  I 
wouldn't  mind.  When  I  first  started 
out  in  my  profession,  I  thought  I'd  set- 
tle down  in  one  place  and  serve  the  peo- 
ple. I'd  see  all  the  babies  grow  up  into 
men  and  women,  and  the  young  people 
would  grow  old  with  me.  I'd  have  my 
friends  and  my  enemies,  too,  as  a  mat- 
ter of  course ;  but  I'd  even  be  thankful 
for  an  enemy  that  would  stick  to  me.  It 
is  changing,  changing,  all  the  time.  It 
is  one  set  of  people  this  year  and  an- 
other next.  Like  as  not  I  will  never  see 
again  the  child  I  saved  last  night. .  I 
have  scarcely  a  patient  I  had  ten  years 
ago.  There  are  no  nurses  who  will  go 
to  the  mountains,  no  hospital  but  Hal's 
in  Coverta,  and  how  can  women  and 
children  be  taken  there?  There  are 
some  too  sick  to  be  taken  over  these 
rocks  and  through  these  woods.  Oh, 
for  some  one  to  advise  me,  some  one  to 
lean  upon !  Would  God  that  I  could  lie 
down  here  in  the  forest,  but  for  wife 
and  Ardis.  Ah,  yes,  and  Coverta.  I'm 
the  only  one  to  tend  the  sick  in  Coverta 
and  all  this  wilderness.  I'm  very  faint: 
just  one  more  drink.  How  it  braces 
me!  I'm  out  of  the  woods  now  and 
there  is  only  the  hill  to  descend,  fifteen 
hundred  feet." 

He  paused  awhile  on  that  bleak  hill- 
side and  looked  at  Coverta,  set  like  some 
rare  green  emerald  in  a  wall  of  grey. 
Coverta  was  a  patchwork  of  green  and 
white,  dotted  with  homes.  As  he  de- 
scended to  the  outskirts  of  the  village 
the  air  grew  heavy  with'  the  perfume  of 
roses  and  the  song  of  a  multitude  of 
birds  was  wafted  to  the  tired  doctor's 
ears.  It  had  been  raining  and  the  sun 
was  shining  brightly.  A  faint  blue  mist 
arose  from  the  river  that  encircled 
Coverta  like  a  green-blue  band,  and  all 
around  the  hills  of  dark,  hazy  blue,  like 
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stretched  tiie  rainbow,  promise  of  God. 
A  few  more  pulls  of  the  flask,  and 
when  Dr.  Deleplane  reached  home,  from 
force  of  habit,  he  relieved  his  pony  of 
its  bridle  and  saddle,  then  dropped  in  a 
drunken  stupor  on  the  grass. 

V. — ^THE  SCHOOL-TEACHER. 

"How  sound  the  dogs  sleep!    I  wish 
they  would  awake  and  keep  me  com- 


not  to  care,  and  has  indeed  quite  forgot- 
ten, and  one's  little  romance  seems  like 
a  subconscious  dream,  this  obstinate,  un- 
ruly heart  will  play  such  a  strange  trick ; 
and  it  all  comes  back,  my  dear  little 
love-dream.  Hal  seems  standing  just  as 
he  used  to  do  under  the  hackberry  tree 
on  the  dear  home  lawn.  I  am  sitting  on 
the  old  rustic  seat,  thrumming  my  gui- 
tar, and  my  love  is  speaking  to   me, 


FORGIVE   ME,    LITTLE  GIRL ,   HE  SAID. 


pany.  This  is  one  of  the  nights  that 
thoughts  of  Hal  Vernon  haunt  me.  Six 
years  is  a  long  time ;  one  ought  to  for- 
get in  six  years;  but  hearts  are  queer 
things.    When  one  has  schooled  herself 


repeating  those  time-worn  phrases  lov- 
ers have  repeated  since  the  world  b^^an. 
I  thought  him  so  handsome  and  gay  in 
his  careless  grace !  All  at  once  he  grew 
sad  and  began  to  speak  of  sad  things — 

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of  sorrow,  disappointment  and  death.  I 
did  not  want  to  hear  of  sadness,  for  I 
was  so  happy;  ah,  so  happy!  I  won- 
der if  all  women  who  love  and  are 
loved  are  as  happy  as  I  was  that  night? 

"  'Hal,  please  don't,'  I  said,  'quit  talk- 
ing, and  sing  something  if  you  can't  talk 
nice.'  Then  he  sang  that  old  song.  The 
Lost  Chord'.  At  first  his  voice  was  full 
and  clear,  then  as  he  neared  the  close,  it 
ended  in  a  broken  sob.  'Forgive  me, 
little  girl,'  he  said,  'something  tells  me 
we  must  soon  part.  A  dark  cloud  seems 
hanging  over  my  head,  and  it  seems 
about  to  burst.  I  know  not  what  this 
fear  means.  It  seems  ever  at  my  side. 
Good-night,  little  one,  good-night.' 

"Then  came  misunderstanding:  so 
slight  a  thing  I  never  could  blame  my- 
self. It  was  Hal's  cowardice.  He  was 
everything  a  man  ought  to  be,  but  for 
that  streak  of  cowardice  that  ran 
through  his  nature.  Somehow  every 
man  I  meet  seems  so  commonplace  be- 
side Hal. 

"Now,  there  is  Solomon  Davidson  I 
met  at  college.  What  a  nice  fellow  he 
was!  and  friendly  to  me.  I'm  glad  he 
never  fell  in  love  with  me.  I  shouldn't 
want  to  wound  him.  That's  the  advan- 
tage of  being  a  plain  little  wren  like  me. 

"Just  to  think  that  Davidson  has  a  job 
at  the  electric  light  plant  at  Coverta! 
When  I  go  down  to  commute  next 
month  I  want  to  see  him.  Davidson 
always  did  entertain  me,  and  he  has 
helped  me  in  school.  The  story  of  how 
he  was  cured  of  his  lameness  is  just  like 
a  fairy  tale. 

"Just  to  think  of  his  father:  a  very 
wise  man,  so  wise  that  the  children 
called  him  Elphaz,  the  wise  man — ^being 
kind  to  a  seemingly  degenerate  boy,  to 
whom  no  one  spoke  kindly  but  the  min- 
ister's wife,  and  then  that  boy  becom- 
ing a  great  physician  and  healing  Solo- 
mon! Oh,  Puck  and  Towser,  do  wake 
up,  you  dear  dogs,  and  let  me  tell  you 
that  every  time  I  get  discouraged  with 
a  bad,  unruly  boy  in  school,  I  think  of 
what  Elphaz,  the  wise  man,  did. 

"I  wonder  where  Hal  is  tonight?  I 
wonder  if  he  is  alive?  I  wonder  if  he 
knows    where    I    am,    or    if   he    cares 


whether  I  am  alive?  He  has  brought 
joy  and  sorrow  into  my  life — ^joy  and 
sorrow — those  two  great  teadiers  of 
the  human  race.  Without  him  my  life 
would  not  have  been  complete.  '  One 
cannot  come  in  touch  with  a  large  soul 
without  being  a  different  person  than 
they  were  before  meeting.  His  influ- 
ence will  go  with  me  all  through  life. 
Think  of  him  I  sometimes  shall.  Grieve 
for  him  I  will  not.  Yet  I  am  changed, 
and  I  would  not  have  it  otherwise. 
*  *  *  Now,  then,  Harriet  Maynard, 
you  have  been  calling  up  the  spirit  of 
Hal  Vernon  again — a  nice  thing  for  a 
self-respecting  girl  to  do  anyway,  isn't 
it?  Now,  let  me  see  if  I  am  all  right 
for  the  night.  Towser,  old  doggie,  you 
must  go  out  and  stay  with  the  horse; 
Puck,  you  lie  down  by  the  bed.  Pedro, 
you  sleepy  cat,  curl  up  on  the  bed. 

"I'll  see  that  my  gun  is  all  right.  I'm 
glad  I'm  a  firstrate  shot.  I  feel  timid 
tonight.  I'm  so  glad  that  there  is  only 
a  month  more  of  this,  and  then  I'll  go 
back  to  civilization.  Oh,  sometimes  I 
think  I  can't  wait.  I'm  so  lonesome.  If 
it  weren't  for  the  dear  dogs  and  my 
little  school  I  don't  know  how  I'd 
stand  it." 

VI. — THE  doctor's  DAUGHTER. 

Gay  little  sprite  Ardis,  spirit  of  the 
West,  with  eyes  grey,  frank,  boyish; 
with  locks  like  unwashed  gold,  framing 
a  round,  chubby  face!  Ardis  was  the 
product  of  the  West.  Ten  years  had 
the  Chinook  winds  tanned  her  cheeks 'to 
a  ruddy  brown.  Here  was  no  fairy,  lily 
child,  but  rather  one  like  some  brilliant 
poppy  or  marigold.  Ever  her  merry 
laugh  rang  out,  as  she  performed  circus 
tricks  on  the  back  of  her  little  grey 
pony,  or  romped  with  Booster,  her  dog. 

She  was  the  pet  of  the  village,  and 
she  called  every  one  her  friend.  She 
represented  the  spirit  of  the  West.  The 
far  West  does  not  ask,  "Who  were 
you?"  "What  have  you  got?"  but,  "Who 
are  you?"  It  asks  not,  "Was  your 
grandfather  respectable?"  but,  "Are  you 
respectable?"  Not,  "Are  you  proud  of 
your  ancestors?"  but,  "Will  your  de- 
scendants be  proud  of  you?"     Democ- 

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racy  showed  in  the  child's  every  look, 
every  sentence,  and  in  the  way  she 
breathed  the  air  into  her  stout  little 
lungs. 

Ardis's  mother  was  away  for  the  day, 
and  the  little  girl  was  lonesome :  so  she 
mounted  her  pony  and  started  to  meet 
her  father. 

Just  at  sundown  Coverta  missed  her. 
Her  father  still  lay  in  a  drunken  slum- 
ber and  could  not  be  aroused,  so  Hal 
asked  the  electrician  to  stay  with  De 
Vore,  while  he,  the  sheriff  and  the  for- 
ester went  out  to  look  for  the  child. 


form  of  the  man.  With  gentle,  cradle- 
like motion,  the  mare,  Ramona,  bore  the 
half-dead  body  up  the  steep  grade  into 
the  forest,  into  a  ravine,  where  gurgled 
a  beautiful  stream.  In  the  ravine  they 
found  little  Ardis  asleep  and  the  pony 
quietly  grazing.  The  light  of  the  early 
moon  lit  up  the  child's  tear-stained  face. 
The  engineer  told  how  he  and  an  Indian 
had  blazed  the  trail  a  few  weeks  before, 
that  they  might  be  able  to  again  readily 
find  the  spring.  "I  thought  of  this,"  he 
said,  "and  I  knew  that  I  must  come. 
She  is  the  only  friend!  I  have,  and  the 


THE  DOCTOR  S  DAUGHTER. 


Ere  the  three  men  had  set  out  on  their 
journey  they  were  joined  by  a  fourth — 
none  other  than  De  Vore  himself :  who 
had  arisen  from  his  bed,  dressed,  and 
insisted  on  accompanying  them.  Hal's 
pleadings  and  threatenings  were  of  no 
avail ;  so  the  engineer  was  mounted  on 
Mrs.  Martow's  fine  Arabian  horse,  gen- 
tle as  a  kitten,  easy-gaited,  and  strong 
in  endurance. 

For  the  first  time  in  his  life,  a  feeling 
akin  to  admiration  for  the  engineer 
filled  the  forester's  heart,  as  he  beheld 
the  proud  military  bearing  and  graceful 


rest  of  you  have  only  condescended  to 
be  kind  to  me,  and  I'm  the  equal  of  any 
man." 

It  was  the  last  words  he  ever  spoke, 
for  he  fell  dead  from  his  horse  into  the 
forester's  arms. 

Tenderly,  they  bore  him  to  the  teach- 
er's cabin.  Hal,  being  a  poor  rider,  was 
left  behind.  The  sheriff,  the  forester 
and  Ardis  went  to  town  for  aid. 

They  buried  him,  and  Coverta  paid 
a  loving  and  costly  tribute  to  his  mem- 
ory. The  cowboys  came  from  the 
ranches  and  the  miners  from  the  mines; 

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and  the  people  of  Coverta  came  with 
their  offerings,  and  gave  them  to  the 
nurse  to  expend.  They  gave  as  the 
Western  man  gives — ^lavishly,  freely,  un- 
grudgingly. Nights  spent  in  the  open, 
sleeping,  with  only  the  stars  to  watch, 
deepen  the  heart  and  expand  the  soul. 


wool."  Led  by  Ardis,  twelve  little 
maidens  went  before  the  casket-bearers 
and  scattered  pure,  white  roses  all  the 
way  to  the  gjave.  In  a  private  vault 
they  laid  him,  Mr.  Marlow's,  the  richest 
man  in  the  village. 

The  forester  sighed  as  he  said,  "Per- 


HB   FELL   DEAD    FROM    HIS    HORSE. 


The  minister  took  for  his  text, 
"Greater  love  hath  no  man  than  this, 
that  a  man  lay  down  his  life  for  his 
friend",  and  the  nurse,  in  his  magnifi- 
cent tenor,  sang  that  beautiful  solo, 
"Though  your  sins  be  as  scarlet,  they 
shall  be  as  white  as  snow ;  though  they 
be  red  like   crimson,  they  shall  be  as 


haps  he  had  a  great  deal  to  forgive,  poor 
fellow,  and  he  felt  hard  toward  God  on 
account  of  it  Why  couldn't  he  forgive 
his  Creator,  even  as  Christ  forgave 
him?" 

"Maybe,"  said  the  nurse,  "he  couldn't 
forgive  himself  for  the  wrong  he  had 
done  others.    It  is  sometimes  easier  to 

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forgive  others  than  it  is  to  forgive  our- 
selves. Did  you  ever  know  of  a  case 
like  that?" 

"No,  Hal,  I  don't  think  I  do." 

"I  have.  I've  lived  it.  I've  done  it. 
You  know  Harriet  Maynard,  the  school- 
teacher, at  whose  cabin  we  stopped  with 
De  Vore?  We  were  old  friends,  lovers, 
and  are  still.  I  did  not  know  that  she 
was  out  here,  nor  did  she  know  that  I 
was  here.  We  parted  six  years  ago.  I 
was  angry  .because  she  pretended  she 
was  not  at  home  when  she  was.  The 
next  day  she  wrote  me  a  pretty  note, 
asking  me  to  visit  her  sick  brother,  but 
I  paid  no  attention  to  it  for  two  weeks, 
thinking  to  punish  her.  When  at  last  I 
called,  I  learned  that  her  brother  had 
become  violently  insane  and  was  taken 
to  the  hospital  the  evening  I  had  re- 
ceived Harriet's  note.  They  had  needed 
my  help.  My  love  had  seemed  of  so 
poor  a  quality  that  it  was  unable  to 
stand  disgrace.  Harriet  was  not  there 
and  I  did  not  make  a  return  call.  I  was 
too  proud.  I  brooded  over  it  for  days. 
I  never  slept  a  bit  for  a  week,  but  still 
I  would  not  yield.  When  I  came  out 
here  I  was  too  proud  to  write.  Over 
the  cold  form  of  De  Vore  we  made  it  all 
up.  She  had  forgiven  me  long  ago.  In 
fact  she  had  understood  my  nature  bet- 
ter than  I  did  myself  and  was  not  sur- 
prised at  my  action.  I  never  could  for- 
give myself,  nor  do  I  now.  I  am  going 
East  next,  month  to  finish  my  medical 
education.  Harriet  will  then  commute 
on  her  claim.  I'm  not  going  alone,  you 
see." 

"I  congratulate  you,  old  boy,  though 
you  did  make  an  ass  of  yourself.  I 
wouldn't  have  thought  it  of  you,  but 
'All's  well  that  ends  well'.  You  are 
built  for  love  and  home ;  but  as  for  me, 
give  me  the  hills  and  the  forests  and 
the  free,  untamed  life  of  the  plains. 
Old  fellow,  I  must  thank  you  for  that 
song.  It  was  meant  for  me.  Self- 
righteousness  is  a  very  scarlet  sin." 

"I  sang  it  for  myself.  Brown,  for  cow- 
ardice is  a  crimson  sin.  Poor  De  Vore, 
he  wasn't  brave  enough  to  live,  but  he 
was  brave  enough  to  die.  I'm  a  cow- 
ard, tfiTX>ugh  and  through." 


VII. — ^THB  MINERS  WIFE. 

In  the  most  beautiful  of  Coverta's 
homes  lived  Marvin  Marlow,  the  miner, 
imimportant  in  himself,  save  that  he  had 
made  a  lucky  strike.  All  the  love  of  his 
family  and  all  the  love  and  reverence  of 
the  village  centered  around  his  lovely 
wife. 

Mrs.  Marlow  was  a  woman  past 
sixty,  of  slight  and  delicate  build,  and 
not  strong.  She  was  of  that  rare  type, 
who  in  youth  possess  no  extraordinary 
beauty  or  charm,  but  who  grow  from 
year  to  year  in  loveliness.  Time  had 
not  faded  the  dark  brown  eyes.  Her 
hair  was  still  abundant,  though  white  as 
snow.  Her  skin  rivaled  the  lily,  and  on 
her  brow  time  had  written  no  message, 
save  the  story  of  a  life  of  content,  of 
self-sacrifice,  patience,  and  purity,  and 
love.  Not  of  her  love  alone,  but  of  her 
wealth,  she  freely  gave.  Oh,  the  sick 
she  had  helped;  the  young  people  she 
had  sent  to  college;  the  latent  talent 
her  wealth  had  developed;  the  many 
happy  marriages  she  had  made  possible ! 
How  she  had  helped  beautify  the  vil- 
lage; how  Coverta  loved  this  silver- 
haired  woman,  always  gowned  in  silver- 
grey  ! 

A  Sabbath  hush  lay  on  the  village, 
and  the  children  ceased  to  play  in  the 
streets  as  the  groups  of  men  and  women 
in  silence  waited  for  the  news.  Some- 
how in  a  village  everybody  knows  and 
everybody  cares;  there  is  no  stranger 
in  the  midst.  The  miner's  wife  lay  sick 
unto  death.  They  had  taken  her  to 
Hal's  little  hospital.  While  racing  with 
another  horse,  Ramona,  with  swallow- 
like swiftness,  had  piissed  under  a 
bridge,  and  neither  ho-.-ae  nor  rider  had 
realized  how  low  the  structure.  The 
terrible  had  happened-  h  fractured  skull. 
Only  a  miracle  could  save  the  beloved 
life.  The  electrician  had  told  of  a  great 
Eastern  surgeon  who  had  caused  him  to 
walk,  he  who  had  been  lame  from  hit 
birth.  The  great  man  came  to  this  little 
out-of-the  way  comer  of  the  earth  on 
an  errand  of  mercy,  but  for  a  price 
enormous,  fabulous ;  but  what  mattered 
the  cost?  for  here  was  a  woman  rich 

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EVERY   WHBRE. 


indeed ;  for  her,  earth  gave  up  her  long- 
hidden  treasures ;  and  many  in  Coverta 
would  have  gladly  given  of  their  wealth 
if  it  had  been  needed  to  restore  to 
health  the  most  beloved  of  Coverta's 
women. 

The  miracle  had  been  performed,  and 
Mrs.  Marlow  was  resting  quietly.  Hal 
had  gone  out  to  give  the  word  to  the 
people. 

"You,  too,  are  an  Eastern  man",  said 
the  surgeon,  inquiringly,  speaking  to 
Dr.  Deleplane. 

"Yes,  I  came  here  ten  years  ago  from 
Qeveland,  Ohio." 

"Why,  I  was  born  and  raised  about 
fifty  miles  from  there,  in  a  little  village 


called  Newcastle.  I  don't  suppose  you 
ever  heard  of  the  place." 

"No,  I  do  not  now  recall  such  a  place. 
My  memory  is  very  faulty." 

"It  is  just  a  little  mite  of  a  place,  not 
even  honored  with  a  position  on  the 
map ;  not  a  bit  of  Paradise  like  this.  It 
is  very  dear  to  me,  however,  and  in  my 
heart  is  a  very  tender  place  for  its 
people." 

And  because  of  the  wise  man's 
wisdom  and  the  helpfulness  of  the 
wise  man's  son,  the  poor,  over-worked, 
unknown  Western  practitroner  clasped 
hands  with  the  bad  boy  of  Newcastle 
in  the  little  obscure  hospital  in  the  blue 
mountains  of  Washington. 


New    Poems    by    Margaret    E.  Sangster. 


Our  Mother-Land. 

TQEAR    mother-land,    from    coast    to 
coast. 

Benignant,  beautiful  and  free. 
Thy  native-'born  who  love  thee  most 

Uplift  their  prayers  to  God  for  thee. 

What  time  thy  wealth  was  all  undreamed. 
What  time  thy  homes  were  wide  apart, 

The  vision  of  thy  future  gleamed 
Star-bright  in  many  a  hero's  heart. 

Ere  yet  thy  virgin  fields  were  tilled, 
Or  mines  gave  up  their  golden  store. 

The  cup  of  life  with  joy  was  filled 
At  lowly  hearth,  by  humble  door. 

The  pioneer  with  ax  and  gun 
Went  boldly  through  the  forest  land ; 

At  eve  his  wife  and  little  one 
Came  singing  forth  to  clasp  his  hand. 

There  were  who  loved  thee  to  the  death, 
Whose  blood  for  thee  was  poured  like 
rain: 

There  were  who  spent  their  latest  breath 
For  thee  upon  the  stormy  main. 

O  mother-land,  thy  heart  hath  room 
For  weary  ones  who  come  from  far; 


Who  leave  the  Old  World's  chill  and 
gloom 
To  dwell  where  mirth  and  plenty  are. 

Beneath  thy  flag  the  foreign-born 
Find  rest,  and  shelter,  and  a  chance. 

In  radiance  of  thy  splendid  morn. 
To  win  the  fight  with  circumstance. 

Bring  close,  we  pray,  O  mother-land, 
Unto  the  faith  the  fathers  held, 

And  by  what  wind  soever  fanned 
Forget  not  truth  their  valor  spelled. 

O  mother-land,  great  names  are  thine, 
We  hold  them  dear,  we  love  them  still, 

While  owning  yet  the  Name  Divine 
And  looking  for  the  Father's  will. 


Saint  Valentine. 

LJ ITHER  again  ere  the  winter  is  over, 
*         Cometh  our  Cupid  with  gifts  for 

the  lover. 
Bravely  he  cometh  with  arrows  and  bow. 
Gaily  he  speedeth  the  errands  we  know. 
Come  he  to  palace,  or  come  he  to  cot, 
Cometh  he  never  where  welcome  is  not. 
Dear  little  Cupid,  swift  greeting  is  thine. 
Sweetest  of  saints  is  our  good  Valentine. 


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Two  Nieces  of  Robert   Burns. 


By  the  Editor. 


I T  is  generally  a  pleasure  to  meet  those 
*  whom  we  have  read  and  admired, 
whetiier  they  come  up  to  our  ideal,  or 
not.  It  adds  a  local  interest  for  us,  to 
everything  they  have  written;  and  the 
fact  that  we  have  grasped  them  by  the 
hand,  and  looked  into  tiheir  eyes,  seems 
to  bring  us  nearer  to  their  hearts  and 
souls.  Likewise  is  it  a  privilege  to  talk 
with  any  one  who  has  known  them,  and 
who  can  depict  to  us,  their  look,  their 
ways,  and  their  feel. 

But  alas!  the  great  majority  of  the 
brain  and  soul-friends  whom  we  keep 
in  our  libraries  and  our  hearts,  have 
gone  on  into  The  Land  of  the  Ideals. 
Their  personal  acquaintances  did  not 
stay  very  long  behind;  and  so  we  can 
physically  get  no  nearer  them,  than 
through  written  or  printed  descriptions. 
These  are  often  quite  faithful  and 
graphic;  but  they  will  not  answer  any 
new  questions,  or  transmit  a  spark  of 
that  subtle  magnetism  with  which  a 
master  mind  will  often  charge  its  asso- 
ciates. 

Sometimes,  however,  may  be  found 
among  the  relatives  or  descendants  of 
departed  great  ones,  one  or  more  who 
can  retain  and  exhibit,  to  a  certain 
extent,  physical  or  mental  characteris- 
tics of  the  great  ones  gone;  whose 
blood-seeds  have  grown  into  similar 
flowers,  if  not  fruitage;  and  who,  if 
they  do  not  write,  can  at  least  look,  act, 
and  talk,  much  as  we  may  have  sup- 
posed their  kinsmen  to  have  done.  In 
such  case,  it  is  natural  for  us  to  con- 
form, reconcile,  and  idealize  them,  into 
semblances  of  those  we  have  teved,  but 
never  seen. 


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"Poor  (and  yet  why  poor?)  Robert 
Burns"  went  through  "Death's  unlovely, 
dreary,  dark  abode",  into  the  society  of 
those  who  watched  and  waited  for  him, 
over  ninety  years  ago ;  and  we  can  not 
hope  to  find,  nowadays,  any  one  who 
personally  knew  him.  But  that  dear 
flood  of  mingled  sense,  tenderness,  and 
passion,  which  surged  through  the 
Bumess  race,  until  it  gained  a  fountain- 
/outlet  in  the  man  who  made  them  all 
famous  forever,  was  too  copious  not  to 
have  left  its  traces  in  some  of  his  rela- 
tives. Proofs  of  this,  I  have  had  the 
privilege  of  seeing;  and  two  of  them, 
I  will  now  endeavor  to  describe. 

It  was  several  years  ago,  and  it  was 
"Fair  Week",  in  the  large  Scotch  city 
of  Glasgow.  Industry  had  suspended. 
All  the  work-people  were  on  a  peaceful, 
amicable,  and  temporary  "strike";  and 
long  excursions,  by  train,  boat,  and  foot, 
were  the  program,  by  day  and  night. 
My  host,  the  Consul,  discovered  Siat 
relaxation  was  in  the  air,  and  decided 
that  we  needed  an  outing;  He  wanted 
another  day  in  The  Land  of  Burns. 
Would  I  go  with  him?  "Would  I!  It 
was  always  a  pleasure  to  visit  the  haunts 
of  the  distinguished  dead,  in  company 
with  the  distinguished  living."  He 
smiled  warily,  and  offered  me  a  consu- 
lar cigar. 

We  took  an  excursion^boat,  well 
crowded  with  lads  and  lasses,  in  Sun- 
day suits,  and  various  degrees  of  exhil- 
aration. They  offered  no  objection, 
tacit  or  otherwise,  to  our  studies  of 
human-nature-away-on-a-lark,  and  did 
not  conceal  their  entire  independence  of 
observation.    It  was  just  such  a  tfironcr 

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EVERY    WHERE. 


MISS  AGNES  BURNS  BEGGS. 

as  the  Mohammed  of  our  pilgrimage 
would  have  liked  to  mingle  in  for  an 
hour  or  two,  in  his  youthful  days.  It 
was  full  of  amateur  music,  impromptu 
dancing,  and  surreptitious  love-making. 

We  disembarked  at  Ayr,  walked 
through  the,  quaint  old  streets  that  have 
been  so  often  described,  drove  to  the 
small,  rough  cottage  where  that  very 
valuable  baby  was  bom,  and  examined 
the  monument,  a  vision  of  which  would 
have  astounded  the  boy  who  became  the 
cause  of  it,  and  greatly  puzzled  his  hard- 
headed  old  father,  and  sympathetic 
mother.  We  lingered  awhile  at  that 
deserted  ball-room  of  ghosts,  "Kirk 
Alloway";  and  finally  stood  upon  the 
"brig  o'  Doon",  where  that  heroine  of 
equestrian  literature,  the  gray  mare 
Meggie,  lost  her  tail,  and  gained  immor- 
tality. 

Our  fellow-excursionists  had  arrived 
in  the  vale  below.  They  were  singing 
in  chorus,  "Ye  Banks  an'  Braes  o'  Bon- 
nie Doon."  Foliage  hid  them,  and  the 
valley  itfldf  seemed  to  sing. 


"That's  what  I  call  true  ability,  and 
genuine  fame,"  said  the  Consul,  dream- 
ily. "Here's  a  young  fellow,  who, 
trudging  behind  the  plow,  thinks  and 
feels  out  a  song,  that  sets  this  whole 
valley  (to  say  nothing  about  the  world 
in  general)  to  singing.  Oh,  it  is  a  great 
thing  to  write  the  songs  of  a  nation  I" 

"And  not  a  discreditable  thing  to 
fight  the  battles  of  a  nation,  Colonel," 
I  suggested.  He  eyed  me  warily,  and 
offered  me  another  consular  cigar. 

"Now  my  boy,"  he  said,  "I  have  one 
more  attraction  (or  rather  two  more) 
for  you,  which  can  not  be  said  to  form 
part  of  the  regulation  tour.  Come  with 
me. 

We  returned  to  our  carriage,  drove  a 
mile  or  two,  and  stopped  in  front  of  a 
toy-cottage,  with  ivy  necklace  and  rose- 
gemmed  scarf. 

We  went  into  a  tiny,  well-kept  parlor. 
Bums  was  there  before  us;  he  smiled 
upon  us  from  portraits  upon  the  wall; 
he  wrote  to  us  in  framed  autograph  let- 


HISS   ISABELLA  BUKNS  BBGGS. 

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ters;  he  showed  us  tributes  to  his 
genius,  from  all  countries.  It  was  a 
little  apotheosis  of  the  poet. 

Pretty  soon,  he  came  to  us,  in  the 
faces  of  two  ladies,  somewhat  past  their 
prime,  but  with  sparkling  eyes  and 
brisk  manner,  and  looking  enough  like 
the  Nightingale  of  Ayr,  to  be  birds  from 
the  same  nest,  which  they  were,  almost. 
They  were  own  nieces  of  Robert  Bums 
—daughters  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  Begg. 

They  greeted  the  Consul  cordially  as 


of  wine,  and  some  genuine  auld  Scotch 
oat  cake?" 

She  paused  a  moment  for  breath,  and 
the  other  took  up  the  pretty  little  speech, 
exactly  where  her  sister  left  it,  and  con- 
tinued their  kind  assurances  of  good 
will  and  hospitality.  In  the  discourse 
that  followed,  the  same  plan  was  carried 
out :  whenever  one  paused  for  want  of 
breath  or  other  cause,  the  other  took 
up  her  theme,  and  proceeded,  in  exactly 
the  same  strain.    This  was  with  no  dis- 


THE    BRIDGE   OF   DOON. 


an  old  acquaintance,  and  accepted  me 
as  a  new  one.  Their  slowness  of  physi- 
cal movement,  was  in  striking  contrast 
to  their  quickness  bf  thought  and 
manner. 

"We  are  baith  lame  an'  lazy,"  chirped 
one  of  them,  apologetically,  as  they 
came  in,  slowly,  from  the  garden.  "But 
for  a'  that  we  are  ower  fast  to  meet 
friends,  ever." 

"And  will  ye  bide  a  wee,  gentlemen," 
said  the  other,  "while  we  get  you  a  glass 


position  to  capture  the  conversatfon ;  it 
was  simply  a  tacit  and  amicable  division 
of  labor. 

A  bonnie  and  exhilarating  sight  they 
were,  those  two  women,  who  had  never 
seen  their  illustrious  uncle,  but  who  had 
so  many  of  the  conversational  qualities 
attributed  to  him,  and,  especially  when 
animated,  so  near  a  resemblance  to  his 
portraits  upon  the  wall.  They  were 
both  genial  and  racy  story-tellers;  and 
gave  us  many  old  and  some  new  storicf 

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EVERY   WHERE. 


concerning  the  hero  of  our  journey. 
They  were  almost  two  Burnses  in  crino- 
line. 

Their  anecdotes  of  the  distinguished 
people  who  had  visited  them,  were  very 
entertaining.  Some  of  our  presidents 
had  been  there.  One  visitor,  they  said, 
was  a  distinguished  American  general, 
who  was  marking  a  tour  of  the  world. 
"An*  when  he  went  awa',"  said  one  of 
the  sisters,  pointing  to  the  other,  "he  gi' 
her  a  kiss."  The  elderly  but  still  attrac- 
tive spinster  joined  merrily  and  heartily 
in  the  laugh. 

I  afterwards  jokingly  repeated  this 
little  anecdote  to  the  eminent  general 
in  question,  who  was  no  other  than  the 
illustrious  Grant.  With  his  well-known 
faculty  of  getting  out  of  a  predicament 
by  going  through  it,  he  replied,  smiling 
grimly :  "I  kissed  them  both." 


A  few  years  later,  I  was  upon  another 
trip  to  Ayr.  The  Consul  had  gone  back 
to  America;  but  I  was  not  alone.  My 
present  companion  offered  me,  not 
cigars,  but  various  and  sundry  sugges- 
tions! concerning  the  colors  of  the  foli- 
age, the  probable  domestic  life  in  the 
cottages  we  passed,  and  the  becoming- 
ness  or  otherwise  of  th)e  costumes  of 
the  ladies  we  met  upon  the  way. 

After  we  had  purchased  specimens  of 
all  the  pictures,  for  friends  and  albums 
at  home,  we  drove  to  the  little  toy-cot- 
tage, where  the  two  nieces  used  to  live. 
The  same  diminutive  parlor  was  there — 
the  same  tokens  of  admiration  for  the 
Bard  of  the  Heart — and  the  descendants 
of  the  flowers  I  had  seen  a  few  years 
before,  bloomed  on  all  sides.  But  no 
sweet  ladies  came  slowly  and  smilingly 
to  greet  us.  One  was  a  prisoner  of 
rheumatism,  in  her  lonely  though  cozy 
room  at  the  head  of  the  little  stairway ; 
the  other  was  in  a  grave,  in  the  old 
family  burying-ground,  just  in  front  of 
"Allowa/s  auld  haunted  kirk." 

The  sister  who  was  yet  living,  wel- 
comed us  to  her  tiny  room,  picked  up 
deftly  the  threads  of  our  former  short 
acquaintance,  welcomed  the  new-comer 
■with  that  feminine  free-masonry  that 
knows  no  race  or  country,  and  entered 


with  us  into  a  pleasant,  and  at  times  a 
merry  conversation. 

So,  on  this  June  afternoon,  the  win- 
some lady  sat — erect  and  cheery,  in  the 
upper  room  of  her  little  ivy  and  rose- 
covered  cottage.  It  was  observed  by 
one  pair  of  eyes,  that  upon  her  right, 
was  a  large  fuchsia  plant,  in  full  bloom ; 
on  her  left,  a  fine  geranium,  branches  of 
which  reached  down  and  almost  touched 
her  silvered  hair.  On  a  shelf  near  by, 
was  a  large  cottage  Bible — ^just  in  front 
of  her  a  little  table — and  upon  that,  two 
little  books — "Bible  Forget-me-nots", 
and  "Golden  Grain."  She  was  dressed 
plainly,  but  tastefully— her  collar  fas- 
tened with  a  brooch  containing  Bums'* 
picture.  Nearer  the  stairway  was  an 
alcove,  in  which  was  a  clean,  dainty  bed 
— ^with  quaint  thread-knitt^  curtains. 
Over  the  tiny  mantel,  were  portraits  of 
her  mother  and  uncle. 

Two  or  three  el^^nt  carriages  passed, 
while  we  sat  there,  evidently  driven  by 
wealthy  and  perhaps  titled  residents  of 
the  vicinity.  In  every  case,  the  sweet 
old  lady  was  saluted  with  a  respect  not 
far  from  homage,  as  she  glanced  pleas- 
antly from  her  little  window,  and  grace- 
fully bowed. 

Her  conversation  was  witty,  wise,  and 
at  times  fanciful;  and  showed  that  she 
was  able  to  draw  somewhat  from  that 
sparkling  stream  of  Scotch  wit  and  wis- 
dom, which  may  have  been  generations 
accumulating,  before  it  flashed  in  the 
eyes  of  the  world. 

As  my  wife  and  I  bade  her  what 
proved  to  be  the  last  farewell,  and  went 
on  tiptoe  down  that  diminutive  staircase, 
we  caught  a  glimpse,  through  the  half- 
open  door,  of  a  small  kitchen,  where 
tea  was  being  prepared.  The  feminine 
eyes  appertaining  to  the  expedition, 
noticed  in  a  flash,  a  shining  tea-ketde 
puffing  and  steaming  away;  the  pretty 
ingle-side,  and  the  iron  crane  that 
graced  it;  and  all  the  varied  white 
jewelry  of  a  well-ordered  kitchen.  "It 
is  a  Scotch  ballad  in  itself,"  was  the 
whispered  remark. 

As  we  drove  through  the  green  coun- 
try, back  toward  city  turmoils,  Ais 
thought  travelled,  not  far  away:   "It  is 

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always  a  privilege  to  meet  relatives  of 
the  dead  authors  whom  we  admire, 
though  not  invariably  a  pleasure.  But 
in  these  two  sweet,  refined  women,  and 
their  surroundings,  I  can  not  but  feel, 
that  I  have  met  something  like  that 
which    was   noblest   in   Robert   Burns. 


-«^^ 


After  a  few  more  months,  word  came 
to  us  across  the  broad  Atlantic,  that  our 
friend  had  been  borne  down  tfie  tiny 
winding  staircase,  and  gone  to  rest  amid 
those  whose  pleasures,  toils,  and  sor- 
rows, her  inspired  uncle  sang  so  cn- 
trancingly. 


Bums'   Birthplace. 


Thirty  nine   Thoughts. 


Prayer  is  not  of  any.  use,  if  the  one 
who  prays  is  not. 

<^ 
A  friend  in  need  is  a  friend  indeed 
very  hard  to  be  found. 
<^ 
A   fraction,   if  well   cared-for,   soon 
develops  into  a  whole. 

A  well-conducted  fight  often  saves  a 
dozen  ill-conducted  ones. 
«^ 
A    long   engagement    is    dangerous: 
and  a  short  one  more  so. 
<^ 
A  "threatening  day"  is  no  threat  to 
one  whose  body  is  sound. 
«^ 
If    you    must    fight,    do'  it    cleanly: 
never  indulge  in  a  fracas. 

Rudeness  may  cover  a  good  heart, 
but  it  is  very  likely  to  get  into  it. 

A  great  deal  of  "encouragement"  is 
given  in  a  very  discouraging  way. 
<^ 
Sin  is  a  "transgression  of  the  law": 


but  the  law  itself  is  sometimes  a  trans- 
gression. 

^^ 
"Curses,  like  chickens"  not  only  come 
home  to  roost,  but  they  often  stay  and 
hatch  more. 

<^ 
Cats  seem  partly  human:   they  often 
climb  trees  from  which  they  are  unable 
to  descend  safely. 

<^ 
Do  not  "speed  the  parting  guest"  so 
blithely  and  enthusiastically  that  he  will 
be  sorry  he  came. 

<^ 
Practice  is  one  of  the  greatest  curses 
on  the  planet — if  one  practices  wrong 
or  trivial  things. 

<^ 
Do  not  fleece  your  sheep  too  soon  or 
too  closely,  or  you  may  never  get  an- 
other chance  at  them. 
<^ 
A  monument  to  heroes,  generally  has 
a  way  of  looking  mortified  because  it 
wasn't  erected  sooner. 

Whosoever  funeral  it  is,  be  decorous 
ar^    respectful:    there   is   liable   U    be 

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EVERY   WHERE. 


grief  there,  such  as  you  will  soon  be 
called  upon  to  endure. 

The   grasses    are   patient    when   we 
tread  them  under  our  feet:  they  will 
soon  return  the  favor. 
«^ 

The  fruit  of  a  bad  action  may,  hap- 
pily, soon  decay:  but  its  seeds  will  still 
be  looking  around  for  mischief. 
<^ 

Do  not  trifle  away  your  energy  in 
being  disgusted  at  a  "crank":  employ 
him  as  an  amusement. 

To  be  self-conceited  over  one  accom- 
plishment, is  like  a  boy  trying  to  walk 
on  half  a  pair  of  stilts. 
<^ 

The  proverbial  "soft  answer"  may 
"turn  away  wrath"— and  at  the  same 
time  provoke  imposition. 

When  you  encourage  a  prize-fight, 
you  help  to  prepare  the  kindlings  for  a 
future  war  between  nations. 

Reading  merely  to  "pass  the  time 
away",  is  the  very  worst  dissipation  in 
the  world — ^that  of  the  body  and  the 
soul. 

Probably,  if  k  were  not  for  fire, 
which  man  can  generally  escape,  vege- 
tation would  conquer  the  whole  human 
race. 

Some  men  are  good  because  they  arc 
not  clever  enough  to  be  otherwise:  but 
that  very  lack  of  cleverness  is  their  real 
salvation. 

<^ 

Never  be  sure  that  you  have  really 
lost  a  valued  friend,  until  you  have  used 
a  reasonable  amount  of  exertion  to  get 
him  back. 

Add  up  everything  you  expect  from 
friends,  then  divide  it  by  ten  or  more, 
and  go  to  work  yourself,  to  F»ake  up 
the  difference. 

A  dunce  of  a  boy  often  turns  out  to 
be  a  genius  in  disguise;    and  a  preco- 


cious youth  frequently  becomes  a  mere 
clod  of  a  man. 

Some  people,  even  if  they  had  as 
many  eyes  as  there  are  windows  in  a 
house,  would  see  just  about  as  much  as 
the  house  does. 

There  are  so  many  diflferent  kinds  of 
love,  that  it  is  not  at  all  curious  if  any 
one  does  not  always  know  whether  be 
is  in  love  or  not 

If  you  learn  how  to  thoroughly  ad- 
mire and  appreciate  other  people's  prop- 
erty, you  can  be  a  millionaire  without  a 
millionaire's  care. 

Ignorance  of  the  law  ought  to  be 
accepted  as  an  excuse,  unless  the  Gov- 
ernment has  given  the  people  a  good 
chance  to  learn  it. 

They  say  that  no  man  is  a  hero  to  his 
valet — ^and,   indeed,   there    is    a   good 
reason  for  it :  if  he  tried  to  be,  he  would 
not  have  time  for  anything  else. 
«^ 

A   man   acquired   the  reputation  of 
being  brave,  and  became  reckless:  he 
acquired  the  reputation  of  being  reck- 
less, and  became  a  coward. 
<^ 

As  soon  as  Christmas  is  good  and 
gone,  commence  figuring  for  the  next 
one — and  you  will  get  out  of  it  much 
more  satisfactorily  and  cheaply. 
<^ 

Clannishness  is  a  powerful  but  dan- 
gerous institution :  when  discord  breaks 
out,  the  blows  that  are  struck  are  near- 
er, more  accurate,  and  deadlier. 
^£ 

All  mathematics  is  simply  addition 
and  subtraction,  carried  on  in  different 
ways.  Multiplication  and  division  arc 
merely  addition  and  subtraction  several 
times  repeated. 

<^ 

Keep  on  the  train,  in  society  matters, 
even  if  it  contains  things  you  do  not 
like,  and  which  you  may  have  a  chance 
to  improve:  it  is  ever  so  much  better 
than  going  afoot.  ^  t 

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The  Passing  of  Capital  Letters. 

By  Rev.  Daniel  M.  Parker. 


TT  is  determined  that  among  all 
changes  and  transitions  the  tend- 
ency to  disuse  of  the  capital  letter  shall 
for  purpose  of  dissertation  have  con- 
structive pre-eminence:  by  what  sorti- 
l^e,  or  by  what  oracle  sounding  from 
what  tripod,  boots  it  not  to  tell. 

That  the  capital  letter  is  being 
dropped  from  stations  where  it  has  been 
thought  essential  for  the  expression  of 
dignity  attaching  to  theme,  and  for  the 
formal  dignity  of  the  written  or  printed 
page,  need  not  be  argued.  That  the 
tendency  of  the  present  time  is  quite 
rapidly  and  extensively  toward  its  dis- 
use, needs  but  few  illustrations. 

When  such  words  as  "galvanism"  and 
"galenic"  are  written  without  capitals; 
when  "douglassi"  as  the  name  of  a  spe- 
cies following  the  name  of  genus, 
though  derived  from  a  proper  noun,  has 
its  initial  letter  lower-case;  there  is 
something  in  the  wind,  and  it  is  blow- 
ing a  pretty  gale.  The  anemometer 
must  register  high  when  a  standard,  up- 
to-date  journal  prints  a  book-title  thus : 
"A  century  of  preparation  for  world- 
evangelism." 

This  same  wind  has  blown  away  many 
hyphens,  and  carried  the  italics  out  of 
such  words  as  "mot",  "amende  honor- 
able", "esprit  de  corps",  "penchant",  etc. 
It  has  spirited  away  many  such  words  as 
"badinage",  "debris",  "verve",  "hau- 
teur", and  deposited  in  their  place 
respectively,  "chaffing",  "wreckage", 
"snap",  and  "pride." 

For  centuries  the  marking  of  written 
language  was  rudely  done.    Finally  the 


enlargement  of  a  first  letter  to  a  capital 
marked  the  beginning  of  a  sentence, 
and  relative  rank  and  dignity  were  indi- 
cated by  capitals. 

Two  conditions  would  seem  to  pre- 
cede and  accompany  the  creation  and 
continuance  of  capitals :  a  good  d^^ee 
of  reverence,  and  ample  time  for  the 
majority  of  writers  to  distinguish  and 
accent  degrees  of  reverence.  From  the 
spirit  of  ancient  Hebrew  Rabbins,  who 
saw  in  every  large;  letter  of  their  sacred 
text,  unmoved  by  any  consideration  that 
it  might  have  been  enlarged  by  accident 
and  inadvertence  of  transcriber,  a  mystic 
and  recondite  meaning,  is  a  decided 
change  to  the  spirit  of  the  modem 
printer,  who  is  quite  prone  to  cry  vocif- 
erously "down"  when  discussion  of  cap- 
italization is  on. 

From  the  days  of  those  who  could 
frame  their  philosophy  and  theology 
and  shape  their  heaven  and  hell  upon 
such  graphic  minutiae,  and  quarrel  for 
a  letter  more  or  less  in  some  hard  word, 
which,  spelled  in  either  way,  not  their 
most  learned  scribe  could  understand — 
to  these  roaring  times  of  criticism — is 
appreciable  advance ;  but  not  always  of 
discernible  reverence  for  aught  of  earth 
or  heaven  or  hell. 

Language  is  unquestionably  exponent 
and  measure  of  mind,  heart  and  habit 
of  peoples.  Letters  "show  the  very  age 
and  body  of  a  time,  his  form  and  press- 
ure." All  learning  was  once  cultivated 
and  conserved  by  gray-haired  monks, 
who  in  cloister  sharpened  the  blunted 
weapons  of  logic,  transcribed  the  rcc- 

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EVERY   WHERE. 


ords  of  old  battles,  read  from  the  mus- 
ter-roll of  ages,  then  counted  their 
beads,  muttered  their  prayers,  and  died. 

In  that  age  was  expended  upon  some 
illuminated  missal  the  patient  care  that 
should  prove  to  observant  Heaven  the 
fidelity  of  a  consecrated  soul.  Not  with- 
out pecuniary  recompense  sometimes; 
for  professional  copyists  received  more 
for  their  beautiful  manuscripts  of  Aris- 
totle and  Plutarch  than  came  to  authors 
for  centuries  under  the  printing-press. 

Such  was  the  pressure  of  that  bygone 
age.  The  pressure  of  this  present  is  to 
the  exigencies  of  a  speed  exemplified  by 
typewriter  and  linotype.  The  represen- 
tative of  one  age  is  cloistered  monk. 
The  representative  of  the  other  age  is 
alert  multimillionaire,  with  adjunctives  of 
ready  manipulators  of  typewriter,  skill- 
ful stenographers,  and  swift  operators 
of  telegraph. 

This  urgency  animates  our  time  and 
people  in  much  that  is  done ;  and  impels 
us  "with  fountain  pen  and  typewriter  by 
window  of  Pullman"  to  write  the  great 
instructors  of  mankind,  such  as  Dick- 
ens, Thackeray,  Kingsley,  and  Reade,  as 
slow;  while  we  read,  ephemerally,  the 
books  that  have  been  written  and  pub- 
lished oversight. 

Some  one  asserts  that  we  are  in 
danger  of  forgetting  how  to  spell,  and 
begs  for  the  restraining  and'  demulcent 
influence  of  the  quill  pen.  No  wonder, 
with  newspapers  so  abominably  printed ! 
But  let  us  be  charitable  to  those  who 
set  the  pace.  The  great  and  admirable 
journal,  the  "Blanket  News",  must  be  so 
hurried  in  alt  its  processes,  in  order  to 
publish  all  baseball  reports,  divorce- 
court  proceedings,  glowing  accounts  of 
our  national  glory,  our  protestations  of 
friendship  for  weaker  nations:  such 
haste  is  necessary  that  there  may  be  pre- 
pared a  proper  Sunday  supplement — 
save  .the  mark! — that  we  may  not  ask 
tegard  for  the  eyesight  of  the  coming 
generation,  nor  for  taste  and  accuracy 
in  minor  details.  The  disposition  to 
simplify  is  commendable.  This  move- 
ment is  apparent  even  in  an  evolution  of 
accent,  as  "revenue", — not  "revenue"; 
"fofmidable"— not  "formWable." 


The  spirit  of  the  time  and  the  present 
stage  of  evolution  decree  that  "presi- 
dent", "congressman",  or  "bishop",  shall 
often  lack  capitals.  The  Chicago  Soci- 
ety of  Proofreaders  announces  that  we 
should  write  "President  McKinley",  but 
"president  of  the  Smithtown  Bank." 
We  are  to  write  "Cook  County",  but 
"county  of  Cook";  "Lyons  Township", 
but  "township  of  Lyons." 

There  are  some  customs  that  appear 
anomalous,  and  the  "rule  canonical" 
would  seem  to  be  the  rule  of  fast  and 
loose.  Sometimes  the  difiiculty  may  be 
almost  enough  to  justify  a  writer  in 
passing  it  to  the  printer  for  decision  as 
the  supreme  passing  of  the  capital. 

In  the  Bible,  where  especially  there  is 
inculcation  of  reverence,  pronouns  and 
adjectives  referring  to  Deity  are  not 
capitalized — contrary  to  general  usage. 
Here,  too,  the  word  scripture  is  not 
capitalized,  while  elsewhere  it  is  usu- 
ally so  written.  In  the  English  sen- 
tence of  address,  the  person  spoken  to 
is  put  first — "you  and  I" — ^the  person 
speaking  being  second  in  order ;  yet  the 
pronoun  "I"  is  capital  letter,  while 
"you"  is  small  letter. 

Is  this  reversal  and  denial  of  the 
respect  expressed  by  the  chosen  order 
of  the  pronominal  words?  Does  this 
justify  against  us  the  charge  of  arro- 
gance made  by  M.  Zola?  Is  this  the 
acme  of  reprehensible  self-conscious- 
ness ?  Do  we  occupy  racially  the  proud 
attitude  of  the  man  who  held  that  the 
First  Meridian  passed  generally,  not 
through  Greenwich,  but  through  his 
own  skull,  and  always  through  his  own 
study?  Perhaps,  however,  this  expres- 
sion of  the  ego  is  but  exponent  and 
reflex  of  our  own  nearness  to  the  great 
I  AM.  Perhaps  we  are  most  truly  the 
Sons  of  God,  M.  Demolins,  a  French- 
man, has  written  a  notable  book  to 
demonstrate  Anglo-Saxon  superiority. 
Assuredly,  he  may  adduce  our  language 
in  support  of  his  position.  A  French- 
man, referring  to  himself,  writes  his 
"je"  with  small  j.  A  German,  though 
he  may  give  capitals  to  all  his  substan- 
tives, uses  small  i  in  "ich."  A  Span- 
iard uses   small  y  in  "yo",   while  the 


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word  by  which  he  addresses  another 
Ibegins  with  a  capital. 

Is  our  custom,  then,  one  of  extreme 
egotism;  or  is  it  the  sign  of  inevi- 
table, ineradicable  and  praiseworthy  self- 
respect?  It  has  been  said:  "Magna 
Qiarta  could  never  have  been  forced 
from  kings  or  aristocrats  by  people  who 
swallowed  their  'ego',  hissed  their  'ich*, 
or  coughed  or  hiccoughed  with  their 
'ik/  "  Men  sufficient  for  great  historic 
deeds  were  they,  who  rolled  forth  a 
manly  "I" ;  men  who  represented  ideals, 
and  spoke  individuality  with  absolute 
vowelization.  In  the  name  of  liberty 
and  development,  the  name  of  the  per- 
sonal life  is  pure  tone ;  "you"  and  "we" 
are  slightly  modified  with  sound  of 
consonant. 

The  French  elide  frequently  the 
vowel-half  of  the  words  for  "you"  and 
"me."  The  French  are  versatile,  but 
too  certainly  they  are  also  volatile. 
With  the  Anglo-Saxon,  such  elision  is 
impossible  from  the  form  of  speech. 
With  French  and  Spanish  alike  for  cen- 
turies there  have  existed  "weaknesses 
which  the  cloak  of  external  and  verbal 
politeness  does  but  the  more  powerfully 
expose."  The  German,  clinging  gener- 
ally to  the  capital  letter  for  substan- 
tives, evinces  sturdiness  that  is  strength, 
albeit  sometimes  it  may  be  slowness. 

Language  is  made  with  the  course  of 
time.  Mr.  Gladstone  is  reported  to  have 
said,  at  a  somewhat  advanced  period  of 
his  life,  that  were  he  young  he  would 
head  the  cause  of  spelling-reform. 
Something,  doubtless,  he  could  have 
accomplished :  something  he  could  not, 
even  with  his  life  on  earth  amplified  a 
few  hundred  years. 

The  French  Academy  proposed  to 
Cardinal  Richelieu  that  by  his  patron- 
age they  would  "cleanse  the  language 
of  the  impurities  it  has  contracted  in 
the  mouths  of  the  common  people,  from 
the  jargon  of  the  lawyers,  the  misusages 
of  ignorant  courtiers,  and  the  abuses  of 
the  pulpit."  The  Cardinal  wished  the 
French  language  to  take  the  place  of  the 
Latin.  In  some  measure  the  labors  of 
such  a  society  might  serve  to  render  a 
language  pure  and  eloquent,  but  protest 


against  due  innovation  would  but  ossify 
and  stratify.  Conservation  would  ex- 
ceed creation. 

Learned  men  may  gather  by  the 
stream  of  speech,  and  with  other  words 
of  "learned  length  and  thundering 
sound"  stone  a  word  beneath  the  sur- 
face; but  they  can  not  stop  the  under- 
current, and  the  submerged  word  may 
"bob  up  serenely"  when  they  are  gone. 

The  tendency  to  drop  the  capital  let- 
ter is  obvious.  Will  it  eventually  be 
eliminated  ? — No ! 

The  swiftness  of  modern  Ufe  may 
accomplish  much.  Mechanism'  and  me- 
chanical existence  may  make  many 
demands;  but  reverence  and  regard, 
real  or  assumed,  will  still  be  expressed 
for  something.  If  Christianity  shall  be 
written  "down".  Chaos  will  be  written 
"up."  Individuality  may  be  lower-case, 
but  then  mammoth  Trust  will  have  its 
capital.  We  may  conceive  of  a  Susanna 
Wesley,  in  a  letter  describing  the  res- 
cue of  her  children  from  a  burning 
building,  writing  the  word  "Mercy" 
with  a  small  letter;  we  ma)^  fancy  Sir 
Thomas  Browne  without  capitals:  "In 
this  Mass  of  Nature  there  is  a  set  of 
things  that  carry  in  their  Front  (though 
not  in  Capital  Letters,  yet  in  Stenogra- 
phy and  short  characters),  something 
of  Divinity,  which  to  wiser  Reasons 
serve  as  Luminaries  in  the  Abyss  of 
Knowledge,  and  to  judicious  beliefs  as 
Scales  and  Roundles  to  mount  the  Pin- 
nacles and  highest  places  of  Divinity." 
But  Podsnapery,  be  it  American  or  be  it 
British,  "with  watery  smile  and  edu- 
cated whisker",  will  require  capitals  to 
write.  Very  Rich,  and  to  put  into  print 
Mr.  Podsnap's  sentence,  when  "with  his 
favorite  right  arm  flourish"  he  puts 
Europe,  Asia,  and  Africa  nowhere,  and 
says :  "No  Other  Country  is  so  Favored 
as  This  Country." 

Furthermore,  whatever  wholesome 
changes  may  be  developed  in  the  direc- 
tion of  simplicity  of  language,  Fad  and 
his  Father  will  still  be  on  the  turf ;  they 
will  parade  with  accoutrements  plenti- 
fully bespangled  with  capitals,  and  the 
crowd  will  follow  with  the  speed  of  a 
Gilpin.  ^  T 

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I  WAS  sixteen  years  old,  and  thought 
*  I  could, "keep  school."  A  Yankee 
tin-peddler,  whose  wares  did  not  gleam 
alluringly  enough  in  frigid  weather,  had 
jtaught  our  last  winter  school  as  a 
change,  and  had  made  his  callow  sub- 
jects believe  that  they  knew  about  ten 
times  as  much  as  they  did.  The  ped- 
dler-schoolmaster said  I  myself  could 
teach,  next  winter,  almost  as  well  as  he 
could.  "Try  it,  anyway",  he  said.  And 
Janie  Treadwell,  the  girl  with  whom  I 
exchanged  surreptitious  rose-is-red-the- 
violet's-blue  literature,  said  I  could 
teach,  if  I  tried  good  and  hard.  I 
taught. 

TTie  schoolhouse  was  seven  miles 
from  any  place  where  a  fellow  could 
go,  fifteen  from  my  childhood's  happy 
home,  and  sixteen  from  Janie  Tread- 
well.  It  was  as  large  as  a  barn,  and 
dreary  enough,  for  me,  when  children 
were  not  inhabiting  it:  There  was  ink 
enough  stained  on  the  various  desks,  if 
it  could  have  been  extracted,  and  rebot- 
tled,  to  write  a  President's  message 
every  year.  Knife-blades  had  wandered 
all  over  them,  and  stabbed  and  stung 
them  with  boys'  initials — three  in  every 
case,  and  sometimes  six.  On  the  wall 
hung  the  remains  of  various  maps  that 
looked  as  if  there  had  been  a  series  of 
earthquakes  in  every  country  that  ven- 
tured to  put  in  an  appearance ;  and  the 
two  hemispheres  looked  as  if  the  world 
had  grown  discouraged,  and  decided  to 
come  to  an  untimely  end.  Mottoes  had 
been  put  up  on  one  of  the  walls,  by 
some  ambitious  predecessor  of  mine, 
\\^ich  had  at  one  time  firmly  stated  that 
Perseverance  was  the  price  of  Success, 
and  that  "I  can't"  had  never  accom- 
plished  anything — but  these  had  made 


themselves  into  alphabetical  puzzles  in 
losing  about  half  of  their  words.  Sixty- 
three  "scholars",  by}  dreary  and  persis- 
tent coimt,  of  various  ages,  from  tod- 
dlers of  five  to  a  demure  maiden  lady 
of  thirty,  huddled  wherever  they  could, 
and  "scrapped"  for  the  most  comfort- 
able desks  in  the  environment. 

I  had  always  been  unable  to  do  any 
work,  unless  mixing  it  with  sentiment. 
A  farmer  without  sentiment  is  merely 
a  hedger  and  ditcher ;  a  lawyer,  a  hired 
liar;  a  soldier,  a  murderer;  a  banker 
or  merchant,  a  robber;  and  a  teacher, 
without  sentiment,  is  merely  a  conveyor 
of  compulsory  statistics. 

I  thought  over  all  the  romantic  things 
I  could,  concerning  my  new  occupation, 
including  statements  about  "these  young 
budding  minds",  "these  little  untutor^ 
souls",  "these  future  hopes  of  our  coun- 
try", etc.,  etc.,  etc.,  and  assailed  myself 
with  them  for  as  much  of  their  worth 
as  I  could  command. 

I  also  used  my  imagination,  to  as  full 
an  extent  as  its  limits  would  allow. 
Like  many  ambitious  young  fellows.  I 
expected  some  day  to  go  through  col- 
lege: and  now  fancied  myself  as  the 
President  of  a  University  out  there  in 
the  country — my  Freshman  class  just 
learning  its  a-b-cs,  and  my  Senior  Class 
entangled  in  the  intricacies  of  square 
root,  and  trying  hard  to  get  out.  I  tried 
to  love  every  one  of  my  pupils  as  much 
as  was  proper,  and  meanwhile  kept  an 
eye  on  the  poker,  hoped  for  the  best, 
and  prepared  for  the  worst. 

Everything  settled  down,  in  a  few 
days,  and  order  was  produced  fairly 
well  from  chaos,  when  one  considered 
that  the  chaos  was  alive  and  squirming. 
Really,  I  began  to  feel  that  the  cause 

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of  education  in  the  United  States  of 
America,  was  making  vast  strides,  and 
I  was  told  confidentially  by  one  of  the 
big  girls,  that  she  believed  I  was  intend- 
ed by  the  Almighty,  as  one  of  the  very 
very  best  teachers  which  they  ever  so 
fur  hed  hed,  in  that  deestrick.  Janie 
Tireadwell  smiled  half-approvingly,  when 
I  told  her  of  it. 

There  are  always,  however,  troubles, 
in  every  environment:  and  the  sooner 
you  make  up  your  mind  tio  meet  them,  the 
sooner  you  will  settle  into  your  natural 
vocation.  Puddings  do  not  grow  upon 
forest  trees,  in  any  clunate  where  life 
is  worth  the  trouble  to  procure  it:  and 
the  threshing  of  a  few  "husky"  boys, 
and  the  harmonizing  of  the  feminine 
instincts  of  a  few  wilful  girls,  are  only 
initial  ceremonies  toward  keeping  a  good 
school. 

I  had  one  enemy — always  present  in 
my  schoolroom — always  implacable — al- 
ways grimly  smiling  at  me — ^always 
threatening  me. 

This  was  A  stove — a  great,  uncouth, 
rusty  creature,  of  about  the  same  shape 
as  the  schoolhouse,  and  occupying  a 
considerable  portion  of  it.  I  felt,  the 
very  first  time  I  looked  at  it,  that  it  was 
my  natural  foe.  The  huge  billets  of 
wood  that  we  piled  into  it  so  as  to  main- 
tain the  normal  heat  of  our  still  living 
though  perishing  bodies,  were  treated 
by  this  rudfe  old  house-furnace,  with! 
fervor  or  indifference,  just  as  it  hap- 
pened to  feel  that  day.  Like  some 
larger  and  more  complicated  heating 
apparatus,  it  was  likely  to  sulk  in  cold 
weather,  and  grow  wildly  enthusiastic 
when  the  mercury  was  ambitious  and 
aspiring.  It  was,  in  fact,  a  sort  of  cast- 
iron  genius:  you  never  knew  what  it 
was  going  to  do  with  itself,  or  with 
you. 

Among  the  eccentricities  of  this  agent 
of  thermometrical  despair,  had  been  that 
of  burning  loose  a  portion  of  its  archi- 
tecture, so  that  its  rear  end  had  one 
day  dropped  helplessly  on  the  floor, 
and  when  replaced,  remained  there 
only  under  protest — though  encouraged 
and  incited  by  two  or  three  short 
bars   of    iron   brought    from    a   black- 


smith-shop, and  "stood  up"  against  it. 

These  bars  were  themselves  unreli- 
able, having  caught  the  distemper  from 
a  swaying  floor  beneath.  In  fact,  some- 
times the  whole  symmetry  of  our 
scholastic  proceedings  would  be  ruddy 
marred,  by  the  falling-down  of  this  un- 
fortunate slice  of  hardware,  accompa- 
nied with  a  nice  little  shower  of  coals. 

The  Chairman  of  my  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, Squire  Hawley,  knew  of  this,  after 
I  had  told  him  three  or  four  times :  but 
when  it  came  to  spending  money,  he 
was  not  a  Progressive,  and  he  strongly 
objected  to  repairing  the  stove,  at  that 
time.  "It  would  cost  seventyfive  cents," 
he  asserted,  after  having  made  an  esti- 
mate, "and  I  guess  we'll  put  it  off  till 
next  winter."  "But,  I  will  pay  half  of 
it",  I  suggested.  "You  can't/'  said  he: 
"there  ain't  any  half  to  seventyfive 
cents."  f 

This  argument)  had  no  refutation  that 
could  be  attached  securely  to  it,  and  I 
decided  to  withdraw  from  the  Commit- 
tee on  Repairs,  to  "keep  school"  with 
such  material — animate  and  inanimate — 
as  was  considered  proper  for  me  to  pos- 
sess, add  "Watch  the  Stove"  to  the  mot- 
toes on  the  walls,  and  go  on  with  the 
University. 

One  day,  a  sad  though  interesting 
event  took  place  in  our  little  bailiwick: 
a  man  died.  He  was  very  old,  and  what 
Mr.  Carnegie  or  Mr.  Rockefeller  would 
consider  poor :  but  he  left  money  enough 
to  bury  him  in  a  fairly  decent  manner, 
with  a  few  of  the  regular  funereal  com- 
plications. There  was  no  church  within 
two  or  three  miles,  and  the  "late  resi- 
dence" of  the  deceased  was  too  small 
even  for  the  relatives  that  suddenly 
revised  their  family-tree-records  when  it 
was  found  that  there  was  a  little  money 
lurking  around  to  his  credit. 

So  I  was  informed  that  it  would  be 
necessary  for  the  public  good,  to 
have  the  funeral  take  place  in  my 
schoolhouse :  and  the  University  took  a 
day's  vacation.  The  function  was  of 
great  interest  to  the  whole  surrounding 
vicinage,  and  the  schoolhouse  was 
densely  populated — so  much  so  that  it 
was  hard  work  to  bring  in  the  old  gen- 

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tleman's  remains.  The  maps  had  all 
been  rolled  up,  with  the  countries  they 
represented,  so  as  not  to  draw  the  atten- 
tion of  the  audience  away  from  the  next 
world,  anent  which  a  young  man  who 
intendedl  to  study  for  the  ministry,  dis- 
coursed with  considerable  relish.  The 
mutilated  mottoes  had  been  removed 
from  the  walls,  including  the  one 
"Watch  flie  Stove."  My  old  enemy  had 
been  divested  of  ashes  for  the  occasion, 
and  cleaned  up  as  well  as  its  previous 
habits  would  permit.  The  day  was  not 
very  cold,  and  the  old  engine  of  calorics 
seemed  disposed  to  do  its  best,  accord- 
ing to  custom  whenever  the  mercury 
grew  a  little  ambitious  and  aspiring. 
The  iron  monster  had  never  been  attend- 
ed by  a  funeral  before,  and  it  seemed 
proud  of  the  fact,  and  inclined  to  com- 
pete with  the  casket  for  the  glory  of 
the  solemn  occasion.  The  weak  spot  in 
its  helmet  had  been  unobtrusively  braced 
up  afresh,  and  the  front  of  the  stove  had 
entirely  forgotten  its  rear — not  far  from 
where  the  poor  worn  old  body  lay,  with 
marks  of  grief  and  sadness  upon  its 
face — yet,  I  thought,  with  a  little  look 
of  pleased  surprise  forcing  its  way 
through — as  if  some  old  friends  had  just 
been  met  once  more.  The  body  lay 
across  a  couple  of  desks,  not  far  from 
the  rear  of  the  stove,  and  the  minister 
stood  still  farther  back,  timidly  men- 
tioning his  conjectures  of  what  the 
Great  Beyond  might  be  like.  I  sat 
bravely  by  the  prettiest  girl  in  the  school, 
ready  to  soothe  her,  in  case  she  should 
be  too  much  agitated  by  the  impressiye- 
ness  of  the  occasion.  The  only  thing 
she  said,  however,  was  to  inform  me, 
in  a  soft  whisper,  that  she  hedn't  bed  so 
interestin'  a  time,  sense  her  grandmother 
died. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, however,  was  not  permanently 
located  in  any  part  of  the  room:  he 
was,  so  to  speak,  the  Marshal  of  the 
Day,  and  his  duties  kept  him  in  a  state 
of  almost  constant  activity.  He  ambled 
about  the  place  as  well  as  he  could 
through  the  constituency,  climbed  over 
and  crept  around  people,  pulled  down  a 
curtain  here,  let  up  one  there,  raised  a 
window    and    lowered    it    again,    mal- 


treated an  old  lady's  corns  and  secured 
her  pardon,  and  finally  came  and  sat 
down  mostly  on  a  shrinking  little  boy's 
lap,  at  the  other  side  from  me  of  the 
pretty  girl. 

"Don't  you  think  we're  having  a 
pretty  good  funeral?"  he  inquired  of 
me,  talking  across  the  young  lady. 

"As  funerals  go,"  I  admitted,  "this 
seems  to  me  a  first-class  article.  But 
isn't  it  getting  a  little  cold,  here?" 

"Yes,  I  think  it  is,"  he  replied,  has- 
tily, rising,  to  the  intense  delight  of  the 
small  boy :  "I'll  just  put  a  stick  of  wood 
in  the  stove." 

He  had  forgotten  our  conversation  of 
a  few  days  since.  He  opened  the  stove 
door,  raised  a  large  billet  of  wood,  and 
poised  it  for  accurate  propulsion.  The 
prettiest  girl  was  about  to  exclaim  out 
and  warn  him  against  too  much  precipi- 
tation in  the  matter :  but  I  soothed  her. 
The  little  boy's  face  lighted  up,  as  if 
there  was  going  to  be  some  fun,  to 
variegate  the  solemnity. 

For  my  own  part  in  the  lurid  trans- 
action, I  remained  silent:  although  I 
probably  should  have  said, 

"My  dear  sir,  it  behooves  me  to  say, 
that  if  you  insist  upon  hurling  that  huge 
catapult  of  timber  into  the  depths  of 
the  flaming  vortex  before  you,  there'll 
probably  be  something  doing  at  the 
other  end  of  the  stove." 

I  did  not  feel  at  liberty  to  interrupt 
the  young  incipient  minister,  who  was 
just  then  listing  the  virtues  of  certain 
martyrs  who  had  been  incinerated  at  one 
time  and  another.  Besides — it  wasn't 
my  funeral. 

So,  in  sped  the  stick  of  wood;  out 
jumped  the  rear-end  of  thes  stove;  the 
aged  creature  seemed  to  realize  that  it 
now  had  an  opportunity  to  become  the 
star-actor  of  the  occasion,  and  it  exuded 
coals  and  flaming  cinders  all  over  the 
obsequies. 

The  bearers  did  their  duty  with  un- 
precedented promptness  and  celerity;  or 
there  would  have  been  a  cremation 
instead  of  a  burial.  Our  mortuary  con- 
gregation adjourned  to  the  open,  leav- 
ing the  consideration  of  the  Early 
Christian  Martyrs  for  another  date. 

The  next  day,  the  stove  was  repaired : 

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public  sentiment  having  been  aroused 
on  the  subject.  To  be  sure,  a  man  had 
to  die  in  order  to  have  the  improvement 
consummated :  but  that  is  often  the  case 
in  comiininiiies,  when  progress  and  im- 
provements are  desirable.  Only,  in  this 
case,  the  wrong  man  died. 

"It  was  an  exceedingly  singular  cir- 
cumstance," said  Janie  Treadwell,  when 
I  talked  it  over  with  her  afterward, 
*'and  one  that  should  impress  upon  us 
the  instability  of  all  human  appurte- 
nances." 

"It  was  the  five-minutes  of  my  life", 
giggled  the  prettiest  girl  in  the  school, 
next  day.  "Kids  a  yellin'  an'  hustlin' 
between  the  old  women's  feet,  an' 
climbin'  their  fathers  an'  mothers ;  bear- 
ers scramblin'  tords  the  door,  one  of 
'em  hollerin'  'Make  way  fur  the  dead!* 
little  preacher  tryin'  to  crawl  out  of  the 
winder ;  Squire  Hawley  runnin'  all  over 
everything  except  the  ceilin';  teacher 
with  his  arm  aroun'  me,  protectin'  me 
when  I  didn't  require  it ;  an'  the  old  stove 
a-standin'  there  grinnin'  through  it  all. 
I  don't  want  anybody  to  die — ^but  ef 
there  is  another  funeral  in  the  school- 
house,  I  shall  be  there,  now  I  tell  ye !" 


The  Lady  and  the  Parrot. 

A  LADY  who  is  very  much  interested 
^^  in  zoology,  ornithology,  etc.,  was 
relating  some  time  ago  to  an  attache 
of  Every  Where  an  incident  that  an- 
noyed and  displeased  her  very  much. 
Still  she  laughs  at  it,  as  a  striking  illus- 
tration of  the  intelligence  either  of  birds 
or  of  the  human  beings  who  train  them. 
She  happened  to  step  into  a  room,  at 
the  further  end  of  which  hung  a  cage 
containing  a  parrot.  She  went  to  the 
bird  deferentially  and  affectionately,  and 
enunciated   the   words    "Pretty   Polly." 


The  parrot  did  not  reply,  but  gave  her 
a  stony  stare.  She  next  said,  "Does 
Polly  want  a  cracker?"  The  little 
winged  beast  paid  no  more  attention  to 
her  than  if  provisions  of  this  kind  were 
fully  out  of  her  line  of  knowledge  and 
observation. 

Several  other  pleasant  little  things 
were  said  to  the  bird  by  the  lady,  which 
elicited  no  more  reply  than  if  she  had 
been  talking  to  a  creature  of  the  kind 
that  had  been  killed,  stuffed,  and  put  on 
exhibition.  Still,  there  was  an  acute 
glance  of  her  new  acquaintance's  eye, 
that  showed  intelligence,  and  a  restless 
motion  of  the  head»  as  if  Polly  under- 
stood what  was  said  to  her. 

But  finally  the  lady  became  tired  of 
conducting  only  one  part  of  a  conver- 
sation, and  left  the  room. 

Just  before  leaving,  she  turned  to  take 
another  look  at  her  late  companion, 
wondering  what  the  parrot  was  doing 
then. 

The  bird  spoke  for  th€  first  time: 
enunciating  the  word,  "Rubber?" 


Thoughts  at  a  Funeral. 

TUTY  memory  holds  one  thing  intact, 
^^^      That  he,  who  lies  so  low, 
Did  me  a  generous,  kindly  act 
In  the  long  years  ago.       ^  _ 

Since  then,  the  teachings  of  the  brain 

Or  feelings  of  the  heart, 
Have  held  for  each  a  different  reign, 

And  kept  our  paths  apart. 

But  now  amid  death's  awful  night. 

With  tapers  burning  dim, 
I  hold  my  screen  to  catch  the  light, 

.And  not  the  shades,  from  him. 

— David  Barker, 


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THE  BLACK  CAP. 

TTHERE  is  more  than  the  ordinary 
amount  of  newspaper-discussion, 
just  now,  concerning  capital  punish- 
ment. A  wealthy  young  man  in  Rich- 
mond has  been  killed  by  law  for  mur- 
dering his  wife,  and  a  talented  and 
handsome  young  clergyman  is  under 
sentence  of  death  for  poisoning  his 
sweetheart — each  case  producing  a  pro- 
found impression  upon  the  whole  coun- 
try. 

These  cases — both  of  them  concern- 
ing very  depraved  and  subtly-malicious 
creatures,  are  no  doubt  the  cause  of 
this  present  increased-discussion :  buC 
there  was  always  a  steady  and  persistent 
effort  on  the  part  of  certain  humanita- 
rians, to  have  legislatures  discontinue 
capital  punishment. 

One  very  prominent  instance  of  this, 
was  the  late  General  Newton  M.  Curtis, 
an  ex-congressman,  and  a  brave  and  effi- 
cient soldier  during  our  civil  war.  His 
book,  "From  Bull  Run  to  Chancellors- 
ville",  is  one  of  the  standard  works  in 
the  historyi  of  the  great  American  tem- 
pest of  blood  and  death. 

Gen.  Curtis  was,  to  us  who  knew  him 
personally,  one  of  the  sweetest,  strong- 
est and  most  genial  of  men.  He  was  as 
tall  as  was  Lincoln,  and  a  great  deal 
handsomer.  He  was  a  forcible  and  flu- 
ent orator,  and  he  employed  many  of 
his  later  days  in  opposing  capital  pun- 
ishment. 

His  record  shows  that  he  was  not 
opposed  to  the  shooting  down  of  those 
in  the  ranks  of  the  enemy  during  the 
war,  and  executing  them  in  that  way  for 
their  error:  they  were  shedding  man's 
blood,  and|  by  man  their  blood  had,  of 
course,  to   be   shed.     They  were  law- 

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abiding  citizens  when  at  home,  but  out- 
laws when  in  "the  enemy's"  ranks. 

But  when  it  came  to  killing  a  man 
because,  with  malice  afore-thought,  he 
had  murdered  a  fellow-man,  in  time  of 
peace,  when  there  was  no  partisan-sen- 
timent for  doing  so — then  General  Cur- 
tis did  not  want  him  executed,  and  he 
spent  much  time  and  money  in  combat- 
ing the  custom.  Dr.  Webster,  who 
killed,  dissected,,  and  concealed  his  vic- 
tim Parkman,  he  would  have  aided  to 
escape  the  gallows.  Captain  Kidd,  who 
murdered  almost  hundreds  of  people  on 
the  high-seas,  after  the  preliminary  cer- 
emony of  robbing  them,  he  would  have 
confined  in  one  of  our  prisons,  at  the 
public  expense.  The  Bender  family 
would  have  survived,  and  been  given 
opportunity — not  enjoyed  by  some  of 
their  victims — to  gain,  by  good  conduct 
on  earth,  an  immortal  crown  in  Heaven. 
The  unspeakable  La  Porfie  Indiana 
widow,  who  for  a  number  of  years  kept 
a  private  cemetery  in  her  back-yard  for 
men  whom]  she  had  robbed,  if  she  had 
not  been  cremated  by  an  enraged  assist- 
ant, should  have  merely  gone  to  the 
state-prison,  there  to  teach  the  other 
women  how  to  be  good. — And  so  on. 

There  are  two  legitimate  purposes  of 
capital  punishment. 

One  is,  to  prevent  the  murderer  from 
killing  more  people — from  despatching 
prison-keepers,  from  escaping,  from  get- 
ting pardoned,  or  otherwise  -released, 
and  then  going  on  with  their  slaughter. 
One  convict  at  Ossining  had  a  record  of 
poisoning  three  wives,  at  different  times 
he  was  out  of  prison. 

The  other  purpose,  is  to  frighten 
would-be  murderers  from  their  deadly 
deeds.  People  are  not  so  afraid  of 
imprisonment,   with   its  chances   of  es- 

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cape,  as  of  the  gallows,  or  of  the  death- 
chair. 

Upon  this  last  consideration  alone,  if 
none  other  existed,  capital  punishment 
oug^ht  not  to  be  abolished. 


STILL  SOME   HOPE   FOR  THE   HONEST. 

A  RECENTLY  enacted  law  makes  it 
a  crime  for  any  one,  in  New 
York  State,  to  keep  weapons  in  his 
home. 

If  a  burglar,  a  tramp,  a  bad  beggar,  a 
disrespectful  treater  of  women,  or  some 
other  unwelcome  personage  comes  into 
the  house,  there  is  no  way  of  getting 
rid  of  him,  except  overcoming  him  with 
fists,  furniture,  or  bric-a-brac — until 
some  one  can  sneak  out  of  door  or  win- 
dow and  find  an  officer  or  send  a  tar- 
dily-answered telephone-call  to  the  near- 
est police-station. 

The  intruder  may  be  armed  from 
head  to  foot:  but  that,  so  far  as  he  is 
concerned,  is  a  part  of  the  business. 
Provided  he  can  get  the  goods  and  shun 
the  evils,  long  enough  to  escape  capture, 
it  is  none  of  his  funeral. 

Fortunately,  it  was  not  stipulated,  in 
the  thoughtful,  discreet,  and  luminous 
law,  that  the  householder,  if  he  con- 
templated attacking  the  trespasser  on 
his  property,  should  first  put  on  boxing- 
gloves  :  and  sometimes,  a  home-defender 
has  been  able  to  offer  the  intruder  quite 
a  nice  little  battle  before  he  is  overcome. 

The  law  does  not,  either,  forbid  the 
possession  in  the  house,  of  silver  pen- 
cil-cases. This  fact  enabled  Mr.  Max- 
well, a  resident  of  New  York  City,  to 
capture  a  burglar,  and  prevent  the  trans- 
portation of  sundry  valuables  which  the 
thief  had  bundled  up  for  removal  to  his 
own  haunts. 

The  fellow  thought  that  this  pen- 
holder, as  it  gleamed  in  the  gas-light, 
was  a  revolver,  and  retreated  precipi- 
tately toward  a  window,  whence  he  fell 
two  stories  with  a  deplorable  thud,  and 


remained  under  guard  of  the  wiclder  of 
the  silver  utensil  until  a  policeman 
arrived.  His  companion  escaped — the 
penholder  having  only  one  barrel. 

Whether  the  householder  will  be  ar- 
rested for  deceiving  the  robber,  may  be 
a  question,  in  some  minds:  but  most 
people  will  not  believe  it — or  that  much 
of  anything  will  happen  in  consequence 
of  the  curious  law,  except  that  it  will 
finally  settle  down  into  the  dead-letter 
family. 

The  originator  of  the  enactment 
probably  meant  well:  but  he  left  out 
the  necessary  and  reasonable  proviso, 
that  a  distinction  be  made  between  the 
character  of  those  who  possess  the 
weapons — as  to  whether  they  are  law- 
abiding  or  non-law-abiding  characters, 
and  whether  the  offending  articles  are, 
evidently,  kept  for  the  purpose  of  de- 
fense or  depredation. 

The  same  distinction  ought  to  be 
made,  as  to  carrying  concealed  weapons 
upon  the  street — by  night  or  day. 


THE  BOONES  AND  THE  JEFFERSONS. 

A  GREAT  deal  is  expected  from  well- 
*^  descended  people.  For  instance, 
who  does  not  look  for  extraordinary 
things  from  the  more-or-less  great- 
grandchildren of  Thomas  Jefferson.'' 
And  who  would  not  be  proud  to  say 
that  he  or  she  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Daniel  Boone,  the  famous  American 
hunter — and  try  to  live  up  to  it? 

Especially  would  it  be  the  case,  if  a 
Boone  married  a  Jefferson,  and  a  Jef- 
ferson a  Boone,  both  at  the  same  im- 
pressive function,  that  neighbors  should 
envy  them  the  double  distinction,  and 
expect  them  to  shine  all  over  the  adja- 
cent territory. 

But  a  couple  out  West  who  are  thus 
distinguished,  have  been  setting  a  bad 
example,  and  disappointing  their  neigh- 
bors very  much.  They  have  not  only 
been  disagreeing,  but  quarreling;  and 
their    murmurings    against    each    other 

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have  not  ceased,  until  they  reached  the 
divorce-court,  and  afterward. 

The  milk  and  the  meat  of  the  huge 
cocoanuts  of  reproach  that  they  have 
been  flinging  back  and  forth,  seem  to 
have  been  the  comparison  of  their  ances- 
tors, and  of  each  other.  The  woman  in 
the  case  is  said  to  have  frequently  in- 
formed her  husband  that  he  was  a  "stiff 
old  Virginia  guy",  and  he  to  have 
returned  her  compliment,  by  informing 
her  that  she  looked  like  a  "blowsy  old 
washerwoman",  the  best  she  could  do. 

They  seem,  then,  to  have  worked 
gradually  back  into  history,  until  they 
pitted  several  of  their  ancestors  against 
eadi  other.  When  they  finally  reached 
the  distinguished  Daniel  and  Thomas, 
the  struggle  is  said  to  have  grown  ex- 
asperatingly  hot.  Jeffersonian  simplic- 
ity was  attacked  with  great  enthusiasm, 
and  Daniel  Boone's  crudeness  was  set 
forth  as  above  described,  and  in  other 
ways  too  numerous  not  to  mention  in  a 
stand-up  legal  fight. 

Hence  springs  a  bit  of  advice  to  those 
about  to  marry:  try  to  live  in  the  pres- 
ent rather  than  in  the  past.  Remember 
that  whatever  your  ancestors  did  is  no 
credit  to  you :  and  what  they  did  not  do 
or  did  wrongly,  is  no  real  disgrace. 


THE    MILLIONAIRE   HIMSELF    AMUSES. 

T^EWS  comes  flashing  over  the  broad- 
^^  acred  land  and  through  the  deep 
blue  sea  that  Mr.  Alfred  Vanderbilt  has 
tried  his  luck  at  gaming  in  Monte  Carlo, 
and  lost  around  $250  or  $300.  There  is 
where  you  sit  down  at  a  long  table  (of 
which  there  are  many  in  the  room),  and 
put  your  money  on  a  certain  number, 
and  then  if  that  is  the  lucky  one  (as 
proved  by  the  manipulation  of  certain 
ivory  balls  by  the  "croupier",  or  master 
of  the  table),  you  (perhaps)  get  as 
much  more  thrown  out  to  you  as  you 
laid  down,  or,  more  likely,  observe  with 
sorrow  that  your  original   investment 


has  vanished  forevermor*  from  sigb^— 
pulled  in  by  a  long  rake-like  contrivance 
held  by  the  above-mentioned  croupier. 

Well,  Mr.  Vanderbilt  sat  down  at  one 
of  these  tables,  and  more-or-less  gin- 
gerly ventured  a  hundred  francs  (which 
means  about  twenty  dollars)  upon  a  cer- 
tain number,  and  in  twenty  seconds,  his 
twenty  dollars  were  invisible.  Twenty 
more  went  out  of  sight  in  the  same 
expeditious  way — and  twenty  more,  and 
twenty  more. 

This  amused  Mr.  Vanderbilt  very 
much  indeed,  in  that  it  was  a  sort  of 
change  in  his  financially  fortunate 
life.  He  was  lucky  enough  to  be  born, 
not  in  the  purple,  but  in  the  yellow, 
with  a  cradle  awaiting  him  upholstered 
with  high-denominationed,  highly-col- 
ored bills.  Streams  of  mdney  without 
ceasing  had  flown  past  him  constantly, 
and  he  had  little  to  do  except  reach  out 
his  hand,  and  catch  what  he  wanted  of 
them.  To  see  a  mustached  Frenchman 
hauling  his  investments  away  from  him 
so  regularly  and  invariably,  seemed  to 
him  as  something  like  a  joke. 

A  lady  who  sat  in  the  next  chair,  also 
trying  her  luck,  pitied  Mr.  Vanderbilt 
very  much,  at  each  successive  loss.  She 
did  not  know  who  he  was,  and  consid- 
ered him  as  an  ordinary  mortal,  pos- 
sessed of  the  regulation  amount  of 
means,  or  less.  She  kept  saying  under 
her  breath,  "That's  too  bad!"— and 
these  little  feminine  exclamations  of 
feminine  pity  also  amused  Mr.  Vander- 
bih.  He  knew  that  she  did  not  know 
that  a  twenty-dollar  gold-piede  was  less 
to  him  than  one  cent  is  to  most  people. 

Finally,  after  having  lavished  all  the 
money  he  had  with  him,  upon  the  sordid 
little  duke  who  mis-governs  the  little 
gambling  municipality,  the  incipient  rail- 
road-magnate left,  after  noticing  once 
more,  with  an  increased  amount  of 
amusement,  the  cumulative  sympathy  if 
the  lady  who  had  sat  next  him,  and  who 
perhaps  thought  he  would  be  found  next 
morning  self-hung  to  one  of  the  trees  in 

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the  spacious  groves  near  by,  as  many 
ruined  gamblers  have  been. 

"This  teaches  us",  as  the  fables  and 
allegories  say,  that  nine  hundred  and 
ninetynine  thousandths  of  the  world  do 
not  know  how  much  the  other  thous- 
andth whom  they  casually  meet,  are 
worth,  in  lands,  stocks,  bonds,  and  coin ; 
also  that  there  are  a  number  of  kinds  of 
amusements. 

We  would  suggest  to  Mr.  Vanderbilt, 
still  another  kind — although  we  hope  he 
has  already  tried  it:  and  that  is,  the 
taking  now  and  then  of  $250  or  $300 
into  poverty-stricken  districts,  and  risk- 
ing them  among  the  freezing,  the  starv- 
ing, and  the  disease-maimed-and-tor- 
tured. 


WE  DEMOCRATS. 

^^HII.E  Every  Where  is  not  a  polit- 
ical journal,  and  while  it  minis- 
ters to  members  of  all  parties,  creeds 
and  conditions,  it  cannot  help  enjoying 
any  good  smart  slap  that  one  side 
gives  to  another.  The  following  is  a 
good  square  one,  from  the  New  York 
World,  upon  the  cheek  of  Mr.  W.  R. 
Hearst,  who  has  hovered  all  around  the 
Democratic  party  during  the  past  few 
years,  only  occasionally  stepping  in: 
and  is  just  now,  apparently  inclined,  for 
some  reason,  to  step  in  and  stay  awhile. 
The  World  says: 

"'We  Democrats,'  said  William  R. 
Hearst  in  his  Jackson  Day  speech  at 
Washington — 'are  celebrating,'  etc. 

"What  an  inspiration  the  presence  of 
We  Democrats  must  have  been  to  every 
guest  at  the  dinner! 

"In  1902  We  Democrats  was  elected 
to  Congress  on  the  Tammany  ticket 
from  a  New  York  City  district. 

"In    1904    We    Democrats    was    an 


unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Demo- 
cratic nomination  for  President  and 
sulked  throughout  the  Parker  cam- 
paign. 

"In  1905  We  Democrats  ran  for 
Mayor  of  New  York  City  on  a  munici- 
pal-ownership ticket  against  George  B. 
McClellan,  the  regular  candidate. 

"In  1906  We  Democrats  nominated 
himself  for  Governor  on  an  Independ- 
ence League  ticket  and  then  through  a 
deal  with  Murphy  obtained  a  Demo- 
cratic indorsement  after  Grady  had 
'done  the  dirtiest  day's  work  of  my 
life.' 

"In  1907  We  Democrats  nominated  a 
Fusion  county  ticket  in  partnership  with 
the  Republican  bosses. 

"In  1908  We  Democrats  put  an  Inde- 
pendence League  ticket  in  the  field 
against  Mr.  Bryan,  the  Democratic  can- 
didate for  President. 

"In  1909  We  Democrats  ran  for 
Mayor  on  an  independent  ticket  in  the 
hope  of  defeating  Judge  Gaynor,  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  that  office. 

"In  1910  We  Democrats  ran  for  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor on  an  Independence 
League  ticket  nominated  to  help  elect 
Roosevelt's  candidate. 

"In  191 1  We  Democrats  again  joined 
with  the  Republican  bosses  in  naming 
a  county  ticket 

"In  1912  We  Democrats,  once  more 
a  candidate  for  the  Democratic  nomi- 
nation for  President,  attends  a  Jackson 
Day  dinner  to  assist  William  J.  Bryan, 
Woodrovv  Wilson,  Alton  B.  Parker, 
Champ  Clark,  Joseph  W.  Folk  and  vari- 
ous other  Democrats  in  celebrating,  etc. 

"Times  change  and  We  Democrats 
changes  with  them.  But  one  thing  re- 
mains fixed  and  immutable,  which  is, 
that  if  William  Randolph  Hearst  is  a 
Democrat  everybody — except  the  Dem- 
ocratic party — is  Democratic." 


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The  Perfection  of  God:  a  Five- 
Minute  Sermon. 

By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe,  D.  D. 

^^DE  ye  therefore  perfect,  even  as 
your  Father  in  heaven  is  per- 
fect!" said  Jesus  to  His  disciples. 

What  did  He  mean  by  saying  this  to 
those  poor  fellows?  How  could  they 
be  like  the  great  and  glorious  God? 

Now  let  us  see  if  we  can  understand 
what  Jesus  meant!  If  we  examine  the 
context  we  shall  find  that  he  was  telling 
them  that  the  Father  in  heaven  caused 
His  sun  to  shine  on  the  evil,  and  the 
good,  and  made  His  rain  to  fall  on  the 
just  and  the  unjust  alike.  That  is, 
according  to  Jesus,  the  perfection  of 
God  consists  in  the  fact  that  He  keeps 
no  small  accounts  with  His  creatures; 
but  treats  all  alike.  His  perfection  con- 
sists in  the  fact  that  He  still  hopes  for, 
loves,  and  cherishes  mankind,  undaunt- 
ed by  their  stubbornness,  unvexed  nor 
grieved  by  their  heartlessness  and  infidel- 
ity. The  perfection  of  God,  according 
to  Jesus,  consirts  in  His  communicating 
life  to  the  smallest  things,  in  His  doing 
the  most  ungracious  tasks  for  the  most 
ungracious  people,  in  His  drudging  at 
enterprises  that  men  think  too  unclean 
for  their  dainty  fingers.  When  Jesus 
knew  that  he  came  from  God  and  went 
to  God,  and  that  the  Father  had  deliv- 
ered all  things  into  his  hands,  he  rose 
from  the  table  and  girded  himself  with 
a  towel  as  a  servant  and  washed  the  dis- 
ciples' feet.  This  was  something  that 
they  felt  too  good  to  do  for  one  another 
for   it   was   too   humbling  a   task;    but 


Jesus,  though  their  Lord  and  Master,  did 
it  for  them,  and  therefore  he  could  say, 
"He  that  hath  seen  me  hath  seen  the 
Father!"  "I  am  among  you  as  one 
that  serveth",  he  said.  "God  is  the 
great  servant  of  all,  Who  serves  all, 
loves  and  cares  for  all,  and  so,  he  that 
hath  seen  me  hath  seen  my  Father  also." 
This  was  his  ideal  for  all  his  disciples. 
'*So  live",  he  taught,  "that  when  men 
see  you  they  may,  in  you,  see  your 
Father  in  heaven!"  That  Father  who 
makes  his  sun  to  shine  on  the  evil  and 
the  good  and  sends  rain  on  the  just  and 
the  unjust  alike. 

The  perfection  of  Jesus  was  like  the 
perfection  of  the  heavenly  Father  lie 
taught  them  to  imitate.  Jesus  Christ 
was  far  from  perfection  according  to 
human  standards.  Socially  he  was  not 
great.  He  was  despised  as  the  friend 
of  publicans  and  sinners.  He  was  a 
great  affliction  to  the  "saints"  of  his 
time  and  shocked  them  terribly.  He 
was  a  kind  of  a  radical,  a  "come-outer". 
He  associated  with  publicans  and  sin- 
ners and  what  was  worst  of  all  "ate" 
with  them !  He  met  a  bad  woman  on 
the  street ;  he  did  not  pick  up  the  skirts 
of  his  garments  lest  they  be  contami- 
nated by  contact  with  her;  but  he 
talked  with  her  in  real  human  fashion, 
and,  respecting  her,  made  her  respect 
herself.  He  woke  the  better  woman 
there  was  in  her.  So  far  as  mere  intel- 
lect is  concerned,  Socrates  was  greater 
than  Jesus.  Plato  was  beyond  him  in 
all  the  levels  of  the  human  mind,  and 
Aristotle  was  a  giant  in  things  of  mere 
abstract  thought.  Where,  then,  is  the 
perfection  of  Je&ijjtizCd^P^^apR^^iow  is 
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he  like  God  so  as  to  reveal  God  to  men  ? 
The  perfection  of  Jesus  Christ  lies  in 
tihe  fact  that  he  was  so  great  that  he 
oould  talk  with  the  woman  and  not 
despise  her;  that  he  could  associate 
with  the  very  lowest  of  mankind  as  one 
of  them  without  any  word  of  scorn  ever 
dropping-  from  his  lips,  and  that  he  had 
a  heart  of  compassion  for  every  form 
of  human  guih  and  misery.  He  asso- 
ciated with  the  obscure,  the  weak,  the 
overborne,  and  the  crushed,  and  bore 
their  sorrows  and  carried  their  griefs. 

This,  then,  is  to  be  perfect  as  our 
Father  in  heaven  is  perfect,  when  we, 
like  Jesus  Christ,  can  believe  in  the  good 
in  men  who  have  lost  all  belief  in  them- 
selves, and  have  hope  for  those  who  have 
lost  all  hope  for  themselves.  When  we, 
like  God's  sun  and  God's  rain,  are  will- 
ing to  help  the  evil  and  the  ungrateful ; 
when  we  have  that  charity  that  suffer- 
eth  long  and  is  kind ;  which  beareth  all 
things,  endureth  all  things,  and  hopeth 
all  things. 

Some  years  ago  in  the  City  of  New 
York  a  faithful  missionary  was  seeking 
a  man  who  had  been  in  the  mission  but 
who  had  fallen  back  into  a  life  of  vice 
and  crime.  One  night,  cold,  dark  and 
cheerless,  he  met  him  on  the  street.  "O 
Jerry,  I  have  been  looking  for  you! 
thank  God  I  have  found  you  at  last!" 
he  exclaimed.  "Don't  look  for  me,"  said 
Jerry.  "I  ain't  a-going  to  be  a  hypocrite 
any  more!  I'm  never  a-going  inside 
your  mission  again!"  "Where  are  you 
g<>hig,  Jerry?"  asked  the  missionary. 

"I'm  a-going  to  steal,  if  you  want  to 
know !  It's  steal  or  beg  for  me.  That's 
the  only  way  I  have  of  getting  a  living!" 

"Wait  a  moment,  Jerry!"  said  the 
missionary.  Right  opposite  was  a  pawn- 
broker's shop.  Jerry  looked  on  in 
amazement  as  the  missionary  rushed 
into-  the  pawnbroker's,  and,  pawning  his 
overcoat  for  three  dollars,  rushed  up  to 
Jerry  and  crushing  the  money  into  his 
hands  said:  "Here,  Jerry,  take  this 
money  and  begin  to  be  an  honest  man", 
and  then  vanished  in  the  darkness. 
Jerry  used  to  tell  the  story  in  after 
years  and  say : 

"That  three  dollars  was  hot  in  my 


hand !  It  was  hot  with  the  love  of  God. 
And  those  words,  'Take  this  money  and 
begin  to  be  an  honest  man',  they  burned 
in  my  soul !"  Then  Jerry  had  a  vision 
of  the  Father — the  God  and  Father  of 
Jesus  Christ — and  from  that  moment  it 
was  his  one  desire  to  be  perfect  as  the 
Father  in  heaven  is  perfect,  and  to  show 
the  Father  to  others  as  the  poor  mis- 
sionary had  shown  him.  This  is  to  be 
perfect  as  the  Father  in  heaven  is  per- 
fect. 


If  Many  Ohurches  Would  Adver- 
tise Honestly. 

By  Rev.  Alva  J.  Brasted. 

'W' ANTED:  A  pastor  who  will 
preach  two  times  every  Sunday 
during  the  year,  preferably  without 
vacation. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  whose  every  ser- 
mon will  be  practical,  interesting,  in- 
structive, inspiring,  without  repetition. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  is  just  as 
enthusiastic  and  inspirational  when 
preaching  to  empty  seats  as  he  is  when 
preaching  to  a  vast  audience. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  whose  sermon 
will  please  everybody  and  hurt  no  one's 
feelings,  especially  those  of  the  contrib- 
uting members. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  has  a  pleas- 
ing voice  and  manner  and  who  uses  the 
best  language  and  who  has  all  the  arts 
of  the  ward  politician  and  practices 
them  without  the  people  knowing  it." 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  preaches 
every  Sunday  just  as  well  as  he  preaches 
on  special  occasions  when  special  prep- 
aration is  required. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  teach  a 
Sunday  School  class  and  build  up  the 
Sunday  School. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  is  always 
ready  and  willing  to  give  special  talks 
whenever  called  upon  and  when  not 
called  upon,  provided  such  talks  will 
help  to  increase  the  congregation  and 
swell  the  sum  in  the  contribution-bas- 
kets. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  can  do  jani- 
tor work,  whq,§e,^yT€^1iifiJgll,  swetp 


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the  floors,  gather  up  the  books,  and 
help  the  ladies  set  up  tables  and  do  odd 
jobs  when  they  are  having  socials  for 
the  purpose  oiB  raising  the  salary. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  can  raise 
money  for  anything  for  the  good  of 
the  church  without  hurting  any  body^s 
feelings  so  that  he  or  she  will  not  give 
more. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  is  able  to 
lead  the  singing  and  who  can  make 
noise  enough  to  take  the  place  of  the 
choir  when  the  choir  is  conspicuous  by 
its  absence. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  is  a  "good 
mixer",  and  who  will  mix  with  all 
classes,  and  make  friends,  and  thus 
cause  more  people  to  come  to  church 
and  help  swell  the  amount  in  the  con- 
tribution-baskets. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  call  on 
all  the  parishioners  very  often,  and  jolly 
them  up  by  telling  them  jokes  and  how 
good  they  are,  whether  they  are  good 
or  not. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  call  not 
only  on  the  members  of  the  church,  but 
everybody  else  in  the  community  who 
might  possibly  come  to  church  and 
make  a  contribution. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  reach 
and  win  to  the  church  a  large  number 
of  outsiders  and  young  people  without 
using  methods  to  which  any  one  is 
opposed. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  call  on 
the  sick  and  who  will  never  fail  to  know 
whether  a  parishioner  is  sick  or  trying 
to  be  ill. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  is  married, 
and  whose  wife  will  entertain  and  call 
upon  the  people,  and  sing  and  attend 
all  services,  and  take  part  in  the  prayer- 
meeting  and  young  people's  meeting, 
and  who  will  serve  on  all  committees  to 
which  she  is  appointed,  and  be  Presi- 
dent of  the  Aid,  and  teach  in  the  Sun- 
day School,  and  sing  in  the  choir,  and 
attend  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  and  Mission  Cir- 
cle, and  be  ready  at  all  times  to  receive 
callers,  and  who  will  dress  well,  and 
always  appear  well,  and  be  willing  to 
be  gossiped  about  and  found  fault  with, 
without  resenting  it.     Wanted,   a  pas- 


tor's wife  who  will  do  all  these  things 
and  countless  more,  without  expecting 
any  salary  or  pay. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  set  such 
an  example  and  so  preach  and  conduct 
himself  that  no  one  can  criticise  him 
adversely. 

Wanted:  A  pastor  who  will  dress 
well,  and  keep  up  with  the  times  by 
taking  up-to-date  magazines  and  papers, 
and  who  will  buy  books  and  travel,  and 
will  lead  the  church  in  giving,  and  who 
will  furnish  his  house  well  and  pay  rent 
for  it,  and  who  has  spent  at  least  four 
years  in  College  and  three  in  a  Theo- 
logical school,  and  who  has  paid  no  less 
than  thre^  thousand  dollars  for  his  edu- 
cation, and  who  will  demand  not  more 
than  seven  hundred  or  one  thousand 
dollars  a  year  and  less  if  possible,  an3 
who  will  wait  patiently,  provided  the 
good.  God-fearing  and  God-loving 
brethren  are  loath  to  pay  up  promptly, 
and  who  will  get  out  and  hustle  for  his 
own  salary  when  other  people  don't 
want  to  do  it. 

Wanted :   A'  whole  lot  for  nothing. 


An  Idea  Free  to  Pastors. 

CEVERAL  hundreds  of  ladies  sat  in 
^  the  church  one  Sabbath  evening, 
with  their  hats  all  on,  and  several  peo- 
ple behind  them  vainly  trying  to  see 
over  their  shoulders.  Rev.  Franklin  W. 
Irvin,  the  pastor,  was  equal  to  the  exi- 
gency. 

"The  study  of  ladies'  hats",  he  said, 
has  always  been  a  very  interesting  one 
to  me.  The  willow  plume,  the  French 
plume,  the  aigrette,  the  bird  of  Para- 
dise, the  clusters  of  flowers  and  ribbons, 
are  all  very  attractive  and  becoming; 
and  they  all  show  good  taste.    They" — 

But  while  he  was  saying  these  appre- 
ciative words,  the  ladies  were  busy  tak- 
ing off  their  highest-up  adornments; 
and  by  the  time  he  had  gone  thus  far, 
the  hat  of  every  lady  was  off,  and  the 
exercises  were  ready  to  proceed. 

"Did  you  ever  do  that  before?"  he 
was  asked. 

"No,"  he  replied,  "but  I  have  no  copy- 
right or  patent  O0,J^;'^byGoOgl^ 


The  Gospel  of  Hot  Water. 

TJTTE  find  this  interesting  information 
^^     in  the  "Healthy  Home": 

"Nearly  everyone  knows  that  to 
plunge  a  burned  hand  into  cold  water 
g-ives  immediate  relief  from  pain.  But 
not  everyone  knows  that  in  cases  of 
bums  which  cover  a  large  portion  of 
the  body  one  of  the  accepted  ways  of 
successful  treatment  is  to  immerse  the 
burned  portion  of  the  body  in  a  con- 
tinuous bath — that  is  in  water  warm 
enough  to  be  comfortable  without  chill- 
ing the  patient. 

"The  action  of  the  continuous  bath  is 
manifold.  It  gives  almost  immediate 
and  even  complete  relief  from  pain  and 
can  be  considered  as  the  most  excellent 
anodyne.  Even  if  it  oflfered  no  other 
advantages,  it  would  be  of  great  value 
on  account  of  this  soothing  effect,  when  * 
the  pains  are  most  excruciating. 

"Another  advantage  of  the  warm 
water  treatment  is  that  the  water  pene- 
trates the  burnt  tissues,  in  consequence 
of  which  they  remain  moist  and  soft. 
Without  the  immersion  the  cuticle  which 
has  been  destroyed  in  its  whole  depth 
would  harden  and  form  an  impenetrable 
cx)ver  over  the  underlying  parts.  Im- 
mersed in  water,  tissues  which  have  be- 
come gangrenous  can  not  dry  up,  but 
remain  moist.  They  detach  themselves 
easily  and  are  washed  away  after  hav- 
ing become  detached.  Thus  the  wound 
is  constantly  kept  clean. 

"There  is  no  accumulation  of  pus,  no 
crusts  of  dessicated  wound  secretion 
and,  which  is  most  essential,  no  dress- 
ing is  required.  The  patient  has  not  to 
suffer   the   often  painful   procedure  of 

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change  of  dressing.  Langenbeck,  who 
in  the  year  1850  introduced  continuous 
immersion  as  a  method  of  treating  sur- 
gical wounds,  characterized  it  as  the 
mildest  method,  not  requiring  dressings, 
securing  clean  wounds  in  a  way  which 
could  not  be  surpassed  by  any  other 
method. 

"The  most  essential  advantages  of  the 
continuous  bath  in  case  of  burns  arc 
those  which  we  understand  from  its 
physiological  action  on  circulation  and 
innervation  in  general.  The  principle 
in  using  the  continuous  warm  bath  is 
to  eliminate  the  products  of  inflamma- 
tion and  infection. 

"It  is  almost  a  universal  custom  in  the 
navy  and  among  naval  officers,  on  ris- 
ing in  the  morning,  to  begin  the  day 
with  a  cup  of  hot  coffee.  Even  to  this 
day  Admiral  Dewey  on  rising,  and  he 
rises  early,  nxdkes  for  himself  a  little 
hot  drink,  not  necessarily  for  the  stimu- 
lating effect  of  the  coffee  or  the  tea,  but 
because  experience  has  shown  •  that  a 
little  hot  drink  in  the  morning  is  good 
for  the  stomach,  good  for  the  digestion. 
People  are  finding  out  that  this  hot 
drink  need  not  be  tea  or  coffee  or  some 
alcoholic  stimulant,  but  that  all  the  ad- 
vantages of  the  plan  may  be  derived 
from  plain  hot  water. 

"Th^  average  person  of  temperate 
habits  usually  fails  to  take  enough 
liquid  anyway.  This  same  average  per- 
son is  often  troubled  with  more  or  less 
indigestion.  Many  an  occupation  is 
sedentary,  and  the  stomach  and  bowels 
never  get  a  decent  shaking  up  with  exer- 
cise from  one  week's  end  to  the  other. 

"Is  the  remedy  a  dose  of  physic? 

"A    dose    of    physic    will    frequently 

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make  such  people  feel  better,  but  a  bet- 
ter way  is  to  drink  hot  water.  The 
advantage  of  the  hot  water  is,  when 
taken  a  half-hour  before  meals,  that  it 
draws  the  blood  to  the  stomach  and  stirs 
it  to  activity.  It  also  affords  needed 
liquid  for  the  stomach. 

"With  many  people  it  seems  to  work 
like  a  charm.  Remember  that  this  is  a 
remedy  for  a  disordered  condition. 
There  is  no  sense  in  people  who  have 
neither  constipation  nor  stomach  trouble 
in  'sozzling'  their  stomachs  with  hot 
water.  Water  at  the  ordinary  tempera- 
ture is  good  enough  for  them.  But  hot 
water  is  good  for  the  inactive  and  the 
dyspeptic.  It  is  plain  that  the  hot  water 
will  often  cleanse  where  the  cold  water 
will  not." 


The  Old  "Sextanf  Poem, 

n  VER  since  we  can  remember,  the  fol- 
lowing rough,  substantial  old  nug- 
get has  been  running  through  the  vari- 
ous quartz-mills  of  the  press — always 
coming  out  whole,  with  the  gold  in  it 
as  visible  as  ever.  We  consider  it  as 
one  of  the  best  sermons  that  has  ever 
appeared  in  our  pages.  We  do  not 
know  the  author's  name,  but  wish  we 
did. 

O    sextant    of    the    meetinouse,    wich 

sweeps 
And    dusts,    or    is    supposed   too!    and 

makes  fiers, 
Ann  Htes  the  gass,  and  sumtimes  leaves 

a  screw  loose, 
In  wich  case  it  smels  orful, — worse  than 

lampile ; 
And  wrings  the  Bel  and  toles  it  when 

men  dyes 
To  the  grief  of  survivin  pardners,  and 

sweeps  pathes. 
And    for   the    servases    gits    $ioo   per 

annum, 
Wich  them  that  thinks  deer,  let  em  try 

it; 
Getin  up,  befoar  starlite  in  all  wethers 

and 
Kindlin  fires  when  the  wether  is  as  cold 


As  zero,  and  like  as  not  grean  wood 

for  kindlers ; 
I  wouldn't   be   hired  to   do   it   for   no 

some — 
But  o  Sextant !  there  are  i  kermodity 
Wich's  more  than  gold,  wich  doant  cost 

nothin, 
Worth  more  than  anything  exsep  the 

Sole  of  Mann ! 
I    mean   pewer    Are    sextant,    I    mean 

pewer  Are ! 

0  it  is  plenty  out  o  dores,  so  plenty  it 

doant  no 
What  on  airth  to  dew  with  itself,  but 

flys  about 
Scaterin  leavs  and  bloin  of  men's  hatts ; 
In  short,  its  jest  "fre  as  are"  out  dores. 
But  o  sextant,  in  our  church  its  scarce 

as  piety 
Scares  as  bank  bills  wen  agints  beg  for' 

mischuns, 
Wich   some   say   is   purty  often  (taint 

iiothin  to 
iMe,  Wat  I  give  aint  nothin  to  nobody) 

but  o  sextant, 
U  shet  500  men,  wimmen  and  children, 
Speshally  the  latter,  up  in  a  tite  place 
Some  has  bad  breths,  none  aint  2  swete. 
Some  is  fevery,  some  is  scrofilus,  some 

has  bad  teath. 
And  some  haint  none,  and  some  aint 

over  cleen ; 
But  every  i  on  em  breethes  in  &  out 

and  out  and  in, 
Say  50  times  a  minit,  or  i  million  and  a 

half  breths  an  our. 
Now  how  long  will  a  church  ful  of  are 

last  at  that  rate, 

1  ask  you,  say  15  minits,  and  then  wats 

to  be  did? 
Why  then  they  must  brethe  it  all  over 

again 
And  then  agin,  and  so  on,  till  each  has 

took  it 
At  least  10  times,  and  let  it  up  agin,  and 

wats  more, 
The  same  individible  dont  have  the  priv- 

elidge 
Of  brethen  his  own  are,  and  no  ones 

elss; 
Each  one  mus  take  watever  comes  to 

him. 
O  sextant,  doant  you  no  our  lungs  is 

bellusses  C^r\nin]o 

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To  bio  the  fier  of  life,  and  keep  it  from 
Going  out;   and  how  can  bellusses  bio 

without  wind, 
And  aint  wind  are  ?  i  put  it  to  your  con- 

schens. 
Are  is  the  same  to  us  as  milk  to  babies, 
Or    water    is    to   fish,  or    pendlums  to 

clox — 
Or  roots  &  airbs  unto  an  injun  Doctor, 
Or  little  pils  unto  an  omepath 
Or  boys  to  girls.    Are  is  for  us  to  brethe. 
Wat  signifies   who   preeches    if   1   cant 

brethe? 
Wats   Pol?     Wats   Pollus?   to   sinners 

who  are  ded  ? 
Ded  for  want  of  breth?  why  sextant, 

when  we  dye 
Its  only  coz  we  cant  brethe  no  more — 

that's  all. 
And  now,  o  sextant,  let  me  beg  of  you 
2  let  a  little  are  into  our  church. 
(Fewer  are   is    sertin    proper    for    the 

pews) 
Ajnd  do  it  weak  days  and  Sundays  tew — 
It  aint  much  trouble — only  make  a  hole 
And  the  are  wil  cum  in  of  itself; 
(It  luvs  to  come  in  where  it  can  get 

warm;) 
And  o  how  it  will  rouze  the  people  up 
And  sperrit  up  the  preecher,  and  stop 

garps, 
And  yarns  and  figgits  as  effectooal 
As  wind  on  the  Dry  Boans  the  Proffit 

tells  of. 


And  of  Course  He  Died  Toung. 

V(T  is  well  for  anyone  to  have  enough 
*  enterprises  on  hand  to  keep  him  hap- 
pily and  usefully  employed:  but  not 
enough  to  swamp  his  life  and  wreck  his 
vitality. 

One  man  was  president  of  the  follow- 
ing corporations — all,  of  course,  requir- 
ing more  or  less  attention,  and  involv- 
ing a  certain  amount  of  vitality: 

Long  Island  Railroad  Company,  At- 
lantic Avenue  Elevated  Railroad  Com- 
pany, Brooklyn  and  Coney  Island  Tel- 


egraph Company,  Huntington  Railroad 
Company,  Inter-State  Terminal  Con- 
struction Company,  Metropolitan  Ferry 
Company,  Montauk  Water  Company, 
Montauk  Steamboat  Company,  New 
York  and  Rockaway  Beach  Railway 
Company,  Ocean  Railway  Electric  Com- 
pany, Prospect  Park  and  Coney  Island 
Railroad  Company,  New  York  and 
Long  Island  Terminal  Railway  Com- 
pany, Northern  Traction  Company,  and 
West  Jamaica  Land  Company. 

He  was  twice  president  of  the  Mon- 
tauk Company,  and  a  director  of  the 
New  York  Connecting  Railroad,  New 
York  City  Railway  Company,  Pennsyl- 
vania, New  York  and  Long  Island  Rail- 
road Company,  Equitable  Life  Assur- 
ance Society,  Equitable  Trust  Com- 
pany, Com  Exchange  Bank,  American 
Surety  Company,  Metropolitan  Securi- 
ties Company,  Union  Exchange  Na- 
tional Bank,  and  Nassau  Union  Bank. 

Query:  Was  he  not,  to  the  compa- 
nies  for  which  he  toiled  so  constantly 
and  so  arduously,  as  truly  a  slave  as  the 
veriest  laborer  upon  the  street? 

Query:  How  much  time  or  strength 
had  he  for  the  real  objects  of  life,  while 
turning  the  wheels!  of  all  those  money- 
making  mills  ? 

Query:  What  good  did  the  large 
salaries  he  received,  do  him? 

Query:  Is  it  any  wonder  that  he 
died  when  not  quite  fortytwo  years 
old? 


The  Druggiets,  Tbe  Board,  and  the 
Prescriptions. 

QUT  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  nine 
decoy  prescriptions  sent  out  by  the 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy  to  the  Chi- 
cago druggists  to  be  filled,  twentythree 
contained  no  trace  of  the  drug  called 
for,  sixtysix  were  eighty  per  cent,  im- 
pure, ten,  twenty  per  cent,  impure,  and 
only  thirtyone  were  pure. 


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i^  Failure  and  Sucoess. 

I. 

T  O    be    a    complete    failure    on    the 

earth,  is  to  exist  as  a  terrible  mis- 
take of  nature — a  flaw  in  the  economy 
of  this  world — a  something  inferior 
even  to  many  of  the  "lower  animals." 
Indeed,  the  majority  of  these  initial  zoo- 
logical experiments  are  successes  in 
every  thing  for  which  they  were  in- 
tended— and  most  of  the  failures  among 
beasts  have  been  caused  by  man. 

Few  people  are  utter  and  entire  speci- 
mens of  collapse;  but  the  existence  of 
every  one  is  thorny  and.  muddy  with 
petty  failures.  There  is  not  a  day  of 
any  life  in  which  some  of  these  do  not 
occur.  Every  mistake  is  a  failure — 
every  false  step  of  the  tongue  is  a  fail- 
ure— every  unintended  glance  of  the 
eye  is  a  failure — and  all  of  these  are 
important — some  of  them  possibly  mat- 
ters of  life  and  death. 

We  have  been  trained  to  realize  that 
dollars  grow  from  cents  and  half-cents ; 
that  years  and  thousands  of  years  are 
composed  of  half-hours  and  half-min- 
utes; but  we  have  scarcely  yet  learned 
the  momentous  truth,  that  great  failures 
are  made  out  of  little  ones.  The  man 
who  slips  twenty  times  a  day,  has  as 
good  as  fallen  outright  once  or  oftener ; 
if  he  have  made  a  hundred  mistakes  of 
the  tongue,  he  may  have  accumulated 
enough  blunders  to  be  set  down  as  an 
ass. 

We  reach  out  the  hand  and  try  to 
grasp  a  certain  object;  the  mind  is 
maybe  touring  somewhere,  the  fingers 
stumble,  and  we  make  three  or  five 
awkward  motions  where  only  one  suit- 
able effort  was  necessary,  feeling  mean- 
while an   irritation  of  the  nerves  that 


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tires  and  weakens.  We  undertake  with 
the  fingers  of  thought  to  grasp  a  word, 
an  image,  an  idea;  it  escapes  us,  or 
yields  only  after  a  series  of  tumblings 
up  and  down  caused  by  uncouth  clutch- 
ings  of  the  brain.  We  have  tried  to  pic- 
ture a  fact  to  some  friend ;  we  feel  that 
it  was  not  more  than  half  accomplished, 
and  if  he  understands  it  the  credit  must 
be  given  to  his  intuition  rather  than  our 
own  ability.  All  these  mistakes — ^these 
failures — ^produce  an  influence  within 
us  as  well  as  without  us — do  their  best 
to  make  us  less  agile — less  strong — less 
formidable — than  we  would  otherwise 
have  been.  A  failure  is  a  benumbing 
blow  to  the  nature  that  commits  and 
suffers  it. 

No  pefson  ever  makes  one,  but,  so 
far  as  his  direct  power  is  concerned,  it 
weakens  him,  at  least  for  a  time,  against 
future  efforts  in  the  same  direction. 
The  marksman  who  mistakes  the  aim, 
must  give  his  nerve  two  extra  twists 
before  he  ventures  another  shot,  if  he 
would  have  any  chance  of  reaching  the 
bull's  eye.  The  wrestler  who  catches  a 
fall  has,  in  the  succeeding  bout,  both 
the  mind  and  soul  of  his  rival  to  sub- 
due. The  orator  who  yields  to  plat- 
form-fright must  have  the  bravery  of 
Demosthenes  or  Disraeli,  in  order  to  try 
it  again.  The  army  defeated  in  one 
battle,  is  already  half  routed  in  the  next. 
Failures  are  the  parents  of  failures; 
and  lamentably  prolific. 
'  If,  then,  we  accumulate  petty  defeat 
upon  defeat,  some  of  which  are  ten 
times  as  important  as  they  seem,  and 
all  at  least  miniature  calamities,  will  not 
the  aggregate  go  far  toward  making 
our  lives  perfectly  weak  and  insignifi- 
cant? 

But  although  one  of^thesc   uncanny 

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happenings  renders  it  harder  for  us  to 
sucxeed  next  time,  it  is  not  an  unmixed 
disaster;  failure  need  not  be  a  canni- 
bal, and  devour  man,  or  his  hope  and 
resolution.  With  the  right  kind  of  a 
nature,  it  has  a  tendency  rather  to  jar 
awake  the  victorious  qualities  that  had 
otherwise  continued  dreaming^,  but  are 
now  summoned  by  the  watch-cry  of 
peril.  A  ruined  attempt  has  thus  often 
been  the  wounded  but  invincible  gen- 
eral that  led  to  a  series  of  conquests. 
Some  people  are  so  proud,  so  high- 
mighty,  so  rotund  from  having  continu- 
ally fed  upon  the  successes  of  them- 
selves and  others,  that  they  estimate 
the  delectable  bundle  of  fragments  con- 
stituting their  ego,  as  .invincible,  and 
stand  in  great  need  of  a  few  good 
healthy  failures  to  discover  to  them  the 
dry-rot  that  is  consuming  their  better 
natures.  And  so  the  Valley  of  Humili- 
ation has  contained  a  great  many  excel- 
lent work-shops  for  the  building  of  sub- 
stantial ladders  to  the  heights  of  suc- 
cess. 

There  is  also  such  a  thing  as  false 
failure : — ^this  dire  coin  of  human  weak- 
ness and  carelessness  knows  how  to 
counterfeit  itself;  A  man  often  thinks 
he  has  met  with  disaster,  where  he  has 
not  really  done  so ;  when  that  which  he 
in  his  panic  and  sense  of  loss  defines  as 
failure,  is  only  the  lopping  away  of 
some  useless  branch  of  his  nature. 

A  queer-looking  fellow  undertook  to 
be  salesman  in  a  small  but  earnest  gro- 
cery-store; and  never  was  a  colony  of 
respectable  customers  more  grotesquely 
mal-scrved.  He  forgot  which  was  the 
butter  and  which  the  lard ;  he  peppered 
the  salt  and  salted  the  pepper ;  he  neg- 
lected to  turn  back  the  spigot  of  the 
molasses-barrel.  He  became  a  toss-ball 
of  alternate  mirth  and  reproach  between 
customers  and  employer.  He  was 
vacruely  surprised,  one  morning,  at  re- 
ceiving a  permanent  leave  of  absence, 
with  recommendations  toward  a  hard- 
working patient  farmer  who  had  ditch- 
ing to  do.  He  performed  this  work 
almost  as  inaccurately  as  the  other,  and 
was  given  leave  to  rest  permanently 
from  his  labors  before  a  quarter  of  a 


day  had  passed.  He  lounged  idly  and 
sadly  by  the  roadside,  and  sat  down  on 
a  stile,  and  absently  began  fashioning 
an  image  of  the  indignant  agricultur- 
ist's face,  out  of  some  of  the  clay  that 
he  had  lately  been  shoveling  so  wretch- 
edly and  inartistically.  A  passer-by  saw 
it — was  interested — felt  impelled  to 
champion  the  awkward  young  genius — 
and  lived  to  see  him  a  sculptor,  famous 
and  wealthy. 

A  banker  found  himself  in  the  very 
depths  of  insolvency — became  so  poor 
that  he  had  to  toil  with  his  hands  to 
protect  the  hearts  and  stomachs  of  his 
family.  But  in  doing  this,  he  developed 
powers  of  mind  and  heart  that  no  one 
ever  had  suspected ;  he  fell  in  love  with 
hia  family,  they  with  him;  he  found 
that  Federal  Currency  was  employed  to 
estimate  only  a  very  small  portion  of  the 
possessions  of  human  nature;  he  was  a 
hundred  thousand  times  more  happy 
and  useful  than  he  ever  could  have  be- 
come, as  the  temporary  treasurer  of  a 
few  thousand  dollars. 

So,  not  all  that  glooms  and  glowers, 
need  be  a  failure:  it  may  flash  and 
gleam  in  the  sun,  upon  the  other  side 
of  it ;  and  may  be  a  success  temporarily 
capsized. 


Bosebery  on  Lincoln. 

LORD  ROSEBERY  is  a  man  of 
many  parts.  Although  not  classed 
with  the  statesmen  called  great,  and 
most  of  whom  are  aggressive,  he  is  a 
gentleman,  a  scholar,  and  a  level-headed 
man,  by  no  means  devoid  of  statesman- 
like ideas;  and  it  is  gratifying  to  re- 
member his  tribute  to  the  immortal 
Lincoln : 

"Lincoln  was  one  of  the  great  figures 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  To  me  it 
has  also  seemed  that  he  was  the  second 
founder  of  the  great  Republic.  His 
strength  rested  on  two  rocks— unflinch- 
ing principle  and  illimitable  common 
sense.  One  distinguishing  feature  that 
disassociated  him  from  all  the  other 
great  men  of  history  was  his  immense 
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To  show  that  Lord  Roscbcry's  opin- 
ion was  the  result  of  study  and  investi- 
gation, he  stated  that  so  anxiously  did 
he  and  his  fellow-students  at  Eton  study 
the  details  of  the  American  Civil  War, 
that  they  seemed  to  hear  the  very  clash 
of  conflict  across  tlie  Atlantic;  and  as 
soon  as  he  had  sufficient  liberty  and 
funds,  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  try  to 
become  acquainted  with  some  of  the 
places  and  men  illustrious  in  that  war. 
He  saw  Grant,  Sherman,  Jefferson 
Davis,  and  many  others,  and  even  after 
this  lapse  of  years  everything  seems  as 
familiar  to  him  as  then. 

The  lottery-wheel  of  time  brings 
about  marvellous  changes.  While  Rose- 
bcry  was  studying  and  being  thus  im- 
pressed, a  large  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  British  aristocracy  were  call- 
ing Lincoln  a  baboon,  and  Grant  a 
butcher ;  and  an  examination  of  Ameri- 
can newspaper-files  shows  that  distin- 
guished editors  and  statesmen  in  United 
States  were  doing  the  same. 

But  history  is  the  great  threshing- 
machine  of  public  sentiment;  it  is  sure 
to  separate  the  wheat  from  chaff;  not 
always,  however,  during  the  lives  of  the 
victims  of  temporary  misrepresentation 
and  injustice. 


Sandford'8  Manual  of  Oolor:  by 
John  Ithiel  Sandford. 

1^0  you  wish  to  learn,  in  a  few  brief 
pages,  the  science,  the  theory, 
underlying  the  harmony  of  color?  Do 
you  wish/  to  obtain  and  to  apply,  in 
dressing,  in  house-furnishing,  in  art 
generally,  a  knowledge  of  the  true  and 
beautiful  relations  of  color?  This  vol- 
ume will  supply  the  need  in  brief. 

The  author  defines  the  primary,  sec- 
ondary, tertiary,  and  intermediate  col- 
ors, and  analyzes  their  relations  to  each 
other.  He  illustrates  his  points  by 
means  of  an  ingeniously  devised  hex- 
agonal color  guide  which  shows  the 
three  primary-colored  hexagons  dove- 
tailing in  the  centre,  and  the  secondary 
ones  each  coinciding  on  two  sides  with 
their  respective  primaries;  the  remain- 
ing colors,  tertiary  and  intermediate,  in 


limits  hexagonal  or  diamond-shaped, 
hold  a  correspondingly  logical  relation 
to  the  colors  of  which  they  are  formed. 

Following  the  analyses  of  the  princi- 
pal colors  are  brief  chapters,  explaining 
color  harmony,  what  is  meant  by  com- 
plementary and  by  contrasting  colors, 
and  the  modifying  effect  of  one  color, 
shade,  and  tint,  upon  anotlier,  when  two 
are  placed  in  juxtaposition. 

The  author  discredits  the  value  of  the 
Color  Wheel  in  the  attempt!  to  demon- 
strate that  White  is  a  combination  of 
all  colors. 

When  we  realize  how  much  an  appre- 
ciation of  color  and  color  harmonies 
increases  a  person's  capacity  for  enjoy- 
ment in  this  world  of  beauty*  it  seems 
strange  that  its  simple  elements  are  not 
taught  to  every  child. 

A  knowledge  of  color  harmonies  is 
an  essential  part  of  the  equipment  of  the 
floral  decorator,  the  modiste,  the  gar- 
dener, the  rug  manufacturer,  the  dyer, 
of  many  artists  and  tradesmen. 

To  be  taught  to  recognize  the  beauty 
of  color  in  bird  and  flower,  in  sunset 
and  responsive  stream, — to  be  taught 
how  to  choose  colors  for  one's  gar- 
ments so  that  each  tone  enhances  the 
beauty  or  softens  the  brilliancy  of  the 
other — to  be  shown  how  to  select  the 
wall-paper  that  best  adorns  the  West 
or  the  South  room,  or  the  draperies  that 
bring  out  the  subtle  charm  of  the  new 
rug;  to  be  able  to  study  a  painting 
intelligently,  or  to  express  in  harmoni- 
ous color  the  pictures  in  one's  own  mind 
— all  these  inexpensive  joys  may  belong 
to  him  wliKD  takes  the  pains  to  observe, 
to  read,  to  think.  This  little  book  will 
be  a  useful  means  to  this  end. 

It  is  wonderful,  how  much  ''color- 
blindness" there  is  in  the  world — ^to  say 
nothing  of  color-ignorance — or  lack  of 
technical  knowledge.  Many  engine-driv- 
ers are  so,  or  become  so:  and  this  is 
no  doubt  the  cause  of  numerous  rail- 
road accidents.  Even  the  lighthouses, 
with  their  differently  colored  flames, 
often  fail  to  prevent  wrecks,  because 
mariners  misunderstand  them. 

The  book  is  published  by  Hugh  Kelly 
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December  26— W.  Morgan  Shuster  expressed 
his   readiness  to  hand  over  his  accounts 

.    when  his  successor  was  named. 

The  Vatican  refused  to  annul  Count  Boni 
de  Castellane's  marriage  to  Anna  Gould, 
who  divorced  him. 
27— One  of  the  greatest  lockouts  in  the  his- 
tory of  English  cotton  began  with  the 
closing  of  Lancashire  Mills  on  160,000 
operatives. 
28— Russia  decided  to  take  control  of  North- 
ern Persia. 

The  Russian  Council  of  Ministers  decided 
to  bar  out  the  Salvation  Army  from 
Russia. 

Yuan  tendered  his  resignation  as  Premier 
of  China,  but  it  was  rejected;  the  throne 
consented  that  a  national  convention 
should  choose  the  form  of  the  new  gov- 
ernment. 

Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen  was  elected  first  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chinese  Republic. 

Mongolia  declared  independence. 
29 — Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen  accepted  his  election  as 
President  of  the  Chinese  Republic. 

The  Russians  took  possession  of  Tabriz 
after  a  nine-day  siege  and  a  loss  of  two 
hundred  men. 
30— The  Turkish  Cabinet  resigned,  because  the 
Opposition  obstructed  debate  on  the  modi- 
fication of  the  Constitution. 

The  Western  Union   announced   a   further 
extension  of  the  half-rate  cable  zone. 
31 — Federico   Boyd  resigned  as  Secretary  of 

Foreign  Relations  of  Panama. 
January  i — President  Taft's  arbitration  treaties 
were  warmly  approved  by  the  British  Am- 
bassador at  the  French  President's  New 
Year's  reception;  President  Falliere's  re- 
ply was  equally  favorable. 

Fighting  was  resumed  around  Hankow  in 
ignorance  that  the  armistice  had  been  ex- 
tended. 

Solar  ed  Dowleh,  brother  of  the  deposed 
Shah,  defeated  the  Government  forces 
under  Azam  ed  Dowleh,  at  Kermanshah. 

Daniel   Howard   was   inaugurated   at   Mon- 
rovia President  of  Liberia. 
2— Seven   hundred    imperial    Chinese   troops 
guarding  the  Lanchow  arsenal  mutinied  in  - 
sympathy  with  the  revolution  in  the  south. 

Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen  was  inaugurated  provisional 

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President   of   the   Republic   of   China,   at 
Nanking. 

The  Dowager  Empress  contributed  $2,000,- 
000  to  the  anti-revolutionary  fund  of 
China, 
3— The  Ulster  (Ireland)  Unionist  Council 
declared  that  a  provisional  government 
would  be  set  up  in  Ulster  a«  soon  as  a 
Home  Rule  measure  passed  the  British 
Parliament. 

Rear-Admiral  "Fighting  Bob"  Evans  died 
suddenly. 

A  $400,000  fire  burned  out  several  stores  in 
Louisville,  Ky. 
4 — ^Lanchow  was  captured  by  mutinous 
Chinese  troops,  looted  and  burned;  Shan- 
haikwan  was  taken  and  all  railway  trains 
held  up. 

Sharp  earthquake  shocks  were  felt  in  Cali- 
fornia and  at  Santiago  de  Cuba. 
5 — A  private  school  building  fell  in  Seville, 
Spain,  killing  many  children  and  teachers. 

Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen  issued  a  manifesto  to  the 
foreign  powers  pledging  strict  adherence 
to  all  obligations  incurred  by  the  Chinese 
Government. 
6 — Four  more  Nationalists  were  hanged 
near  the  Russian  camp  in  Tabriz;  the 
Russians  began  the  destruction  of  the 
centuries-old  citadel  walls. 
7 — The  torpedo-boat  destroyer  Terry  was  re- 
ported by  wireless  as  disabled  off  Cape 
Hatteras  and  the  Navy  Department  or- 
dered the  Salem  and  the  Prairie  to  go  to 
her  assistance. 

W.  Morgan  Shuster  turned  his  office  over 
to  F.  E.  Cairns,  his  chief  American 
assistant. 
8 — The  Democratic  National  Committee  over- 
whelmingly defeated  Colonel  Bryan  when 
he  attempted  to  oust  Colonel  Guffey. 

Six  battleships  and  cruisers  of  the  Atlantic 
fleet  were  sent  in  search  of  three  missing 
torpedo-bo«t  destroyers. 

The  Republican  Assembly  in  session  at 
Nanking,  voted  the  introduction  of  a  gold 
standard  modelled  on  that  of  Japan. 

Wang  Chung  Wei,  a  graduate  of  Yale,  Lon- 
don, Paris  and  Berlin,  accepted  the  port- 
folio of  Foreign  Affairs  in  President 
Sen's  Cabinet. 

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New  York  Gty,  wai  destroyed  by  fire, 
with  $1,500,000,000  in  securities  in  its 
vaults.    Six  men  were  killed. 

Five  hundred  American  troops  were  ordered 
from  Manila  to  China  to  help  protect  the 
railroad  from  Peking  to  the  sea. 

The  torpedo-boat  destroyers  Mayrant  and 
Drayton  were  reported  safe;  the  McCall 
was  still  missing. 

The  National  Democratic  committee  decided 
to   hold    their   convention   at    Baltimore, 
June  25. 
10— Premier  Caillaux  and  the  entire  French 
Cabinet  resigned. 

A  bill  to  promote  cotton-growing  in  Tur- 
kestan was  introduced  into  the  Duma  by 
the  Russian  Minister  of  Agriculture. 
II — The  Lodge  compromise  resolution  amend- 
ing the  treaties  was  laid  before  the  Senate. 

Dr.  John  Grier  Hibben  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  Princeton  University  by  the 
trustees. 

W.  Morgan  Shuster  left  Persia  for  Europe. 

Orders  were  issued  to  a  brigade  of  British 
troops  in  India  to  get  ready  to  go  to 
Persia, 

Robert   Bacon  announced  that  he  had  re- 
signed his  post  as  Minister  to  France. 
12 — Italian  cruisers  sank  seven  Turkish  gun- 
boats in  the  Red  Sea. 

Persia's  Treasurer-General  threatened  the 
Americans  left  by  Shuster  with  dismissal 
and  punishment  if  there  was  delay  in 
turning  over  the  treasurry.  Secretary 
Knox  said  the  Americans  seek  release 
and  pay. 

A  battalion  of  United  States  Infantry  sailed 
from  Manila  for  patrol  duty  on  the  Pek- 
ing Railway. 

Some  California  aviators  were  sworn  in  as 
deputy  sheriffs,  the  first  "policemen  of  the 
air". 

Leon  Bourgeois  and  Theophile  Delcasse 
both  declined  the  Premiership  of  France. 
13 — Nine  firemen  were  injured  and  $200,000 
worth  of  property  destroyed  by  a  fire  in 
Philadelphia,  in  the  heart  of  the  business 
district. 

The  first  snow  in  eleven  years  fell  in 
Charleston,  S.  C. ;  Atlanta  had  a  fall  of 
four  inches. 
14 — Premier  Yuan  informed  his  representative 
in  the  Shanghai  peace  conference  that 
the  Emperor  would  abdicate  and  that  the 
Manchus  would  accept  the  terms  of  the 
Republicans. 

Postmaster-General    Hitchcock   declared    in 
favor  of  Government  ownership  of  tele- 
graph lines.  * 
The  Spanish  Cabinet,  of  which  Jose  Canale- 

jas  was  Premier,  resigned. 
The  membership  of  the  newly  organized 
French  Cabinet  was  announced,  with  Ray- 
mond Poincare  as  Premier. 
15 — The  United  States  Supreme  Court  unani- 
mously upheld  the  Employers'  Liability 
law,  which    Governor    Baldwin   of    Con- 


necticutj  when  on  the  bench,  had  declared 
'unconstitutional. 

A  massmeeting  in  London,  England,  called 
by  the  Persian  Committee  of  the  House 
of  Commons,  protested  against  England's 
backing  of  Russia  in  Persia. 

By  the  breaking  away  of  an  ice-floe  109 
fishermen  were  driven  out  in  the  Caspian 
Sea  and  drowned. 

President  Liberato  Rojas  of  Paraguay  was 
forced  to  resign  py  revolutionaries. 
16— Premier  Yuan  Shi  Kai  narrowly  escaped 
assassination  by  a  bomb-explosion  which 
killed  a  soldier  and  a  policeman  and  in- 
jured fifteen  other  persons. 

United  States  warned  Cuba  that  she  would 
intervene  unless  conditions  improved 
there. 

The  Revere  House,  Boston's  most  famous 
hostelry,  was  destroyed  by  fire;  no  lives 
were  lost. 
17 — President  Taft  urged  the  removal  of  all 
distinctly  administrative  offices  from  the 
field  of  political  patronage. 
18 — President  Taft  commuted  the  fifteen-year 
sentence  of  Charles  W.  Morse  and  ordered 
his  immediate  release. 

The  crisis  in  Cuba  was  reported  as  passed. 
19 — The  Chinese  Republic  cabled  an  appeal  for 
recognition  to  Washington  and  other  capi- 
tals. 

Italian  destroyers  seized  the  French  steamer 
Manouba,  bound  from  Marseilles  to 
Tunis;  the  Italian  Government  tele- 
graphed the  authorities  at  Cagliari  to  re- 
lease the  French  steamer  Carthage. 
20— The  new  18,000-ton  Cunarder,  Laconia, 
sailed  on  her  maiden  voyage,  being  the 
first  British  ship  fitted  with  anti-rolling 
tanks. 

Twenty  persons  were  injured  in  a  wreck  on 
the   Pennsylvania  Railroad,   near   Phillis- 
burg,  N.  J. 
21— Nearly  4,000,000  people   of   the   Yangtze 

Valley,  in  China,  were  reported  starving. 
22 — ^The  Manchu  Princes  decided  not  to  give 
up  the  throne. 

The  financial  attach^  of  the  Russian  Lega- 
tion at  Washington  was  ordered  home  to 
give  advice  about  tariffs  and  a  treaty. 

Four  prominent  railroad  men  were  killed  in 
a  collision  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad. 

Italy  proposed  to  France  to  submit  to  the 
Hague  Tribunal  all  the  questions  relating 
to  the  seizure  of  the  French  steamers 
Carthage  and  Manouba. 
23 — Two  prisoners  escaped  from  the  State 
Hospital  for  the  Criminal  Insane  at  Mat- 
teawan,  N.  Y. 
24 — Italy  retained  the  Turks  seized  on  a 
French  steamer,  maintaining  her  right  to 
search  any  ship,  and  asserting  willingness 
to  pay  indemnity  if  the  Hague  Court  so 
decides. 

The  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth 
of  Frederick  the  Great  was  celebrated 
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BIGELOW,  JOHN~In  New  York  City,  De- 
cember 19.  He  was  born  in  1817  in  Maiden, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  graduated  from  Union  Col- 
lege in  1835  and  then  studied  law.  Accept- 
ing William  Cullen  Bryant's  invitation  to 
share  in  the  ownership  and  editorship  of 
The  Evening  Post,  he  became  a  successful 
managing  editor.  During  the  crucial  years  of 
the  Civil  War  he  was  appointed  Minister  to 
France  by  President  Lincoln  and  had  a  dis- 
tinguished career.  Throughout  a  long  life- 
time he  never  lost  interest  in  all  that  per- 
tained to  the  highest  welfare  of  his  countrj', 
but  kept  abreast  of  all  important  civic  ques- 
tions. 

CALIFF,  BRIG.  GEN.  J.  M.— In  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  January  4,  at  the  age  of  sixtyeight 
years.  His  birthplace  was  East  Smithfield, 
Pa.  He  was  an  honor  graduate  of  the 
Artillery  School  and  saw  hard  service 
throughout  the  Civil  War.  He  was  in  com- 
mand of  a  six-gun  battery  that  fired  the 
first  shot  at  Gettysburg.  He  rose  from  rank 
to  rank  and  was  retired  in  1904  as  Brigadier 
General, 

COOKE,  FREDERICK  HALE— In  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  January  11.  He  was  born  in  Woon- 
socket,  L.  I.,  in  1859,  and  was  graduated 
from  Williams  College.  Studying  law,  he 
became  the  author  of  numerous  treatises 
on  legal  subjects,  including  several  works 
dealing  with  insurance  law. 

CRiANE,  RICHARD  T.— In  Chicago,  Janu- 
ary 8,  in  his  eightieth  year.  His  place  of 
birth  was  Paterson,  N.  J.  He  was  a  self- 
educated  man,  employed  in  machine-shops 
and  foundries.  He  started  a  brass  foundry 
in  Chicago,  in  1855,  a  brother  joining  him 
later,  forming  the  R.  T.  Crane  &  Bro.  Com- 
pany. Some  months  ago  he  severely  at- 
tacked the  kind  of  education  represented  by 
the  modern  college  and  university. 

DAHN,  PROF.  FELIX  S.— In  Breslau,  Ger- 
many, January  3,  at  the  age  of  seventyseven 
years.  He  was  born  in  Hamburg,  and 
studied  law  and  history  in  Munich  and  Ber- 
lin. In  1857  he  became  Private  Decent  in 
Munich,  and  later  on  Professor  of  Law. 
He  achieved  a  more  than  local  fame,  how- 
ever,  as   a   historical    writer,    novelist    and 


poet.  One  of  his  historic  romances,  "Der 
Kampf  um  Rom",  passed  through  thirty 
editions,  despite  its  four-volume  length. 

DICKENS,  ALFRED  TENNYSON— In  New 
York  City,  January  2,  while  on  a  lecture 
tour  in  America.  He  was  born  in  London, 
in  1845;  the  son  of  Charles  Dickens,  the 
famous  novelist.  He  was  educated  in  Bou- 
logne, France,  and  at  a  military  school  in 
England.  He  engaged,  as  a  youth,  in  sheep- 
raising  in  Australia,  and  recently  entered  the 
lecture  field,  his  subject  being  his  father's 
life  and  work. 

DUTTON,  MAJOR  CLARENCE  E.,  U.  S.  A. 
— In  Englewood,  N.  J.,  January  4,  in  his  sev- 
entyfirst  year.  Wallingford,  Conn.,  was  his 
birthplace.  He  entered  the  army  during  the 
Civil  War  and  later  was  connected  with  the 
Geological  Survey.  In  1901  he  was  retired 
at  his  own  request.  He  was  the  author  of 
several  geological  works. 

EPES;  HORACE  H.— At  Newport  News, 
Va.,  January  16,  at  the  age  of  sixtythree 
years.  He  was  well  known  as  an  educator 
and  had  been  identified  with  schools  and 
colleges  in  Kentucky  and  Alabama. 

EVANS.  REAR-ADMIRAL  ROBLEY  D.— 
In  Washington,  D.  C,  January  3,  in  his 
sixtysixth  year.  Though  born  in  Virginia 
and  educated  in  Washington  and  at  Annapo- 
lis, and  son  of  a  mother  Southern  in  her 
sympathy,  he  went  to  seai  in  defense  of  the 
Union  upon  graduation  in  1863.  He  was 
seriously  wounded  at  Ft.  Fisher.  He  showed 
great  tact  when  sent,  fifteen  years  later,  to 
prevent  seal  poaching  by  the  British  in  the 
Behring  S'ea.  He  gained  the  name  of 
"Fighting  Bob",  at  Valparaiso,  in  1^5.  As 
commander  of  the  Iowa,  at  Santiago,  he 
showed  equal  courage  and  decision  and  was 
raised  to  flag  rank.  He  was  made  Com- 
mander-in-Chief of  the  fleet  that  sailed 
round  the  world,  but  relinquished  it  on 
account  of  ill  health.  Four  Admirals, 
Prince  Henry  of  Prussia,  the  Duke 
of  the  Abruzzi,  Louis  of  Battenberg, 
and  Lord  Charles  Beresford,  were  intimate 
friends. 

FARMAN,  JUDGE  ELBERT  ELI— In  War- 
saw, N.  Y.,  December  30.  He  was  born  in 
New  Haven,  N.  Y.,  eighty  years  ago.     He 


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studied  international  law  in  Germany  from 
1864  to  1867  and  was  United  States  Diplo- 
matic Agent  and  Consul  General  at  Cairo, 
£gypt)  from  1876  to  1881,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  International  Commission  to  re- 
vise the  judicial  codes  of  Egypt,  and  of 
o:her  important  judicial  bodies.  He  ob- 
tained, in  1879,  the  gift  from  the  Khedive 
to  New  York  City,  of  the  obelisk  known  as 
"Cleopatra's  Needle",  and  made  large  col- 
lections of  Egyptian  antiquities,  which  he 
presen  ed  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  New  York.  He  was  the  author  of 
"Along  the  Nile  with  General  Grant"  and 
"Egypt  and  Its  Betrayal". 

EYTINGE,  ROSE— At  Amityville,  S.  I.,  De- 
cember 20,  aged  seventysix  years.  Her  birth- 
place was  Philadelpliia,  and  she  was  edu- 
cated there  and  in  Brooklyn.  In  1852  she 
entered  upon  a  successful  stage  career,  play- 
ing in'  the  companies  of  Edwin  Booth, 
Davenport,  Lester  Wallack  and  Mrs.  John 
Drew,  and  achieving  great  popularity. 
She  made  several  trips  to  London.  She 
wrote  a  novel,  besides  many  articles  on 
acting  and  the  theatre,  and  was  three  times 
married. 

FRAENKEL,  PROF.  BERNARD— In  Berlin, 
Germany,  November  13,  aged  seventyfivc 
years.  He  was  a  noted  specialist  of  nose 
and  throat  diseases,  and  for  many  years  a 
professor  in  the  University  of  Berlin.  He 
was  prominent  in  the  crusade  against 
tuberculosis.  He  declined  a  seventieth- 
anniversary  dinner  five  years  ago,  con- 
senting instead  to  an  exhibition  illustrating 
progress  in  laryngology  during  the  last  fifty 
years, 

HAUSMANN,  CAPT.  THEODORE— In 
Washington,  D.  C,  December  28.  He  was 
born  in  France  eighty  four  years  ago,  and 
served  as  a  young  man  as  an  officer  in  the 
French  Army.  Coming  to  America,  he  set- 
tled in  Cincinnati.  He  enlisted  in  the  Civil 
War,  and  as  a  drill  officer,  drilled  William 
McKinley  and  Rutherford  B.  Hayes.  He 
was  appointed  by  President  Hayes  Consul 
to  several  of  the  smaller  South  American 
Republics. 

HENRY,  HAROLD  OLIVER— In  Peking, 
China.  January  i.  He  was  born  in  Pans 
in  1887,  of  American  parentage,  and  was 
educated  in  Paris  and  in  Washington.  He 
represented  some  American  exporting  firms 
in  Europe  for  a  few  years,  and  in  1908  was 
appointed  a  student  interpreter  at  the 
American  Legation,  Peking. 

KOOREMAN,  BYAK— In  Berkeley,  Califor- 
nia, January  13.  He  was  a  portrait  painter, 
who  for  many  years  had  been  the  decorator 
of  the  Royal  Academy  of  Leyden,  Nether- 
lands. 

LABOUCHERE,  HENRY  —  In  Florence, 
Italy,  January  16.     His  age  was  eightyone 


years;  his  birthplace,  London.  Eton  and 
Cambridge  educated  his  youthful  years. 
Entering  the  British  diplomatic  service  in 
1854,  he  was  attach^  at  Washington, 
Munich,  St.  Petersburg  and  other  cities. 
He  was  sent  to  Parliament  in  1866,  and 
was  one  of  the  Paris  "Shut-ins"  during  the 
Franco-Prussian  war.  As  a  Radical  he 
served  twenty  six  years  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  a  foe  of  all  shams  and  frauds, 
fightinjjf  these  also  in  his  able  and  en- 
tertaining journal.  Truth.  His  exposures 
resulted  in  many  lawsuits,  which  he 
won. 

MEIGS  DR.  ARTHUR  V.— In  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  January  i,  aged  sixtyone  years.  He 
was  a  well-known  physician  and  writer  on 
medical  subjects  and  was  of  the  third  gen- 
eration of  a  family  of  noted  physicians  and 
surgeons. 

METCALF,  ALBERT— In  West  Newtown, 
Mass.,  January  3.  He  Was  among  the  early 
converts  to  Christian  Science,  joining  upon 
persuasion  of  Mrs.  Eddy  herself.  For  a 
time  he  was  President  of  the  Mother 
Church.  He  was  one  of  the  original  incor- 
porators of  the  Dennison  Manufacturing 
Company.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Tufts  Col- 
lege, to  which  he  gave  Metcalf  Hall,  a  dor- 
mitory for  women>  besides  an  extensive 
musical  library. 

PERKINS,  E.  R.— In  South  Orange,  N.  J., 
January  18,  aged  fortyfpur  years.  He  was 
a  brother  of  George  W.  Perkins  and  was 
bom  in  Ohio,  following  his  brother's  exam- 
ple by  entering  the  life  insurance  business. 
(He  entered  the  ranks  as  office  boy  and  rose 
to  be  Vice-President  of  the  New  York  Life 
Insurance  Company. 

RADOWITZ,  JOSEPH  M.  VON— In  Berlin. 
Germany,  January  16,  aged  seventythree 
years.  He  had  been  German  Ambassador 
in  Constantinople,  Madrid  and  other  impor- 
tant posts.  He  helped  draft  the  Treaty  of 
Berlin,  and  he  represented  Germany  at  the 
recent  Algeciras  Conference  on  the  Morocco 
question.  He  was  probably  the  last  living 
colleague  of  Bismarck  in  building  up  the 
modern  German  Empire. 

RAPISARDI,  MARIO— In  Catania,  Sicily, 
January  4,  aged  sixtyeight  years.  He  was 
a  noted  Sicilian  poet,  born  in  Catania,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  held  the  Professor- 
ship of  Italian  Literature  in  the  University 
of  Catania. 

WHITE,  JOHN  E.— In  New  York  City, 
January  15.  He  was  a  survivor  of  the 
Maine,  being  severely  injured  by  the  explo- 
sion. He  was  thirtynine  years  old  and  re- 
ceived a  Government  pension. 

WHYTAL,  JAMES— In  Brooklyn,  December 
17.  He  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia  sixtynine 
years  ago,  and  for  fortyseven  years  had  been 
an  Inspector  of  United  States  Customs. 

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Various  Doings  and  Undoings, 


The  oldest  universities  on  the  continent  of 
Europe  are  those  of  Bologna,  Paris  and  Sala- 
manca.  In  England,  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
are  the  most  ancient. 

Lightning  kills  about  one  person  in  ten 
millions  each  year :  so  says  some  one  who  has 
statisticized  the  vagaries  of  our  bright-eyed 
messenger  from  the  clouds. 

Fool-faddism  could  not  go  or  be  carried 
much  farther  than  the  other  day  at  a  New 
York  reception,  where  a  snake  was  made  the 
guest  of  honor.  The  first  case  on  record  was 
in  the  Garden  of  Eden. 

Swiss  watchmakers  have  now  added  a 
phonograph  to  some  of  their  wonderful 
watches.  A  small  rubber  disc  is  put  in  the 
watch  and  arranged  in  such  a  way  that  the 
record  is  repeated  in  words  every  hour. 

The  much-marrying  comedian,  Nat  Good- 
win, has  detached  himself  from  his  latest 
bride,  by  paying  her  a  certain  agreed-upon 
sum  in  cash  and  real  estate.  Probably  both 
are  discontented  with  the  sum,  as  neither 
will  tell  how  much  it  is. 

One  of  the  principal  actresses  of  the  day 
says  that  laughter  is  the  antidote  of  age.  If 
she  finds  it  so  it  must  be  that,  like  George 
Washington,  she  does  all  her  laughing  inside: 
perhaps  so  as  to  keep  the  wrinkles  that  hilar- 
ity causes,  out  of  sight. 

The  latest  recorded  ghost  evidently  passes 
part  of  its  time  in  Lockport,  New  York.  It 
chases  couples  who  are  out  promenading  in 


the  evening,  scares  them  apart,  and  then  van- 
ishes. The  police  are  trying  to  prevent  it 
from  doing  the  last-named  act. 

The  Museum  of  Natural  History  has  re- 
ceived from  the  Duke  of  Bedford  two  speci- 
mens of  the  rare  prjewalsky,  the  only  surviv- 
ing species  of  true  wild  horse.  They  were 
captured  with  others  in  the  desert  of  Mongolia 
and  brought  to  England  by  an  expedition  sent 
out  by  the  Duke.     

Admiral  George  Dewey  is  seventyfour  years 
old.  He  celebrated  his  latest  birthday  by  get- 
ting down  to  his  oflftce  at  the  Navy  Depart- 
ment at  nine  o'clock  and  plunging  into  work. 
When  asked  how  he  was  going  to  celebrate 
his  natal  day,  he  said:  "I  am  going  to  work 
and  try  to  earn  my  salary." 

Circus  people  claim  that  they  are  getting 
more  and  more  industrious,  frugal,  and  sav- 
ing; that  they  have  yearly  less  time  and 
money  to  spend  in  dissipation ;  that  an  atmos- 
phere of  refinement  is  growing  up  around  the 
business;  and  that  some  very  exemplary 
families  continue  in  it  from  generation  to 
generation.  

The  Norfolk  and  Western  Railroad's  fast 
Washington-Chattanooga  train  actually  froze 
to  the  tracks  one  day  when  it  stopped  at 
Lynchburg,  Va.  Dripping  water  from  the 
pipes  hardened  quickly  in  ihe  zero  weather 
and  the  wheels  were  locked  so  securely  in  the 
ice  that  three  engines  bumping  the  train  from 
the  rear  were  required  to  move  it. 

A  boy  ran  away  from  Connecticut  and  came 


Winchester's 


Exhausted 


Hypophosphites    of    Lime 

18  THK  TONIO  PAR  ■XOKLLKNOK  FOR 


and    Soda 


or 


Debilitated 


NERVE  FORCE 

AiTordlss  ^  ^  ^oe*  ^^  niott  direct  mcAns  of  Bapplytn^  Phosphorus  to  the  system,  so  essontiAl  to  those  who  labor  with  the  Brala 
PRI80RIBKO  BY  PHY8I0IAN8  FOR  OVIR  HALF  A  CENTURY 

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A  Brain,  Nerve  jtnd  Blood  Food  and  Tisiue  B   ilder  of  Unquestioned  IMerlt 
Stimulating  and  Invifforatlag  the  Nervous  System  and  Impaitlng  Vital  &  tren^th  and  Energy. 

Personal  Opinions-Kn"^'?* 

I  have  ta  <en  this  e  .rellenr  rerne  1y '  Wiachester's 


For  Neurasthenia  the  HypophosphUe<  are  our  mainitays — Dr.  TAY  G.  ROBERTS.  Phila.  Pa. 

, ^'•-- *o  trie earcme purity  of  W'iothM'ers  Hypophosphites.— Dr.  L.  PITICIN.  New  York. 

H>popho«phites  of  Lime  and  Soda -as  a  Nerve  Food  by  my  physician '&  order.    It  has  so  greatly  benefited 


m«th«t  I  h^I)e  other  sufTereis  may  be  helped  likewise.— Miss  F.LL\H.  JOHNSON.  Irvlngtoa.  N.  Y. 
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to  New  York,  to  see  if  the  city  was  really  s« 
much  bigger  than  Hartford.  After  walking 
from  the  Battery  to  242d  street  and  back  to 
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Motor  bonnets  for  men  are  the  latest  mas- 
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London  and  there  is  said  to  be  quite  a  demand 
for  them.  "The  bonnets  are  very  pretty  in 
shape,"  says  a  woman  fashion  writer.  "They 
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Not  many  minutes  after  a  statesman  has 
finished  a  speech  nowadays  the  news  is  sell- 
ing in  the  streets  and  has  been  flashed  to 
every  capital  in  Europe.  It  was  different  in 
the  elections  in  the  time  of  Pitt.  He  made  a 
memorable  speech  one  March,  and  the  eager 
public  only  learned  exactly  what  he  said  from 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine  of  the  following 
November. 

Juarez,  Mexico,  is  believed  to  be  the  only 
town  in  the  world  in  which  the  direction  and 
control  of  the  city  parks  have  been  turned 
over  completely  to  women.  The  parks  in 
Ciudad  Juarez  still  will  be  cared  for  by  men, 
but  above  the  men  will  be  a  board  of  eight 
lady  managers,  composed  of  four  dames  and 
four  senoritas,  who  have  exclusive  control 
and  direction  of  all  parks. 

A  Philadelphia  woman  cheerfully  admits 
that  she  has  striven  to  emulate  the  woman  of 
Samaria,  by  marrying  five  husbands,  all  of 
whom  are  still  living  in  a  state  of  more  or 
less  loneliness.  She  sees  nothing  particularly 
objectionable  in  the  arrangement,  and  would 
evidently  enjoy  it  all  as  a  fine  little  lark,  had 
she  not  been  landed  in  jail  on  a  charge  of 
bigamy  made  by  her  latest  victim. 

Republicans  of  Buffalo  have  nominated  for 
a  seat  on  the  bench  of  the  Children's  Court 
George  E.  Judge,  a  leading  lawyer  of  the 
Lake  Erie  metropolis.  If  he  is  elected  he 
and  the  public  are  likely  to  suffer  some  con- 
fusion. How  is  he  to  know  when  some  one 
calls  him  "Judge"  whether  he  is  being  treated 
with  due  respect  or  with  familiarity?  Still, 
there  have  been  Major  Majors  in  the  army 
and  Bishop  Bishops  in  the  church. 

One  seldom  stops  to  think  what  some  of 
the  freight  trains  carry.  Generally  it  is  every- 
thing under  the  sun.  A  freight  train  over 
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bills  of  mixed  freight  and  coal,  there  was  a 
carload  of  cigareftes,  a  car  of  whiskey,  two 
cars  of  fast  automobiles,  and  a  carload  of 
strychnine.  At  the  end  of  the  train  was  a 
large  consignment  of  coffins. 

Lord  Cromer,  speaking  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Egypt  Exploration  Fund  in  London  of  the 
fundamental  resemblances  between  ancient  and 
modern  Egyptians,  said  that :  *'It  was  not  only 
conceivable  but  highly  probable  that  during 
those  centuries  most  inaccurately  enumerated 
by  Napoleon  as  forty,  during  which  the  Pyra- 
mids had  frowned  down  on  the  Valley  of  the 
Nile,  Egyptian  manners  and  customs  had,  rela- 
tively speaking,  undergone  less  striking 
changes  than  was  the  case  with  any  other 
community  of  which  we  had  any  precise 
knowledge." 

There  has  come  to  light  a  heretofore  un- 
published poem   of   William  Cullen   Bryant. 
The  verse,  which  was  found  in  a  letter  sent 
by  the  poet  to  Mrs.    Mum  ford    more    than 
twentyfive  years  ago,  is  as  follows : 
"There's  a  dance  of  the  leaves  in  the  poplar 
boughs, 
There's   a  flutter  of  wind   in   the  beechen 
tree. 
There's    a    smile    on    the  fruit  and  a  smile 
on  the  flower. 
And  a  laugh  from  the  brook  as  it  runs  to 
me." 


A  farmer  of  the  town  of  Portland,  Conn., 
decided  to  take  his  family  to  the  grange  fair 
at  Haddam  Neck,  and  as  there  is  no  railroad 
running  between  the  two  points,  he  decided 
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owns  ten  yoke  of  oxen  himself,  and  by  bor- 
rowing all  his  neighbors'  managed  to  collect 
fortyeight  yoke,  or  ninetysix  oxen.  With 
these  attached  to  a  gayly-decorated  ox-cart, 
he  made  the  trip,  covering  the  distance  of 
twenty  miles  in  five  hours.  The  services  of 
twelve  drivers  were  needed  to  guide  the  ani- 
mals on  the  road.  The  line  of  cattle  stretched 
for  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  along  the  road, 
and  it  took  them  five  minutes  to  pass  the 
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A  Tribute  to  Dickens  5 
Will  Carleton. 

"The   House   of   Harper"  7 

Just  a  Bit  of  Patience  10 
Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

The  Watchmaker's  Guest  11 

The  Largest  Repubh'c  in  the  World     15 


Guest-Spies 


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Edith  H.  Drew. 
Three  Thoughts  19 

Francis  Joseph — Oldest  of  Emperors  20 
The   Sheepfold  22 

A  Notable  Biography— H.  23 

Forest  Apple-Trees  28 

Up  and  Down  the  World: 
Saving-s-Banks  That  Won't  Break  2g 
Lessons   from   Marconi  31 

Restraint  for  Millionaires'  Sons      ^2 
Pears    and    Plums    from    Cherry 

Trees  zz 

He  Pities  the  Greatest  Victims        33 


ILditorial  Comment: 

Protection  versus  Politics  34 

Cowards  of  the  Mail-Box  34 

I  Furnishingr  Fine  Arguments  Against 

t              Themselves  35 

The  Shop  and   the  Market  36 

I      At  Church  : 

!          FivenMinute  Sermon  38 

From  the  Minister's  .  Standpoint  39 

Pulpit  Gems.  40 

The  Health-Seeker: 

Dangers  of  Milk  41 

Breathing,  and  Baldness  a2 
"Sighing"  is  Pieced-Out  Breathing  43 

T!»ose  Curious  Things — Warts  43 

World-Success  : 

Failure  and  Sliccess — IL  44 

When  Fire's  in  the  House  45 

Time's   Diary  47 

Some  Who   Have   Gone  49 

Various  Doings  and  Undoings  51 

Philosophy  and  Humor  58 


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A   Tribute   to    Dickens. 


By  Will  Casleton. 

[The  following  poem  was  written  at  the  time  of  the  great 
novelist's  death,  and  may  perhaps  not  improperly  be  re-publtshed 
now,  in  this  centennial  year  of  his  birth.] 

A  CROSS  the  foaming,  word-lashed  sea  of  thought, 

Where  heavier  craft  were  struggling  with  the  storm, 
The  winds,  one  day,  an  imknown  vessel  brought, 

Of  flaunting  streamer  and  fantastic  form. 
Old  captains  shook  their  grizzled  heads  in  doubt, 
And  vainly  strove  to  make  the  stranger  out ; 
And  critic-gunners  raised  their  ready  hand. 
To  fire  at  what  they  could  not  understand. 

But  crowding  sail  she  rode  the  dangerous  waves, 
Swept  past  old  wrecks  and  signals  of  distress. 

And  o'er  forgotten  hulks  and  nameless  graves, 
Straight  glided  to  the  harbor  of  Success ! 

The  weary  world  looked  on,  a  little  while — 

Its  care-worn  face  grew  brighter,  with  a  smile; 

Until  its  voice  caught  rapture  from  its  gaze. 

And  swelled  into  a  thunder-peal  of  praise! 

The  outstripp'd  jester,  smiling,  dropped  his  pun; 

The  sage  looked  up,  with  pleased,  instructed  eyes ; 
The  critic  raised  his  double-shotted  gun, 

And  jubilantly  fired  it  at  the  skies ! 
The  laboring  throng,  when  their  day's  toil  was  o'er, 
Crowded  along  this  unaccustomed  shore. 
And  viewed  with  wonder  and  delight   oft-told, 
The  varied  treasures  of  her  deck  and  hold. 

For  there,  arrayed  in  quaint  and  genial  pride, 

Stood  Pickwick,  captain  of  the  motley  crew ; 
The)  sturdy  Samuel  Weller  by  his  side, 

And  many  a  passenger  the  people  knew ; 
And,  stored  among  this  cargo  of  new  mirth, 
Flashed  forth  the  brightest  diamonds  of  earth ; 
Treasures  of  Nature's  undissembled  arts; 
And  stores  of  food  for  hungry,  yearning  hearts. 

Ami  ever  as  they  gazed,  and  rushed  to  gaze, 
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The  welcome  whiteness  of  another  sail ! 
Rich  loaded  was  one  bark,  and  fair  to  see, 
But  aimed  great  guns  at  petty  tyranny ; 
And  as  she  swiftly  glided  safe  to  land, 
Young  Captain  Nickleby  was  in  command. 

There  came  a  ship  of  stranger  seeming  still, 

With  "Curiosities"  in  plenty  stored; 
And  thousands  crowded  'round  her,  with  one  will, 

To  view  the  passengers  she  had  on  board. 
And  one  there  was — ^her  name  was  "Little  Nell*' — 
The  people  much  admired,  and  loved  full  well ; 
And  many  wept,  and  lingered  at  her  side, 
When,  wearily,  she  laid  her  down  and  died. 

So  one  by  one  to  port  the  vessels  came, 

Laden  with  comforts  for  both  rich  and  poor. 
Rut  hurling  bolts  of  scorn-envenomed  flame 

At  tyrant,  rogue,  and  snob,  and  titled  boor. 
Ancl  each  new  ship  the  multitude  flocked  'round, 
Rejoicing  o'er  the  treasures  that  they  found; 
And  as  each  new  sail  flashing  came  to  sight, 
Broke  forth  a  thousand  plaudits  of  delight ! 

And  so  the  millions,  eager  to  confess 

The  pleasures  they  from  his  creations  drew, 

Hastened  to  praise,  and  glorify,  and  bless 
The  toiling  man  whose  face  they  hardly  knew. 

Who,  in  his  lonely  room,  worked  for  his  goal, 

With  busy  brain,  and  tender,  yearning  soul ; 

And  with  his  good  pen  built  and  rigged  and  manned 

The  noble  argosies  his  genius  planned. 

But  one  dark  day  the  news  gloomed  o'er  the  earth 

That  he,  beloved  guest  of  many  lands, 
Had  gone  where  first  his  clear-eyed  soul  had  birth, 

Led  by  the  pressure  of  down-reaching  hands. 
No  monarch  resting  on  his  crape-strown  bed 
Had  e*er  such  tears  of  sorrow  o'er  him  shed. 
As  this  untitled  king  of  grief  and  mirth. 
Whose  subjects  mourned  in  every  clime  of  earth ! 

O  master  of  the  heart !  if  in  yon  land 

Thou  canst  but  wander  through  its  streets  and  vales, 
And  then  before  the  countless  millions  stand 

And  tell  thy  merry  and  pathetic  tales, 
If  thou  canst  yet  thy  daily  toil  prolong, 
Plead  for  the  right,  and  battle  with  the  wrong, 
The  happiness  of  heaven  will  o'er  thee  spread, 
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'The   House   of    Harper.' 


QNE  of  the  most  notable  and  distinct- 
ively American  books  recently  pub- 
lished, bears  the  above  title  and  was 
recently  issued  by  Harper  &  Brothers, 
of  New  York.  It  relates  the  story  of 
one  of  the  most  distinguished — perhaps 
the  most  distinguished — book  establish- 
ments this  country  has  yet  produced,  and 
in  such  a  way  that  it  must  be  interest- 
ing, not  only  to  those  who  have  a  special 
pride  in  the  House,  but  to  the  general 
public  as  well. 

The  author  is  Mr.  James  Henry  Har- 
I)er,  a  grandson  of  Fletcher  Harper,  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  establishment; 
and  he  shows  that  he  is  thoroughly  qual- 
ified for  the  task.  So  interesting  is  the 
subject-matter,  that  we  take  the  liberty 
of  quoting  a  few  paragraphs  from  it. 

Here  is  a  vivid  description  of  James 
Plarper's  first  arrival  in  New  York,  in 
1810,  to  enter  the  printing  business.  He 
was  the  oldest  of  the  four  brothers  who 
afterwards  gained  a  world-wide  renown 
in  their  vocation  as  publishers : 

''It  was  a  bitter  cold  day  when  Joseph 
Harper  and  his  son  James  drove  in 
from  the  village  of  Newtown.  They 
followed  the  circuitous  route  from 
which  Fulton  Street,  built  along  the  old 
post-road,  still  descends  to  the  ferry  at 
the  foot  of  Brookyn  Heights,  and  then, 
crossing  the  stream  in  an  old  scow,  pro- 
pelled by  long  sweeps,  drove  up  on  the 
other  side  to  the  boy's  place  of  business, 
the  printing  establishment  of  Paul  & 
Thomas  on  the  corner  of  Burling  Slip 
and  Water  Street. 

"James  Harper's  entire  capital  was  a 
sound  mind  in  a  strong  body,  the  latter 
qualification  being  in  those  days  import- 
ant,  if   not   essential,   to   the   practical 


printer.  Steam-power  had  not  yet  been 
applied  to  printing-presses— in  fact,  the 
art  of  printing  had  made  but  little 
advance  since  the  apprentice  days  of 
Franklin.  The  press  was  still  worked 
by  hand,  and  under  these  circumstances 
printing  was  slow  and  laborious,  so  that 
the  largest  circulation  obtained  by  the 
most  successful  daily  newspapers  was 
very  small. 

"Two  men,  known  as /partners,'  were 
required  to  work  a  press.  One  applied 
the  ink  with  hand-balls,  for  even  the  ink- 
roller  was  not  yet  invented,  and  the 
other  laid  on  sheets  and  did  the  'pulling.' 
They  changed  work  at  regular  intervals, 
one  'inking'  and  the  other  'pulling.' 
Both  operations  required  dexterity,  and 
'pulling'  much  strength  as  well.  James 
Harper's  vigor  and  weight  gave  him  a 
special  advantage,  and  so,  if  he  found 
himself  hampered  by  a  personally  un- 
pleasant partner,  he  could  always  work 
liim  down'  and  so  be  rid  of  him,  being 
thus  enabled  to  choose  his  own  associate. 
During  the  early  days  of  his  apprentice- 
ship he  would  remain  at  his  press  after 
the  other  men?  had  quit  work,  whenever 
he  could  secure  a  partner  to  qssist  him. 
The  product  of  such  extra  work  was  a 
perquisite,  whereby  he  managed  to  in- 
crease his  income  to  a  considerable 
extent.  Thurlow  Weed  was  an  appren- 
tice at  the  same  time,  and  they  usually 
worked  together,  often  remaining  late 
into  the  evening. 

"Thurlow  Weed,  long  afterward,  when 
he  had  become  the  Warwick  of  New 
York  politics,  in  speaking  of  these  early 
days,  said  of  James  Harper :  'It  was  the 
rule  of  his  life  to  study  not  how  little 
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after  a  good  day's  work,  he  would  say 
to  me,  Thurlow,  let's  break  the  back 
of  another  token  [two  hundred  and  fifty 
impressions]— just  break  its  back/  I 
would  generally  consent  reluctantly, 
'just  to  break  the  back'  of  the  token; 
but  James  would  beguile  me,  or  laugh 
at  my  complaints,  and  never  let  me  off 
until  the  token  was  completed,  fair  and 
square.  It  was  a  custom  with  us  in  the 
summer  to  do  a  clear  half-day's  work 
before  the  other  boys  and  men  got  their 
breakfast.  James  and  I  would  meet  by 
appointment  in  the  gray  of  the  early 
morning,  and  go  down  to  the  printing- 
room.  A  pressman  who  could  do  twen- 
ty, or  even  ten,  per  cent,  more  work 
than  usual  was  always  sure  of  a  position. 
James  Harper,  Tom  Kennedy  -(long 
since  dead),  and  I  made  the  largest  bills 
in  the  city.  We  often  earned  as  much 
as  fourteen  dollars  per  week— liberal 
wages  when  you  remember  that  good 
board  could  then  be  obtained  for  ten 
dollars  a  month.' 

"James  Harper's  good  humor  and 
geniality  made  him  a  general  favorite, 
but  his  strict  principles  sometimes  sub- 
jected him  to  rude  persecution.  His 
homespun  clothes  and  heavy  cowhide 
boots  were  often  objects  of  ridicule 
among  his  companions,  but  as  a  rule  he 
bore  their  taunts  with  good-natured  si- 
lence, for  he  was  never  afraid  of  a  jest, 
even  if  it  were  ill-timed  or  unfair. 
Once,  however,  provoked  beyond  endur- 
ance, he  retorted  in  a  manner  which 
showed  that  he  was  not  to  be  trifled 
with.  Under  pretense  of  feeling  the 
fineness  of  his  coat,  one  of  his  compan- 
ions gave  him  a  sharp  pinch  on  the  arm, 
asking  James  at  the  same  time  for  his 
tailor's  card.  James  responded  with  a 
vigorous  and  well-directed  kick.  'There,' 
said  he,  'is  my  card ;  take  good  care  of 
it,  and  when  I  am  out  of  my  time  and 
set  up  for  myself  and  you  need  employ- 
ment, as  you  probably  will,  come  to  me 
and  I  will  give  you  work.'  The  merry- 
andrew  slunk  away,  effectually  cowed. 
Nearly  forty  years  later,  when  the  Har- 
per establishment  had  become  known 
throughout  the  civilized  world,  and  the 


young  apprentice  boy  was  Mayor  of 
New  York,  the  comrade  who  had  ridi- 
culed his  homely  clothes  applied  to 
James  for  a  place  as  workman,  and 
claimed  it  on  ^he  ground  of  that  old 
promise.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say 
that  it  was  granted,  and  so,  curiously 
enough,  the  prophecy  was  fulfilled." 

The  remaining  three  brothers,  John, 
Joseph  Wesley,  and  Fletcher,  having 
combined  to  make  ftiis  one  of  the  larg- 
est establishments  of  the  kind  in  New 
York,  sustained  their  first  great  catas- 
trophe in  1853,  i^  the  shape  of  a  fire, 
which  practically  wiped  out  the  whole 
establishment.  The  event  is  vividly  nar- 
rated, as  follows : 

"To  clean  off  the  rollers  in  the  press- 
room camphene  was  found  to  be  the  best 
medium,  and  for  this  process  a  small 
room  had  been  selected  on  the  third  floor 
of  the  lower  building  in  Pearl  Street. 
It  was  lined  throughout  with  zinc,  and 
the  rollers  were  taken  in  there  from 
the  adjoining  press-rooms,  cleaned  and 
then  returned  to  the  presses.  In  this 
room,  on  Saturday,  December  10,  1853, 
a  plumber  was  at  work  making  some 
repairs.  He  had  occasion  to  use  a  light, 
and  having  lighted  his  lamp,  he  looked 
about  for  a  place  to  throw  a  match.  A 
pan  of  what  appeared  to  be  water  was 
at  his  feet,  and,  as  an  extra  precaution, 
he  threw  the  match  into  the  pan,  which 
was  full  of  camphene.  In  a  moment  the 
room  was  in  a  blaze,  and  the  plumber 
had  barely  time  to  escape.  The  flames, 
pursuing  him,  burst  through  the  thin 
partition,  and  the  camphene  ran  in  rivu- 
lets of  fire  along  the  floor.  This  build- 
ing was  stored  from'  top  to  bottom  with 
combustible  materials,  and  the  flames 
spread  through  the  building  with  fear- 
ful rapidity.  The  fire  broke  out  just 
before  one  o'clock,  and  within  two  hours 
the  establishment  was  in  ruins. 

"The  cry  of  fire  produced  a  panic 
among  the  employees.  Fortunately  at 
that  hour  many  of  the  hands  were  away 
at  dinner;  those  who  remained  rushed 
for  the  stairs,  and  some  in  their  terror 
fled  to  the  windows  and  cried  for  help. 
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received  an  order  for  books,  and  the 
package  had  been  tied  up  by  him  when 
the  alarm  was  given.  He  had  no  knife 
ready  to  cut  the  string,  and  was  obliged 
to  leave  the  package  so  rapid  was  the 
progress  of  the  conflagration. 

"There  was  but  one  room  in  the  es- 
tablishment in  which  there  was  no  panic, 
and  that  was  the  counting-room.  The 
instant  the  fire  was  reported  its  signifi- 
cance was  realized.  The  camphene- 
room  on  fire?'  said  John  Harper;  'then 
we  are  lost ;  save  the  hands/  This  one 
thought  was  predominant.  'What  part 
of  the  property  shall  we  save  first?* 
cried  a  frightened  employee.  'Never 
mind  the  property/  said  John,  'save  the 
lives/ 

"When  the  fire  was  announced  John 
Harper  was  making  up  his  deposits ;  he 
took  the  checks  and  money  lying  in  the 
cashier's  drawer,  called  a  clerk,  and  bade 
him  take  them  to  the  bank.     He  then 
went  to  the  head  of  the  stairs  leading 
to  the  press-room,  saw  the  hopelessness 
of  endeavoring  to  save  anything,  and 
directed  the  engineer  to  make  his  way 
to  the  boiler  and  let  off  the  steam,  in 
order  to  prevent  an  explosion.     Mean- 
while the   other  brothers  gathered  to- 
gether the  subscription  orders,  books  of 
accounts,  receipts,  and  similar  valuable 
papers  at  hand,  and  put  them  into  a 
large  safe.    This  was  dragged  out  upon 
the  sidewalk  and  its  contents  were  saved. 
Wesley   Harper  was  still  employed   in 
the   counting-room   when   a  policeman 
touched  him  on  the  shoulder  and  said, 
'It's  not  safe  here' ;  and  Wesley  took  the 
hint  and   retreated  with  the  others  to 
the   opposite    sidewalk.     Five    minutes 
afterward  the  counting-room  was  wrap- 
ped in  flames.    Young  Joseph  W.  Har- 
per, Jr.,  who  at  high  tension  was  assist- 
ing his    father   at   the   time,  said  that 
James  Harper,  who  was  coolly  hunting 
around  the  office  for  something,  came 
to  him  and  asked  him  if  he  could  find 
his  rubbers,  as  it  was  damp  outside,  and 
he  did  not   like  to  go   without   them. 
When  they  were  satisfied  that  every  one 
employed  in  the  establishment  was  safe, 
the   four   brothers    joined    the   excited 


throng  in  the  street  and  calmly  watched 

the  heroic  efforts  of  the  firemen. 

*  *  *  *  *  ♦ 

"The  firemen  did  their  utmost  to  save 
tiie  buildings,  and  long  after  the  fierce 
flames  had  beaten  back  the  bystanders 
from  the  open  square  these  courageous 
men  continued  their  exertions.  One  fire 
company  raised  a  large  door  upon  the 
sidewalk  opposite,  and  from  behind  this 
shelter  continued  to  play  upon  the 
flames  until  the  shield  ceased  to  protect 
them.  The  telegraph  wires  were  melted 
and  dropped  from  their  fastenings,  and 
the  hose  in  the  street  was  burned  to  a 
crisp  and  fell  in  pieces.  'From  two  to 
four  o'clock,'  said  a  representative  of 
the  New  York  Tribune  who  witnessed 
the  fire,  'the  crowd  in  Franklin  Square 
was  beyond  conception.  All  the  avenues 
leading  into  it  had  become  packed  with 
human  beings,  and  the  awful  heat  from 
the  Harper  buildings  had  driven  the 
crowd  back  against  the  Walton  House 
opposite  until  they  were  shoved  against 
those  behind  and  closed  in  like  the  case 
of  a  telescope.  Fortunately  we  got  a 
position  between  an  engine  and  a  broken- 
down  cart,  where  the  view  of  both  sides 
of  the  street  and  down  the  square  and 
through  Pearl  Street,  under  an  arch  of 
fire,  was  magnificent.  In  rapid  succes- 
sion, the  fronts  of  the  tall  buildings  had 
gone  down,  crash  after  crash,  as  the 
beams  gave  way  with  the  weight  of 
thirty-three  power-presses,  while  the 
iburning  contents  of  all  these  rooms 
glowed  up  like  a  sea  of  melted  lava,  and 
north  and  south  the  flames  were  pouring 
out  of  the  windows  of  the  five-story 
buildings,  from  basement  to  attic,  reach- 
ing* their  forked  tongues  over  the  wide 
street,  and  ever  and  again  interlocking 
with  those  from  the  roof  and  upper  win- 
dows of  the  tall  hotel  opposite.' 

"About  two  o'clock  Brother  John 
coolly  took  his  watch  from  his  pocket, 
looked  at  it,  and  quietly  remarked  that  it 
was  dinner-time,  adding  by  way  of  sug- 
gestion to  the  other  three  brothers  that 
they  'had  better  come  to  his  house  that 
night  and  talk  it  over.'  They  accord- 
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many  years  of  toil  lay  destroyed,  agree- 
ing" to  meet  after  supper  at  John's 
home. 

"At  length  the  flames  began  to  dimin- 
ish, the  heat  grew  less  intense,  the  glare 
subsided;  the  engines  again  took  up  a 
position  where  they  could  contend  with 
the  flames,  and  by  five  o'clock  the  fire 
was  entirely  undler  control.  In  three 
hours  sixteen  large  buildings  had  been 
destroyed,  embracing  property  estimated 
as  worth  over  a  million  and  a  half  of 
dollars.  Of  this  loss  nearly,  if  not  quite, 
a  million  was  borne  by  Harper  &  Broth- 
ers, their  entire  insurance  amounting  to 
less  than  two  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
This  was  said  to  have  been  the  largest 
fire  loss  sustained  up  to  that  time  by  a 
commercial  house. 

if:  *  *  *  Hf  ^^ 

"That  evening  the  four  brothers  met 
.  for  consultation  at  the  house  of  John 
Harper.  Henry  J.  Raymond,  the  editor 
of  the  Magazine,  was  invited  to  join 
them.  The  disaster  had  done  nothing 
to  abate  their  usual  confidence  and 
cheerfulness.  At  the  close  of  the  inter- 
view Raymond  remarked,  'This  seem^ 
more  like  an  evening  of  social  festivity 
than  a  consultation  over  a  great  calanr- 


ity.'  As  the  brothers  were  able  to  meet 
their  loss,  pay  all  debts,  and  still  retire 
with  a  competence,  a  suggestion  was 
made  that  they  wind  up  the  concern,  as 
they  were .  too  advanced  in  years  to 
attempt  to  revivify  the  House,  but  this 
alternative  hardly  received  a  second 
thought.  John  pointed  out  that  they  all 
had  sons  for  whom  they  should  provide, 
and  it  was  accordingly  resolved  to  take 
instant  and  energetic  measures  to  re- 
build and  to  repair,  as  far  as  possible, 
the  injury  suffered.  A  telegram  was 
sent  to  the  Adams  Company  for  twenty 
new  presses.  This  promptitude  saved 
nearly  three  months  of  valuable  time, 
foil  the  telegram  reached  its  destination 
a  few  hours  in  advance  of  some  orders 
previously  sent  by  mail.  That  night 
John  commenced  his  plans  for  the  con- 
struction of  the  new  buildings,  which 
were  built  and  occupied  in  less  than  a 
year  after  the  fire  occurred,  John  being 
the  chief  architect  supervising  the  con- 
struction.'* 

The  remainder  of  the  book — part  of 
the  history  of  the  country — details  the 
re-development  of  that  wonderful  busi- 
ness, which  still  continues,  in  full  force 
and  with  all  its  old-time  energy. 


Just  a  Bit  of  Patience — By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

Just  a  bit  of  patience,  and  the  task  will  reach  its  end ; 

The  tangles  straighten  out  and  you  may  fold  your  hands,  my  friend. 

Just  a  bit  of  patience,  and  the  baby  at  your  knee 

Will  stride  along  in  manhood's  day,  your  fond  support  to  be. 

Just  a  bit  of  patience,  and  the  clouds  will  roll  away, 
The  glorious  sunshine  pouring  out  will  bless  another  day. 

Just  a  bit  of  patience,  and  the  sharpest  pain  will  cease, 
Or,  like  a  chrism,  God  will  send  amid  it,  perfect  peace. 

Just  a  bit  of  patience,  and  you'll  know  what  meaning*  lies 
Behind  the  darkness  veiling  now  God's  blue  eternal  skies. 


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AT  the  time  I  knew  Thomas  Adams 
Hill,  he  was  a  little,  dried-up  old 
man,  who  looked  as  if  he  had  just  been 
taken  out  of  an  imperfect  cold  storage 
plant.  About  all  of  his  youthful  beauty 
that  remained  was  that  of  his  eyes, 
which  were  by  turns  coal-black  and 
piercing,  and  languishing  and  dreamy. 
These  changeable  orbs,  his  old  good- 
wife  doted  upon. 

He  once  had  a  beautiful  large  store  in 
San  Francisco ;  they  said  he  founded  it 
just  after  discovering  his  only  gold-mine, 
somewhere  about  Marysville.  While  the 
mine  and  its  proceeds  lasted,  it  was 
good  times  for  any  one  who  knew  him 
and  had  his  confidence.  He  sowed  the 
entire  vicinage  with  riches — ^both  physi- 
cal and  mental.  His  generosity  and  char- 
ity advertised  themselves,  in  spite  of  his 
efforts  to  the  contrary,  all  over  the  city 
and  surrounding  country. 

In  matters  of  thought  and  invention, 
he  was  likewise  lavish  and  beneficial. 
For  some  years,  he  was  perhaps  the 
most  skilful  clock-  and  watch-maker  in 
the  world :  many  artists  in  golden  time- 
indicators  had  very  much  more  reputa- 
tion than  he,  and  only  a  thousandth  as 
much  ability.  The  Mayor  of  San  Fran- 
cisco gave  him  one  day  a  perfectly-work- 
ing watch  that  weighed  less  than  an 
ounce :  bearing  upon  it  the  words.  Made 
IN  Paris.  A  month  from  that  day,  the 
Mayor  was  given  in  return  a  still  more 
beautifully-running  watch  weighing  less 
than  half  an  ounce — and  upon  it,  the 
words,  Made  in  America.  This  little 
bit  of  golden  sarcasm  was  mildly  rel- 
ished by  the  Mayor,  and  intensely  by 
all  his  friends. 

But  Thomas  Adams  Hill,  Watch- 
maker and  Jeweller,  did  not  prosper, 
financially,  in  San  Francisco:   it  is  one 


thing  to  be  charitable,  and  another,  as 
some  do,  to  make  money  by  it.  He 
seemed  all  the  while  to  have  more  and 
more  business,  and  less  and  less  cash  and 
credit.  He  finally  had  to  sell  out,  and 
take  a  smaller  shop ;  a  still  smaller  one 
followed,  on  a  more  modest  street;  a 
still  smaller  one,  on  a  still  obscurer 
street;  and  meanwhile  the  poor  man 
dropped  more  and  more  into  debt.  A 
few  of  those  whom  he  had  helped,  now 
bravely  tried  to  help  him,  but  could  not: 
most  of  them  still  needed  assistance,  or 
imagined  they  did.  A  larger  number  of 
those  whom  he  had  helped,  kept  still 
with  him,  in  a  way,  but  did  their  trading 
where  they  believed  they  could  get  more 
help.  And  most  of  those  to  whom  he 
had  been  of  assistance,,  ridiculed  him, 
and  said  he  never  had  a  right  to  be  so 
foolish  with  his  money. 

So  he  glided,  sometimes  perceptibly, 
sometimes  imperceptibly,  along  down 
the  slippery  incline  of  failure,  and  finally 
found  that  he  was  unable  to  perform  at 
all  that  necessary  process  in  this  world 
of  "getting  along",  and  remain  in  the 
bustling,  overriding  town  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, 

About  this  time  an  old  friend  and 
mechanical  admirer,  wrote  him  from 
New  Orleans.  "This  town  is  a  wonder- 
ful chance  for  such  a  jeweler  as  you", 
he  averred.  "I  will  pay  your  expenses, 
coming  here,  and  start  you  in  business. 
There  is  no  genius  in  the  city  that  can 
compare  with  yours.  Money  will  run 
into  your  till  like  water  into  the  Gulf. 
Come  on." 

He  went  on:  and  although  at  first 
very  homesick,  was  charmed  with  the 
way  "the  money  came  in."  But  it  also 
went  out,  in  just  the  same  manner  as 
at  San  Francisco.     He  learned  quickly, 


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that  he  had  not  left  all  the  burrow er^ 
and  beggars  in  California.  He  finally 
found  himself  as  poor  as  ever;  his  true 
friend  and  benefactor  was  taken  away 
by  death,  and  after  a  time,  the  usual 
bankruptcy  came  rolling  and  rumbling 
along. 

Then,  after  various  struggles,  another 
friend  said,  "Come  to  New  York:  it  is 
the  natural  center  of  everything  great." 
He  came ;  the  friend  himself  soon  went 
into     bankruptcy:    and     there    he    was 


poor  dingy  Httle  shop,  with  bis  wife  and 
grandchild,  he  said,  suddenly, 

"Dear  ones,  my  ingenuity  and  inven- 
tion are  failing.  My  hand  has  lost  its 
eyes.  My  vision  has  given  up  its  power 
to  see  the  relation  of  the  lever  and  the 
wheel. 

"There  was  sent  me  here  three  weeks 
ago,  a  most  wonderful  clock — the  most 
so  that  I  ever  saw. — Small,  but  how 
many  things  it  could  tell ! — hours,  quar- 
ters, minutes  if  you  wished,  phases  of 


MY    HAND    HAS    LOST    ITS    EYES 


again,  starting  another  small  establish- 
ment of  his  own.  He  always  refused 
and  scorned  to  become  any  one's  em- 
ployee. He  humbly  dropped  his  sur- 
name, and  used  his  middle  one. 

But  something  much  worse  was  to 
come.     One   evening,   as  he  sat  in   his 


the  moon,  time  in  all  national  capitals, 
and  a  different  tune  for  each  day  when 
it  struck.  He  said,  *It  is  out  of  order. 
No  one  seems  able  to  repair  it.  The 
chimes  are  all  wrong.  Some  one  told 
me  you  could  do  the  job.  And  can 
you? — T  live  with  this  clock.     T  love  it. 

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Fix  it  right,  and  it's  a  good  d«al  of 
money  in  your  pocket/ 

"Well,  I  repaired  it  as  well  as  I  c»uld, 
but  he  sent  it  back :  it  would  keep  time, 
but  it  would  not  strike  the  hours  and 
quarters  correctly,  or  play  the  tunes 
right.  I  fixed  it  so  it  would  strike,  and 
then  it  would  gain  or  lose  time — just 
as  it  took  a  notion.  He  sent  it  back 
each  time — each  time  with  a  worse  and 
worse  letter.  I  had  lost  my  former 
skill:  I  grieve  much,  for  I  loved  that 
clock — even  more  than  he  did.  Little 
blame  to  him  for  being  angry:  I  can 
almost  see  him  coming  here  himself 
with  his  charming  little  time-piece,  and^ 
in  a  rage.    Ah !  ah !    And  here  he  is !" 

Here  he  surely  was,  and  certainly  en- 
raged. 

''Bungler!  blacksmith!"  he  shouted. 
"Do  you  know  that  you  have  every  time 
made  my  clock  worse  than  ever?  Are 
you  aware  that  you  have  spoiled  it — 
ruined  it — tumbled  it  into  a  wreck?  All 
the  jewellers  to  whom  I  have  shown  it, 
say  it  cannot  now  be  repaired  to  run  as 
it  used  to  do !" 

"I  did  not  certainly  wish  to  spoil  that 
ctock!"  moaned  the  old  man.  "I  have 
done  my  best.  Somehow,  I  may  not  be 
so  skilful  as  I  once  was" — 

"Skilful!"  sneered  the  visitor,  shak- 
ing the  compact  little  clock  at  him  as  if 
it  were  a  fist.  "Skilful! — what  do  you 
know  of  skill  ?  I  would  not  bring  even 
a  wheelbarrow  here  for  you  to  repair! 
You  never  ItSirncd  your  trade!" 

"He  was  once  the  best  jeweller  in  San 
Francisco",  interposed  the  old  good- 
wife,  stepping  partly  between  them,  and 
weeping  softly. 

'* 'Was  once!'"  repeated  the  visitor, 
scornfully.  "San  Francisco ! — far  across 
the  continent!  I  wish  he  was  there 
now !" 

"He  was  the  best  watch-maker  in 
New  Orleans!"  spoke  up  little  Jessa- 
mine, the  granddaughter,  stepping  still 
farther  in  between  them — her  eyes 
flashing. 

"Ah — ah — in  New  Orleans?  In  New 
Orleans?"  said  the  owner  of  the  clock, 
^lancin^    for    the    first     time     at     the 


pretty  girl  and  speaking  much  more 
quietly  than  he  had  yet  done.  "I  know 
New  Orleans.  I  was  there  when  a  boy. 
A  man  lived  in  that  town,  who  could 
have  done  this  work.  It  was  not  you, 
sir:  he  was  a  good  workman- — a  genius. 
I  have  hunted  this  man,  for  many  a 
year.  I  never  saw  him  but  once,  and  if 
you  can  tell  me  where  he  is  or  how  to 
find  him,  I  will  give  you  tlie  money  for 
fixing  this  clock,  and  much  more  besides. 
He  seems  to  have  sunk  down  into  the 
earth." 

"We  will  do  our  best,  sir,  to  help  you 
find  him",  said  the  old  lady,  humbly,  but 
brightening  up  a  little.  "We  knew 
many  people  there." 

"I  was  part  boy,  and  part  man",  con- 
tinued the  visitor,  as  if  he  were  speak- 
ing to  himself.  "I  came  into  his  shop, 
desperate.  He  saw  that  I  had  been 
crying,  and  asked  me  courteously  what 
was  the  matter.  'My  mother  and  I  are 
on  our  last  penny',  I  said.  'If  I  had  a 
few  dollars  with  which  to  start,  I  know 
I  could  make  a  fortune.  I  see  my  way 
clear  to  it.' 

"  'Do  you  swear  that  this  is  the  truth  ?' 
demanded  the  jeweller,  looking  me 
straight  in  the  eye.  'In  God's  name,  it 
is'i  I  replied.  'Take  this,  and  pay  me 
back  when  you  can',  said  the  jeweller. 
It  drew  my  breath  away — ^for  it  was  a 
hundred-dollar  bill. 

"That  money  made  me.  It  bred  hun- 
dreds of  more  hundred-dollar  bills.  I 
am  now  one  of  those  half-happy,  half- 
miserable  creatures  called  millionaires. 
But  on  tlie  day  I  find  that  jeweller  I 
shall  be  the  happiest  man  in  America." 

"You  have  found  him,  only  to  insult 
him  and  make  him  your  enemy  for  life", 
said  the  old  jeweller,  quietly  but  grimly. 
"Here  is  the  note  that  you  insisted  on 
giving  me." 

"But  your  name  is  not  the  same!" 

"I  dropped  it  in  trying  to  drop  my 
troubles,  and  the  name  on  my  little  sign 
out-of-doors,  is  my  middle  one.  Here  in 
this  portfolio  is  many  a  letter  with  my 
real  name  upon  it.  Here  is  my  watch, 
that  I  have  carried  many  a  year  through 
all  niv  troubles — I  would  not  sell  it  or 


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pawn  it.  Here  is  my  name  upon  it.  And 
here  is  your  note — excuse  me  for  first 
tearing  it  into  pieces — and  here  is  your 
confounded  clock,  and  there  is  the  door. 
Out  of  here — you  who  called  me  a  black- 
smith! Go!  I  am  poor,  but  this  is  my 
shop  yet  a  few  days !    Go ! 

"I  want  none  of  your  money!  What 
is  money? — Nothing.  You  attack  my 
art,  my  talent — and  what  is  that? — My 
life:  for  that  is  w^hat  a  man's  special 
t^ift  really  is." 

*'But  I  didn't  know  that  it  was  you!'* 
said  the  other — almost  grovelling  at  his 
feet. 

"Certainly  you  did  not  know  that  it 
was  the  one  that  long  ago  gave,  or  as 
you  call  it,  lent  you  a  few  dollars  when 
you  needed  it.  }Uit  you  knew  that  I  was 
a  human  being!  You  knew  that  I  be- 
longed to  your  race!  You  had  not 
patience  enough  to  give  me  a  little  more 
time  to  fix  your  confounded  clock — to 
rally  my  powers — to  give  my  genius  a 
chance  to  rise  to  the  surface  again — 
no,  you  must  come  to  a  man  of  my  repu- 
tation, and  call  him  a  blacksmith ! — a 
blacksmith! — before  his  wife,  that  has 
known  him  for  many  a  year — before 
her — and  his  grandchild!" 

"He  did  not  mean  to  say  so  much," 
interrupted  the  wife,  with  the  usual 
wifely  dexterity  at  amiably  opposing  her 
husband  when  he  is  engaged  in  an  argu- 
ment with  some  one  else:  "he  was  just 
irritated,  and  angry,  or  he  would  not 
have  said  it." 

"No  indeed,  1  would  not",  said  the 
millionaire.  "If  I  had  not  been  'mad*,  I 
would  not  have  said  it  to  any  one. 
Much  less,  to  you,  sir.  And  here  is  the 
money  that  I  borrowed  of  you,  with  in- 
terest.   And  you  surely  will  accept  it." 

"No" !  was  on  the  old  man's  lips :  but 
he  happened  to  glance  for  a  moment  at 
his  wife — thin  and  sallow,  from  want  of 
proper  food,  and  stress  of  struggling  to 
enable  the  forks  of  the  dining-table  to 
come  to  the  mouth,  bringing  something 
that  would  make  them  welcome:  and 
he  retreated  a  little  from  his  proud  posi- 
tion. "You  may  pay  me  the  amount  of 
the  loan  if  you  insist  upon  calling  it  so — 


although  it  was  merely  a  little  gift:  I 
am  not  a  money-lender.  Interest  ? — legal 
rate :  no  excess,  mind.  Anything  more  ? 
Not  on  any  account.  I  am  not  a  usurer. 
But  before  you  pay  it,  take  out  a  hun- 
dred dollars  to  pay  some  goldsmith — 
not  some  blacksmith — for  getting  your 
confounded  old  clock  into  good  shape 
again." 

The  millionaire  still  showed  great 
patience — 'for  a  nlillionaire.  He  pre- 
tended to  make  a  computation  on  vari- 
ous pages  in  his  note-book,  and  handed 
the  old  wife  a  package  of  money.  The 
watchmaker  sat  looking  steadily  and 
gloweringly  at  him. 

"I  shall  buy  an  annuity  for  twelve 
thousand  dollars  per  year,  for  you  and 
your  husband,  as  long  as  you  live",  he 
lieard  the  millionaire  say  to  the  wife. 
"I  shall  see  that  the  grandchild  is  prop- 
erly educated,  subject  to  your  and  your 
husband's  approval.  I  shall  leave  the 
clock  here,  for  him  to  repair  at  his  leis- 
ure :  and  if  it  never  comes  right,  I  know 
where  to  find  another.  You  are  all  pro- 
vided for,  financially,  as  long  as  you  live. 
Good-bye  for  the  present:  I  shall  see 
you  again,  sckmi.  No,  no,  Madame:  you 
are  entitled  to  a  part  of  this  money,  and 
a  gxDod  deal  of  it :  if  it  had  not  been  for 
your  good  husband  there,  I  never  should 
have  had  it  myself." 

The  old  clockHmaker  started  up  to 
forbid  the  transaction:  he  commenced 
vetoing  the  whole  project.  But  a  look 
at  his  beautiful  little  granddaughter 
staggered  him.  She  was  fitted  by  nature 
for  a  high  position  in  the  world,  but  in- 
stead of  growing  up  in  it,  she  was  scant- 
ily fed,  shabbily  dressed,  meanly  clad, 
and  living  in  a  social  atmosphere  that 
could  never  do  her  any  good.  "Girls 
are  sometimes  spoiled,  as  well  as  clocks*', 
something  seemed  to  say  to  him,  repeat- 
edly, as  if  to  beat  the  truth  into  his 
bram. 

His  pride  gave  way :  he  laid  his  head 
down  upon  the  table,  and  was  still  think- 
ing, when  the  goodwife  and  the  grand- 
child came  to  him  with  joyful  though 
anxious  faces,  and,  one  taking  him  by 
each  arm,  led  him  to  the  evening  tea. 

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J-JA.IL  to  China!— If  she  makes  good, 
and  keeps  in  the  family  of  repub- 
lics, of  which  she  is  now  the  big  sister. 
she  can  help  the  cause  of  civilization  in 
a  way  that  will  enable  this  twentieth 
century  to  be  remembered  forever,  and 
ranked  with  the  eighteenth,  which  pro- 
duced tlie  Republic  of  United  States. 

The  new  republic  is,  geographically, 
about  in  the  form  of  a  square,  and  is 
eig-hteen  times  as  large  as  the  whole  of 
Great  Britain.  Its  population  is  esti- 
mated by  more  or  less  enthusiastic  stat- 
isticians, as  from  360,000,000  to  500  and 
600,000,000.  There  is  no  very  accurate 
statement  of  it,  but  the  smallest  estimate 
is  immense. 

China  has  long  been  noted  as  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  countries  in  the 
world,  and  the  more  we  know  of  it,  the 


more  we  will  be  convinced  of  that  fact. 
The  outside  world  has  as  yet  a  very 
small  idea  of  what  we  would  call  the 
queernesses  of  this  wonderful  people, 
but  which  they  consider  as  the  real  and 
necessary  thing. 

We  do  not  yet  know  whether  the  new 
repubHc  will  be  divided  into  states  and 
territories  as  ours  is :  but  we  know  that 
there  are  already  eighteen  provinces, 
each  having  a  governor.  These  officers 
will  probably  have  to  be  elected  by  the 
people,  now,  instead  of  appointed  by  an 
emperor  or  his  guardians. 

Thesel  provinces  are  divided  into  dis- 
tricts, departments,  and  circuits.  It  will 
be  interesting  to  note  how  they  go  to 
work  under  the  new  regime  to  elect  their 
President,  and  what  their  different  leg- 
islatures will  be  like.    Whether  they  will 


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copy  from  the  ancient  Republic  of  Rome, 
or  the  tiny  one  of  Switzerland,  or  the 
oft-repeated  one  of  France,  or  the 
sturdy  and  enduring  one  of  United 
States. 

Perhaps  the  last-named:    for  the  far 
East  has  been  steadily  learning  from  its 
far  West,  during  these  many  years ;  and 
its     energy     and     progrcssiveness 
have,  it  is  admitted,  largely  been 
derived  from  ours.     Japan  would 
not  be  what  she  is  today,  if  she 
had    not    sent    her    learners    over 
here;    and  people  who  have  been 
in  each  country,  say  that  the  Chi- 
nese are  naturally  superior  to  the 
Japanese. 

We  call  their  ways  and  customs    ,' 
(juaint,  and  so  they  are,  from  our   .'^i 


to  marry  twice.  After  all  sorts 
of  goings  and  comings  during 
the  betrothal,  the  day  of  the 
wedding  arrives,  and  everything 
is  arranged  and  done  according 
to  ancient  custom.  There  is  a 
band  of  music  to  play  while  the 
bride  is  rising  and  bathing,  in 
order,  probably,  to  harmonize 
her  mind  with  the  ceremonies 
that  are  coming.  She  goes  to 
her  future  home  in  a  sedan, 
attended  with  music  and  the 
explosions  of  firecrackers.  The 
ceremonies  that  follow  are  so 
numerous  and  complicated,  that 
it  is  a  wonder  that  the  bride- 
groom, afterwards,  does  not 
have  to  be  content  with  her 
remains. 

Their  funerals  are  still  more 
curious.    The  ceremonies  are  so 
many,     that    the     detailing   of 
them  is  tedious  to  a  western  mind;   but 
everything  they  do  has  a  very  solemn 
meaning  to  them.    All  of  them  show  the 
steady  and  abiding  belief  in  the  future. 
Their   amusements,    also,   seem   very 
odd  to  us.    They  do  not  have  any  bull- 
fights or  prize-fights:  but  they  set  little 
insects  to  warring  with  each  other,  and 


standpoint:  but  really,  we  are  the 
ones  that  are  queer,  for  they  are 
more  ancient  than  wc.  It  would 
take  a  library  of  volumes  to  tell 
how  the  Republic  of  the  West  dif- 
fers from  this  new  one  of  the 
East. 

For  instance,  the  ceremony  of 
marriage  is  such  an  intricate  and 
complicated  matter,  that  it  is  a 
wonder  if  anybody   there   decides 


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bet  upon  them  the  same  as  if  they  were 
as  large  as  elephants. 

Those  of  us  that  have  heard  the  song 
of  some  cricket  in  the  corner  of  some 
old  house  on  a  long  evening,  never 
dreamed  that  these  little  creatures  could 


be  made  to  fight  with  each  other 
for  those  who  wished  to  gamble 
on  their  strength  and  endurance. 
Boys  in  China  go  and  pry  them 
out  from  their  hiding-places,  and 
sell  themi  to  people  who  wish  to 
pit  them  against  each  other.  The 
people  often  bet  large  sums  upon 
which  cricket  will  come  out 
ahead  in  the  fight.  Finally  one 
of  the  combatants  is  killed,  the 
other  disposed  of  as  tired  and 
useless,  and  new  ones  are  pro- 
duced for  more  sport. 

Among    the    more    whimsical 
curiosities  of  China  is  the  wheel- 
barrow sail-boat.    A  sail  is  rigged 
with  bamboo  mast,  and  if  the  one 
who  is  propelling  the  vehicle  is 
going  with  the  wind,  he  finds  that 
it  helps  him  very  much.    Freight 
and  passengers  both,  are   often  trans- 
ported in  this  way.    This  same  plan  is 
resorted  to  for  the  purpose  of  transport- 
ing larger  vehicles  across  the  country. 

But  the   railroad  has  already  "come 
out  of  the  West",  and  invaded  this  new 


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Republic;  and,  doubtless,  within  a  few 
years,  large  portions  of  its  trade  will  be 
honey-combed  with  iron.  Many  other 
western  improvements  will  no  doubt  fol- 
low, and  we  all  hope  that  they  will 
redound  to  the  well-being  of  this  singu- 
lar but  wonderful  race. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  now  China  is 
a  sister-republic,  she  will  send  over  more 
specimens  of  her  very  best  population, 


to  show  us  what  she  is  really  like :  that 
the  two  nations  may  dwell  in  peace  and 
unity  for  many  years;  and  that  many 
of  our  own  people  will  find  that  it  is  a 
pleasant  thing  to  sojourn  for  more  or 
less  time  in  the  "Celestial"  Republic, 
either  for  pleasure  or  profit,  or  both. 

In  case  this  occurs,  perhaps  we  will 
not  have  so  much  use  for  exclusion- 
laws. 


Guest-Spies. 

By  Edith  H.  Drew. 


I  HAD  always  enjoyed  the  visits  of 
Eleanor  Sanders,  because  we  had 
few  school-friends,  and  thouj^ht  enough 
of  each  other  to  continue  the  acquaint- 
ance after  academic  days  wfere  over.  She 
was  such  a  frank,  engaging  little  thing, 
that  no  one  could  help  liking  her;  she 
was  the  class  valedictorian,  and  wielded 
the  pen  more  ably  than  any  of  the  rest 
of  us;   and  we  petted  and  admired  her. 

So  when  Dave  and  I  were  married,  I 
told  him  that  we  must  have  Eleanor 
come  and  visit  us,  as  soon  as  it  could 
be  arranged.  She  made  a  very  pleasant 
guest:  she  was  bright,  sparkling,  and 
generally  a  great  entertainer  at  the 
table;  and  amused  Dave  very  much  in 
her  rendition  of  ancient  and  current 
gossip. 

She  spent  a  good  deal  of  the  '^ime  in 
her  room,  industriously  engaged  in  writ- 
ing; and  although  she  had  never  stated 
it  as  among  her  ambitions,  I  was  quite 
sure  that  she  was  really  writing  a  book. 
I  was  curious  at  least  to  know  the  title ; 
but  did  not  like  to  ask  her  about  her 
private  business. 

One  day,  however,  as  Nora  the  maid 
was  emptying  a  waste-basket  from  my 
friend  Eleanor's  room,  preliminary  to 
burning  the  contents,  I  noticed  a  page  or 
two  of  manuscript,  or  at  least  I  thought 
it  was  that — which  she  had  evidently 
spoiled  with  an  accidental  ink-blot,  re- 
written, and  thrown  away. 


I  was  about  to  burn  it,  when  my  eye 
caught  not  only  my  name,  but  Dave's; 
and  feeling  that  when  she  threw  the 
pages  away  they  were  everybody's  prop- 
erty, I  ventured  to  look  at  it. 

It  was  not  the  preliminary  work  upon 
a  book,  unless  the  same  was  to  take  the 
form  of  letters — as  perhaps  it  was.  But 
a  page  or  two  of  it  read  as  follows : 

"You  know,  Albert,  I  always  thought 
Ruth  and  her  husband  lived  together 
without  a  flaw  in  their  connubial  happi- 
ness; but  as  a  guest  I  of  course  have 
exceptional  opportunities  of  observa- 
tion; and  am  obliged  to  say  that  they 
are  addicted  to  their  little  spats — ^the 
same  as  other  couples  with  whom  I  have 
visited,  the  same  as  you  and  I  will  be, 
maybe,  when  we  are  married — although 
I  hope  not.  The  house-keeping  bills  do 
not  always  suit  'Dear  Dave',  as  she  per- 
sists in  calling  him,  and  he  has  twice 
stayed  out  a  little  too  late  at  night  to 
suit  my  sweet  but  somewhat  precise  little 
friend.  I  wrote  about  this  to  Ethel 
Allen,  and  she  replied,  laughing  through 
her  pen:  'Oh,  never  mind,  Eleanor: 
there's  more  or  less  trouble  in  all  fami- 
lies, you  know,  only  they  keep  it  to  them- 
selves, if  they're  smart.' — Dave  is  awful- 
ly odd  in  some  of  his  domestic  ways ;  he 
lacks  practice,  you  see.  I  think  I  shall 
'do  him  up'  as  one  of  the  characters  in 
my  first  book.  But  don't  tell  anybody" 
—etc.,  etc. 


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Well,  it  was  rather  startling,  to  learn 
that  everything  we  said  and  did  was  as 
faithfully  reported  as  if  there  were  a 
phonograph  and  a  flash-light  moving- 
picture  camera  in  every  room:  but  I 
tried  to  be  equal  to  the  emergency,  and 
think  I  was.  I  wrote  a  letter  to  the 
aforesaid  Ethel  Allen,  who  was  also  one 
of  my  guest's  correspondents,  and  an 
acquaintance  of  her  fiance. 

"Dear  Ethel :  I  want  to  tell  you  what 
fun  it  is  to  watch  Eleanor  flirt  with  a 
young  clergyman  who  comes  here  to 
dinner  once  or  twice  a  week.  I  don't 
know  whether  her  'Dear  Albert*,  as  she 
persists  in  calling  him,  would  like  it; 
but  then  he  will  of  course  never  find  it 
out :  I  as  a  hostess,  you  know,  have  ex- 
ceptional chances  of  observation.  I 
have  written  to  Bessie  Bennett  about 
this,  and  she  says" — etc.,  etc. 

Well,  I  left  this  letter  carelessly  (?) 
where  I  knew  Eleanor  would  run  across 
it:  and  she  came  to  me  with  it,  that 
same  day. 

"Oh,  Ruth !  how  could  you-  write  such 
a  cruel  letter!"  she  exclaimed.  "You 
know  I  didn't  mean  any  harm  in  walk- 
ing and  visiting  with  the  young  minis- 
ter, and  Albert,  if  he  should  find  it  out, 
would  feel  like  breaking  our  engage- 
ment: he's  awfully  jealous!  And  Bes- 
sie will  tell  him,  as  sure  as  the  world: 
she's  a  great  gossip.  Oh,  how  can  you 
be  so  derelict  in  your  duties  as  a  hostess, 
as  to  take  advantage  of  the  situation, 
and  tell  all  the  little  things  that  happen ! 
Oh,  Ruth!"  And  her  eyes  filled  with 
tears. 

"The  letter  is  only  a  parody  on  yours, 


my  dear  Eleanor",  I  replied,  holding  out 
her  own.  "There  are  duties  that  guests 
owe,  my  darling  girl,  as  well  as  hosts. 
Both  are  in  very  intimate  relationship  to 
each  other,  and  both  have  a  chance,  if 
they  wish,  or  are  careless,  to  do  a  great 
deal  of  harm. 

"Do  not  be  afraid  of  the  results  of  this 
letter,  dear :  I  have  not  sent  it — do  not 
intend  to,  and  wrote  it  just  to  show  you 
how  disagreeable  and  perhaps  harmful 
it  is,  to  have  one  near  you  who  is  tell- 
ing everything  that  happens,  out  of 
which  gossip  could  be  made." 

Eleanor  threw  herself  into  my  arms 
and  burst  into  tears.  "You  have  taught 
me  a  very  useful  lesson",  she  murmured. 
"I  did  not  realize  what  I  was  doing.  I 
will  be  a  guest-spy  no  more." 

And  I  believe  she  kept  her  word. 


Three  Thoughts, 

Almost  the  greatest  kind  of  power  is 
that  of  making  others  use  their  own 
power  in  accordance  with  your  wishes: 
but  the  very  greatest,  is  the  power  of 
making  yourself  do  the  same  thing. 
<^ 

Clouds  that  look  as  if  they  weighed 
thousands  of  tons,  are  lighter  than  air  ; 
and  sorrows  that  seem  as  if  they  would 
crush  us,  may  be  brushed  away  by  the 
lightest  of  breezes. 

Cleanliness  and  godliness  submitted 
one  time  to  a  vote  the  question  as  to 
which  was  the  more  popular :  but  love- 
liness was  induced  to  enter  the  lists,  and 
carried  the  election  twenty  to  one. 


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gIGHTYONE  years  old!  Sixtythrec 
years  on  a  throne!  And  for  many 
years  on  a  throne  that  bore  much  like- 
ness to  a  rocking-chair,  during  the  crit- 
ical decades  of  the  middle  of  the  last 
century. 

Dangers  threatened  Austria  from 
without  and  from  within,  during  the 
thirties  and  forties.  Francis  I.  was  the 
incompetent  but  kindly  Emperor.  His 
brother,  Francis  Charles,  was  heir  ap- 
parent, and  the  latter's  son,  Francis 
Joseph,  was  next  in  line.  Metternich 
had  ruled  with  despotic  power.  To 
pave  the  way  for  better  things  the 
Emperor,  (persuaded  thereto  by  his 
consort),  abdicated,  and  his  brother 
renounced  the  unsteady  seat  of  Empire 
in  favor  of  the  youth  of  eighteen,  his 
son  and  heir. 

From  early  childhood  this  right  royal 
prince  had  a  truly  tender  sympathetic 
heart.  We  hear  of  him  as  a  child  of 
four  noticing  a  sentry,  standing  in  mis- 
ery in  the  scorching  rays  of  the  mid- 
day sun.  Seeking  his  grandfather-Em- 
peror, the  latter  gives  the  boy  a  coin  or 
so  for  the  poor  man.  The  sentry  pre- 
sents arms  but  mutely  declines  the  gift, 
as  discipline  demands.  Greatly  disap- 
]X)inted,  the  child  returned  to  his  grand- 
father, who  went  back  with  him  and 
lifted  him  up,  so  that  he  could  drop  the 
gift  into  the  soldier's  cartridge-box. 

Severe,  indeed,  is  the  training  of  a 
prince — no  drawing  with  diamond  pen- 
cils on  golden  slates  as  pictured  by  the 
fertile  fancy  of  Hans  Christian  Ander- 
sen. 

Not  only  must  he  learn  the  classic  lan- 
guages of  old,  and  the  usual  modem 
foreij^  tongues,  but  he  must  study  to 


address  Magyar,  Czech,  Pole.  Sclav,  each 
in  his  native  idiom,  and  this  he  did  with 
such  good  effect  as  to  captivate  his  dis- 
affected Hungarians  when  he  spoke  to 
them  in  purest  Magyar  accent. 

Francis  Joseph  was  fortunate  in  his 
mother,  the  beautiful,  clear-sighted,  mas- 
terful Archduchess  Sophie.  Skilled 
teachers  trained  him  in  statecraft,  and 
in  the  important  military  studies,  which 
were  practical  as  well  as  theoretical,  for 
he  wore  in  turn  the  uniform  of  a  horse- 
man, gunner,  and  lancer.  He  became 
also  an  expert  horseman  and  huntsman. 

The  history  of  this  reign  is  the  his- 
tory of  Europe  from  1848  to  1912. 
1848-9,  the  years  associated  in  Amer- 
ica with  the  discovery  of  California 
gold,  and  a  great  westward  migration, 
recall  to  Europeans  those  uprisings  of 
the  people  in  Austria  and  Germany  and 
Italy  against  what  seemed  to  them  un- 
just and  unbearable  oppression.  Though 
Austria,  Hungary,  Bohemia,  were  well 
off  economically  and  industrially  speak- 
ing, the  people  wanted  more  than  mere 
bread — they  could  not  live  by  bread 
alone.  Liberty  to  think,  liberty  to 
speak,  a  voice  in  the  government,  they 
craved,  and  so  the  kindest  and  best- 
intentioned  of  Emperors  and  ministers 
would  not  suffice,  especially  as  the  peo- 
ple could  not  read|  his  good  intentions, 
his  paternal  kindness,  in  some  of  the 
acts  promulgated  by  himself  and  his 
ministers. 

A  melting-pot  presents  a  serious  prob- 
lem when  the  ingredients  are  bad  mix- 
ers and  the  recipe  is  still  a  matter  of 
experiment. 

Mistakes  were  made  by  both  sides  of 
course,   and   when   rigid   press   censor- 

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ship  followed  upon  violent  upri5ings, 
many  of  the  most  brilliant  youths  of 
Germany  and  Austria  came  to  America. 
Thus,  when  our  great  conflict  broke  out, 
these  risked  gladly  their  lives  for  the 
country  that  had  given  them  the  liberty 
so  much  desired.  The  writer  knew  one 
such  man  who,  while  a  youth,  lay  in 
wait,  weapon  in  hand,  in  the  Tyrolean 
mountains,  to  kill  the  Emperor,  who, 
fortunately  for  himself  and  his  coun- 
try, took  another  road :  for  it  is  gener- 
ally believed  that  the  Emperor's  person- 
ality and  record  have  held  together  ele- 
ments that  otherwise  might  long  ago 
have  flown  apart. 

Yes,  the  Kaiser's  rule  fell  in  a^  period 
of  storm  and  stress  well  described  by 
Lowell : 

"At  the  birth  of  each  new  Era 

With  a  recognizing  start, 
Nation  wildly  looks  at  nation 

Standing  with  mute  lips  apart, 
And  glad  Truth's  |yet   mUghtier  man- 
child 

Leaps  beneath  the  Future's  h*eart." 

With  Kossuth  in  Hungary,  Garibaldi 
in  Italy,  Father  Jahn,  and  the  thinking 
folk  of  Prussia  and  the  other  German 
States,  all  beginning  to  stir  and  throw 
off  the  swaddling  bands  of  ages,  nation 
did  wildly  look  at  nation;  and  driven 
from  Italy  by  France  and  Prussia,  de- 
feated by  Bismarck  and  Moltke  abroad, 
Francis  was  obliged  to  grant  the  Hun- 
garians their  independence,  for  it  proved 
impossible  to  knit  together  into  one 
body  politic  all  of  these  jeatous,  self- 
sufficient  races.  Great  were  the  rejoic- 
ings, brilliant,  gorgeous,  the  picturesque 
pageant,  when  Francis  Joseph  was 
crowned  King  of  Hungary  in  1867,  gal- 
loping up  the  artificial  mound  and  wav- 
ing his  sword  to  the  four  corners  of 
the  earth,  according  to  ancient  pre- 
Copemican  custom. 

The  brave,  high-minded,  magnani- 
mous Emperor,  may,  perhaps,  reviewing 
his  long  life  and  reign,  ask,  Have  I  been 
a  failure? 

But  those  who  can  mirror  to  them- 
selves, however  dimly,  the  mental  and 


moral  earthquake  that  shook  Europe  to 
its  royal  foundations  in  the  last  cen- 
tury; those  who  can  guess,  though  but 
vaguely,  at  the  manifold  perplexities  in- 
cident to  ruling  many  various  races  in 
days  when  monarchy  isl  in  its  last  con- 
vulsive throes,  before  final  dissolution, 
may  well  say,  "no."  "He  that  loseth 
his  life,  shall  save  it",  may  be  true  of 
a  national  body,  as  of  an  individual. 
When  Italy  and  other  foreign  provinces 
are  lost,  the  powers  thus  necessarily 
concentrated  at  home,  may  well  lead  to 
an  Austria  richer  in  all  those  forces 
that  make,  for  true  life. 

The  Emperor  was  most  happy  in  his 
wedded  life,  marrying  his  cousin,  the 
lovely  Princess  Elizabeth,  whose  tact 
and  kindliness,  mingled  with  good 
sense  and  a  strong  individuality,  light- 
ened and  glorified  the  burdens  of  State. 
But  many  tragic  incidents  saddened  the 
private  life  of  the  devoted  couple.  Alas, 
what  pitiless  Furies  appeared  to  have 
pursued  him  and  his  lovable  consort! 

When  he  was  stijl  but  a  youth  of 
twentythree,  an  attempt  was  made  upon 
his  life;  his  brother,  Ferdinand  Max, 
was  the  ill-fated  Maximilian,  for  so 
short  a  time  called  Emperor  of  Mexico 
(his  Queen  Charlotte  losing  her  mind 
ancj  dying  but  a  few  months  ago.)  A 
sister  of  the  Empress  Elizabeth  was 
burned  in  the  fatal  Charity  Bazaar  fire 
at  Paris ;  the  Crown-Prince,  Rudolf,  the 
son  on  whom  the  Empress  doted,  heir 
to  the  throne,  drowned  himself, — sin 
most  heinous  in  Roman  Catholic  eyes; 
her  well-beloved  cousin.  King  Louis  of 
Bavaria,  became  mad,  and  therefore 
must  be  k>e|pt  a  royal  prisoner;  and, 
last  sad  blow  of  all,  the  Empress  herself 
fell  by  the  assassin's  hand  in  the  year 
that  was  to  bo  celebrated  as  the  Emper- 
or's jubilee.  Truly,  Father  Time  has 
filled  the  shadows  in  heavily,  as  he  has 
spun  the  web  of  the  Kaiser's  life. 

Bismarck  thus  describes  the  youthful 
Kaiser,  as  he  appealed  to  him  in  his 
early  days: 

"The  young  ruler  of  this  country 
has  made  a  most  agreeable  impression 
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is  joined  to  the  dignity  of  a  riper  age. 
Were  he  not  an  Emperor  he  would  seem 
to  me  almost  too  grave  for  his  years." 

The  heir  of  the  Haps-burgs,  though 
doomed  to  particfpate  in  many  wars, 
chose  to  be  somewhat  neutral  during 
the  Crimean  trouble,  and  it  is  said  that 
Francis  Joseph  was  the  last  human 
being  that  Czar  Nicholas  was  induced, 
on  his  dying  bed,  to  forgive,  because 
the  Emperor  had  failed  to  support  him 
against  Turkey  in  return  for  his  (the 
Czar's)  help,  in  subduing  the  belliger- 
ent internal  foes. 

The  Emperor's  habits  are  of  the  sim- 
plest. From  four  or  five(  in  the  morn- 
ing he  is  at  his  desk,  in  an  office  most 
simply  furnished.  Of  the  early  hours 
Carmen  Sylva  once  wrote:  "The  sun 
wakes  every  one  in  his  wide  dominions 
excepting  one — the  Emperor.  For  he 
wakes  the  sun."  Tea,  Vienna  bread, 
and  meat,  make  his  breakfast.  These 
are  brought  in  to  him.  He  lunches  at  a 
round  table,  cleared  of  its  documents 
and  books  for  that  purpose.  Dinner  is 
held  in  a  small  dining-room  where  he 
entertains  some  member  of  his  suite,  or 
one  or  another  Archduke.  He  ordina- 
rily retires  at  nine  o'clock. 

His  bedroom  is  even  more  simple 
than  his  other  rooms,  with  bedstead  and 
washstand  of  the  plainest.  His  great 
recreation  is  in  military  manoeuvres, 
troop  inspection,  and  in  sport. 

Some  years  ago  (185 1-3)  he  made  an 
itinerary  of  his  domains,  traveling  some 
11,000  kilimetres — which  distance  seems 
trivial  compared  with  the  18,000  mile 
tour  of  President  Taft. 

"Farewell  to  youth",  are  the  words 
that  escaped  Francis  Joseph  when  first 
addressed  as  "your  Majesty",  and  heavy 
indeed  were  his  responsibilities  as  a 
potentate  with  three  titles:  Emperor  of 
Austria,  King  of  Bohemia,  and  Apos- 
tolic King  of  Hungary.  Great  are  the 
changes  he  has  seen  in  this  long  period. 
Serfdom  then  had  still  a  foothold  in  his 
dominions.  He  has  lived  to  see  even 
Sleepy  China  kissed  by  the  Prince — or 
Princess,  Liberty — and  awakening  from 
the   stupor  of   centuries.     The    Social- 


Democratic  Party  gains  in  Austria ;  one 
by  one  lier  Archdukes  are  renouncing 
their  rights,  to  become  simple  citizens, 
and  it  is  doubtful  if  the  old  order  will 
long  outlive  Franz  Josef,  last  of  the 
Hapsburgs  (?). 

But  he  has  known  the  love  as  well  as 
the  hate  of  his  subjects,  and  these  may 
well  sing  of  him,  as  they  did  of  his 
ancestor,  that  other  Emperor,  Francis 
I.,  to  the  uplifting  strains  of  Haydn: 
"Gott  erhalte  Franz  den  Kaiser, 

Unsern  guten  Kaiser  Franz, 
Hoch  als  Herrscher,  hoch  als  Weiser, 

Steht  er  in  des  Ruhmes  Glanz." 


The  Sheepfold. 

(See  Frontispiece.) 

TTHE  fact  that  real  genius  need  not 
search  very  far  for  its  material,  is 
well  illustrated  in  "The  Sheepfold"— a 
picture  painted  by  tlie  well-known  artist, 
Charles  Jaque,  and  now  one  of  the  nota- 
ble wrorks  of  art  in  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art,  in  New  York.  The 
picturesque  and  comfortable  dining- 
room  and  dormitory  of  the  woolled 
beauties  strike  one  forcibly  as  soon  as 
he  sees  the  picture.  The  rough  rafters 
above,  through  which  one  can  almost 
see  the  hay  peeping  down;  the  quaint 
reed-grated  window  through  which  a 
little  light  finds  its  way;  the  cheerful, 
thrifty  look  of  the  boy  who  does  the  fod- 
dering, and  the  eager,  enthusiastic  wel- 
come which  the  sheep  are  giving  his 
ofl'ered  w^ares — all  throw  a  homely 
splendor,  so  to  speak,  into  the  picture. 

The  difference  between  the  sheep  that 
are  being  fed  and  those  still  unsatisfied, 
is  typical  of  the  two  great  divisions  of 
mankind — those  who  are  eagerly  con- 
suming their  abundance,  and  those  who 
are  impatiently  waiting  for  their  share. 

The  three  stray  bits  of  poultry  that 
have  wandered  in  to  see  what  they  can 
find,  seem  all  the  more  contented  from 
the  fact  that  they  have  no  right  there, 
but  ought  to  be  in  the  hen-fold.  In  this, 
too,  there  is  something  typical  of  human- 
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II. 

W^E  give  this  month  a  continuation 
of  the  wonderful  character  of 
Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  as  depicted  by 
her  son  and  grandson. 

"So  she  struggled  on  in  the  grasp  of 
that  New  England  Calvinism  which  her 
own  father  preached.  Once  she  wrote 
to  him,  'I  feel  as  Job  did,  that  I  could 
curse  the  day  in  which  I  was  born.  I 
wonder  that  Christians  who  realize  the 
worth  of  immortal  souls  should  be 
willing  to  give  life  to  immortal  minds 
to  be  placed  in  such  a  dreadful  world.' 
The  letters  which  Doctor  Beecher  wrote 
to  her  at  this  time  were  considered  a 
very  able  defense  of  New  England  Cal- 
vinism, but  they  did  not  satisfy  her.  It 
may  be  doubted  if  they  even  satisfied 
him,  or  if  he  from  this  time  ever  rested 
with  the  same  serenity  of  mind  on  the 
traditional  foundations.  It  was  an 
epoch  in  the  history  of  the  Beecher  fam- 
ily, and  in  the  history  of  the  New  Eng- 
land theology.  It  was  in,  this  event  of 
family  history  that  both  Edward  Beech- 
er's  'Conflict  of  Ages'  and  Mrs.  Stowe's 
'Minister's  Wooing*  found  their  pecu- 
liar inspiration.  It  is  certain  that,  with- 
out this  tragedy,  neither  of  these  works, 
.so  influential  in  determining  the  current 
of  religious  thought,  in  America,  would 
have  been  wrttten. 

"Miss  Beecher  passed  the  two  years 
following  the  death  of  Professor  Fisher 
at  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  at  the  home 
of  his  parents,  where  she  listened  to  the 
fearless  and  pitiless  Calvinism  of  Doc- 
tor Nathaniel  Emmons.  Her  mind  was 
too  strong  and  buoyant  to  be  over- 
whelmed and  crushed  by  an  experience 


that  would  have  driven  a  weaker  and  less 
resolute  nature  to  insanity.  Not  find- 
ing herself  able  to  love  a  God  whom  she 
had  been  taught  to  look  upon,  to  use 
her  own  language,  'as  a  perfectly  happy 
being  unmoved  by  my  sorrows  or  my 
tears,  and  looking  upon  me  only  with 
dislike  and  aversion,*  and  gifted  natur- 
ally with  a  capacity  for  close  metaphysi- 
cal analysis  and  a  robust  fearlessness  in 
following  her  premises  to  logical  con- 
clusions, she  arrived  at  results  which,  if . 
not  always  of  permanent  value,  were 
certainly  startling  and  original. 

"The  conventional  New  England  Cal- 
vinism gave  her  no  satisfactory  solution 
for  her  difficulties.  She  was  tormented 
with  doubts.  'What  has  the  Son  of 
God  done  which  the  meanest  and  most 
selfish  creature  upon  earth  would  not 
have  done?'  she  asked  herself.  'After 
making  such  a  wretched  race  and  plac- 
ing them  in  such  disastrous  circum- 
stances, somehow,  without  any  sorrow 
or  trouble,  Jesus  Christ  had  a  human 
nature  that  suffered  and  died.  If  some- 
thing else  besides  ourselves  will  do  all 
the  suflFering,  who  would  not  save  mil- 
lions of  wretched  beings,  and  receive  all 
the  honor  and  gratitude  without  any  of 
the  trouble  ?'  •  Yet  when  such  thoughts 
passed  through  her  mind  she  felt  that 
it  was  'all  pride,  rebellion,  and  sin.'  So 
she  struggled  on,  sometimes  floundering 
deep  in  the  mire  of  doubt,  and  then 
lifted  out  of  it  by  her  constitutionally 
buoyant  spirits. 

"It  was  in  this  condition  of  mind  that 
she  came  to  Hartford  in  the  winter  of 
1824  and  opened  her  school.  In  the 
practical  experience  of  teaching  she 
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les.  Turning  aside  from  doctrinal  dif- 
ficulties and  theological  quagmires,  she 
determined  'to  find  happiness  in  living 
to  do  good.'  She  says:  'It  was  right 
to  pray  and  read  the  Bible,  and  so  I 
prayed  and  read  the  Bible.  It  was 
right  to  try  to  save  others,  and  so  I 
tried  to  save  them.  In  all  these  years  I 
never  had  any  fear  of  punishment  or 
hope  of  reward.' 

"Without  ever  having  heard  of  prag- 
matism, she  became  a  kind  of  pragma- 
tist.  She  continues :  'After  two  or  three 
years  I  commenced  giving  instruction  in 
mental  philosophy,  and  at  the  same  time 
began  a  regular  course  of  lectures  and 
instructions  from  the  Bible  and  was 
much  occupied  with  plans  for  governing 
my  school,  and  in  devising  means  to 
lead  my  pupils  to  become  obedient,  ami- 
able and  pious.'  These  'means'  resulted 
in  a  code  of  principles  for  the  govern- 
ment of  her  school  which  were  nothing 
more  nor  less  than  carefully  formulated 
common  sense  with  plenty  of  the  'milk 
of  human  kindness'  thh)wn  in.  These 
principles  she  carefully  compared  with 
the  government  of  God,  and  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  He  in  his  infinitely 
mighty  and  complex  task  of  governing 
the  universe  was  applying  the  same  fun- 
damental principles  as  she  in  the  rela- 
tively infinitesimal  and  simple  task  of 
governing  her  school.  This  was  her 
solution,  and  this  the  view  of  the  divine 
nature  that  was  for  so  many  years 
preached  by  her  brother  Henry  Ward, 
and  set  forth  in  the  writings  of  her  sis- 
ter Harriet. 

"Harriet  and  Henry  Ward  took  this 
position  with  their  hearts,  and  held  it 
with  their  heads.  They  ever  felt  their 
way  with  their  hearts  and  followed  with 
their  intellects.  The  reverse  was  true 
of  Edward  and  Catherine.  They  were 
the  great  metaphysicians  of  the  family. 
Doctor  Beecher  presented  just  the  in- 
consistent mingling  of  the  two  kinds  of 
mental  process  which  one  might  expect 
in  the  father  of  such  children.  It  was 
said  of  him  that  he  was  the  father  of 
more  brains  than  any  other  man  in 
America.  It  might  with  equal  truth 
have  been  said  that  he  was  the  father  of 


more  heart  than  any  other  man  in 
America.  The  view  of  God  as  mani- 
fested in  Jesus  Christ,  which  came  to 
Catherine  Beecher  as  the  solution  of  her 
difficulties  by  long  mental  struggle,  was 
essentially  the  same  that)  came  to  Har- 
riet by  intuition  as  a  child  of  thirteen 
in  the  old  meeting-house  at  Litchfield. 
It  was  truly  religious,  non-theological, 
and  practical.  But  because  it  was  non- 
theological  they  were  not  to  be  permit- 
ted to  rest  in  it  peacefully. 

"In  March,  1826,  Doctor  Beecher, 
having  resigned  his  pastorate  in  Litch- 
field, accepted  a  call  to  the  Hanover 
Street  Church  in  Boston.  In  making 
this  change  he  was  actuated  partly  by 
personal  motives,  his  salary  in  Litch- 
field being  iifadequate  to  the  support  of 
his  large  family,  and  partly  by  the  great 
strategic  importance  of  the  Boston 
church  in  the  war  against  Unitarianism. 
In  Boston  his  preaching,  which  has  been 
called  'logic  on  fire,'  became  more  ag- 
gressively theological  than  it  had  ever 
been  before.  He  felt  that  God  had 
placed  him  there  to  fight  and  crush  a 
soul-destroying  heresy.  The  stake  was 
nothing  so  paltry  as  power  and  empire, 
or  even  human  lives.  It  was  the  im- 
mortal souls  of  men.  Now,  although 
Mrs.  Stowe's  loyal  soul  would  never 
have  acknowledges  that  her  father's 
preaching  acted  unfavorably  on  her 
mental  development,  such  was  unmis- 
takably the  case.  The  atmosphere  of 
mental  excitement  and  conflict  in  which 
her  father  lived  and  preached  at  this 
time  drove  her  already  over-stimulated 
mind  to  the  point  of  distraction.  Too 
much  mental  strain  and  too  little  exer- 
cise had  brought  her  to  her  seventeenth 
year  without  the  strength  which  should 
have  been  the  heritage  of  her  robust 
childhood. 

"In  February,  1827,  her  sister  Cath- 
erine writes  to  her  father:  *I  have  re- 
ceived some  letters  from  Harriet  to-day 
which  make  me  feel  uneasy.  She  says. 
"I  don't  know  that  I  am  fit  for  anything, 
and  I  have  thought  that  I  could  wish  to 
die  young,  and  let  the  remembrance  of 
me  and  my  faults  perish  in  the  grave 
rather  than  live,  as  I  fear  I  do,  a  trouble 


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to  evcxy  one.  You  don't  know  how  per- 
fectly wretched  I  often  feel ;  so  useless, 
so  weak,  so  destitute  of  all  energy. 
Mamma  often  tells  me  that  I  am  a 
strange,  inconsistent  being.  Sometimes 
I  could  not  sleep  and  have  groaned  and 
cried  till  midnight,  while  in  the  day- 
time I  have  tried  to  appear  cheerful, 
and  have  succeeded  so  well  that  Papa 
has  reproved  me  for  laughing  so  much. 
I  was  so  absent  sometimes  that  I  made 
strange  mistakes,  and  then  they  all 
laughed  at  me,  and  I  laughed  too, 
though  I  felt  I  should  go  distracted.  *  I 
wrote  rules,  made  out  a  regular  system 
for  dividing  my  time;  but  my  feelings 
vary  so  much  that  it  is  almost  impossi- 
ble for  me  to  be  regular." '  Catherine 
also  writes  to  her  brother  Edward  that 
she  thinks  it  the  best  thing  for  Harriet 
to  return  to  Hartford  where  she  can 
talk  freely  with  her.  'I  can  get  her 
books,'  continues  Catherine,  'and  Cath- 
erine Cogswell  and  Georgiana  May,  and 
her  friends  here  can  do  more  for  her 
than  any  one  in  Boston,  for  they  love 
her  and  she  loves  them  very  much.  .  .  . 
Harriet  will  have  young  society  here  all 
the  time,  which  she  cannot  have  at  home, 
and  I  think  cheerful  and  amusing 
friends  will  do  much  for  her.  I  can  do 
better  in  preparing  her  to  teach  draw- 
ing than  any  one  else,  for  I  know  best 
what  is  needed.' 

"The  result  was  that  Harriet  returned 
to  Hartford  where  she  passed  a  month 
or  so  and  then  in  the  spring  went  with 
her  friend  Georgiana  May  to  visit  Nut- 
plains,  in  Guilford,  which,  as  wc  have 
already  learned,  was  dear  to  her  from 
childhood.  The  August  following  lier 
visit  to  Guilford  she  writes  to  licr 
brother  Edward  in  a  strain  that  reveals 
a  state  of  mind  bordering  on  religious 
melancholy,  but  at  the  same  time  shows 
that  she  is  returning  to  mental  health 
and  cheerfulness.  'Many  of  my  objec- 
tions you  did  remove  that  afternoon  we 
spent  together.  After  that  I  was  not 
as  unhappy  as  I  had  been.  I  felt,  never- 
theless, that  my  views  were  very  indis- 
tinct and  contradictory,  and  feared  that 
if  you  left  me  thus,  I  might  return  to 
the  same  dark  desolate  state  in  which  I 


had  been  all  summer.  1  felt  that  my 
immortal  interest  for  both  worlds  was 
depending  on  the  turn  my  feelings 
might  take.  In  my  disappointment  and 
distress  I  called  upon  God,  and  it  seemed 
as  if  I  was  heard.  I  felt  that  He  could 
supply  the  loss  of  all  earthly  love.  All 
misery  and  darkness  were  over.  I  felt 
as  if  restored,  never  more  to  fall  Such 
sober  certainty  of  waking  bliss  had  long 
been  a  stranger  to  me.  But  even  then 
I  had  doubts  as  to  whether  these  feel- 
ings were  right,  because  I  felt  love  to 
God  alone  without  that  ardent  love  to 
my  fellow  creatures  that  Christians  have 
often  felt.  .  .  I  cannot  say  what  it  is 
makes  me  reluctant  to  speak  my  feel- 
ings. It  costs  me  an  effort  to  express 
feeling  of  any  kind,  but  more  particu- 
larly to  speak  of  my  private  religious 
feelings.  If  any  one  questions  me  my 
first  impulse  is  to  conceal  all  I  can.  As 
for  expression  of  affection  towards  my 
brothers  and  sisters,  and  companions 
and  friends,  the  stronger  the  affection 
the  less  inclination  I  have  to  express  it. 
Yet  sometimes  I  think  myself  the  most 
frank,  communicative,  and  open  of  all 
beings,  and  at  other  times  the  most  re- 
served. If  you  can  resolve  all  my 
caprices  into  general  principles  you  will 
do  more  than  I  can.  Your  speaking  so 
much  philosophically  has  a  tendency  to 
repress  confidence.  We  never  wish  to 
have  our  feelings  analyzed  down,  and 
every  little  nothing  that  we  say  brought 
to  the  test  of  mathematical  demonstra- 
tion. 

"'It  appears  to  me  that  if  I  could 
only  adopt  the  views  of  God  you  pre- 
sented to  my  mind  they  would  exert  a 
strong  and  beneficial  influence  over  my 
character.  But  I  am  afraid  to  accept 
them  for  several  reasons.  First,  it 
seems  to  be  taking  from  the  majesty 
and  dignity  of  the  divine  character  to 
suppose  that  his  happiness  can  be  at  all 
affected  by  the  conduct  of  his  sinful, 
erring  creatures.  Secondly,  it  seems  to 
me  that  such  views  of  God  would  have 
an  effect  on  our  own  minds  in  lessening 
that  reverence  and  fear  which  is  one  of 
the  greatest  motives  to  us  for  action. 
For,  although  to  a  generous  mind  the 

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thought  of  the  love  of  God  would  be  a 
sufficient  incentive  to  action,  there  are 
times  of  coldness  when  that  love  is  not 
felt,  and  then  there  remains  no  sort  of 
stimulus.  I  find  as  I  adopt  these  sen- 
timents I  feel  less  fear  of  God,  and,  in 
view  of  sin,  I  feel  only  a  sensation  of 
grief  which  is  more  easily  dispelled  and 
forgotten  than  that  I  formerly  felt/ 
This  letter  shows  how  she  was  driven 
hither  and  thither  by  the  powerful 
and  somewhat  contradictory  influences 
brought  to  bear  upon  her  mind  by  her 
father,  her  brother  Edward,  and  her 
sister  Catherine. 

'*She  is  naturally  drawn  to  the  win- 
ning and  restful  conception  of  God  as 
like  Jesus  Christ  which  both  her  brother 
Edward  and  her  sister  Catherine  unite  in 
presenting  to  her,  but  at  the  same  time 
she  shows  how  the  iron  of  her  father's 
Calvinism  has  passed  into  her  soul.  It 
may  make  her  very  unhappy  and  de- 
pressed, but  still  she  cannot  let  it  go 
immediately.  For  dull,  lethargic  souls 
Calvinism  may  be  a  most  excellent  tonic 
under  given  conditions,  but  on  her  artis- 
tic and  sensitive  nature  it  acted  like  a 
subtle  poison.  It  appealed  to  her  reason 
and  left  her  heart  unsatisfied, — nay,  even 
wounded  and  bleeding.  She  is  drawn 
hither  and  thither  by  conflicting  tenden- 
cies within  herself.  Again  she  writes  to 
Edward  and  unconsciously  paraphrasing 
a  saying  of  Fenelon,  remarks:  'It  is 
only  to  the  most  perfect  Being  in  the 
universe  that  imperfection  can  look  and 
hope -for  patience.  You  do  not  know 
how  harsh  and  forbidding  everything 
seems  compared  with  his  character  I  All 
through  the  day  in  my  intercourse  with 
others,  everything  seems  to  have  a  tend- 
ency to  destroy  the  calmness  of  mind 
gained  by  communion  with  Him.  One 
flatters  me,  another  is  angry  with  me, 
another  is  unjust  to  me. 

"  'You  speak  pi  your  predilection  for 
literature  having  been  a  snare  to  you. 
I  have  found  it  so  myself.  I  can  scarce- 
ly think  without  tears  and  indignation, 
that  all  that  is  beautiful,  lovely,  and 
poetic  has  been  laid  on  other  altars 
Oh,  will  there  never  be  a  poet  with  a 
heart  enlarged  and  purified  by  the  Holy 


Spirit,  who  shall  throw  all  the  graces  of 
harmony,  all  the  enchantments  of  feel- 
i^St  pathos,  and  poetry,  around  senti- 
ments worthy  of  them?  ...  It 
matters  little  what  service  he  has  for 
me.  .  .  .  I  do  not  mean  to  live  in 
vain.  He  has  given  me  talents  and  I 
will  lay  them  at  his  feet  well  satisfied  if 
He  will  accept  them.' 

"This  rhapsodical,  overstrained  state 
of  mind  was  highly  characteristic  of 
this  period  of  her  life.  The  high  ten- 
sion was  naturally  followed  by  seasons 
of  depression  and  gloom. 

"During  the  winter  of  1829  she  is  in 
Hartford  again  assisting  her  sister  Cath- 
erine in  the  school.  She  writes  to  her 
brother  Edward,  'Little  things  have  great 
power  over  me,  and  if  I  meet  with  the 
least  thing  that  crosses  my  feelings,  I 
am  often  rendered  unhappy  for  days 
and  weeks.  I  wish  I  could  bring  myself 
to  feel  perfectly  indifferent  to  the  opin- 
ions of  others.  I  believe  that  there 
never  was  a  person  more  dependent  on 
the  good  and  evil  opinions  of  those 
around  than  I  am !'  This  despair  is  in- 
evitable to  one  earnestly  seeking  the 
truth  as  she  was,  amid  conflicting  coun- 
sels. She  is  now  eighteen,  but  still 
morbidly  introspective,  sensitive,  and 
overwrought.  She  apparently  lives 
largely  in  her  emotions.  In  closing  one 
of  her  letters  she  says,  'This  desire  to 
be  loved  forms,  I  fear,  the  great  motive 
for  all  my  actions.'  Again  she  writes 
to  her  brother  Edward,  'I  have  been 
carefully  reading  the  book  of  Job,  and 
I  do  not  find  in  it  the  views  of  God 
you  have  presented  to  me.  God  seems 
to  have  stripped  a  dependent  creature 
of  all  that  renders  life  desirable,  and 
then  to  have  answered  his  complaints 
from  the  whirlwind;  and,  instead  of 
showing  mercy  and  pity,  to  have  over- 
whelmed him  by  a  display  of  his  justice. 
From  the  view  of  God  that  I  received 
from  you,  I  should  have  expected  that 
a  being  that  sympathizes  with  his  guilty, 
afflicted  creatures  would  not  have 
spoken  thu6.  Yet,  after  all,  I  do  believe 
that  God  is  such  a  being  as  you  repre- 
sent him  to  be,  and  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment I  find  in  the  character  of  Jesus 


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Christ  a  revelation  of  God  as  merciful 
and  compassionate;  in  fact,  just  such  a 
God  as  I  need!'  This  was  the  vision 
of  God  that  came  to  her  at  the  time  of 
her  conversion.  It  was  the  confusing 
and  perturbing  influence  of  her  father's 
Calvinistic  theology  that  had  dimmed 
that  gracious  vision.  Out  of  the 
prison-house  of  Giant  Despair  she  had 
been  delivered  by  the  teachings  of  her 
sister  Catherine  and  her  brother  Ed- 
ward. 

"But  again  in  the  same  letter  we  have 
a  passage  that  shows  that  her  feet  are 
still  meshed  in  the  net  of  Calvinistic 
theology.  She  writes:  'My  mind  is 
often  perplexed  and  such  thoughts  arise 
in  it  that  I  cannot  pray,  and  I  become 
bewildered.  The  wonder  to  me  is,  how 
all  ministers  and  all  Christians  can  feel 
themselves  so  inexcusably  sinful,  when 
it  seems  to  me  that  we  all  come  into 
the  world  in  such  a  way  that  it  would 
be  miraculous  if  we  did  not  sin!  Mr 
Hawes  always  says  in  his  prayers,  "We 
have  nothing  to  offer  in  extenuation  of 
any  of  our  sins,"  and  I  always  think 
when  he  says  it  that  we  have  everything 
to  offer  in  extenuation. 

"  The  case  seems  to  me  exactly  as  if 
I  had  been  brought  into  the  world  with 
such  a  thirst  for  ardent  spirits  that 
there  was  just  a  possibility,  but  no  hope 
that  I  should  resist,  and  then  my  eter- 
nal happiness  made  to  depend  on  my 
being  temperate.  Sometimes  when  I 
try  to  confess  my  sins  I  feel  that  I  am 
more  to  be  pitied  than  blamed,  for  I 
have  never  known  the  time  when  I  have 
not  had  a  temptation  within  me  so 
strong  that  it  was  certain  that  I  should 
not  overcome  it.  This  thought  shocks 
me,  but  it  comes  with  such  force  and 
so  appealingly,  to  all  my  consciousness, 
that  it  stifles  all  sense  of  sin.' 

"It  was  such  reflections  and  argu- 
m-ents  as  these  that  had  aroused  Doctor 
Beecher  to  despair  over  his  daughter 
Catherine's  spiritual  condition.  The 
fact  was,  he  belonged  to  one  age  and 
his  children  to  another.  Yet  the  brave 
old  man  lived  to  sympathize  with  them. 

"Harriet  at  last  learned  to  give  up 
her  introspection  and  morbid  sensitive- 


ness, and  to  live  more  healthily  and 
humanly.  At  the  age  of  twentyone  she 
was  able  to  write  thus  to  her  friend 
Georgiana  May:  'After  the  disquisition 
on  myself  above  cited  you  will  be  able 
to  understand  the  wonderful  changes 
through  which  Ego  et  me  ipse  has 
passed. 

"  'The  amount  of  the  matter  has  been, 
as  this  inner  world  of  mine  has  become 
worn  out  and  untenable,  I  have  at  last 
concluded  to  come  out  of  it  and  live  in 

the  eternal  one,  and,  as  F S 

once  advised  me,  give  up  the  pernicious 
habit  of  meditation  to  the  first  Metho- 
dist minister  who  would  take  it,  and  try 
to  mix  in  society  somewhat  as  other 
persons  would. 

"  *  **Horas  non  numero  non  nisi  sere- 
nas,"  Uncle  Sam,  who  sits  by  me,  has 
just  been  reading  the  above  motto,  the 
inscription  on  a  sun-dial  in  Venice.  It 
strikes  me  as  having  a  distant  relation- 
ship to  what  I  was  going  to  say.  I 
have  come  to  a  firm  resolution  to  count 
no  hours  but  unclouded  ones,  and  let  all 
others  slip  out  of  my  memory  and  reck- 
oning as  quickly  as  possible. 

"  'I  am  trying  to  cultivate  a  spirit  of 
general  kindliness  towards  everybody. 
Instead  of  shrinking  into  a  comer  to 
notice  how  other  people  behave,  I  am 
holding  out  my  hand  to  the  right  and 
to  the  left,  and  forming  casual  and  inci- 
dental acquaintances  with  all  who  will 
be  acquainted  withj  me.  In  this  way  I 
find  society  full  of  interest  and  pleasure, 
— a  pleasure  that  pleaseth  me  more  be- 
cause it  is  not  old  and  worn  out.  From 
these  friendships  I  expect  little,  and 
therefore  generally  receive  more  than  I 
expect.  From  past  friendships  I  have 
expected  everything,  and  must  of  neces- 
sity have  been  disappointed.  The  kind 
words  and  looks  that  I  call  forth  by 
looking  and  smiling  are  not  much  in 
themselves ;  but  they  form  a  very  pretty 
flower-border  to  the  way  of  life.  They 
embellish  the  day  or  the  hour  as  it 
passes,  and  when  they  fade  they  only  do 
just  as  I  expected  they  would.  This 
kind  of  pleasure  in  acquaintance  is  new 
to'me.  I  never  tried  it  before.  When  I 
used  to  meet  persons  the  first  inquiry 


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was,  "Have  they  such  and  such  a  char- 
acter, or  have  they  anything  that  might 
be  of  use  or  harm  to  me?"  ' 

"In  this  new  life  she  was  able  to 
write  to  her  brother  Edward,  1  have 
never  been  so  happy  as  this  summer.  I 
began  it  in  more  suflFering  than  I  ever 
before  have  felt,  but  there  is  One  whom 
I  daily  thank  for  all  that  suffering,  since 
I  hope  that  it  has  brought  me  at  last  to 
rest  entirely  in  Him.'  So  she  learned 
to  suffer  and  to  love.  To  suffer  and  to 
love  and  at  last  to  rest.  After  five 
years  of  struggling  she  returns  to  where 
she  started  when  converted  as  a  child  of 
thirteen.  Love  became  her  gospel,  the 
Alpha  and  Omega  of  her  existence,  love 
for  her  God,  for  her  friends,  and  finally 
for  humanity.  The  three  words,  'God 
is  love,'  summed  up  her  theology.  Her 
love  of  humanity  was  not  the  vague 
charitable  emotion  which  the  phrase 
usually  denotes.  It  was  as  real,  as  vital, 
and  as  impelling  as  the  love  for  her 
friend  which  she  thus  expressed  in  clos- 
ing this  letter, — 

"  'Oh,  my  dear  G ,  it  is  scarcely 

well  to  love  friends)  thus.  .  .  .  those 
that  I  love;  and  oh,  how  much  that 
word  means.  I  feel  sadly  about  them. 
They  may  change ;  they  must  die ;  they 
are  separated  from  me,  and  I  ask  my- 
self why  should  I  wish  to  love  with  all 
the  pains  and  penalties  of  such  condi- 
tions? I  check  myself  when  express- 
ing feelings  like  this,  so  much  has  been 
said  of  it  by  the  sentimental,  who  talk 


what  they  could  not  have  felt.  But  it 
is  so  deeply,  sincerely  so  in  me,  that 
sometimes  it  will  overflow.  Well,  there 
is  a  heaven — a  heaven, — a  world  of  love, 
and  love  after  all  is  the  life  blood,  the 
existence,  the  all  in  all  of  mind.' " 


Forest  Apple-Trees. 

TN  some  parts  of  Pennsylvania  are  to 
be  found  wild  apple  forests,  having 
been  seeded  by  parent-growths  the  same 
as  regular  forest  trees.  Without  prun- 
ing, cultivation,  or  any  care  whatever, 
they  start  out  on  their  little  careers, 
make  their  way,  live  their  lives,  bear 
bushels  of  fruit  that  is  never  gathered 
except  by  hunters  or  wild  animals,  and 
die  when  their  time  comes,  the  same  as 
their  taller  and  statelier  neighbors. 

The  apples  they  bear  are  of  different 
sizes,  colors,  and  flavors;  a  bright  red 
being  one  of  the  favorite  hues.  No 
doubt  there  are  new  and  sturdy  varie- 
ties gradually  dev^oped  in  these  self- 
cultivated  nurseries  of  nature ;  and  fruit- 
fanciers  might  find  in  them  something 
worth  grafting  into  their  orchards. 

These  wild  apples  are,  figuratively 
speaking,  "nuts"  to  the  squirrels,  which 
live  upon  them  when  storing  their  cold- 
weather,  food,  and  are  even  said  to  be 
learning  which  are  the  winter  apples, 
and  to  save  them  among  their  eatable 
treasures — though  not  as  yef  in  bar- 
rels. 


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SavingB-BankB  That  Won't  Break. 

^^^AN  a  postal  savings-bank  system 
be  established  in  this  country?" 
has  been  asked  again  and  again — and  is 
just  now  a  subject  of  peculiar  interest 
to  thoughtful  men  and  women.  It  is  a 
good  time  to  examine  its  workings  in 
other  countries,  and  see  if  it  would  be 
a  good  plan  for  us  to  adopt  the  same 
system. 

England,  France,  Italy,  Holland,  Can- 
ada, and  maoy  smaller  states  have  made 
this  institution  a  permanent  department 
of  their  governments,  and  each  has  dem- 
onstrated its  inestimable  benefit  to  the 
masses  of  the  people.  It  is  the  common 
experience  of  these  countries,  that  only 
about  one-eighth  of  the  sum  of  the 
many  thousands  of  deposits,  in  the 
course  o£  a  year,  is  left  for  permanent 
investment — the  remainder  of  it  being 
withdrawn  for  current  uses.  This  indi- 
cates that  many  persons  of  small  in- 
comes take  this  method  of  laying  up 
money  for  their  rent,  fuel,  or  clothing, 
rather  than  trust  to  the  uncertainties  of 
the  future.  Ami,  it  is  a  far-reaching 
and  unanswerable  demonstration  of  th^ 
fact  that  if  one  saves  the  pennies  the 
dollars  will  soon  come  into  evidence. 

It  is  the  daily  experience  of  foreign 
postal  banks  to  have  depositors  with- 
draw their  savings  of  years  for  the  pur- 
chase of  a  little  home,  or  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  modest  business.  Almost 
invariably  these  depositors  begin  again 
the  pleasant  task  of  accumulating  their 
savings:  for  when  the  thrifty  habit  is 
once  acquired  it  is  abandoned  only  in 
the  rarest  instances.  And  those  who  are 
in  position  to  know,  testify  that  no  other 
institution  or  custom  has  done  so  much 


to  improve  the  condition  of  the  people, 
as  that  of  the  postal  savings-bank. 

Holland  organized  the  system  in  1881. 
There  every  postoffice  is  a  place  of  de- 
posit; and  the  postmasters,  together 
with  a  large  number  of  special  agents, 
are  authorized  receivers.  Any  person 
makes  application  on  a  printed  form, 
and  gives  it  to  the  nearest  postmaster, 
who  in  return  presents  him  with  a  pass- 
book, free  of  cost. 

The  postmaster,  both  as  an  induce- 
ment and  compensation,  receives  five 
cents  on  each  new  account,  and  one  and 
one-half  cents  for  each  entry.  Persons 
living  more  than  twenty  miles  from  an 
agency,  may  use  the  mails  free  for  the 
purpose  of  making  deposits.  No  sums 
less  than  about  forty  cents,  in  our 
money,  arc  taken. 

Sheets  of  paper  with  twenty  blank 
spaces,  each  intended  for  a  five-cent 
stamp,  are  distributed  free,  and  filled 
gradually  by  the  very  poor  people. 
When  full,  the  sheet  is  taken  on  deposit. 
Children  get  these  forms,  with  a  hun- 
dred spaces  for  stamps.  Twentyseven 
thousand  florins,  or  over  $10,000  a 
year,  were  deposited  in  this  manner. 
Every  fifty  days  the  receivers  deposit 
directly  with  the  Ministry  of  Postal 
Affairs. 

The  interest  paid  i?  two  and  three- 
fourths  per  cent. ;  and  *iie  money  is  in- 
vested in  national  and  municipal  shares, 
and  railway  bonds  guaranteed  by  Gov- 
ernment. 

If  a  depositor  wishes  to  withdraw  his 
money,  he  can  do  so  at  the  office  where 
he  placed  it,  provided  the  amount  be  less 
than  twentyfive  florins  (about  ten  dol- 
lars) ;  but  for  larger  sums  it  is  neces- 
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— who  will  Issue  to  the  appropriate  office 
an  order  to  pay  the  amount  in  full  or 
in  such  installments  as  the  bank's  bal- 
ance will  permit;  but  it  has  never  yet 
been  necessary  to  resort  to  the  install- 
ment plan. 

Since  the  installation  of  the  method 
in  Holland  (1881)  the  cost  of  adminis- 
tration has  grown  steadily  less,  and  the 
rate  of  interest  has  likewise  increased. 
In  twelve  years  it  saved  $7,200,000  for 
its  people,  and  chiefly  for  a  class  that, 
left  alone,  would  have  been  practically 
penniless.  In  fact,  its  success  has  been 
such  as  to  amply  justify  the  statement 
of  one  who  thoroughly  believes  in  the 
idea,  when  he  said : 

"A  bank  that  will  reach  out  its  hands 
to  the  mechanic  in  his  shop,  the  child 
at  school,  or  the  farmer  at  his  work; 
that  will  collect  their  money  in  small  or 
in  large  amounts,  make  it  productive 
within  two  weeks,  and  pay  two  and 
three-fourths  per  cent,  (when  the  pre- 
vailing rate  is  three  per  cent.),  with  the 
government  guarantee  for  principal  and 
interest,  is  not  only  profitable  to  the  peo- 
ple :   it  is  a  blessing  to  the  country." 

"It  is  the  greatest  and  most  important 
work  ever  undertaken  by  the  govern- 
ment for  the  benefit  of  the  nation",  said 
Gladstone;  and  the  experience  of  Eng- 
land with  this  method,  has  demonstrated 
the  wisdom  of  his  statement. 

After  paying  two  and  one-half  per 
tent,  on  its  deposits,  the  English  system 
has  earned  nearly  $7,750,000,  which  the 
Government  has  from  time  to  time 
divided  among  the  depositors.  The 
money  is  invested  in  government  securi- 
ties only. 

The  United  Kingdom,  with  half  the 
population  of  this  country,  has  accu- 
mulated nearly  $600,000,000  since  1862; 
but  opportunities  for  investment  here 
far  exceed  those  in  the  British  Isles. 

Nearly  ten  thousand  postoffices  are 
open  for  deposits,  from  nine  to  six,  and 
Saturdays  to  nine.  One  shilling  is  the 
smallest  sum  credited,  but  there  is  a 
stamp  system,  like  that  of  Holland, 
where  even  a  penny  may  be  put  away. 
No  one  may  deposit  over  thirty  pounds 


a  year,  nor  have  to  his  credit  more  than 
one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  exclusive 
of  interest.  Money  may  be  deposited  or 
withdrawn  from  any  postoffice. 

In  the  space  of  ten  years,  depositors 
increased  from  one  to  over  three  mil- 
lions, and  deposits  from  twentythree  to 
nearly  fortyfive  millions. 

TIk  universal  experience^  in  England 
is  that  men,  women  and  children  are 
gradually  induced  to  become  depositors, 
and  form  habits  of  saving  and  thrift, 
who  before  were  spendthrifts. 

The  Italian  postoffice  savings-system 
was  founded  in  1876,  and  even  the  farth- 
est and  most  remote  offices  are  open  for 
deposits.  The  interest  rate  is  three  and 
one-half  per  cent. 

Canada  has  accumulated  about  $40,- 
000,000  in  thirty  years,  and  is  deVoting 
the  money  to  public  improvements,  mak- 
ing a  permanent  debt  diue  to  its  deposi- 
tors, and  paying  three  and  one-half  per 
cent,  interest  thereon. 

Now,  why  do  we  not  have  this  system 
in  United  States?  It  has  been  recom- 
mended by  some  of  our  best  financial 
authorities:    what  is  keeping  it  back?    ' 

Postmaster  Creswell  suggested  it  in 
1887.  Hon.  Thomas  L.  James  said:  "It 
is  my  conviction  that  a  system  of  this 
description  would  inure  more  than  al- 
most any  other  measure  of  public  im- 
portance, to  the  benefit  of  the  working 
people  of  United  States."  Many  other 
authorities  might  be  quoted. 

The  question  to  be  decided  is :  Would 
such  a  system  furnish  Better  security  for 
deposits  and  greater  encouragement  to 
thrift,  than  existing  institutions?  Could 
the  Government,  without  interfering 
with  the  present  business  status,  and 
without  loss  to  itself,  carry  on  the  sav- 
ings-bank business?  Would  the  bene- 
fits justify  the  necessary  extension  of 
the  functions  of  government  and  the 
increase  of  public  servants? 

Answer:  Mutual  Benefit  companies. 
Co-operative  Building-Loan  associa- 
tions, etc.,  are  all  successful;  and  the 
Postoffice  Savings-Bank  would  have 
great  advantage  over  these. 

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been  estimated  at  three-fourths  of  one 
per  cent.  The  Government  could  easily 
invest  the  funds  at  two  and  three-fourths 
per  cent,  and  that  would  leave  two  per 
cent,  for  the  interest  rate — ^a  conserva- 
tive estimate. 


LessonB  irom  Marconi. 

^^CUCCESS",  though  it  is  an  abstract 

^  thing,  something  that  cannot  be 
seen  with  the  physical  eye,  nor  felt  with 
the  hand,  is  that  ever-alluring  goal 
toward  which  humanity  is  pressing  its 
way,  at  greater  or  less  speed.  Some 
have  been  tired  out  by  the  fast  pace  nec- 
essary to  keep  up  withi  their  neighbors 
in  the  procession,  and  are  idling  along 
the  highways  of  life  in  more  or  less  of 
a  don't-care  attitude,  but  if  you  will  stop 
to  talk  with  these  men  and  women,  you 
will  find  very  few  who  have  given  up  all 
hope  of  gaining  their  little  goals. 

Some  have  become  distrustful  of,  or 
disgusted  with,  their  own  ability  to  get 
on,  and  are  slyly  waiting-  to  hitch  their 
wagons  to  somebody  else's  easy-running 
equipage,  and,  possibly,  there  are  a  feW 
apathetic  enough  not  to  use  even  this 
attempt  to  make  headway  in  the  world ; 
but  the  large  majority  keep  up  a  pretty 
constant  effort  to  "get  there." 

Everybody  is  looking  for  advice  on 
"how  to  succeed",  and  if  it  is  true  that 
"all  the  world  loves  a  lover",  it  must  be 
from  this  very  fact — ^that  he  is  success- 
ful, in  one  thing  at  least,  that  he  has 
"won  out." 

Two  or  three  lessons,  then,  from  the 
career  of  Signor  Marconi,  a  world-wide 
"Success",  will  not  be  uninteresting,  and 
may  not  prove  unprofitable. 

At  thej  age  of  eight  years  the  young 
Italian  had  shown  marked  inventive 
ability;  when  he  was  tvelve  years  old 
his  tutoi^  thought  enough  of  one  of  the 
young  man's  devices  to  attempt  to  steal 
it ;  and  at  sixteen  he  was  deep  in  chemi- 
cal, mathematical  and  electrical  prob- 
lems, and  worrying  his  parents  about 
a  seemingly  crazy  scheme  to  send  a  mes- 
sage "through  a  solid  hill."    And  in  this 


illustration  of  youthful  precocity  there 
lies  a  lesson  for  all— especially  parents. 
Every  boy  does  not  show  the  genius  of 
a  Marconi  at  eight  or  twelve  years,  but 
almost  every  one  does  evince  some  par- 
ticular trend  in  his  nature  at  that  age, 
and  it  is  the' duty  of  parents  to  foster 
and  cultivate  it,  instead  of  despising  and 
ridiculing  it. 

Marconi's  parents  were  doubtless  sur- 
prised when  their  young  hopeful  told 
them  he  was  going  to  telegraph  "through 
a  hill",  but  they  were  too  considerate  and 
wise  to  ridicule  the  boy  at  the  very  be- 
ginning of  his  life  of  imagination  and 
aspiration.  To  be  sure,  numerous  young 
men  succeed  in  spite  of  ridicule,  but 
never  because  of  it,  as  is  sometimes 
falsely  asserted;  and  there  is  a  vast  dif- 
ference between  indiscriminate  and  fool- 
ish praise  and  judicious  encouragement. 
It  takes  a  cool  head  and  a  trained  judg- 
ment to  "bring  out"  all  that  there  is  "in 
a  boy",  but  parents  will  be  rewarded  if 
they  give  some  time  and  thought  to  this 
side  of  their  children's  education. 

We  all  know  men  who  couldn't  "stand 
prosperity."  Paradoxical  as  it  may 
seem,  and  loudly  as  young  men  may 
scout  the  idea  of  its  possible  application 
to  them,  men  ruined  by  success  are  all 
about  us.  Just  what  it  is  has  never  been 
accurately  defined,  but  there  is,  in  the 
bauble  of  worldly  success,  a  glamor,  or 
something  or  other,  that  always  and  for- 
ever throws  back,  into  the  consciousness 
of  him  who  for  the  first  time,  holds  it 
in  his  hands,  the  image  of  himself.  By 
it  he  is  auto-intoxicated,  self-hypnotized, 
and  wholly  unfitted  for  harmonious  rela- 
tions with  his  fellow-men. 

Not  so  with  Marconi! 

Although  kings,  emperors  and  princes 
are  numbered  among  his  intimate 
friends,  and  although,  by  reason  of  for- 
tune and  favor  already  attained  by  his 
own  efforts,  he  might  live  in  ease  and 
good  repute,  his  favorite  resort  is  in 
some  of  his  stations  on  the  coast  of  Eng- 
land, far  from  the  haunts  of  men,  where 
he  can  dream  his  large  dreams  and  work 
out  his  great  plans,  free  from  interrup- 
tion.   And  when  the  King  of  an  earth- 


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girding  empire  requests  his  presence  at 
the  royal  home,  this  young  inventor — 
calm  master  of  himself  and  his  destiny — 
gives  the  royal  flunkeys  of  the  world  a 
shock  by  wirelessly  signaling  back,  in 
effect,  that  he  doesn't  feel  like  coming 
around  today,  but  may  drop  in  tomor- 
row. 

The  success  of  Marconi  might  be  de- 
scribed as  an  accomplishment  in  the 
realm  of  scientific  imagination.  And  to 
succeed  in  that  department  of  human 
endeavor,  one  must  use  great  concentra- 
tion of  mind.  And  to  focus  all  the  pow- 
ers of  one's  faculties  upon  a  single  object 
you  must  have  solitude. 

And  therein  lies  another  lesson.  Let 
those  who  would  do  great  deeds  have 
the  courage  to  separate  themselves  from 
the  distractions  of  people  and  things, 
and  in  the  silence  of  their  own  souls 
build  "houses  not  made  with  hands." 
Many  people  do  this,  and  nothing  more. 
They  are  dreamers — mere  dreamers. 
But  nobody  ever  accomplished  any  thing 
great,  who  was  not  first  a  dreamer  and 
then  a  doer. 


Restraint  for  Millionaires'  Sons. 

TT7HEN  a  young  man  is  to  inherit 
large  amounts  of  money,  his  con- 
duct is  a  matter  of  great  importance  to 
the  people  of  his  country.  The  many 
dollars  that  he  is  to  acquire  will  be  a 
formidable  power,  in  either  the  right  or 
wrong  direction.  It  is  as  if  he  were  at 
the  throttle  of  a  locomotive  drawing  a 
populous  train  of  cars,  or  in  the  pilot- 
house of  a  steamer  full  of  saloon- and- 
steerage-passengers.  He  may  become 
another  Peabody  or  Carnegie,  dispens- 
ing wealth  with  generosity  and  intellect 
combined;  or  a  Johnny  Steele,  who 
smashes  a  saloon  first  and  then  buys  it, 
and  who  ruins  himself  and  everybody 
he  can  pick  up  on  the  way. 

Several  rich  men's  sons  of  New  York 
have  recently  come  into  loathsome  noto- 
riety, on  account  of  a  murder-case. 
They  are  accused  by  the  papers  of 
spending  their  time  and  their  parents* 


money  in  corrupting  the  community  and 
demoralizing  themselves  and  each  other. 
They  have  forged  orders  in  stores  for 
fine  clothes,  procured  them,  escaped  de- 
tection if  possible,  and  if  not,  left  their 
doting  fathers  and  mothers  to  settle 
the  bills.  They  have  conspired  to  trap 
and  degrade  the  future  women  of  the 
country.  They  have  held  secret  meet- 
ings in  which'  their  criminal  exploits 
were  compared  each  with  the  other,  and 
future  ones  arranged.  They  have  in- 
sulted respectable  citizens  on  the  street, 
and  made  theatre-halls,  concert-rooms, 
and  even  churches,  uncomfortable  for 
those  who  werd  there  for  something 
better  than  bestial  frivolity. 

They  have  also  had  in  training  or  at 
least  in  admiring  imitation  a  large  num- 
ber^ of  younger  youths,  who  aim  to  fol- 
low in  their  footsteps  as  closely  as  they 
can.  Even  the  veriest  children  are  some- 
times corrupted  by  their  presence  and 
influence. 

And  it  need  not  be  supposed  that  this 
evil  is  peculiar  to  New  York:  would 
that  it  were!  Almost  every  city  in 
United  States  has  a  contingency  of  these 
"smart"  young  men.  Every  court-room 
has  spent  time  and  money  over  their 
misdoings;  every  serious  and  solicitous 
mother  has  shuddered  when  she  saw  or 
heard  of  them.  There  is  one  consola- 
tion: they  die — and,  generally,  young. 
They  mostly  sink  in  the  stagnant  sea  of 
dissipation,  or  crouch  and  rave  in  some 
private  sanitarium,  until  the  grave  hos- 
pitably opens  to  receive  their  filthy  bod- 
ies. But  meanwhile  they  have  left  germs 
of  moral  disease — the  smallpox  of  the 
mind — the  cholera  of  the  soul. 

Neither  should  it  be  supposed  that  all 
these  moral  pestilences  upon  legs  reside 
in  the  city.  There  are  country  districts 
that  have  their  quota.  It  does  not  take 
so  much  money  in  rural  latitudes  to 
identify  a  young  fellow  as  a  rich  man's 
son,  and  in  some  places  he  who  is  worth 
a  million  dimes,  or  even  cents,  is  ac- 
counted a  millionaire,  and  his  children^ 
have  perhaps  unusual  temptations  and 
advantages  for  vice.  Many  of  the  poor 
creatures  who  drift  into  the  city  for  ^ 

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life  of  shame,  are  the  work  of  these 
petty  financial  lordlings. 

To  be  sure  the  parents  generally  la- 
ment the  doleful  facts ;  but  there  seems 
little  that  they  can  do.  In  the  first  place, 
their  eyes  are  naturally  weakened  by 
love,  and  they  cannot  discern  faults  of 
their  own  children  as  quickly  and  clearly 
as  can  others.  In  the  second  place, 
many  of  them  need  all  their  time  in 
acquiring  their  wealth  and  keeping  it — 
and  filling  the  social  obligations  arising 
from  it.  In  the  third  place,  a  young  cub, 
if  allowed  to  have  his  own  way  for 
awhile,  soon  gets  clear  of  restraint,  and 
runs  his  own  people  a  race  in  which  they 
never  can  catch  up. 

Now,  under  all  these  circumstances, 
what  is  to  be  done  ?  It  seems  to  us  that 
the  strong  arm  of  the  law  should  be 
brought  in,  to  correct  the  evil.  There 
should  be  truant-officers  for  rich  young 
men  who  have  no  well-defined  course  of 
study,  and  no  definite  and  steady  occu- 
pation. They  should  be  compelled  to 
conform  themselves  to  the  public  good, 
just  as  -poor  people's  children  are.  It 
ought  not  to  be  a  sufficient  excuse  for  a 
young  man,  that  his  parents  are  willing 
to  support  him :  the  question  should  be. 
Is  he  supporting-  himself,  or  qualifying 
himself  to  do  so  in  the  future? — If  not, 
he  should  be  compelled  into  it,  and  that 
by  the  people — through  laws  that  they 
make  and  enforce.  In  that  way,  he  can 
perhaps  be  kept  out  of  mischief. 


Pears  and  PluniB  irom  Oherry* 
Trees, 

pOR  years  the  scientific  gardener  has 
been  gathering  apples  from  pear- 
trees,  and  picking  cherries  from  dam- 
sons off  the  same  branches,  and,  though 
thq  quest  of  the  black  tulip  has  so  far 
.'been  in  vain,  the  blue  rose,  we  are  told, 
has  at  last  been  produced  at  Kew  Gar- 
dens, England. 

Years  ago  horticulturists  were  inter- 


ested in  the  announcement  that  a  nur- 
seryman at  Essy,  in  Slavonia,  had*  se- 
cured a  wild  rose  from  Servia,  which 
was  said  to  give  blooms  of  a  deep  violet 
blue,  and  that,  after  two  years  of  culti- 
vation, the  rose  retained  its  color.  But 
there  is  still  an  uncertainty  whether  the 
blue  tint  was  natural  or  produced  by 
chemical  means,  in  the  same  way  as 
another  horticulturist  is  known  to  have 
produced  a  black  rose.  Most  people  will 
be  content,  no  doubt,  with  the  "red,  red 
rose  that  sweetly  blooms  in  June",  and 
nobody  will  very  much  deplore  the  fail- 
ure of  the  efforts  to  produce  roses  of 
black,  or  blue,  or  green,  or  any  other 
unnatural  color. 

More  pardonable,  perhaps,  is  the 
hobby  of  the  man  who  would  grow  a 
universal  fruit-tree.  Even  this,  of 
course,  is  contrary  to  all  the  laws  of 
nature,  and  ought  by  natural  law  to  fce 
abolished.  But  there  is  a  farmer  in 
Herefordshire,  England,  who  insists,  it 
is  said,  on  gathering — ^not  grapes  from 
thistles,  but  pears  and  plums  and  apples 
from  cherry-trees.  Many  years  ago  the 
enterprising  farmer  grafted  these  alien 
fruits  on  his  cherry-tree,  and  by  careful 
cultivation  the  four  branches  have  been 
brought  to  full  fruition.  Many  of  the 
visitors  to  Naples  have  seen  a  famous 
tree  there  on  which  oranges  and  lem- 
ons grow  side  by  side. 


He  Pities  the  Greatest  Victims. 

AN  odd  charity  is  that  founded  by  a 
•  man  who  spent  years  in  tracking 
outlaws  and  bringing  them  to  justice. 
The  rewardsi  that  he  gained  by  captur- 
ing famous  train-robbers  and  bandits 
amounted  to  $50,000.  He  has  made  pro- 
vision for  the  use  of  part  of  his  prop- 
erty to  start  a  home  for  the  widows 
and  orphans  of  such  outlaws.  True 
justice  and  true  benevolence  are  twins, 
even  if  the  likeness  is  not  always  strik- 
ing at  first. 


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PROTECTION    VKRSUS    POLITICS. 

TT  seems  strange  to  have  regular  high- 
way robberies  occurring  in  the  most 
crowded  streets  of  New  York,  in  broad 
daylight,  amid  thousands  of  people  pass- 
ing to  and  fro.  One  would  sooner  ex- 
I^cct  to  hear  of  them  in  country  districts, 
where  few  if  any  people  could  witness 
them  except  those  immediately  con- 
cerned. 

Two  men,  or,  rather,  a  man  and  a 
boy,  are  carrying  several  thousand  dol- 
lars in  money  from  one  bank  to  another, 
up  one  of  the  most  crowded  stretches  of 
Broadway.  They  are  in  a  large,  sub- 
stantially-built automobile,  with  a  sup- 
posedly reliable  chauffeur  to  speed  them 
upon  their  way.  They  have  no  weapons 
with  w^hich  to  defend  themselves,  for 
that  is  against  the  law  in  New  York. 
There  are  no  locks  upon  the  doors  of 
their  vehicles,  to  keep  trespassers  out. 

Right  in  the  midst  of  the  street-hurly- 
burly,  a  highway  robber  steps  up  to  one 
side  of  the  vehicle,  and  another  end  to 
the  opposite  side ;  they  pound  the  cash- 
custodians  almost  into  insensibility, 
board  another  automobile  that  is  await- 
ing them,  and  transport  the  money  to 
some  place  not  contemplated  at  all,  in 
the  minds  of  the  bankers  who  had 
released  it  from  their  vaults. 

A  jeweller  with  several  thousand  dol- 
lars' worth  of  diamonds  that  he  is  in- 
tending to  sell  to  another  jeweller,  is 
quietly  walking  along  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  Waldorf-Astoria — a  hotel  that  is 
almost  a  city  of  itself.  He  is  over- 
powered and  robbed  by  two  rogues,  and 
he  is  standing  in  the  crowdi  without  his 
gems — scarcely  knowing  what  has  hap- 
pened, and  in  a  condition  that  makes 


him  unable  even  to  describe  his  assail- 
ants so  the  poHce  can  recognize  them 
if  they  find  them. 

House  after  house  is  robbed,  both  by 
day  and  night,  all  over  the  city:  and 
it  is  done  so  niftily  and  dextrously, 
that  "the  police"  seem  dazed,  and  not 
able  to  remedy  the  matter.  Holdup  after 
holdup  occurs,  and  the  proverbial 
**reign  of  terror"  seems  to  be  thor- 
oughly on. 

Meanwhile,  the  city  pays  well  for 
good  and  reliable  protection:  and  won- 
ders why  it  doesn't  get  it. 

If  the  city  officers  would  study  poli- 
tics less  and  their  duties  more,  this 
question  would  not  need  to  be  asked. 


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T  may  seem  strange,  but  it  is  not 
avoidable,  that  the  St.  Valentine's 
Day  recently  passed,  has  been  the  cause 
of  several  arrests,  and  that  some  of  the 
I)articipants  in  this  annual  frolic  through 
the  United  States  mails,  confront  the 
unwelcome  possibility  of  terms  in  prison. 
The  law  is  very  strict  as  to  what  shall 
and  shall  not  be  put  into  postoffice 
boxes,  and  there  is  a  vast  amount  of 
ignorance  on  the  subject — which  is 
sometimes  speedily  corrected.  The  pro- 
cess of  sending  "valentines"  has  gradu- 
ally passed,  among  the  lower  order  of 
intellects,  into  the  dissemination  on  one 
day  of  the  year,  of  slander  and  abuse. 
Almost  every  man  in  political  life,  from 
President  down  to  ward  politician,  has 
found  his  mail-box  encumbered  with 
scurrilous  matter  on  some  fourteenth  of 
February.  Professional  men  are  all  sub- 
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not  at  all  prominent.  The  criminals  who 
send  the  things,  and  who  thus  gratify 
a  desire  to  resent  a  real  or  fancied  in- 
jury, are  generally  not  aware  of  the  per- 
sonal risk  they  run :  for  people  who  are 
malicious,  are  often  ignorant,  as  well. 

Most  of  these  petty  attacks,  we  are 
told,  are,  upon  being  received,  dumped 
into  the  waste-basket.  They  were 
bought  all  ready-printed  for  a  cent  or 
two  each,  and  embellished  with  writing 
more  or  less  disguised.  "I  pay  about 
as  much  attention  to  these  things,  as  I 
do  to  a  mongrel  dog  when  he  barks  at 
me",  said  one  Congressman:  "I  know 
they  are  from  beings  who  dare  not  say 
insulting  things  about  me  to  my  face, 
or  to  any  one  through  whom  I  may 
hear  them."  Still,  sometimes  the  dog 
ventures  near  enough  so  that  a  well- 
directed  kick — not  taking  too  much 
trouble — reaches  him  "good  and  hard": 
and  in  that  case,  the  animal  has  only 
himself  to  thank,  that  he  has  to  limp  off 
on  three  legs,  or  lie  down!  on  his  back 
with  the  said  legs  in  the  air. 

But  these  same  sneak-thieves  of  the 
mailing  facilities,  do  not  always  stop 
with  the  annoying  or  attempted  annoy- 
ing of  met! :  they  are  not  above  throw- 
ing their  ink-mud  upon  that  sex  which 
every  true  man  will  honor  and  save 
from  harm  so  far  as  he  is  able.  Some 
of  the  worst  and  meanest  of  slanders 
are  perpetrated  through  •  so-called  val- 
entines, and  some  heart-aches  are 
caused,  which  heal  very  slowly,  if  ever. 
A  man  shakes  off  the  silly  things  that 
are  written  or  printed  about  him:  a 
woman,  unless  she  have  the  masculine 
nature,  cannot  do  this.  Many  a  wound 
has  been  inflicted  by  these  cowardly 
enveloped  stabs,  that  resulted  in  insan- 
ity, and  even  death. 

We  are  sorry  to  admit,  that  now  and 
then  a  member  of  the  female  sex — ^gen- 
erally of  acknowledged  bad  character — 
stoops  to  send  insulting  matter  through 
the  mails,   in  the  manner  above-men- 


tioned. The  laws  do  not  exempt  women, 
any  more  than  men :  and  a  few  arrests 
might  teach  these  harpies  to  be  more 
careful  in  their  literary  crimes. 

The  Government  ought  to  exercise  a 
censorship  over  valentines  that  are  sold 
in  the  book-stores  and  on  the  news- 
stands, for  such  care  is  needed,  and  has 
(been  needed  for  years.  It  already  has 
made  provision  for  punishing  improper 
language  in  a  valentine,  for  the  law 
against  such  offences  does  not  make  any 
exception  because  the  date  is  the  four- 
teenth of  February,  and  it  makes  no 
difference  whether  or  not  the  sender  or 
writer  signs  his  name,  if  it  only  can  be 
procured.  This,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
means  of  detection  are  about  a  hundred 
times  greater  than  ten  years  ago,  is  gen- 
erally an  easy  matter. 


FURNISHING    FINE    ARGUMENTS    AGAINST 
THEMSELVES. 

nr  HE  disposition  of  a  national  Admin- 
istration to  encourage  the  estab- 
lishing of  a  parcels  post,  does  not  need 
any  arguments  from  its  advocates:  its 
opponents  are  themselves  furnishing 
hundreds  of  them  every  day. 

There  comes  to  your  office  or  your 
residence  a  parcel,  marked  "Collect": 
You  pay  the  nice  little  bill,  supposing 
it  was  sent  "C.  O.  D."  Or  you  wonder 
at  the  apparent  fact,  and  question  the 
driver  or  his  assistant,  who  brings  it  in. 
He  surlily  tells  you  that  that's  what  he 
has  been  told  to  collect,  and  if  you  don't 
want  to  give  him  the  amount  demanded, 
he  can  take  the  goods  away.  You  are 
in  a  hurry  for  the  stuff,  and  if  you  have 
not  the  required  amount  handy,  you 
instruct  your  clerk  or  secretary  to  draw 
a  check — considered  good  by  hundreds 
of  different  people  with  whom  you  deal. 
You  are  still  more  gruffly  informed,  that 
"checks  don't  go",  and  the  money  is 
again  demanded.  You  pay  it,  and  after 
using    time    more    valuable    than    the 

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amount  you  paid,  you  are  informed  that 
it  was  a  "mistake",  and  the  money  is 
returned,  in  a  gingerly  manner,  without 
even  an  apology  for  the  inconvenience 
and  insult  to  which  you  have  been  sub- 
jected. This  sort  of  incident  has  hap- 
pened, again  and  again,  and  is  happen- 
ing every  day :  and  you  are  not  allowed 
the  satisfaction  of  ascertaining  whether 
it  is  the  driver's  fault,  or  the  company's. 

It  cannot  always  be  that  of  the  man 
who  does  the  collecting,  or  he  would 
not  dare  to  take  perishable  property 
back  to  the  warehouse,  when  transporta- 
tion-charges upon  them  had  already 
been  paid.  Some  valuable  birds  from 
the  South — rare  and  delicate,  were  thus 
taken  away  from  the  house  of  an  invalid 
lady  in  New  York,  upon  a  cold  winter 
night — when  every  cent  had  already 
been  paid  that  was  due  upon  them,  as 
the  company  afterwards  acknowledged. 
It  was  a  wonder  that  they  did  not  die 
during  the  two  or  three  days  they  were 
stored  away  among  other  goods,  and  it 
is  not  improbable  that  their  lives  were 
shortened  by  the  chill  they  received — 
for  their  tenure  of  additional  existence 
was  not  very  much  extended.  Some- 
times nothing  is  said  about  double 
charges,  for  fear  that  they  are  not  really 
such,  and  the  friend  who  sent  the  pack- 
age may  feel  aggrieved.  Many  of  the 
New  York  drivers  have  openly  boasted 
of  the  extra  money  they  made,  by  fraud- 
ulent charging.  It  is  not  stated  that  the 
companies  have  also  boasted — at  least 
to  the  public. 

This  would  all  be  changed  and  reme- 
died, if  the  Government  conducted  the 
express  business  the  same  as  it  does 
the  letters  and  small  packages.  Em- 
ployees would  hesitate  awhile,  before 
they  boasted  of  stealing  from  the  patrons 
of  our  esteemed  friend,*  Uncle  Samuel. 
There  would  of  course  be  occasional 
dishonesty,  but  nothing  like  that  which 
we  have  been  describing.  And  The  Peo- 
ple would  have  the  profits. 


THE  SHOP  AND  THE   MARKET. 

4IIJOW  dear  ta  my  heart  is  the  old- 
fashioned  market!"  say  many  of 
the  city  people  today.  This  was  in  the 
times  when  the  lady  of  the  house,  or 
her  good  husband,  or  her  servant,  took  a 
basket  in  one  hand  and  a  portemonnaie 
in  the  other,  went  to  some  near-by  col- 
lection of  well- and  cleanly-kept  stalls, 
bought  what  provisions  were  needed  in 
the  house  for  that  day,  and  went  back 
home,  feeling  that  such  money  as  had 
been  expended  was  done  so,  wisely  and 
economically.  If  one  dealer  offered  in- 
ferior goods,  or  charged  an  inflated 
price,  there  was  another,  and  another, 
and  another,  to  fall  back  upon.  The 
sacred  factor  of  Competition  was  not 
only  in  the  physical  air,  but  in  the  men- 
tal. The  market-men  were  believed  to 
charge  a  reasonable,  living  profit  for  the 
commodities  they  sold,  and  if  any  one 
of  them  gave  short-weight,  he  was  soon 
"smoked  out"  and  tabooed  by  the  peo- 
ple with  baskets. 

But  in  these  telegraphic,  telephonic, 
motoristic,  aeroplaning  times,  conditions 
are  different,  necessities  are  different, 
and  results  are  different.  It  costs  much 
more  to  live  than  it  used  to  do,  because 
the  materials  upon  which  people  live 
are  of  a  much  rarer  and  more  expensive 
kind  than  those  they  used  to  employ. 
Things  must  be  delicatessenized  before 
they  can  use  them.  They  must  have 
everything  brought  to  the  door,  carried 
into  the  house,  dumped  upon  the  kitchen- 
table,  and  left  there  by  some  boy-whis- 
tler, comedian,  pessimist,  or  steady, 
straightforward  messenger,  as  the  case 
may  be.  He  lingers  sometimes,  if  the 
cook  is  attractive  and  amiable,  but  gen- 
erally departs,  before  the  eatables  have 
been  examined  or  re-weighed. 

Under  these  facts,  and  the  knowledge 
that  over  3,000  cases  of  "short  weight" 
were  detected  by  New  York  investiga- 
tors in  one  year,  most  people  will  under- 
stand that  the  consumer  does  not  always 

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get  **a  square  deal",  and  at  times  pays 
much  more  for  his  subsistence  and  that 
of  his  family,  than  he  ought  to  do— and 
certainly  than  he  would  like  to  do. 

It  is  asserted  that  very  poor  people, 
who  do  not  have  the  telephone,  or  the 
cook,  or  the  services  of  the  boy-mes- 
senger, are  obliged  to  pay  exorbitant 
prices  for  their  living,  just  the  same. 
Rev.  Dr.  Madison  Peters,  who  seems  to 
think  that  a  clergyman  should  look  after 
people's  bodies  as  well  as  their  souls,  has 
opened  several  small  "stores"  in  New 
York,  where  goods  are  sold  at  reason- 
able prices,  and  fair  weight  and  meas- 
ure given. 

The  Mayor  of  Indianapolis,  who  re- 
joices or  grieves  in  the  not-over-melo- 
dious name  of  Shanks,  but  whose  name 
no  doubt  sounds  sweet  to  the  ears  of 
many  people,  has  also  been  taking  a 
hand,  and  evidently  a  very  strong  one^ 
in  this  situation.  He  claims  to  have 
saved  his  constituents  a  large  amount 
of  money,  which  otherwise  commis- 
sion merchants  and  shop-keepers  would 
unjustly  or  semi-unjustly  have  thrown 
into  their  tills.  "On  10,000  bushels  of 
potatoes,"  he  states,  "I  have  saved  them 
$7,500."  This  is  at  the  rate  of  about 
seventyfive  cents  per  bushel,  and  is  really 
worth  while.  Such  ones  of  his  constitu- 
ents as  had  bought  of  him,  could  luxu- 
riate in  the  fact,  while  eating  their 
Christmas  or  Thanksgiving  turkeys,  that 
they  had  paid  eight  cents  less  per  pound 


for  it,  than  if  they  had  patronized  the 
old  stand. 

"The  trouble  with  you  here  in  New 
York,"  this  Mayor  remarked,  on  a 
recent  visit  east,  "is  that  its  citizens  do 
not  know  enough  to  establish  twenty  or 
thirty  markets  for  every  section,  where 
the  consumer  could  do  his  buying  direct- 
ly from  the  farmer. 

"I  have  asked  why  this  was  so,  and 
have  been  told  that  it  was  so  that  the 
city  could  pay  off  its  debts  by  getting 
big  rents  from  such  market  places  as 
are  allowed  to  exist." 

A  fines  idea — this  starving  one  set  of 
people,  to  help  another  set  pay  their 
taxes !, 

"That  used  to  be  the  way  in  my  city", 
asserted  Mayor  Shanks.  "Commission 
merchants  stocked  up  on  foodstuffs,  re- 
fused to  buy  any  fresh  stock,  until  what 
tlhey  had  on  hand  was  sold — and  that,  at 
a  huge  percentage  of  profit  over  what 
they  had  paid  for  it.  Such  men  are 
useless,  and  a  bane  in  any  city." 

One  man  who  lives  on  Long  Island, 
and  who  is  not  a  mayor,  but  is  a  close 
student  of  commercial  conditions  of  liv- 
ing and  letting  live,  asserts  that  fifty 
million  dollars  could  he  saved  every 
year,  if  producer  and  consumer  could  be 
"brought  together."  He  should  perhaps 
deduct  from  this  princely  sum,  the  cost 
of  bringing  them  together  and  keeping 
them  together,  without  the  inevitable 
middleman  slipping  in  between. 


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"What   is  that  in  thine  hand  ?''— Exo- 
dus IV,  2. 

By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

A  SHEPHERD  lad,  unarmed,  un- 
trained, yet  called  by  the  God  of 
heaven  to  go  to  a  great  King  and  plead 
with  him  to  let  the  oppressed  go  free! 
No  wonder  Moses  cried,  *They  will  not 
believe  me  nor  harken  unto  my  voice, 
for  they  will  say,  the  Lord  hath  not 
appeared  unto  thee."  Then  God  asked 
Moses,  "What  is  that  in  thine  hand?" 
Moses  answered,  "A  rod"!  A  little 
switch !  That  was  all  he  had — to  drive 
the  cattle;  but  God  said,  take  that  and 
go!  Go,  do  what  I  tell  thee;  a  rod 
with  Almighty  God  behind  it  is  mightier 
than  all  the  armies  and  chariots  of 
Egypt.  So  it  has  ever  been,  down  the 
pages  of  history;  when  God  gives  a 
man  something  to  do  He  wants  Him  to 
do  it  with  the  means  he  has,  and  not  to 
plead  that  he  cannot  do  it  unless  greater 
means  be  given  him.  When  God  says 
"go"!  Go,  with  whatever  you  have  in 
hand! 

When    God    says    "do*' !     Then    do ! 
with  whatever  you  have  to  do  with,  for 
"Man's  weakness  waiting  upon  God, 
Its  end  can  never  miss; 

And  men  on  earth  no  work  can  do, 
More  angel-like  than   this!" 

When  it  comes  to  feeding  the  hungry, 
a  little  measure  of  meal  and  a  drop  or 
two  of  oil,  three  barley  loaves  and  a 
fe^y  small  fishes,  are  an  abundance  if  we 
consecrate  them. 

When  God  asks  us  to  do  something. 


He  does  not  ask  us  to  do  it  with  what 
we  have  not;  but  with  what  wq  have. 
If  there  be,  first,  a  willing  mind,  it  is 
accepted  according  to  that  which  a  man 
hath  and  not  according  to  that  which 
he  hath  not.  What  has  that  shepherd 
lad  David  got;  to  kill  that  mighty  giant 
with?  A  bird-sling  and  some  pebbles 
from  the  brook !  What  nonsense ! 
What  is  that  in  thine  hand,  David  ? 
A  sling  and  some  pebbles.  Tis  enough  ; 
^down  goes  th^  giant!  Moses  starts  out 
to  do  God's  command  with  his  rod  and 
the  whole  omnipotence  of  God  flows 
through  that  rod.  The  woman  goes  to 
bake  a  cake  for  the  hungry  prophet 
and  the  whole  infinite  bounty  of  God  is 
in  the  handful  of  meal  and  the  few 
drops  of  oil. 

Thousands  of  people  surrounded 
Jesus  and  his  disciples  and  they  were 
faint  and  hungry.  "How  shall  we  feed 
this  multitude?"  asked  his  disciples. 
"There  is  a  lad  here  with  a  box  of  sar- 
dines and  a  few  oat-meal  crackers." 
"But  what  nonsense  to  think  of  feedings 
this  crowd  on  that  meagre  supply." 
"Bring  them  to  me!"  said  Jesus.  That 
is,  give  me  what  you Ve  got !  The  mul- 
titude were  fed  and  there  was  an  abun- 
dance left  over. 

But  it  is  not  on  the  pages  of  the  Bible 
alone  that  we  read  this  great  truth.  It 
is  the  experience  of  God's  children  every- 
where. One  hundred  years  ago  the 
boys  that  worked  in  the  foundries  in 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  were  neglected, 
wicked,  and  depraved,  and  no  one 
seemed  to  care  what  they  did  or  what 
became'  of  them.  Drunkenness,  fight- 
ing, gambling,   and   licentiousness   pre- 

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vailed  among  them  to  an  alarming  ex- 
tent. A  poor  girl  named  Mary  Ann 
Clough,  who  had  to  work  hard  from 
daylight  till  dark,  six  days  in  the  week, 
and  whose  frail  body  was  hardly  equal 
to  the  exhausting  labor,  heard  God  say 
to  her,  "Mary/  I  want  you  to  do  some- 
thing for  these  boys !"  She  might  have 
plead,  "O  Lord,  I  have  no  money,  no 
time,  no  strength,  no  education!"  But 
she  did  not!  She  began  with  what  she 
had.  She  got  two  or  three  boys  to- 
gether and  talked  with  them,  wept  and 
prayed  over  them,  and*  made  them  feel 
,  that  she  was  in  very  truth  their  friend. 
Then  she  began  to  plan  for  them  and 
to  help  them  in  their  lives.  The  num- 
ber grew  so  that  they  could  no  longer 
meet  in  her  tiny  chamber  and  she  got 
an  old,  dingy,  dark,  dirty  room  in  one 
of  the  factories,  to  meet  in.  Her  work 
began  to  attract  attention.  Her  boys 
were  different  and  better  than  the  other 
boys.  They  were  called  "Mary  Ann's 
boys."  The  attention  of  churches  and 
ministers  was  attracted  to  her  work  and 
soon  she  had  all  the  help  and  all  the 
money  she  needed,  and  today  that  great 
charity,  "The  Glasgow  Foundry  Boys' 
Association"  stands  as  a  monument  to 
her  name.  God  said  to  her,  "What  is 
that  in  thine  hand,  Mary?"  and  she 
answered,  "Nothing,  Lord,  but  a  warm, 
loving  grasp  of  sympathy!  FU  stretch 
it  out  to  the  poor  boys !"  She  did,  and 
all  the  bounty  of  God  flowed  through  it ! 
O  reader,  is  there  not  something  that 
God  is  calling  you  to  do  today,  and  you, 
like  Moses,  are  holding  back  and  saying 
that  it  is  impossible  for  you  to  do  it? 
Is  not  God  asking  you,  as  he  did  Moses, 
"What  is  that  in  thine  hand?"  Has  not 
God  given  you  a  hand  to  work  with,  a 
heart  to  love  with,  and  feet  to  walk 
with?  Then  why  are  you  holding  back 
from  that  work  to  which  he  is  calling 
you? 

Think  of  William  Lloyd  Garrison, 
poor,  friendless,  and  unknown  in  1830, 
beginning  war  on  slavery  which  was 
entrenched  behind  the  Constitution,  laws, 
social  prestige,  and  instituted  religion 
of  the  mightiest  nation  on  the  face  of 
the  earth !     A  poor  printer,  setting  his 


own  type,  and  living  on  bread  and  water 
in  a  wretched  garret,  with  his  only  visi- 
ble auxiliary  a  negro  boy !  "I  will  not 
retract,  I  will  not  equivocate,  and  I 
will  be  heard!"  Heard  he  was;  and 
soon  a  storm  of  wrath  broke  upon  him 
and  an  angry  mob  tried  to  hang  him. 
Like  the  Apostle  Paul  he  was  hunted 
from  city  to  city  by  those  who  sought 
to  take  his  life;  yet  on  he  went,  un- 
daunted and  unafraid,  saying,  "Break 
every  yoke  and  let  the  oppressed  go 
free  I"  Slavery  was  the  sword  which  in 
the  hands  of  God's  avenging  angel  was 
destined  to  smite  this  proud  nation  in 
twain,  and  in  that  blow  slavery  itself 
was  slain! 

It  is  well  to  remember  the  parable  of 
the  talents,  and  of  the  man  who,  having 
only  one,  hid  it  in  a  napkin  and  did 
nothing  with  it.  So  people  excuse  them- 
selves from  doing  anything  at  all  be- 
cause they  can  do  so  little.  As  if  Moses 
had  said,  "All  I've  got  is  a  rod,  and 
what  can  a  fellow  do  with  a  rod?" 

After  the  passage  of  the  Fugitive 
Slave  Law,  ^  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe 
heard  the  vo'ice  of  God  pleading  with 
her  to  do  something  against  the  increas- 
ing power  of  the  institution  of  slavery. 
She  replied,  "What  can  I  do,  Lord?  I 
am  only  a  poor  humble  professor's  wife. 
I  have  neither  fame,  wealth,  nor  influ- 
ence, and  no  one  will  listen  to  me  or 
believe  that  Thou  hast  sent  me !"  Then 
God  said,  "What  is  that  in  thine  hand?" 
She  replied,  "It  is  a  pen!"  With  that 
pen  she  wrote  "Ungle  Tom's  Cabin", 
and  God  did  the  rest! 


From  the  Minister's  Standpoint. 

T^HERE  is  a  spirit  of  remonstrance 
rising  from  the  clergymen  of 
America,  and  Every  Where  has  occa- 
sionally voiced  a  portion  of  it  for  them. 
Here  is  some  more  of  it: 

Rev.  A.  O.  Luce,  pastor  of  the  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  Central  Methodist  church, 
•recently  said,  in  a  sermon,  that  it  was 
impossible  for  a  man  to  be  a  Methodist 
preacher  and  at  the  same  time  maintain 
his  self-respect.     He  alsQ  said  that  the 

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only  difference  between  the  Methodist 
Church  and  a  hired  hand  on  a  farm  was, 
that  the  hired  hand  had  but  one  boss, 
while  the  preacher  had  about  a  thous- 
and bosses. 

Another  clergyman  says: 

"Are  the  gates  of  hell  prevailing 
against  th^  so-called  'Protestant'  church- 
es today?  No  matter  how  loath  I  may 
be  to  admit  it,  yet,  as  a  student,  (and  all 
the  way  through  my  college  career  I 
was  honest,  and  when  in  my  study  I 
saw  a  thing  that  was  right  I  was  brave 
enough  to  proclaim  it),  I  must  stand 
here  this  afternoon  and  as  an  honest 
man,  say  to  you  that  if  things  continue 
at  the  present  rate  for  a  few  more  years, 
there  will  not  be  enough  so-called  'Prot- 
estant' churches  left  to  be  found  with  a 
microscope;  and  I  am  prepared  to  back 
up  that  statement  with  reliable  statistics. 

"Think  of  it !  will  you  ?  and  these  sta- 
tistics were  furnished  by  a  minister,  and 
printed  in  the  Literary  Digest,  one  of 
the  best  and  most  conservative  and  reli- 
able papers  in  the  world.  It  was  stated 
that,  last  year,  in  United  States  alone, 
there  were  ten  thousand  churches  that 
breathed  their  last  breath,  and  that 
there  were  ten  thousand  more  ready  to 
breathe  their  last  breath. 

"If  there  were  a  church  here  and 
there  that  was  being  closed,  why,  that 
would  not  indicate  so  very  much;  but 
it  is  true  the  whole  world  over.  The 
statistics  for  the  churches  of  London 
show  a  lamentable  condition — a  condi- 
tion appalling  enough  to  break  the  heart 
of  every  Christian.  The  masses  have 
ceased  to  attend  the  churches. 

"You  can  see  a  Roman  Catholic 
Church  crowded,  and  the  so-called 
'Protestant'  church  in  the  same  neigh- 
borhood, empty;  and  you  will  see  the 
Roman  Catholics  out  early  in  the  morn- 
ing to  mass ;  but,  alas,  when  the  'Prot- 
estant' church  prayer-meetings  are  held, 
they  are  dead — ^lifeless. 

"The  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson,  of  Rock- 
ford,  said,  'The  dullest  thing  in  Rock- 
ford  is  my  prayer-meeting,  unless  some 
other  fellow's  prayer-meeting  is  duller.' 

"Here  are  millions  of  Methodists  and 


Baptists  (according  to  their  statistics), 
but  where  are  they  on  prayer-meeting 
nights?  Some  of  them  at  euchre  par- 
ties, others  at  theatres,  some  at  dances; 
and  the  Lord  only  knows  where  the 
rest  of  them  are — I  do  not. 

"When  I  was  an  Evangelist,  I  have 
gone  into  some  towns  where  it  has 
taken  me  about  ten  days  and  nights  to 
get  the  'thing'  started;  and  sometimes 
at  the  first  meeting  there  would  be  only 
two  men  there — ^the  janitor  and  myself 
— and  a  few  women. 

"All  over  the  world,  thinking  men  are 
asking — 'What  is  the  Matter  with  the 
Churches  ?* 

"Scholars,  theological  seminary  pro- 
fessors, statesmen  and  magazine  writers 
are  asking — and  the  papers  are  filled 
with  it.  'What  is  the  matter?'  And 
nobody  seems  to  know,  and  things  go 
on  and  get  worse  and  worse  and  worse 
every  year." 


Pulpit  Gems. 


The  Christian  revelation  is  not  a  mere 
message  about  God.  What  Jesus  was, 
God  is.— Bishop  A.  C.  A.  Hall. 

Live  in  a  higher)  religion,  not  in  the 
dust  and  ashes  of  the  past.  In  the  relig- 
ion of  Jesus  Christ  a  man  lives  in  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.— Rev.  E.  E.  Hale. 

Need  we  any  testimony  of  God's 
goodness  to  ourselves  ?  Has  there  been 
a  single  day  from  our  childhood  that  we 
have  not  been  made  partakers  of  His 
unbounded  mercy. — Rev.  Thomas  F. 
Murphy. 

The  general  conscience  of  mankind  in 
all  ages  and  all  over  the  world  has  rec- 
ognized the  essential  difference  between 
right  and  wrong.  The  idea  of  right  and 
wrong  changed  with  the  ages. — Bishop 
Frederick  Courtney. 

Use  your  influence  to  save  others. 
Let  your  power  be  felt  Be  a  helper,  a 
worker,  a  savior.  Do  all  this  in  the 
name  of  the  great  philanthropist,  Jesus. 
Then  you  will  answer  the  purpose  for 
which  you  were  made.— Rev.  Peter 
Stryker. 


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Dangers  of  Milk. 

TTHIS  food  is  not  merely  a  convenient 
vehicle  for  bacteria.  It  is  a  soil 
which  is  peculiarly  favorable  to  their 
growth.  It  abounds  with  the  necessary 
elements  for  their  nurture.  Hence  the 
organisms  almost  invariably  found  soon 
after  it  is  drawn  from  the  cows,  multi- 
ply with  amazing  rapidity,  especially  if 
the  temperature  is  not  promptly  reduced. 

A  New  York  physician  describes  sev- 
eral sets  of  tests  made  by  him:  Five 
hours  after  milking,  the  average  num- 
ber of  bacteria  found  in  a  cubic  centi- 
metre of  the  milk  of  six  cows,  was  six 
thousand,  and  at  the  end  of  fortyeight 
hours  there  were  17,181. 

This  number  may  seem  large  for  a 
mere  thimbleful,  but  it  is  extraordi- 
narily low  compared  with  that  found  in 
most  of  the  milk  of  commerce.  In  an- 
other set  of  experiments  less  elaborate 
cleansing-methods  were  adopted:  but 
the  milk  was  cooled  to  fifteen  degrees 
Fahrenheit  within  two  hours.  Almost 
at  the  outset  there  were  30,366  bacteria 
to  the  cubic  centimetre;  after  twenty- 
four  hours  there  were  48,000,  and  at 
the  end  of  fortyeight  hours  680,000! 

In  ten  samples  of  milk  brought  in  by 
one  great  railroad  to  New  York  City 
and  examined  immediately  on  arrival, 
the  count  ranged  from  100,000  to  35,- 
200,000,  or  an  average  of  little  less 
than  6,000,000.  In  ten  samples  which 
came  by  another  railroad,  the  range  was 
frorci  52,000  to  25,000,000,  and  the  aver- 
age 5,406,200. 

All  of  this  milk  was  examined  in 
March,  when  the  outside  temperature 
was  fifty   degrees.    That  of  the  cans, 


when  opened,  was  fortyfive  degrees. 
The  milk  had  travelled  about  200  miles. 

At  another  time  tests  were  made  with 
milk  obtained  at  places  where  it  was 
retailed.  The  average  for  ten  shops  in 
well-to-do  districts  was  327,500,  and  for 
thirteen  shops  ini  districts  where  the 
poorer  classes  live,  was  1,977,692. 

Four  general  classes  of  bacteria  are 
found  in  milk.  The  functions  of  one 
group  have  not  yet  been  discovered,  a 
second  induces  various  fermentations, 
a  third  imparts  characteristic  flavors  to 
cheese,  and  a  fourth  embraces  disease- 
germs. 

Only  the  last  of  these  endangers 
hfelth,  and  they  occur  in  relatively 
small  numbers  when  they  are  observed 
at  all.  The  startling  statistics  just 
given,  therefore,  do  not  afford  an  accu- 
rate measure  of  the  peril  to  which  the 
public  is  subjected,  but  they  emphasize 
the  awful  facility  with  which  multipli- 
cation is  liable  to  follow  when  only  a 
few  are  present. 

The  microbes  which  are  held  respon- 
sible for  tuberculosis  are  apparently  the 
most  abundant  of  the  pathogenic  bacte- 
ria which  find  their  way  into  milk. 

Because  of  the  small  number  present 
in  a  given  specimen,  or  their  lack  of 
virulence,  or  for  some  other  reason, 
these  organisms  are  not  uniformly  dan- 
gerous ;  but  tests  have  been  made  which 
are  painfully  suggestive. 

Klein,  for  instance,  with  milk  from 
one  hundred  diflferent  sources,  inocu- 
lated as  many  guinea-pigs.  In  seven 
per  cent,  of  these  cases  true  tuberculo- 
sis developed,  in  eight  per  cent,  pseudo- 
tuberculosis followed,  and  in  one  per 
cent,  there  was  diphtheria,  to  say  noth- 


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ing  of  blood-poisoning.  Like  results 
were  also  obtained  when  market-butter 
was  thus  tried. 

The  history  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
epidemics  of  typhoid  fever,  diphtheria, 
and  other  disorders,  which  have  been 
traced  to  contaminated  milk,  shows  that 
the  germs  have  come  from  some  other 
source  than  the  cow.  The  precise  man- 
ner in  which  they]  gained  access  to  the 
milk,  however,  has  not  often  been  clearly 
established. 

One  of  the  most  common  modes  of 
infection  is  washing  cans,  pails,  bottles, 
and  other  receptacles  in  impure  water. 
Greater  cleanliness  and  sterilization  by 
a  high  degree  of  heat  should  render 
such  vessels  innocuous. 

The  custom  of  rendering  the  milk 
itself  safe  by  raising  its  temperature  to 
a  given  point  for  a  short  time  is  stead- 
ily growing  in  favor.  The  standard 
originally  set  by  Pasteur  was  i68  de- 
grees Fahrenheit.  Even  this,  however, 
may  not  prove  fatal  to  organisms  which 
happen  to  be  caught  in  the  skin,  or 
pellicle,  that  often  forms  on  heated 
milk. 

If  the  fluid  is  put  into  a  closed  vessel 
and  agitated,  no  film  will  develop,  the 
germs  will  be  killed,  and  the  ease  with 
which  the  cream  will  rise,  will  not  be 
diminished.  The  heat  should  be  contin- 
ued for  twenty  minutes. 

Whether  or  not  it  is  subjected  to  this 
treatment,  the  milk  should  be  brought 
to  a  temperature  of  fortyfive  or  fifty 
degrees  as  soon  as  possible,  so  as  to 
check  the  development  of  any  bacteria 
which  may  already  be  there  or  gain 
access  to  it  afterward. 


Breathing,  and  BaldneBB. 

A  WESTERN  physician  of  some  note 
^^  has  lately  promulgated  a  theory 
of  baldness,  that  is,  to  say  the  least, 
unique.  According  to  this  medicine- 
man, scarcity  of  hair  on  the  head  is  due 
to  improper  breathing,  and  experiments 
made  with  that  supposition  in  mind, 
seem  to  give  color  of  truth  to  the 
theory. 


It  was  believed  that  air  (or  rather 
organic  matter  which  air  contains), 
when  drawn  into  the  lungs,  and  allowed 
to  remain  in  the  air-cells,  is  decomposed 
by  the  moist  warmth  of  the  body,  and 
that  a  product  of  thisf  decomposition  is 
a  poison  called  "tricho-toxicon."  It  was 
supposed  that  this  poisonous  substance 
is  taken  up  by  the  blood  and  acts  as  a 
direct  agent  in  causing  the  hair  to  fall 
out. 

It  was  explained  that  the  reason  that 
fcaldness  is  so  much  more  conmion 
among  men  than  women,  is  that  their 
manner  of  dress  forces  women  to 
breathe  by  expanding  the  chest — ^which 
method  gives  a  more  complete  circula- 
tion of  air  in  the  lungs  than  the  feeble 
abdominal  method  generally  practiced 
by  men. 

To  prove  the  theory,  several  bald- 
headed  men  were  called  in,  and  exhala- 
tions from  their  lungs  were  stored  in 
vessels  from  which  the  air  had  been 
extracted,  and  from  there,  the  expired 
air  was  transferred  to  bottles  partly- 
filled  with  water.  After  permitting  the 
expelled  air  to  remain  in  the  water  long 
enough  to  impregnate  it  with  the  sup- 
posed hair-poison,  some  of  the  water 
was  injected  into  the  blood  of  dogs, 
hens,  and  pigeons.  The  result  being, 
that  the  hair  of  the  dogs,  and  the  feath- 
ers of  the  hens  and  pigeons,  fell  out 
as  long  as  the  injections  were  contin- 
ued, and  grew  again  as  soon  as  they 
ceased. 

In  more  detail,  the  experiments  were 
as  follows: 

Air  was  obtained  from  the  lungs  of  a 
middle-aged  man  who  had  been  bald  for 
many  years.  This  was  transferred  to  a 
bottle  partly  filled  with  water,  and 
placed  in  an  incubator,  where  it  was 
kept  for  ten  days,  at  a  temperature  of 
ninetyeight  degrees.  Injections  of  the 
impregnated  water  were  made  daily  in 
a  fox-terrior  and  a  hen.  After  four- 
teen injections,  the  dog  commenced  to 
lose  its  hair,  and  the  hen  its  feathers. 
After  fiftytwo  injections,  large  bare 
patches  were  visible  on  both  subjects; 
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health  during  the  progress  of  the  ex- 
periments. Their  weight  remained  un- 
changed. After  the  injections  ceased, 
a  new  coat  of  hair  covered  the  bare 
patches  in  the  dog,  and  the  hen  got  her 
feathers  back. 

A  second  and  more  extensive  series 
of  experiments  conducted  under  excep- 
tionally favorable  circumstances  served 
to  establish  further  the  greater  proba- 
bility of  this  theory. 

Three  flasks  were  numbered  one, 
two,  and  three,  and  the  first  filled  with 
air  from  the  lungs  of  a  man  who  was 
bald,  the  second  with  the  expired  air 
from  the  lungs  of  a  man  whose  head 
had  its  natural  covering,  and  the  third 
with  ordinary  atmospheric  air.  These 
were  placed  in  the  incubator  to  allow 
decomposition  to  take  place.  In  this 
€X|>eriment  one  fox-terrier,  five  hens, 
and  five  pigeons,  all  fully  grown,  were 
used.  Injections  into  the  dog  from  the 
two  flasks  of  expired  air,  one  from  a 
bald  man,  and  the  other  from  a  man 
not  bald,  had  the  same  effect  as  in  the 
first  experiment.  Similar  treatment  of 
the  bens  and  pigeons  was  followed  by 
the  same  results,  only  those  being  af- 
fected which  were  treated  with  injec- 
tions impregnated  Vith  the  alleged  hair- 
poison. 

If  the  theory  is  correct,  the  true  pre- 
ventive of  baldness  is  very  obvious: 
the  habit  of  breathing  to  the  entire 
capacity  of  the  lungs. 


"Sighing"  Is    Pieced-Out  Breath- 
ing. 

pROF.  LUMSDEN  says  that  sighing 
is  but  another  name  for  oxygen- 
starvation.  The  cause  of  sighing  is 
most  frequent  worry.  An  interval  of 
several  seconds  often  follows  moments 
of  mental  disquietude,  during  which 
time  the  chest-walls  remain  rigid  until 
the  imperious  demand  is  made  for  oxy- 
gen, thus  causing  the  deep  inhalation. 
It  is  the  expiration  following  the  inspi- 
ration that  is  properly  termed  the  sfgh, 
and  this  sigh  is  simply  an  effort  of  the 


organism  to  obtain  the  necessary  sup- 
ply of  oxygen.  One  remedy  is  to  cease 
worrying;  another  is  to  habitually  take 
long  and  deep  breaths,  whether  you 
are  worrying  or  not.  The  oxygen  is 
likely  to  stop  you  from  worrying  and 
set  you  to  work. 


ThoBe  Curious  Things— Warts. 

|UfANY  a  boy,  and  girl,  too,  foi^  that 
matter,  has  been  bothered  by  the 
queer  little  white  excrescences  that 
sometimes  grow  on  the  hands,  fingers, 
and  other  parts  of  the  body.  There  are 
various  ways  of  curing  them:  among 
the  best,  is  scraping  them  gently  each 
day,  and  applying  a  mild  acid — like 
moistened  saleratus  or  something  of  the 
kind — until  the  disagreeable  little  lodger 
crumbles  away. 

As  is  well  known,  the  stories  about 
warts  and  their  cure  by  queer  devices, 
are  infinite,  and  in  many  cases  are  so 
strange  that  it  is  only  on  the  hypothesis 
of  suggestion  that  they  can  be  explained 
or  even  believed.  Needless  to  say, 
however,  the  theory  that  such  solid  and 
obvious  overgrowths  as  warty  masses 
can  be  made  to  shrivel  and  die  off  under 
the  influence  of  such  a  mental  process 
as  suggestion,  has  bearings  which  reach 
far  and  can  hardly  be>  limited  to  warts 
alone. 

A  case  is  related  by  Dr.  Dibble  Staple 
of  a  girl  fifteen  years  old  who  had  a 
large  number  of  warts  on  both  her 
hands.  She  had  counted  as  many  as 
ninetyfour  on  the  right  hand.  Having 
read  in  one  of  the  medical  journals  that 
a  number  of  warts  had  been  cured  by 
vaccination,  the  doctor  determined,  with 
the  consent  of  the  relatives,  to  give  the 
plan  a  trial.  He  therefore  re-vaccinated 
the  patient  on  June  i.  The  vaccination 
was  successful,  but  no  effect  was  pro- 
duced on  the  warts  until  seven  weeks 
after,  when  they  gradually  disappeared, 
leaving  temporary  white  spots,  and 
when  she  was  examined  a  few  weeks 
later  all  trace  of  them  had  entirely  dis- 
appeared. 

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Failure  and  Success. 
II. 

QiUCCESS  is  one  of  the  easiest  things 
to  achieve,  in  the  known  world,  if 
one  will  be  content,  at  first,  with  small 
gains.  It  commences,  like  the  learning 
of  a  language,  at  the  simplest  rudiments. 
It  has  an  alphabet,  without  learning  and 
practicing  which,  no  man  or  woman 
may  hope  to  ever  master  it.  There  is 
not  a  half-hour  of  one's  life  within 
which  he  can  not  procure  a  tritmiph,  or 
a  half-second  that  is  not  large  enough 
for  a  failure. 

The  twentysix  letters  of  Success  lie 
in  training  the  body  to  do  what  the 
mind  directs.  You  intended  to  pick  up 
that  book,  tie  that  package,  write  that 
word,  inhale  that  breath,  voice  that 
thought,  eat  that  morsel,  sing  that  song, 
remember  that  fact.  If  you  accom- 
plished the  feat,  truly  and  exactly,  it 
was  a  success,  and  part  of  a  subsequent 
victory;  not  otherwise.  In  whatever 
degree  the  performance  differed  from 
your  exact  intention,  it  is  a  failure. 
You  told  yourself  to  do  a  certain  piece 
of  work  in  a  certain  manner?  If  you 
have  obeyed  your  own  commands  accu- 
rately, and  done  just  what  you  pro- 
posed, it  is  a  success;  not  otherwise. 
You  intended  to  amuse  yourself  a  cer- 
tain length  of  time,  and  then  return  to 
work?  If  you  are  not  warped  from 
the  purpose  by  some  rival  impulse  or 
power — ^by  the  undue  influence  of  some 
other  person  or  thing — you  have  made 
a  success ;  in  so  far  as  you  turned  away, 
you  failed.  You  tried  to  understand  a 
certain  subject,  thoroughly  and  com- 
pletely? If  you  adhered  to  the  purpose 
until  it  was  accomplished,  you  have  suc- 
ceeded ;  not  otherwise.     It  is  wonderful 


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how  many  victories  or  how  many  fail- 
ures one  can  tally  in  a  day — in  an  hour ! 

To  conquer  by  accident,  by  "good 
luck",  by  the  kindness  of  others,  by  any 
of  the  hundreds  of  things  that  constantly 
happen  in  our  favor — is  nothing  over 
which  to  be  proud.  On  the  other  hand, 
when  we  have  done  our  very  best 
toward  the  accomplishing  of  an  object, 
we  have  at  least  gained  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal approaches  to  success,  even  if  the 
results  be  not  exactly  as  we  hoped. 

When  one  gets  thorough  control  of 
body  and  mind  in  all  the  lesser  affairs 
of  life,  these  lead  to  greater  and  greater 
achievements,  as  surely  as  words  of  one 
syllable  do  to  those  of  six.  Every  suc- 
cess draws  compound  interest,  and  con- 
tributes to  grand  results.  An  avalanche 
— that  gigantic  snow-flake  of  the  moun- 
tain-side— ^was  formed  by  millions  of 
delicate  crystals  that  came  quietly  one 
after  another.  The  sublime  drama  of 
"Paradise  Lost'',  was  the  sum  and 
product  of  year  after  year,  thought 
after  thought,  inspiration  after  inspira- 
tion, on  the  part  of  its  blind  author; 
and  it  made  him  famous  forever. 

Not  only  can  Failure  counterfeit  it- 
self, but  Success  can  do  the  same. 
Many  a -man  thinks  he  is  an  immortal 
prodigy,  and  may  deceive  the  world  into 
believing  so  for  a  time — when  he  is 
really  only  suitable  to  be  one  of  the 
more  insignificant  inhabitants  of  Obliv- 
ion. A  tree  that  had  one  branch  cov- 
ered with  leaves  and  blossoms,  while 
every  other  was  scragged  and  bare, 
could  not  be  considered  as  anything  but 
a  failure;  and  yet  it  ought  to  be  the 
accredited  banner  of  many  of  our  so- 
called  successes  of  the  world.  No  tree 
is  a  success  until  the  great  majority  of 
its  branches  are  growing  and  blooming 

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and  fruiting;  no  man  is  so  until  his 
best  faculties  and  sentiments  are  in  full 
play. 

The  only  kind  of  success  that  will 
stand  against  the  laundry-work  of  time, 
is  the  kind  that  comes  from  the  accom- 
plishing of  that  which  we  undertake 
because  we  undertook  it,  and  which  God 
undertook  when  He  created  us. 

He  intended  that  we  should  have 
good  morals;  and  a  man  may  be  rich, 
honored,  influential  and  powerful,  and 
still  a  failure,  if  moral  principle  do  not 
underlie  it  all.  The  walking  moral- 
cemeteries  and  crematories  that  do  not 
belong  to  any  church,  and  hence  think 
they  should  be  allowed  to  sin  openly 
and  above-board,  are  nuisances  to 
Heaven;  and  so  are  those  who  do  be- 
long to  churches,  and  transgress  secret- 
ly, under  their  sanctuary  roofs.  Sin 
and  Meanness  consort  very  closely 
together,  with  Meanness  a  little  the 
lower. 

He  wants  every  one  to  have  the  free 
and  healthy  use  of  every  organ  of  every 
part  of  the  body ;  He  often,  therefore, 
allows  famous  object-lessons  to  appear 
in  the  world,  showing  how  ill-health 
limits  the  capacities  that  might  other- 
wise gleam  up  and  down  through  the 
generations,  in  unimpaired  usefulness. 
He  has  shown  us  Alexander  Pope, 
whose  whole  life  was  "one  long  linger- 
ing disease" ;  Elizabeth  Browning,  with 
her  days  shortened  and  crippled  by 
pain;  and  thousands  of  others,  who 
have  been  allowed  to  do  great  and 
grand  things  enough  to  testify  how 
much  more  they  could  have  accom- 
plished if  the  body  had  been  equal  to 
the  mind — the  casket  capable  of  holding 
the  diamonds. 

H-e  wants  every  grown  person  to  be 
financially  independent,  reliable,  and 
honest;  not  leaning  any  more  heavily 
upon  his  neighbors  than  he  is  willing 
to  have  them  lean  upon  him;  never 
incurring  a  debt  he  does  not  mean  to 
pay;  never  accepting  a  favor  that  he 
is  not  willing  to  requite.  He  does  not 
require  people  to  get  so  rich  that  they 
lose  both  their  dependence  and  inde- 
pendence, but  wishes  them  to  be  not 


only  rich  enough  but  poor  enough  to 
hold  their  own  financially  in  the  world. 

He  wants  educated  people:  not  those 
who  have  tunnelled  so  far  into  a  few 
subjects  that  they  can  see  nothing  else, 
but  those  who  have  bridged  from  one 
hill  of  thought  and  information  to  an- 
other, and  have  looked  upon  the  world 
around  them  while  doing  so.  An  ignor- 
ant man  or  woman  nowadays  is  gener- 
ally an  inexcusable  failure. 

He  wants  civil,  polite,  good-looking 
people;  those  who  know  how  to  con- 
tribute toward  the  smooth-running  of 
that  great  complicated  machine  called 
Society — and  not  at  the  same  time  to 
be  caught  and  lashed  upon  one  of  its 
painted  wheels,  and  carried  round  and 
round  and  round  for  life.  Wholesome 
and  hearty  people,  He  wants,  whose 
winsomeness  ceases  not  with  the  skin. 

He  wants  people  who  have  karned 
some  trade  or  profession  in  which  they 
can  earn  a  living  for  themselves,  and 
enough  more  to  guard  not  only  against 
"a  rainy  day",  but  thunder-storms  and 
blizzards,  and  to  help  the  present  mis- 
fortune of  friends. 

He  wants  people  who  are  kind  to 
others — ^kind  toi  themselves — kind  te> 
this  world  and  the  nextj  and  nothing 
less  than  all  these  will  He  accept,  and 
dignify  and  glorify  it  with  the  name 
Success. 


When  Fire'B  in  the  House. 

*TpHE  home  is  a  bad  place  for  a  con- 
flagration. There  are  so  many 
hundreds — almost  thousands' — of  things 
that  are  more  precious  than  any  amount 
of  money  can  describe!  So,  if  we  may 
be  allowed  to  use  a  very  current  and 
expressive  slang-phrase,  it  is  "up  to"  us 
to  use  every  effort  and  employ  every 
means  to  keep  our  homes  from  getting 
afire. 

The  interior  of  houses,  from  year  to 
year,  naturally  gets  dryer  and  dryer, 
and  more  and  more  inflammable — ^unless 
special  precautions  are  taken  to  the  con- 
trary. The  air  in  most  houses  is  apt  to 
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many,  it  is  several  degrees  more  arid 
than  the  desert  itself.  In  such  a  case, 
everything  gets  fearfully  and  ominously 
susceptible  to  the  least  touch  of  fire,  and 
ready  to  go  off  like  a  rocket. 

It  is  this  abnormal  dryness,  produced 
by  well-meant  efforts  to  keep  the  house 
warm,  that  loosens  book-bindings  and 
causes  furniture  to  fall  apart. 

Great  care  should  be  taken  to  keep 
plenty  of  water  upon  stoves  and  fire- 
places, so  that  the  moisture  proceeding 
from  it  will  permeate  the  air  of  the 
room. 

"Be  careful  with  fire",  is  an  old-time 
precept,  that  can  never  be  repeated  too 
often.  There  are  so  many  unexpected 
ways  in  which  a  house  can  be  set  on 
fire,  if  the  least  carelessness  creeps  in! 
Candles,  lamps,  parlor-matches,  cigar- 
and  cigarette-stubs,  and  numerous  other 
agencies,  are  all  ready  to  start  the  fiery 
ball  rolling.  "Be  careful  with  fire" 
ought  to  be  framed  and  hung  in  every 
room — not  far  from  "God  Bless  Our 
Home" ;  for  unless  care  is  taken,  there 
will  soon  be  no  home  to  be  blessed. 

Means  of  extinguishing  should  be  in 
every  house — numerous  and  efficient. 
Several  companies  make  fire-extinguish- 
ers, that  are  capable  of  putting  out  any 
little  blaze,  if  it  has  not  progressed  too 
far.  Large  bottles  filled  with  salted 
water  are  good  and  efficient  articles  to 
keep  on  hand.  It  is  a  splendid  idea  to 
have  plenty  of  appliances  at  one's  finger- 
ends  :  "we  don't  need  them  very  often," 
as  the  railroad  paymaster  said  of  his 
revolvers,  "but  when  we  do,  we  need 
them  awfully  bad" 

When  anything  does  get  afire  in  the 
home,  don't  open  the  windows  and  let 
in  copious  quantities  of  air  to  help  the 
fire  along.  Choke  the  blaze  if  you  can. 
Throw  upon  it  everything  you  can  find, 
of  a  heavy  and  air-excluding  nature. 
Blankets,  cloaks,  shawls,  ordinary  wear- 
ing-apparel, rugs,  all  have  been  used  as 
fire-extinguishers.  One  gentleman  threw 
a  costly  overcoat  upon  an  incipient  fire 
in  a  storage-closet,  and,  probably,  saved 
the  house. 

When  water   is  used,   discrimination 


should  be  employed  in  equal  quantities. 
If  you  are  not  careful,  you  are  liable  to 
deluge  about  everything:  excepting  the 
flame  itself;  and  spoil  articles,  even  if 
you  save  them. 

When  people's  garments  catch  afire, 
their  first  impulse  often  is  to  run  out- 
doors for"  relief:  and  they  might  about 
as  well  jump  into  a  tank  of  naphtha. 
On  the  contrary,  they  should  be  kept 
right  where  they  are,  and  made  into 
costumers  for  the  holding  of  everything 
that  can  be  piled  on  them. 

One  lady  happened  to  find  herself  all 
ablaze  in  a  room  where  there  was  noth- 
ing that  could  be  so  utilized,  and  her 
husband,  called  in  by  her  screams,  im- 
mediately took  in  the  situation,  and,  in 
obedience  to  some  instinct  of  better-half 
preservation,  threw  her  on  the  floor,  and 
rolled  her,  until  the  fire  was  extin- 
guished, without  injury  to  her.  Instead 
of  taking  up  the  carpet  and  putting  it 
on  her,  he  put  her  on  the  carpet,  and 
smothered  the  flames  effectually. 

If  you  are  convinced  that  all  effort  is 
in  vain,  and  the  house  has  to  burn,  you 
will  of  course  put  in  your  time  to  saving 
as  much  as  possible.  The  first  thing 
to  consider,  is  human  life:  remember- 
ing that  it  is  better  to  lose  ever3rthing 
else  in  the  house  than  that  living  beings 
should  be  tortured  and  killed  in  the 
flames.  Try  and  remember  where  any 
inmate  is  located  that  perhaps  may  not 
have  heard  the  alarm ;  and  rescue  such 
as  need  it. 

Next  comes  the  task  of  saving  "the 
things" :  a  matter  of  difficulty— for  it  is 
hard  to  give  anything  up  to  the  flames, 
and  you  are  tempted  to  undertake  too 
much  and  accomplish  nothing. 

Almost  any  one  who  has  seen  a  fire, 
can  recall  some  queer  rescues  and  sav- 
ings ;  such  as  the  tumbling  of  expensive 
mirrors  out-of-window,  and  the  careful 
carrying  of  beds  and  mattresses  down 
stairs. 

Especially  are  people  in  danger  of 
being  careless,  at  least,  when  saving  the 
articles  of  another.  Try  and  not  let 
your  "assistance"  in  such  cases  contrib- 
ute materially  toward  your  friend's  ruin. 


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January  25 — Yuan  was  made  a  Marquis  as  a 
token  of  tlie  throne's  appreciation  of  his 
services  and  President  Sun  wired  him 
that  the  republican  leaders  had  fullest 
confidence  in  him. 

Alton  B.  Parker  in  an  address  to  the  Sk>uth 
CaroHna  Bar  Association  opposed  the 
recall  of  Judges  and  assailed  Col.  Roose- 
velt. 

A   window   in  memorial   of   John    Bunyan 
was  unveiled  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
26— The  tariff  revision  debate  began,   in  the 
House,  in  stormy  discussion. 

France  and  Italy  agreed  to  let  the  Hague 
Tribunal  decide  the  law  questions  in- 
volved in  the  seizure  of  the  French 
steamers,  Carthage  and  Manouba. 
27 — Representatives  of  the  textile  mills  of 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  rejected  the  demands 
of  the  workers. 
28— iRefusing  to  extend  the  armistice,  Wu 
Ting  Pang  threatened  to  renew  hostilities 
at  once  unless  abdication  was  accom- 
plished. 

Five  unsuccessful  revolutionary  generals  of 
Ecuador  were  lynched  by  a  mob  at  Quito. 
2^— The  House  passed  the  Metals  bill,  reduc- 
ing the  tariff  on  iron  and  steel  product 
30  to  50  per  cent. 

The  Duke  of  Fife  died  in  Assouan,  Egypt. 

Governor  Foss  of  Massachusetts  ordered 
additional  troops  of  infantry  and  cavalry 
to  Lawrence.  Mass..  where  the  strikers 
rioted. 
30— General  strikes  in  Portugal  due  to  a 
Royalist  plot,  caused  the  Government  to 
declare  martial  law  in  Lisbon. 

The  imperial  Chinese  family  decided  on  im- 
mediate abdication  of  the  throne. 

Mayor  Gaynor  let  off  the  blast  that  com- 
pleted   the   aqueduct   tunnel   beneath    the 
Hudson  River. 
31 — A  small  man-of-war  of  the  new  Portugal 

republic  arrived  in  New  York. 
February  i — All  the  Lawrence,   Mass.,   Mills 
opened     their    gates    and     picketing    of 
plants  ceased. 

General  Chang  Kuai  Gai,  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  Chinese  Imperial  forces,  tele- 
graphed to  Sun  Yat  Sen  his  decision  to 
join  the  revolutionaries  with  his  army. 
2— A  British  submarine  sunk,  after  a  colli- 
sion, with  a  loss  of  fourteen  lives — four 


lieutenants     and     ten     members     of     the 

*  crew. 
3 — President  Taft  signed  a  proclamation  in- 
viting other  nations  to  participate  in  the 
Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition 
in  San  Francisco  in  1915  to  celebrate  the 
opening  of  the  Canal. 
4 — China[s  Empress  Dowager  issued  an  edict 
directing  Premier  Yuan  to  co-operate 
with  the  Provisional  Government  at  Nan- 
king in  transforming  the  empire  into  a 
republic. 

King  George  and.  Queen  Mary  reached 
England  from  India,  fourteen  hours 
ahead  of  time. 

A  man,  a  woman  and  a  boy  were  swept  to 
death  in  the  whirlpool  rapids  when  the 
Niagara  ice-bridge  broke. 
5 — Owing  to  disquieting  advices  from  Mexico 
the  United  States  Government  ordered 
34,000  regular  troops  to  prepare  for  im- 
mediate duty  on  the  border. 

Charles  L.  Sherman,  head  of  the  audit  de- 
partment of  the  American  Steel  and  Wire 
Company,  was  reported  missing. 

Spain  launched  the  first  battleship  (the  Es- 

pana),  of  her  new  navy. 
6— A   complete    armistice    was    arranged    in 
China  and  peace  negotiations  began. 

Thirtytwo  indictments  were  returned  by 
the  Federal  Grand  Jury  at  Indianapolis, 
after  six  weeks'  investigation  of  the  dy- 
namite conspiracy. 

United  States  Judge  Gary  granted  a  tem- 
porary injunction  restraining  the  Steel 
Trust  and  its  subsidiaries  from  destroying 
evidence  needed  by  United  States  in  its 
suit  against  the  Trust. 
7 — Emperor  William  opened  the  new  Reichs- 
tag, demanding  more  troops  and  a  big- 
ger navy. 

Five  bandits  held  up  a  Rock  Island  train 
in  Arkansas,  and  blowing  open  a  safe, 
escaped  with  $75,000. 

Fifty  travellers  perished  in  a  snowstorm 
near  Ishim,  Siberia. 

Thirteen  Mexican  bandits  were  captured  on 
the  American  side  of  the  Mexican  border, 
at  El  Paso.  Texas. 
8— First  Lord  of  the  Admiralty  Churchill 
outlined  the  Irish  Home-Rule  Bill  at 
Belfast,  order  being  maintained  by  police 
and  troops. 


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The  Secretary  to  the  American  Legation  at 
Peking,  and  the  United  States  Cansul  at 
Nanking,  paid  an  unofficial  visit  to  the 
Chinese  President. 

Floods  in  Portugal  and  Spain  destroyed 
much  life  and  property;  the  Portuguese 
Chamber  voted  $500,000  to  aid  the  victims. 

The  Virginia  House  voted  agrainst  consti- 
tutional woman  suffrage,  85  to  12. 
9— Viscount  Haldane,  British  Secretary  of 
War,  was  the  guest  at  luncheon  of  the 
German  Emperor  and  Empress,  his  visit 
being  presumably  in  the  interest  of  peace 
and  smaller  armaments. 

Earl  Spencer  resigned  his  office  of  Lord 
Chamberlain. 

EVespatches  confirmed  the  reports  that 
President  Madero  had  issued  a  call  for 
an  extraordinary  session  of  the  Mexican 
Congress  to  consider  measures  for  pre- 
serving the  integrity  of  the  nation. 
10— With  a  temperature  22P  below  zero, 
Water  town,  N.  Y.,  was  obliged  to  close 
several  factories  because  of  inability  of 
coal-trains  to  reach  the  city. 
II— Baron  'Lister,  discoverer  of  antiseptic 
treatment  in  surgery,  died  in  London, 
England. 

Two  Chinese  women  delivered  the  princi- 
pal addresses  at  a  Chinese  Christian  pa- 
triotic celebration  in  Chicago. 
12— China  became  a  Republic,  Yuan  Shi  Kai 
being  directed  to  install  the  new  govern- 
ment. 

The  Senate  Committee  on  Pension  voted  to 
support  the  Snaoot  Age-Service  bill,  which 
will  add  $24,000,000  annually  to  the  pen- 
sion rolls. 
13— The  Department  of  State  authorized 
Ambassador  Wilson  and  all  consular  rep- 
resentatives in  Mexico  to  deny  reports  of 
intervention  in  Mexico;  United  States  de- 
manded only  the  respect  and  protection 
of  American  life  and  property. 
14— President  Taft  signed  the  proclamation 
admitting  Arizona  as  the  fortyeighth 
State  of  the  Union. 

Americans  in  Mexico  appealed  to  the  State 
and  War  Departments  at  Washington  for 
protection. 

Premier  Asquith  informed  Parliament  that 
Viscount  Haldane's  visit  to  Berlin  was 
made  on  Germany's  invitation,  and  "may 
have  more  than  negative  results". 
Fortyone  officers  and  members  of  labor 
unions  were  arrested  charged  with  violat- 
ing the  interstate  dynamite-transportation 
law. 
15 — ^Dr.   Sun  Yat   Sen   resigned   the  Chinese 

Presidency  in  favor  of  Yuan  Shi  Kai. 
f6--Yuan  Shi  Kai  was  unanimously  elected 
President  of  the  Chinese  Republic  by  the 
National  Assembly  at  Nanking  after  Dr. 
Sun's  resignation  had  been  accepted. 
Three  were  killed  and  seventyfive  injured 
when  a  flyer  on  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 
road was  ditched. 


It  was  reported  that  Lieutenant  Field, 
who  accidentally  invaded  Mexico  with 
some  infantry,  would  be  courtmartialled. 
Two  of  the  Camorrists  on  trial  for  murder 
in  Viterbo,  Italy,  were  discharged  by  the 
court.  / 

17 — The  Governor  of  South  Carolina  signed 
the  so-called  Anti-Racing  bill  which  pro- 
hibits betting  at  a  race-track. 
The  Pennsylvania  Limited  crashed  into  a 
work  train  at  Larwill,  Indiana,  killing 
four  persons  and  injuring  eleven. 

18— 'Minister  Ospina  notified  Secretary  Knox 
that  the  latter's  proposed  visit  to  Colom- 
bia would  be  "inopportune"  because  of 
the  failure  of  United  States  to  arbitrate 
the  Panama  controversy. 
It  was  reported  that  many  Americans  and 
other  foreigners  were  fleeing  from  Mex- 
ico to  United  States  or  to  Central  Am- 
erican States. 

19 — China  issued  a  proclamation  inaugurating 
throughout  the  Republic  the  western  sys- 
tem of  reckoning  time. 

20 — The  British  Government  intervened  in  an 
effort  to  prevent  the  threatened  strike  of 
800,000  coal  miners. 
A  freight-train  was  wrecked  in  the  Iloosac 

ttumel,  two  trainmen  being  killed. 
The     Pennsylvania     "eighteen-hour     flyer" 
crashed  into  a  string  of   freight  cars  at 
Middletown,  Pa« 

21-— The  great  Jungfrau  Tunnel,  Switzerland, 
27,900  feet  long,  was  completed,  at  an 
altitude  of  13,000  feet  above  sea  level. 

22 — Colombia  recalled  Minister  Ospina  be- 
cause of  his  "inopportune"  letter. 
British  Cabinet  conferences  separately  with 
coal-mine  owners  and  workers  failed  to 
bring  about  an  agreement. 
A  Federal  Grand  Jury  in  Cincinnati  re- 
turned thirty  indictments  against  the  offi- 
cials of  the  Nlational  Cash  Register  Com- 
pany for  criminal  restraint  of  trade  and 
one  indictment  against  the  Adams  Ex- 
press Company  for  charging  above  the 
published  rate. 

2.1— Colombia    virtually    repudiated    Minister 
Ospina    by    cordially    inviting    Secretary 
Knox  to  visit  that  country. 
The  Italian  Chamber  of  Deputies  voted  to 
annex  Tripoli. 

24 — Italian  warships  bombarded  the  Turkish 
city  of  Beirut. 

25 — Colonel  Roosevelt  announced  himself  a 
candidate  for  President. 

26 — Attorney-General  Wickersham  ordered 
ihe  United  States  District-Attorney  at 
Boston  to  investigate  the  Lawrence  strike. 

27 — Secretary  of  (S^ate  Knox  was  warmly 
welcomed  in  Panama,  where  he  began  his 
tour  of  the  Latin-American  republics. 
Mexican  rebels  captured  Juarez,  Maderists 
ceasing-  resistance  for  fear  of  complica- 
tions with  United  States. 
Dr.  Karl  Steiniger  was  elected  the  first 
Mayor  of  Greater  Berlin. 


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The  Shepherd  and  the  Lamb. 

IN  the  Scottish  hills,  as  a  shepherd  strolled. 
On  an  eve,  with  his  ancient  crook, 
He  found  a  lamb  that  was  chilled  and  young, 
By  the  side  of  a  purling  brook. 

And  through  fear  that  the  lamb  might  sicken 
and  die. 

From  its  mother's  side  might  roam^ 
He  carried  it  up  with  a  tender  care, 

To  a  fold  in  his  highland  home. 

Mid  the  dreary  night,  o'er  the  cragged  peaks, 
Through  the  winds,  and  the  storms,  and  the 
cold, 

The  mother  followed  her  captured  lamb 
To  the  door  of  the  shepherd's  fold. 

Once  we  had  a  lamb  by  its  mother's  side. 
It  was  artless,  and  pure,  and  mild, 

'Twas  the  dearest  lamb  in  my  own  dear  flock, 
Oh,  the  pale,  little  blue-eyed  child. 

But  a  shepherd  came,  when  the  sun  grew  low, 
By  a  path  that  has  long  been  trod. 

And  he  carried  our  lamb  through  the  mists  of 
night, 
To  his  fold  in  the  mount  of  God. 

With  a  tearful  eye,  and  a  bleeding  heart. 
We  must  bear  it  and  struggle  on, 

And  climb  that  mount  by  the  shepherd's  track, 
To  the  fold  where  our  lamb  has  gone. 

— Daznd  Barker 


DIED: 

ALLEN,  IRA  W.— In  Chicago,  February  9, 
at  the  age  of  eightytwo  years.  A  widely- 
known  educator,  he  founded  the  Union 
Christian  College  in  Indiana,  and  at  one 
time  was  head  of  Lake  Forest  University. 
For  eighteen  years  he  conducted  the  Allen 
Academy  in  Chicago,  which  closed  when  he 
retired  in  1892.  Hamilton  College  was  his 
alma  mater. 

BRIE,  EMILE  H.— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
January  26.  He.  was  born  in  Germany, 
eightyeight  years  ago.  Coming  to  United 
States,  he  served  his  adopted  country 
through  the  Mexican  and  the  Civil  Wars. 
For  a  time  he  was  Secretary  to  General 
Butler. 

BUCKRIDGE,  JOHN  N.— In  Wcstbrook, 
Conn.,  January  24.     He  was  born  in  New 


York  City  in  1833.  For  seven  years  he 
served  in  the  United  States  Navy,  and 
was  in  the  Heavy  Artillery  during  the  Gvil 
War.  He  was  connected  with  the  Govern- 
ment Lighthouse  Service  for  a  quarter  of 
2n  century,  and  for  the  last  nineteen  years 
was  keeper  of  the  Saybrook  light. 

GLOVEiR,  LEWiS  P.— In  New  York  City, 
February  11.  He  was  born  in  Springfield, 
Illinois,  in  1865,  and  was  a  grand-nephew 
of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  was  for  twenty 
years  a  well-known  newspaper  man  in  New 
York  and  was  State  Court  reporter  for  the 
Evening  S^un. 

COX,  CHARLES  FINNEY— In  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  January  24,  aged  sixtysix  years.  He 
was  born  in  New  York,  and  was  educated 
in  the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York 
and  at  Oberlin  College,  Ohio.  He  became 
accountant  to  the  Canadian  Southern  Rail- 
road in  1870  and  later  was  President  of 
various  railroad  lines,  treasurer  of  the  New 
York  Central,  and  a  founder  of  the  New 
York  Zoological  Society.  He  was  a  Fel- 
low of  the  Royal  Microscopical  Society  of 
London,  and  was  a  delegate  to  Oxford, 
England,  at  the  Darwinian  Centenary.  He 
belonged  to  various  philanthropic  and  scien- 
tific societies. 

CROMWELL,  ELLIS— He  was  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  at  Manila  and  died  while 
returning  to  that  city  from  a  trip  to  the 
provinces.  He  was  a  native  of  Mississippi 
and  had  gone  to  the  Philippines  as  Captain 
oi  volunteers. 

DELAUNAY-BELLEVILLE,  LOUIS  —  In 
Cannes,  France,  February  10.  He  was  a 
noted  engineer,  and  was  Director  General 
of  one  of  the  departments  of  the  exposi- 
tion of  1900.  He  was  once  Honorary  Pres*!- 
dent  of  the  Chamber  of  0>mmerce,  Paris. 

DEXTER,  WILLIAM  H.— In  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  January  20.  He  was  born 
in  Charleton,  in  1823,  and  was  the  origina- 
tor of  the  first  fire  insurance  company  in 
this  country.  Well  known  locally  as  a 
philanthropist,  he  had  given  away  $500,000 
to  churches,  to  Worcester  Academy  and  to 
Charleton. 

FORD,  ELI  AS  A.— At  Pksadena,  California, 
January  20.  He  was  born  in  1840,  in  Bur- 
ton, Ohio.  In  1861  he  became  ticket  agent 
of  the  Union  Depot,  Qeveland,  and  rising 
from  position  to  position  as  General  Pas- 
senger   Agent    on     various     railroads,     he 


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became  in  1887  General  Traffic  Manager 
and  Passenger  Agent  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Lines.     - 

GAiRGIULO,  ALEXANDER  A.— In  Con- 
stantinople, January  20.  He  was  born  in 
Italy,  and  in  1867  entered  the  service  of  the 
American  Legation  in  Constantinople.  He 
was  appointed  interpreter  in  1873,  and  in 
1892  became  First  Dragoman  to  the  Ameri- 
can Embassy  there.  His  extensive  loiowl- 
edge  and  judgment  in  political  affairs,  and 
his  great  tact,  coupled  with  his  linguistic 
attainments,  made  him  of  great  service  to 
the  American  (Ministers  and  Ambassadors 
to  Turkey. 

GILL,  PRIOF.  BENJAMIN-nIn  Baltimore, 
Md.,  February  11,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
nine  years.  He  was  born  in  Massachusetts, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  Professor 
of  Greek  and  Latin,  and  Chaplain  of  Penn- 
sylvania State  College,  Bellefont,  Md. 

GRACEY,  REV.  DR.  JOHN  T.— At  Clifton 
Springs,  N.  Y.,  January  5,  in  his  eightyiirst 
year.  He  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  where 
he  was  educated,  and  entered  the  Methodist 
ministry.  In  1861  he  went  to  India  as  a 
missionary.  Returning  after  seven  years, 
he  became  a  missionary  writer,  and  for 
several  years  was  an  editor  of  The  Mis- 
sionary Review  of  the  World,  He  organ- 
ized the  International  Missionary  Union 
more  than  twentyiive  years  ago  and  was 
its  president.  He  served  pastoravtes  in  sev- 
eral New  York  cities. 

HITCHODCK,  JOHN  M.— In  Chicago,  Feb- 
ruary II,  in  his  seventyfirst  year.  He  was 
educated  at  Oberlin,  Ohio,  and  became  a 
co-worker  with  Dwight  L.  Moody,  the 
evangelist.  For  more  than  forty  years  he 
had  been  a  leader  in  the  Moody  Church 
(Chicago),  and  was  a  Director  of  the  Na- 
tional Christian  Association. 

HOLMES,  RT.  REV.  GEORGE.  LORD 
BISHOP  OF  ATHABASCA— In  London, 
February  3.  He  was  a  Canadian  by  birth 
and  was  educated  at  St.  John's  College, 
Winnipeg,  where  he  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity.  Ordained  in  1887,  he 
became  a  missionary  for  the  Church  Mis- 
sionary Society.  Until  1905  his  field  of 
work  was  in  what  was  formerly  the  North- 
west Territory.  In  1901  he  was  made  Arch- 
deacon of  Athabasca,  and  Bishop  of  Moo- 
sonee  in  1905. 

KIRKMAN,  ALEXANDER  S.— In  Brook- 
lyn, February  10,  aged  sixtyeight  years. 
He  was  born  in  Manhattan  and  became  one 
of  the  best-known  soap-manufacturers  in 
the  country.  He  was  a  trustee  and  gener- 
ous contributor  to  Unity  (Unitarian) 
Church. 

KNAPP,  J.  G.— In  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  February 
10,  aged  eightythree  years.  He  was  a 
pioneer  in  railroading  in  Central  New  York 
and  the  Middle  West,  and  was  in  charge  of 
the  train  used  by  Lincoln  and   Douglas  in 


their  famous  debates.  He  was  Superinten- 
dent of  the  old  Southern  Central  lines. 

UPPINCOTT,  OREV.  DR.  B.  K,  SR.— At 
Ocean  Grove,  N.  J.,  January  2a  He  was 
one  of  the  oldest  Methodist  clergymen  in 
New  Jersey  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
the  Ocean  Grove  Camp  Meeting  Associa- 
tion. He  entered  the  ministry  at  Baltimore 
in  1854,  in  which  year  he  became  President 
of  the  Cumberland  Valley  Institute. 

LOYSON,  ABBE  CHARLES  (PERE 
HYACINTHE)— In  Paris,  France,  Febni- 
lary  9,  in  his  eightyfifth  year.  Bom  in  Or- 
leans, the  brilliant  boy  was  educated  by  his 
father  and  at  the  Seminary  of  St.  Sulpice, 
Paris.  Eight  years  a  professor  of  the- 
ology, he  then  entered,  as  ** Brother  Hya- 
cinthe",  the  order  of  Barefooted  Carmelite 
Friars  at  Broussey.  His  eloquence  and 
magnetism  won  him  fame  and  envy.  He 
was  excommunicated  for  apostasy,  became 
a  Protestant,  and  married  an  American  of 
high  intellectual  and  spiritual  gifts,  Mrs. 
E.  J.  Butterfield  Merriam. 

McDONOGH,  CAPT.  JAMES  J.— In  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  January  27,  aged 
seventy  years.  He  was  an  Englishman,  a 
graduate  of  the  Royal  (Military  Academy, 
Woolwich,  and  had  served  with  distinction 
in  the  Royal  Artillery,  both  in  Egypt  and 
in  South  Africa.  Coming  to  America,  he 
became  one  of  the  best  known  cricketers  in 
the  country,  representing  United  States 
against  Canada  and  also  against  the  Ber- 
mudans. 

McLaughlin,  capt.  daniel-iu  the 

National  Soldiers'  Home,  Sawtelle,  Califor- 
nia, February  9,  in  his  eightyfourth  year. 
He  served  wth  Admiral  Dewey  in  the  Civil 
War,  and  commanded  the  first  Government 
boat  designed  for  use  as  a  submarine,  the 
Rancocas,  He  was  the  last  survivor  to 
raise  the  American  flag  at  Monterey,  Cali- 
fornia. 

PHILPOT,  MRS.  ELLEN— In  Roselle,  N.  J., 
January  4,  at  the  age  of  sixtysix  years. 
She  went  with  her  husband,  the  late  Rev. 
Herman  Philpot,  to  Africa,  in  missionary 
work,  and  was  for  six  years  a  captive 
among  the  Abyssinians.  She  was  rescued 
by  an  expedition  sent  out  from  England 
under  Lord  Napier,  and  was  summoned  to 
tell  her  "Story  to  Queen  Victoria. 

TITOOMB,  MRS.  VIRGINIA  CHANLER 
—In  Rockville  Centre,  L.  I.,  February  16, 
aged  seventyfour  years.  She  was  a  native 
Long  Islander,  and  became  an  artist  of 
considerable  repute.  She  was  well  known 
for  her  courageous  and  self-sacrificing 
espousal  of  the  cause  of  the  late  Theodore 
R.  Timby  in  his  fight  for  recognition  as 
the  inventor  of  the  revolving  turret.  One 
of  her  fine  paintings  was  a  full-length  por- 
trait of  Henry  Ward  Beecher  standing  in 
the  pulpit  of  Plymouth  Church. 


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"What's  in  a  name?" — ^Villainy,  sometimes. 
Gcorige  Washington  was  on  trial  at  Atchison, 
Kansas,  for  burglary. 

Beautiful  snow  this  winter  has  run  up  a 
beautiful  bill  of  considerably  over  a  million 
in  New  York  City — all  spent  in  removing  it. 

Elephants  do  all  sorts  of  human  things  in 
Hindostan — even  to  piling  lumber,  and  in 
one  case,  taking  up  the  collection  in  a  temple. 

There  is  a  proposition  to  lease  the  famous 
old  crime-punishing  Blackwell's  Island,  to  the 
United  States  Government,  as  a  national  park. 

"People  will,  ere  many  years,  not  die  in 
order  to  go  to  Heaven,  but  will  be  taken  up 
bodily",  say  some  of  the  Seventh  Day  Adven- 
tists. 

Do  not  let  a  horse  bite  you ;  the  effect  may 
be  as  injurious  as  the  attack  of  a  poison  snake. 
Several  have  suffered  that  way  recently,  one 
of  them  dying. 

John  Paul  Jones,  "The  Pilot"  of  one  of 
Cooper's  best  novels,  and  a  hero  of  the  Revo- 
lution, is  to  have  a  crypt  of  honor,  all  to  him- 
self, at  Annapolis. 

If  you  ever  go  to  jail  charged  with  a  life- 
and-death  crime,  expect  to  eat  with  fingers 
instead  of  knives  and  forks.  Metallic  sub- 
stances are  barred. 


that  he  was  repairing, 
the  unexpected. 


Always  look  out  for 


iWhat  a  genius  for  terse  figures  had  that 
jurist  who  said,  in  allusion  to  the  chances  of 
exemption  afforded  by  delay,  "Time  is  the 
defendant's  best  attorney"! 

Indians  who  visit  Washington  will  not  be 
sold  "fire-water"  hereafter,  if  Government  can 
prevent  it.  Already,  drink-dispensers  have 
been  prosecuted  for  the  offence. 

An  Ohio  hog,  kept  as  a  pet,  died  of  old 
age:  and  it  was  proposed  to  embalm  him  as 
a  curio — the  race  not  being  noted  for  lon- 
gevity— ^that  is,  the  quadrupedal  portion. 

If  you  happen  to  have  in  the  house  any  of 
the  clothes  worn  by  Charles  I.  when  he  was 
executed  on  the  scaffold,  keep  them  for  a  rise. 
His  vest  was  sold  in  London  for  a  thousand 
dollars. 


A  steeplejack  who  had  climbed  scores  of 
giddy  spires  in  view  of  wondering  people, 
and  returned  safely  to  earth,  was  permanent- 
ly injured  by  falling  from  the  top  of  a  wagon 


"Buy  out  the  express-companies  for  forty 
million  dollars,  and  put  their  business  under 
the  control  of  the  postoffice  department",  is 
the  purport  of  a  bill  just  introduced  into 
Congress. 

"Whoever  proposes  marriage  to  a  man  in 
leap  year,  and  he  does  not  accept,  is  entitled 
to  a  new  dress  at  his  expense",  is  a  sentiment 
being  industriously  circulated  by  the  bolder 
class  of  girls. 

The  famous  "hog  case"  carried  on  in  Ken- 
tucky, has  been  settled — each  party  paying  his 
own    costs.     The    animal    that    caused    the 


Winchester's 


Exhausted 
or 

Debilitated 


Hypophosphites    of    Lime 

18  THK  TONIO  PAR  KXCKLLBNCK  FOR 


and    Soda 


NERVE  FORCE 

AffotdJag  as  It  docs  the  moat  direct  meaps  of  sopplyinif  Fhatpbonis  to  the  tyitem,  so  essential  to  those  who  labor  with  the  BraiB 
PRESCRIBED  BY  PHYSICIANS  FOR  OVER  HALF  A  CENTURY 

>  sufferers  from  Indlcestion,  Anemia,  Neorastheaia,  Nerrous  Diseases,  Bronchitis.  Excessive  Drains.  Weakness  and  all  Throat  and  Lunf  Inftctfooa. 
A  Brain,  Nerve  and  Blood  Food  and  Tissue  Bvlider  of  Unquestioned  Merit 
I  and  InYij^oratlae  the  Nerrous  System  and  Imparting  Vital  Strength  and  Energy. 

.  ROBERTS.  Pbfla.  Pa. 
r.  L.  PITKIN,  New  YorV. 
f  physician's  order.    It  has  so  greatfy  benefited 

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B«n4  for  free  sealed  pamphlets.    WINCHESTER  fit  CO  ,  694  Beekman  BIdg.,  N.  Y.  (Est.  1858) 


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I  Will  Develop  ID)  WoniaO  Bust 

I  will  Tell  Any  Woimr 
Ab  telutely  Free  of 
Chtroe  How  To  Do  H 
Potrtlvety  And  Safely. 

Many  women  be 
lieve  that  the  bust 
cannot  be  devel 
oped  or  brought 
back  to  its  former 
visrorous  condition 
Thousands  of  wo- 
OTien  have  vainly 
used  massacre,  elec- 
tricity, pump  In- 
8  t  r  u  ments,  olnt- 
j  ments,  general  ton- 
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treatments.  exer- 
cises and  other 
methods  with  out 
results. 
AnvW»m«n  Wiy  Now  Oeveloo  Her  Butt 

T  will  explfiln  to  any  woman  the  plain 
truth  In  re^ifird  to  bust  development,  the 
reason  for  fiillurft  and  the  way  to  success. 
Th6  Mdme.  I>ii  Bnrrle  Positive  French 
Method  Is  different  from  anything  else  ever 
brought  before  Amerlcnn  women.  By  this 
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In  3  to  &  daySp  no  matter  what  the  cause 
of  the  lack  of  developnjent.  It  is  based  on 
Sf'^ntific    facts?    absolntely. 

Tills  method  has  bec'ti  used  in  Europe  with 
aatoiiTidlng  si^iccess.  and  has  been  accepted 
as  the  mo*?t  positive  mi?thod  known.  To  any 
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trouble  was  valued  at  eight  dollars,  and  died 
long  before  the  suit  was  over.  The  litigants 
spent  over  $500  in  fees,  besides  paying  their 
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CONTENTS  FOR  APRIL 


In  the  Wreckage  of  the  Maine  69 

Will  Carleton. 

The  Burial  of  the  Maine  70 

Jeanie  Oliver  Smith. 

The  Funeral  of  the  Warship  70 
Farmer  Stebbins  at  the  Rummage- 
Sale  71 
The  Passing  of  the  Whale  73 
Mr.  Shaw's  Educational  Ideas  75 

The  Story  of  the  Spring  77 

Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

A  Continent  Under  Water?  78 

The    National    Florence  Crittenton 
Association  81 

George  Leo  Patterson, 

The  Suffrage  Crusade  Upon  Albany  83 
Bertha  Johnston, 

"Crushing  a  Republic"  86 

Easter  Sunday  87 

Fanny  Crosby, 

Be  Capable  of  Inspection  88 

A  Retired  Detective, 

An  Easter  Lily  Song  90 

Minnie  Ward  Patterson. 

Up  and  Down  the  World: 

Amon^  the  "Fighting  Aliens"  91 

Stanley  Smith. 

The  Railroad  Accident  Plague  93 
Some  Straw  Opinions  94 


Editorial  Comment: 
A  Chinese  Object-Lcsson 
Foot  and  Wheel 
Marvels  of  Memory 
Educational  Object-Lessons 


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At  Church  : 
Five-Minute  Sermon  102 

A  Church-Complainer  103 

Would  Not  Turn  the  Remaining 
Cheek  104 

The  Health-Seeker: 

Fasted  Into  and  Out-of  Paralysis  105 
Pure  Water  for  Soldiers  106 

Don't    Train    Your    Children    to 

Death  106 

Health-Information  107 

World-Success  : 
How  to  Write  for  Publication      108 
The  Frailty  of   Our   Books  and 

Manuscripts  109 

Be  Sure  You've  Filled  the  Hopper  no 
Useless-Useful  no 

Time's  Diary  ^  in 

Some  Who  Have  Gone  113 

Various  Doings  and  Undoings  115 

Philosophy  and  Humor  122 


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forasful  of  the  prsssnt  day  writes.  Si^soto  now  rssdy:  ''SdMi  l^ubllos,* 
"■Judgs  BeiL  B.  Undsey  and  His  ChUdfsa's  Qmrt,''  '*Ths  taMnlinmi  at  Wis  Island,'' 
-Ths  Public  Senrlcs  Oommlsslsii  of  Nsw  Yock." 

REV.  WM.  JAY  PECK,  a  D^ 

Is  one  of  tlie  most  popular  and  Interesting  lecturorson  ths  platfofm.  Hto  dls- 
oourse  abounds  In  fact,  wit,  humor,  and  pathos.  Dr.  Peek  has  travelled  exlss- 
sively  the  world  over,  and  Is  prepared  to  give  lectures  on  all  lands,  with  lllustratloM 
If  desired. 

We  siiall  be  plessed  to  eeod  you  full  particulars,  togellier  wHh  dreulavs,  «b 


This  Is  only  a  partial  list.     If  you  want  ANY  first  class  talent,  writs  us,  and 
I  will  givs  you  tsrms  and  datss. 

GLOBE  LITERARY  BUREAU 

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In  the  Wreckage  of  the  Maine. 

By  Will  Carleton. 

f  N  the  farm-lands  or  the  city 

Grieved  a  >\'oman — sad — alone; 
'Neath  God's  everlasting  pity 

She  was  weeping-  for  her  own. 
Cabinets  had  toiled  and  wrangled, 

Statesmen  could  not  soothe  her  pain — 
For  that  weary  heart  was  tangled 

In  the  wreckage  of  the  Maine. 

Through  the  golden  halls  of  fashion 

Moved  a  lady  tall  and  fair ; 
Round!  her  gleamed  the  flames  of  passion 

On  the  soft  magnetic  air. 
Suitors  bowed  and  bent  above  her, 

But  their  wiles  were  all  in  vain: 
She  was  thinking  of  a  lover 

In  the  wreckage  of  the  Maine. 

On  a  cot,  a  sailor  lying 

Bowed  his  soul  in  silent  prayer ; 
Through  the  long  days  he  was  dying; 

But  his  tears  were  falling  there 
For  the  gallant  fellow-seamen 

Who  might  rest,  while  Time  should  reign, 
In  that  sepulchre  of  freemen, 

'Neath  the  wreckage  of  the  Maine. 

On  a  continent  of  splendor 
-*     Was  a  nation  calmly  grand — 
Freedom's  natural  defender — 

Honest  labor's  helping  hand: 
And  it  spoke,  half  kind,  half  cruel : 

"Liberty,  O  haughty  Spain, 
Soon  may  grasp  another  jewel 

From  the  wreckage  of  the  Maine!*' 


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The  Burial  of  the  Maine. — By  Jeanie  Oliver  Smith. 

(Covered  with  roses  and  lilies,  it  was  sent  down  to  its  ocean-grave  March  i6th;  and  in 
memory  of  those  who  lost  their  lives  with  her  at  Havana,  there  was  a  moment  of  silence 
over  the  world.). 

^TT  IS  said  that  when  a  hero  dies,  To  lie  in  calm  untroubled  rest, 

All  Nature  feels  a  sense  of  loss :  Till  spring-time  of  the  soul  returns. 
Winds    sweep    their   mournful   pines 

across,  And   here,    where    fragrant   breath    of 

Awakening  saddest  symphonies.  rose 

Is  scattered  with  the  ocean  spray, 

The  flowers  droop  low  among  the  leaves,  The  Hamadryad  soul  would  stay 

And    whisper,    "Thus   our    lives   we  Such  grief  as  only  mortal  knows ; 

yield, 

To  one  who  comes  no  more  afield,  By  welding  the  electric  chain 

No  more  our  incense-breath  receives/'  Which  passes  *neath  that  silent  sea 

In  strange  unsolved  telepathy, 

And  every  flower-heart  waiting,  yearns  That    hearts    might    find    their     loved 

For  place  upon  his  silent  breast,  again ! 


The  Funeral  of  the  Warship. 

QUT  of  the  harbor  she  sought  long  ago, 

^^     Harbor  that  welcomed,  but  served  not  to  save. 

Under  the  clouds,  bending  piteous  and  low, 

Crept  the  great  ship  to  her  grave. 
Not  from  the  battk's  tumultuous  breath, 

Not  from  the  glory  of  victory's  morn: — 
But  from  her  travail  of  flame  and  of  death, 

Lo !  a  republic  was  born. 

Not  in  the  arms  of  this  Queen  of  the  Wrecks, 

Lingered  the  dust  of  her  far- famous  dead : 
Forests  of  palms  hailed  the  flag  on  her  decks — 

Roses  above  her  were  spread. 
Long  had  she  waited  her  funeral-day. 

Lying  in  rough  state  mid  sunlight  or  gloom : 
Now  the  world's  plaudits  each  step  of  the  way 

Followed  her  path  to  the  tomb. 

Full  sixty  fathoms  we  buried  her  low, 

'Neath  the  rough  sea  and  the  ne'er  changing  skies: 
Far  from  molesting  of  friendl  or  of  foe. 

Heedless  of  tempests  she  lies. 
Lies  in  the  arms  of  the  ocean-waves  pressed, 

With  the  wet  sea-roses  over  her  spread, 
While,  with  the  love  of  a  nation  caressed, 

Arlington  cares  for  her  dead. 

—Harper's  ^^'cekly.-^  i 

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Farmer  Stebbins  at  The  Rummage-Sale. 

(Republished  by  Request.) 

^^UR  members  of  the  Union  Church  felt  money's  constant  needs, 
To  hold  their  reg'lar  services,  an'  voice  their  mingled  creeds; 
An*  so,  as  every  other  source  of  earnin'  had  been  tried, 
Till  all  the  fat  was  squeezed  from  them,  with  some  still  unsupplied, 
A  sister  of  the  church,  or  some  enthusiastic  male. 
Suggested  that  we  search  our  homes,  an'  have  a  "rummage-sale". 

•    I 
An'  so  my  wife  spooked  round  the  house,  with  steps  that  seldom  ceased, 
A-findin'  things  we  didn't  want,  or  thought  we  didn't,  at  least; 
Until  the  cellar  seemed  a  cave  with  Poverty  struck  dumb, 
An'  all  the  garret  wondered  if  the  Judgment  Day  had  come ; 
An'  e'en  the  other  rooms  was  scant  an'  newly  full  of  space; 
But  "Never  mind,"  she  says :  "we'll  buy  some  more  things  in  their  place." 

An'  so  they  worked  an'  fussed  an'  tugged,  a  busy  week  or  more. 

An'  changed  the  sacred  vestry  to  a  small  department  store:  [ 

An'  even  Thursday  meetin'  night  we  had  to  sit  an'  pray 

'Mongst  all  the  various  goods  an'  ills  that  set  there  in  the  way; 

An'  as  'twixt  prayers  my  eye  went  'round  on  many  silent  hunts, 

It  seemed  like  visiting  in  all  the  neighbors'  homes  at  once. 

'Twas  worth  a  dime  or  two  to  see — ^though  very  hard  to  tell: — 
I  didn't  suppose  my  townsmen  had  so  many  things  to  sell! 
Old  duds  that  hadn't  seen  the.  light  for  years,  was  hustled  out. 
An'  looked  like  they  was  wond'rin'  what  the  show  was  all  about; 
An'  Rip  Van  Winkle,  when  he  woke  with  wildness  in  hip  eyes. 
Could  not  hev  carried  in  his  face  more  genuine  straight  surprise. 

,      .   ■   •!■   ;     ■   i    ,     I   ,   ..   ■; 

An'  when  the  day  appeared  at  last  these  hard-found  things  to  sell, 

The  people  wildly  flocked  to  buy,  an'  done  their  duty  well: 

An'  hotcakes  on  a  winter  day,  in  maple-syrup-style, 

Was  nothin'  to  the  way  them  things  went  off,  for  quite  a  while. 

At  least,  that's  what  my  good  old  wife  reported  unto  me, 

Though,  rummagin'  for  livelihood,  I  couldn't  go  an'  see ; 

Till  Saturday  at  eve  I  went,  an'  viewed  the  landscape  o'er, 
Includin'  some  addition'l  things  I  hadn't  seen  before: 
An'  bought  some  articles  to  speed  the  good  an'  true  an'  right. 
An'  took  'em  back  unto  my  wife,  who  stayed  at  home  that  night; 

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An*  laid  my  purchases  in  shape  for  her  to  feel  an*  see: 

An'  then  she  looked  the  things  all  through,  an*  then  she  looked  at  me. 

"My  goodness  what  a  lot  of  truck  they've  put  on  you!"  she  said: 
"What  do  I  want  of  these  old  shams  from  Mrs.  Brady's  bed? 
Who's  goin'  to  wear  a  moth-eat  shawl,  an*  two  last-winter  hats — 
What  can  I  do  with  this  old  rug,  half  gnawed  in  two  by  rats? 
An*  here's  a  book  with  which  the  Higgins  babes  have  been  amused. 
An*  done  some  teethin'  while  the  same  they  thoughtfully  peruse/ ; 

"An'  these  here  laces,  ribbons,  gloves,  an*  other  things  to  wear 
Would  make  asylums  crazy  twice,  if  I  should  take  'em  there: 
Them  curtain-poles  might  do  for  barns,  but  in  a  home  are  lost 
I  wouldn't  keep  *em  in  the  house  for  ten  times  what  they  cost. 
An*  this  here  crock'ry — ef  you'd  know  how  eatin'  on  it  feels. 
Just  go  an*  see  the  folks  it  left,  when  they  are  at  their  meals. 

**An*  honest  silver'd  be  ashamed  of  such  half-plated  ware. 
An'  any  one  you  want  to  kill,  can  take  this  crippled  chair; 
An'  here's  a  candle-srick — of  course  the  Joneses  will  not  cease 
To  say  it's  of  a  classic  build — no  doubt  it  come  from  grease; 
An'  this  green  gown — I've  seen  it  years  on  Julia  Doozler  fade: 
Perhaps  I'll  wear  the  measly  clothes  cast  off  by  that  old  maid! 

"An'  these  here  pants — my  goodness  sakes!  I  thought  it — now  I   mow — 

Was  bought  new  by  yourself,  old  man,  five  years  or  less  ago! 

I  give  'em  to  'em,  rather  than  to  patch  'em  where  they  lack — 

An*  now  them  minxes  over  there  coaxed  you  to  buy  *em  back! 

An'  I  believe",  she  says,  with  force  an'  emphasis  to  spare, 

"They'd  sold  you  back  your  house  an'  farm,  if  I'd  have  took  'em  there !" 

Then,  tryin*  hard  to  glean  from  off  my  blunder  what  'twas  worth, 
I  mused,  "This  rummage-craze  is  like  most  everything  on  earth: 
It  has  delusions,  mixed  with  good — ^it  makes  folks  buy  an'  give 
That  wouldn't,  if  'twasn't  for  novelty:  an*  helps  the  causes  live, 
But  what  I  give  the  Lord,  henceforth,  I'll  give  it  to  Him  straight 
An'  not  tramp  round  a  hundred  miles  to  walk  through  my  own  gate." 


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The  Passina    of  The  Whale. 


LT  ALF  a  century  ago  one  of  the  great 
civilizing  agencies  of  this  country 
was  the  whaling  industry.  It  penetrated 
the  far  cold  corners  of  the  continent, 
planted  a  crude  standard  of  civilized 
life  among  the  half-barbarous  peoples, 
and  made  way  for  the  missionary  and 
an  era  of  enlightenment. 

The  whale-oil  that  these  hardyi  sailors 
went  afar  to  get,  illuminated  homes  and 
lubricated  the  wheels  of  industry  of  all 
the  wx>rld.  And  the  whalebone  that  they 
stripped  from  the  leviathans  of  the  deep, 
made  millions  of  women  happy.  The 
dangers  and  hardy  life  of  the  whaling 
industry  bore  and  bred  thousands  of 
able  seamen,  who,  when  this  country 
called  them,  dropped  the  harpoon  and 
took  up  the  boarding  lance  and  left  the 
smell  of  boiling  blubber  for  the  smell 
of  burning  powder. 

Whaling  was  a  characteristic  Ameri- 
can industry  picturesque  in  every  phase, 
but  it  is  dying.  Fifty  years  ago  five  hun- 
dred vessels  left  American  ports  and 
sailed  north  for  the  "oil*'  and  "bone." 
One  of  these  whaling  emporiums  of  the 
past,  is  the  quaint  village  of  Province- 
town,  on  Cape  Cod,  Mass.,  whose  shore- 
line of  humblej  dwellings  is  reproduced 
at  the  top  of  this  page.  Today,  scarcely 
'a  dozen  vessels  go  north  for  whales,  and 
most  of  them  are  steamers  rather  than 
the  old-fashioned  schooners  and  brigs. 
A  few  of  the  latter,  however,  still  go  up 
to  Hudson's  Bay,  freeze  up  with  the  ice 
in  the  fall,  and  patiently  wait  for  the 
break-up  of  the  ice  in  the  spring. 

The  capture  of  a  whale  is  one  of  the 
most  exciting  and  thrilling  experiences 
that  rovers  of  the  sea  know.  A  fleet  of 
two  or  three  vessels  has  been  waiting 


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days  perhaps  for  a  sight  of  the  sly  mon- 
ster. Suddenly  a  cry  from  a  lookout 
says,  "B-l-o-w",  and  he  points  to  where 
the  long-looked-for  whale  has  come  up 
for  air.  Then  there  is  a  wild  scramble 
for  boats,  sails  only  being  used  for 
motive  power,  as  the  hearing  of  the  ani- 
mal is  very  acute  and  the  sound  of  oars 
would  frighten  him  off.  Away  to  the 
place  where  he  appeared,  they  scurry,  so 
that  they  may  be  on  hand  when  he  ap- 
pears again.  In  the  olden  times,  when 
the  whaling  fleets  numbered  twenty  or 
thirty  vessels,  and  so  many  boats  raced 
off,  each  eager  for  the  first  throw  at  the 
prize,  it  must  have  been  a  glorious  sight. 

Finally  the  whale  rises  again,  and  the 
man  in  the  bow  of  the  nearest  boat  jabs 
him  with  a  harpoon.  Then  the  excite- 
ment begins:  away  the  monster  goes, 
making  for  the  open  sea  and  dragging 
the  boat  after  him  so  fast  that  it  does 
not  ride  the  waves  but  cuts  them  as  a 
knife  would,  and  throwing  spray  like  a 
torpedo  boat.  Then  perhaps  the  whale 
will  turn,  and  one  of  the  other  boats  will 
bear  down  upon  him,  and  jab  him  with 
another  bomb-lance.  This  time  a  fatal 
spot  is  reached,  and  the  sport  is  over. 

Then  the  work  begins.  The  carcass 
is  fastened  to  the  stern  of  a  vessel  and 
the  head  or  upper  jaw,  which  contains 
the  whalebone,  the  most  valuable  part 
of  the  animal,  is  removed  and  taken 
aboard.  When  that  is  safely  done,  all 
hands  gather  around,  and  like  a  crowd 
of  college-boys,  throw  up  their  hats  and 
yell  with  all  their  might,  "Hurrah  for 
five  and  forty  more!" 

To  watch  the  trying-out  process  at 
night  is  like  a  peep  into  the  inferno. 
The   only   lights  Jf jsM^y  ^r^^Jil^'i^g" 


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lights" — baskets  of  charred  flesh  sus- 
pended above  the  try-pots,  which  glow 
wth  a  lurid,  uncanny  gleam — and  to  and 
fro  move  the  silent,  begrimed  forms  of 
the  sailors  intent  on  filling  and  stirring 
the  try-pots  and  poking  the  fires  with 
prongied  forks.  ^ 

On€  might  think  that  if  the  whaling 
industry  is  passing  away,  for  commer- 
cial reasons,  the  whales  themselves 
might  be  increasing  in  numbers.  But 
such  is  not  the  case.  The  huge  mammal 
of  the  sea  apparently  has  had  his  day, 
and  the  great  hulk  shown  in  the  cut  on 
this  page,  with  life  extinct,  is  a  repre- 
sentative and  an  emblem  of  a  dying  race. 

At  least,  that  is  the  opinion  of  some 
savants:  but  others  believe  that  this 
state  of  things  is  more  apparent  than 
real. 

It  would  be  a,  pity  to  have  them  dis- 
appear from  our  planet,  for  many  nat- 
uralists consider  them  the  most  inter- 
esting and  wonderful  of  all  dumb 
animals.  They  are  not  "fish",  as  they 
have  sometimes  been  called,  but  mam- 
mals,— "as  essentially  so  as  a  cow  or  a 


horse",  one  writer  says,  "but  rresembling 
a  fish  somewhat  in  appearance,  because 
they  have  to  live  so  much  in  the  water." 
"A  bat  is  not  a  bird  because  it  flies  in 
the  air",  the  same  observer  adds. 

Few  people  have  an  idea  of  the  enor- 
mous size  of  a  full-grown  whale.  One 
distinguished  .  French  author  says  its 
weight  is  two  hundred  tons,  as  much  as 
that  of  an  army  of  3,000  men  or  more. 

What  a  contrast  to  the  Microzoon, 
which  is  so  light  that  no  scales  yet  made 
by  human  hands  or  machinery,  can 
secure  from  it  the  least  oscillation !  It 
has  been  said,  to  "practically  have  no 
weight":  but  of  course  this  merely 
means  that  its  weight  is  so  small  that 
no  human  means  can  measure  it.  And 
yet,  some  of  thes^e  tiny  creatures  have 
fifteen  or  twenty  stomachs  each,  and  in 
one  species  there  is  a  stomach  which  is 
provided  with  teeth  of  its  own,  which 
can  crush  food  even  after  it  is  swal- 
lowed. 

And  there  may  be  still  smaller  creat- 
ures, to  which  the  Microzoon  may  look 
as  large  as  the  whale  does  to  us. 


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Mr.  Shaw's  Educational  Ideas. 

THERE  seemed  to  be  quite  a  panic 
amongst  my  nabors  this  year,  for 
me  to  be  one  of  the  school  comishioners 
of  this  ignorant  town,  but  I  myself  was 
dead  ag^n  the  candidate:  for  I  says  to 
em  that  I  wasnt  the  right  man  for  that 
sort  of  place,  for  I  never  had  even  enuflf 
schoolin  to  make  me  know  how  little  I 
knowed,  or  to  make  me  think  that  I 
knowed  it  all:  sence  I  hed  to  Russell 
for  myself  so  hard  at  a  young  an  tendre 
age,  that  I  never  hed  no  communifica- 
tion  with  the  little  volumes  which  the 
dear  creatures  study,  an  hev  not  as  yet 
even  been  able  to  strike  up  an  ackwan- 
tance  with  the  spellin  book. 

But  they  sez  youve  got  hard  sense 
any  how  an  thats  more  than  twothirds 
of  the  eddicated  people  has.  An  I  says 
its  hard  enough  if  you  take  into  account 
the  way  I  come  by  it,  but  when  it  is 
nessary  to  tell  a  lot  of  teechers  how  to 
gide  the  young  idee,  I  don't  suppose  I 
could  exsell.  But  they  lected  me  spite 
of  all  I  could  do,  an  so  I  hed  to  hev  an 
interview  with  the  principle  of  the 
schools,  an  see  what  was  doin'  an'  he 
come  over  to  my  department  store  for 
that  purpose. 

This  principle  was  a  queer  sort  of 
feller — an  Englishman  bom  in  Ireland, 
an  imported  (or  exported)  to  America. 
It  beets  all,  you  know,  how  much  inter- 
est the  rest  of  the  world  takes  in  Amer- 
iky,  an  how  willin  they  are,  to  help  run 
it.  This  principle,  I  found,  was  willin 
to  do  his  share,  an  hed  jest  been  hired 
an  was  goin  to  sweep  as  clean  as  any 
new  broom  in  my  store. 

"I  shall  make  grate  refawms",  he  says. 
"I  shall,  as  the  days  go  on,  write  most 
of  the  text  books  myself.  I  hev  already 
a  gramar,  a  rethmetic,  an  a  cook-book 


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prepared,  an  shall  put  em  into  the  school 
at  once." 

"How  many  studdies  per  pupil  do  you 
expect  you  will  hev,  schoolmaster?"  I 
sez. 

"I  prefer  not  to  be  called  schoolmas- 
ter, but  doctor",  sez  he. 

"Oh!"  I  sez.  "Can  you  eaze  the 
throbbing  brow,  as  H.  Adelbert  Green 
sez  in  his  poems?  Can  you  cut  folks 
open,  fur  instans,  an  see  ef  they  realy 
did  hev  the  appendis  see  tis,  or  only  an 
ol- fashioned  stomach-ache?  Can  you 
send  the  weary  soul  into  the  great  future 
with  a  taste  of  compound  oxygen  in  its 
memry?    Kin  you" — 

"I  am  not  a  medcal  doctor,"  sez  he, 
with  dignity,  "but  a  literary  one.  I  am 
an  A.  M.  an  a  Ph.D." 

"The  last  teacher  we  hed,"  sez  I,  "was 
a  D.  F.,  an  I  hope  you  aint  got  that 
degree  yet.  But  to  return  to  the  rig^nal 
theam.  Doc,  how  many  studys  per  are 
you  goin  fur  to  give  um?" 

"It  will  avridge  about  sixteen  studys 
for  each  pupil",  says  the  new  teecher. 
Some  of  um'll  have  more,  and  once  in  a 
while  less.  Ifl  a  child  isn't  quite  up  to 
the  mark  in  intellectual  ability,  I  wont 
give  him  but  fourteen.  Ef  a  child  bids 
fare  to  be  a  boy  orator  or  somethin 
of  that  sort,  he  will  be  given  maybe 
twenty." 

"Have  you  any  methods  for  enlargin 
any  one  else's  head  than  your  own?" 
I  couldn't  help  but  to  ask. 

"Sir,  what  do  you  mean?"  he  in- 
quired, bruslin  up. 

"I  mean",  sez  I,  looking  him  straight 
in  the  eye  an  strokin  fondly  one  of  the 
ax-helves  in  my  collection,  "I  mean,  my 
dear  fellow,  that  I  should  think  there 
would  hev  to  be  a  few  stitches  let  out 
in  the  skulls  of  these  children,  in  order 
to  take  in  so  much  more  information 

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EVERY   WHERfi. 


than  their  fathers  did  when  they  was 
little,  an  not  go  crazy.  I  suppose  you 
must  hev  had  the  operation  performed 
several  times. 

"Now  they  was  somebody  said — I 
don't  know  exactly  who  it  was,  but  I 
think  it  was  one  of  the  Popes,  that  a 
little  larnin  was  a  dangerous  thing.  An 
it  seems  to  me  it  would  be  a  little 
dangerous  to  give  these  children  all  the 
siences  an  languages  an  ologies  an  every 
other  groan  accomplishment,  right  on 
the  start,  before  they  hed  the  foundation 
on  which  all  these  towerin  structures 
was  bilt. 

"Fur  instanse,  there  was  one  little 
feller  in  here  visitin  the  other  day,  an  I 
says  id  him  like  every  child  has  to  hev 
said  to  him  when  any  one  don't  know 
what  else  to  say,  I  says.  Do  you  go  to 
school,  little  boy.*^  An  he  said  yes.  I 
spare  time  to  get  there  a  few  hours 
every  day.  Then  I  says.  What  do  you 
study,  my  little  lad?  And  he  give  me 
a  list  that  made  my  jaws  ache  jest  try  in 
to  follow  his  pernunshation  silently. 
Then  I  says,  How  much  is  seven  times 
nine,  little  feller?  An  he  waited  a  few 
minutes  an  says,  Thirtythree.  I  didn't 
think  at  first  you  was  going  to  get  it,  I 
says.  If  a  herrin  and  a  half  cost  a  cent 
an  a  half,  how  much  would  ten  cost?  I 
says.  He  figured  a  while,  an  replies 
eight  an  three-fourths  cents.  An  then 
I  says,  Where's  China  ?  An  he  says.  On 
the  map  in  the  southwest  corner  of  our 
schoolroom.  An  then  I  says.  Who  was 
Benedict  Arnold?  An  the  little  feller 
replied,  the  father  of  his  country.  An 
jest  then  his  nurse  came  in  for  him  an 
the  interview  stopped  short  never  to  go 
again." 

Jest  then  a  lady  come  into  the  store 
to  get  some  new  schoolbooks  for  her 
children,  an  I  hed  to  wait  on  her,  an 
so  I  didn't  hold  no  further  conversation 
at  that  time  with  my  educational  friend. 
(People  all  buys  their  own  children's 
schoolbooks  in  our  town  so  fur,  as  there 
aint  ben  any  measures  took  yet  to  shove 
the  expense  off  largely  on  people  who 
havent  any  children  of  their  own.) 

Jest  after  that,  they  was  some  fellers 


rode  up  to  the  store  in  an  ought  to  mo- 
bile, who  was  students  in  a  university, 
that  was  home  on  their  Easter  vacation. 
They  was  hevin  a  purty  good  time, 
smokin  sigarets,  and  taking  an  occa- 
shunal  nip  out  of  a  black  bottle  that  they 
hed  along  with  em,  an  singin  "What  a 
ell  do  we  care?"  an  "New  England 
Rum",  an  several  other  inspirin  hymns. 
An  I  couldn't  help  wonderin  how 
many  studys  these  fellers  had  along 
with  em,  and  how  they  would  look  ef 
they  come  into  my  store  twenty  years 
from  now. 


IPEleven  Thoughta. 

The  misers  do  not  all  make  a  specialty 

of  money. 

<^ 

Money  is  one  of  the  greatest  of  helps 
or  hindrances — according  as  we  use  it. 
^^ 
A  good  way  to  lengthen  life,  is  to  go 
to  work  and  make  it  worth  lengthening. 
7^ 
A  good  and  successful  ending  of  one 
enterprise,  is  the  breeder  of  many  more. 

Destruction  always  lingers  around 
construction,  trying  to  get  its  work  in. 

Some  people  tell  the  truth  so  disa- 
greeably, as  to  make  an  occasional  liar 
refreshing. 

»^ 

Some  lament  that  they  are  not  under- 
stood, and  some  that  they  are  too  well 
understood. 

^^ 

The  black  sheep  does  not  know  that 
he    is    black,    and    frequently    wonders 
what  is  the  matter. 
^^ 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  positive 
happiness :  there  must  always  be  some- 
thing unhappy  with  which  to  compare  it. 

In  order  to  get  the  best  help  out  of 
superior  people,  learn  how  to  be  in- 
spired by  them  without  imitating  them. 

When  conversation  with  your  friend 
languishes,  hasten  to  make  your  friend 
the  subject  of  the  conversation,  and  it 
-v'M  probably  revive. 

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The    Slory    of    The     Spring. 

By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

JYTlTH  the  rainfall  and  the  dewdrop,  with  the  sudden  slanting  shower, 

With  the  golden  sun  outflashing  and  the  daffodil  in  flower, 
With  the  merry  world  a-flutter  and  the  sowing  of  the  seed. 
Comes  to  us  a  bugle's  calling,  comes  new  strength  in  word  and  deed. 

Only  yesterday  the  stubble  stretched  o'er  meadows  brown  and  bare, 
Yesterday  the  snow  was  sifting  through  the  sharp  and  shivering  air. 
Trees  uplifted  naked  branches,  wild  winds  rocked  the  empty  nest. 
New  the  leaves  unfold  by  millions,  and  the  wind  is  in  the  West. 

Hither  haste  a  myriad  songsters  building  near  familiar  eaves, 

Soon  today  the  grain  green  springing  shall  be  bound  in  yellowing  sheaves 

All  the  outdoor  world  is  waking,  sky  and  earth  with  life  aglow. 

And  the  cups  of  joy  immortal  brim  in  sparkling  overflow. 

Every  year  the  resurrection  spells  its  miracle  anew. 
Life  forevermore  triumphant,  as  the  heavenly  dreams  come  true. 
Still  we  read  a  wondrous  story  of  the  ceaseless  love  of  God 
In  the  glory  of  the  planets  and  the  verdure  of  the  sod. 

Once  for  us  the  Lord  of  glory  slept  within  a  rodcy  tomb, 
Once  for  Him  the  noon  was  blotted  in  a  shroud  of  midnig'ht  gloom. 
'Twas  for  us  of  death  defiant  that  He  suffered  Calvary's  day, 
Twas  for  us  He  rose  victorious  when  the  stone  was  rolled  away. 

As  the  springtime  with  its  chorals  calls  the  flowers  again  to  birth, 
As  the  little  children  greet  her  with  their  laughter  and  their  mirth, 
Let  us  read  the  greater  story  of  the  life  the  Master  gave 
In  the  ransom  of  the  ages,  for  the  world  He  died  to  save. 

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A    Continent    Under    Water? 


TT  is  maintained  by  a  good  many  writ- 
ers, that  a  great  body  of  land,  which 
they  call  Atlantis,  once  existed  in  the 
Atlantic  Ocean — not  far  from  where 
took  place  the  recent  volcanic  eruption 
t\t  St.  Pierre. 

This  continent,  or  island,  as  some 
call  it  (for  a  continent  is  nothing  but 
a  huge  island),  is  supposed  by  many  to 
have  been  the  region  where  man  once 
rose  from  a  state  of  barbarism,  to  civ- 
ilization. 

It  is  said  to  have  contained  a  popu- 
lous and  mighty  nation,  from  whose 
overflowings  the  shores  of  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico,  the  Mississippi  River,  the  Ama- 
zon, the  Pacific  coast  of  South  America, 
the  Mediterranean,  the  west  coast  of 
Europe  and  Africa,  the  Baltic,  the  Black 
Sea,  and  the  Caspian,  were  populated. 

These  inhabitants  of  Atlantis  are 
claimed  to  have  been  the  first  manufac- 
turers of  iron ;  to  have  used  an  alphabet 
of  their  own,  from  which  ours  is  an  off- 
shoot; and  to  have  been  the  founders 
of  several  colonies,  including  ancient 
Egypt. 

It  is  held  by  those  who  have  studied 
carefully  into  the  matter,  that  many 
thousand  years  ago — so  long  ago  that 
history  has  well-nigh  forgotten  it,  even 
in  the  times  that  we  call  ancient — the 
great  country  of  Atlantis  sunk  beneath 
the  sea,  in  a  convulsion  of  nature,  to 
which  the  recent  one  in  the  West  Indies 
was  a  very  small  affair.  Only  a  few  of 
the  inhabitants  are  said  to  have  escaped, 
in  ships  and  on  rafts. 

For  thousands  of  years  this  "persis- 
tent rumor"  of  the  generations  was  sup- 
posed to  be  merely  a  fable.  When  Plato 
stated  it  as  a  fact,  he  was  called  a  liar. 
He  said  that  his  ancestor,  Solon,  the 

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great  Athenian  law-giver,  and  one  of 
the  seven  sages,  visited  Egypt,  some  two 
hundred  years  before  his  (Plato's)  time, 
and  heard  from  wise  men  there,  con- 
cerning some  of  the  glories  of  the  lost 
continent. 

This  country  seems  to  have  grown 
into  a  great  and  powerful  empire,  which 
carried  its  power  both  into  Europe,  and 
the  western  regipns  of  what  now  is  Cen- 
tral and  South  America.  It  is  even  said 
to  have  ruled  over  the  "Mound  Build- 
ers"— that  strange  silent  race  whose 
ghosts  haunt  large  portions  of  our  coun- 
try, as  evidenced  by  their  many  won- 
derful engineering  remains,  in  our  West- 
ern and  Southwestern  States. 

This  vast  empire,  it  is  contended, 
finally  covered  the  whole  of  the  then- 
known  world.  It  was  before  the  time 
of  the  Assyrians,  the  Persians,  the 
Greeks,  and"  the  Romans. 

The  Azores,  now  mere  rocky  isles, 
whose  farthest  inland  point  is  almost 
within  sound  of  the  breaking  waves, 
are  supposed  to  have  once  been  the 
mountain-peaks  of  a  mighty  continent, 
proudly  rearing  their  crystal  faces  to  the 
silence  of  the  sun  and  stars;  and  when, 
in  the  awful  cataclysm,  the  land  of  roll- 
ing hills  and  sweeping  valleys  was  sunk 
from  sight,  they  were  permitted  to 
remain,  humble  witnesses  of  the  lost 
Atlantis.  Upon  these  islands  are  hot 
springs,  as  described  by  Plato. 

Other  proofs  produced  by  the  advo- 
cates of  the  Atlantis  theory,  are  numer- 
ous and  interesting. 

Plato,  in  his  narrative  about  this 
ancient  mother  of  nations,  says  that 
Atlantis  and  Atlantic  (Ocean)  were 
named  after  Atlas,  the  eldest  son  of 
Poiseidon,  the  founder  of  the  kingdom. 

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Now  upon  that  part  of  the  African  con- 
tinent nearest  to  the  site  of  Atlantis!  we 
find  a  chain  of  mountains,  known  from 
the  most  ancient  times  as  the  Atlas 
Mountains.  Whence  comes,  then,  the 
name  of  Atlas,  if  not  from  Atlantis? 
Men  versed  in  the  science  of  words 
and  their  origins  can  find  no  European 

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a  glance  at  the  map  printed  with  this 
article  will  show  how  men  might  have 
passed  (granting  the  truth  of  the  Atlan- 
tis theory)  from  continent  to  continent 
along  the  "Connecting  Ridge." 

The  name-proof  again  comes  to  the 
aid  of  those  who  believe  in  this  fasci- 
nating theory.     In  the  time  of  Herodo- 


PROBABLE  SITUATION  OF  ATLANTIS. 


language  from  which  it  might  be  de- 
rived ;  but  when  our  own  continent  was 
discovered  by  Columbus,  he  found  a 
city  named  Atlan  in  what  is  now  Darien, 
Central  America. 

This,  many  think,  bears  out  the  theory 
that  there  had  been  communication  be- 
tween the  old  world  and  the  new,  and 


tus  there  dwelt  near  the  Atlas  moun- 
tain-chain a  people  called  the  Atlantes, 
and  their  name  is  accounted  for  on  the 
ground  that  they  were  a  colony  from 
the  long-lost  island.  The  people  of  the 
Barbary  states  were  also  known  to  the 
Greeks  and  Romans  as  the  Atlantes. 
Plato  says  that  there  wa^  a  "passage 

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west  from  Atlantis  to  the  rest  of  the 
islands,  as  well  as  from  these  islands  to 
the  whole  opposite  continent  that  sur- 
rounds that  real  sea."  Now  Plato 
might  have  produced  this  tale  of  a  lost 
land  out  of  the  labyrinth  of  his  vast  and 
wonderful  mind — intending  it  as  a  joke 
or  as  a  fascinating  fairy-tale:  and,  in- 
deed, many  have  supposed  that  that  is 
just  what  he  did  do. 

But,  it  is  objected,  how  could  he  have 
invented  the  islands  beyond  (the  West 
Indies),  and  the  whole  continent  (Amer- 
ica) enclosing  "that  real  sea?"  For  a 
glance  at  the  map  will  show  that  the 
continent  of  America  does  "surround" 
the  ocean  in  a  great  half-circle.  If 
there  had  been  no  Atlantis,  no  series  of 
voyages  and  explorations  from  it  along 
the  great  continental  arc  from  New- 
foundland to  Cape  St.  Roche — tales  of 
which  might  have  spread  over  Europe 
and  sifted  down  the  ages  in  the  form 
of  tradition  till  they  lodged  in  the  ar- 
chives of  Egyptian  sages  (from:  which, 
it  is  said,  Solon  obtained  them) — Plato 
must,  indeed,  have  been  at  least  a  good 
"guesser."  He  must  have  been  fortu- 
nate in  speculation,  even  beyond  the 
point  of  his  usual  brilliancy,  to  have 
known  that  the  Mediterranean  was 
only  a  harbor  compared  to  the  mighty 
ocean  surrounding  the  supposed  Atlan- 
tis. Long  sea-voyages  were  necessary 
to  establish  that  fact,  and  the  Greeks 
had  a  habit  of  keeping  close  to  the  shore 
in  their  tiny  galleys. 

In  parts  of  the  Spanish  peninsula 
there  live  remnants  of  a  race  that,  so 
far  as  men  agree,  have,  on  the  whole 
round  surface  of  the  globe,  no  kin — the 
Basques.  Their  language  has  no  affini- 
ties with  that  of  other  races  on  the  con- 
tinent of  Europe,  but  has  many  like- 
nesses to  the  languages  of  America. 
This  fact  is  also  used  as  an  argument  to 
support  the  Atlantean  theory.  If  there 
was  such  a  primeval  continent  connect- 
ing with  its  ridges  of  land  America  and 
Africa,  it  is  easy  to  understand  how  the 
Basques  could  have  passed  from  one 
land-area  to  anotl]pr;  but  if  the  wide 
Atlantic  has  always  rolled  its  waves  un- 


WHAT    MIGHT   HAVE  DONE  IT. 

hindered  from  shore  to  shore,  it  is  not 
plain  how  an  uncivilized  people  could 
have  thrown  out  from  themselves  such 
far-off  colonies. 

In  discussing  in  a  general  way  some 
of  the  probabilities  of  Plato's  story— 
upon  which  the  Atlantean  idea  is  chiefly 
based — writers  have  made  many  inter- 
esting deductions.  It  is  pointed  out  that 
there  are  no  marvels,  no  myths,  no  tales 
of  gods,  gorgons,  hobgoblins,  or  giants, 
but,  on  the  contrary,  that  it  is  a  plain 
and  reasonable  history  of  a  people  who 
built  temples,  ships,  and  canals;  who 
lived  by  agriculture  and  commerce ;  and 
who,  in  the  natural  expansion  of  national 
life,  reached  out  and  influenced  all  the 
peoples  around  them.  It  is  pointed  out 
that  if  Plato  had  intended  to  draw  from 
his  imagination  the  outlines  of  an  enter- 
taining story,  he  would  not  have  given 
us  such  a  plain  and  reasonable  narrative; 
but  would,  on  the  other  hand,  have 
given  us  something  similar  to  the  tr- 
ends of  Greek  mythology,  full  of  the 

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adventures  and  escapades  of  gods  and 
goddesses,  and  nymphs,  and'  fauns,  and 
sat)rrs. 

Nor,  it  is  said,  is  therel  any  evidence 
that  the  great  philosopher  meant  to  give 
the  world  any  moral  or  political  lesson 
in  the  guise  of  fable.  He  says  that  "At- 
lantis was  a  great  and  wonderful  empire, 
which  aggressed  wantonly  against  the 
whole  of  Europe  and  Asia."  According 
to  him,  it  not  only  conquered  Africa  as 
far  as  Egypt,  and  Europe  as  far  as  Italy, 
but  it  ruled  "as  well  over  parts  of 
the  continent — that  opposite  continent 
[America,  perhaps],  which  surrounded 


the  true  ocean."  Again  he  tells  us  that 
"this  vast  power  was  gathered  into  one", 
meaning,  probably,  that,  from  Egypt  to 
Mexico  and  Peru  it  was  one  consoli- 
dated empire.  And,  in  this  connection, 
it  is  even  said  that  the  legends  of  the 
Hindoos,  referring  to  their  great  leader, 
Deva  Nahusha,  refer  distinctly  to  this 
same  far-spreading  empire. 

Those  of  our  readers  who  may  wish 
to  enter  more  thoroughly  upon  the 
study  of  this  supposed  ancient  country, 
are  referred  to  the  book  "Atlantis"  (pub- 
lished by  Harper  &  Bros.),  from  which 
many  of  the  above  facts  are  drawn. 


The   National    Florence   Crillenlon    Association. 


By  George  Leo  Patterson^  of  the  Boston  Bar,  Field  Secretary, 


TT  HE  first  philanthropic  society  grant- 
ed a  charter  by  Congress  was  the 
National  Florence  Crittenton  Associa- 
tion. Later,  the  Red  Cross  Society 
obtained  a  similar  charter.  In  United 
States,  there  are  now  seventythree  Flor- 
ence Crittenton  homes,  while  five  exist 
beyond  its  borders.  By  this  chain  of 
refuges,  between!  five  and  ten  thousand 
of  our  sisters  are  each  year  rescued  and 
helped  to  positions  of  usefulness.  Sev- 
eral thousand  more  are  afforded  tem- 
porary protection.  The  total  valuation 
of  Crittenton  buildings  is  approximately 
eight  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Flor- 
ence Crittenton  institutions  protect  the 
Pacific  as  well  as  Atlantic  coast,  and  are 
scattered  from  Fargo,  North  Dakota,  as 
far  south  as  Houston,  Texas.  For  some 
years,  Mrs.  Diaz  served  as  president  of 
the  locall  board  at  the  City  of  Mexico. 
The  Marseilles  Home  works  under  a 
charter  granted  by  the  national  govern- 
ment of  France.  In  additioni  to  these, 
there  are  three  Crittenton  homes  across 
the  Pacific.  On  account  of  the  quiet 
and  non-sensational  methods  everywhere 
adopted  by  this  system  of  refuges,  few 
citizens  there  are  who  have  the  slightest 
conception  of  the  extent  of  this  national 


and  international  chain  of  Florence  Crit- 
tenton homes. 

In  the  year  1883,  Charles  N.  Critten- 
ton, a  successful  business  man  of  New 
York,  in  addressing  two  young  girls  of 
the  street,  closed  his  words  of  advice  by 
saying,  "Go  and  sin  no  more",  to  which 
the  question  was  asked,  "Where  shall  we 
go?"  Neither  were  the  words  uttered  in 
a  spirit  of  sarcasm.  Two  young  women 
had  decided  to  live  a  better  life.  Shel- 
ter and  employment  were  needed. 
Where  were  they  to  be?  To  the  surprise 
of  Mr.  Crittenton  himself,  the  question 
could  not  be  answered.  Hence  it  was 
that  this  practical  man  of  affairs  began 
at  once  to  render  an  answer  to  such  an 
inquiry  possible.  To  the  woman  whom 
Christ  told,  "Go  and  sin  no  more",  the 
thoughtless  world  had  said,  "Go,  sin  or 
starve."  For  the  galley  slave  there  had 
been  relief,  for  the  battlefield,  gentle 
hands  to  bind  the  bleeding  wounds.  For 
thQ  inebriate,  a  great  army  of  workers 
were  daily  giving  aid.  Many  and  varied 
were  earth's  philanthropies,  yet  no  place 
of  refuge  for  the  mother  in  disgrace. 
Of  all  persons  on  the  face  of  the  earth, 
the  most  helpless  was  she.  Whether 
hardened  in  sin  or  a  mere  novice,  con- 

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ditions  were  the  same.  Centuries  had 
been  multiplying^  into  ages,  unexplored 
continents  had  been  visited,  virgin  for- 
ests felled ;  kingdoms  had  arisen,  grown 
strong  and  crumbled;  the  world  had 
been  emerging  into  a  supposedly  high 
degree  of  culture;  the  philanthropic 
spirit  had  developed  from  a  mere  altru- 
istic glow  into  a  "great  and  consuming 
fire",  actuating  man  to  the  noblest  of 
deeds  and  the  most  self-sacrificing  of 
services,  yet  the  most  helpless  of  human 
sufferers  was  being  utterly  forgotten. 

To  what  proportions  has  America's 
army  of  despairing  women  attained? 
No  small  figure,  indeed,  for  the  number 
swells  to  three  hundred  thousand  in 
United  States  alone.  Each  year,  the 
greater  part  of  sixty  thousand  are  laid 
in  nameless  graves ;  each  a  human  being 
endowed  with  boundless  possibilities, 
each  some  mother's  daughter  whose 
infant  innocence  once  brightened  a  par- 
ent's life,  each  by  nature  capable  of 
making  the  world  brighter  instead  of 
more  dark,  many  betrayed  by  one  whom 
they  loved  in  purity  but  whose  regard 
for  them  was  unholy,  many  tempted  by 
poverty  and  love  for  dependent  ones 
until  temptation  conquered,  and  of  the 
entire  number,  not  one  entering  this  life 
through  malicious  or  criminal  motives. 

Let  us  forget  not  our  erring  sisters, 
forced  downward  rather  than  fallen. 
Those  painted  faces,  those  hollow 
cheeks,  those  figures  distorted  with 
drink — we  behold  them  on  the  street 
corners !  Where  were  they  twenty  years 
ago?  The  world  assumes  them  always 
to  have  been  so,  a  separate  kind  of 
being,  neither  animal  nor  human;  yet 
these  are  the  remnant  of  a  vast  army 
which  but  two  decades  since  consisted 
of  the  newly-betrayed,  just  considering 
which  way  to  drift,  toward  the  light  of 
day   and  public   disgrace,  or  the   dark 


cloud  which  appeared  very  small  on  the 
distant  horizon. 

The  seasons  and  the  years  flit  by. 
The  cloud  is  at  hand  and  assumes  defi- 
nite shape.  It  is  the  mighty  phantom. 
Despair,  and  his  only  words  are,  "Never 
more"!  The  night  has  come.  The 
painted  faces  and  hollow  dieeks  are 
seen  on  the  street  comers,  and  the 
world  believes  them  always  to  have 
been  so.  Time,  agony,  and  drink  do  the 
rest.  These  are  the  remnant,  and  where 
lie  the  rest  of  that  misguided  throng 
whom  man  brought  low  but  raised  not 
up  again? 

Many  are  the  side  problems  of  this 
large  subject.  Many  are  the  efforts  to 
solve  them.  The  National  Florence 
Crittenton  Association  concentrates  its 
energies,  however,  on  furnishing  open 
doors  to  a  class  against  whom  nearly  all 
doors  are  closed.  For  a  long  period  of 
time,  Charles  N.  Crittenton  gave  to  this 
work  his  entire  income.  In  November, 
1909,  this  kind  "brother  of  girls"  passed 
away.  In  order  to  place  this  great  chain 
of  seventyeight  homes  on  a  solid  basis, 
a  substantial  endowment  must  be  raised. 
Difficult  as  is  the  task  of  the  hospital 
president  to  keep  the  wolf  away  from 
the  door,  still  more  strenuous  is  the  life 
of  the  Crittenton  field  secretary,  when 
realizing  that  the  "wolf"  without  seeks 
to  devour  both  body  and  soul.  We  still 
believe  there  are  kind  capitalists  who 
will  take  the  place  of  the  late  Charles 
N.  Crittenton.  A  great  thinker  has  said, 
"We  live  in  deeds,  not  years ;  in  thoughts, 
not  breaths ;  in  feelings,  not  in  figures  on 
a  dial.  We  should  count  time  by  heart 
throbs.  He  most  lives  who  thinks  most, 
feels  the  noblest,  acts  the  best."  What 
human  sufferer  compares  with  the  un- 
wedded  mother  in  helplessness,  and  what 
person  in  need  is  more  commonly  for- 
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The   Suffrage   Crusade    Upon    Albany. 


By  Bertha  Johnston. 


W^HEN  the  ever-watchful,  Argus-eyed 
leaders  of  the  Woman's  Political 
Union  realized  that  the  wily  Senators  at 
Albany  planned  to  postpone  considera- 
tion of  their  Suffrage  resolution  until 
too  late  for  definite  action  thereon,  they 
decided  upon  immediate  action.  Post- 
cards were  printed  and  mailed  at  once, 
these  calling  for  i,ooo  women  to  speed 
to  the  State  capital  on  a  special  train 
and  urge  upon  the  recalcitrant  Senators 
the  error  of  their  antiquated  ways. 

The  call  was  sent  at  such  short  notice 
that  many  were  not  able  to  respond,  who 
would  have  done  so  had  they  had  more 
time  for  making  arrangements;  the 
weather,  also,  was  unpropitious,  being  a 
mingling  6f  snow  and  rain,  calculated 
to  dampen  the  ardor  of  all  in.  frail 
health.  Moreover,  many  of  those  inter- 
ested, were  en  route  to  Trenton,  to  lend 
their  influence  to  Reason's  assault  upon 
the  New  Jersey  lag-behinds.  But  when 
the  train  emerged  from  the  Grand  Cen- 
tral, promptly  at  8:30  a.  m.,  it  bore  a 
contingent  of  several  hundred  intelli- 
gent, up-to-date  women — and  not  one 
monstrosity  of  a  hat  in  all  the  suffrage 
millinery ! 

Shortly  after  starting,  a  merry-faced, 
business-like  little  lady  went  through 
the  train,  asking  permission  to  obscure 
the  view  of  the  foggy,  wintry  landscape 
by  placarding  alternate  windows  with 
statements  asking  for  "votes  for  women 
immediately",  demanding  "Who  elected 
Wagner  protector  of  womanhood?"  and 
saying,  "We  prepare  the  children  for 
the  State ;  let  us  help  prepare  the  State 
for  the  children." 

A  Ijttle  later,  those  who  wished  "to 


show  their  colors"  were  given  the  op- 
portunity to  purchase  the  suffrs^ette 
badge  and  ribbon  of  green,  white  and 
purple — ^although  few  of  those  wearing 
the  militant  tri-color  believed  there 
would  ever  be  the  need  in  United  Statei 
of  employing  such  warlike  methods. 

Tickets  at  reduced  rates  were  to  be 
bought  upon  the  train  and  the  treas- 
urer of  the  Woman's  Political  Union, 
Mrs.  Arthur  Townsend,  charming  and 
gracious,  accompanied  the  conductor 
through  the  train  to  superintend  the 
payment  of  fares,  all  beinf  managed  in 
an  efficient  way  that  reflected  great 
credit  on  the  executive  ability  of  the 
feminine  mind. 

When  fairly  on  the  way,  the  writer 
started  on  a  tour  of  discovery,  hoping 
to  find  many  friends  among  the  travel- 
ers, but  she  missed  a  number  of  famil- 
iar faces.  Miss  Caroline  Lexow.  had 
gone  to  Albany  the  previous  day,  to 
make  arrangements  for  the  expected  pil- 
grims. Mrs.  Oilman  and  Rev.  Dr.  Anna 
Shaw  were  at  the  New  Jersey  capital. 
But  among  the  passengers  were  the 
President,  Mrs.  Harriot  Stanton  Blatch, 
Mrs.  Arthur  Townsend,  Miss  Mary 
Donnelly,  Miss  Maude  Ingersoll,  Mrs. 
Montague  Glass,  Mrs.  Emaijuel  Ein- 
stein, Miss  Lydia  Emmet,  Miss  Con- 
stance Curtis,  Miss  Annie  R.  Tinker, 
Mrs.  M.  L.  Macleod,  Mrs.  Hariot  Holt 
Dey,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Brannan,  Mrs.  Richard 
Bent,  Mrs.  Henry  Brown  Fuller,  Miss 
Katherine  Foot,  Miss  E.  C.  Strobell, 
Miss  Eleanor  Brannan,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Freeman,  and  many  other  notables — 
fine,  intelligent,  womanly  women,  eager 
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them  directly  and  efficiently  to  help  in 
the  civic  housecleaning. 

Arrived  in  Albany,  the  day  that  had 
showed  at  morning  an  uncertain  face  of 
snow  and  rain,  cleared  sufficiently  to  per- 
mit the  delegation  to  walk  to  the  Capitol 
and  up  the  many,  broad  steps  that  lead 
to  the  halls  of  the  Solons !  So,  two  by 
two,  the  political  protesters  fell  into 
line.  It  being  the  noon  hour,  there  were 
many  spectators  along  the  curbs  and  in 
store  windows,  to  witness  and  be  im- 
pressed by  the  unusual  demonstration. 
And  the  observers  were  for  the  most 
part  respectful,  even  when  unbelieving. 

Ascending  the  many  steps  the  camera 
and  motion-picture  men  called  for  occa- 
sional pauses,  but  finally  the  heights 
were  attained  and  the  would-be-citizens 
sought  the  galleries,  both  those  of  the 
men  and  the  women,  of  the  Senate 
Chamber. 

Here,  they  attended  faithfully  to  the 
perfunctory  reading  by  the  Clerk,  of  bills 
that  had  passed  the  third  reading. 

It  was  observed  that  during  this  for- 
mal session  the  lawgivers  refrained  from 
smoking-  Out  of  deference  to  the 
ladies?  Out  of  respect  to  the  genius  of 
Law  and  Justice  supposed  to  over- 
shadow these  noble  precincts  ?  Oh,  no ! 
For  awhile  one  spectator  was  hopeful 
that  this  was  the  case,  and  surmised  that 
possibly  the  recess  that  was  soon  called 
was  to  give  opportunity  to  the  users  of 
the  weed  to  send  the  incense  thereof  to 
ceilings  of  the  corridors ;  but  when  the 
session  was  resumed  at  2:30  and  the 
meeting  was  resolved  into  Committee  of 
the  Whole,  the  cigars  came  out  and — 
well,  perhaps  in  the  conferences  of  the 
Chiefs  they  do  serve  the  purpose  of  the 
Pipe  of  Peace.  Possibly  they  have  pre- 
vented many  a  fracas. 

During  the  aforesaidrecess,  the  ladies 
seized  the  opportunity  to  waylay  the 
individual  antagonists  and  present  their 
arguments.  Senator  Wagner,  supposed 
"to  stand  between  us  and  the  Senate", 
was  obdurate,  immovable.  Therefore  it 
is  for  the  suffragists  to  see  to  it  that 
the  Tammany  Senator  is  himself  re- 
moved, if  that  be  possibly. 


When  some  of  the  Senators  gave  as 
a  reason  for  opposition,  that  the  women 
of  theiil  district  did  not  want  the  vote, 
the  well-informed  women  were  quick 
with  the  reply  that  the  conservative, 
tiny-footed  women  of  China  objected  to 
the  abolishing  of  foot-binding  and  the 
high-rank  women  of  India  were  horri- 
fied at  thought  of  doing  such  a  bold, 
unwomanly  thing  as  to  come  from 
behind  the  walls  of  the  Zenana.  Prog- 
ress and  its  benefits  are  always  secured 
against  the  wishes  of  the  conservative 
majority,  who  later  rejoice  in  the  advan- 
tages which  they  have  not  foreseen. 

The  afternoon  session  was  devoted  to 
an  interesting  debate  upon  land  versus 
improvement  taxation  in  Manhattan  and 
the  Bronx — ai  kind  of  Single-tax  argu- 
ment— but  amid  this  Senator  Stilwell's 
voice  was  heard  reminding  his  col- 
leagues that  the  ladies  were  present  and 
it  were  well  to  attend  to  the  matter  in 
which  they  were  so  much  interested. 
But  no  action  was  taken.  The  bill  had 
previously  been  reported  out  of  Com- 
mittee. The  object  that  day  was  to  in- 
duce the  Senate  to  consider  it  in  Com- 
mittee of  the  Whole  at  once,  instead  of 
waiting  till  the  week  after. 

As  the  hour-hand  of  the  large  clock 
crept  towgird  6:30  the  sisters'  thoughts 
turned  trainward,  and  they  gathered  to- 
gether their  belongings  and  sought  the 
street.  But  the  fickle  weather  having 
turned  to  tears  at  their  departure,  the 
street-cars  were  hailed  as  friends  in 
need.  Promptly  at  seven  p.  m.  the  train 
left  for  New  York,  leaving  many  of  the 
suffragists  to  continue  the  battle  with 
the  Assembly  on  the  ensuing  day. 

And  what,  if  any,  were  the  gains 
secured  by  this  emergency-trip?  For 
one  thing,  there  was  the  direct  reaction 
upon  those  who  answered  the  call. 
Those  who  went  with  hesitation  and 
possible  self-distrust  returned  strength- 
ened tenfold.  For  busy  homekeeping 
women  to  have  several  hours'  converse 
with  these  intelligent,  capable,  well-in- 
forme^Ji,  well-bred  women  representing 
all  varieties  of  occupation  and  interest — 
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experience.  Here  were  representatives 
a^  said  before,  of  the  Woman's  Politi- 
cal Union,  and  also  of  the  Equal  Fran- 
chise Society,  the  New  York  State 
Woman  Suffrage  Association,  the  Col- 
legiate Equal  Suffrage  League,  the 
Woman  Suffrage  Party,  and  the  Wage 
Earners'  League.  There  were  present, 
home-makers,  clerks,  editors,  teachers, 
physicians,  the  public-spirited  woman  of 
leisure,  and  one  delightful  traveler  was 
a  graduate  consulting-engineer  who 
works  in  happy  collaboration  with  her 
husband.  Such  a  vocation  would  not 
now  have  been  possible  for  a  woman 
but  for  the  courageous  labors  of  the 
early  suffragists. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  all  who  went  to 
Albany  that  day  returned  reinforced  in 
the  determination  to  work  unceasingly 
for  victory.  They  had  gained  in  enthu- 
siasm, in  knowledge,  and  in  faith. 

It  was  interesting"  to  hear  Miss  Free 
man,  who  had  undergone  severe  treat 
ment  in  London  as  a  suffragette,  explair 
the  whys  and  wherefores  of  the  extreme 
action  taken  by  the  militants ;  she  spoke 
with  the  fervor  and  noble  self-abnega- 
tion of  the  religious  niartyr,  and  said 
that  Christabel  Pankhurst  was  a  young 
woman  of  most?  remarkable  genius  and 
executive  ability. 

The  militant  women,  whether  we  ap- 
prove or  disapprove  of  their  tactics,  are 
acting  from  well-considered  plans  and 
with  the  earnest  desire  to  serve  their 
countrywomen  and  also  women  all  the 
world  over.  We  in  America  can  not 
picture  the  condition  of  affairs  in  "mer- 
rie  England  (?)"  and  the  causes  that 
have  occasioned  this  unusual  feminine 
outbreak.  Read  both  sides  before  judg- 
ing. Reports  have  grossly  exaggerated 
what  took  place  and  have  omitted  many 
details  essential  to  a  proper  understand- 
ing of  the  militant  movement. 

As  for  the  political  gains :  an  impres- 
sion was  certainly  made  and  it  was 
reported  that  although  the  "votes  for 
women"  measure  was  lost  in  the  Senate, 
there  was  a  gain  in  the  Assembly,  for 
here,  although  the  Judiciary  Commit- 
tee  rendered   an    adverse    report,   the 


House  reversed  that  report:  a  most 
revolutionary  step  for  the  House  to  take. 
Moreover,  the  bill  was  taken  up  for  con- 
sideration in  the  Senate  a  day  earlier 
than  had  been  intended,  and  that  was  a 
great  feather  in  the  caps  of  the  earnest 
women.  The  Assembly  placed  the 
amendment  on  the  second  reading  cal- 
endar, which  meant  that  the  Committee 
on  Rules  could  place  the  bill,  if  it  de- 
sired, on  the  second  and  third  reading 
calendar. 

The  women  who  have  been  working 
for  so  many  years  for  this  great  end 
feel  that  they  have  thus  made  very 
great  progress  this  year. 

Just  before  our  going  to  press  it  was 
learned  that  the  Assembly  played  a  trick 
on  the  women.  They  passed  the  resolu- 
tion offered  by  Assemblyman  Murray, 
providing  that  the  question  be  submit- 
ted to  the  people,  by  a  vote  of  seventy- 
six  to  sixtyseven.  Then,  as  soon  as 
L^he  women  left  the  galleries,  the  vote 
was  reconsidered  and  lost.  But  only 
temporarily.  The  women  have  faced 
defeat  too  often  to  be  bafHed  now. 
Another  effort  will  be  made  another 
year  by  the  women  who  believe  that 
"new  occasions  teach  new  duties",  and 
that,  "who  trusts  the  strength,  will,  with 
M  tlie  burden  grow." 

'jjg  This  is  not  an  article  necessarily  pro- 
^;^  suffrage — it  is  merely  the  report  of  an 
eye-witness  of  an  interesting  pilgrimage 
in  the  twentieth  century.  But  suffrage 
for  women  is  bound  to  come.  It  is  com- 
ing fast — ^many  States,  many  European 
countries,  have  given  this  power  wholly 
or  in  part  to  the  women  who  are  the 
mothers,  sisters,  wives  of  the  men-folk. 
Is  it  wise  to  try  to  say  with  Canute, 
"Thus  far  shalt  thou  go  and  no  fur- 
ther ?"  Is  it  possible  to  sweep  back  the 
ocean  with  a  broom?  When  God  gives 
women  responsibilities  in  the  State  shall 
we  shirk  them  ?  Is  it  not  rather  the  part 
of  wisdom  to  inform  ourselves,  little  by 
little,  of  the  needs  of  the  State  which 
women  are  specially  fitted  to  fulfill? 
Give  less  time  to  bridge  and  dances  and 
more  to  cleaning  our  streets,  securing 
pure  food  and  better  schools?    t 

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"Crushing   a   Republic/ 


JT  is  stoutly  asserted  by  newspaper 
"*  men,  who  are  sometimes  right,  not- 
withstanding the  necessity  of  speed,  that 
one  of  our  newest  Republics,  Portugal, 
is  about  to  be  crushed  back  again  into 
a  Monarchy.  Three  Kingdoms,  two  of 
them  strong,  and  one  of  them  weak,  are 
reported  to  have  conspired  together,  to 
bring  about  this  dismal  end. 

The  first  one  mentioned  in  this  con- 
nection is  Great  Britain,  which  certainly 
ought  to  know  better.  That  largel  and 
interesting  Empire  has  been  drifting 
farther  and  farther  into  Republicanism 
for  several  years,  and  is  now,  to  all  in- 
tents and  purposes,  nearer  than  ever  to 
that  goal. 

We  do  not  believe  that  a  great  major- 
ity of  the  people  that  compose  the  Brit- 
ish Empire  wish  to  see  a  single  Repub- 
lic less,  in  this  world.  Some  of  their 
rulers  may  entertain  the  sentiment,  but 
they  will  sooner  or  later  be  turned  down 
on  that  account. 


The  second  one  mentioned  by  these 
veracious  newspaper  chroniclers,  is  Ger- 
many. She  contains  much  more  of  the 
imperial  spirit  than  England  does,  and 
would  probably  be  more  likely  to  extend 
help  to  the  exiled  King,  than  her  neigh- 
bor. But  it  may  be  doubted  very  much, 
whether  even  that  rock-ribbed  strong- 
hold of  semi-despotism  would  lend  a 
very  enthusiastic  hand  to  assist  openly 
in  that  direction. 

The  third  mentioned  is  Spain.  This 
country  has  recently  seen  a  Republic 
formed  out  of  its  possessions,  and  is 
perhaps  opposed  to  any  more  being 
added  to  the  political  properties  of  the 
world.  In  fact,  in  the  sixty  years  end- 
ing in  the  Revolution  of  1640,  Portugal 
was  practically  a  part  of  Spain,  and  has, 
perhaps,  always  considered  her,  to  use 
the  words  of  a  distinguished  English- 
man concerning  America  and  England, 
"one  of  her  own  colonies,  temporarily 
alienated."     But  if  the  alienation  does 


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monarchies  of  Europe,  is  well  known. 
For  many  years  the  third  French  Repub- 
lic was  maligned  in  every  possible  man- 
ner, and  every  influence  that  could  be 
used  to  undermine  it  was  set  at  work. 
Yet  shrewd  observers  today  say  that  the 
republican  government  of  France  is  the 
wisest,  the  most  temperate  and  the  most 
solid  in  Europe. 

"You  can  destroy  a  republic  wijh  the 
sword,  but  you  cannot  destroy  the  re- 
publican idea.  The  re-establishment  of 
a  monarchy  in  Portugal  by  other  mon- 
archies would  give  an  enormous  impetus 
to  republican  principles  in  every  Euro- 
pean country." 


SQUARE    AND    COLUMN    DOM    PEDRO    IV. 

not  continue  permanently,  it  will  not  be 
on  account  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  gal- 
lant little  new  republic's  free  and  un- 
trammelled choice 

The  New  York  World  says,  with  great 
truth  and  pertinence: 

"The  crushing  of  republics  is  a  poor 
business,  and  it  grows  poorer  all  the 
time.  Most  of  the  great  history  of  the 
world  has  been  made  by  republics.  They 
have  always  been  centres  of  light  and 
also  of  valor.  No  republic  was  ever 
beaten  in  battle  except  by  superior  num- 
bers. Capt.  Marryat  in  one  of  his  nov- 
els has  a  significant  passage  about  the 
naval  wars  of  England  and  the  Dutch 
Republic.  He  says  that  to  know  who 
won  you  must  consider  whose  history 
you  are  reading.  And  the  Republicans 
were  outnumbered  five  to  one.  England 
finally  overwhelmed  the  two  tiny  South 
African  republics,  but  it  caused  her  more 
loss  of  prestige,  both  moral  and  mate- 
rial, than  anything  else  she  has  ever 
done. 

"The  example  of  the  first  French  Re- 
public,   which    defeated    the    combined 


Easter  Sunday. 

By  Fanny  Crosby. 

JJAIL,  sacred  morn!    When  from  the 
tomb 

The  Son  of  God  arose ; 
"Captivity  he  captive  led". 

And  triumphed  o'er  his  foes. 

Rejoice!    O  holy  church,  rejoice! 

Awake  thy  noblest  strain! 
Put  off  thy  weeds  of  mourning,  now. 

The  Saviour  lives  again. 

Oh  let  thy  loud  hosannas  re^ch 

The  portals  of  the  sky. 
Where  angels  tune  their  gentle  harps. 

And  heav'nly  choirs  reply. 

Glory  to  God — He  iCver  lives 

To  plead  our  cause  above; 
He — He  is  worthy  to  receive 

All  honor,  power,  and  love. 

Hail,  mighty  King! — wie  at  thy  feet 

Our  grateful  homage  pay; 
Accept  the  humble  sacrifice 

And  wash  our  sins  away. 

Then,  at  the  resurrection  morn, 
When  th|e  last  trump  shall  sound. 

May  we  awake  to  life  anew. 
And  with  thy  saints  be  found. 

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TN  my  retirement  from  active  work, 
with  that  dear  little  companion,  the 
rheumatism,  creeping  about,  coaxing  me 
to  stay  in-doors  except  in  the  very  finest 
of  weather,  I  quite  often  look  over  my 
career  as  a  detective,  and  live  again  the 
days  and  nights  of  that  turbulent,  fasci- 
nating life.  A  great  many  things  I  did, 
that  please  me  almost  exactly,  when  I 
review  them:  but  more  that  bring  re- 
gret, because  I  did  not  perform  my  part 
better.  I  can  see  from  this  fact,  that  if 
my  life  had  been  terribly  misspent,  I 
should  now  suffer  mental  tortures,  be- 
side which  the  pains  of  rheumatism 
would  be  a  small  matter.  Often  at 
night,  when  kept  awake  by  bodily  ills,  I 
pass  away  the  long  hours,  in  remember- 
ing everything  that  I  can,  connected 
with  some  particular  case,  and  trying  to 
understand  the  motives  concerning  it. 

I  am  well  enough  to  write,  this  morn- 
ing, and  will  put  one  experience  into 
shape  for  the  readers  of  EverV  Where^ 
provided  the  editors  will  correct  any 
technical  errors,  before  putting  it  into 
type. 

People,  generally,  suppose  that  a  de- 
tective's work  is  entirely  concerned  with 
criminal  matters:  that  the  "sleuth"  is 
always  in  chase  of  a  thief,  or  a  forger, 
or  a  murderer,  or  something  nearly  as 
bad. 

But  this  is  not  inevitably  the  case. 
There  are  thousands  of  little  affairs, 
about  which  people  like  to  know — and 
some  of  them  they  ought  to  know — 
that  can  be  ascertained  only  through 
trusty  detectives.  They  sometimes  find 
it  necessary,  or  think  it  so,  to  learn  all 
^bout    their    neighbors'    business,    even 


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when  there  does  not  exist  any  question 
of  wrong-doing. 

I  have  several  times  taken  such  tasks, 
and  set  myself,  at  work  to  ascertain 
things  concerning  people,  when  I  had 
no  idea  what  was  the  object  of  the  party 
who  employed  me.  This,  of  course, 
would  almost  invariably  come  out,  soon- 
er or  later — or  at  least  appear  plainly 
enough  so  that  I  knew  it:  but  often 
there  was  no  word  of  the  real  reason, 
passing  between  the  employer  and  my- 
self. 

In  one  case  I  discovered  that  a  rich 
old  lady  was  using  me  merely  for  the 
purpose  of  gratifying  her  own  curios- 
ity about  certain  people!  I  quit  her 
service  in  disgust :  but  I  am  not  so  sure 
whether  I  would  now.  There  was  noth- 
ing malicious  in  her  action — she*  was 
simply  inquisitive,  could  not  read  inter- 
estedly, and  wanted  something  to  think 
about :  and  she  paid  well. 

Once,  a  popular  author  had  me  at 
work  several  months  on  different  cases, 
before  I  discovered  that  he  was  using 
my  reports  as  plots  and  material  for  his 
stories.  Of  course  I  did  not  particu- 
larly object  to  this :  though  when  I  saw 
myself  sketched  out  in  some  of  his  chap- 
ters as  a  lean,  peaked-faced,  squint-eyed 
delver  into  other  people's  business,  the 
sensation  was  not  particularly  cheerful. 

One  day  an  old  client,  who  had  need- 
ed my  help  in  one  or  two  different  cases, 
walked  into  my  office,  and  without  any 
ceremony,  said: 

"My  daughter  is  engaged — ^that  is,  if 
I  will  give  my  consent — and  I  want  a 
little  detective  work  done  upon  the 
young  man." 

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"Of  what  do  you  suspect  him?"  I 
asked. 

"Nothing",  was  the  terse  reply.  "He 
may  be  as  straight  as  a  turnpike  road 
through  the  prairies,  for  all  I  know. 
Indeed,  he  tells  her  he  is :  but  of  course 
he's  prejudiced  on  the  subject,  and  a 
little  excited :  and  there  may  be  one  or 
two  things  that  he  forgets,  when  he  is 
talking  with  her.  If  so,  I  want  to  find 
them  out:  and,  while  I  cannot  say  that 
r  suspect  him  of  anything  definite,  still 
I  can't  help  feeling,  somehow,  that  he  is 
a  young  villain,  and  would  wreck  her 
life.  I  want  to  know  whether  or  not  my 
intuitions  are  accurate." 

"But  suppose  you  do  find  out  that  he 
is  a  rogue:  will  that  make  any  differ- 
ence with  your  daughter,  now  the  matter 
has  gone  so  far?" 

The  old  gentleman  mused  a  minute. 
"Yes",  he  replied  at  last :  "it  will  make 
a  good  deal  of  difference.  If  you  find 
out  something  against  his  ability,  or  his 
origin,  or  anything  of  that  kind,  I  think 
she'll  stick  to  him  tighter  than  ever:  if 
he  were  discharged  from  his  positbn  to- 
day, and  thrown  on  his  uppers,  she'd 
give  him  every  cent  of  her  pin-money, 
and  more  too,  before  she'd  see  him  suf- 
fer :  but  if  you  find  anything  about  him 
that  offends  her  ideas  of  morality,  she'll 
ship  him  before  he  can  get  off  one  knee 
on  to  the  other." 

Now  no  young  fellow  who  is  in  busi- 
ness, can  be  certain,  at  any  time,  that 
he  is  not  "shadowed",  for  some  purpose 
or  other.  Often  he  may  lose  his  place 
— he  knows  not  why,  except  that  "his 
work  is  not  satisfactory",  as  the  matter 
is  tersely  stated  to  him :  and  he  wonders 
and  wonders,  as  to  what  brought  about 
such  a  sudden  dispensing  with  his  ser- 
vices. He  gets  no  definite?  information 
from  the  employers  that  discharge  him : 
for  they  do  not  use  up  very  much  of 
their  time  in  telling  secrets.  If  a  young 
man  wants  to  "get  on"  because  his  em- 
ployers consider  him  all  right,  the  best 
plan  is  for  him  to  be  all  right:  other- 
wise there  is  no  sureness  or  safety 
about  it. 

Of  course  I  was  not  very  long  in  get- 


ting "a  line"  on  the:  young  man's  daily 
habits :  detectives  have  so  many  avenues 
of  information  and  such  complete  meth- 
ods of  systematizing  it,  that  they  can 
"build  up"  a  series  of  facts  concerning 
almost  anybody  in  a  very  short  time.  In 
a  week,  I  knew  almost  as  much  about 
the  young  man,  as  if  I  had  been  brought 
up  along  with  him. 

And  yet,  there  was  nothing  to  be  said 
against  him,  so  far  as  I  could  see — a 
fact  for  which  I  was  glad:  for  your 
real  detective  had  much  rather  find  his 
"game"  innocent,  than  guilty.  Besides, 
I  liked  the  young  man,  as,  I  found,  most 
people  did,  after  becoming  acquainted 
with  him. 

I  reported  these  facts  to  the  young 
lady's  father,  as  I  went  along:  but  he 
seemed  far  from  satisfied.  "You  haven't 
got  at  him  yet",  he  kept  saying.  "I  tell 
you  I  don't  feel  in  this  way,  for  nothing : 
and  it  grows  on  me.  There's  something 
in  it." 

I  was  disposed  to  believe  that  this 
was  the  result  of  a  little  of  that  strange 
article  which  we  sometimes  encounter, 
and  which  may  be  called  father-jealousy : 
when  a  parent  dislikes  to  see  a  cherished 
daughter  going  into  some  one  else's  care, 
and  among,  his  caresses,  for  the  remain- 
der of  her  life.  I  courteously  suggested 
that  my  old  friend  employ  another  detec- 
tive: but  he  insisted  upon  it  that  I  con- 
tinue and  try  to  make  more  investiga- 
tions. 

"I  feel  sure,  somehow,  that  you'll 
strike  something  startling,  withiii  a 
week",  he  insisted. 

And  I  did.  Wandering  that  "'ery 
night,  through  one  of  the  principal 
streets  of  New  York,  and  wishing  <rhat 
I  was  well  clear  of  the  case,  since  it 
seemed  to  promise  nothing  but  failure, 
I  somehow  felt  impelled  to  go  into  a 
billiard-hall,  and  there  found  my  young 
man  playing  the  game,  very  neatly  and 
skilfully. 

This  was  nothing  bad  or  unusual: 
many  of  the  most  respectable  of  our 
citizens  like  an  occasional  bit  of  amuse- 
ment, of  the  same  kind. 

But  I  thought  I   saw   ^OHie  peculiar 

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glances  toward  a  small  door  in  one 
corner  of  the  room :  and  from  my  first 
seat  at  the  side  of  the  hall,  I  moved 
around  toward  this  door  as  near  as  I 
could  get.  I  was  not  noticed,  particu- 
larly, as  a  part  of  the  detective's  busi- 
ness is  to  make  himself  as  unobtrusive 
as  possible:  and  finally,  when  one  after 
another  slipped  into  this  little  room,  I 
had  no  trouble  in  doing  so,  too. 

A  big  red-faced  man  asked  me  my 
name:  but  I  was  always  provided  with 
plenty  of  aliases,  in  those  days,  and  had 
with  me  a  score  of  addres^i-cards — one 
of  which  was  that  of  a  well-known  New 
York  gambler.  I  handed  him  the  little 
bit  of  pasteboard,  knowing  in  just  which 
pocket  it  was  stowed,  and  remarked, 
nonchanantly,  that  I  would  like  to  see 
"the  boss"  a  minute  or  two  when  he 
came  in :  that  he(  had  left  word  at  my 
place  the  day  before,  that  he  wanted  to 
see  me.  The  fellow  said  "all  right",  and 
I  lounged  about  as  I  wished,  looking  at 
the  different  players. 

The  game  was  faro,  and  it  was  easy 
to  see  that  the  young  man  was  being 
gradually  fleeced.  After  a  little  I 
touched  him  on  the  shoulder.  "I  want 
to  see  you  alone  for  a  few  minutes",  I 
said,  quietly,  to  him.  "It  is  about  Miss 
"  (the  girl  to  whom  he  was  en- 
gaged). He  rose,  with  a  white  face, 
and  accompanied  me  out  of  the  room. 

We  went  out  to  the  street  together. 
"Who  are  you?"  he  asked,  as  soon  as 
we  were  alone. 

"I  am  a  detective  for  Mr.  ",  I 

answered,  quite  frankly,  for  me,  "and 
am  working  in  his  interests.  He  thinks 
there  is  something  wrong  about  you:  I 
thought  not,  until  this  evening.  If  I 
tell  this  to  him" 

"Don't  tell!"  he  interrupted,  eagerly. 
"I'll  give  you  half  my  salary.    I'll" 

"Never  mind  'giving^  me  anything," 
I  interrupted :  "I'm  well  enough  paid  as 
it  is." 

"But  what  can  I  do?"  he  rejoined. 
"I  love  her  to  distraction — I  shall  die 
if  I  lose  her" 

"You  certainly  will  lose  her,"  I  inter- 
rupted, "unless  you  do  as  I  say." 


"And  what  is  that?" 

"Go  with  me  tomorrow  to  Mr. ; 

tell  him  frankly  what  you  have  been 
doing,  and  just  how  long  you  have  been 
doing  so;  get  his  forgiveness — if  you 
can ;  promise  to  cease  this  bad  habit  of 
gambling;  and  give  him  an  accurate 
and  correct  account  of  your  goings  and 
comings  for  the  next  year — subject,  at 
any  time,  to  my  inspection,  open  or 
secret." 

After  considerable  hesitation,  the 
young  man  did  as  I  advised;  after 
considerable  more  hesitation,  the  father 
consented  to  the  plan.  The  year  went 
off  satisfactorily,  the  young  man  seemed 
thoroughly  reformed,  and  the  couple 
were  married  and  are  now  happy  and 
prosperous.  I  have  reason  to  believe 
that  the  young  lady  never  knew  of  the 
occurrence,  until  after  the  wedding  took 
place — ^when  the  bridegroom  told  her, 
and  she  heartily  forgave  him. 


I 


An  Easter  Lily  Song. 

N  a  mist-enshrouded  valley,  where  the 

tardy  spring,  awaking, 
Brings  a  stir  of  bee  and  birdling,  lo, 
a  lily  bursts  in  bloom! 
And  the  splendor  of  its  whiteness,  into 
beams'  of  glory  breaking. 
Like   the   glow  of   Eden's   morning 
flashes  forth  upon  the  gloom. 


And  from  out  the  pearly  parting  of  its 
petals  pure  ascending, 
Lo,  a  breath  like  balm  celestial  on  the 
air  a  healing  flings ; 
To  my  worn  and  weary  spirit  calm  and 
comfort  sweetly  lending, 
While  as  in  a  downy  garment  I   am 
folded  in  its  wings. 

How  the  wooing  warmth  awakes   me! 
how  the  vital  glory  fires  me  I 
How  I  mount  to  strong  endeavor  on 
the  pow'r  that  they  impart ! 
How  with  hope  the  balmy  fragrance  of 
the  stainless  bloom  inspires  me ! 
For  the  lily  is  thy  love,  O  Christ!  the 
valley  is  my  heart! 
— ^Minnie  Ward  Patterson 

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Among  the  ''Fighting  Allans." 

By  Stanley  Smith. 

TF  you  had 'been  born  near  them,  as  I 
was,  and  partly  brought  up  there, 
you  would  wonder  over  and  over  again, 
how  such  a  strange,  contradictory  fam- 
ily, or,  more  properly  speaking,  "clan" 
as  the  Aliens,  coul^  live  within  the 
United  States  of  America.  They  were 
really  trying  to  conduct  a  small  nation 
within  a  nation. 

As  soon  as  I  was  old  enough  to  go  to 
school,  I  began  to  realize  that  to  be  an 
Allen  was  to  be  a  king.  The  rest  of  us 
pupils  had  some  little  standing  in  the 
miniature  knowledge-emporium,  accorcl- 
ing  to  behavior  and  scholarship:  but 
the  boys  and  girls  with  two  Is  in  their 
name,  generally  did  a  good  deal  as  they 
pleased.  Some  of  them  were  thought  to 
bring  revolvers  and  bowie-knives  in  their 
dinner-baskets,  although  we  never  had 
a  scbutzenfest  or  a  stabbing-bee  in  our 
little  sanctuary  of  the  four  rs :  but  they 
used  to  take  long  noonings  away  off 
among  the  forest  trees,  under  the  brow 
of  a  certain  hill,  and  sometimes  a  rifle- 
shot came  from  the  place. 

One  athletic  fellow  came  there  as  our 
teacher,  who  grimly  announced  his  pur- 
pose to  "run  the  school,  Allen  or  no 
Allen."  He  knocked  down  five  of  the 
husky  relatives  (not  all  Aliens  in  name, 
but  all  in  blood),  and  announced,  at 
close  of  school  at  evening,  that  he  was 
ready  for  the  sixth:  but  that  night,  it 
was  reported,  three  sturdy  growurups 
of  the  race  called  him  out  of  his  board- 
ing-place, stood  him  up  against  a  tree, 
shot  revolver-balls  around  him,  as  if  he 
had  been  a  living  non-target  in  the  side- 
show of   a   circus,   faced   him   toward 


North  Carolina,  marched  him  a  few 
miles  through  the  woods  and  among  the 
hills,  and  told  him  it  would  be  good  for 
his  health,  to  keep  on  marching.  Of 
course  there  were  rumors  that  his  jour- 
ney ended  in  the  next  world :  but  most 
of  us  never  believed  that.  I  for  one 
always  'thought  that  the  Aliens  never 
killed  unless  they  had  to,  and  that  the 
"husky"  teacher  went  looking  for  a 
clanless  school.  If  'he  is  still  living,  I 
hope  he  will  come  out  of  retirement,  and 
tell  the  sequel  of  my  story. 

Strange  to  say,  this  clan  had  a  certain 
amount  of  goodness,  amidst  their  bad- 
ness. They  were  often  humane  and 
charitable.  One  of  them  was  said  to 
have  tenderly  nursed  a  deputy  sheriff 
whom  he  had  shot  from  behind  a  tree, 
and  taken  him  almost  home  again,  with 
the  advice  to  go,  and  rebuke  sin  no 
more.  One  of  their  girl-relations  fell 
in  love  with  a  preacher  who  itinerated 
down  that  way,  was  converted,  and 
eloped  with  him.  Once  in  awhile,  one 
of  them  experienced  religion,  and  was 
not  persecuted,  so  long  as  he  did  not 
attempt  evangelistic  work.  One  time, 
the  best  shooter-up  then  living  among 
them,  became  a  firm  believer  in  the 
Bible,  with  the  exception  of  the  New 
Testament:  and  that,  he  actually  tore 
out  of  the  sacred  book,  and  never  al- 
lowed it  in  his  house.  "An  eye  for  an 
eye  and  a  tooth  for  a  tooth  is  good 
enough  for  me,"  he  used  to  say,  "only 
I'd  make  it  two  for  one." 

Indeed,  it  is  stated  that  the  present 
disturbance  was  largely  the  result  of  one 
of  the  younger  members  of  the  clan 
being  arrested  for  disturbing  a  relig- 
ious meeting  held  by  one  of  the  "good" 
AUeits — a  clergyman. 

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Of  course  the  "Fighting  Aliens",  in 
times  of  excitement,  developed  into  a 
torrent  of  terror  rushing  through  those 
hills.  Officers  learned  that  it  was  wise 
to  wink  at  their  errors,  if  they  did  not 
want  to  take  the  last  terrible  wink  of 
death.  They  told  of  good  blood  away 
back  in  Scotlafld — ^but  whether  that  was 
so,  I  am  not  at  all  sure.  Some  of  them, 
at  times,  would  claim  to  have  Ethan 
Allen's  blood  in  their  veins :  but  I  never 
believed  it:  the  famous  Green  Moun- 
tain Boy  was  a  hill-warrior,  but  not  a 
hill-robber,  and  his  acknowledged  de- 
scendants, so  far  as  I  have  known  them, 
were  honest,  law-abiding  people. 

And  so  were  the  Virginia  Aliens,  if 
you  only  allowed  them  to  make  the  law. 
The  quaint  but  dangerous  dictum  of 
David  Harum,  "Do  unto  the  other  man 
as  he  would  like  to  do  to  you,  and  do  it 
first",  was  amended  to  "Do  unto  the 
other  man  as  you  would  like  to  do  unto 
him,  and  do  it  on  the  sly,  if  possible." 
Instead  of  "Obey  the  laws  that  be",  they 
substituted  "Obey  the  laws  that  you 
would  like  to  have  be."  Instead  of 
"Render  unto  Caesar  the  things  that  are 
Caesar's,  and  unto  God  the  things  that 
are  God's",  they  said,  "Render  unto 
yourself  everything  you  can  get,  and  let 
God  take  care  of  himself :  he  has  all  he 
wants,  anyhow." 

Among  "the  laws  that  be",  they  par- 
ticularly hated  the  revenue  ones.  They  ' 
refused  to  understand  why  the  Govern- 
ment had  any  right  to  tax  them  for  mak- 
ing whiskey,  when  they  themselves 
owned  the  grain,  and  the  stills,  and  "put 
up"  for  the  process  of  producing  the  re- 
munerative liquid.  To  be  sure,  they  paid 
their  help  largely  in  whiskey:  but  that 
was  to  be  expected.  Sidna  Allen's  $20,- 
000  palace  was  built  largely  in  that  way : 
some  of  his  best  carpenters  were  fre- 
quently exhilarated  with  the  "best"  of 
"mountain  dew." 

People  all  about  there,  were  very 
much  averse  to  slighting  one  of  the  calls 
of  this  terrible  band  of  the  mountain 
fastnesses.  A  physician  was  summoned 
to  go  and  minister  to  the  feud-begotten 
wounds  of  one  of  them,  and  he  'said  to 
his  wife,  "I'd  rather  not  go,  but  if  I 


don't,  I'll  soon  need  a  physician  myself 
— and  perhaps  an  undertaker."  A  mer- 
chant said,  "I  don't  like  to  sell  them 
goods — especially  arms  and  ammuni- 
tion: but  there's  liable  to  be  a  fire  in 
town,  right  on  my  comer,  if  I  refuse." 
A  minister  said,  "The  sinfulness  of  sin 
in  the  abstract  is  all  I  dare  to  preach 
against  when  there  is  present  an  Allen 
or  a  relative  of  the  clan :  for  yvhatever 
specific  sin  I  might  denounce,  some  one 
of  the  crowd  might  think  I  meant  him, 
andi  my  work  in  this  world  would  prob- 
ably soon  be  left  undone." 

My  father  often  remarked  that  there 
was  not  nearly  the  usual  competition 
among  natural  office-holders,  in  our 
county,  for  the  positions  such  men  are 
generally  wont  to -covet.  A  brave  sheriff 
is  willing  to  risk  some  danger,  in  con- 
sideration of  salaries  and  perquisites: 
but  when  the  said  perquisites  are  more 
than  liable  to  be  paid  in  leaden  coin,  the 
eagerness,  sometimes,  like  Bob  Acre's 
courage,  "oozes  out."  The  law-abiding 
mountaineers  of  Virginia  have  certainly 
no  taint  of  cowardice  clinging  to  their 
names :  but  most  of  them  have  wives,  or 
sweethearts,  or  brothers,  or  sisters,  or 
children,  or  fathers,  or  mothers,  that  are 
not  ready  to  spare  them:  and  do  not 
particularly  desire  to  execute  law  in  a 
'  lawless  region. 

When  the  Judge  who  sentenced  Floyd 
Allen  left  home  that  morning,  he  well 
knew  that  he  carried  his  life  in  his  hand : 
and  bade  adieu  to  his  loved  ones  as  if 
it  were  for  the  last  time.  "I  may  come 
back  in  a  box",  he  remarked:  and  he 
did. 

He  had  rather  do  that,  than  fail  in  his 
duty.  When  a  Judge  once  accepts  office, 
he  must  go  about  his  work  fearlessly, 
and  perform  it,  with  no  display  of  fear, 
whatever  he  may  apprehend  within.  It 
he  flinch  the  least  bit,  "his  middle  name 
will  be  Coward."  In  all  parts  of  the 
country,  it  is  well  known  that  a  Judge's 
position  is  really  one  that  requires  great 
courage : :  he  is  constantly  being  threat- 
ened, overtly  and  covertly,  by  criminals 
whom  he  has  relegated  to  punishment, 
and  by  their  friends  and  relatives.  He 
may  be  stabbed  in  Aed^iaaiKP^DfepRfid  in 


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the  dining-room,  or,  perchance,  blown 
upi  by  bombs  in  his  own  dwelling. 

We  moved  away  from  there,  about 
the  time  I  came  to  man's  estate,  and  set- 
tled in  another  city,  much  to  the  relief 
of  all  connected  with  the  family:  but  I 
have  often  thought  there  was  more  or 
less  Alienism,  in  different  forms,  all  over 
the  country. 


The  Railroad  Accident-Plague. 

I^O  wonder  that  Mascagni,  the  cele- 
brated  Italian  composer,  sprang  to 
his  feet  and  pulled  the  bell-cord  of  an 
American  train,  endeavoring  to  stop  the 
rushing,  swaying,  and  plunging  caval- 
cade of  coaches,  and  explaining  piteously 
that  he  wanted  to  die  in  his  bed  "at  Italy, 
when  it  was  that  the  event  occurred,  and 
not  in  a  railroad-track"!  He  perhaps 
saw  in  a  glimpse  of  the  prophecy  of 
genius,  what  would  occur  on  the  banWs 
and  amid  the  glittering  ices  of  the  Hud- 
son, a  few  years  later — and  what  has 
occurred  meanwhile  many  and  many 
times,  in  different  forms,  but  with  similar 
gruesome  results — generally  very  much 
worse  ones. 

Travelling  with  any  approach  toward 
certainty  as  to  being  safe  meanwhile,  is 
one  of  the  tost  arts.  We  go  hither  and 
thither  up  and  down  upon  our  rail- 
roads, with  no  thought  of  whether  we 
will  arrive  as  wholes  or  in  sections. — 
We  assume  that  of  course  we  will  wake 
up  tomorrow  morning  and  find  our- 
selves five  hundred  miles  from  where 
we  went  to  bed,  and  breakfast  luxuri- 
ously in  a  palatial  restaurant  on  wheels, 
supplied  with  all  the  enticing  delicacies 
of  the  season.  When  the  journey  is 
over,  we  will  be  met  by  friends  who 
whisk  us  away  in  their  automobiles,  or 
by  paid  carriagiers  or  well-schooled 
taxicabers,  who'  take  us  to  whatsoever 
hotel  we  wish  to  use  as  an  abiding-place. 
Ah,  the  joys  of  travel! — How  different 
from  the  oldtime  ways*! 

If. — One  of  the  most  important — the 
most  portentous — of  words  in  our  lan- 
guage, is  spelled  with  just  two  letters — 
the  third  vowel  and  the  fourth  conso- 


nant.   And  those  letters  are  of  iron  and 
steel. 

With  all  the  protections,  with  all  the 
safety-appliances — ^and  they  are  many 
and  increasing  all  the  time — ^there  are  a 
million  ifs  scattered  all  atong  the  road, 
from  New  York  to  San  Francisco,  and 
all  the  north  and  south  routes  running 
across:  and  these  ifs  all  head  the  life- 
and-death  conditions — If  this  rail  is  a 
perfect,  and  not  a  broken  one;  if  the 
flange  of  this  wheel  does  not  give  way; 
if  the  metals  are  not  adulterated 
with  inferior  substances^  in  order 
to  produce  them  more  cheaply,  and 
thus  realize  larger  profits  for  the 
Company  that  manufactured  them. 

A  beautiful  and  luxurious  train  of 
cars — a  Waldorf-Astoria  upon  wheels — 
may  rush  in  eighteen  hours  from  Chi- 
cago to  New  York — (a  distance  of 
nearly  one  thousand  miles),  if  there  is 
no  broken  rail  on  the  way — or  none  so 
weak  that  it  is  ready  to  break,  erf  some 
unusual  weight  or  jarring.  What  a 
humiliation  that  all  this  care-guarded 
comfort  and  splendor  can  be  metamor- 
phosed, in  a  half  minute's  time,  into  a 
hideous  heap  of  junk,  by  one  flaw  in  a 
little  piece  of  iron  or  steel ! 

The  loss  of  property  would  not  be  of 
so  much  consequence,  although  it  means 
much  to  the  stockholders  of  the  road: 
jbut  among  tfiese  crushed  fragments  of 
inert  matter,  are  human  lives,  of  ines- 
timable value — lives  which  no  crisp 
bank-bills  or  picture-embellished  checks 
can  replace.  There  are  also  nerves 
which  are  capable  of  receiving  shocks 
that  will  last  for  life — and  limbs  which 
may  for  years  be  wrecks  hanging  upon 
a  still-living  human  body. 

Eleven  "flyers"  (to  say  nothing  of 
many  ordinary  trains)  wrecked  in  two 
months  and  a  half!  Some  of  them  in 
one  way,  some  in  another:  but  the 
broken-rail  plague  leads  the  van. 

And  are  corporations  growing  more 
and  more  heartless?  Are  they  willing, 
as  such,  to  sacrifice  the  safety  of  their 
customers,  to  the  chance  of  earning 
extra  fares  by  extra  speed? 

Extra  speed  is  a  curse,  if  extra 
chances  of  safety  do  not  accompany  it, 

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Some  Straw  Opinions. 


TTHIS  Magazine  is  taken  and  read  by 
people  of  all  sorts  of  political 
tendencies.  It  has  a  good  many  opinions 
of  its  own,  but  does  not  take  time  to 
express  them  all.  Indeed,  it  is  going  to 
let  its  readers  edit  it,  politically,  during 
the  next  few  months.  It  has  sent  all 
about,  asking  for  sentiments  and  pref- 
erences, and  a  good  many  of  them  have 
arrived.     Here  are  some: 

Wants  Things  About  as  They  Are. 

I  think  President  Taft  is  doing  and 
has  done  about  as  well  as  any  one  could, 
under  the  circumstances,  and  should  not 
have  the  reins  snatched  out  of  his  hands, 
either  by  experienced  or  inexperienced 
people. 

Of  coumse  he  has  made  some  mis- 
takes :  who  hasn't  ?  Count  all  the  blun- 
ders that  have  been  committed  during 
the  past  three  years  that  Taft  has  been 
in,  by  everybody  in  the  country,  and 
you'll  find  a  few  hundred  millions,  I 
guess.  Put  any  of  us  into  that  exalted 
but  dangerous  position,  and  how  many 
of  us  could,  come  through  free  from 
severe  criticism — even  by  our  own 
party?  Even  give  us  the  training  and 
experience  he  has  had  in  such  matters, 
and  we  could  not  do  any  better — if  as 
well. 

He  is  a  steady  man.  He  does  not 
spend  half  his  time  quarreling,  and  call- 
ing other  people  liars.  He  does  not  tell 
any  one  he's  "delighted"  to  see  him, 
when  all  the  time  he  wishes  he  had  not 
come.  Be  does  not  kill  all  the  animals 
he  can  find  at  both  ehds  of  the  earth. 
He  does  not  mope  and  fidget  about,  if 
he  is  not  the  center  of  observation,  and 
the  target  of  all  the  hurrahs  in  town. 
He  seemed  just  as  good  a  man,  just  as 
happy  a  man,  just  as  contented  a  man. 


when  at  his  desk  wth  no  one  to  pay 
court  to  him,  as  now  when  he  is  the 
storm-center  of  thunders  of  applause. 
He  has  the  kind  of  resolute  and  self- 
reliant  modesty,  which  the  stable, 
straightforward  people  of  America  ad- 
mire, and  which  they  are  trying  to 
teach  to  their  children. 

He  believes  that  the  people  should 
rule — in  such  matters  as  they  are  edu- 
cated and  competent  to  do  so.  He 
doesn't  want  the  passengers  of  a  train 
to  take  the  throttle  out  of  the  hands  of 
the  engineer,  or  the  railroad-tickets 
away  from  the  conductor  after  he  has 
collected  them.  He  does  not  believe  in 
tearing  down  the  GDlumn  Vendome,  and 
trying  to  build  something  in  its  place 
that  shall  please  every  one  of  the  peo- 
ple that  helped  tear  it  down. 

Put  me  down  for  Taft — the  man  who 
has  done  more  for  the  country,  than 
any  other  one  man  living! 
Yours  truly, 

James  G.  Pickering. 


Wants  More  Life  im  the  Adminis- 
tration. 

Let's  try  Roosevelt  again.  This  Ad- 
ministration is  too  slow-motioned,  for 
me.  There  was  more  life  and  progress 
in  one  day  of  Roosevelt's  two  adminis- 
trations, than  in  a  month  of  the  present 
one. 

And  Roosevelt  has  the  courage  of  his 
convictions,  and  a  conviction  of  his 
courage,  and  he  knows  how  to  use 
them.  When  the  time  comes  to  act,  he 
is  ready  to  do  the  acting,  and  let  the 
audience  cheer  or  hiss,  just  as  they  like. 

I  believe  that  he  is  the  man  for  the 
hour,  and  would  vote  for  him  and  work 

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for  him,   for  any  office   for  which  he 
might  run — President  preferred. 

Samuel  J.  Goodwill. 


Down  on  Theodore. 

Theodore  Roosevelt  is  the  Benedict 
Arnold  of  the  Republican  Party.  After 
taking  all  the  honors  it  could  give  him — 
he  turned  around  and  deliberately  tried 
to  sell  it  out — because  he  hoped  to  g^t 
additional  wealth  and  honors  by  doing 
so.  Success  meant  all  sorts  of  prosper- 
ity to  him :  opportunities  of  speculation, 
the  booming  of  the,  stock  of  the  relig- 
ious ( ?)  paper  with  which  he  is  con- 
nected and  in  which  he  is  financially  in- 
terested, and  continual  dominance  over 
the  destinies  of  our  country. 

He  has  found  that  he  cannot  get  the 
office,  this  time,  and  now  he  is  trying  to 
wreck  the  party — so  as  to  get  what  he 
can  out  of  the  debris. 

Some  think,  or  at  least  say,  that  he 
made  Taft:  but  this  is  not  true.  He 
merely  yielded  to  a  desire  that  rose  in 
the  country,  to  have  some  one  in  the 
Presidential  chair  who  would  work  for 
the  country  instead  of  for  himself,  and 
he  intended  all  the  time  to  take  the  office 
from  him  if  he  could,  after  the  four 
years  were  up.  He  promised  not  to  run 
again,  in  order  to  make  sure  his  elec- 
tion in  1908,  and  then  deliberately 
turned  around  and  broke  his  word. 
Would  we  want  such  a  man  in  the 
White  House  again?  And,  now  that  it 
is  practically  settled  that  he  cannot  get 
there,  shall  we  let  him,  through  the  help 
of  a  lot  of  disgruntled  "outs",  ruin, 
because  hei  cannot  rule? 

James  N.  Davidson. 


La  FoUette  is  the  man  whom  the 
country  should  elect  to  its  chief  posi- 
tion. He  has  earned  it,  and  is  entitled 
to  it.  He  is  one  of  the  very  few  public 
men  that  will  stand  right  up  and  say 
what  they  think,  and  say  it  again  and 
again,  regardless  of  newspaper  clamor 
and  opposition.  He  said  what  he  be- 
lieved, in  his  great  Philadelphia  speech, 
and  the  newspapers  which  represented 


the  big  interests,  did  their  best  to  down 
him.  He  will  continue  in  the  fight  for 
the  nomination,  till  the  Chicago  Con- 
vention is  over,  and  ifl  he  lives  will  be 
a  candidate  again,  in  1916.  Watch  La 
Follette. 

BURNETTE  G.  MaPES. 


Wants  the  Missourian. 

Champ  Qark  is  the  man  we  want. 
He  has  run  the  whole  scale  of  American 
occupations,  is  in  touch  with  the  peo- 
ple, and  knows  exactly  what  they  need. 
He  has  been  a  hired  man  on  a  farm,  a 
clerk  in  a  country  store,  a  newspaper- 
editor,  a  lawyer,  liie  President  of  a  Col- 
lege, Speaker  of  the  National  House  of 
Representatives,  and  a  success  all  the 
way  along.  He  was  born  in  that  grand 
old  nursery  of  orators  and  statesmen, 
Kentucky.  He  is  one  of  the  greatest 
factors  in  the  only  real  progressive 
party  of  today — the  I>emocratic.  He  is 
the  most  picturesque  of  all  the  "favorite 
sons",  and  if  I  am  not  very  much  mis- 
taken, you  will  see  him  win  at  the  quar- 
ter-post, and  have  a  walk-over  for  the 
last  stretch. 

Amos  N.  Colton. 


A  Stone  through  the  Window. 

I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  throw  my  little 
paving-stone  of  common  sense,  through 
the  show-window  of  folly  and  pretense 
that  is  now  the  bane  of  American  poli- 
tics. Let  us  women  have  a  chance  to 
vote,  and  we  will  show  you  an  entirely 
new  order  of  things.  Men  alone  will 
never  purify  politics:  nobody  but  the 
women  can  do  that.  They  are  all  ready, 
if  you  will  give  them  a  chance. 

They  do  not  want  the  ballot  through 
vanity,  or  love  of  power,  or  resentment 
against  the  sex  that  has  ground  them 
under  its  feet  so  long:  they  want  it 
because  they  have  an  instinctive  feeling, 
pr  a  knowledge,  rather,  that  politics, 
and  sociology,  and  finance,  and  even 
theology,  and,  indeed,  almost  everything 
else  in  this  country,  need  purifying, 
and  theyi  feel  that  they  are  most  decid- 
edly the  ones  to  do  it,  ^r\r^r^[ 

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EVERY   WHERE. 


Talk  about  the  worse  sort  of  women 
coming  in  and  dominating  things  with 
their  votes! — ^They  are  the  very  ones 
that  would  vote  for  the  most  stringent 
social  regulations.  They  know  the  need 
of  such  regulations.  It  is  just  the  same, 
as  that  there  is  many  a  drunkard  that 
would  vote  for  Prohibition,  because  he 
feels  that  Prohibition  is  the  only  thing, 
next  to  God's  mercy,  that  can  save  him. 

Give  us  a  chance,  men ! — and  we  will 
go  a  good  ways  toward  saving  this  won- 
derful country  from  the  frightful  doom 
that  threatens  it. 

Why  are  the  women  of  England  so 
fierce  in  their  demands  for  the  ballot? 
— It  is  because  they  see  ruin  threatening 
the  British  Empire;  because  they  scent 
Revolution  in  the  air — one  of  the  very 
worst  kind — a  French  one — and  they 
feel  that  it  is  their  mission  to  prevent 
it.  God  grant  they  may!  God  grant 
we  may  do  the  same  thing ! 

Quips  like  that  made  by  Roosevelt  tfie 
other  evening,  when  asked  if  he  was 
willing  for  women  to  vote,  do  not  go 
very  far,  with  sensible  people.  Saying 
that  "a  man  is  the  best  fellow  in  the 
world,  except  a  woman'',  may  make  a 
crowd  laugh,  but  they  do  not  mean  any- 
thing of  value.  There  are  subjects  con- 
cerning which  it  is  well  enough  to  be 
frivolous,  but  the  existence  of  a  nation, 
and  the  life  or  death  of  one's  loved 
ones,  do  not  belong  to  that  class. 

Once  more  I  say  to  the  men  of  the 
country  and  to  some  of  the  women  who 
are  still  opposing  us — For  God's  sake, 
give  us  a  chance! 

Irene  G.  Northrup. 


"The  Wet  Rot." 

What  is  the  use  of  trying  to  do  any- 
thing at  preserving  our  country,  when 
our  race  is  rotting  before  our  very  face 
and  eyes  ?  Where  is  the  sense  in  trying 
to  build  up  and  preserve  a  country  for 
the  use  of  your  posterity,  when  you 
allow  influences  constantly  at  work,  get- 
ting ready  to  throw  a  blight  over  that 
posterity,  as  soon  as  it  appears? 

What  is  the  use  of  building  up  col- 


leges and  universities,  with  a  gin-mill 
in  or  near  every  one  of  them?  What 
is(  the  good  of  paying  money  to  support 
churches,  when  one  of  their  principal 
bishops  has  opened  a  liquor-saloon  with 
prayer,  beseeching  the  Eternal  throne 
that  it  might  succeed? 

I  tell  you,  the  great  overshadowing 
issue  in  this  country,  and  in  the  world  at 
large,  is  Prohibition ! — We  are  going  to 
decay  into  a  senile,  wet-rot  race,  unless 
we  take  this  matter  into  the  court  of 
public  opinion,  and  work  till  we  have  a 
strong  and  influential  political  party. 
Perry  M.  Wahner. 


A  Socialist  Speaks. 

Are  we  a  small  party?  Compara- 
tively: but  we  are  growing — and  very 
rapidly.  The  world  is  commencing  to 
understand,  that  we  are  not  the  villains 
and  outcasts  that  we  have  been  called. 

We  are  not  nihilists — we  are  not 
anarchists.  We  do  not  believe  in  tear- 
ing our  race  down,  hoping  that  in  the 
mad  scramble,  we  may  get  on  top.  for  a 
little  while.  We  believe  in  Justice,  and 
that  is  what  we  are  striving  and  deter- 
mined to  obtain. 

We  believe  that  there  are  great  and 
hideous  inequalities  of  wealth  in  this 
country,  that  could  not  possibly  exist, 
were  the  laws  as  they  ought  to  be. 

We  believe  that  when,  within  the  same 
town,  there  are  a  few  people  living  in 
palaces  and  dying  of  indigestion,  and  a 
thousand  people  dying  of  starvation, 
there  is  something  the  matter  with  the 
law,  and  that  it  should  be  changed. 

We  believe  that  when,  every  time  the 
clock  ticks,  ten,  fifteen,  fifty,  or  a  hun- 
dred dollars,  drops  into  some  man's 
pocket,  while  millions  are  toiling  in 
sweat-shops  to  get  enough  money  to 
buy  their  daily  food,  there  is  a  great  big 
mistake  somewhere  in  the  statute  books. 

We  believe  that  one  reason  there  is 
so  much  robbery  on  the  streets,  in  banks, 
and  in  residence-houses,  is,  that  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  people  have  been 
already  robbed  (legally!)  of  most  of 
their  rightful  possessions^ 

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We  do  not  ourselves  believe  in  rob- 
bery, and  we  do  not  practice  it.  We  do 
not  believe  in  converting  a  man  to  our 
doctrine,  by  first  reducing  him  to  frag- 
ments. We  do  not  believe  that  btowing 
up  and  destroying  other  people's  pos- 
sessions, will  add  to  our  own.  We  do 
not  want  to  obliterate  property:  we 
want  to  divide  it  to  a  certain  equitable 
extent — divide  it  so  far  as  to  enable  any 
one  who  is  willing  to  work,  to  make  a 
respectable  and  comfortable  living. 

This,  if  we  can  accomplish  it,  will  go 
far  toward  doing  away  with  abject  pov- 
erty, with  robbery,  with  brothels,  and 
with  gambling-houses.  It  will  make  a 
new  world  of  this,  as  far  as  honest 
finance  can  do  it.  God  speed  the  day, 
and  put  it  into  the-  hearts  of  a  few  mil- 
lion more  people,  to  join  the  Socialist 
Party,  and  vote  with  it,  whenever  there 
is  a  chance ! 

Louis  R.  Wintermeir. 


A  Word  or  Two  for  Wilson. 

As  a  Democrat,  I  believe  the  time  has 
come  when  the  Democratic  Party  has 
a  chance  to  save  the  country.  It  has  not 
had  the  credit  of  doing  that  very  often 
— not  nearly  as  often  as  it  deserved: 
but  the  Union  could  not  have  been 
saved,  or  the  war  wth  Spain  prosecuted 
to  a  successful  conclusion,  if  it  had  not 
been  for  Demoorats.  Tliey  mayi  not 
always  have  approved  of  the  way  those 
wars  were  being  conducted,  but  they 
were  at  the  same  time  in  them,  and 
doing  their  best  to  help  the  country 
through.  When  they  said,  in  one  of 
their  conventions,  that  the  Civil  war  was 
a  failure,  they  told  the  truth:  it  was, 
up  to  that  time,  and  no  doubt  their  frank 
declaration  of  the  fact  had  a  good  deal 
to  do  toward  changing  the  order  of 
arrangements,  so  that  the  otiher  sidle 
were  finally  conquered. 

We  have  certainly  been  a  corrective 
to  the  exuberant  fancying  of  the  Repub- 
licans, that  they)  owned  the  earth :  and 
seldom  more  so,  than  two  years  ago. 
Now  let  us  rally  and  give  them  the  big- 
gest dose  they  have  ever  had.    They  are, 


apparently,  hopelessly  divided:  and  if 
we  take  the  right  measures,  and  hang 
together,  we  can  whip  them  to  the 
famous  legendary  "frazzle." 

To  do  this,  I  hardly  think  we  can  find 
a  better  man  than  Woodrow  Wilson. 
He  is,  mentally  and  educationally,  the 
best-equipped  man  we  have  in  our  party 
today.  He  has  graduated  at  more  col- 
leges, studied  more  books,  written  more, 
taken  a  deeper  hold  upon  knowledges, 
than  any  candidate  we  have  in  the 
field.  He  is  a  good  speaker,  and  not 
a  reckless  or  slangy  one.  His  published 
words  are  sometimes,  disagreeable  to 
those  of  whom  they  speak,  but,  in  such 
cases,  it  is  the  disagreeableness  of  truth. 
They  are  certainly  grammatical  and 
scholarly — something  that  cannot  be 
said  of  all  the  covered  literature  that  has 
been  vouchsafed  us  by  presidents.  He 
makes  enemies  sometimes,  but  he  makes 
friends,  too,  wherever  he  goes.  Besides, 
we  need  New  Jersey,  and  his  friends 
can  carry  it.  Let's  have  Woodrow! 
Henry  N.  Peters. 


A  Dark-Horseman. 

I  am  a  Republican,  and  am  convinced 
that  Roosevelt  cannot  be  nominated,  and 
that  Taft  could  not  be  elected — even  if 
he  succeeded  in  getting  named.  It  is 
time  we  began  to  look  through  the  sta- 
bles and  in  the  fields,  for  our  dark 
horses. 

The  one  that  has  been  mentioned 
oftenest,  is  Hughes.  But  Hughes  has 
a  good  position,  does  not,  apparently, 
want  the  Presidency  (although  one  can*t 
always  tell,  nowadays,  from  what  they 
say),  and  besides,  he  is  notl  well. 

La  FoUette  has  ceased  to  be  a  golden 
horse,  and  can  hardly  be  made  into  a 
dark  one.  Fairbanks  is  too  much  bound 
up  in  the  money-toils. 

Others  might  be  named,  who  have 
been  talked  over  by  their  local  fellow- 
citizens,  but  the  whole  thing  is  a  great 
big  uncertainty.  Let  us  be  wary  and 
careful.  If  we  trot  out  a  wonderfully 
good  one,  we  can  elect  him. 


Editorial    Comment. 


A   CHINESE  OBJECT-LESSON. 

QUR  new  Republic  in  the  East  will 
perhaps  be  able  to  teach  us  a  few 
things,  if  it  has  many  people  like  the 
lone  mentioiied  in  the  following  truie 
story: 

Mrs.  ,  of   a   western   state,  had 

engaged  a  Chinaman  as  her  servant  and 
man-of-all-work :  and  after  waiting  her 
convenience  two  days,  he  climbed  one  of 
the  steep  hills  that  characterize  the  town, 
and  made  his  way  to  the  lady's  residence, 
expecting  to  enter  upon  his  duties.  (Ah 
Loy,  not  Ah  Sin,  was  his  name.) 

"I've  seen  a  boy  that  will  suit  me  bet- 
ter", was  the  lady's  cheering  remark, 
when  he  found  her.  "But  as  you  ex- 
pected to  take  the  place,  and  have 
climbed  the  big  hill  in  order  to  do  so, 
here  is  a  dollar  to  pay  you  for  your 
trouble." 

Ah  Loy  declined  to  take  the  money. 
He  explained  that  he  had  lost  no  situ- 
ation on  account  of  expecting  this,  and, 
so  far  as  the  walk  was  concerned,  he 
liked  the  exercise.  It  was  "allee  samee", 
he  said. 

"If  you  don't  take  this  dollar,  I  shall 
feel  very  badly",  insisted  the  lady.  And 
rfhe  urged  the  Celestial,  till,  rather  than 
displease  her  too  much,  he  took  the 
money  away  with  him.  (In  case  this  had 
happened!  with  a  member  of  almost  any 
other  race,  it  is  needless  to  say,  the  urg- 
ing could  have  been  left  out.) 

Mrs. had  to  take  Ah  Lx)y,  after 

all.  The  Chinamain  who  had  recom- 
mended him  thought  the  matter  over, 
and  concluded  that  the  place  belonged 
to  this  first  applicant,  who,  besides,  had 
a  cousin  living  near  by   the   proposed 


98 


situation,  that  would  be  company  for 
him.  So  the  place  went  to  the  man  who 
had  at  first  fruitlessly  climbed  the  hill: 
and  a  faithful  servant  he  proved — doing 
all  the  washing,  cleaning,  and  sweeping 
of  a  good-sized  house. 

On  receiving  his  first  month's  wages, 
Ah  Loy  took  a  dollar  out  of  it,  and, 
handing  it  back  to  Mrs.  ,  said: 

"I  no  come  to  you,  I  takee  dollar:  you 
feel  bad.  I  come  to  you,  I  no  takee  dol- 
lar: you  no  feel  bad." 

The  lady  refused  to  accept  the  money : 
but  her  servant  waited  until  she  was 
seated  at  table,  and  then  laid  the  coin 
before  her  with  her  roast  beef — ^\^'alk- 
ing  ofif  victoriously  triumphant. 

Sometimes,  when  Loy  was  given  ma- 
terial to  carry  away  to  the  laundryman, 
he  would  take  part  of  it,  and  say  that 
he  had  not  as  much  as  usual  to  do  that 
week,  and  could  just  as  well  do  that 
much  himself,  and  so  save  the  cost. 
When  offered  extra  pay  for  this,  he 
would  invariably  refuse  it. 

This  same  "Heathen  Chinee"  sent 
money  regularly  to  his  mother  on  the 
other  side  of  the  world — ^the  total 
amount  running  up  into  hundreds  of 
dollars. 

After  six  years  of  faithful  service,  he 
had  saved  up  some  five  hundred  dol- 
lars :  and  this  he  loaned  to  a  cousin,  who 
was  about  to  start  a  laundry  in  Min- 
nesota. 

On  being  asked  by  his  employer  as  to 
what  interest  he  charged,  the  Chinaman 
replied  that  there  was  to  be  none,  as  he 
was  a  relative,  and  a  good  friend. 

"But  where  is  your  cousin's  note  for 
the  amount,  ^J,i",,^s^^^^fO^ 


EDITORIAL   COMMENT. 


99 


Loy  disappeared  to  find  the  "note", 
and  presently  returned,  with  a  slip  of 
paper  containing  the  cousin's  address, 
which  he  proudly  exhibited. 

"Why,  is  this  all  you  have,  Loy  ?" 

"Allee  need.  He  honest,  I  honest.  I 
let  him  have  money  when  he  wants — ^he 
pay  me  money  when  I  wantee."  And 
he  did. 

About  the  time  Loy  was  twentyeight 
years  old,  he  began  to  think  it  was  near- 
ing  the  period  when  he  should  be  mar- 
ried. 

"I  go  to  China  by  an'  by,"  he  said, 
"an'  get  my  life  [wife] .  My  mother  get 
me  life.  Girl  she  know  'bout  it,  long 
time." 

And  Mrs. was  able  afterwards  to 

ascertain  that  the  match  was  a  very 
happy  one. 


FOOT  AND  WHEEL. 

TTHE  empire  of  the  road  is  gradually 
slipping  from  automobilists'  hands. 
For  awhile  they  ran  up  and  down  the 
public  ways,  asking  all  quarters  and  giv- 
ing none.  It  made  little  difference  to 
them,  as  to  how  much  damage  they  in- 
flicted upon  people :  they  slipped  out  of 
it  and  went  right  along. 

But  there  is  a  law  that  if  you  do  any- 
thing unlawful,  and  fatal  results  ensue, 
you  are  liable  for  manslaughter.  If  you 
shoot  at  some  one  else's  chicken  and 
bring  a  man  down  into  the  night  of  the 
grave,  it  is  not  held  to  be  an  accident, 
but  a  felony. 

And  if  you  are  running  your  automo- 
bile at  an  unlawful  and  dangerous  speed, 
and  kill  some  one  "accidentally",  the  law 
holds  the  occurrence  not  as  an  accident, 
but  a  felony:  in  fact,  a  murder,  or  at 
least  a  case  of  manslaughter. 

A  once  careless  and  festive  youth  is 
now  serving  a  term  of  several  years' 
duration,  for  having  killed  a  boy  in  one 
of  his  mad  rushes.  There  have  been 
requests  for  mercy  in  the  case,  and  will 


probably  be  more :  but  the  prospects  and 
probabilities  are,  that  he  will  have  to 
"do  his  time."  The  vast  crowd  of  auto- 
mobilists who  now  practically  make  rail- 
roads of  our  public  streets,  need  a  few 
object-lessons  to  keep  them  within  the 
bounds  of  decency. 

On  the  other  hand,  there  are  respon- 
sibilities that  ought  to  be  recognized  by 
non-automobilists,  and  which  should  be 
observed  by  law,  and  their  violators  pun- 
ished. Among  the  amusements  of  chil- 
dren, is  that  of  running  across  the  road 
in  front  of  the  swift-speeding  vehicles, 
in  order  to  annoy  the  driver.  Amoig 
the  spiteful  actions  of  horse-drivers,  is 
that  of  deliberately  getting  in  the  way  of 
the  mobiles,  and  inviting  a  contact  that 
may  be  as  ruinously  damaging  to  one 
as  to  the  other. 

So  long  as  the  automobile  is  recog- 
nized* as  a  legal  vehicle  on  public  roads, 
it  must  of  course  have  its  rights  as  well 
as  its  restrictions.  The  relative  privi- 
leges of  foot  and  wheel  may  take  a  long 
time  in  adjusting:  but  like  everything 
else,  they  will  ultimately  reach  their 
proper  level. 


MARVELS  OF    MEMORY. 

A  GOOD  memory  is  one  of  the  chief 
elements  of  worldly  success. 
Without  it,  the  finest  intellect  or  imag- 
ination is  constantly  hampered  in  its 
struggles  with  the  world,  and,  if  the 
memory  is  very  defective,  often  goes 
down  in  utter  discouragement  and  de- 
feat. 

The  way  to  get  a  good  memory,  or  to 
retain  it,  if  you  have  one  already,  is 
by  exercise:  for  this  function  of  the 
mind  has  a  definite  physical  basis  in  the 
brain,  and,  like  any  other  part  or  organ 
of  the  body,  must  be  used,  to  be 
strengthened.  And  if  it  is  properly  used 
and  exercised,  the  limits  of  its  attain- 
ments and  usefulness  are  almost  bound- 
less, as  some  of  the  illustrations  given 


ICX) 


EVERY   WHERE. 


below  will  indicate  to  almost  any  one. 

Themistocles,  a  famous  Greek  gen- 
eral, is  said  to  have  known  every  citi- 
zen in  Athens. 

Otho,  the  Roman  emperor,  attained 
great  popularity  and  through  that,  his 
seat  on  the  throne,  by  learning  the  name 
of  every  soldier  and  officer  of  his  army. 

Hortensius,  the  Roman  orator,  is  said 
to  have  been  able,  after  sitting  a  whole 
day  at  a  public  sale,  to  give  an  account 
from  memory  of  all  things  sold,  with 
the  prices  and  names  of  the  purchasers. 

Coming  down  to  later  times,  there  is 
a  very  interesting  story  told  of  Freder- 
ick the  Great,  of  Prussia,  the  French 
author  Voltaire,  and  an  Englishman 
with  a  very  long  memory. 

It  is  said  that  at  the  king's  request, 
Voltaire  read  one  of  his  long  poems, 
that  he  had  just  completed  in  manu- 
script, through  aloud,  while  the  Eng- 
lishman was  concealed  from  Voltaire's 
sight,  in  such  a  position  that  he  could 
hear  every  word. 

After  the  reading  of  the  poem,  Fred- 
erick observed  to  the  author  that  the 
production  could  not  be  an  original  one, 
as  there  was  a  foreign  gentleman  pres- 
ent, who  could  recite  every  word  of  it. 
Voltaire  listened  in  amazement  to  the 
stranger  as  he  repeated,  word  for  word, 
the  poem  which  he  had  been  at  so  much 
pains  in  composing,  and,  giving  way  to 
a  momentary  outbreak  of  passion,  he 
tore  the  manuscript  in  pieces.  He  was 
then  informed  how  the  Englishman  had 
become  acquainted  with  his  poem,  and 
his  anger  being  appeased,  he  was  willing 
to  do  penance  by  copying  down  the  work 
from  the  second  repetition  of  the 
stranger,  who  was  able  to  go  through 
it  the  same  as  before. 

When  reporting  was  forbidden  in  the 
houses  of  the  English  Parliament,  and 
any  one  seen  to  make  notes  was  imme- 
diately ejected,  the  speeches,  neverthe- 
less, were  published  in  the  public  press. 
It  was  discovered  that  one  Woodfall 


used  to  be  present  in  the  gallery  dur- 
ing the  speeches,  and,  sitting  with  his 
head  between  bis  hands,  actually  com- 
mitted the  speeches  to  memory.  They 
were  afterward  published. 

Lord  Macaulay  had  a  marvelous  facil- 
ity for  remembering  what  he  read,  and 
he  once  declared  that  if  by  accident  all 
the  copies  of  Milton's  "Paradise  Lost" 
were  destroyed,  he  would  be  able  to 
write  out  the  whole  of  this  long  poem 
without  a  single  error.  In  fact,  he  once 
performed  the  marvelous  feat  of  repeat- 
ing the  whole  poem,  making  only  one 
omission. 

Charles  Dickens,  who  was  once  a 
reporter,  and  thus  had  occasion  to  roam 
about  the  streets  a  great  deal,  con- 
tracted the  habit  of  reading  the  signs 
of  shop-keepers.  So  firmly  fixed  upon 
him  did  this  habit  become,  that  he  was 
able,  after  walking  through  a  long 
street,  to  repeat  the  names  and  business- 
es of  every  shop-keeper  on  the  thor- 
oughfare. 

But  great  power  of  memory  is  not 
always  found  in  educated  persons. 
There  is  a  notable  instance  of  "Blind 
Jamie",  who  lived  some  years  ago  in 
Stirling,  Scotland.  He  was  a  poor,  un- 
educated man,  and  totally  blind,  yet  he 
could  actually  repeat,  after  a  few  min- 
utes' consideration,  any  verse  required 
from  any  part  of  the  Bible,  even  the 
obscurest  and  least  inq>ortant. 

The  power  of  retaining  events  has 
also  sometimes  been  manifest  in  a 
marked  degree.  A  laboring  man  named 
McCartney,  at  fiftyfour  years  of  age, 
claimed  that  he  could  recollect  the  events 
of  every  day  for  forty  years.  A  test 
was  made  by  a  well-known  public  man 
who  had  kept  a  written  record  for  forty- 
five  years.  The  man's  statement  was 
fully  corroborated— indeed,  so  accurate 
was  his  recollection  that  he  could  recall 
without  apparent  effort  the  state  of  the 
weather  on  any  given  day  during  that 
long  period  of  jm^^y  x^xjvjx^^ 


EDITORIAL  COMMENT. 


101 


£DUCATI0NAL  0&JBCT-LESS0N8. 

pVERY  once  in  a  while  some  philos- 
opher on  the  subject  of  the  juve- 
nile mentality  happens  to  feel  a  new  idea 
impinging  upon  him,  and  proceeds  to 
experiment  with  it. 

For  this  purpose,  he  needs  children; 
and,  probably,  not  having  enough  of  his 
own  to  make  up  the  requisite  lot,  he  is 
obliged  to  fall  back  upon  other  people's. 

In  order  to  procure  these,  he  does  not 
go  and  buy,  borrow,  or  hire  some:  he 
takes  certain  ones  that  are  already  in 
the  public  schools,  and  uses  them  for 
his  subjects. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how 
many  and  sundry  educational  methods 
in  various  departments  of  school  lore, 
have  been  tried  upon  different  genera- 
tions of  pupils,  and  thrown  away  for 
others.  The  varied  effects  produced 
upon  these  children  would  also  be  a  sub- 
ject worthy  of  examination. 

One  method  recently  expfoited  in  the 
Oiicago  public  schools,  is  a  case  in 
point. 

It  seems  that  the  superintendent  of 
one  of  the  districts  is  also  the  author 
of  an  arithmetic,  in  which  the  Btock 
System  is  used.  This  sounds  at  first 
like  a  railroad,  but  has  no  connection 
with  the  same :  it  is  simply  a  method  by 
which  children  are  taught  mathematics 
by  means  of  blocks :  thus  enabling  them 
to  see  everything  as  they  go  along,  and 
sparing  them  the  toil  of  acquiring  ab- 
stract ideas  of  numbers. 

From  this  enterprise,  the  principal 
has  proceeded  to  introduce  what  might 


be  called  the  Block  (for  he  never  would 
consent  to  its  being  termed  the  Block- 
head) method  of  learning  tOf  read. 

As  nearly  as  we  can  learn,  the  first 
processes  of  this  method  of  teaching 
children  to  read,  consists  of  earnest  not 
to  say  frantic  efforts  to  prevent  them 
from  learning  to  read.  "No  child 
should  be  altewed  to  read  anything 
while  we  are  teaching  them  language- 
lessons",  says  the  philosopher. 

So  for  four  months,  the  children  are 
taught  language-lessons,  with  a  ven- 
geance. The;  phrases  "Wash  your  face", 
"Comb  your  hair",  "Brush  your  coat", 
"Mew,  bark,  warble,  cluck  and  cackle", 
are  all  illustrated  with  actual  perform- 
ances in  full  view  of  the  school.  And 
at  the  end  of  these  four  months,  the 
pupils  are,  it  is  to  be  supposed,  allowed 
to  see  in  print  an  account  of  some  of 
these  interesting  processes. 

The  teacher  is  supposed  to  furnish 
the  illustrations  at  first;  but  after  she 
has  washed  her  face,  combeci  her  hair, 
brushed  her  clothes,  and  mewed,  barked, 
warbled,  clucked  and  cackled  a  few 
hundred  times,  she  no  doubt  grows  tired 
of  doing  this  herself,  and  gives  the 
children  a  chance. 

But  the  superintendent  is  not  by  any 
means  original  in  this  method.  Mr. 
Squeers,  a  gentleman  introduced  to  the 
world  by  a  late  distinguished  author, 
used  to  teach  his  "class  in  English 
spelling  and  philosophy"  by  the  object- 
lesson  method — doing  it  perhaps  a  Httle 
more  strenuously,  but,  it  is  to  be  pre- 
sumed, no  less  efficiently. 


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Five  Minute  Sermon. 

By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

T^  HE  Lord's  Prayer  is  like  the  tent  that 
•■•  the  fairy  gave  to  the  great  king :  so 
compact  w.as  it  that  it  could  be  packed 
in  a  nut-shell,  and  so  elastic  that  when 
spread  out  it  would  shelter  a  whole 
army.  So  with  the  Lord's  Prayer!  It 
is  a  miracle  to  compress  so  much  mean- 
ing in  so  few  words !  There  is  theology 
in  it,  and  all  the  theology  we  need ;  and 
there  is  sociology  in  it,  and  just  the 
kind  that  helps;  and  there  is  politicdl 
economy  in  it,  and  that  is  the  political 
economy  of  Jesus  Christ  t  "Give  us  this 
day  our  daily  bread!'' 

"Bread"  is  all  that  sustains  and  nour- 
ishes these  bodies  of  ours  and  enables 
us  to  do  our  work  in  the  world  of  mate- 
rial realities.  "I  like  folks  much  better 
than  I  do  angels!"  said  Father  Taylor, 
the  celebrated  old  sailor  preacher  in  Bos- 
ton sixty  years  ago.  Now,  if  we  are  to 
siay  folks  and  not  become  angels  we 
must  have  bread.  The  great  conflict  of 
life  is  for  bread,  that  is  for  the  means 
of  physical  existence.  So  Jesus  teaches 
us  to  pray  to  "our  Father",  give  us  this 
day  our  daily  bread. 

Let  us  note  in  the  first  place  the  form 
of  the  prayer.  Give  ''US'\  not  give 
"ME'\f  The  Christian  religion,  is  emi- 
nently social.  It  teaches  us  that  we  are 
•'members  one  of  another!"  It  should 
be  as  much  a  matter  of  concern  to  us 
that  our  brothers  and  sisters  have  their 
bread  as  that  we  ourselves  have  ours. 

No  man  liveth  to  himself  and  no  man 
dieth   to  himself.    No   one   of   us  can 


come  to  our  highest  realization  of  self 
alone.  We  can  only  realize  ourselves  in 
other  selves.  He  that  would  save  his 
own  soul  without  regard  to  the  souls 
of  others  will  lose  his  soul.  He  who 
in  noble  self-forgetfulness  strives  to 
save  others  is  thereby  saved  himself. 
He  who  would  feed  himself  regardless 
of  others  will  only  starve  himself;  his 
bread  will  turn  to  choking  dust  in  his 
own  throat.  He  who  feeds  others  is 
himself  fed.  Give  US  this  day  our 
daily  bread. 

There  is  growing  in  the  world  today 
a  social  conscience  and  consciousness. 
It  is  the  most  marked  movement  of  the 
day.  Call  it  democracy,  or  Christianity, 
or  what  you  will,  it  is  practically  a  con- 
scientious application  of  the  teaching  of 
Jesus  Christ  to  human  conditions.  It 
cries  with  a  voice  louder  than  the  thun- 
der of  the  ocean,  "You  Are  Youe 
Brother's  Keeper!"  This  movement 
has  knocked  the  shackles  from  the  slave, 
and  today  is  making  war  on  social  ine- 
quality, intemperance,  war  and  every- 
thing that  tends  to  hurt  or  oppress  man- 
kind. This  movement  has  for  its  battle 
cry,  "I  Am  a  Debtor  to  All  Men!" 
It  takes  it  from  the  eloquent  lips  of  the 
Apostle  Paul.  "I  Am  a  Debtor  to  Aa 
Men  !"  If  I  have  bread  I  owe  it  to  the 
hungry.  If  I  have  sight  I  owe  it  to 
the  blind.  If  I  have  learning  I  owe  it 
to  the  ignorant.  If  I  have  strength  I 
owe  it  to  the  weak.  If  I  have  health  I 
owe  it  to  the  sick.  Whatever  I  have,  I 
owe. 

"Our  Father,  Give  Us  Our  Daily 
Bread."  If  God  is  our  Father,  the 
world  is  our  Father's  house,  and  from 


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the  frozen  pole  at  the  North,  and  from 
the  frozen  pole  at  the  Sotrth,  to  the 
equator,  the  great  rafters  are  sprung 
under  which  the  Father's  children 
gather.  Think  of  this,  then  pray,  "Our 
Father,  Give  Us  Oujt  Daily  Bread." 
This  petition  means  simply  this — ^there 
is  no  good  or  blessing  that  we  have  our- 
selves that  we  do  not  feel  that  it  must 
•be  imparted  to  others.  This  was  the 
spirit  of  that  mighty  abolition  move- 
ment that  gave  the  world  Abraham 
Lincoln,  William  Lloyd  Garrison,  "Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin",  and  John  Brown.  Those 
who  are  swept  along  in  this  mighty 
movement  could  not  be  satisfied  with 
the  blessings  of  liberty  while  the  poor, 
oppressed,  bleeding  African  was  in 
chains.  Its  prayer  to  God  was  not,  "My 
Father,  give  me  the  blessings  of 'lib- 
erty!" It  prayed,  "Ouri  Father,  Give 
Us  THE  Blessings  of  Liberty!"  It 
prayed  and  worked  till  the  angel  of  Lib- 
erty came  amid  the  storm  of  war,  and 
with  the  lightning  strokes  of  his  mighty 
sword  smote  in  sunder  the  captives' 
chains  and  let  the  oppressed  go  free. 

So  William  Lloyd  Garrison  took  the 
poor  negro  slave  by  the  hand  and  ahiid 
the  taunts,  threats,  scorn,  and  reproach 
of  this  nation  prayed,  "Our  Father  in 
heaven,  give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread, 
give  us  the  blessings  of  liberty,  and  the. 
rights  of  men."  For  doing  this  he  was 
called  an  "atheist"  and  "infidel",  and 
was  counted,  like  Christ  himself,  worthy 
of  death.  In  one  Southern  State  $5,000 
was  offered  for  his  body,  dead  or  living ! 

So  Jesus  Christ  is  marching  down 
through  the  ages,  incarnating  himself  in 
men  who  cry  with  Paul,  "I  am  a  debtor 
to  all  men";  in  those  who  pray,  "Our 
Father,  Give  Us  this  Day  Our  Daily 
Bread."  In  them  he  is  carrying  out  his 
great  commission.  "The  spirit  of  the 
Lord  is  upon  me  because  he  hath  anoint- 
ed me  to  preach  the  gospel  to  the  poor ; 
he  hath  sent  me  to  heal  the  broken- 
hearted, to  preach  deliverance  to  the 
captives,  and  recovering  of  sight  to  the 
blind,  to  set  at  liberty  them  that  are 
bruised,  to  preach  the  acceptable  year 
of  the  Lord."  (Luke,  Chapter  IV:  18, 
19.) 


"Truth  forever  on  the  scaffold. 
Wrong  forevfiil  on  the  throne. 

Yet  that  scaffold  rules  the  future. 
And  behind  the  dim  unknown 

Standeth  God  within  the  shadow. 
Keeping  watch  above  His  own." 

— Lowell. 


A  Ohurch-Oomplainer. 

I  AM  a  steady  church-gper,  and  feel 
*  that  it  does  me  good,  both  in  mind 
and  soul,  every  time  I  am  there.  I  go 
for  the  real  solid  good  there  is  in  it,  and 
not  for  amusement  or  sight-seeing. 

If  there  is  a  large  congregation  pres- 
ent, it  suits  me ;  if  a  small  one,  I  remem- 
ber the  consolatory  verse  about  two  or 
three  being  gathered  together. 

But  we  have  a  clergyman  just  now 
who  is  bent  on  procuring  large  audi- 
ences, and  never  satisfied  unless  he  gets 
them,  in  one  way  or  another.  He  does 
not  seem  to  care  so  much  about  their 
spiritual  welfare  after  he  gets  them 
there;  but  only  to  afford  them  enough 
entertainment  to  induce  them  to  stay, 
and  come  again. 

Among  the  inducements  that  he  has 
adopted,  at  one  time  and  another,  are 
the  following: 

A  "leviathan  choir",  as  he  called  it, 
composed  of  any  amount  of  young 
ladies  and  gentlemen,  conducted  by  a 
professional  musician,  and  drilled  to 
give  a  concert  at  every  service. 

The  audience  tiring  of  this,  and  be* 
ginning  to  grow  smaller,  he  abolished 
the  choir,  and  induced  our  music-com- 
mittee to  hire  a  quartette,  at  a  high 
price — whose  talents  he  advertised  thor- 
oughly in  papers  and  hand-bills. 

Once  he  captured  a  concerting-troupe 
of  negroes  for  one  service,  and  adver- 
tised them  extensively. 

On  another  occasion  he  had,  connect- 
ed with  his  church  music,  a  lady  cornet- 
ist,  the  oddity  of  whose  appearance  in 
that  capacity  attracted,  for  a  time,  con- 
siderable numbers  of  people. 

I  hardly  think  there  is  any  kind  of  a 
musical  or  unmusical  instrument  in  a 
brass  band  or  orchestra  (excepting  per- 

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haps  the  drum),  which  he  has  not  intro- 
duced at  one  time  or  another. 

The  Sunday  evening  audiences  hav- 
ing fallen  almost  entirely  off,  during 
one  season,  he  gave  a  series  of  magic- 
lantern,  or,  as  I  believe  he  called  them, 
stereopticon  views — ^"on  sacred  subjects" 
— with  a  great  many  un-sacred  subjects 
interspersed.  If  it  were  not  so  mourn- 
ful, it  would  have  been  amusing,  to  see 
the  way  he  would  lug  in  something 
about  the  Bible,  in  order  to  make  the 
exhibition  seem  a  "sacred"  one.  Of 
course  the  audience  (some  of  it)  en- 
joyed the  sitting  in  the  darkness,  during 
his  exhibitions! 

He  has  preached  new  and  startling 
doctrines — or  what  purported  to  be 
doctrines — entirely  at  variance  with  our 
church-creed — apparently  hoping  to 
make  a  sensation  thereby.  In  present- 
ing them,  he  stated  that  he  expected  to 
be  persecuted  therefor ;  and  seemed  dis- 
appointed when  no  one  raised  a  church- 
mutiny  against  him. 

He  has  had  reports  circulated  of 
"calls"  at  a  higher  salary,  to  other 
churches,  when  no  such  call  had  been 
made  or  intended:  apparently  for  the 
purpose  of  rendering  us  anxious  to  keep 
him. 

And  he  now  proposes  that  we  hire 
a  regular  brass-  and  string-orchestra 
(which  often  plays  for  dances  during 
the  week)  to  come  every  Sunday  and 
give  free  concerts  (with  a  "silver"  col- 
lection) "so  as  to  induce  the  working 
people  to  come  out." 

I  certainly  confess  that  I  am  too  old- 
fashioned  for  all  this  sort  of  thing,  and 
— ^much  as  I  love  our  old  place  of  wor- 
ship, in  which  I  was  baptized  many 
years  ago,  in  which  my  father  worship- 
ped Sunday  after  Sunday  nearly  all  his 
life,  and  in  which  my  children  have 
grown  up — ^must  leave  it,  for  some  place 
where  I  can  find  more  spirituality  in  the 
pastor's  preaching  and  practice. 

If  there  is  a  scandal  of  local  or  gen- 
eral interest  (the  former,,  by  him,  pre- 
ferred), he  will  write  a  sermon  on  the 
subject,  and  advertise  it  widely.  He 
takes  good  pains   not  to  mention  any 


names,  or  even  incidents:  but  sees  to 
it  that  everybody  knows  exactly  what 
he  means.  What  subjects  for  ser- 
mons! 

J.  R.  S. 


Would  Not  Turn  the  Remaininer 
Oheek. 

TTIIE  janitor  of  a  Michigan  church 
did  not  approve,  last  summer,  of 
the  girls  coming  to  rehearsal  in  white 
slippers,  and  so  he  sprinkled  the  lawn. 

He  decided  one  evening  last  winter, 
that  they  had  stayed  long  enough  in  the 
church  to  get  their  rehearsing  done,  and 
turned  out  the  lights. 

One  of  the  more  muscular  young 
ladies  discussed  the  matter  with  him, 
and,  not  being  pleased  with  his  argu- 
ments, knocked  him  over. 

He  wrote  a  complaining  letter  to 
every  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
but  they  seemed  to  think  he  should  have 
turned  the  other  cheek  also,  and  made 
no  satisfactory  answer  to  his  communi- 
cations. 


A  Ghood  Indian. 

A  CLERGYMAN  had  been  asked  to 
■^  receive  an  Indian  boy  into  his 
*  family  for  a  few  weeks,  and  had  con- 
sented to  keep  the  lad  if  he  did  not 
prove  to  be  "too  much  of  a  savage.*' 
He  turned  out  to  be  a  pretty  good  boy, 
so  much  so  that  one  day,  as  a  great 
treat,  the  minister  gave  him  a  gun  and 
told  liim  to  take  a  holiday  and  go  hunt- 
ing. 

The  Indian  shook  his  head.  "No," 
he  said  quietly.  "I  belong  to  Band  of 
Mercy.  I  do  not  shoot  birds  or  animals, 
only  rattlesnakes." 

The  minister  had  been  very  fond  of 
using  that  gun,  but  he  says  he  does  not 
care  much  for  it  now. 


This  is  tlie  great  contradiction,  that 
spiritual  power  comes  with  the  childlike 
spirit.  Simplicity  and  love  are  the  only 
essentials. — Rev.  Henry  C.  Mabie. 

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Fasted  Into  and  Out-of  Paralysis. 

nPHE  story  of  one  Ambrose  Taylor, 
who  had  a  most  remarkable  expe- 
rience in  using  the  fast-cure,  is  given 
here.  He  is  sixty  years  old  and  for  a 
long  time  past  has  been  afflicted  with 
rheumatism  in  the  left  leg  and  hip.  He 
tried  all  sorts  of  remedies  without  relief, 
and  last  November  was  reduced  to  a 
condition  where  he  had  to  give  up  work, 
and  take  to  his  bed. 

"As  I  lay  there,"  he  said,  "and  in  my 
mind  ran  over  all  Fd  done  in  the  last 
fourteen  years  trying  to  get  well,  it 
occurred  to  me  thatj  Td  better  go  back 
to  Mother  Nature,  and  give  her  a 
chance.  Fd  read  about  fasting,  and  I 
reasoned  out  that  nature  was  our  best 
doctor  after  all  if  we'd  only  give  her 
an  opportunity. 

"But  you  can't  expect  her  to  do  you 
any  good  when  you  are  all  the  time 
diverting  her  attention  and  giving  her 
other  responsibilities.  By  that  I  mean 
digesting  a  lot  of  miscellaneous  food. 

"If  you  stop  to  reason  a  bit,  you'll  see 
that  you're  constantly  imposing  on  her 
when  you're  ailing  by  the  foolish  habit 
of  eating  several  meals  a  day.  Very 
often  you  literally  force  things  down 
your  throat  when  you  really  don't  feel 
like  eating  at  all.  Nature  can't  carry 
on  the  work  of  digestion  and  doctoring 
at  the  same  time. 

"So  I  locked  up  the  kitchen  and  tcKjk 
to  my  bed.  I  set  thirty  days  as  a  limit 
to  my  fast.  At  first  the  pangs  of  hunger 
were  fierce,  for  I  was  always  considered 
a  big  eater. 

"After  I'd  downed  the  pangs  I  got 


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a  blow  that  nearly  finished  me — a  stroke 
of  paralysis.  You'll  understand  what 
that  meant  to  me  when  I  tell  you  my 
father,  brother  and'  aunt  all  died  of 
paralysis.  I  was  discouraged,  but  I 
kept  right  on  with  my  fast,  thinking  if 
I  was  going  toi  die,  it  didn't  make  any 
difference  whether  I  ate  or  not. 

"On  November  i8th,  2Sth,  and  28th, 
I  had  additional  attacks  of  paralysis, 
each  being  milder  than  the  preceding. 
When  I  saw  how  things  were  going,  I 
became  so  ^  absorbed  in  watching  the 
paralysis  that  I  forgot  my  rheumatism. 

"One  day  I  suddenly  discovered  that 
my  rheumatic  leg  was  much  more  lim- 
ber. It  was  an  eye-opener,  when  you 
consider  that  I  hadn't  been  able  to 
straighten  it  in  four  years. 

"My  son  saw  to  it  that  I  didn't  lack 
for  comfort  during  all  this  time,  and 
the  neighbors,  when  they  heard  what 
I  was  doing,  kept  dropping  in  to  see 
how  I  was  getting  along.  Everybody 
urged  me  to  quit  the  foolishness,  go 
iback  to  a  physician,  and  eat  something 
to  keep  up  my  strength ;  but  I  wouldn't. 

"During  the  whole  time  the  only  nour- 
ishment I  took  was  a  pint  of  grape  juice 
I  drank  about  the  same  amount  of  water 
as  usual.  I  know  I  could  have  easily 
stuck  it  out  for  the  thirty  days,  but  at 
the  end  of  twentythree  days  everybody 
kept  dinning  at  me  so  that  I  quit. 

"Maybe  it  was  just  as  well,  anyhow. 
For  by  that  time  the  paralysis  was  gone, 
and  the  last  trace  of  rheumatism  was 
disappearing.  I  believe  I'm  a  sound  man 
now  for  my  age — sixty  years. 

"During  the  fast  I  dropped  from  179 
pounds  to   164;    not  as  much  loss  as 

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you'd  think.  There's  one  thing  that  fast 
has  taught  me.  If  ever  I  feel  any  symp- 
toms of  disease  after  this,  I'm  going  to 
stop  eating  at  once.  Nature'!!  do  the 
rest." 

The  experience  of  Mrs.  Judith  Samp- 
son, of  Penryn,  and  James  D.  Wren,  of 
Martinez  (Ca!.),  were  very  similar. 
Both  were  sufferers  from  dyspepsia,  and 
botli/  graduated  from  a  mi!lc-diet  into  a 
rigid  determination  to  try  a  fina!  rem- 
edy of  going  without  food. 

Lilce  Ambrose  Taylor,  they  didn't 
have  a  physician,  and  acted  on  their  own 
best  judgment.  Mrs.  Sampson  spent 
her  time  in  bed,  while  Wren  adjusted 
his  repose  to  a  swinging  hammock. 

Mrs.  Sampson  got  so  weak  at  the  end 
of  seventeen  days  that  her  anxious  fam- 
ily forced  her  to  quit.  She  began  by 
eating  gruel  and  very  soft  boiled  eggs. 
At  the  end  of  two  weeks  she  had  almost 
wholly  recovered  her  strength,  and  de- 
clared that  her  stomach  trouble  had  dis- 
appeared. 

Wren  stuck  out  his  fast  to  the  limit 
he  had  set  for  himself — three  weeks. 
He  says  he's  all  right  now. 

Miss  Cora  Brown,  who  dipped  into 
a  number  of  "isms"  and  "cults",  says 
she  came  out  of  them  a  nervous  wreck. 
Somewhere  along  the  line  she  had  read 
something  about  a  fasting-cure,  and 
tried  it:  but  as  in  Mrs.  Sampson's 
case,  her  anxious  family  became  alarmed 
at  her  incireasing  weakness.  When  she 
became  almost  helpless,  they  forced  her 
to  take  liquid-nourishment,  and  so  the 
fast  was  brought  to  an  end  on  the  twen- 
tyseventh  day.  Like  all  the  others.  Miss 
Brown  declares  it  did  her  good  and  that 
her  nervousness  is  gone. 


Pure  Water  for  Soldiers. 


I 


N  discussing  the  efforts  made  by  chem- 
ists to  provide  some  effective  means 
by  which  the  soldier  on  the  march  may 
be  enabled  to  enjoy  pure  water,  it  is 
remarked  that  filtration  through  the 
porcelain  candle  and  boiling  will  give 
the  soldier  pure  water  in  camp,  but 
when  the  line  of  march  is  taken  up  for 


the  front  it  is  useless  to  try  to  make  him 
drink  water  treated  by  chemical  meth- 
ods even  if  it  is  available ;  for  when  his 
officers  lose  touch  with  him  he  drinks 
from  any  stream,  spring  or  well,  scorn- 
ing slow  death  from  germs  when  sudden 
death  by  bullet  or  shell  may  be  his  fate 
at  any  moment.  It  seems  absurd  to  him 
to  worry  about  his  drinking  water  at 
such  a  time. 

If  he  could  be  insured  against  death 
on  the  battlefield,  he  would  be  willing 
to  court  it  in  the  canteen.  Yet  more 
men  died  on  the  transports  returning 
from  Santiago  and  at  Montauk  Point, 
salubrious  as  that  camp  was  supposed  to 
be,  than  were  killed  in  action  in  Cuba 
or  died  from  wounds.  Millions  upon 
millions  of  money  are  spent  upon  Gat- 
ling,  Maxim  and  dynamite  guns  and  on 
magazine  rifles  with  the  object  of  taking 
human  life,  but  to  kill  the  lurking  germs 
that  destroy  thousands  of  men  where 
bullet  and  shell  claim  hundreds,  the  ex- 
penditure of  money  is  trivial. 


Don't  Train  Your  Children  to 
Death. 

np  HERE  was  a  mother  who  thor- 
oughly  believed  in  the  virtue  of 
cold  water,  and  plenty  of,  it.  She  was 
partly  right  in  her  ideas  of  it,  and  partly 
wrong ;  for  she  gave  her  baby  a  drench- 
ing in  it  every  morning,  until  the  poor 
child  was  thrown  into  convulsions  at 
the  very  sight  of  the  stuff;  and  finally 
died  of  epilepsy,  after  years  of  suffering. 

The  famous  Frederika  Bremer,  while 
thinking  a  good  deal  of  her  father  upon 
general  principles,  always  maintained 
that  he  nearly  starved  his  children  to 
death,  under  vagaries  relative  to  keep- 
ing down  the  animal  nature  and  elevat- 
ing the  spiritual,  by  means  of  a  poverty- 
stricken  diet. 

A  man  in  1866  beat  a  two-year-old 
child  to  death,  because  it  could  not  get 
its  will-power  arranged  so  as  to  obey  its 
dear  father,  and  say  its  prayers.  Thus, 
what,  a  f^w  years  later,  would  have 
been  a  beautiful  lesson,  was  turned  ihto 


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a  murderous  calamity.  Are  there  any 
parents  so  foolish  in  191 2? 

A  parent  discovered  that  his  child 
was  a  natural  coward,  and  determined 
to  reform  him  before  it  went  any  fur- 
ther. He  thrust  him  into  bed,  put  out 
tihe  light,  locked  the  door,  and  went 
away.  When  he  came  back  in  the  morn- 
ing, expecting  to  find  a  boy  all  made 
over  into  a  juvenile  hero,  he  found  a 
poor  little  corpse,  with  its  eyes  Started 
from  the  sockets.  The  child  had  died 
in  a  fit  of  fright. 

Some  parents  compel  fheir  children 
to  eat  fat  or  lean  meat,  mainly  because 
the  poor  things  detest  it.  The  instincts 
of  a  child  should  be  respected,  in  these 
cases;  they  are  implanted  in  its  very 
nature,  and  are  intended  for  its  *rell- 
being.  The  child  is,  so  far  as  its  physi- 
cal nature  is  concerned,  merely  a  little 
animal,  with  the  same  instincts  of  self- 
protection.  You  can  not  compel  a  kit- 
ten to  eat  white  beans,  or  a  chicken  to 
drink  salt  water ;  do  not  take  advantage 
of  your  child's  reason  to  make  him  do 
that  against  which  all  his  instincts  rebel. 


Health-Information . 


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VERFEEDING  is  now  given  as  the 
cause  of  a  large  percentage  of  the 
insanity  of  the  world. 


Whiskey  is  a  good  cure  for  snake- 
bites: but  it  has  created  more  snakes 
than  it  ever  thwarted. 


Advocates  of  the  Milk-Cure  claim 
that  one  can  live  on  fifty  cents  a  day, 
by  depending  entirely  upon  lacteal  fluid. 


Adam  Smith  said  that  it  was  a  matter 
of  doubt  whether  butcher's  meat  was 
anywhere  or  anyhow  a  necessity  of  life. 


People  should  not  think  their  con- 
sciences are  troubled  when  it  is  only 
their  stomachs.  This  is  often,  although 
of  course  not  always,  the  case. 

The  average  air  of  the  winter  draw- 
ingroom  isi  said  to  be  so  dry  that  it  is 


better  adapted  to  raising  cactus  plants 
than  helping  sustain  the  human  system. 


"The  ainic"  says  that  Health  means 
pure  air,  sunshine,  truth,  strength,  and 
love.  To  this  bill  of  particulars,  should 
be  added  constant  caref  and  common 
sense. 


Pneumonia  and  Heart  Disease  are 
often  used  as  scapegoats,  in  giving  the 
cause  of  people's  death.  Other  and 
more  subtle  causes  have  prepared  the 
way. 


Tuberculosis  can  and  cannot  be  trans- 
mitted from  one  person  to  another:  it 
depends  upon  the  second  person,  and 
the  purity  or  impurity  of  his  blood. 


All  cults  of  physical  regeneration, 
however  they  may  quarrel  on  other  sub- 
jects, agree  that  a  moderate  amount  of 
exercise  is  indis|>ensable  to  health. 


Among  all  the  different  methods  of 
falling  to  sleep  that  are  given  by  dif- 
ferent authorities,  the  following  is  not 
the  worst: — Get  thoroughly  tired,  body 
and  mind;  and  then  administer  yourself 
to  a  good  bed. 


The  "faint"  feeling  that  one  has  at 
first  when  he  sets  out  to  fast,  is  the  lack 
of  stimulus  that  for  a  time  follows  the 
loss  of  undue  stimulus.  It  is  analogous 
to  that  caused  by  leaving  off  strong 
drink — though  not  so  powerful. 


Daily  applications  of  the  X-ray  have 
cured  several  cancers,  according  to  the 
statement  of  Prof.  John  E.  Gilman,  of 
Hahnemann  College,  Chicago.  He  says 
the  ray  "pours  life  and  electricity 
through  the  cancer,  and  destroys  the 
germs." 


It  is  now  claimed  that  to  obtain  a 
beautiful  natural  slenderness,  one  need 
not  compress  the  waist,  but  must  develop 
the  shoulders  and  chest,  and  restrain 
the  appetite.  These  are  getting  to  be 
serious  times  for  the  provision-dealers. 

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How  to  Write  for  Pablioation. 

EVERYBODY  has  had,  at  one  time 
and  another,  a  desire  to  produce 
something-  that  should  be  put  in  print 
and  disseminated  among-  the  people. 
And  almost  any  one  can  achieve  this 
desire  in  a  modest  way  if  he  or  she  com- 
mences rightly — and  tries,  sensibly  and 
valiantly. 

The  way  to  begin  is,  How  you  can; 
and  the  place  is,  Where  you  are.  Do 
not  go  away  from  your  present  environ- 
ment for  material  unless  you  know 
undeniably  well  how  and  why  you  are 
going;  and  do  not  undertake  to  write 
articles  upon  subjects  of  which  you 
have  no  knowledge  and  for  which  as 
yet  you  have  no  earthly  ability. 

"But  suppose  I  am  a  country  boy  [or 
girl],  and  have  no  opportunities  to  begin 
the  work?" 

That  is  where  you  mistake:  chances 
are  all  around  you — if  you  are  only  in- 
dustrious, and  "smart"  enough  to  write 
good  articles  and  send  them  to  the  right 
market. 

If  you  want  to  be  a  journalist,  com- 
mence with  the  local  paper — the  one 
nearest  to  where  you  live.  It  publishes 
in  every  issue  a  lot  of  matter  about  per- 
sons and  things  that  you  know ;  and  all 
this  matter  has  to  be  written  by  some- 
body before  it  is  set  in  type.  Why 
should  you  not  prepare  a  part  of  it? 
Study  the  sort  of  items  and  articles  that 
are  most  used  in  the  paper,  and  cast 
about  to  see  what  you  can  do  along  the 
same  line! 

Begin  by  writing  for  your  local  edi- 
tor some  news  concerning  the  people^ 
around  you — their  goings  and  comings 


and  stayings  and  doings,  trying  all  the 
tkne  to  discover  some  things  of  public 
interest  that  the  editor  would  not 
otherwise  learn  about.  Write  it  legibly 
on  note-sized  paper,  with  paragraphs, 
pauses,  etc.,  as  nearly  as  possible  imi- 
tating the  printed  matter  you  find  al- 
ready published  in  the  paper.  State 
what  is  going  on  around  you — honestly, 
candidly,  but  at  the  same  time  neatly 
and  entertainingly. 

Write  as  grammatically  and  spell  as 
correctly  as  you  can,  and  send  your 
"copy"  to  the  editor.  He  always  wants 
real  news,  and  will  accept  and  print  it 
if  he  thinks  it  will  be  interesting  to  his 
readers.  Perhaps  you  have  not  punctu- 
ated or  spelled  it  to  suit  him;  but  he 
will  attend  to  that,  if  he  really  wants  the 
article.  (You  should,  however,  make 
yourself  master  of  all  these  details  as 
soon  as  possible.) 

As  for  literary  articles,  the  country 
papers  are  depending  nowadays  mostly 
upon  what  they  clip  from  magazines, 
and  buy  of  plate-publishers.  (You  will 
notice  that  most  of  the  matter  outside 
the  local  news,  of  an  average  country 
paper,  was  evidently  written  a  good 
ways  from  the  locality  within  which  it 
is  published.)  So  your  strength  with 
the  local  paper  will  consist  largely  in 
your  aptitude  for  furnishing  nearby 
news. 

"What  will  I  get  for  it?"  the  reader 
asks.  Well,  probably,  not  much,  from 
a  country  paper,  because  it  cannot  aflford 
to  pay  much.  But  you  can  get  a  great 
many  favors  that  are  worth  as  much  as 
money.  They  will,  of  course,  send  you 
their  paper  free,  if  you  become  a,  wel- 
come contributor ;  they  will  often  favor 


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you  with  the  gift  of  copies  of  some  of 
their  most  attractive  exchanges;  they 
will,  perhaps,  be  able  to  obtain  tickets 
for  you  at  entertainments;  and  their 
printed  card,  with  your  name  on  it,  as 
contributor,  will  prove  an  "open  sesame" 
almost  anywhere  in  the  social  world. 

There  may  also  arise  now  and  then  a 
money-paying  opportunity,  such  as  re- 
porting a  convention  or  a  festival,  in 
which  you  may  be  paid  for  your  work 
by  the  day  or  the  column. 

There  is  also  to  be  considered  the 
fact  that  you  stand  much  better  among 
your  fellow-citizens  for  the  fact  that 
you  are  a  recognized  contributor  to  the 
local  paper.  They  are  likely  to  give  you 
the  best  seats,  the  daintiest  morsels,  and 
the  sweetest  smiles :  for  they  all  want  a 
chance  to  "show  off  well"  in  print,  once 
in  a  while.  You  may  be  sure  that  the 
faithful  and  discreet  chronicling  of 
events  in  your  neighborhood  will  be 
appreciated  by  all  your  neighbors,  soon- 
er or  later. 


The  Frailty  of  Our  Books  and 
ManuscriptB. 

/^HEAP  writing  materials  probably 
^  did  not  exist,  in  very  large  quanti- 
ties, when  Moses  wrote  his  immortal 
laws  on  the  tablets  of  stone,  but  he 
probably  would  not  have  used  them,  if 
they  had  been  present  in  tons.  The 
ancients  really  had  a  great  deal  of  regard 
for  the  unborn  generations,  when  they 
took  so  much  pains  to  record  their  lit- 
erature, their  laws,  and  the  chronobgy 
of  their  principal  events.  And  judging 
by  the  amount  of  ancient  tore  that  is 
constantly  being  recovered  from  buried 
cities,  they  succeeded  in  their  endeavor 
to  leave  something  valuable  for  poster- 
ity, probably  far  beyond  their  expecta- 
tions. 

But  what  will  the  world  know  about 
us,  five  thousand  years  hence?  Of 
course,  if  our  civilization  were  kept  con- 
tinuously on  the  upward  grade  during 
the  centuries,  the  increment  of  learning 
and    culture    left    by    each    generation 


would  be.  preserved  for  the  next,  and  in 
that  way  the  past  would  constantly  be 
drawn  upon  for  the  enrichment  of  the 
present :  but  such  a  long  stretch  of  un- 
interrupted progress  is  not  the  way  of 
the  world.  Dark  ages  follow  epochs  of 
enlightenment,  in  'everlasting  cycle,  as 
surely  as  the  night  succeeds  the  day. 

Though  our  civilization  is  probably 
only  in  the  morning  of  its  glory,  the 
time  will  surely  come  when  its  full- 
blown flower  shall  wither  and  go  back 
to  earth :  and  then,  after  the  succeeding 
long  night  of  a  dark  age,  when  another 
Renaissance  shall  have  dawned,  what 
shall  testify  to  the  manners  and  customs 
of  the  life  we  live  today? 

Recent  experience  has  shown  us  that 
even  the  most  sacred  and  precious  writ- 
ings left  us  by  all  former  time,  are  not 
made  proof  against  the  greedy  ravish- 
ment of  the  element,  fire.  The  library 
of  the  University  of  Turin,  in  Italy, 
containing  more  than  100,000  volumes, 
the  most  famous  treasure-house  of  books 
and  manuscripts  in  all  the  world,  burned 
to  the  ground,  the  other  day,  before  the 
very  eyes  of  helpless  man. 

The  catastrophe  cannot  be  wholly 
accounted- for  on  the  ground  of  Old 
World  dilatoriness  and  inefficiency,  for 
the  whole  business  section  of  one  of  our 
own  great  cities  was  also  destroyed  by 
fire,  the  other;  day,  under  no  more  un- 
usual conditions  than  a  high  wind.  The 
fact  is — and  we  are  only  just  now  begin- 
ning to  learn  it — nothing  is  safe  from 
the  burning,  insatiable  maw  of  the  Red 
Fiend:  we  are  entrusting  our  literary 
treasures  of  scientific  discovery  and  the 
imagination,  to  a  very  fragile  medium 
for  preservation.  Time,  which  can  un- 
aided crumble  the  mightiest  and  cun- 
ningest  works  of  man,  in  its  own 
leisurely  way,  and  fire,  which  strikes  its 
consuming  blow  quickly  and  unexpect- 
edly, are  enemies  of  the  inheritance  that 
we  would  leave  to  posterity,  that  we 
should  take  more  pains  to  forestall. 
Some  of  our  most  precious  literature, 
and  some  of  the  discoveries  of  modern 
science,  should  be  preserved  in  the  en- 
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EVERY   WHERE. 


Be  Sure  You've  Filled  the 
Hopper. 

^^TUTY  son,"  the  ancient  miller  said, 

"My  days  are  nearly  numbered. 
I  fain  would  leave  this  carnal  state, 

That's  so  by  care  encumbered ; 
I  leave  you  all  my  earthly  store, 

My  mill  and  mill-dam  nigh  it ; 
I  also  leave  you  some  advice, 

And  hope  you'll  profit  by  it. 
If  e'er  you  wish  for  stores  of  wealth, 

Of  silver,  gold  and  copper; 
Before  you  start  the  mill  to  grind, 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 

Now  this  may  suit  the  world  as  well, 

Though  not  perhaps  intended 
For  any  save  the  miller^s  son. 

When  his  career  was  ended. 
Be't  as  it  may,  it  fits  in  here 

In  sort  of  dovetail  fashion, 
And  seems  a  fitting  talisman 

For  every  act  and  passion. 
Whate'er  you  undertake  to  do. 

This  adage  meets  you  proper : 
"Before  you  start  the  mill  to  grind, 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 

Vague,  empty  pity,  no  relief 

Gives  to  a  creature  starving. 
While  demon  want  is  like  a  knife 

Into  the  vitals  carving. 
You  might  as  well  expect  a  shower 

To  fall  from  cloudless  heaven, 
Or,  to  expect  your  loaf  to  rise 

Without  the  proper  leaven. 
Remember,  if  you'd  help  the  poor 

To  silver,  gold  or  copper, 
"Before  you  start  the  mill  to  grind. 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 

If  you  would  consolation  give 

To  those  who  are  in  trouble. 
Don't  go  to  them  with  hollow  heart — 

A  vain  and  empty  bubble ; 
Go  not  to  them  with  shows  and  shams 

All  hollow  and  soon  ending; 
The  virtue  lies  in  what  you  are. 

And  not  what  you're  pretending. 
Then  bear  the  adage  well  in  mind, 

For  it  comes  pat  and  proper ; 
"Before  you  start  the  mill  to  grind. 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 


If  you  would  feed  the  sin-sick  soul 

(This  gratis  to  the  preacher), 
Go  not  with  bags  of  empty  wind 

To  sate  tbe  longing  creature ; 
The  oily  tongue  may  wag  at  will 

In  streams  of  elocution. 
And  pour  out  sentences,  for  which 

There  may  be  no  solution. 
Then  carry  to  them  God's  pure  gold, 

Discard  all  dross  and  copper; 
"But,  ere  you  start  the  mill  to  grind, 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 

Now  in  conclusion  I  will  say, 

Whate'er  your  name  or  station. 
Do  what  you  can,  act  like  a  man. 

In  every  situation; 
Look  always  well  before  you  leap. 

And  you'll  avoid  all  danger; 
Fill  well  your  knapsack  ere  you  march, 

Then  want  will  be  a  stranger; 
If  you'd  be  rich  in  mind  and  purse, 

Which  is  both  right  and  proper; 
"Before  you  start  the  mill  to  grind, 

Be  sure  you've  filled  the  hopper." 


Useless-Useful. 


■^^HILE  making  his  headquarters  at 
Morristown,  N.  J.,  Washington 
set  his  soldiers  to  building  a  fort  This 
structure  was  entirely  unnecessary;  and 
was  so  admitted  by  him.  Events  proved 
that  there  was  no  need  of  it,  and  that 
Washington  knew  that  there  was  none, 
all  the  while. 

But  the  building  of  it,  was  of  the 
utmost  importance.  It  kept  the  men 
thriftily  and  contentedly  at  work;  when 
if  they  had  been  living  in  idleness  while 
waiting  for  military  events  to  culminate, 
they  would  have  grown  discontented 
and  miserable.  This  fact  the  great  Gen- 
eral knew,  and  acted  upon  it. 

"Something  to  do"  is  better  than  idle- 
ness, even  when  that  something  is  of 
no  particular  use  in  itself;  but  how  glo- 
rious, when  one  is  benefitting  the  human 
race  and  at  the  same  time  improving 
his  own  position !  By  the  side  of  this, 
idleness  shrinks  into  nothing  less  tiian 
criminality.  ^  t 

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I'ebruary  28— It    was    arranged    that  almost 
$4,000,000  should  be  advanced  by  bankers 
representing  United  States,  Great  Britain, 
France    and    Germany,  to    the  Nanking 
and   Peking  governments. 
A  bill  to  transfer  a  province  of  Poland  to 
Russia  was  rejected  in  the  Duma. 
29 — Two  thousand  of  Yuan's  troops,  police, 
coolies    and    hoodlums,   broke    loose    in 
Peking,  killing  and  injuring  many  natives. 
Nearly      a      million     British     coal-miners 
struck. 
March  i— The  suffragettes  waged  a  window- 
smashing  campaign  in   Lcmdon,  destroy- 
ing   thousands     of     dollars'     worth     of 
property. 

2 — Outbreaks  in  many  cities  of  China  were 
reported;  the  Peking  legations  prepared 
for  a  siege;  1,000  troops  were  summoned. 
President  Taft  and  the  State  Department 
warned  Americans  in  Mexico  to  leave 
dangerous  localities  and  not  to  interfere 
with  the  revolution. 

3 — Tientsin  was  set  on  fire  in  fourteen 
places  and  looted  by  mutinous  Chinese 
troops. 

4 — The  Washington  House  Committee  on 
Rules  heard  the  testimony  of  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  children,  regarding  mill 
conditions,  and  behavior  of  police  and 
militia  during  the  strike. 

5— The  police  raided  a  London  suffragist 
office,  making  two  arrests;  magistrates 
imposed  sentences  on  window-smashing 
suffragettes. 
France  ordered  a  cruiser  to  proceed  from 
Rio  Janeiro  to  Mexico. 

6 — A  bill  was  introduced  in  the  House  pro- 
viding for  the  sale  of  the  New  York. 
Boston  and  Portsmouth  Navy  Yards  and 
appropriating  $24,000,000  for  the  creation 
of  a  naval  base  on  Narragansett  Bay. 
The  English  Government's  prosecution  of 
the  militant  suffragettes  assumed  the 
form  of  suit  for  conspiracy  to  incite  ma- 
licious damage  to  property. 

7— The  Senate,  y6  to  3,  passed  the  general 

arbitration  treaties. 
It  was  reported  that  both  Captains  Amund- 
sen  and    Scott    had    reached   the    South 
Pole. 


Thousands  more  of  men  were  thrown  out 
of  work  by  the  British  coal  strike,  all 
Europe  being  affected  also. 
8 — Foreigners  in  Mexico  City  armed  them- 
selves with  the  consent  of  the  Madero 
Government. 

Premier  Asquith  called  another  coal-strike 
conference. 
9 — Lack  of  fuel  in  England  forced  all  the 
iron  works  of  Derbyshire  to  close; 
100,000  persons  entered  the  ranks  of  the 
unemployed. 
10 — Yuan  Shi  Kai  was  inaugfurated  at  Pek- 
ing provisional  President  of  the  Republic 
of  China. 

A  coal-strike  was  voted  in  the  Ruhr  region 
of  Rhenish  Prussia. 

A  monster  demonstration  in  favor  of  peace 
was  held  in  Mexico  City. 
II — By  unanimous  vote  the  British  Miners* 
Federation  decided  to  meet  in  conference 
with  mine  owners  and  Government  rep- 
resentatives. 

The  Spanish  Cabinet  resigned,  as  a  result 
of  differences  between  the  Minister  of 
Public  Works  and  other  members;  the 
King  gave  Premier  Canalejas  full  play  in 
reorganizing  that  body. 
12 — The  first  conference  of  miners  and  own- 
ers presided  over  by  Premier  Asquith, 
failed  to  settle  the  extensive  British  coal 
strike. 

Owners  of  100  Fall  River  print-cloth  mills 
announced  a  5  per  cent,  increase  of 
wages. 

Over  200,000  miners  struck  in  Westphalia, 

The  ^  forty    six    labor    leaders  pleaded  not 

?ailty  at  Indianapolis. 
^       he    General    Strike    Committee    of    the 
Lawrence  strikers  voted  to  accept  the  in- 
crease in  wages. 
14— At    a    mass-meeting    of    the    Lawrence 
strikers  it  was  voted  to  accept  the  raise 
in   wasres   and   to  return   to   work  Mon- 
day, March  18. 
An    Italian    anarchist    attempted    to    shoot 
King  Victor  Emmanuel,  but  missed  him, 
woundinpr  one  of  his  bodypruard. 
President  Taft  issued  an  edict  prohibiting 
the  sale  of  arms  by  Americans  to  Mcxi» 
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EVERY   WHERE. 


IS — Chief  Chemist  Wiley  resigned  as  head  of 
the  Bureau  of  Chemistry. 

Conference  plans  failed  between  the  Eng- 
hsh  owners  and  the  miners;  Premier 
Asquith  declared  the  only  resource  left 
was  legislative  enactment  providing  for 
a  minimum  wage. 
i6— The  battleship  Maine  was  sunk  at  the 
three-mile  limit  outside  of  Havana,  in 
the  sight  of  80,000  persons. 

The  Oriental  liner  Oceana  sank  in  a  colli- 
sion in  the  English  Channel,  with  a  loss 
of  ten  lives. 
17— It  was  reported  that  anarchy  and  famine 
prevailed  throughout  China. 

Despatches  from  abroad  stated  that  Italian 
warships  were  gathering  near  the  I>ar- 
danelles  and  Russian  craft  were  close  tx) 
the  Bosphorus. 

The  German  miners  showed  signs  of 
weakening  in  the  Westphalian  district 

Secretary  Knox  cabled,  urging  the  ratifica- 
tion of  the  Nicaraguan  treaty. 
18 — An  explosion  in  a  locomotive  at  San  An- 
tonio killed  thirtytwo  strike-breakers,  in- 
juring fifty  four  other  persons,  and 
wrecked  several  buildings. 

The  cruiser  Atlanta  was  ordered  to  the 
junk-pile. 

Ten  thousand  strikers  resumed  work  in 
Australia. 

Fifteen  thousand  Saxon  miners  struck,  and 
6,000  in  other.  German  districts. 
19 — Premier   Asquith    introduced    the    Mini- 
mum Wage  Bill  designed  to  end  the  coal 
strike. 

The  House  at  Washington  passed  the  Ex- 
cise Income  Tax  bill  250  to  40. 
20-^reat   Britain's   twenty  fifth   Dreadnought 
was  launched  at  Jarrow. 

One  hundred  and  five  miners  were  killed 
by  an  explosion  at  McCurtain,  Oklahoma. 
21— The  Minimum  Wage  bill  passed  the  sec- 
ond reading  in  the  House  of  Commons. 

The  Mexican  revolt  was  reported  waning 
since  American  aid  was  cut  off. 

A  great  Turkish  victory  at  Benghazi  was 
announced. 

Twentysix  living  men  were  rescued  from 
the  McCurtain  mine. 
22— The  British  iGovernment  refused  to  insert 
in  its  Minimum  Wage  bill  a  clause  pre- 
scribing the  minimum  rate,  the  men  re- 
fused to  consider  it  in  that  form  and  Mr. 
Asquith  halted  its  passage  for  further 
conference. 

Russia  withdrew  from  the  "six-power" 
afirreement  for  furnishing  a  loan  to  China. 
23 — The  remains  of  sixtyseven  unidentified 
men  of  the  Maine  were  buried  at  Ar- 
lington, President  Taft  and  Congress 
attending. 


The  $60,000,000  French  State  Railway  loan 
was  oversubscribed  32%  times. 
24—- Coal  strikes  in  France  and  Germany  were 
called  off. 
An  American   teacher   named    Hicks    was 

killed  by  Chinese  pirates. 
The  strike  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  was  officially 
ended. 
25— Kaiser    Wilhelm    and    King  Victor  Km- 
manuel    met    at    Venice   and  exchanged 
courtesies. 
Attorney-General    Wickersham    refused   to 
furnish  Harvester  Company  information 
asked  by  a  resolution. 
Dr.    Emiliano    G.    Navero    was    appointed 
Provisional  President  of  Paraguay. 
26 — The  packers,  on  trial  in  Chicago  for  con- 
spiracy, were  acquitted. 
Premier  Asquith  announced  the  failure  of 
the  Government's  attempt  to  end  the  coal 
strike. 
President  Taft  sent  to  Congress  the  Tariff 
Board's  report  on  the  cotton  schedule  and 
recommended  revision  downward. 
Eightytwo  men  were  killed  by  a  gas  explo- 
sion in  a  mine  at  Jed,  W.  Va. 
27 — British    mine-owners    accepted  the  Mini- 
mum Wage  bill;  the  Miners'  Federation 
referred    it    to   the   men;  10,000   troops 
were  ordered  ready  to  move. 
Italians  lost  3,500  in  battle  with  the  Turks. 
28 — The  Conciliation  bill  enfranchising  1,000,- 
000  women  was  rejected  by  the  House  of 
Commons. 
Ambassador    Wilson    sent    President  Taft 
disquieting     news    about     conditions     in 
Mexico;   President    Taft    summoned  the 
Cabinet. 
29— The  Senate  rejected  the  Sherwood  Dol- 
lar-a-Day  Pension  bill  and   adopted   the 
Smoot  substitute  with  amendments. 
30— The   great   steel   tower    at   Nauen,    Ger- 
many, was  demolished  by  a  windstorm. 
A     nitro-glycerine     factory     exploded     at 
Tulsa,  Oklahoma,  killing  several  persons 
and  damaging  much  property. 
April  I— Dr.  Sun  Yat  Sen  formally  resigned 
the  Presidency  of  the  Chinese  republic. 
The  Prince  of  Wales  arrived  in  Paris  for 
a    prolonged    visit    to   the    Marquis   de 
Breteuil. 
2— President     Taft  ^  ordered     a     troop    of 
cavalry  to  Del  Rio,  a  Texas  border  town 
menaced  by  Mexican  bandits. 
Chancellor    Lloyd-George    annoanced    the 
largest   British   surplus  on   record,   as  a 
result  of  his  fiscal  system. 
A  drastic  bill  to  lower  express  rates  and 
improve  the  service  was  reported  to  the 
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BACON,  HENRY— In  Cairo,  Egypt,  March 
13,  in  his  sevcntythird  year.  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts,  was  his  birthplace.  Enlist- 
ing for  the  Civil  War,  he  acted  as  field 
artist  for  Leslie's  Weekly,  while  serving  as 
a  saldier.  After  the  war  he  studied  art  in 
Paris,  and  many  of  his  oil  paintings  won 
a  place  in  the  Salon.  He  won  even  more 
fame  when  he  turned  to  watercolors,  scenes 
in  Normandy  being  among  his  greatest 
works. 

BIDDLE,  MISS  KATHERJNE  C— In 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  March  14,  aged  ninety- 
six  years.  Belonging  to  one  of  the  oldest 
Philadelphia  families,  she  served  as  a  nurse 
in  the  Episcopalian  Hospital  of  that  city 
during  the  Civil  War.  iSSnce  then  she  had 
devoted  herself  to  philanthropic  work  in 
a  mill  district  where  she  built  three 
churches.  She  was  educated  in  Lexington, 
Ky. 

BIXBY,  SAMUEL  M.— In  Fordham,  New 
York,  March  11.  He  was  born  in  Haver- 
hill, N.  H.,  in  1883.  For  more  than  fifty 
years  has  was  employed  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  the  shoe  polishes  which  made  his 
name  kqown  throughout  the  country.  He 
was  the  composer  of  many  popular  hymns 
and  the  compiler  of  three  hymn-books, 
"Church  and  Home  Hymnal",  "Evangel 
Songs",  and  "Gloria  Deo". 

BYERS,  MRS.  MARGARET— In  Belfast. 
Ireland,  February  21.  She  had  been  Doc- 
.tor  of  Laws  and  Principal  of  Victoria  Col- 
lege, Belfast,  since  1859. 

CHENEY,  DR.  FRANCIS  J.— In  Cortland, 
N.  Y.,  March  9,  at  the  age  of  sixtyfive 
years.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he  had 
been  principal  of  the  Cortland  Normal 
School. 

DE  CUVERVILLE,  ADMIRAL  JULES 
MARIE— In  Paris,  March  14.  He  was 
born  at  Aliineuc,  in  1834,  and  was  educated 
at  Saint  Sauveur  de  Redon.  He  was  deco- 
rated in  1855  for  bravery  at  Sebastopol, 
where  he  was  wounded.  He  took  part  also 
in  African  campaigns.  He  was  naval 
attach^  at  London  for  a  time.  He  wrote 
extensively  on  naval  affairs  and  became 
Vice  Admiral  in  1893. 

FAIRBAIRN,  REV.  DR.  ANDREW— In 
London,    England,    February    9.     He    was 


bom  in  England  in  1838,  and  besides  being 
one  of  the  best-known  educators  in  that 
country  was  the  author  of  numerous  re- 
ligious works.  He  was  Principal  Emeritus 
of  Mansfield  College,  Oxford.  He  had  re- 
ceived the  de^ee  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from 
Yale  University  and  had  frequently  lectured 
there. 

HOGG,  PROF.  HOPE  W.— In  London,  Eng- 
land, February  16.  He  was  bom  in  Cairo, 
Egypti  in  1863,  the  son  of  the  Principal  of 
the  American  College  at  Assiput,  Egypt. 
He  was  Professor  of  Semitic  languages 
and  literature  in  the  University  of  Man- 
chester. He  went  to  Oxford  as  a  contribu- 
tor of  encyclopaedic  articles  and  was  lec- 
turer in  Arabic  in  Owens  College,  Man- 
chester. 

HARVEY.  CHARLES  THOMPSON— In 
(New  York  City,  March  12.  He  was  bom 
eightythrec  years  ago,  in  Westchester, 
Connecticut,  and  became  an  inventor  of 
note.  He  was  the  builder  of  the  Ninth 
Avenue  elevated  road,  New  York  "City, 
and  the  famous  ship  canal  connecting 
Lakes    Superior   and    Huron. 

HAYNES,  PROF.  H.  W.— In  Boston,  Feb- 
rusuy  16.  In  183 1  he  was  bom  in  Bangor, 
Maine.  He  was  graduated  at  Harvard, 
and  taught  in  the  University  of  Vermont, 
until  he  went  abroad  in  the  early  seventies 
for  researches  in  anthropology.  His  con- 
tributions to  science  won  him  a  medal  from 
the  International  Congress  of  Anthropo- 
logical Sciences  in  1878. 

JONES,  MARY  D.— In  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
March  6,  aged  one  hundred  and  three  years. 
Her  birthplace  was  Wales,  but  she  was 
brought  to  America  by  her  parents  when 
quite  young.  Her  brotiier  was  killed  early 
in  the  Civil  War,  and  failing  to  find  his 
body,  she  became  a  war  nurse,  receiving 
in  1876  a  pension,  through  a  special  act  of 
Congress. 

KEPPEL,  FREDERICK— In  New  York  City, 
March  7.  He  was  born  in  1845,  in  Tullow, 
Ireland.  He  established  the  well-known 
art-importing  firm  bearing  his  name  and 
wrote  and  lectured  much  and  well  upon  art 
subjects. 

KITCHENER,  LIEUT.  GENERAL  SIR 
FREDERICK  W.— At  Hamilton.  Bermuda, 
March  6.    He  was  born  in  1858  and  entered 


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the  British  army  at  the  age  of  eighteen^ 
seeing  service  in  Egypt,  Scmth  Africa  and 
elsewhere,  including  activities  in  the  Af- 
ghan War.  He  received  several  medals. 
After  serving  in  India  as  Major  General 
he  became,  in  1908,  Governor  of  Bermuda 
and  Commander-in-Chief.  He  was  a  brother 
of  Lord  Kitchener  of  Khartoum. 

LAWLER.  MICHAEL  H.— In  Flushing, 
L.  I.,  March  14.  He  was  bom  in  Ireland 
in  1849.  He  came  to  United  States  when 
a  youth,  entering  the  employ  of  R.  S. 
Parsons,  a  nurseryman  in  Flushing.  He 
became  known  to  horticulturists  all  over 
the  country  as  an  expert  on  the  propa- 
gation and  due  care  of  trees  of  foreign 
growth. 

LEFEBVRE,  JULES  J.~In  Paris,  France, 
February  24.  The  famous  painter  was  born 
at  Touman,  in  1834.  He  was  a  pupil  of 
Oogniet  and  won  the  Grand  Prix  de  Rome 
in  1861,  and  the  Grand  Prix  (Exposition 
Universelle),  in  1889.  His  specialties  were 
portraits  and  historic  pictures.  He  was  an 
ofiicer  and  member  in  various  French  and 
foreign  art  organizations,  including  the 
Legion  of  Honor. 

MELVILLE,  REAR  ADMIRAL  GEORGE 
WALLACEr-In  Philadelphia,  March  17, 
aged  seventytwo  years.  He  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  and  entered  the  navy  in  1861 
as  assistant  engineer.  After  serving 
through  the  Civil  War  he  volunteered  for 
Arctic  exploration,  distinguished  himself 
with  De  Long  in  1879  and  rescued  Greeley's 
expedition  five  years  later.  He  became 
Engineer  in  Chief  of  the  Navy  in  1^7, 
serving  till  his  retirement  in  1903.  All 
told,  120  ships  were  built  under  his  super- 
vision. His  fame  for  bravery  was  world- 
wide and  he  received  a  medal  from  Con- 
gress in  recognition  thereof.  Foreign  mon- 
archs  also  honored  him. 

MILLER,  WILLIAM— In  Ottawa,  Canada, 
February  23.  He  was  born  in  1834,  his 
home  being  in  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  known 
as  the  father  of  the  Canadian  Confederacy. 
He  was  Senior  Senator,  having  been  a 
member  of  the  Senate  since  1867.  For  the 
past  twentyone  years  he  had  shared  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  the  Privy  Council. 

NICHOLLS,  EX-GOV.  F.  T.— At  Thibo- 
daux,  Louisiana,  January  6.  He  was  born 
in  1834  at  Donaldson,  La.,  and  was  grad- 
uated at  West  Point.  He  lost  an  arm  and 
a  foot  in  the  Confederate  service  during 
the  war.  At  its  close  he  went  into  law  and 
politics.  He  became  Governor  of  his  State, 
and  it  was  he  who  vetoed  the  bill  renewing 
the  charter  of  the  State  Lottery,  thus  end- 
ing the  institution.  In  1893  he  was  ap- 
pointed Chief  Justice  of  the  Siipreme  Court 
of  Louisiana. 

OKANE.  PROF.  T.  C— In  Delaware.  Ohio, 
February  to,  at  the  age  of  eightytwo  years. 


He  was   the  author  of  many  well-known 
hymns,   among   them,  "The  Home   Over 
There"  and  "On  Jordan's  Stormy  Banks  I 
Stand?" 

OVERBECK,  CHARLES  C— In  Philadel- 
phia, February  3,  aged  ninety  years.  In  past 
days  he  was  widely  known  as  an  abolitionist 
and^as  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Repub- 
lican Party.  He  is  believed  to  have  been 
the  last  member  of  the  original  Abolition 
Campaign  Committee  formed  in  1854. 

PBASLEE,  JOHN  G.— In  Qncinnati,  Ohio, 
January  4,  aged  seventy  years.  He  was  at 
one  time  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Cin- 
cinnati and  was  widely  known  as  an  edu- 
cator. He  was  credited  with  originating:  the 
Arbor  Day  custom  in  United  States. 

RIO  BRANCO,  BARON  DO— In  Rio  Janeiro, 
Brazil,  February  10.  He  was  Minister  of 
Foreign  Affairs  in  the  Brazilian  Cabinet, 
having  served  continuously  for  ten  years  in 
that  office,  from  patriotic  motives,  at  the 
risk  of  his  health.  He  took  a  large  share 
in  welcoming  the  American  fleet  in  Bra- 
zilian waters  in  1908. 

SHAW,  FREDERICK  A.— In  BrooWine. 
Mass.,  March  8,  at  the  age  of  fiftyseven 
years.  He  was  known  as  a  sculptor  and 
modeler  of  jewelry,  and  had  a  studio  in 
Florence,  Italy,  for  many  years.  He  was 
the  discoverer  of  the  translucent  qualities 
of  marble. 

SMITH,  DR.  JOHN  BREMHARDT— In 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  March  12,  aged 
fiftythree  years.  He  was  Professor  of  en- 
tomology at  Rutgers  College,  and  since  1894 
had  been  State  Entomologist  He  was 
leader  of  the  fight  to  rid  New  Jersey  of  the 
mosquito  pest,  and  originated  many 
methods  for  destroying  the  insects.  He 
was  editor  of  "Entomologica  Americano" 
for  eight  years,  and  the  author  of  several 
hundred  scientific  papers,  many  of  them 
bulletins  published  by  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture. 

WEAVER,  GEN.  JAMES  B.  —  In  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  February  6,  at  the  age  of 
seventyeight  years.  He  was  a  native  of 
Dayton,  Ohio,  and  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Cincinnati  Law  School.  He  served  through 
the  Civil  War,  being  brevetted  Brigadier- 
General  in  1864.  After  the  war  he  became 
an  Assessor  of  Internal  (Revenue,  a  District 
Attorney  and  editor  of  the  Iowa  Tribune. 
He  was  twice  elected  to  Congress.  He  ran 
for  President  on  the  Greenback  Labor- 
ticket  in  1880,  and  as  a  Populist  in  1892. 

WILLIAMS,  IRVIN  A.— In  Greenwich, 
Conn.,  February  29,  aged  eightyone  years. 
He  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Roger  Wil- 
liams, founder  of  Rhode  Island  Common- 
wealth, and  was  the  inventor  of  the  loco- 
motive headlight,  now  in  general  and  bene- 
ficial use. 


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A  cautious  New  York  man  writes  to  one 
of  the  papers,  that  he  has  kept  the  same  um- 
brella twentynine  years. 

Two  thousand  warty  patients  have  entered 
a  beauty-parlor  in  Philadelphia,  and  the  doc- 
tor has  just  got  his  hand  in. 

It  seemed  as  if  labor  troubles  must  be 
pretty  near  an  end  when  the  grave-diggers 
struck  in  London,  a  few  weeks  ago.  ^ 

Four  thousand  dragon-flies  have  been  col- 
lected from  Trinidad,  and  British  Guiana,  for 
the  Smithsonian  Institute.  There  are  135 
varieties. 

The  leper  who  has  been  shipped  in  box 
cars  from  one  town  to  another,  has  now  been 
set  at  work  near  Port  Townsend,  Wash.,  at 
taking  care  of  another  leper. 

A  certain  ruthless  Canadian  gunner  re- 
cently found  that  hunting  was  an  expen- 
sive sport.  He  was  fined  $1,206  for  game 
killed  out  of  season — a  dollar  a  bird. 

"The  Biggest  Gun  in  the  World"  of  1864 
was  a  1, 080- pound,  20-inch  projectile.  But 
the  bark  of  the  smooth-'bore  terror  was 
worse  than  its  bite,  for  it  was  too  big  to 
handle  efficiently. 

The  Albany  Legislature  turned  its  clock 
back  twelve  hours,  to  finish  up  its  work,  and 
still  adjourn  "at  noon".  This  is  also  done  in 
Congress,  but  one  is  naturally  curious  to  know 
whether  it  would  stand  in  law. 

Young's    Pier   at    Atlantic    City   has    again 


been  destroyed  by  fire,  and  the  whole  hotel- 
kindling-wood  district  threatened.  Happily, 
the  conditions  were  favorable,  and  there  were 
none  of  the  guest-mansions  burned. 

When  John  Quincy  Adams  sought  to  enter 
Berlin  as  American  Minister  to  Prussia,  he 
was  held  up  at  the  gate  and  the  officer  of  the 
guards  had  doubts  about  letting  him  in,  never 
having  heard  of  United  States  of  America. 

London  police  magistrates  have  discovered 
a  new  test  for  drunkenness.  If  the  suspect 
can  say  "British  Constitution"  witthout  stum- 
bling, he  is  discharged.  A  better  test  might 
be  to  see  if  he  can  walk  without  stumbling. 

Another  engineer  dies  in  his  cab  (neaj^jfctp 
Louis),  leaving  the  train  at  mercy  of  cldHbJ, 
or  the  skill  of  the  fireman — had  there  nrot 
been  another  professional  engineer  on  board 
by  chance,  many  think  that  there  ought  to  be 
two  engineers  always  "on  the  job". 

Our  Canadian  neighbors  are  reported  as 
being  anxious  lest  the  proposed  increased 
diversion  of  Great  Lake  waters  through'  the 
Chicago  Drainage  Canal  should  lower  the 
levels  to  the  serious  injury  of  shipping — a 
consummation  devoutly  to  be  avoided. 

More  than  1,000  Gretna  Green  marriage 
certificates  of  one  hundred  years  ago  were 
recently  sold  at  auction  in  England,  the 
famous  place  having  ceased  to  be  a  "resort 
for  all  amorous  couples  whose  union  the  pru- 
dence  of    parents    prohibited".      How    many 


Winchester's    Hypophosphites    of    Lime    and    Soda 


Exhausted 


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NERVE  FORCE 

Aflbrdias  as  It  does  tiia  most  dlxect  mmis  of  supplylaff  Photphocus  to  the  system,  so  euontlal  to  those  who  Ubor  with  the  Brate 
PRB80RIBBD  BY  PHY8I0IAN8  FOR  OVER  HALF  A  OENTURY 

to  sufferoB  from  Indigestloa,  AaemU.  NeansthenU.  Nenrous  Diseases,  Bronchitis,  Excessive  Drains,  Weakness  and  all  Throat  and  Lunf  Iafcctfo«a. 
A  Brain,  N«rve  and  Blood  Food  and  Tissue  B  'ilder  of  Unquestioned  Merit 

StimulatinK  and  InviforatlsK  the  Nenrous  System  and  Impartlnsr  Vital  Strength  and  Energy. 
O^.^^^^l  ^\^«^:^^^      For  Neurasthenia  the  Hypophosphites  are  our  mainstays— Dr.  J  AY  G.  ROBERTS,  Phfla.  Pa. 
r  OrSOncLI  ^^piniOnS — lean  certify  to  thee  ttrcme  purity  of  Winchester's  Hypophosphites.— Dr.  L.  PITKIN.  New  York. 

I  have  taken  thlse'cellent  remeiy  ( Wiachester's  Hypophosphites  of  Lime  and  Sodai  as  a  Nerve  Food  by  my  physician's  order.    Ithas  so  greatly  benefited 
ma  thit  I  hope  other  suflfereis  maybe  helped  likewise.— Miss  ELLA  H.  JOHNSON,  Irvington.  N.  Y. 

I  find  your  remedies  excellMt— ASSISTANT  ATTY.  GEN,  N.  D. 

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reason  for  faJlure  and  the  wav  to  success. 
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hrouffht  before  American  women.  By  this 
method,  any  lady^-young,  middle  agidd  or 
elderly— may  develop  her  bust  from  2  to  8 
Inches  Jn  30  days,  and  see  definite  results 
ii^  3  to  G  days,  no  matter  what  the  cause 
of  the  lack  of  development.  It  is  based  on 
aoientSflc   facts   absolutely. 

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astounding-  success,  and  has  been  accepted 
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woman  who  wlU  send  a  2c.  stamp  to  pay 
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romances    could    those    dumb  leaves  unfold 
were  they  but  given  power  of  speech  I 

Of  the  3,000,000  inhabitants  of  Greater  Ber- 
lin upward  of  600,000  live  in  apartments  with 
five  or  more  persons  in  each  room.  A  large 
percentage  of  the  working  families  live  in  ooe 
room,  and  sometimes  let  out  a  portion  of  that 
as  sleeping  accommodation  for  single  men. 

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money,  for  extra  work.  The  wages  are  paid 
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please.  Many  of  them  have  the  money  sent 
to  their  families  and  keep  only  a  small 
amount  for  luxuries  not  supplied  in  prison. 

Washington  Irving's  brother,  Judge  John  T. 
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him,  very  promptly  and  swiftly,  claiming  that 
he  could  take  in  their  meaning  at  a  flash. 
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quartered  on  her. 

Lady  Warwick,  whose  lecture-tour  in 
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of  the  work  on  the  Panama  Canal. 

Mrs.  Sigourney  was  not  only  a  poetess  but 
a  woman  of  marked  progressiveness.  She 
was  one  of  the  founders  and  directors  of  the 
iirst  institution  for  the  medical  education  of 
women  in  United  States,  the  establish- 
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she  died  in  Hartford,  June  10,  1885,  the 
church  bells  in  that  city  were  tolled  for  an 
hour. 


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in  which  he  carried  them  mixed  with  the 
water. 

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Porter  County,  Ohio,  and  it  remained  for 
James  A.  to  restore  the  'V  in  it  The  famous 
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Frontispiece— Gen.  Fred.  D.  Grant 

The  Wreck  of  the  Liner 
Will  Carleton. 


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The  Sorrows  of  the  Sea 

'     Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

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The  Soldier's  Soliloquy 

The  Woman  lEdison  of  the  West 

A  Criminal— or  a  Saint? 

Among  the  Navajos 

G.  Leo  Patterson. 


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One  Supper-Table 

The  Tyranny  of  Things 

Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

A  Soldiers'  and  Sailors*  Monument 

Women — ^and  Women 

Two  Views  of  It 

"A  Coon  in  the  Car" 

East  Centerboro  Still  Lives 

Knowledge  Still  Scarce 

Up  and  Down  the  World: 
Women  Selling  Papers 
Wall  Pictures  Indicate  Character  156 
The     Man     and     Woman     Who 

Nominated  Grant  157 

Dirt  on  Everything  158 

Clara  Barton  (portrait)  159 


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Some  Straw  Opinions 

Editorial  Thoughts  and  Fancies: 

Peacefully  Armed 

Hurricane  Fires 

Campaigning  With  Fiddles 

Dog-Cemeteries 

The  Worst  of  the  Wrecks 
At  Ch  urch  : 

The  Spirit  of  Truth 

Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

A  Famous  Preacher's  Mother 

The    Health -Seeker: 

Napoleon's  Stomach-Cancer 
Short  Health  Stories 
The  Mission  of  Water 

World- Success  : 
How  to  Write  for  Publication 
Ancestors  of  Insects 
An  Adjustment  of  Prices 
Gratitude     and     Generosity     Be- 
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Time's  Diary 
Some  Who  Have  Gone 
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Philosophy  and  Humor 


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The  Wreck  of  the  Liner. 

By  Will  Carleton. 

TT  HE  nigflit  is  a  vision  of  splendfor ;   the  stars  hang-  in  clusters  on  higfh, 

The  oft-troubled  ocean  is  resting  and  smiles  at  her  sister,  the  sky. 
The  storms  that  have  fought  through  the  winter,  from  battle's  confusion  are  free ; 
And  only  the  children  of  zephyrs  are  playing  about  on  the  sea. 
What  more  could  wild  wastes  of  the  waters  throw  into  a  sweet  silent  song, 
To  welcome  the  pilgrims  of  pleasure  that  traverse  their  regions  along? 
What  less  could  th«ey  do  in  that  starlight  so  strangely  unclouded  and  bright, 
To  guard  'gainst  the  traps  that  are  waiting  to  plunge  a  whole  world  into  night  ? 

Here  glows  on  this  sea's  mottled  surface  a  mammoth  of  beauty  and  grace ! 

This  is  not  a  ship,  but  a  palace,  that  flits  through  the  reaches  of  space! 

It  carries  in  untold  abundance  all  things  that  the  fancy  can  please — 

Few  kings  in  this  world  ever  journey  surrounded  with  splendors  like  these. 

No  wish  and  no  whim  but  is  granted  from  only  a  gesture  or  word. 

If  also  the  yellow  disc's  rattle,  or  rustling  of  bank-notes  be  heard. 

The  rest-rooms  are  lavish  and  stately ;   the  banquet-halls  silver-and-white ; 

The  couches  that  nourish  the  slumbers,  are  beautiful  nests  of  delight. 

And  all  of  this  grandeur  seems  saying,  in  words  at  the  deep  waters  cast, 

**Bow  low  to  proud  man,  ancient  Ocean ! — your  terrors  are  conquered  at  last !" 

What  names  does  this  argosy  carry: — ^the  paltry? — ^the  mean? — ^the  unknown? 

Or  such  as  the  world  has  already  through  many  vast  distances  thrown  ? 

It  carries  a  true  Peace  Apostle,  who  fought  his  way  up  toward  the  sun, 

And,  scanning  two  worlds,  conjured  marvels  in  helping  the  uplift  of  one; 

It  carries  a  capital's  idol — a  boon  to  a  President's  sighb — 

Because  he  is  not  upon  one  day,  but  all  days,  a  chivalrous  knight ; 

It  carries  some  makers  of  fortunes,  some  rulers  of  monies  and  marts, 

Who  keep  their  great  riches  in  wide  hands,  and  not  in  the  depths  of  their  hearts 

It  carries  the  pure  souls  of  women  whom  angels  are  watching  tonight, 

And  who  in  the  hour  when  earth  darkens,  will  make  even  Heaven  more  bright : 

It  carries  its  fugitive  hundreds,  who  in  their  own  homes  were  oppressed. 

But  now  grand  air-castles  are  building,  away  in  the  glittering  West ; 

It  carries  the  day-by-day  toiler,  who  all  of  his  muscle  must  give, 

For  prosperous  mortals'  permission  that  he  and  his  loveid  ones  may  live; 

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But  all  are  to  learn  the  great  lesson— they  long  should  have  known,  prudence 

deems — 
That  man  cannot  conquer  the  oceans,  except  in  illusory  dreams. 

O  ship-chiefs!  the  world  has  two  oceans! — the  one  to  your  efforts  g^ves  way— 
The  other  is  frozen  to  mountains  that  trap  you  for  many  a  day. 
Just  now  watchful  men  through  the  ether  flashed  tidings  of  woe  in  your  path : 
Why  rush  at  the  half-hidden  monsters,  as  if  you  were  seeking  their  wrath? 
Though  you  for  the  coining  of  money  your  own  lives  to  venture  are  prone, 
What  right  have  you  over  these  tiiousands  who  lent  you  the  care  of  their  own? 

O  ship-chiefs,  your  ways  are  mysterious :  they  give  your  long  training  the  lie ; 
What  mandate  has  told  you  to  hasten  with  murderous  danger  so  nigh? 
Have  you  not,  when  peril  was  frowming,  or  welcome  security  smiled. 
Been  taught  the  great  axiom  that  caution  and  safety  are  parent  and  child? 

The  ship  races  on :  its  vast  regions  are  flooded  with  billows  of  light  ; 
Till,  wearied  with  even  the  good  cheer,  some  sojourners  welcome  the  night ; 
While  others  still  cling  to  their  revels,  and  plunging  in  pleasure  more  deep, 
Look  forward  as  oft  in  the  home  life,  for  small  hours  ito  soothe  them  asleep. 
But  many  a  grave  man  has  handed  to  darkness  the  care  of  his  cares. 
And  many  a  child  has  seen  Heaven  through  clear  unstained  windows  of  prayers, 
And  many  a  woman  o'er-wearied,  the  sojourn  of  Morpheus  has  blessed, 
So  she  to  the  dictums  of  fashion  can  fling  some  defiance,  and  rest  ; 
But  all  look  ahead  to  one  morning  when,  nearing  the  spires  and  the  domes, 
They  leave  with  new  feelings  of  freedom,  this  grand  floating  home,  for  their 
homes. 

V/hat  craft  looms  upon  the  horizon,  with  chilling  and  murderous  breath? 
It  sailed  from  white  deserts  of  North  Land — it  carries  a  cargo  of  death. 
It  needs  not  of  chart  or  of  compass :  it  wrecks  not  of  grief  or  of  pain ; 
It  spares  not  the  dead  or  the  living — it  counts  not  the  lists  of  its  slain. 
O  watchman  be  keen  to  your  duty  I     These  moments  have  values  untold ! 
For  time  at  a  stress  has  a  value  not  reckoned  in  silver  or  gold. 
O  man  you  have  thrown  a  defiance  at  all  that  destruction  can  do. 
Your  brothers  and  sisters  are  praying  the  boasts  of  your  prowess  be  true! 

O  tranquil  but  pitiless  ocean !  your  crudest  storm-clouds  are  nought 

To  this  starlit  evening  that  flashes  on  ice-mantled  graves  dearly  bought ! 

This  fair  night  will  hear  moans  of  anguish  that  soon  must  encompass  the  world: 

Not  tossed,  this  vast  home  on  the  waters,  'gainst  billows  tumultuously  hurled, 

But  steadily  covering  the  false  hopes  of  frighted  humanity  o'er. 

The  ship  from  its  flight  o'er  the  billows  must  fall  to  the  sea's  solemn  floor. 

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That  throng  through  this  night's  desolation,  with  horrors  unspeakable  strown : 
The  wrenching  from  halls  of  the  banquet,  to  roofs  of  the  desolate  wave; 
The  wearisome  watching  for  rescue,  to  come  from  the  far-distant  brave; 
The  crushing  of  new-made  devices  that  serve  not  to  save,  but  to  kill. 
The  life-boats  that  turn  into  death-boats,  for  lacking  of  seamanship  skill ; 

The  hurried  and  agonized  partings  that  come  with  this  terrible  doom, 
And  shroud  the  sweet  love  of  a  lifetime  by  changing  the  sea  to  a  tomb ; 
The  cry  of  the  child  for  its  parent,  the  wife's  and  the*  husband^s  vain  call, 
The  prayers  of  the  righteous  invoking,  the  aid  of  the  Fatjher  of  all; 
The  fragile  flotillas  with  women  too  brave  their  own  sorrow  to  tell. 
Like  slaves  at  the  galley-oars  toiling,  still  hoping  that  all  will  be  well ; 
The  grief  of  the  half-thousand  toilers  who,  prisoned  with  clinging  bolts  nigh, 
Have  nought  they  can  do  for  escaping  except  in  that  prison  to  die; 
The  tremulous  strains  of  musicians,  who,  just  from  the  pleasure-hall's  glare. 
Creep '"Nearer  to  God",  when  around  them  are  dancing  the  ghosts  of  despair; 
The  cries  of  the  maimed  and  the  dying,  who  languish  o'er  death-beds  of  waves. 
On  ruins  of  yesterday's  splendor  that  soon  are  to  dig  them  their  graves ; 

O  great  God !  You  saw  all  this  anguish.  You  deemed  best  to  let  it  be  so : 
But  all  for  the  best  is  intended :    You  know  what  we  never  can  know. 


The  Sorrows  of  the  Sea.— By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


np  HERE  is  sorrow  on  the  sea, 
And  the  dark  waves  moan, 
Death  came  hurling  swift  destruction 

Froan  the  Northern  zone. 
There  is  sorrow  in  the  land, 

And  our  hearts  are  cold 
In  the  stupor  of  amazement 

As  the  tale  is  told. 


There  is  sorrow  on  the  sea; 

And  the  wild  winds  rave; 
*Tis  a  dirge  that  many  are  chanting 

O'er  a  bleak  and  glooming  grave. 
There  is  sorrow  in  the  home, 

The  loved  ones  come  no  more, 
Straight  who  sailed  to  utter  shipwreck 

From  a  foreign  shore. 


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The  Soldiers   Soliloquy. 

By  Will  Carletok. 

^HE  gathered  ranks  with  muffled  drums  had  grandly  marched-  away, 

The  hills  had  caught  the  sunset  gleam  of  grand  Memorial  day ; 
The  orator  had  held  the  throng  on  sorrow's  trembling  verge, 
The  choir  had  sung  its  saddest  strains — ^the  band  had  played  a  dirge ; 
Some  graves  that  had  neglected  been  through  many  lonely  hours, 
Had  leaped  again  to  transient  fame,  and  blossomed  forth  with  flowers ; 
And  one  old  veteran,  Private  Brown,  with  gray  uncovered  head, 
Still  wandered  'mongst  those  small  green  hiMs  that  held  his  comrades  dead. 

He  bent  and  stroked  the  humble  mounds  with  kind  oM-fashioned  word, 
He  called  his  comrades  all  by  name,  as  if  he  knew  they  heard ; 
He  said,  "Ah,  Private  Johnny  Smith,  you  lie  so  cold  and  still : 
This  isn't  much  like  that  summer  day  you  spent  at  Malvern  Hill ! 
The  bellowing  of  the  mighty  guns  your  voice  screamed  loud  above : 
You  yelled,  'Come  on  and  see  how  men  fight  for  the  land  they  love !' 
You  furnished  heart  for  fifty  wars ;  and  when  the  war  was  through. 
You  vainly  hunted  round  for  work  a  crippled  man,  could  do. 
They  let  you  die  with  want  and  debt  to  be  your  winding-sheet ; 
But  this  bouquet  of  flowers  they  sent,  is  very  nice  and  sweet. 

"Ah,  Jimmy  Jones,  I  recollect  the  day  they  brought  you  back: 

They  marched  your  body  through  the  streets  'neath  banners  draped  in  black, 

Your  funeral  sermon  glittered  well — it  told  how  brave  you  died — 

The  tears  your  poor  old  mother  sihed  were  partly  tears  of  pride. 

None  left  today  to  lean  upon  but  country  and  her  God — 

She  crept  from  yonder  poor-house  door  to  kdss  this  bit  of  sdd. 

It's  hard,  my  boy ;  but  nations  all  are  likely  to  forget — 

And  God  must  take  His  own  good  time  to  make  them  pay  a  debt. 

The  sweet  forget-me-not  si  that  grow  above  your  faithful  breast, 

Are  types  of  His  good  memory,  boy, — and  He  knows  what  is  best 

"Philander  Johnson,  from  the  plains  we  left  you  on  as  dead. 
You  carried  to  the  prison^pen  a  keep-sake  made  of  lead; 

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You  starved  there  for  your  country's  good — at  last  you  broke  away, 
And  got  in  time  to  Gett(ysburg  to  help  them  save  the  day. 
You  hired  a  man  to  ask  for  you  a  pension,  'twould  appear ; 
Your  papers  lost — they  put  you  off  from  weary  year  to  year. 
And  when  at  last  you  took  your  less-than-thirty  cents  a  day, 
You  had  to  fight  to  keep  the  Law  from  taking  it  away. 
Some  school-boy  doctor  every  month  must  probe  your  aching  side, 
And  thump  you  like  a  tenor  drum,  to  find  out  if  you  lied. 
You  co-st  the  nation  little,  now,  old  hero  of  the  fray — 
It  sent  some  very  pretty  flowers  to  strew  you  with  today. 

"Yes,  Lemuel  White,  this  little  flag  is  all  that's  left  to    mark, 
The  place  where  you  retired  so  young  to  chambers  cold  and  dark. 
The  wooden  slab  I  put  up  here  so  men  your  deeds  could  know, 
Was  broken  down  by  sun<Iry  beasts  not  many  months  ago. 
But  yonder  monument,  upreared  upon  the  village-green 
Is  partly  yours,  although  your  name  is  nowhere  to  be  seen; 
The  country  had  your  body,  boy,  it  gives  to  God  your  soul, 
It  needed  not  your  name,  except  upon  the  muster-roll. 

"Forgive  me,  boys — forgive  me  God,  if  I  bad  blood  display, 
But  flowers  seem  cheap  to  men  whose  hearts  are  aching  day  by  day ! 
Forgive  me,  every  woman  true,  who  tender,  thrilling  hand, 
Has  lifted  up  to  bless  and  soothe  the  savers  of  the  land ! 
Forgive  me  every  manly  heart  that  knows  the  fearful  strain 
Of  standing  'twixt  America  and  blood,  and  death,  and  pain ! 
Forgave  me — ^all  who  know  enough  to  fight  the  future  foe, 
By  doing  Justice  to  the  ones  who  fought  so  long  ago ! 
It  is  to  those  who  trample  us,  that  I  feel  called  to  say 
.  That  flowers  look  cheap  to  those  who  starve  and  suffer  day  by  day.*' 

The  sun  bad  fallen  out  of  view,  the  night  was  marching  down ; 
The  twinkle  of  the  window-lights  came  creeping  up  from  town. 
The  band  was  playing  merry  airs,  glad  voices  cheered  the  scene. 
And  dancing  were  the  youths  and  maids  upon  the  village-green. 
The  gloomy  graves  were  half  forgot,  and  pleasure  ruled  the  night ; 
But  God  has  ways  to  teach  us,  yet,  that  Private  Brown  was  right. 


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The  Woman  Edison  of  the  West. 


By  Lucy  B.  Jerome. 


QUT  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  lives 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  women 
of  her  day.  She  is  white-haired,  blue- 
eyed  and  seventy,  according  to  the  big 
family  Bible  in  whidi  the  record  of 
ages  are  kq)t,  but  in  reality,  she  is  as 
energetic  and  capable  as  if  she  were  but 
twenty.  And  if  you  would  like  a  proof 
of  this,  all  you  have  to  do  is  to  visit  her 
in  her  home,  and  you  will  have  a  sur- 
prise. For  Mrs.  Ada  Van  Pelt,  scien- 
tist and  electrician,  is  known  to  Los 
Angeles  as  the  "Woman  Edison." 

The  title  is  deserved,  too;  for  she 
has  been  tireless  in  her  researches  and 
discoveries  all  her  life,  and  even  now  at 
an  age  when  most  people  are  glad  to 
call  a  halt  in  their  activities,  she  is  still 
eager  and  alert.  Her  latest  invention  is 
for  the  household,  and  is  an  apparatus 
for  the  purifying  of  water.  The  method 
is  absolutely  simple,  and  to  use  her  own 
words,  "Any  one  who  has  an  electric 
wire  in  his  house  can  own  an  apparatus 
for  the  perfect  purifying  of  water." 

Mrs.  Van  Pelt  has  constructed  a  ma- 
chine which  consists  of  a  receiving- 
chamber,  holding,  when  used  for  domes- 
tic purposes,  about  three  gallons  of 
water.  This  contains  a  double  cylinder 
of  aluminum,  pierced  with  many  holes. 
As  the  water  surrounds  and  submerges 
this  cylinder,  which  is  in  reality  two 
electrodes,  the  current  is  turned  on,  and, 
in  passing  from  one  electrode  to  an- 
other, comes  in  contact  with  the  water. 

Some  of  the  water  is  decomposed  at 
once  into  oxygen  and  hydrogen.  The 
oxygen  thus  set  free  in  a  gaseous  state, 
percolates  through  the  organic  impuri- 


ties for  which  it  has  a  natural  affinity, 
and  instantly  kills  and  precipitates  them. 
In  the  same  way  the  oxygen  attacks  and 
liberates  a  certain  per  cent  of  the  min- 
eral or  organic  matter,  and  causes  it 
also  to  be  precipitated.  This  precipitate 
is  then  drawn  off,  and  the  resultant 
chemically-pure  water  is  ready  for  use. 

Mrs.  Van  Pelt  does  not  claim  credit 
L  r  the  general  scheme  of  purifying* 
water  by  electricity,  as  the  English 
chemist,  Priestly,  discovered  in  1880, 
that  water  could  be  purified  by  electric- 
ity. But  she  has  treated  the  water  so 
simply  and  effectually  that  the  method 
has  been  rendered  practicable  for  the 
householder,  while  at  the  same  time  it 
lessens  the  cost  of  operation.  In  addi- 
tion to  this,  she  has  invented  a  combi- 
nation lock  for  mail  boxes,  w'hich  has 
been  accepted  by  the  Government,  has 
improved  the  mail  box  itself,  and 
labored  for  some  time  to  eliminate  the 
"dead  centre"  from  a  steam  engine  and 
to  conserve  the  power  lost  in  the  fly 
wheel.  She  labored  to  such  good  effect 
that  had  she  completed  her  efforts  be- 
fore multiple  cylinder  engines  became 
known,  she  would  have  been  a  rich 
woman  today. 

She  is  still  working  and  expects  to 
continue  for  many  years.  "What's  the 
good  of  living,  if  you  don't  accomplish 
something?"  she  asks,  with  a  merry 
twinkle  in  her  eye.  "That's  what  weVe 
here  for,  isn't  it — to  help  each  other 
and  to  make  the  world  a  little  easier  to 
live  in?" 

Mrs.  Van  Pelt's  father  was  a  banker 
in  the   Blue  Gras^  Statle,  and   it   was 


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owing  to  her  daring  and  originality, 
that  he  was  able  to  continue  his  busi- 
ness. Money  had  been  hidden  away  in 
every  available  spot,  holding  out  only 
such  as  was  needed  for  immediate  use. 
Hearing  that  the  guerillas  were  swoop- 
ing down  upon  them,  she  took  a  tray 
containing  soup  and  delicacies  for  an 
invalid  and  started  for  the  bank  with 
all  haste.  Watching  the  road,  she  quick- 
ly concealed  all  moneys  in  the  ample 
folds  of  her  hoop  skirts,  and  slipping 


in  Libby  prison,  she  braved  her  friends 
and  married  a  Captain  in  the  Northern 
army,  but  losing  him  soon  afterwards 
turned  her  face  toward  California  and 
settled  in  Oakland'.  At  the  time  of  the 
Spanish- American  War,  she  entered. the 
Red-Cross  work  with  heart  and  soul 
and  did  so  much  for  the  Volunteer  Ten- 
nessee Regiment  that  she  was  known  as 
"The  Mother  of  the  Regiment."  On  the 
eve  of  their  departure  for  Manila,  she 
was  formally  presented  with  a  flaming 


MRS.  ADA  VAN   PELT,  SCIENTIST. 


out  the  back  door,  started  in  another 
direction  with  her  tray. 

"With  my  heart  thumping  and  the 
money  swinging  and  striking  against 
me  with  every  step,  I  went  boldly 
towards  a  few  outriders  and  summon- 
ing all  my  courage  raised  my  head  with 
a  cheerful  smile  and  a  hearty  good- 
morning  and  marched  steadily  past 
them.  One  of  the  men  laughed  and 
swore,  but  at  the  same  time  he  said  to 
his  companions,  *Let  the  girl  alone,  she 
has  plenty  of  nerve',  and  I  carried  the 
money  to  my  father's  house  unmo- 
lested." 

With  her   father   and  brothers   later 


ruby  cross,  which  she  has  worn  con- 
stantly ever  since,  and  which  has  caused 
more  than  one  person  to  inquire  as  to 
its  meaning. 

Further  than  this,  Mrs.  Van  Pelt  has 
written  several  plays  and  numerous 
short  stories,  and  as  she  is  an  active 
believer  in  the  science  of  living,  seldom 
knows  other  than  a  perfect  day  to  mar 
her  pleasure  and  her  work.  And  in  ad- 
dition to  her  employment  in  the  way  of 
inventions,  Mrs.  Van  Pelt  has  not  been 
idle  socially,  for  she  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution, 
and  is  at  present  a  member  of  all  the 
leading  clubs  of  Los  Angeles. 


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A  Criminal — or  A  Saint? 


]y|ISER  VAN  BRUSH  lived  at  the 
top  of  a  knoll,  and  the  village 
was  in  the  valley  down  mildly  beneath 
him.  The  American  Knife  Manufactur- 
ing G>mpany  had  its  factory  on  another 
hill,  at  the  opposite  side  of  the  village. 
Each' — Miser  Van  Bru-sih  and  the  Knife 
Company — .halted  the  other. 

Not  with  the!  same  degree  of  venom, 
'however:  a  man  can  hate  muc5h  more 
intensely  than  can  a  collection  of  men 
— especially  if  they  are  stockholders 
and  directors.  If  Miser  Van  Brush  had 
dared,  he  would  have  set  the  whole 
knife-making  establishment  afire,  again 
and  again,  as  fast  as  it  could  be  put 
out:  if  the  knife-making  establishment 
had  been  able,  they  would  have  closed 
their  antagonist's  doors  by  litigation 
and  business  rivalry. 

But  Miser  Van  BrusHi  (nicknamed  so 
'by  a  geneAl  concensus  of  public  opin- 
ion) had  finanoml  genius  and  the  big- 
gest store  in  town ;  and  was  all  the  time, 
day  and  night,  coining  money  by  the 
armful.  The  store  that  the  Knife  Com- 
pany conducted  with  which  to  furnish 
their  customers  with  the  necessaries  of 
life,  and  perhaps  fleece  them  a  little 
meanwhile,  could  not  compete  with  Van 
Brush ;  Ihe  cut  all  around  them  in  prices, 
and  could  undersell  them  at  every  tuni 
— always  making  a  fair  and  sometimes 
an  unfair  profit  for  himself. 

Anybody  could  obtain  credit  at  his 
store,  who  had  property  that  he  could 
offer  for  security — whether  it  was  a  pig, 
a  horse,  or  a  hundred  acres  of  land.  It 
came  to  pass  that  he  had  mortgages  on 
half  the  farms  in  the  county.  "Just  to 
balance  up  01  ir  books,  you  know*',  he 
would  say :  "You  can  take  the  little  en- 
cumbrance off,  at  any  time."     And   it 


looked  easy — -but  the  little  encumbrance 
was  seldom  taken  off. 

VVttien  Miser  Van  Brush  finally  died 
— some  said  a  horrible  death,  with  the 
ghostg  of  dead  debtors  buzzing  around 
him — his  will  was  of  course  opened 
with  a  good  deal  of  anxious  curiosity. 
There  had  been  the  usual  big  amount 
of  talk  about  it,  in  and  around  thf 
store,  and,  in  fact,  all  over  town. 

The  dead  merchant's  chief  clerk, 
Howard  S.  Golden,  was  interrogated 
again  and  again,  but  he  only  smiled  and 
said,  "You  will  find  that  *Miser*  was  an 
entirely  different  man  from  what  you 
thought/' 

Golden  himself  was  to  the  student  of 
human  nature,  a  very  interesting  char- 
acter: being  apparently  an  entire  con- 
trast to  his  employer.  He  was  believed 
to  be  of  a  generous  disposition,  and  he 
often  appeared'  to  go  far'  to  oblige  any 
one,  if  ihe  possibly  could.  "My  em- 
ployer holds  me  back,**  be  used  to  say, 
"and  pusJies  me  forward.  I  have  to  do 
as  he  says,  or  lose  my  position.  But  I 
make  everything  just  as  easy  for  the 
customers  as  I  dare." 

A  great  many  people,  of  course, 
doubted  his  sincerity,  and  thought  he 
was  a  blind,  to  cover  the  grasping 
methods  of  his  employer.  Others  con- 
sidered him  what  he  seemed.  Still 
others  thought  lie  vacillated  from  one 
phase  of  feeling  to  another.  But  yet 
the  fact  remained,  tbatl  he  had  steadily 
added,  year  after  year,  to  Miser  Van 
Brush's  possessions — and  at  the  expense 
of  the  people  for  miles  around.  "Miser 
Van  Brush  is  both  the  Merchant  and 
the  Shylock!"  those  versed  in  Shake- 
speare said. 

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was  opened  and  read — ^tliere  came  a  sur- 
prise that  was  down  in  the  books  of  no 
one's  mind  whatever — excepting  Gold- 
en's.  Then  it  was  that  bar-room  loafers 
were  at  first  driven  to  shame,  and  enun- 
ciated nothing*  in  particular  excepting 
words  of  surprise;  and  then  some  of 
them  rallied,  and  asserted  that  they 
knew  all  the  time  how  it  would  turn  out 
at  last.  "Of  course  that  old  bachelor 
wasn't  savin*  his  money  fur  nothin'," 
they  said,  "or  jest  fur  the  fun  of  hearin' 
it  clink  or  rustle  together,  nor  'fur  any 
of  hh  relations — fur  they're  an  ugly  lot, 
the  Lord  knows.  He  was  a-savin'  it 
fur  somethin'  good."  Some  said  it  was 
conscience-money;  some  that  it  was  to 
get  praised  after  death,  as  he  never 
could  during  life;  and  some  that  he  had 
gone  crazy  just  before  making  the  will. 

Truly,  it  was  an  extraordinary  docu- 
ment, and  one  never  -by  any  means  ex- 
pected from  Miser  Van  Brush.  First, 
there  was  left  a  large  amount  of  money 
to  the  Knife  Company's  Hospital,  which 
they  had  supported  rather  meagerly,  es- 
pecially as  most  of  the  patients  suffered 
from  wounds  received  in  their  estab- 
lishment. This  was  really  heaping  coals 
of  fire  upon  the  Company's  head:  but 
corporations  'have  very  little  sentiment 
combined  with  their  lack  of  souls,  and 
this  one  laughed,  and  accepted  the 
money  cheerfully. 

Second,  and  the  strangest  thing  about 
Miser  Van  Brush's  will,  it  directed  that 
every  man  who  owed  him  should  be  re- 
leased from  the  debt,  and  every  mort- 
gage canceUed. 

Third,  people  all  over  the  county 
were  benefited,  in  various  sums.  It  was 
wonderful  how  many  cases  of  poverty 
were  relieved.  The  old  man's  estate 
was  about  ten  times  as  large  as  was 
generally  supposed,  and  this  money  re- 
lieved an  immense  amount  of  destitu- 
tion. It  became  quite  the  thing  to  bless 
Miser  Van  Brush,  and  there  was  talk 
of  building  him  a  nice  large  mooiumient, 
right  on  the  billtop  where  his  lonely 
house  still  stood. 

Of  course  numerous  relatives  sprung 
up  as  if  by  magic,  all  over  the  country, 
and  threatened  to  break  the  will.     But 


the  more  they  and  their  lawyers  looked 
the  matter  over,  the  more  they  saw  that 
tbere  was  really  no  use  of  trying:  so 
many  people  were  interested  in  having 
that  will  hold,  and  so  much  good  was 
to  be  done  by  it,  that  there  was  no  use 
of  fighting  it :  public  sentiment  was  too 
strong,  and  too  much  financially  inter- 
ested. Even  the  knife-factory  people 
would  have  helped  fight  for  Miser  Van 
Brush's  will. 

Golden,  the  former  clerk  and  business 
manager,  did  not  receive  so  very  large 
a  sum,  but  he  seemed  not  to  care,  al- 
though some  thought  the  amount 
should  have  been  more.  He  himself 
was  a  bachelor,  and  had  enough,  he 
said,  to  keep  him  in  comfort  the  rest 
of  his  life. 

For  three  or  four  years,  however,  he 
was  very  ill,  and  was  generously  given 
one  of  the  very  best  rooms  in  the  Knife- 
maker's  Hospital,  which  had  been  en- 
larged into  a  fine  institution,  with  part 
of  the  money  left  for  the  purpose.  Here 
he  was  given  a  fine  room,  at  regular 
rates,  and  waited  upon  about  as  well  as 
if  in  his  own  home — if  indeed  he  had 
had  any. 

One  of  the  nurses,  indeed,  seemed 
perfectly  devoted  to  him.  She  was  a 
handsome  woman,  and  could  have  mar- 
ried almost  any  one,  people  said:  but 
she  had  fallen  in  love  w^ith  Golden  when 
she  was  a  young  girl,  as  she  saw  his 
bright  face  and  pleasant  ways  in  the 
store,  and  had  made  up  her  mind  never 
to  marry  any  on^  else.  He,  meanwhile, 
harf  made  up  his  mind  never  to  marry 
any  one,  and  she  was  too  proud  to  do 
the  proposing  herself. 

Aside  from  her  beauty,  which  was 
really  wonderful,  her  distinguishing 
feature  was  her  conscientiousness. 
Those  who  knew  her  well,  averred  that 
she  had  rather  die  than  speak  or  act 
a  falsehood. 

One  evening.  Golden  bad  suffered 
much  pain  as  night  came  on,  and  was 
more  than  usually  restless.  Something 
seemed  to  be  upon  his  mind  that  he 
wished  to  throw  off.  She  was  sitting 
by  his  bedside,  trying  to  make  him  com- 
fortable by  every  means  in  her  power. 

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"I  have  wanted  to  tell  you  something'' 
— he  faltered,  "I  have  wanted  to  do  so 
for  a  long  while.  You  must  know  it, 
before  I  grow  any  weaker — so  weak  I 
cannot  command  the  strength  to  tell  it 
to  you.  And  you  must  promise  me, 
first,  never  to  impart  it  to  a  soul  in  this 
world.  You  must  swear  to  God  that 
you  will  not." 

She  promised,  but  shuddered  as  she 
did  90.  What  was  this  terrible  mystery 
— so  much  more  terrible,  because  it  was 
so  soon  to  be  divulged? 

"You  know — the  will — the  beneficent 
will— that  Miser  Van   Brush   'made'?" 

"Yes — ^yes — ^yes — and  what  a  noble 
one !  I  have  alwayai  believed  that  you, 
in  your  goodness  of  heart,  influenced 
him  to  do  so." 

"Nobody  influenced  him  to  do  so. 
He  never  could  have  been  influenced  to 
make  such  a  will.  He  was  too  much  of 
a  miser  to  give  his  money  away  even 
after  death.  Whenever  I  suggested  that 
he  make  a  will,  he  was  angry,  and  drove 
me  out  of  his  presence." 

"But  how,  then  ?"— 

"I  will  tell  you  how.  I  will  tell  you 
what  happened: 

"I  FORGED  THE  WHOLE  WILL, 
MiYSELF." 

"But  how — could  it — be  done?" — 

"Easily — easily — easily!  Only  it  took 
time  and  patience — and  of  patience  I 
had  plenty:  one  learned  it — toiling 
every  day  for  him.  I  could  imitate  his 
handwriting,  as  well  as  I  could  my  own. 
No  one  ever  doubted  for  a  moment  that 
he  wrote  it — and  the  whole  of  it.  A 
fine — ^fine  job!  The  only  time  I  ever 
forged  a  single  sentence,  name,  or  word 
' — ^but  at  the  same  time  it  was  no  ama- 
teur job!" 

The  woman  looked  at  him  with  ♦■error. 
This  man  she  loved  was  a  criminal — as 
judged  by  the  law  she  had  always 
obeyed  and  revered — by  the  Bible  that 
rested  imder  her  pillow  every  night — 
one  who  would  have  beer  called  so  by 
her  father — ^by  her  mother — ^^'liose 
souls  had  gone  on  ahead,  and,  she 
hoped,  awaited  her  in  better  and  purer 
worlds. 


And  while  she  was  thinking  the.^e 
thoughts,  the  man  lay  back,  with  a  look 
of  rest  and  comfort  upon  his  face — 
and  died. 

And  she  sat  all  night  looking  at  the 
dead  face,  and  wondering  ;f  she  had 
for  years  been  loving  a  criminal— or  a 
saint 


How  He  Oaught  It. 

l^DEAUTIFUL  scenery  here,  is  it 
not?"  asked  the  young  man  of  a 
solitary  traveller  whom  he  found  pacing 
along  the  seashore. 

"Well,  no,"  replied  the  stranger.  "I 
can't  agree  with  you.  I  think  the  ocean 
is  too  small.  It  is  no  such  ocean  as 
my  mother  used  to  own." 

"Your  mother's  ocean  was  superior, 
then?" 

"Oh,  yes,  vastly  superior.  What  tum- 
bling breakers!  What  a  magnificent 
sweep  of  view!  What  amplitude  of 
distance !  What  fishing  there  was  in  my 
mother's  ocean !" 

"But  the  sky  is  magnificent  here,  is 
it  not,  sir?" 

"Too  low  and  too  narrow  across  the 
top,"  replied  the  stranger* 

"I  haven't  noticed  it,"  said  the  young 
man. 

"Yes,"  said  the  stranger;  "it  is  too 
low,  and  there  isn't  air  enough  in  it, 
either.  Besides,  it  doesn't  sit  plump 
over  the  earth;  it  is  wider  from  north 
to  south  than  it  is  from  west  to  east.  I 
call  it  a  pretty  poor  sky.  It  is  no  such 
sky  as  my  mother  used  to  have." 

"Pardon  me,  but  did  your  mother 
have  a  special  sky  and  ocean  of  her 
own?" 

But  here  an  old  resident  came  up  and 
drew  the  young  man  aside. 

"Don't  talk  to  him,"  said  the  old  resi- 
dent. "He  is  a  hopeless  lunatic.  He  is 
a  man  who  always  used  to  tell  his  wife 
about  'the  biscuits  my  mother  used  to 
make,'  'my  mother's  pies/  'my  mother's 
puddings,'  and  'my  mother's  coffee.' 
The  habit  grew  on  him  so  much  thzJt  he 
became  a  confirmed  though  gentle 
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By  G.  Leo  Patterson. 


J  N  the  San  Juan  Mountains,  there  is  *a 
lonely  lake  bounded  by  precipitous 
cliffs  but  having  in  its  center  an  island. 
In  the  island,  there  is  an  opening,  and 
outj  of  this  protrudes  a  strange,  bluish, 
lava  formation,  resembling  a  ladder. 
From  lofty  peaks  far  away  will  the 
Navajo  behold  but  never  approach  this 
enchanted  region,  for  this  opening  in  the 
island  of  the  mountain  lake  is  none 
other  than  the  hole  through  which  the 
race  entered  into  this  fifth  or  present 
world. 

Deeply  impressed  by  the  mythology 
of  this  strange  people,  I  inquired  into 
their  folklore,  and  found  it  to  exist  in 
great  abundance,  especially  in  the  minds 
of  the  elder  men.  One  set  of  stories 
reminds  me  much  of  the  Jack-the-Giant- 
Killer  tales  of  our  nursery  days.  A  cer- 
tain great  ogre  lived  on  the  side  of  San 
Mateo  or  Mount  Taylor.  At  his  feet 
was  an  Indian  trail,  and  beyond  it  a 
precipice.  The  trick  of  this  troll  was  to 
await  the  approach  of  an  unsuspecting 
Indian,  then,  if  he  chose,  hurl  him  over 
the  cliflF  below  as  the  result  of  one 
mighty  kick.  Many  attempts  had  been 
made  to  dislodge  this  monster,  but  to  no 
avail,  because  he  was  fastened  to  the 
precipitous  side  of  the  mountain  by  his 
hair  which,  as  the  old  red  man  explained, 
"grew  into  the  roots  of  a  cedar  tree." 
Finally  the  Siegfried  of  the  story  sev- 
ered this  strong  growth  of  hair  and  slew 
the  giant,  the  blood  of  whom  flowed 
down  the  valley  and  solidified  into  the 
long  lava  bed  now  found  near  the  lonely 
hamlet  of  Mesitta  Pueblo  of  western 
New  Mexico. 


Powwows  were  occasionally  held  by 
the  Navajos,  as  in  the  days  of  old,  but 
as  a  rule  at  a  great  distance  from  the 
white  man's  gaze.  Once  I  had  seen  a 
bonfire  southeast  of  the  Twin  Buttes, 
but  the  Indians  were  even  then  many 
miles  away. 

Learning  of  a  great  dance  soon  to  be 
held,  I  determined  to  be  an  Indian,  if 
necessary,  in  order  to  witness  this  fes- 
tivity. Six  or  seven  miles  east  of  the 
Arizona  line,  there  lay  the  little  village 
of  Mannelito,  bearing  the  name  of  that 
famous  old  chief  whq  knew  how  dried 
scalps  really  looked.  Here  I  found  two 
houses,  besides  an  Indian  trading  store. 
At  one  of  these  I  procured  supper,  and, 
to  my  surprise,  found  the  place  alive 
with  daughters.  The  head  of  the  family 
was  a  man  of  sixty  who,  years  before, 
had  taken  up  his  abode  in  the  south- 
west on  account  of  poor  health.  Having 
little  else  to  do,  the  couple  brought  up 
a  most  remarkable  family:  daughters 
in  the  parlor,  daughters  in  the  kitchen, 
daughters  in  the  pantry,  of  course, 
daughters  everywhere.  In  terror,  I 
rushed  for  the  open  door  and  into  the 
flower-garden,  which  was  irrigated  from 
a  spring  above;  but  even  there  I  col- 
lided with  another  daughter  who  was 
just  bringing  in  a  pan  of  string  beans. 
I  think  she  was  number  twentyseven, 
but  am  not  certain. 

That  night,  I  journeyed  some  ten 
miles  over  the  rock  hills,  and  finally 
reached  the  western  edge  of  the  Blue 
Valley,  where  I  saw  a  great  blaze  in  the 
vicinity  of  May's  bite.  A  dismal  mur- 
mur greeted  my  cars  and  I  knew  the 


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chanting  had  begun.  It  was  indeed  an 
impressive  sight,  there  in  this  wild  and 
pathless  region,  with  great  hills,  rocky 
and  fantastic  in  outline,  standing  silent 
and  grand  against  the  calm  nocturnal 
sky.  There  was  no  moon,  but  the  stars 
shone  brightly,  while  at  intervals,  the 
camp-fires  of  Indians  of  the  vicinity 
who  were  not  in  attendance,  could  be 
distinguished  miles  away  among  the 
rocks.  With  some  timidity  I  ap- 
proached, but  luckily  met  a  young 
Navajo  whom  I  knew  and  who  could 
speak  English.  Expressing  some  sur- 
prise at  my  visit,  he  very  kindly  ex- 
plained to  the  older  men  and  the  leaders 
in  charge  that  I  was  an  exceptional 
white  man,  one  who  would  not  ridicule 
the  native  festivities  of  his  people,  and 
to  my  own  surprise  gained  for  me  a 
cordial  invitation  to  be  their  guest,  pro- 
viding, however,  "that  the  white  man 
would  dance  too."  "Then  he  can  not 
make  fun  when  he  goes  home",  said 
some  of  the  skeptical. 

"We  sing  now  what  happened  long 
time  before  any  white  men  here",  said 
my  young  Indian  friend,  and  the  chant- 
ing continued.  First,  a  leader  would  line 
off  a  verse  of  their  national  epic;  then 
the  seven  hundred  natives  would  join  in 
the  chorus.  This  continued  hour  in  and 
hour  out  until  midnight,  when  a  differ- 
ent event  was  on  the  program.  "This 
just  like  big  white  man's  picnic,"  re- 
marked the  young  Navajo,  as  he  passed 
by.    "Three  days.    Injuns  sleep  days." 

Presently,  the  squaw  dance  began, 
this  being  merely  a  society  event  at 
which  all  of  the  young  women  who  were 
about  to  be  placed  in  the  matrimonial 
market  madte  their  debut.  Soon  the 
orchestra  appeared,  two  Indians  with 
tomtoms,  or  drums,  made  from  a  hollow 
piece  of  round  wood  having  a  rawhide 
head  at  one  end,  together  with  two  other 
men  who  were  to  sing.  By  resting  and 
serving  in  relays,  the  music  was  per- 
mitted to  continue  without  cessation  for 
several  hours,  thus  rivaling  the  longest 
of  the  Beethoven  s)miphonies.  In  a 
small  ring  of  brush,  I  found  that  refresh- 
ments were  being  served,  for  this  simple 


barricade  of  cedar  boughs  had  been 
thrown  around  a  spring  of  living 
water,  and  by  it  lay  a  dozen  or  more 
gourds,  free  to  all.  O,  if  only  civilized 
man  could  keep  down  his  wants! 
Blessed  be  nothing !  How  many  a  costly 
social  function  of  New  York  brings  to 
its  guests  real  pleasure  far  less  keen  than 
did  this  simple  festival  of  a  primitive 
people!  Yes,  and  such  were  they! 
Pure  water  served  in  gourds,  but  enter- 
ing throats  unaccustomed  to  anything 
stronger;  bodies  filled  with  a  natural 
spirit  of  vivacity  not  to  be  found  among 
the  nerve-weary  throng  of  our  large 
cities  who  strive  each  day  to  find  some- 
thing new,  or  vie  with  one  another  in 
the  race  to  outdo.  Beside  the  spring, 
there  sputtered  a  blaze  of  pinyon  knots 
to  give  light,  and  there  was  no  danger 
of  the  power  'being  shut  oflF,  for  on  the 
slope  near  by  were  more  pitch-laden 
trunks,  all  free  for  the  taking.  Every- 
body was  happy,  nobody  felt  ill  or  out 
of  sorts,  for  they  were  just  Indians 
enjoying  themselves  as  their  ancestors 
were  accustomed  to  do  when  the  world 
was  flat  and  Christopher  Columbus  be- 
longed to  a  coming  generation. 

As  said  before,  the  midnight  dance 
was  a  social  event.  Clump,  clump, 
clump  went  the  tomtoms,  while  a  strange 
melody  in  four-four  time  was  sung.  A 
great  circle  of  Indians  seated  on  their 
ponies  or  standing  between  them,  was 
brightly  illuminated  by  a  large  bonfire 
of  pinyon  logs  which  sputtered  away  at 
a  great  rate  and  added  to  the  music. 
Presently  the  first  debutant  appeared, 
bearing  a  tall  wand  of  wood  ornamented 
at  the  top  by  two  eagle  feathers  and 
mountain  grass,  while  a  pair  of  rawhide 
strips  hung  from  the  bottom — ^all  hav- 
ing some  mythological  significance. 
Looking  about,  she  plunged  into  the 
crowd,  seized  some  young  Indian  and 
dragged  him  into  the  center  of  the  cir- 
cle to  dance  with  her.  The  position 
assumed  was  that  of  facing  in  opposite 
directions,  with  the  right  and  the  left 
hand  of  each  partner  clasped  high  above 
their  heads,  then  dancing  around  and 
around   mudh  as   whit^   people   do   in 


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waltzing.  After  some  minutes,  he  would 
pay  her  to  let  him  go,  that  being  the 
fixed  custom.  In  this  way,  the  Indian 
maidens  entered  society,  and  weddings 
were  soon  planned,  the  mother,  not  the 
father,  receiving  the  price  paid  for  the 
hand  of  her  daughter.  One  young  man 
who  had  a  rather  attractive  wife,  ex- 
plained that  it  cost  him  ten  horses  to 
get  her. 

When  the  lonelier  hours  of  night  ap- 
proached, the  drums  were  beaten  more 
slowly  and  the  red  men  indulged  in  a 
good  old-fashioned  war  dance,  sacred  to 
the  memory  of  the  long  ago  when  they 
used  to  scalp  the  Pueblos  and  Apaches 
without  fear  of  interference  by  a  white- 
man  government.  The  Indian  custom, 
as  all  know,  was  not  to  lie  down  and 
rest  the  night  before  battle,  but,  on  the 
contrary,  to  have  a  great  powwow  in 
order  to  stir  their  blood  for  th^  fray. 
Dismal  and  diabolical  was  this  war 
dance,  and  well  calculated  to  awaken 
every  spark  of  savagery  in  the  bosom  of 
man.  Certain  chants  consisted  in  pray- 
ers to  the  Navajo  Mars,  while  others 
were  epics  reciting  the  great  deeds  of 
their  ancestors. 

One  very  interesting  feature  of  this 
great  gathering  lay  in  the  fact  that  all 
were  attired  in  good  old  Indian  fash- 
ion,— were  geography  Indians — ^such  as 
we  admired  in  boyhood  days,  and  wore 
only  the  traditional  buckskin  clothing 
and  deer-hide  moccasins,  and  were  gayly 
bedecked  with  their  massive  belts  of  sil- 
ver disks,  while  the  women  wore  native 
silver-bead  necklaces,  three  or  four  at 
a  time.  It  was  not  only  a  social  event, 
but  full  dress  in  every  respect,  the 
women  being  more  fully  clad  than  are 
many  white  ladies  on  great  occasions. 
Furthermore,  this  was  no  local  gather- 
ing, for  the  Indians  had  assembled  from 
fifty  miles  in  all  directions.  In  this  way, 
from  time  to  time,  are  the  tribal  songs 
and  myths  of  the  Navajo  perpetuated 
and  kept  alive,  as  well  as  a  spirit  of 
national  patriotism. 

At  sunrise,  all  breakfasted,  then  lay 
down  for  rest,  while  I  returned  to  Jack's 
Gulch,  carrying  behind  me  another  In- 


dian whose  pony  had  deserted  him  dur- 
ing the  night. 

How  well  does  the  Navajo  mythology 
illustrate  certain  truths  which  are  found 
in  the  traditions  of  civilized  man.  First 
of  all,  the  original  unity  of  the  human 
race  is  assumed.  In  the  second  place, 
a  moral  lesson  is  drawn  from  the  flood 
story,  and  the  inevitable  misery  arising 
fom  sin  is  seen  in  the  difficulties  arising 
from  the  coyote's  stealing  the  sea  mon- 
ster's cubs.  Third,  a  careful  reader  will 
notice  that  the  race  came  directly 
through  Heaven  but  did  not  realize  it 
until  afterwards!  What  a  common  ex- 
perience! the  boy  or  g^rl  at  home,  the 
man  with  wife  and  children  about  him, 
how  many  do  not  know  that  they  are 
passing  through  a  heaven  on  earth  until 
years  later  when  they  see  what  once  was 
theirs!  "Let  us  count  our  many  bless- 
ings" day  by  day  and  realize  how  truly 
happy  we  are. 


Army  Oanteen  Denounced  by 
Gen.  Miles. 

TN  a  recent  New  York  speech,  the 
famous  Indian-fighter,  General  Miles, 
took  strong  ground  against  the  much- 
discusse4  "army-canteen",  and  professed 
himself  strongly  against  any  move  that 
would  reinstate  the  sale  of  liquor  at 
army  posts. 

"They  say  that  desertions  from  the 
army  have  decreased,  since  the  abolish- 
ment of  the  canteen",  said  General 
Miles,  "but  this  is  not  true,  and  is  said 
largely  in  the  interests  of  those  who 
wish  to  encourage  the  liquor  traffic. 

"In  the  last  forty  years,  the  desertion- 
record's  show  the  highest  percentage  in 
any  one  year,  to  have  been  thirty:  but 
in  191 1,  it  was  less  than  three." 

General  Miles  is  now  seventytwo 
years  old.  He  entered  the  army  as  a 
volunteer  at  the  beginning  of  the  great 
Civil  war,  and  since  then,  step  by  step, 
has  won  his  way  "to  the  top."  When  he 
retired  from  the  army,  in  1903,  he  had 
reached  the  very  summit  of  military 
honor  and  fame,  and  is  considered  one 
of  the  foremost  citizens  of  this  country. 

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JT  was  a  cold,  rainy  night,  in  the  little 
half-village,  half  city,  of  Galena. 
After  transacting  what  little  business 
they  could,  during  the  day,  people  were 
getting  home  as  soon  as  convenient,  and 
looking  forward  to  the  shelter  of  their 
houses  and  the  obeerr  of  an  evening 
meal,  "smoking  hot" — iwhidi  most  of 
them  knew  was  waiting  for  them. 
Stormy  days  and  nights  are  no  doubt 
created  partly  to  make  people  appreciate 
their  homes. 

Most,  if  not  entirely  all,  of  these  even- 
ing home-comers  were  on  foot :  Galena 
was  not  a  good  place  for  vehicles. 
Many  of  the  houses  were  on  terraces, 
and  high  ones  at  that.  It  was  partly  a 
cliff-town.  Many  of  the  staircases 
were  out-of-doors,  and  leading  from 
one  street  to  another. 

A  citizen  of  the  place — not  a  promi- 
nent one,  but  just  a  good  ordinary  sort 
of  mercantile  man,  and  in  a  subordinate 
position,  w^as  climbing  one  of  these  wel 
staircases — hanging  on  to  his  umbrella, 
meanwhile,  to  keep  it  from .  careening 
o\'er  and  turning  a  series  of  somersaults 
into  some  of  the  streets  below.  It  was 
not  an  inspiriting  task,  but  he  managed 
it  with  a  grim  sort  of  determination, 
laughing  to  himself  at  the  time.  He 
withstood  all  the  attacks  of  the  ele- 
ments, with  a  stoical  kind  of  heroism, 
that  finds  its  opportunity  in  some  of  the 
most  humdrum  scenes  of  life.  All  the 
grandeur  of  human  nature  is  not  dis- 
played at  what  we  call  supreme 
moments. 

However,  as  he  mounted  the  plateau 
upon  which  was  the  street  that  con- 
tained his  house,  a  supreme  moment 
happened  to  his  umbrella:  it  joined 
forces  with  the  driving  rain,  and  went 


clean  wrong  side  out.  Seeing  that  it 
would  be  of  no  use  to  him  again  that 
night,  he  quietly  tossed  it  over  a  fence 
into  a  vacant  yard.  "I  can  get  it  in 
the  morning,  on  my  way  back,  and  have 
it  straightened  up,"  he  muttered  to 
himself.  "No  need  of  taking  it  into  tho 
house,  and  making  them  uncomfortable 
there."    And  he  plodded  his  way  along. 

But  his  home  was  cheery  enough  to 
make  it  all  up:  a  pleasant,  womanly 
wife  and  a  small  but  lively  group  of 
children  were  waiting  him,  and  they  all 
sat  down  to  supper. 

The  man  was  nothing  but  an  ac- 
countant in  another  man's  store,  and 
at  times  a  travelling  sales-agent:  but 
after  having  thrown  off  his  wet  cloth- 
ing and  put  on  a  dry  dressing-gown 
and  slippers,  he  felt  like- a  millionaire— 
Ibetter  than  a  good  many  of  them  do. 

"Well,  what  kind  of  a  day  did  you 
have  at  school,  Fred  ?"  he  asked  of  the 
oldest  boy,  a  ten-year-old,  who  was 
slowly  but  industriously  changfing  the 
location  of  a  potato  from  the  surface 
of  a  plate  to  the  interior  of  his  system. 

"About  so-so.  Father,"  replied  the 
boy.  "I  recited  pretty  well,  though  not 
Kke  some  of  the  others.  You  know  it's 
always  hard  work  for  me  to  learn 
lessons." 

"And  you  know  your  father  had  the 
same  disease",  laughed  the  goodwife 
of  the  group.  "I  have  heard  that  he 
always  felt  most  comfortable,  some- 
where near  the  foot  of  the  class." 

"But  when  Pop  once  knew  a  tbin^. 
ril  bet  he  knew  it,  forever  and  forever", 
exclaimed  the  girl  of  the  group. 

The  man  said  nothing  just  then  in 
ans>\^r  to  this  little  byplay  of  words: 
merely  smiling.    A  little  later,  he  turned 


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to  the  boy  again,  with  "Keep  on,  my 
boy,  and  don't  worry.  At  any  rate,  you 
can  soon  get  to  be  a  smarter  man  than 
your  father." 

"Why,  how  can  he  be?"  said  the  girl, 
going"  around  behind  him,  and  smooth- 
ing" his  hair,  in  which  already  now  and 
then  appeared  a  gray  thread.  "There 
never  was  anybody  smarter  than  you 
are,  was  there,  now.  Papa?"  It  is  a 
great  blessing  to  a  poor  man,  with  chil- 
dren, that  he  has  generally  one  or  more 
among  them  that  consider  hdm  as  the 
divinest  sort  of  a  hero. 

The  shop-salesman  laughed  with  the 
others,  as  he  said,  "A  good  many  have 
managed  to  get  ahead  of  me.  I  don't 
think  I  amount  to  so  very  much.  If 
I  can  bring  you  children  up  into  good 
men  and  women,  that  will  be  some- 
thing." 

"But  some  of  my  school  mates  thinik 
we  don't  amount  to  anything,  either," 
said  the  boy.  "They  say  their  parents 
tell  them  to  keep  away  from  us,  because 
we're  not  dressed  so  well  as  they  are." 
The  father  laughed.  "Dress  does  not 
count,  in  the  long  run",  he  said.  "One 
of  the  best  of  the  Roman  generals,  and 
an  emperor  at  that,  used  to  sleep  with 
his  soldiers,  in  clothes  just  like  their 
OA^-n,  worn  and  draggled — with  nothing 
but  a  little  band  of  purple  upon  his 
arm,  to  denote  his  rank." 

"One  of  the  little  emperors  in  our 
school  got  a  bit  of  purple  on  his  nose, 
to-day,"  spoke  up  Fred.  "He  called 
me  a  number  of  fine  little  names,  and 
I  didn't  mind  that.  But  when  he  called 
you  an  old  leather-peddler,  I  let  him 
have  some  live  leather,  right  off  the 
shoulder,  and  he  laid  down  m  the  mud 
to  think  about  it  a  minute  or  two." 

The  rest  of  the  children  put  by 
their  knives  and  forks,  and  cheered,  and 
the  mother  had  apparently  hard  work 
not  to  do  so.  But  the  father  shook  his 
head. 

"Don't  ever  let  me  know  of  your 
fighting  again,  my  boy,  except  in  physi- 
cal defense,"  he  said.  "Fighting  with- 
out just  cause,  is  one  of  the  wickedest 
things  in  the  world.  The  first  fighter 
was  Cain,  and  he  ^ot  a  mark  that  never 


left  him,  either  before  or  after  death." 

"But  what's  a  fellow  to  do,  if  they 
keep  picking  on  him?" 

"Walk  away  from  tJijem,  and  go  about 
your  business,  and  do  the  best  you  can, 
and  try  to  excel  them.  Remember,  all 
the  time,  this  is  a  chance  for  you  to  do 
some  things  as  well  as  any  one  in  the 
world.  If  I  sell  leather,  and  I  do— and 
a  great  deal  of  it — it's  as  good  leather 
as  there  is  in  America." 

"But,  Papa,"  said  the  girl,  "you  once 
learned  to  fight.  You  went  to  school 
for  that." 

"I  did  not  want  to  go.  I  tried  hard 
not  to,  but  my  father  thought  it  was  a 
good  chance,  and  he  sent  me.  I  was 
glad  when  it  was  over." 

"But  they  took  a  good  deal  of  trouble, 
to  send  you  so  far  away  to  learn." 

"Yes,  my  father  was  ambitious  for 
me,  and  was  bound  that  I  should  go, 
and  I  had  to  do  what  he  told  me.  I 
was  glad  when  it  was  all  through." 

"But  you  went  afterwards,  and 
fought  in  Mexico." 

"Yes.  It  was  because  I  thought  it 
was  my  duty  to  defend  the  country, 
whether  it  was  right  or  wrong.  But  I 
did  not  believe  in  the  war,  and  was 
glad  when  it  was  over.  I  want  never 
to  be  in  another  one.  I  had  rather 
work  on  the  streets,  cleaning  them,  than 
be  in  another  war,  except,  df  necessary, 
in  my  country's  d'efense.  I  had  rather 
haul  cord-wood',  the  same  as  I  did  in 
Missouri. 

"We  gained  in  Mexico,  by  that  war, 
almost  as  much  land  as  we  already  pos- 
sessed," he  continued.  "But  it  is  not 
good  property,  and  will  some  day  cost 
us  much  more  than  it  is  worth." 

And  so  the  conversation  ran  on:  a 
quiet  little  meal,  at  a  pleasant  but  hum- 
ble little  table,  in  a  small  town,  with 
no  bustle,  no  excitement,  •  no  sound 
to  interfere  with  that  of  children's 
prattle  and  the  congenial  clash  of  plate 
and  cup,  excepting  the  subdued  rattling 
of  the  tempest  outside. 

No  family,  sitting  together  at  a 
cheerful  supper,  however  happy,  or  mis- 
erable, or  grand,  or  humble  they  may 
be,  can  tell  what  is  coming  to  them. 

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Th^e  are  things  on  tte  way  that,  did 
they  know  about  them,  might  dazzle 
them,  or  crush  them,  or  fill  them  with 
undue  exultation,  or  injurious  discon- 
tent. 

They  did  not  know  that  in  a  few 
months,  a  public  meeting  would  be 
called  in  the  little  town — attended  by  as 
many  as  could  get  into  the  hall,  and 
presided  over  by  the  quiet  man  who 
was  now  at  the  himible  little  family 
table — one  of  the  least  distinguished 
citizens,  up  to  that  time,  but  now  pushed 
to  the  front,  because  he  was  of  the  few 
people  there,  who  had  actually  seen  and 
participated  in  a  war. 

They  did  not  know  that  afiter  that 
meeting,  he  was  never  to  do  another 
day'is  work  in  the  little  store,  or  sell 
another  pound  of  leather. 

They  did  not  know  that,  a  few  short 
months  from  the^  time  he  left  home  to 
go  to  tbe  capital  of  the  state,  in  the 
humble  capacity  of  drilling  and  organ- 
izing regiments,  he  would  be  known  all 
over  the  country,  and  the  world,  would 
receive  a  public  compliment  from  the 
President,  and'  be  quoted  again  and 
again  as  the  real  hope  of  the  nation. 

They  did  not  know  that  he  would 
have  under  his  command:  hundreds  and 
bimdreds  of  thousands  of  men,  anxious 
to  follow  every  order  be  gave. 

Or  that  he  would  be  twice  elected 
President,  and  that  he  would  then  be 
entertained  by  potentates  all  the  way 
around  the  world.    The  matronly  woman 


across  from  him  did  not  suspect  for  a 
moment  that  she  would  soon  spring  all 
of  a  sudden  into  the  position  of  the 
most  distinguished  lady  of  the  little 
town;  that  her  friends  all  over  the 
land,  would  take  an  interest  in  luer, 
which  they  never  before  had  felt;  that 
she  would  within  a  very  few  years  be 
the  chief  lady  of  the  capital;  and  that 
sh<e  would  go  around  the  world  as  wife 
of  the  most  highly  distinguished  living 
warrior. 

The  boy  who  had  had  the  fight  that 
day  in  defense  of  the  respect  due  his 
fatiter,  could  not  have  believed*  that  he 
was  soon  to  be  shown  every  attention  a 
boy  could  have;  that  children  would  no 
longer  flout  him  because  of  poor 
clotfies;  that,  much  as  his  father  hated 
fighting,  he  would  soon  take  him  into 
the  battlefield,  and  ait  twelve  years  of 
age,  make  him  a  Captain  and  put  him 
on  his  staff ;  and  that  he  would  one  day 
himself  be  at  tbe  head  of  armies,  and 
when,  after  many  years  to  come,  he 
died,  have  a  military  funeral  such  as  not 
many  heroes  are  given,  even  in  these 
days  of  splendor  and  display. 

And  no  one  would  have  prophesied 
for  a  moment,  that  this  little  supper- 
table  would  in  a  few  years  be  trans- 
formed into  the  stately  'board  of  the 
White  House  dining-room,  with  dis- 
tinguished guests  from  all  over  the 
world. 

But  that  all  happened — ^to  the  Grant 
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A  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Monu- 
ment. 

Tp  HE  most  imposing  memorial  pile  in 
New  York  City,  excepting,  of 
course.  Grant's  Tomb,  is  the  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors'  Monument,  on  Riverside 
Drive,  some  distance  below  the  tomb  of 
the  great  general.  It  stands  on  the  rocky, 
shelvring  bank  of  the  Hudson,  and  rises 
a  hundred  and  seventyfive  feet  above 
the  river  level. 

The  monument  is  a  combination  of 
Greek  and  Roman  art  adapted  to  modern 
concKtions,  and  consists  of  a  circular 
temple-like   structure   standing   upon   a 


admrits  all  the  light  that  penetrates  to  the 
initerior. 

Entering,  one  stands  in  a  circular 
chamber,  twentyfive  feet  in  diameter 
and  fortyeight  feet  in  height,  with  a 
vaulted  ceiling.  Six  semicircular  niches 
increase  the  apparent  size  of  the  cham- 
ber, which  is  finished  in  whiibe  marble, 
all  of  the  simplest  treatment.  These 
niches  will  be  used  for  tihe  display  of 
flags  and  other  trophies  of  war  and 
peace. 

One  remarkable  thing  about  the  mon- 
ument is  the  fact  that  there  is  no  statue, 
or  anchor,  or  sabre,  or  cable — the  usual 
symbols  of  war  and  victory — anywhere 


platform  approached  on  the  north  and 
south  by  broad  flights  of  steps.  The 
platform  is  circular  in  general  form, 
with  projecting  angles,  and  surrounded 
by  a  massive  but  graceful  balustrade 
with  pedestals  at  the  comers. 

A  classic  entablature  su'pported  by 
twelve  Corinthian  columns  thirtyfive 
feet  hig?h  is  surmounted  by  a  rich  crest- 
ing of  which  the  American  eagle  is  thte 
motive,  the  whole  structure  being 
crowned  by  a  low  ornamental  marble 
roof.  The  only  entrance  to  the  interior 
of  ^  monument  is  a  single  doorway 
surmounted  by  an  eagle  with  out- 
stretched wings;  and  a  single  window 


about  the  structure.  From  any  view  that 
one  may  take,  the  chaste  temple  stands 
out  in  bold  relief,  ihe  only  reminder  of 
natfional  strife  being  the  simple  in9crii>- 
tion,  "To  the  Memory  of  the  Brave 
Soldiers  and  Sailors  Who  Saved  the 
Union",  on  the  band  encircling  the 
monument,  under  the  cresting  of  the 
sculptured  eagles. 

Work  began  on  the  monument  in 
1895,  and  it  was  dedicated  May  30,  1902. 
It  is  almost  wholly  constructfvi  of  Ver- 
mont white  marble,  some  of  the  base 
and  the  approaches  bedng  made  of 
granite  from  the  quarries  in  Connecticut 
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COMPARISON!  Comparison!  Com- 
parison!— What  a  powerful  help 
it  is  to  judgment!  Indeed,  what  would 
judgment  do  without  it?  How  could  it 
even  exist? 

Often  and  often  is  man  disenchanted, 
when  he  sees  a  really  good,  wholesome, 
refined  woman,  in  company  with  an- 
other woman  whom  he  thought  he 
toved.  Often  and  often  is  ^  woman 
turned  away  from  a  man  utterly  un- 
worthy of  her,  when  she  has  met  one 
who  has  the  real  qualities  that  she 
thought  the  other  possessed. 

An  instance  of  this  principle  in  human 
nature,  occurs  in  a  story  concerning  a 
young  college  boy,  who  was  attending 
one  of  the  universities.  The  President 
of  the  institution  wrote  the  boy's  father 
(who  seems  to  have  been  a  cool,  sensi- 
ble sort  of  a  man),  that  the  young  man 
was  n^lecting  his  studies,  and  hanging 
about  the  "Bijou  Theatre"  every  eve- 
ning. 

The  father  sent  another  son,  a  very 
young  man  just  married  to  a  refined, 
highly-cultured  gfirl,  who  evidently  pos- 
sessed a  good  brain  and  a  good  heart — 
an  excellent  team.  He  sent  the  young 
couple  to  tihe  CoHege,  to  investigatje. 
He  knew  that  the  erring  youth  was 
manly  at  heart,  and  if  he  was  infatu- 
ated with  any  woman  unworthy  of  him, 
he  merely  needed  an  opportunity  of 
comparison,  to  set  him  right. 

We  quote  the  conclusion  of  the  inci- 
dent, which  is  well  and  tersely  narrated 
in  the  magazine,  "Short  Stories". 
There  had  ^n  a  private  dinner  ar- 
ranged, of  four:  the  brotherinlaw,  his 
wife,  the  infatuated  student,  and  "Miss 
Bright-eyes",  a  g^rl  of  fine  appearance 


and  excellent  voice,  but  somewhat  defi- 
cient in  mental  qualities. 

The  four  were  seated  at  a  table  in 
the  Metropole  grill — Evelyn,  Bob,  Will 
and  the  Bright-eyes.  Miss  Bright-eyes 
was  talking. 

"Ain't  Percy,  here" — nodding  toward 
Will — "ain't  he  the  real  coUech  sport 
though!  Gosh — look  at  that  pompa- 
dore!" 

The  "gosh"  grated  on  Will— as  did 
the  "ain't,"  the  "Percy,"  the  nod,  the 
"sport,"  and  the  mention  of  his  hair-cut. 

"As  I  was  saying  to  Lizzie  t'other 
night — she's  another  lady  in  the  'Soul 
Hug^  company — coUech  is  a  great  prop- 
osishun. 

"Ever  been  there — you?"  She  nod- 
ded toward  Brother  Bob.  "I  didn't  get 
the  handle." 

"Smith,"  replied  Bob. 

"Ever  been  to  collech,  Mr.  Smith?" 

"Harvard  is  my  alma  mater/*  Bob 
lied. 

"What,"  asked  Miss  Bright-eyes,  at- 
tempting to  start  a  flow  of  reminis- 
cences, "what  was  your  impression — 
what  idea  struck  you — the  first  time  you 
set  foot  on  your  alma  mater?  Didn't 
collech  life  seem  grand?" 

Evelyn  looked  acro#s  at  Will  and 
winked  to  him. 

The  wink  worked  wonders.  Will 
saw  through  it  aE — saw  that  Evel)m 
and  this  actress  were  women  from  dif- 
ferent worlds.  Evelyn's  face  was  fresh 
with  the  glow  of  healthy  youth.  Her 
smile  was  a  smile  of  tenderness.  Her 
wink  inferred  that  his  sisterinlaw  and 
he  were  of  an  equality — morally,  intel- 
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Intuitively  Will  saw  the  cause  of 
Bob's  visit,  and  the  reason  that  his 
brother  had  suggested  the  party  of  four. 
In  a  flash  he  saw  it  all. 

He  crossed  his  fingers,  and  furtively 
held  his  hand  above  the  table-cloth,  so 
that  Evelyn  might  read  the  message. 

She  observed,  smiled,  and  winked 
again  knowingly.     He  loved  her  for  it. 

"I've  had  a  grand  time,"  declared 
Bright-eyes,  as  the  threei  left  her  at  her 
rooming-house ;  "a  perfectly  grandl  time. 
I've  never  met  more  culturally  educated 
gents  as  you,  Mr.  Smith,  and  you,  Mr. 
Brown.  Call  again  after  the  show. 
Call  any  time!" 

Bob  and  his  brother  tipped  their  hats, 
and  with  Evelyn  walked  on  toward 
Will's  room. 

"Some  class  to  that  kiddo,"  remarked 
Brother  Bob  after  a  moment  or  so. 

Will  turned  to  his  brother  without  a 
vestige  of  resentment. 

"Much  obliged  to  you,  old;  horse,"  he 
said,  "for" — ^and  then  he  choked — "for 
ever3rthing.  I'm  hep — ^hep  to  it  all,  in- 
cluding what  a  wop  I've  been.  When 
you  get  back  home  tell  the  old  gent  I've 
got  my  fingers  crossed  for  good,  and 
I'm  going  to  hit  thej  text-books  with  a 
sledge-hammer." 

They  were  at  a  street  crossing.  Will 
stopped  and  faced  his  brother's  wife. 

"And  Evelyn,  here,  is  a  darling",  the 
youngster  declared. 


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N  one  ot  the  most  populous  cities  of 
New  England  some  years  ago,  a 
party  of  lads,  all  members!  of  the  same 
school,  got  up  a  grand  sleigh-ride.  The 
sleigh  was  a  very  large  and  splendid 
one,  drawn  by  six  gray  horses. 

Om  the  day  following  the  ride,  as  the 
teacher  entered  the  schoolroom,  he 
found  his  pupils  in  high  merriment  as 
they  chatted  about  the  fun  and  frolic 
of  their  excursion.  In  answer  to  some 
inquiries  which  he  made  about!  the  mat- 
ter, one  of  the  lads  volunteered  to  give 


an  account  of  their  trip  and  its  various 
incidents. 

As  he  drew  near  the  end  of  his  story, 
he  exclaimed:  "Oh,  sir,  there  was  one 
little  circumstance  which  I  had  almost 
forgotten.  As  we  were  coming  home, 
we  saw  ahead  of  us  a  queer-looking 
affair  in  the  road.  It  proved  to  be  a 
rusty  old  sleigh,  fastened  behind  a  cov- 
ered wagon,  proceeding  at  a  very  slow 
rate,  and  taking  up  the  whole  road. 

"Finding  that  the  owner  was  not  dis- 
posed to  turn  out,  we  determined  upon 
a  volley  of  snowballs  and  a  good  'Hur- 
rah!' They  produced  the  right  eflfect; 
for  the  crazy  machine  turned  into  the 
deep  snow,  and  the  skinny  old  pony 
started,  on  a  full  trot. 

"As  we  passed,  some  one  gave  the  old 
jolt  of  a  horse  a  good  crack,  which 
made  him  run  faster  than  he  ever  did 
before,  I'll  warrant.  And  so,  with  an- 
other volley  of  snowballs  pitched  into 
the  front  of  the  wagon,  and  three  times 
three  cheers,  we  rushed  by. 

"With  that,  an  old  fellow  in  the 
wagon,  who  was  buried  under  an  old 
hat,  and  who  had  dropped  the  reins, 
bawled  out:  'Why  do  you  frighten  my 
horse?'  'Why  don't  you  turn  out,  then  ?' 
said  the  driver.  So  we  gave  him  three 
rousing  cheers  more.  His  horse  was 
frightened  again,  and  ran  up  against  a 
loaded  team,  and,  I  believe,  almost  cap- 
sized the  old  creature;  and  so  we  left 
him." 

"Well,  boys,"  replied  the  instructor, 
"take  your  seats,  and  I  will  take  my 
turn  and  tell  you  a  story,  and  all  about 
a  sldgh-ride,  too.  Yesterday  afternoon, 
a  very  venerable  old  clergyman  was  on 
his  way  from  Boston  to  Salem,  to  pass 
the  residue  of  the  winter  at  the  home 
of  his  son.  That  he  might  be  prepared 
for  journeying  in  the  spring,  he  took 
with  him  his  wagon,  and  for  the  win- 
ter, his  sleigh,  which  he  fastened  behind 
the  wagon. 

"His  sight  and  hearing  were  some- 
what blunted  by  age,  and  he  was  pro- 
ceeding very  slowly  and  quietly,  for  his 
horse  was  old  and  feeble,  like  his 
owner.     His  thoughts  reverted  to  the 


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scenes  of  his  youth,  of  his  manhood,  and 
of  his  riper  years.  Almost  forgetting 
himself  in  the  multitude  of  his  thoughts, 
he  was*  suddenly  disturbed,  and  even 
terrified,  by  loud  hurrahs  from  behind, 
and  by  a  furious  pelting  and  clattering 
of  balls  of  snow  and  ice  upon  the  top  of 
his  wagon. 

"In  his  trepidation  he  dropped  the 
reins,  and,  as  his  aged  and  feeble  hands 
were  quite  benumbed  with  the  cold,  he 
could  not  gather  them  up,  and  his  horse 
began  to  run  away.  In  the  midst  of  the 
old  man's  trouble  there  rushed  by  him, 
with  loud  shouts,  a  large  party  of  boys 
in  a  sleigh.  Turn  out,  turn  out,  old 
fellow!'  'Give  us  the  road,  old  boy'V 
*What  will  you  take  for  your  pony,  old 
daddy?'  *Go  it,  frozen  nose!'  'What's 
the  price  of  oats?'  were  the  cries  that 
met  his  ears. 

"  'Pray,  do  not  frighten  my  horse !' 
exclaimed  the  infirm  driver.  'Turn  out, 
then,  turn  out!'  was  the  answer,  which 
was  followed  by  repeated  cracks  and 
btows  from  the  long  whip  of  the  'grand 
sleigh',  with  showers  of  snowballs  and 
three  tremendous  hurrahs  from  the  boys 
who  were  in  it.  The  terror  of  the  old 
man  and  his  horse  was  increased,  and 
the  latter  ran  away  with  him,  to  the 
imminent  danger  of  his  life.  He  con- 
trived, however,  to  secure  the  reins  and 
to  stop  his  horse  just  in  season  to  pre- 
vent being  dashed  against  a  loaded  team. 

"A  short  distance  brought  him  to  his 
journey's  end — the  house  of  his  son. 
His  old  horse  was  comfortably  housed 
and  fed,  and  he  himself  abundantly 
provided  for.  That  son,  boys,  is  your 
instructor;  and  that  'old  fellow'  and 
*old  boy' — who  did  not  turn  out  for  you, 
but  who  would  gladly  have  given  you 
the  whole  road,  had  he  heard  you  ap- 
proach— that  'old  daddy'  and  'old  frozen 
nose'  was  your  master's  father." 

Some  of  the  boys  buried  their  heads 
behind  their  desks;  some  cried.  And 
many  hastened  to  the  teacher  with  apol- 
ogies and  regrets  without  end.  All  were 
freely  pardoned,  but  were  cautioned  that 
they  should  be  more  civil  in  the  future 
to  inoffensive  travelers,  and  more  re- 
spectful to  the  aged  and  infirm. 


''AOoon  £&  the  Oar/' 

4i^O  animals  allowed  in  this  car, 
^  sin*h">  shouted  the  conductor. 
— A  gentleman  was  caressing  tiie  hand- 
some and  glossy  coat  of  a  Canadian 
coon,  which  he  had  brought  along  with 
him  from  a  trip.  The  passenger  said 
nothing. 

"Ye'll  git  off  wid  your  pet  at  the  next 
crossing",  averred  the  conductor. 

"I  will  not",  said  the  passenger. 

"Thin  yez  will  be  put  off." 

"You  can't  negotiate  it",  asserted  the 
man  on  the  seat,  who  was  a  six-footer. 

"I  can  get  them  as  can",  asserted  the 
conductor. 

"All  the  people  on  your  line  can't  do 
it",  replied  the  passenger,  still  compla- 
cently and  affectionately  stroking  his 
very  handsome  and  quiescent  charge. 
"The  whole  Company  can't  do  it" 

"We'll  be  afther  seein'  what  wez  can 
do",  asserted  the  conductor,  who  had 
decided  to  dismiss  the  idea  of  himself 
putting  the  big  six-footer  off  the  car. 
"Wait  till  wez  come  to  a  comer  where 
there's  an  inspecthor,  an'  off  goes  your 
little  baste  an'  you,  je»t  a  bit  before 
yez  know  it." 

The  passenger  continued  caressing  his 
docile  little  zoological  charge.  The  peo- 
ple in  the  car  were  all  intensely  watch- 
ing to  siee  how  the  curious  incddent 
would  come  out — ^including  the  passen- 
ger. Everybody  was  on  a  broad  grin 
of  expectancy;  everybody  believed  that, 
technically,  the  conductor  was  right, 
but,  practically,  and  by  courtesy,  the 
gentleman  ought  to  be  altowed  to  stay 
on,  with  his  quiet  little  pet. 

The  car  stopped.  "Now  I'll  square 
yez  up",  shouted  the  conductor.  "In- 
spectorrh,  won't  yez  plaze  'tend  to  this 
case  ?" 

The  inspector  was  "sorry",  but  told 
the  gentleman  with  the  pet,  that  under 
the  rules,  it  would  be  necessary  for  him 
either  to  sacrifice  his  livestock,  or  pro- 
cure some  other  method  of  transporta- 
tion. 

At  this,  the  passenger  rose,  and  with 
the  warning  cry,  "Look  out,  or  he  may 
bite !"  flung  the  cause  of  all  the  trouble 
directly  at  the  conductor,  who  sprung 

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back   in    alarm,   enunciating   the   Bible 
words,  "Howly  Mowses/' 

Then  the  passengers  guffawed,  the  in- 
spector more  than  smiled,  the  car  was 
ordered  on,  and  the  zoologist  continued 
industriously  and  affectionately  petting 
the  skin  of  a  raccoon. 


Eaet   Oenterboro   Still   Lives. 

(From  The  East  Centerboro  Indepen- 
dence.) 

TUTRS.  HELEN  ADAMS  ADAMS 
^^'^  took  tea  with  Mrs.  Julia  Hall 
Hall,  on  Tuesday  afternoon  last.  Both 
of  those  estimable  ladies  lost  their  re- 
spective feusbands  six  years  ago,  and 
fhave  always  taken  tea  together  u]ton 
the  day  of  the  sad  event.  Mr.  John 
Davidson,  the  estimable  undertaker  of 
the  occasion,  and  his  estimable  wife 
always  take  tea  with  them  on  these 
days,  and  state  they  have  a  very  pleas- 
ant and  cheerful  time. 

Our  new  village  city  band  has  re- 
ceived its  instruments,  consisting  of 
horns  of  different  sizes,  and  are  now 
learning  tunes  to  play  on  the  coming 
Fourth  of  July.  Our  village  has  gen- 
erously loaned  them  for  a  place  to  prac- 
tice, the  lai^e  and  comfortable  pest- 
house  one  mile  and  a  half  from  the 
village,  which  was  used  during  the 
small-pox  scare,  but  is  now  in  good  and 
safe  condition.  We  have  not  been  over 
to  »hear  them  yet,  but  those  whose  busi- 
ness required  them  to  pass  the  place, 
tell  us  that  they  play  very  well  and  loud. 
John  H.  Jackson  has  moved  his  black- 
smitih-shop  across  the  road,  so  that  the 
sun  will  not  shine  in  his  face  when 
shoeing  horses.  Since  his  severe  lame- 
ness of  last  summer,  which  extended 
through  several  weeks,  he  has  put  up 
a  sign  on  his  shop  stating  "No  mules 
will  be  shod  at  this  place  until  further 
notice."    • 

Johnson  L.  Johnson  has  graduated 
from  Q>llege  one  month  ahead  of  the 
necessary  time,  and  is  now  boarding 
with  his  parents  as  in  former  days. 
His  father  tells  us  that  'be  was  given 
several    degrees    while    there,    among 


which  was  Rustication,  and  Dean  of 
the  Footballs.  We  are  sure  that  Mr. 
Johnson  will  yet  make  his  mark,  and 
that  when  he  does  all  will  be  informed  of 
the  same. 

Henry  L.  Alchin,  who  has  recently 
bought  an  automobile,  had  a  very 
strange  adventure  last  Monday  night. 
His  wife  having  missed  him  from  his 
regular  and  proper  place  of  repose,  and 
not  finding  him  anywhere  in  the  house, 
was  very  anxious  to  know  where  he  was 
spending  the  night.  Having  called  the 
neighbors,  they  searched  all  over  town, 
without  success,  and  lanterns  were 
brought  to  examine  the  wells.  During 
the  search,  toward  morning,  Mrs. 
Alchin  ran  through  the  neighborhood, 
with  joy  upon  her  face,  stating  that  she 
had  found  her  husband  asleep  lying  on 
his  back  in  one  of  the  rooms  of  the 
house,  under  a  lounge,  pulling  away  at 
the  slats  and  springs,  and  dreaming  that 
he  was  repairing  his  automobile. 

A  lady  in  this  town,  whose  name  is 
withheld,  wishes  to  call  her  latest  child, 
now  a  few  weeks  of  age,  after  all  the 
Presidents  of  United  States  who  have 
yet  lived.  She  is  aware,  she  says,  that 
it  will  make  a  very  long  name  for  the 
boy,  but  not  much  longer  than  some  of 
the  kings  and  princes  of  which  we 
read.  She  is  anxiously  waiting  till  next 
November,  in  order  to  complete  the  list, 
when  the  christening  will  take  place. 
Two  nurses  have  been  engaged  to  spell 
each  other  in  holding  the  child,  which 
is  nervous,  and  not  very  well,  while  the 
names  are  being  said  over. 

Miss  Romola  Perkins  has  changed 
her  residence  from  East  Centerboro  to 
North  Centerboro,  to  take  effect  im- 
mediately. 

Miss  Marietta  G.  Hopkins  has 
changed  her  residence  from  North  Cen- 
terboro to  East  Centerboro,  which  has 
already  taken  effect. 

Miss  Millicent  H.  Beatrice  Peck,  who 
has  contributed  td  this  paper  for  many 
years  and  still  is  in  her  young  lady- 
hood'^s  prime,  has  eighteen  new  poems, 
which  she  has  never  as  yet  published, 
and  which  sihe  will  sell  at  auction  next 
Thursday    afternoon,    at    her    father's 


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boot  and  shoe  store.  This  is  the  first 
time  that  Miss  Peck  has  condescended 
to  do  so,  ♦and  it  is  expected  that  pub- 
lishers will  be  here  from  all  over  the 
country,  and  that  the  bidding  will  be 
spirited.  All  the  different  publishers  of 
the  different  principal  cities  have  been 
notified  of  the  event,  and  one  of  them 
has  already  written  stating  that  he  will 
be  here  if  not  called  elsewhere  before 
that  date.  Positively  no  poems  will  be 
sold  at  private  sale,i  ever)rthing  will  go 
under  the  hammer.  The  following  are 
some  of  the  titles  upon  the  list — ^the 
whole  of  which  may  be  seen  at  this 
office:  "My  Love  and  I",  "Th^  Sweet- 
ness of  the  Twilight  Hour",  "The 
Haven  of  Mjy  Heart'',  "Dare  not  to 
Come  and  Rest  in  this  Bosom", 
"Spring",  "The  One  I  Waiti  has  not  yet 
Come",  "Give,  O  Give  Me  Back  My 
Soul",  "The  Kiss  I  have  never  forgot", 
"He  Never  Came  Once  More",  "That 
Evening  by  the  Stove",  and  several 
others. 


Oamp-Meeting  Dramatics. 

A  REALISTIC  exemplification  of  the 
return  of  the  prodigal  son  is 
sometimes  given  at  camp-meetings  of 
colored  people.  At  the  close  of  the 
afternoon  services  the  choir  sing, 
"Where  Is  My  Wandering  Boy  To- 
night", and  the  minister  ana  congrega- 
tion begin  to  "gaze"  in  the  direction  of 
the  woods,  out  of  which  comes  a  prodi- 
gal son,  ragged,  hungry,  dirty,  and  limp- 
ing painfully  along,  aided  by  a  staff.  He 
is  royally  welcomed,  and  the  tattered 
garments  exchanged  for  a  robe.  While 
the  choir  sing  "Home,  Sweet  Home",  a 
procession  is  formed  and  they  all  sit 
down  to  a  feast,  a  fatted  calf  being 
killed  for  the  occasion,  and  the  whole 
exhibit  having  been  arranged  before- 
hand, for  the  purpose  of  impressing 
such  prodigals  as  mayi  happen  to  be  in 
the  congregation. 


Ejiowledge  Still  Rather  Scarce. 

'pWO  gentlemen  fell  to  talking  in  an 
elevated  railroad  car  the  other 
day. 

"This  air  is  positively  pasty",  onci  of 
them  remarked.  "There  isn't  a  venti- 
lator open." 

"We  are  still  in  the  dark  ages,  so  far 
as  knowledge  of  the  human  body  is  con- 
cerned", replied  the  other. 

"We  know  enough  about  it,  but  we 
don't  practice  what  we  know",  contra- 
dicted the  first  speaker.  "For  instance, 
we  go  out  without  rubbers  on  a  rainy 
day  and  get  our  feet  wet,  and  then 
get  a  cold,  and  wonder  how  we  get 
it." 

"By  the  way,  what  are  the  exact  pro- 
cesses of  taking  a  cold?"  asktd  Gentle- 
man No.  I. 

"Why — I— don't  exactly  know",  was 
the  reply.  "But  I  know  we  get  them 
all  right.  And  then,  like  as  not,  we  are 
thrown  into  a  fever" — 

"A  fever?"  interrupted  the  other. 
"What  is  a  fever?  What  effect  does  it 
have  on  the  body?  What  part  of  the 
system  is  affected?     What" — 

"Why — I  don't  exactly  know",  was 
thd  reply.  "You'll  know  more  about  it 
when  you  get  it.  You  don't  want  it  but 
once;  though  I've  had  it  two  or  three 
times.  And  I  frequently  get  the  rheu- 
matism, in  spite  of  all  my  precautions, 
so  I  can  hardly  go." 

"I  have  often  wondered  what  caused 
the  rheumatism",  said  Gentleman  No.  i. 
"Did  you  ever  happen  to  study  into 
it?" 

"Why,  I — don't — exactly  know",  was 
the  reply.  "But|  you  don't  think  much 
about  what  causes  it,  when  you  once 
get  it." 

"What  causes" — began  the  other. 

"Oh,  yes ;  'what  causes',"  interrupted 
No.  2.  "I  see  the  game.  Well,  the  fact 
is,  I  don't  know  as  much  about  the  body 
as  I  thought  I  did." 


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Women  Selling  Papers. 

By  One  of  Them. 

TT  is  not  the  hardest  work  in  the  world, 
to  sell  the  journals  of  the  day  upon 
the  streets  of  a  large  city — even  for  a 
woman — although,  if  course,  that  die-' 
pends  upon  the  woman.  There  are  a 
good  many  who  make  quite  a  living  at 
it.  In  crowded  parts  of  the  day  (and 
there  are  a  good  many  of  them,  in  sudi 
a  place  as  New  York),  there  is  scarcely 
a  minute  but  more  or  less  pennies  drop 
into  her  hand — a  part  of  which  little 
coin  is  profit.  Men  are  making  her 
wares  for  her  all  the  time — ^morning 
papers,  forenoon  papers,  afternoon 
papers,  night  papers;  the  supply  is 
copious  and  constant,  and!  tiie  payment 
sure. 

When,  by  the  death  of  my  husband, 
and  all  my  more  prosperous  relatives, 
I  was  thrown  into  daily  work  for  my 
support,  I  looked  carefully  over  the 
labor-horizon,  and  chose  this.  Here  are 
a  few  of  the  things  I  have  learned*,  and 
which  are  given  now,  for  those  who 
may  want  to  try  the  same  plan : 

First,  I  found  that  it  was  good  pol- 
icy not  to  try  to  dress  too  well,  or  to 
put  on  too  much  style.  Neither  was  it 
well  to  be  too  abject  in  appearance,  as 
if  the  sheep  were  in  the  meadow,  and 
the  cow  in  the  corn,  and  never  could  be 
ejected  unless  I  sold  the  very  paper  that 
I  held  that  moment  in  my  hand.  Of 
course  the  papers  were  arranged  upon 
my  arm  as  invitingly  as  possible,  with 
the  most  attractive  news-headings  out- 
side: some  sellers  jumble  their  wares 
together  so  you  cannot  see  anything  but 
a  mass  of  close-printed  words. 


I  hardly  think  it  is  worth  while  to 
yell  'Taperrh,  Paperrh,  Paperrh!"  as 
some  women  do :  everybody  knows  that 
you  are  selling  papers,  can  see  them  dis- 
played on  your  arm,  and  does  not  need 
the  infonnation  dinned  into  his  ears. 
Especially  is  it  a  disadvantage  to  you, 
if  your  voice  gets  to  be  a  harsh,  unde- 
sirable thing,  as  it  naturally  will,  under 
such  circumstances.  I  know  an  old 
woman,  whose  yell  is  a  terror  to  every- 
body with  sensitive  ears,  that  goes  any- 
where near  her.  Men  have  tbld  me  that 
they  freqitently  went  across  the  street  to 
escape  her. 

One  of  the  first  things  you  have  *o  do, 
if  you  want  to  be  a  paper-selling 
woman,  is  to  get  reconciled  to  your  , 
position:  and  in  order  to  bring  this 
about,  you  have  to  do  a  little  thinking — 
and  have  it  sensible,  as  you  go  along. 

"Supposing  you  do  have  to  sell  pa- 
pers?" you  must  say  to  yourself. 
"There's  many  a  woman  in  the  fine 
houses  on  the  avenues,  who  woujd 
rather  be  here  than  there.  She'd  rather 
make  a  good  respectable  living,  than  to 
dodge  among  the  miserable  traps  and 
pitfalls  where  she  now  lives  in  state. 
She  would  have  a  sort  of  independence, 
then:  now,  she  has  none.  There's 
many  a  woman  sewing,  scrubbing,  mend- 
ing, or  cooking,  who  would  have  better 
health,  better  spirits,  and  more  money, 
if  she  came  right  here  every  day  and 
sold  papers." 

Good,  comfortable,  healthy  shoes  are 
one  (or  rather  two)  of  tihe  things  to  be 
first  considered.  Feet  never  were  made 
to  be  pinched,  or  squeezed:  especially 
when  they  are  employed,  for  a  good  part 
of  the  day,  to  hold  up  the  weight  of 


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their    owner    and    whatever    she    may 
carry  upon  her  person. 

In  standing  among"  the  rapidly  pass- 
ing people,  I  do  not  change  my  position 
any  oftener  than  necessary.  Standing 
first  upon  one  foot  and  th-en  upon  the 
other,  in  order  to  "resit"  has  not  ap- 
pealed to  me.  I  believe  that  if  one  has 
good  healthy  feet  in  good  healthful 
shoes,  there  will  be  no  particular  ad- 
vantage in  changing  again  and  again 
from  one  foot  to  another. 

If  you  know  how  to  smile,  and  how 
not  to  smile,  the  face  can  be  made  to 
play  a  helpful  part  in  procuring  and 
keeping  customers.  Everybody  likes  a 
bright,  cheerful  glance,  and  it  goes  far 
toward  furthering  business.  I  remem- 
bered the  shop-lady  that  Hawthorne 
told  us  about  in  one  of  his  stories,  and 
how  she  drove  so  many  customers  away 
and  kept  them  away,  just  by  the  scowl 
on  her  face — ^vhen  she  was  really  a 
kind-hearted  woman,  and  did  not  know 
that  she  had  such  an  obstacle  to  her 
success  just  above  and  in  front  of  her 
own  eyes. 

My  customers  are  a  very  interesting 
and  varied  lot  of  people.  Some  of 
them,  coming  and  going,  are  so  accu- 
rate that  I  can  tell  the  time  of  day  by 
them.  Some  come  one  day,  then  stay 
away  two  or  three  days,  then  come 
again.  Some  never  come  unless  there 
has  been  something  extraordinary  going 
on  in  the  world  the  preceding  day.  One 
old  gentleman  always  makes  me  teJl 
some  of  the  most  interestng  things  the 
paper  contains,  before  he  will  buy  one. 
It  doesn't  take  much  time  or  effort,  and 
affords  him  a  good  deal  of  good,  and 
so,  if  not  particularly  busy,  I  tell  him 
some  of  the  news  before  I  sell  it  to  him. 
It  is  interesting  to  notice  the  different 
expression  upon  the  faces  of  people,  as 
they  read  one  piece  of  news  after  an- 
other. One  old  gentleman — not  a  busi- 
ness man,  for  he  must  long  ago  have 
retired  from  commercial  fields — looks 
over  the  money-quotations  every  day, 
before  he  leaves  the  spot  where  he  buys 
the  paper.  I  know  just  what  stocks  he 
owns,    and    can    tell    by    his    face    and 


actions,  whether  they  are  down  or  up. 
If  the  latter,  he  will  lovingly  clasp  the 
paper  to  his  bosom,  and  walk  away 
smilingly:  if  the  former,  he  will  some- 
times throw  it  upon  the  ground,  tram- 
ple tihe  poor  innocent  harbinger  of  woe 
imder  his  feet,  and  give  me  a  look  of 
disapprobation  for  having  sold  it  to  him, 
for  the  sum  of  one  cent — ^United  States 
currency. 

Sometimes  his  wife  will  be  walking 
with  him:  then  he  will  buy  the  paper 
as  usual,  and  look  up  with  a  joyful  ex- 
pression on  his  countenance,  with  the 
remark,  "Wife,  hurrah! — ^we  are  worth 
a  thousand  dollars  today  more  than  we 
were  yesterday!  Go  to  the  store  and 
trade  it  out !"  And  then  sometimes  he 
will  say,  "Wife,  we  are  well-nigh  ruined ! 
We  moist  gO'  right  home  and  see  about 
moving  into  a  humbler  an<l  clieaper 
house !"  How  much  the  dear  old  lady 
"senses'*  of  it — how  mudi  she  is  elaiteil 
or  depressed  by  the  varying  news,  I  do 
not  really  know :  but  she  always  seems 
to  have  just  about  tihe  same  sort  of 
I)lactid  smile  upon  her  dear  motherly 
face. 

I  have  heard,  although  really  I  do  not 
know  whether  it  was  anywhere  near 
true  or  not — that  the  old  gentleman's 
ownership  of  stocks  was  merely  a  mat- 
ter of  imagination:  that  he  was  really 
in  receipt  of  a  few  thousand  dollars  per 
year,  from  an  annuity ;  and  that  the  rise 
and  fall  of  stocks  were  more  a  sort  of 
amusement  to  him,  than  anything  else. 

I  may  tell  some  more  of  my  experi- 
ences, in  future  numbers  of  this  Maga- 
zine: but  these  are  enough,  for  one 
time. 


Wall-Pictures  Indicate  Character. 

^^D  ^^  ^^^  know  that  pictures  bespeak 
the  nature  of  your  mind?" 
can  tell  the  character  of  the  household 
by  the  pictures  upon  the  wall.  If  the 
pictures  you  have  are  suggestive  of  dis- 
cord, it  is  because  you  are  of  a  discord- 
ant nature  yourself.  If  you  have  pic- 
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are  of  pugilistic  tendency.  If  they  are 
of  a  sensual  order,  it  is  because  you  are 
of  like  disposition  ;  and  so  on.  Look  at 
your  pictures  and  in  them  study  your 
own  nature,  for  there  it  is.  You  will 
see  yourself  in  them.  Now,  if  your  pic- 
tures appear  different  to  you  than  they 
did  before  you  read  this  article,  "be 
transformed  by  the  renewing  of  your 
mind."  Get  a  higher  and  more  exalted 
idea  of  yourself  and  of  things  generally, 
and  you  will  begin  to  decorate  your 
home  with  pictures  of  a  more  cheerful 
and  higher  character. 

We  know  a  man  who  declined  a  beau- 
tiful etching  of  a  gnarled  and  knotty  oak 
tree.  He  said:  "I  will  not  have  any 
picture  that  suggests  distortion.  I  want 
perfection  expressed  in  my  home."  You 
may  call  him  a  "crank",  but  there  is 
somethir^  in  his  philosophy  after  all. 
He  probably  is  striving  for  Paul's  ideal : 
"When  that  which  is  perfect  is  come, 
that  which  is  in  part  is  done  away." . 

Another  question:  "Did  you  know 
that,  pictures  make  a  home  more  attrac- 
tive than  fine  furniture?"  Why?  Be- 
cause pictures  hang  upon  a  level  with 
the  eye  when  one  enters  into  a  room. 
They  are  the  first  thing  observed.  Peo- 
ple don't  look  down  upon  the  floor,  nor 
up  to  the  ceiling ;  therefore  the  pictures 
first  greet  their  vision,  and  any  home 
that  is  well  supplied  with  pictures,  even 
if  the  furniture  is  poor,  is  a  cheerful 
home  and  an  attractive  home. 

Hang  pictures  upon  your  walls,  cheer- 
ful ones,  even  if  they  are  merely  wood- 
cuts, and  cheap  ones  at  that.  It  is  good 
economy.  There  is  nothing  so  bare  and 
tomb-like  as  bare  walls.  It  makes  us 
shudder  to  go  into  a  home  where  the 
walls  are  bare.  And  don't  hang  them 
as  if  you  had  a  surveyor-line  in  every 
one  of  them.  Just  hangf  them  around 
artistically,  and  you  will  be  surprised 
how  cheerful  yoUr  home  has  become. 
And  once  in  a  while  change  them 
around,  and  it  will  be  almost  equal  to 
moving  into  a  new  home. 

You  don't  find  any  bare  walls  in 
Nature.  Even  the  blue  vault  of  the  sky 
is  closely  hung  with  planets,  stars  and 
nebuhe  at  night,   and   in  the   daytime 


fleecy  clouds  framed  with  the  blue,  be- 
come the  art  of  Nature. 

Hang  pictures  in  your  homes,  and 
select  those  only  that  inspire  harmony, 
peace  and  life,  and  avoid  all  that  sug- 
gest strife,  struggle,  discord  or  death. 


The  Man  and  Woman  Who  Nom- 
inated Orant. 

TTHE   world-renowned   Maj.    General 

Sickles   is  now  eightyeight  years 

old,  and,  although  he  left  one  leg  at  the 


SICKLES    IN     HIS    PRIME. 

Battle  of  Gettysburg,  seems  as  strong 
and  vigorous  as  most  men  at  fifty  or 
sixty. 

He  was  recently  a  guest  of  honor  at  a 
dinner  of  the  Michigan  Society,  which 
was  peculiarly  appropriate — he  'having 
had  several  Michigan  regiments  in  his 
various  commands.  He  made  one  of  the 
most  interesting  speeches  in  the  history 
of  the  Society,  and  gave  some  very  in- 
teresting reminiscences. 

"Dining  with  General  Grant  and  his 
wife,"  he  said,  "I  proposed  to  him  tha^ 

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he  ought  to  be  nominated  as  President. 
He  refused'  to  consider  the  matter — stat- 
ing that  he  was  a  mere  military  man- 
knowing  nothing  about  civil  govern- 
ment. 

"I  was  about  to  submit,  reluctantly  to 
his  decision,  when  I  felt  a  slight  pressure 
upon  my  toes,  from  beneath  the  table. 


MRS.   U.   S.   GRANT. 

Glancing  up  hurriedly,  I  saw  that  it  was 
Mrs.  Grant;  and  I  immediately  sus- 
pected from  a  slight  expression  of  her 
face,  that  she  wished  to  see  me  after  the 
other  gentlemen  had  left  the  table. 

"So  I  stayed  a  few  minutes :  and  she 
said,  'Leave  the  matter  with  me:  I  will 
bring  him  around.' 

"It  took  only  a  few  minutes  for  her  to 
do  so,  when  she  had  him  alone." 

An  accompanying  portrait  represents 
General  Sickles  when  about  fifty  years 
old.  He  is  now  writing  his  Reminiscen- 
ces, and  they  will  certainly  be  among  the 
most  interesting  written  this  century, 
thus  far. 


Dust  on  Every  thing. 

*4  A    'DUSTY'  ocean  highway  sounds 

almost    incredible.     Yet    those 

who    are    familiar    with    sailing-ships 

know  that,  no  matter  how  carefully  th^ 


decks  may  be  washed  down  in  the  morn- 
ing, and  how  little  work  of  any  kind 
may  be  done  during  the  day,  neverthe- 
less, if  the  decks  are  not  swept  at  night- 
fall, an  enormous  quantity  of  dust  will 
quickly  collect.  Of  course,  on  the  mod- 
ern 'liner'  the  burning  of  hundreds  of 
tons  of  coal  every  twentyfour  hours, 
and  the  myriads  of  foot-falls  daily, 
would  account  for  a  considerable  accu- 
mulation of  dust,  but  on  a  'wind-jam- 
mer', manned  with  a  dozen  hands  or 
less,  no  such  dust--producing  agencies 
are  at  work.  And  yet  the  records  of 
sailing  ships  show  that  they  collect 
more  sea-dust  than  does  a  steamer, 
which  is  probably  accounted  for  by  the 
fact  that  while  the  dust-laden  smoke 
blows  clear  of  the  steamer,  the  large 
area  of  canvas  spread  by  the  sailor,  acts 
as  a  dust-collector." 

We  are  taught  by  astronomers  and 
other  investigators  of  physical  phenom- 
ena that  our  atmosphere  is  filled  with 
what  is  known  as  "star-dust" ;  which  is 
constantly  being  precipitated  upon  the 
surface  of  the  earth.  The  reader  has 
seen  meteors  flash  across  the  sky,  mak- 
ing a  path  of  brilliant  light,  and  then 
disappear.    Where  do  they  go? 

You  may  also  have  noticed,  after  a 
fall  of  snow  in  the  country,  away  out 
in  the  fidds  distant  from  the  smoke  of 
chimneys,  and  in  the  early  morning, 
that  numerous  black  particles,  some- 
times almost  giving  a  dark  hue  to  the 
snow,  are  visible.  This  mystery  is  not 
one  of  the  ocean  alone,  by  any  means. 

When  these  small  heavenly  visitors 
which  we  call  "shooting-stars"  or  mete- 
ors, come  in  contact  with  our  atmos- 
phere, they  meet  with  a  resistance  that 
engenders  heat,  which  becomes  so  in- 
tense that  the  organic  matter  is  con- 
sumed. The  larger  the  body,  of  course, 
the  less  liable  it  is  to  'be  destroyed 
before  reaching  the  surface  of  the  earth. 
Therefore,  scarcely  a  year  passes  with- 
out some  large  meteor  being  seen  (and 
many  have  been  traced  and  found), 
their  outer  surface  fused  by  the  abnor- 
mal heat  to  which  they  have  been  sub- 
jected. 

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these  bodies,  large  and  small,  are  con- 
stantly "bombarding"  us  from  the 
realms  of  space,  night  and  day,  and 
that  most  of  them  are  pulverized  before 
they  reach  our  planet,  the  dust-mystery 
is  easily  explained.  The  brilliant  train 
of  light  ending  in  darkness  means,  per- 
haps, that  the  meteor  has  been  con- 
sumed, and  nothing  but  dust  remains  to 
float  in  the  atmosphere,  till  finally  it 
makes  its  way  to  its  resting-place,  by 
the  attraction  of  gravitation.  The  dif- 
ferent currents  of  air  may  keep  the  par- 
ticles of  dust  "knocking  about"  above  us 
for  days,  and  perhaps  for  weeks. 

A  few  years  ago  the  whole  scientific 
world  was  on  the  qui  vive  concerning 
the  peculiar  glowing  sunsets  visible  on 
all  the  continents  of  the  world.     The 


phenomenon  was  finally  traced  to  the 
great  catastrophe  known  as  the  erup- 
tion of  Krakatoa,  in  the  South  Sea 
Islands,  when  a  large  mountain  was 
torn  in  twain,  and  near  it  a  sheet  of 
flame  a  half-mile  in  diameter  shot  up 
from  the  ocean,  driving  everything  in 
its  course  far  into  the  upper  atmos- 
phere. It  took  a  good  while  for  those 
particles  to  again  secure  a  resting-place, 
and  before  they  did  they  had  encircled 
our  whole  planet. 

An  insignificant  meteor  may  make  a 
big  gleam  of  light  in  the  evening,  but 
in  the  daytime  it  shows  no  light  at  all 
—yet  it  leaves  the  record  of  its  visit  in 
the  shape  of  dust.  With  the  knowledge 
of  facts  outlined  as  above,  one  need  not 
wonder  at  dust  on  land  or  sea. 


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'T^HIS  Magazine  is  taken  and  read  by 
people  of  all  sorts  of  political 
leanings.  It  has  a  good  many  opinions 
of  its  own,  but  does  not  take  time  to 
express  them  all.  Indeed,  it  is  going  to 
let  its  readers  edit  it,  politically,  during 
the  next  few  months.  It  has  sent  all 
about,  asking  for  sentiments  and  pref- 
erences, and  a  good  many  of  them  have 
arrived.    Here  are  some: 

A   CHAMPION   OF  TEDDY. 

Theodore  Roosevelt  is  the  plumed 
knight  of  the  coming  Presidential  con- 
test. He  is  not  a  self-made  candidate: 
Nature  formed  him  for  the  position  he 
occupied,  and  will  occupy  again.  He  is 
the  spontaneous  and  enthusiastic  choice 
of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  voters  all 
over  the  country,  and  if  he  is  not  nomi- 
nated at  Chicago,  a  great  many  Repub- 
licans will  switch  over  to  the  Democratic 
Party,  and  vote  for  its  candidate,  who- 
ever it  may  be. 

He  could  be  in  the  Presidential  chair 
even  now,  if  he  would  have  allowed  his 
party  to  nominate  him  and  the  country 
to  elect  him — which  they  would  have 
done  willingly,  in  spite  of  the  bugaboo 
talk  against  "a  third  term." 

Mr.  James  G.  Pickering  admitted  last 
month  that  Taft  had  "made  some  mis- 
takes." What  else  has  he  made?  And 
the  great  big  one,  is  that  of  letting  a  few 
party  bosses  rule  him.  When  they  said 
'''Keep  still,  and  let  Roosevelt  howl  him- 
self out",  he  kept  still,  and  assumed  that 
it  was  not  consistent  with  his  dignity  to 
say  anything:    but  when  they  realized 


that  Teddy  was  "howling"  himself  in 
instead  of  out,  they  gave  Taft  orders  to 
open  his  mouth,  and  he  announced  that 
he  was  to  be  "a  man  of  straw"  no  longer. 
What  else  was  he  ever  ? 

Henry  Bodwell. 


STICKS   TO   LA   FOLLETTE. 

It  looks  as  if  neither  Taft  nor  Roose- 
velt could  be  nominated,  now:  they  know 
too  much  about  each  other — and  are 
telling  it.  There  must  be  a  dark  horse, 
without  any  halter  or  bridle-strap  held 
by  the  trusts.  And  it  seems  to  me  that 
La  Follette  is  that  horse.  He  isn't  afraid 
of  anything — not  even  the  newspapers. 
They  have  said  as  little  as  they  dared 
about  him  since  he  gavej  them  that  jolt 
at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  at  Phil- 
adelphia, but  they  can't  entirely  ignore 
him.  Give  him  a  good  chance,  and  he'll 
make  good. 

Henry  L.  McGrath. 


A   WOMAN   SPEAKS  FOR    WOMEN. 

I  AM  a  suffragist  because  I  believe  that 
in  a  Republic  all  normal,  law-abid- 
ing adults  should  have  a  vote.  I  am 
normal  and  law-abiding,  albeit  a  woman. 
The  very  fact  that  woman  is  different 
from  man  is  a  reason  why  her  voice 
should  be  heard  in  government.  She 
sees    life   from   a   different    angle,  and 


should  express  her  decisions  directly. 
With  tariff  and  trade  regulations  man  is 
familiar :  woman  has  had  a  long  appren- 
ticeship at  house-keeping  and  home-mak- 
ing, and  should  bring  her  intelligence  to 
bear  in  the  house-keeping  of  the  city  and 
state. 
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brothers,  son,  sweetheart,  when  there  are 
thousands  more  of  women  than  men  in 
many  cities,  and  hence  there  are  not 
enough  husbands  to  go  around,  and 
brothers  are  not  likely  to  be  influenced 
by  the  cajoleries  of  a  sister,  though  she 
have  the  wisdom  of  a  feminine  Solo- 
mon. 

There  are  many  women  who  are  ruled 
by  principle  and  would  consider  it 
wrong,  disgraceful,  undignified,  to  try 
to  gain  their  ends  by  using  feminine  arts 
upon  their  masculine  friends. 

There  are  women  who  have  neither 
beauty,  money,  nor  that  indescribable 
quality  called  "charm",  yet  w^ho  have 
wrongs  to  be  redressed,  and  rights  to  be 
maintained.  How  are  these  women  to 
obtain  the  justice  which  the  anti's  say 
they  can  gain  by  indirect  means? 

If  the  woman  has  the  vote  she  can 
express  her  decision  in  a  few  moment's 
time,  on  her  way  to  market  or  to  busi- 
ness. Having  the  vote  does  not  mean 
that  all  women  must  devote  all  their  time 
to  politics.  How  much  time  does  the 
average  man  feel  that  he  must  give  to 
government?  He  readJs  his  paper, 
talks  with  his  friends,  hears  what  his 
party  leaders  have  to  say,  and  then,  on 
election  day,  gives  a  few  minutes'  time 
to  depositing  his  ballot. 

Unfortunately,  many  business  men 
cannot  or  will  not  give  more  than  this 
half  hour  to  the  affairs  of  their  coun- 
try. There  are,  however,  more  women 
of  leisure  than  men,  and  they  should  be 
impressed  with  a  sense  of  civic  respon- 
sibility, to  use  much  of  this  spare  time 
in  study,  investigation,  organization  for 
patriotic  ends,  and  so  prepare  the  field 
that  the  busy  woman  needs  only  to  care- 
fully consider  the  points  placed  before 
her,  and  then  cast  her  vote  with  due  in- 
telligence and  consecration. 

Women  have  to  obey  the  laws ;  they 
should  help  make  them. 

When  some  leading  Persians  recently 
proposedno  their  native  Parliament  that 
women  be  g^ven  the  vote,  the  Premier 
said  No,  women  have  no  souls ;  how  can 
we  give  the  ballot  to  a  creature  having 
no  soul? 


I  know  I  have  a  soul  and  "for  my 
soul's  sake"  I  wish  to  have  placed  in  my 
hands  this  symbol  of  high,  noble  and 
responsible  humanity.  Women  ought 
to  give  their  help  directly  to  the  state; 
men  ought  to  have  their  help ;  the  State 
ought  to  use  their  help. 

We  AviU  make  mistakes,  of  course, 
but  will  learn  to  surmount  them.  Who's 
afraid.  Me  for  the  party  that  gives 
woman  the  vote. 

J.  B. 


WANTS    WILLIAM    J. 

I  want  the  Democrats  to  nominate 
William  J.  Bryan,  and  then  I  want  the 
Democrats  and  some  of  the  Republicans 
to  elect  him.  He  is  a  gentleman,  and  as 
President  would  set  a  good  example  to 
our  boys  and  young  men.  He  does  hot 
say  anything  about  his  hat  being  thrown 
into  the  ring,  or  knocking  people 
through  the  ropes,  or  beating  candidates 
to  a  frazzle,  or  anything  eke  of  a  slangy 
or  prize-fighting  sort. 

Let  us  have  a  line  of  good,  civil,  well- 
behaved  Presidents. 

Lydia  J.  Taylor. 


LET  THINGS  ALONE. 

The  country  is  reaching  a  good  degree 
of  prosperity,  under  President  Taft. 
Why  disturb  things,  and  have  a  com- 
plete pulling  apart  of  the  administration 
when  everything  is  in  such  complete 
running  order?  We  have,  most  of  us,  a 
good  deal  to  do  connected  with  our  own 
business,  instead  of  changing  things  all 
around  for  the  benefit  of  a  crowd  of 
hungry  "outs",  who,  if  they  manage  to 
get  in,  will  not  even  wait  to  say  grace 
over  the  loaves  and  the  fishes,  before 
they  grab  for  them. 

We  already  have  a  steady,  straight- 
forward, well-meaning,  and  gentlemanly 
President:  why  change  our  votes,  for 
a  tuAuIent,  harum-scarum,  spectacular, 
quarrelsome  demagogue,  who  is  spoiled 
with  adulation,  and  doesn't  know  how 
to  live  without  it? 

Sarah  G.  Bingham. 


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Peacefully  Armed, 

'P  HIS  country  is  admirably  adapted  to 
supply  warships,  horses,  mules, 
and  provisions  to  nations  that  are  fight- 
ing" each  other:  but  is  it  ready  for  war 
on  its  own  account,  if  opposed  by  well- 
trained  armies  ? 

There  is  no  question  about  the  hero- 
ism and  patriotism  of  the  people:  but 
are  they  at  this  moment  able  to  take 
up  arms  and  make  a  formidable  show- 
ing in  the  field? 

We  have  a  good  navy :  and,  so  far  as 
it  goes,  it  probably  cannot  be  excelled 
anywhere  upon  the  seas.  But  have  we 
enough  of  it?  Could  it  oppose  that  of 
England,  for  example?  Could  it  wres- 
tle upon  the  water  with,  say  France 
and  Italy  combined? 

It  was  easy  enough  to  "get  away 
with"  Spain — ^a  third  or  fourth-class 
power,  with  sailors  that  could  not  shoot 
straig^ht,  and  an  army  that  could  not 
fight.  But  how  would  it  be  if  we  had 
to  cope  with  nations  possessed  of  un- 
limited resources,  and  practiced,  hard- 
ened soldiers? 

Sooner  or  later,  our  soldiers,  no 
doubt,  would,  in  a  war,  give  a  good 
account  of  themselves:  but  how  about 
the  first  few  vital  months? 

"We  could  make  of  United  States  a 
hermit-nation,"  say  some,  "and  barri- 
cade with  mines,  torpedoes*  and  war- 
ships, so  that  foreign  armies  and  fleets 
could  not  get  to  us."  But  are  mines 
always  reliable?  Did  they  keep  Dewey 
out  of  Manila  Bay?  Did  tb^  save  the 
Russian  day  at  Port  Arthur? 

Let  Government  stir  itself  in  the  mat- 
ter of  providing  defences  for  the  vast 
number    of    lives    and    the    immense 


amount  of  property  that  we  have  here. 
Let  it  take  some  of  the  lawless  men 
that  are  roaming  the  streets,  and  make 
them  into  obedient  soldiers.  Our  stand- 
ing army  should  be  increased  ten-fold : 
our  navy  should  continue  to  grow  as 
fast  as  possible,  until  it  is  the  largest 
in  the  world.  We  should  be  ready  for 
trouble  before  it  arrives :  and  then  it  will 
not  be  so  formidable.  It  is  very  expen- 
sive, this  fighting  and  getting  ready  to 
fight  at  the  same  time. 

"But  what  prospect  is  there  of  our 
•being  at  war?"  may  be  asked.  "We  are 
on  the  other  side  of  the  globe  from  all 
opposition  there  is  at  present." 

We  are  not.  The  Philippine  Islands 
— wisely  or  unwisely — with  a  territory 
as  large  as  the  six  New  England  states, 
New  York,  and  New  Jersey  all  put  to- 
gether, are  a  part  of  United  States — 
just  as  much  as  are  Alaska  and  Ohio. 
Those  islands  are  liable  to  be  within 
stone's-throw  of  some  gigantic  war,  and 
there  is  upon  them  always  a  certain 
amount  of  discontent — fostered  as  much 
as  possible  by  rival  nations  forever  on 
the  watch. 

We  think  there  are  other  peoples  that 
like  us  and  would  "see  us  through"  in 
case  of  any  trouble:  but  that  is  merely 
a  dream.  Other  nations  will  stand  by 
us  just  as  long  as  it  is  in  their  interest 
to  do  so :  and  will  drop  us  with  a  cold 
thud  whenever  necessary  to  their  finan- 
cial or  strategical  interests. 

Build  more  West  Points!  Increase 
the  navy  as  fast  as  steel  can  be  put  into 
boats!  Have  a  strong  standing  army, 
and  an  alert  National  Guard  as  a  nu« 
cleus  for  quick  and  efiective  volunteer 
service    when    needed — and   then  labor 


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hard  to  keep  at  peace  with  all  mankind : 
letting  all  mankind  imderstand,  mean- 
while, that  it  is  safer  for  them  as  well 
as  for  us. 


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Hurricane-Fires. 

O  absolutely  fire-proof  building  has 
as  yet  been  erected.  There  is  an 
utter  lack  of  certainty  that  New  York, 
Boston,  Philadelphia,  Chicago  again,  St. 
Louis,'  or  San  Francisco,  may  not  have 
just  the  same  kind  of  fire  that  Baltimore 
once  did,  or  worse.  Steel  walls  and  par- 
titions become  mere  kindling-wood  when 
the  requisite  circumstances  arise. 

What  a  fireman  dreads  is,  not  a  fire, 
but  a  fire  with  momentum:  a  conflag- 
ration and  a  tempest  together.  Putting 
out  a  blaze  when,  as  oqe  might  say,  it 
stands  still  and  lets  you  do  it,  is  very 
different  from  fighting  it  on  the  run, 
while  it  has  plenty  of  help  and  sus- 
tenance ahead  of  it  and  around  it.  Fire 
"in  the  stilly  night"  or  in  the  placid 
smiling  daytime,  is  one  thing:  fire  in  a 
hurricane,  by  day  or  night,  is  more 
different  than  can  be  estimated.  There 
are  few  substances  in  the  known  world, 
that  can  withstand  the  devouring  ele- 
ment when  applied  with  the  blow-pipe: 
and  that  is  what  the  tempest-fire  is. 

There  is  no  way  to  guard  absolutely 
against  these  hurricane-fires,  and  there 
is  no  way  to  decrease  the  chances  of 
having  them,  except  the  utmost  care  in 
every  particular  building.  All  the  of- 
fice-mansions of  our  business-districts 
are  full  of  the  most  inflammable  ma- 
terial. The  wooden  desks  with  their 
flimsy  stationery  and  oily  inks,  are 
ready  at  any  time  to  go  up  in  a  blaze 
of  glory.  Wooden  partitions  abound, 
to  fence  off  the  different  occupants  of 
sub-offices  into  at  least  nominal  seclu- 
sion. The  proverbial  contribution-box 
IS  not  drier  than  chairs,  tables,  and  fur- 
niture generally.  The  air — not  moister 
than  that  of  the  desert  of  Sahara — is 


full  of  burnable  dust.  Most  offices  are 
full  of  the  daintiest  food  that  fire  can 
ask. 

The  stores  are  stocked  with  the  best 
kind  of  provisions  upon  which  fires  can 
subsist.  A  drug-store  is,  of  course, 
nothing  but  a  conflagration  all  ready 
to  set  off;  dry-goods  establishments 
are  not  much  better.  All  are  s;tored 
more  or  less  with  explosives,  which, 
apon  occasion,  can  toss  the  fiercest  fire- 
brands for  blocks,  within  a  few  seconds 
of  time. 

Dwelling-houses  are  particularly  in- 
flammable: they  are  full  of  clothing  all 
ready  to  be  ignited,  books,  newspapers, 
pictures,  curtains,  laces — all  sorts  of 
things  that  can  be  burned  in  a  half- 
hour's  time.  The  stage-regions  of  thea- 
tres, crowded  with  flimsy  imitations  of 
real  things,  are  of  course  ready  at  any 
time  to  be  devoured!  by  flames. 

In  the  midst  of  all  these  prepared 
bonfires,  there  are  likely  to  be  at  any 
time,  plenty  of  igniting-materials.  Un- 
extinguished cigar-stubs  do  their  share ; 
the  infernal  parlor-match  can  be  kindled 
with  the  friction  of  a  rat's  foot.  Defec- 
tive flues,  crossed  electric  wires,  and 
hundreds  of  other  agencies,  are  always 
ready  tjo  start  a  conflagratSon  on  its 
way  and  wish  it  success. 

The  way  the  streets  of  Jerusalem 
were  at  one  time  kept  clean,  was  this: 
every  man  kept  tidy  the  section  of  road 
just  opposite  his  own  door.  The  way 
to  limit  the  number  of  these  gigantic 
conflagrations,  is  for  every  one  to  make 
his  own  house  or  place  of  business  as 
proof  against  fire  as  possible. 


Campaigning  with  Fiddles. 
IT  was  once  the  great  desire  of  an  ac- 
quaintance of  the  writer  of  this,  to 
own  and  manipulate  a  violin.  His 
father  voted  against  the  motion  (and 
the  proposed  motives),  his  mother  was 
against  it,  his  brother  and  sisters  were 


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against  it,  his  good  old  grandparents 
were  against  it,  the  preacher  was 
against  it,  and  the  family  finances  were 
against  it. 

But  he  knew  several  fellows  that 
owned  violins;  and  he  rather  envied 
them.  They  were,  in  a  measure,  dis- 
tinguished young  men  in  the  commu- 
nity. Their  distinction  did  not  seem  a 
very  solid  one — ^but  it  served  as  one. 

They  were  the  "life"  (such  life  as  it 
was)  of  evening  parties — so  long  as 
they  brought  along  with  them  their 
charming  little  portable  manufactories 
of  nuisic.  They  were  the  center  of  at- 
traction, when  "Come,  come,  come, 
come  to  the  sunset  tree"  was  the  gentle, 
general  cry,  and  could  see  and  play 
both  under  the  tree  and  on  the  porch. 
Sometimes,  they  even  pocketed  a  little 
money  at  public  or  semi-public  dances, 
by  furnishing  the  melodic  juice  of  the 
occasion. 

But  as  they  grew  older,  they  did  not 
prosper.  Younger  men  also  learned  to 
manipulate  the  instrument,  introduced 
new  methods  and  melodies,  and  were 
more  in  demand.  Soon  the  young  Ole 
Bulls  went  into  such  minor  employ- 
menls  as  they  could  obtain,  and  "passed 
out  of  fiddling". 

Still,  perhaps  one  in  a  great  number, 
having  real  natural  talent,  would  com- 
pel his  music  to  "make  good".  He 
might  become  a  famous  teacher  or  con- 
cert-player. He  might  lead  a  money- 
making  and  fame-making  orchestra  or 
band.  In  that  case,  even  the  most  de- 
voted opponents  of  the  bow-dragged 
narp,  had  to  admit  that  the  violin  was 
the  right  thing  in  the  right  place. 

One  Southern  boy  did  better  than 
that.  He  learned  how  to  play  the  frisky 
instrument  "off"  an  old  negro  in  Happy 
Valley,  Tenn.,  and  never  forgot.  It  was 
an  odd  and  undignified  way  for  a  states- 
man to  go  on  the  hustings  with  a  fiddle 
in  his  lap — but  United  States  Senator 
"Bob"  Taylor  did  that  again  and  again, 


and  carried  his  audiences  with  him,  and, 
generally,  the  voters.  He  seems  to  have 
acted  upon  the  principle  that  if  he  could 
enthrall  people's  fancies,  their  judg- 
ment would  soon  follow  along. 

He  is  not  the  only  Southern  politician 
that  has  used  this  method,  that,  one 
time,  came  to  grief.  A  candidate  for 
sheriff  of  a  county,  the  story  goes,  was 
fiddling  for  power,  and  making  great 
progress  witii  his  audiences,  entirely 
obliterating  his  opponent,  until  he  no- 
ticed that  the  successful  violinist  was  a 
left-handed  man.  He  sent  one  of  his 
henchmen  down  into  the  crowd  with 
instructions. 

"Why  don't  ye  fiddle  with  that  t'other 
hand  o'  yourn?"  shouted  the  henchman. 

Of  course  a  lot  of  the  people  shouted 
"T'other  hand!  t'other  hand!  t'other 
handr 

"Gentlemen,"  explained  the  candidate, 
"I  would  like  to,  but  I  can't.  I'm  left- 
handed." 

"That  won't  wash,  in  any  way  what- 
somever!"  shouted  the  wily  persecutor. 
"You  went  up  to  Longpike  (a  rival 
town)  yesterday,  an*  fiddled  with  yer 
right  hand :  an'  ef  ye  can't  do'  as  much 
for  us,  ye'll  never  git  my  vote!" 

It  was  in  vaiin  that  the  candidate  tried 
to  explain  there  w^as  no  way  of  doing 
it:  and  he  lost  the  election. 


Dog-Cemeteries. 

Tp  HE  more  or  less  faithful  animal  that 
"makes  man  his  god^',  as  Gold- 
smith says,  does  not  do  all  the  wor- 
shiping. Often  man  returns  the  compli- 
ment, and  worships  the  dog.  This 
unique  animal,  that  seems  to  get  nearer 
mankind  than  any  other  except  mankind 
itself,  has  some  very  warm  friends  and 
adorers:  and  there  is  almost  as  much 
sorrow,  sometimes,  m  a  house,  when 
dogs  die,  as  if  they  were  children  of. 
the  family. 

The  question  then  occurs,  what  to  do 


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with  the  dead  pet,  in  which  so  much 
fondness  has  been  invested,  and  which 
has  no  doubt  returned  it  with  interest? 
Often  human  nature  cannot  bear  to 
think  of  the  lifekss  body  of  the  hum- 
ble, well-loved  friend,  as  being  thrown 
around  anywhere  it  may  happen:  and 
perhaps  wants  to  put  some  of  the  kind- 
ness upon  it  dead,  that  he  omitted  while 
living,  Byron's  dog  "Pilot"  has  been 
quoted  so  long  that  it  is  hackneyed ;  but 
his  monument  to  the  well-loved  brute 
is  still  one  of  the  most  interesting  land- 
marks of  Newstead  Abbey. 

It  seems  strange  that  this  feeling 
should  result  in  the  establishing  of 
regular  canine  cemeteries:  but  such  is 
the  case.  There  are,  it  is  said,  several 
of  them  in  this  country,  and  a  particu- 
larly elaborate  one  is  established  in  a 
Long  Island  town  conveniently  near 
New  York.  It  lies  close  to  the  railroad- 
station,  so  as  to  be  fairly  contiguous  to 
those  who  wish  to  run  over  at  any  time 
for  the  purpose  of  spending  an  hour  or 
two  near  the  remains  of  their  pets. 

tiere  the  long-distance  sportsman 
can  come,  and,  seated-  upon  the  grassy 
little  hillock  beneath  which  lie  the  at- 
tenuated bones  of  his  fleet-footed 
hound,  he  can  recollect  the  long  chases 
they  have  had  together,  over  hill  and 
through  forest.  Here  the  killer  of  the 
little  birds  that  do  or  do  not  sing  about 
your  door,  can  muse  upon  the  good 
points  of  his  pointer.  Here  the  pro- 
prietor of  a  terrier  can  sit  and  remem- 
ber how  tlie  little  piece  of  anatomy 
buried  down  there,  used  to  throw  itself 
into  a  canine  convulsion  whenever  he 
vociferated  "Rats!" 

The  coach-dog,  the  house-dog,  the 
lap-dog,  and  all  the  other  species  of 
dogs,  can  lie  here  together  in  quietude, 
and  in  a  harmonious  peace  that  would 
be  utterly  impossible,  were  they  living. 
The  grim  bulldog  will  close  his  whit-e 
teeth  upon  none  of  his  less  belligerent 
neighbors;    and  cats,  if  they  chance  to 


visit  this  quiet  scene,  need  not  be  fur- 
tively looking  about  for  trees  to  ascend 
in  case  of  imminent  daftger. 

Of  course  the  plots  in  this  cemetery 
will  vary  in  importance  and  splendor. 
A  five-thousand-dollar  dog  (several  of 
which,  we  believe,  exist),  would  natu- 
rally claim  a  more  sumptuous  bed,  than 
one  that  had  been  huckstered  off  for  a 
song:  in  fact,  it  is  not  sure  but  that 
the  former  may  in  some  cases  have 
tombs,  surmounted  by  statues  of  them- 
selves, of  heroic  size.  It  is  perhaps 
logical,  and  at  any  rate  inevitable,  that 
a  dog  which  had  a  good  deal  of 
money  spent  upon  him  while  living, 
should  have  similar  good  fortune  when 
dead. 

On  the  whole,  this  cemetery  of 
tame  wolves  ought  to  be  an  artistic, 
sentimental,  and  financial  success. 


The  Worst  of  the  Wrecks, 

Q  ALAMITIES,  like  other  things,  are 
liable  to  be  on  a  large  scale,  nowa- 
days. They  are  also  notable  in  the  sur- 
prises they  spring  upon  the  grieved  and 
startled  world. 

But  no  one  ever  supposed  that  the 
"Titanic" — ^largest  and  strongest  ship  in 
existence — would,  after  her  completion, 
be  the  very  first  to  sink.  No  one  sup- 
posed she  would  be  under  the  waves  be- 
fore completing  her  maiden  voyage,  and 
that  it  would  end  beneath,  instead  of 
by  the  edge  of,  of  the  sea. 

No  one  supposed  that  her  officers  or 
owners  would  be  foolhardy  enough  to 
sail  her  through  a  fleet  of  icebergs,  at  a 
speed  of  twentyfive  miles  an  hour — re- 
gardless of  the  danger  that  hung  over 
the  thousands  of  people  that  had  entrust- 
ed her  with  their  lives  and  with  those  of 
their  loved  ones. 

No  one  would  suppose  that  the  man 
who  was  undoubtedly  rcvsponsible,  would 
still  try  to  hold  up  his  head  among  his 
fellow-men. 


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ute Sermon. 

By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

^HE  article  in  the  March  number  of 
Every  Where,  entitled  "From  the 
Minister's  Standpoint",  suggests  an  in- 
teresting question,  namely,  this:  Is  it 
better  to  hold  truth  in  the  spirit  of  error, 
or  to  hold  error  in  the  spirit  of  truth? 

An  old  man  once  said  to  me :  "There's 
nQthing  in  this  world  will  lie  like  facts, 
tmless  'tis  figgers !"  The  facts  in  them- 
selves may  be  true,  but  stated  in 
such  a  spirit  as  to  suggest  false  infer- 
ences. This  is  true  of  "The  Minister's 
Standpoint."  It  is  an  instance  of  the 
way  in  which  facts  incontestably  true 
may  be  used  to  suggest  inferences  abso- 
lutely false. 

The  writer  wails  out,  "Things  go  on 
and  get  worse  and  worse  every  year!" 
This  statement  is  false  from  center  to 
circumference!  Things  are  not  grow- 
ing worse  from  year  to  year!  Things 
are  growing  better  from  year  to  year! 
The  minister's  standpoint  is  too  narrow : 
hence  his  view  of  the  situation  inade- 
quate. 

Once  on  the  Bimini  Islands  in  the 
Bahamas,  I  met  an  old  negro  who  was 
confident  that  the  world  was  growing 
worse  all  the  time.  He  supported  his 
assertion  by  the)  fact  that  when  he  was 
a  little  boy  there  would  be  often  four 
or  five  wrecks  come  ashore  every  sum- 
mer, and  now  there  had  been  no  wreck 
for  ten  years.  As  it  was  manifestly  im- 
possible for  a  thrifty  community  of 
wreckers  to   live  on  one  wreck  in  ten 


years,  the  world  was  growing,  as  it 
seemed  to  him,  worse  and  worse.  Fish- 
ing and  raising  bananas  and  yams  gave 
a  living,  but  was  not  as  exciting  and 
remunerative  as  the  occupation  of 
wrecking.  When  commerce  was  con- 
ducted in  small  wooden  sailing-vessels, 
wrecks  were  frequent;  but  now  that  it 
is  mostly  done  in  steel  steam-craft, 
wrecks  occur  but  seldom.  Is  the  world 
growing  worse? 

We  live  in  an  age  in  which  all  the 
institutions  of  society  are  having  a  rough 
shaking  up:  and  it  is  no  more  true  of 
the  churches  than  it  is  of  our  legisla- 
tures and  courts.  Even  our  national 
Constitution  is  under  fire,  and  our  courts 
have  to  stand  on  the  defensive  as  to 
their  procedure.  When  we  come  to  our 
schools  and  colleges,  we  find  the  same 
critical  spirit  at  work,  and  educators  are 
at  their  wits'  ends  to  know  what  is  best 
in  the  matter  of  educational  methods. 
The  minister  and  the  churches  are  no 
more  under  criticism  than  judges,  courts, 
legislatures,  and  teachers. 

This  upheaval  in  society  at  large,  is 
not  because  things  are  getting  worse  and 
worse,  but  because  things  are  growing 
better  and  better.  The  fact  of  it  is,  we 
are  living  in  such  an  age  of  moral  and 
spiritual  revival  as  the  world  has  never 
known*  before. 

Never  in  history  have  the  ethical 
standards  of  society  been  as  high  as  to- 
day. Never  have  the  principles  of  the 
gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  been  so  in  evi- 
dence as  the  great  dynamics  of  human 
progress  are  today. 

Witness   those  men   going   down   to 


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death  on  the  decks  of  the  sinking  Titanic, 
calmly  and  joyfully  with  the  cry,  "Wo- 
men and  children  first!"  on  their  lips. 
What  a  sermon  on  the  text,  "We  that 
are  strong  ought  to  bear  the  infirmities 
of  the  weak,  and  not  to  please  ourselves, 
for  even  Christ  pleased  not  Himself"! 
What  a  testimony  to  the  fact  that  the 
Anglo-Saxon  world  today  is  ruled  im- 
peratively by  the  fundamental  law  of  the 
gospel  of  Jesus  Christ! 

Paul  gave  the  key-note  of  the  gospel 
when  he  said,  "I  am  a  debtor  to  all 
men!"  That  is,  Paul  meant  to  say, 
"What  I  have  I  owe!  If  I  have  sight 
I  owe  it  to  the  blind.  If  I  have  wealth 
I  owe  it  to  the  poor.  If  I  have  culture 
I  owe  it  to  the  ignorant  and  less  favored 
than  myself."  Never  was  there  an  age 
in  the  history  of  mankind  more  swayed 
by  this  great  fundamental  law  of  Chris- 
tian life  than  the  present !  Witness  our 
charities,  our  hospitals,  and  our  mis- 
sions! There  was  never  such  a  mis- 
sionary age  as  this!  Never  an  age  so 
stirred  by  love  of  Christ  for  men,  as  this ! 

Then,  too,  if  we  turn  from  facts  to 
principles:  when  in  the  history  of  the 
evolution  of  the  race,  have  men  ever 
given  up  anything  really  essential? 
Where  in  all  the  pathway  of  history  has 
any  great  light  been  blown  out  that 
some  noble  soul  had  kindled  along  the 
pathway  of  the  centuries?  Men  grop- 
ing in  darkness  do  not  try  to  blow  out 
the  flickering  candles  in  the  hands  of 
their  guides!  That  people  do  go  to 
church  Sunday  after  Sunday  and  turn 
their  faces  to  so  many  pulpits  pathetic- 
ally expectant  of  hearing  something  to 
help  them  in  the  battle  of  life,  to  me, 
is  a  most  significant  fact. 

To  my  mind  it  ought  to  rest  heavily 
on  the  conscience  of  every  preacher, 
lest  : 

"The  hungry  sheep  look  up,  and  are  not 
fed." 

The  fact  is,  this  is  an  age  of  wonder- 
ful opportunity  for  the  ministers  and 
the  churches:  for  never  in  the  history 
of  the  world  have  multitudes  been  more 
eager  to  hear  something  to  lift  the  bur- 
den and  the  weight  of  this  unintelligible 


life.  When  the  children  ask  for  bread, 
shall  we  give  them  a  stone? 

Of  late  I  have  been  about  among^  the 
churches  in  various  states  in  the  Union : 
and  my  own  personal  view  is  one  of 
decidied  dissent  from  that  presented  in 
the  article  from  the  Literary  Digest. 

I  find  splendid  men  in  the  pulpits, 
and  noble  self-sacrificing  men  and 
women  in  the  pews.  It  is  my  firmest 
conviction  that  never  were  the  churches 
dbing  a  nobler  work  for  God  and  man, 
than  today. 

That  such  notes  of  discouragement 
come  from  time  to  time  from  the  niin- 
isters  and  churches,  is  no  new  thing. 
It  is  the  old  cry  of  the  disciples :  "Lord, 
we  have  toiled  all  night  and  taken  noth- 
ing !"  Then  through  the  morning  damps 
and  fog,  comes  the  answer,  "Cast  the 
net  on  the  right  side,  and  ye  shall  find." 
God  never  works  as  men  expect  Him  to. 
Christ  never  comes  as  they  think  he 
ought  to  come.  John  the  Baptist,  eager- 
ly watching  Jesus  from  his  prison  walls, 
sends  a  message  and  asks  doubtfully, 
"Art  thou  he  that  should  come,  or  wait 
we  for  another?" 

So  with  Jesus'  immediate  disciples. 
They  looked  for  thrones  and  glory,  and 
he  showed  them  a  cross  and  a  tomb! 
"We  trusted  that  it  had  been  he  that 
should  have  redeemed  Israel!"  they 
cried  in  despair.  Yet  later  their  hearts 
burned  within  them  as  he  told  them  of 
himself  from  the  scriptures. 

He  told  them  how  it  was  written  that 
he  must  suffer  many  things  and  be  cru- 
cified, and  yet  how  he  would  rise  again 
to  reign  through  the  centuries  till  he 
should  make  the  kingdbms  of  this  world 
his  own.  One  must  be  blind  not  to  see 
how  he  is  doing  that  today. 

"O  blest  is  he  to  whom  is  given, 
The  instinct  that  can  tell 
That  God  is  on  the  field  when  He, 
Is  most  invisible. 

"For  right  is  right  since  God  is  God, 
And  right  the  day  must  win : 
To  doubt  would  be  disloyalty, 
To  falter  would  be  sin." 


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A  Famous  Preacher's  Mother. 

lUTRS.  CUYLER,  mother  of  the  great 
clergyman,  who  was  for  years  one 
of  the  spiritual  landmarks  of  Brooklyn, 
was  naturally  very  proud  of  her  son. 

She  ,had  trained  him  up  to  be  a  cler- 
gyman, and  had  thwarted  a  plan  he  had 
formulated  for  spending  his  life  in  the 
practice  of.  the  law.  She  lived  many 
years  to  sit  under  and  over  his  preach- 
ing. 

"Whenever  I  hear  Beecher  or  Tal- 
mage,''  she  used  to  say,  "I  come  home 
feeling  as  if  I  had  been  fed  with  an 
empty  spoon." 

After  Dr.  Cuyler  ^had  returned  from  a 
visit  to  Europe,  during  which  he  was 
presented  at  Court,  some  one  said  to 
the  dear  old  lady, 

"I  hear, 'Mrs.  Cuyler,  Theodore  saw 
the  Queen." 

"Not  exactly  that,"  was  the  placid  but 
inexorable  reply :  "the  Queen  saw  The- 
odore." 

When  people  b^an  to  repeat  the  local 
proverb  that  there  were  only  three  kinds 
of  people  in  the  world,  the  saints,  the 
sinners,  and  the  Beechers,  Mrs.  Cuyler 
met  the  remark  with  the  grave  asser- 
tion, 

"There  are  only  two  kinds  of  people: 
and  those  are  Theodore,  and  the  rest  of 
the  world." 

During  one  of  the  President-electing 
years,  the  statement  was  made  at  a 
reception,  that  the  wisest,  cleanest,  ablest 
man  in  the  country  should  be  chosen  for 
that  exalted  office. 

The  good  old  lady  shifted  her  cap 
slightly,  raised  her  eyebrows  a  good 
deal,  and  said, 

"He  can't  take  it :  I  dedicated  him  to 
the  ministry,  and  he  must  stay  there." 

When  the  distinguished  divine  began 
to  lose  his  hearing,  the  mother  at  first 
grieved  a  little,  but  finally  consoled  her- 
self with  the  following  thought: 

"Well,  it  doesn't  matter  so  very  much : 
he  must  do  all  the  more  talking.  The- 
odore knows  even  now,  a  hundred  times 
as  much  as  all  the  rest  of  the  world 
could  tell  him." 


Gems  From  Talmage. 

It  is  easy  to  fight  in  a  regiment  of  a 
thousand  men,  but  not  so  easy  to  endure 
when  no  one  but  the  nurse  and  doctor 
are  witnesses  of  the  Christian  fortitude. 


The  brightest  crowns  in  heaven  will 
not  be  given  to  those  who  dashed  to  the 
cavalry  charge,  but  to  those  who  trudged 
on  amid  chronic  ailments  which  un- 
nerved their  strength,  yet  all  the  time 
maintaining  their  faith  in  God. 


The  heaviest  clod  that  falls  upon  a 
parent's  coffin-lid  is  the  memory  of  an 
ungrateful  daughter.  Oh,  make  their 
last  days  bright  and  beautiful.  Do  not 
act  as  though  they  were  in  the  way,  but 
ask  their  counsel  and  seek  their  prayers. 


There  are  so  many  ways  of  finding 
out  all  about  the  character  and  prefer- 
ences and  dislikes  and  habits  of  a  man 
or  woman,  that  if  you  have  not  brain 
enough  to  form  a  right  judgment  in 
regard  to  him  or  her,  you  are  not  so 
fit  a  candidate  for  the  matrimonial  altar 
as  you  are  for  an  idiot  asylum. 


When  the  doorkeeper  of  Congress  fell 
dead  for  joy  because  Burgoyne  had  sur- 
rendered at  Saratoga,  and  Philip  the 
Fifth,  of  Spain,  dropped  lifeless  at  the 
news  of  his  country's  defeat  in  battle, 
and  Cardinal  Wolsey  expired  as  a  result 
of  Henry  the  Eighth's  anathema,  it  was 
demonstrated  that  the  body  and  soul  are 
Siamese  twins,  and  when  you  thrill  the 
one  with  joy  or  sorrow  you  thrill  the 
other. 


How  many  good  people  there  are 
who  drive  souls  away  from  Christ. 
instead  of  bringing  them  to  Him!— 
religious  blunderers  who  upset  more 
than  they  right.  Their  gun  has  a  crook- 
ed barrel  and  kicks  as  it  goes  off. 
They  are  like  a  clumsy  comrade  who 
goes  along  with  skilful  hunters;  at  the 
very  moment  he  ought  to  be  most  quiet 
he  is  cracking  an  alder  or  falling  over 
a  log  and  frightening  away  the  game. 


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Napoleon's  Stomaoh-Oanoer. 

By  Dr.  H.  L.  Cameron. 

TT  HE  medical  attendant  with  whom 
the  great  French  emperor  was 
furnished  by  the  authorities  that  had 
imprisoned  him  upon  the  island  of  St. 
Helena,  insisted  that  his  distinguished 
patient's  disease  was  not  "cancer  of  the 
stomach",  as  it  had  been  diagnosed,  but 
simple  indigestion — and  advised  him  to 
"dig  in  the  garden,  if  he  wanted  to  get 
well." 

This  prescription  could  not  have  fallen 
upon  very  receptive  ground :  for  a  man 
who  had  swayed  a  scepter  over  conti- 
nent upon  continent,  could  hardly  relish 
the  manipulating  of  a  spade  and  a  mat- 
tock, over  a  small  portion  of  a  barren 
island — even  for  the  sake  of  preserving 
his  own  life — which  perhaps  he  did  not 
value,  now  that  be  was  shorn  of  his 
power.  Still,  they  say,  "Life  is  sweet, 
under  almost  any  circumstances." 

The  circumstance,  however,  is  a  very 
interesting  one.  Supposing  that  Napo- 
leon, instead  of  brooding  over  his  mis- 
fortunes, and  standing  for  hours  upon 
the  shore,  with  his  hands  behind  him, 
gazing  off  upon  the  desolate  waters, 
should  have  taken  charge  of  a  garden, 
and  spent  half  or  even  a  fourth  of  his 
time  there,  cultivating  vegetables  and 
flowers:  what  do  you  think  would  have 
become  of  his  "cancer  of  the  stomach"? 

Unfortunately  for  Napoleon,  the 
newer  hygienic  methods  had  no  chance 
whatever,  in  his  day.  The  old,  old, 
drug-methods  overshadowed  everything 
then.  There  are  pharmacies  in  France, 
that  have  stood  on  the  same  spot,  of 


course  under  different  management  and 
proprietorship — for  hundreds  of  years. 

Many  of  the  physicians  of  that  day, 
diagnosed  all  diseases  as  seriously  as 
they  could:  for  the  worse  the  malady, 
the  more  their  credit  if  they  cured  it. 

No  doubt  there  were  quite  a  good 
many  of  the  physicians,  even  of  that 
time,  who  rebelledl  against  the  old-fash- 
ioned methods:  and  this  one  who  at- 
tended Napoleon  in  his  last  illness,  was 
perhaps  one  of  them.  But  he  was  prob- 
a!bly  "turned  down"  iby  the  distin- 
guished ex-warrior,  and,  doubtless,  by 
other  physicians  and  it  is  said,  had  hard 
work  to  secure  a  pension  of  some  $600, 
that  Napoleon  had  deigned  to  leave  him 
in  his  will. 

I  remember  driving  through  the  hill- 
regions  of  Pennsylvania,  one  day,  with 
a  staid  and  reliable  farmer,  who,  as  we 
drove  along,  gave  me  some  information 
or  other,  concerning  every  one  we  met 
on  the  road.  One  was  a  sturdy-look- 
ing, middle-aged  fellow,  on  a  load  of 
saw-logs. 

"That  fellow  does  three  men's  work, 
every  day  of  his  life,"  said  the  farmer. 
"And  yet,  a  few  years  ago,  the  doctors 
held  a  council  over  him,  and  made  up 
their  minds  that  he  had  cancer  of  the 
stomach.  Well,  sir,  they  put  him  under 
ether,  an'  opened  his — his — colon,  [the 
largest  and  most  important  of  the  intes- 
tines], an'  examined  him  closely:  a 
good  deal  more  close  than  /  would  like 
to  be  examined  by  a  lot  of  doctors. 

"Well,  they  found  the  inside  of  that 
— colon,  all  netted  over  with  some  kind 
of  a  growth,  and  decided  that  they  were 
right — it  was  a  cancer,  and  a  bad  one. 


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The  bigg-est  surgeon  anywhere  around 
here,  he  said  it  was  a  cancer,  and  all  the 
other  ones,  they  said  it  was  a  cancer, 
and  that  the  man  couldn't  live  till  morn- 
ing. They  sewed  him  up  just  enough 
to  make*  a  decent  appearance  to  the  un- 
dertaker, and  put  him  to  bed  I  suppose, 
and  all  of  the  doctors  went  away,  except 
the  boss  one. 

"  'Now,*  he  says  to  me,  Til  go  back 
to  town :  it's  no  use  for  me  to  stay  here 
any  longer — I  can't  do  the  man  any 
good.  He'll  die  some  time  during  the 
night.  You  'phone  to  me  early,  and  I'll 
send  out  a  first-class  undertaker.  Take 
good  care  of  him  as  long  as  he  needs  it.' 
And  he  went  away,  with  not  half  enoug'h 
sympathy  in  his  voice.  Surgeons  can't 
help  gettin'  hardened  like. 

"Well,  I  watched  him  all  night,  but 
he  wouldn't  die.  He  'came  to'  toward 
morning,  and  asked  for  a  drink  of  water. 
He  drank  it,  with  relish,  and  about 
breakfast-time,  wanted  a  little  some- 
thing to  eat.  We  cheered  him  up  as 
well  as  we  could,  and  didn't  tell  him 
that  he  was  going  to  receive  visitors 
pretty  soon — that  the  undertaker  was 
•bye-and-'bye  coming  out  to  take  care  of 
him,  by  the  doctor's  order. 

"Along  half  or  three-quarters  of  an 
hour  after  breakfast-time,  the  doctor 
'phoned,  from  his  comfortable  home 
twelve  miles  away,  and  informed  me 
that  he  arrived  home  safely  (which  I 
was  glad  to  hear)  and  that  he  had 
'phoned  the  undertaker,  who  was  all 
ready  to  start,  as  soon  as  I  would  give 
the  word.  He  assumed,  of  course,  that 
the  man  was  dead,  since  he  had  left  him 
properly  dying:  and  wanted  him  prop- 
erly taken  care  of,  and  by  that  under- 
taker. Whether  he  got  a  commission 
on  the  bill  or  not,  I  don't  know:  there 
were  other  undertakers,  just  as  good, 
nearer  by. 

"The  fellow  grew  better,  right  along, 
and  never  has  been  sick,  to  any  extent, 
since.  He  had  to  have  a  few  more 
stitches  taken  in  him  ('so  as  to  make 
sure',  it  was  said)  :  but  after  that,  he 
never  had  any  trouble. 

"Naturally,  the  doctors  did  not  hold 
any  more  councils  over  him:  buit  I  un- 


derstand they  sort  of  discussed  it  among 
themselves,  figured  it  all  out,  and  ex- 
plained the  whole  thing  to  their  own 
satisfaction.  They  said  that  there  really 
was  a  cancer  in  the  man's  colon,  but 
having  it  open  so  long  as  they  did,  let 
in  so  much  air,  that  the  oxygen  killed 
the  germs,  and  everything  went  on  the 
same  as  it  used  to,  before  there  was 
any  cancer." 

This  incident,  or  transaction,  or  what- 
ever it  may  be  called,  is  a  very  inform- 
ing one,  and  ought  to  be  printed  in  the 
proceedings  of  some  medical  associa- 
tion, and  widely  circulated.  Perhaps  it 
may  have  been:  but  if  so,  I  have  not 
seen  it. 

My  explanation  of  the  case  is,  that  a 
council  of  physicians  is,  in  many  cases, 
not  unlike  a  jury.  One  member  of  it 
really  has  one  opinion,  and  another 
another :  and  each  tells  what  he  wishes, 
concerning  what  he  believes  in  the  mat- 
ter. Sometimes  a  younger  one  does  not 
care  to  disagree  with  a  mature,  estab- 
lished and  well-known  doctor,  and  main- 
tains silence,  or,  perhaps,  agrees  with 
the  prevailing  opinion,  in  order  to  save 
time.  Occasionally,  perhaps,  if  a  newly- 
fledged  Aesculapius  ventures  a  novel  or 
heretical  opinion,  he  is  pooh-poohed 
out  of  court,  and  afterwards,  too — as 
was  Napoleon's  young  physician. 


Short  Health. Stories. 

Beef-tea  is  often  a  first-  class  stimu- 
lant, and  a  harmless  one,  and  tides  a 
patient  over  many  rough  places. 


"Boiler^makers'  ear  paralysis"  has 
been  recognized  as  an  ailment;  and 
some  people  are  trying  hard  not  to  be 
glad  of  it. 


The  beauty  of  eating  your  food 
"smoking  hot",  or  at  least  warm,  is- 
that  the  stomach  is  spared  some  of  the 
pains  of  raising  it  to  the  requisite  98 
degrees. 


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was  asked  what  was  meant  by  "nutri- 
tious  food",  the  tiny  epicure  replied: 
'  "Something  to  eat  that  hasn't  got  any 
taste  to  it." 


Frances  Willard  used  to  say  that  a 
man  too  busy  to  take  care  of  his  health 
was  like  a  mechanic  too  busy  to  keq) 
his  tools  in  shape.  And  yet  poor  Fran- 
ces lost  her  health  and  died  compara- 
tively young. 


Ilie  MiBBion  of  Water. 

gVERYBODY  uses  it,  enjoys  it,  and 
at  times  adores  it:  but  few  realize 
what  a  grand  old  blessing  it  is.  That  it 
is  old,  you  can  learn  from  the  records 
of  creation ;  that  it  is  grand,  the  ocean 
will  tell  you. 

But  what  a  great  ocean  there  is  of  it 
outside  of  the  ocean!  It  is  one  of  the 
"constituent  elements"  of  all  animal 
organizations.  It  keeps  cool  and  unin- 
jured that  which  otherwise  would  be 
burned  to  a  crisp.  The  millions  of  little 
fires  that  are  constantly  being  lighted 
throughout  our  systems,  would  burn  us 
to  death,  were  it  not  for  the  water  that 
keeps  quenching  them. 

Water  as  part  oxygen  and  part  hydro- 
gen. These  two  seem  inexorably  mated, 
in  the  beneficent  nuptials,  and  journey 
together  wherever  the  waves  and  bil- 
lows may  go. 

Every  instant  of  our  lives,  a  certain 
amount  of  water  is  given  out  of  our 
bodies,  through  the  pores  of  the  skin: 
if  it  were  not  for  this,  we  would  soon 
be  vile,  inert,  and  non-living  creatures. 
You  can  kill  a  man  in  a  very  short  time, 
by  covering  him  tightly  with  plaster- 
paris,  so  that  perspiration  cannot  take 
place. 

In  order  to  give  out  all  this  moisture, 
the  body  must  be  constantly  replenished 
with  water.  The  moment  the  supply 
runs  low,  a  cry  of  feeling,  as  it  might 
be  called,  rises,  and  its  name  is  Thirst. 
It  is  probably  one  of  the  most  subtle  and 
far-reaching  sensations  which  humanity 
experiences.  If  it  is  not  soon  gratified, 
the  strength  and    vigor    of    the    body 


will  fail.  You  may  feed  a  man  with  the 
most  nutritious  of  viands,  and  if  you  do 
not  give  him  water,  what  you  give  him 
to  eat  will  be  worse  than  useless.  Com- 
plete deprivation  of  the  divine  fluid 
generally  proves  fatal  in  four  or  five 
days.  One  of  the  greatest  tortures 
known  to  history,  is  the  shutting  a  man 
up  and  depriving  him  of  water  until  he 
dies. 

Water  not  only  cools  the  body,  and 
keeps  it  from  burning  up,  but  it  gets 
into  the  arteries,  and  helps  the  blood 
carry  nutrition  through  the  body.  It 
also  assists  in  removing  debris  through 
the  veins. 

But  this  splendid  couple— Oxygen 
and  Hydrogen,  living  together,  working 
together — like  many  other  congenial 
couples,  sustain  the  intrusion  of  inter- 
lopers. There  comes  the  danger  of 
using  the  grand  substance,  unless  you 
know  that  it  comes  nearly  alone.  More 
or  less  impurities,  of  slight  importance, 
will  cling  and  come  along:  and  if  you 
take  them  into  your  system  along  with 
the  water,  you  run  great  risk. 

Terrible  cases  of  Bright's  Disease 
have  arisen,  from  the  drinking  of  water 
from  wells  that  were  infested  with  lime. 
If  the  water  had  all  been  distilled 
before  drinking,  the  interior  of  the 
kettle  or  still  in  which  it  was  pre- 
pared, would  have  been  coated  with  the 
white  mineral:  but  instead  of  that,  the 
kidneys  of  the  people  who  drank,  re- 
ceived the  fatal  deposit.  Many  fatal 
fits  of  illness  have  arisen  from  this 
cause. 

Vaults  of  filth  have  found  an  outlet 
into  wells,  and  thus  the  stuff  has  gone 
into  the  human  body.  What  a  terrible 
fact  to  contemplate ! — Some  of  the  pur- 
est of  water,  to  be  made  into  a  death- 
liquid — as  bad  as  any  that  Lucrezia  Bor- 
gia ever  gave  to  one  of  her  victims ! 

One  of  the  hilliest,  naturally  health- 
fulest  states  in  our  Union,  has  been 
transformed  at  times  into  a  regular  cess- 
pool of  death.  With  the  most  balmy 
breezes,  the  purest  of  spring  water,  and 
the  wholesomest  of  food,  it  has  killed 
victim    after    victim — with    adulterated 


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How  to  Write  for  Publication. 

A  PTER  you  have  made  your  way 
into  the  country-paper,  and  are 
welcome  to  its  columns,  don't  consider, 
for  a  moment,  that  your  work  is  all,  or 
a  half,  or  a  thousandth  part,  done. 
Having  obtained  your  vantage-ground, 
you  must  work  to  keep  it.  "There  are 
others",  probably,  that  would  like  to 
crowd  you  out:  and  they  will  do  so  if 
you  give  them  half  a  chance.  If  you  let 
an  important  piece  of  news  slip  by,  or 
make  a  misstatement,  or  commit  one  of 
a  hundred  little  mistakes  that  are  possi- 
ble, you  weaken  your  position  with  the 
editor,  and  make  it  just  so  much  more 
possible  for  somebody  else  to  take  your 
place. 

"Well,  let  them  take  it,  then :  there's 
not  much  of  anything  in  it":  perhaps 
you  say.  But  in  case  you  think  that, 
it  shows  that  you  do  not  really  care  to 
write  for  the  press,  and  are  not  one  of 
the  people  to  whom  I  am  giving  direc- 
tions. If  you  are,  look  out  and  hold 
the  position:  there  may  be  more  and 
more  in  it  as  you  go  on. 

The  matter  of  correct  statement  as 
connected  with  either  a  country  or  city 
paper,  is  one  of  the  utmost  importance. 
In  the  first  place,  papers,  although  the 
opposite  has  often  been  stated,  do  not 
care  to  lie:  they  had  much  rather  tell 
the  truth.  In  cases  where  incorrectness 
obtains,  it  is  generally  not  the  editor's 
fault,  but  that  of  some  correspondent  or 
Oontributor.  The  more  nearly  you  are 
correct,  the  more  valuable  you  will  be  to 
the  editor;  and  the  more  correct  your 
manuscript  is,  the  more  you  will  be 
appreciated  in  the  office. 

Most  of  the  manuscript  that  comes 


into  a  newspaper  office  has  to  be  edited 
— either  by  editor  or  compositor :  pauses 
must  be  added,  paragraphing  supplied, 
and  often  a  good  many  corrections  of 
grammar  and  spelling  have  to  take 
place.  A  correspondent  who  requires 
none  of  this  work  is,  of  course,  more 
valuable  than  the  general  run. 

The  late  David  Gray,  of  Buffalo,  was 
so  correct,  and  was  so  well-known 
among  newspaper  men,  in  that  regard, . 
that  when  he  once  sent  to  the  New  York 
"Tribune"  a  report  of  some  kind,  in 
response  to  its  request,  the  editor, 
Whitelaw  Reid,  gave  special  orders  to 
his  assistants  regarding  the  contribution 
(or,  rather,  the  commodity;  for  he 
received  a  goodly  price  for  it).  "Don't 
edit  David  Gray's  manuscript",  was  the 
order  given. 

The  "new  fields  to  conquer",  to  which 
I  referred  last  month,  may  now  be  con- 
sidered. 

You  need  not  stop  with  the  country 
paper:  you  have  only  just  begun.  Ex- 
amine such  city  journals  as  you  can  pro- 
cure and  see  if  they  publish  any  matter 
such  as  you  can  furnish.  There  are  very 
often  certain  happenings  of  which  they 
would  like  to  have  quick  and  reliable 
accounts :  and  perhaps  you  can  learn  to 
telegraph  these  things  to  them.  Besides, 
in  some  city  papers,  like  the  "Springfield 
Republican",  for  instance,  a  corps  of 
correspondents  is  maintained  in  all  the 
different  towns  in  the  state  large  enough 
to  deserve  the  name.  If  you  have  "a 
nose  for  news",  there  will  be  many  ways 
in  which  you  can  help  and  be  helped. 

If  your  abilities!  go  beyond  the  writ- 
ing of  news,  and  cross  the  literary  line, 
you  have  another  series  of  matters  to 
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Perhaps  you  write,  or  think  you 
write,  poetry.  Somehow,  it  is  one  of 
the  most  difficult  things  in  the  world  for 
any  one  to  find  out  if  he  or  she  can 
really  make  verse.  A  kind  of  mist 
seems  to  cover  the  eyes,  when  one 
reads  his  own  rhymes,  and  his  judg- 
ment is  likely  to  be  perverted.  I  have 
known  well-educated  men,  who  made 
good  prose,  write  the  most  ridiculous 
"poetry",  and  try  to  get  it  published — 
sometimes,  more's  the  pity,  succeeding. 
I  know  a  man  whose  income  at  his  pro- 
fession (that  of  a  lawyer),  is  twenty 
thousand  dollars  a  year :  but  he  uses  up 
all  his  leisure  time  in  writing  "poetry", 
hires  it  printed  in  book  form,  and  gives 
it  away  to  his  clients  and  his  suffering 
friends.  Everybody  laughs  at  him  when 
he  isn't  there,  but  he  thinks  he  is  some 
day  to  be  known  as  the  leading  poet  of 
his  age. 

But  if  you  are  sure  you  are  a  born 
poet,  or  novelist,  or  short-story-writer, 
and  have  made  up  your  mind  inexor- 
ably to  that  fact,  go  ahead  in  a  sensible 
manner,  and  win  recognition,  if  you  can. 
Make  a  list  of  the  best  literary  journals 
of  the  country,  and  bombard  them  with 
your  articles — always  enclosing  stamps 
for  their  return. 

And  they  are  liable  to  be  returned: 
the  best  of  authors,  and  the  oldest, 
sometimes  have  that  experience.  One 
of  the  most  successful  of  story-writers 
whom  I  knovv,  keeps  a  list  of  publishers, 
on  his  desk,  regularly  numbered:  and 
when  his'^  story  is  finished,  starts  it  out 
on  its  rounds.  He  makes  a  memoran- 
dum of  having  sent)  it,  and  if  it  comes 
back,  he  starts  it  toward  number  two, 
by  the  next  mail ;  and  so  on  till  it  finds 
a  market. 

He  finds  it  necessary  to  "groom"  the 
manuscript,  as  he  calls  it,  occasionally, 
so  that  it  will  not  look  too  much  like  a 
"rounder."  This  can  be  done  by  means 
of  clean  rubbers;  and  the  gentleman  is 
an  adept  at  making  his  productions  look, 
even  to  the  thirteenth  editor  who  exam- 
ines them,  as  if  they  had  just  started  out 
on  their  travels. 

Whoever  intends  to  make  a  livelihood 


by  writing  for  the  press,  must  have  as 
much  courage  as  in  any  other  occupa- 
tion. It  will  be  hard  enough,  if  you 
have  talent:  if  you  have  not,  try  some- 
thing else. 


AnoeBtors  of  Insects. 

PVER'Y  WHERE  has  long  been  in 
favor  of  the  killing  of  injurious 
insects,  such  as  flies  and  mosquitoes, 
with  a  view  of  shutting  off  the  arrival 
of  their  descendants.  It  has  advocated 
prizes  or  "bounties"  to  be  paid  for  the 
dead  insects,  the  same  as  paid  for  wolves 
in  frontier  states  and  territories. 

Some  years  after  Every  Where  start- 
ed the  idea,  towns  began  to  take  hold  of 
it — and  now  newspapers  advocate  it. 
The  latest  championing  of  it  is  from  the 
New  York  American,  which  says: 

"Now,  as  the  warm  weather  comes, 
the  flies  that  have  lived  through  the 
Winter  move  about  and  show  them- 
selves. 

"On  the  window-pane  here  and  there 
you  see  and  you  hear  the  big,  blue,  buzz- 
ing fly,  and  the  small,  nervous  blac3c  fly, 
the  fly  that  is  built  like  a  tugboat,  as 
wide  as  she  is  long,  the  slender  fly  of 
racing  build — all  of  the  flies  are  awake 
now,  ready  and  eager  to  produce  mill- 
ions of  flies  for  the  Summer  crop. 

"The  flies  of  the  Summer  and  Fall,  the 
flies  that  are  to  spread  disease  and  keep 
disease  alive,  the  flies  that  go  out  of 
doors  to  the  piles  of  filth  and  bring  the 
disease  germs  to  the  food  that  your 
children  eat — millions  and  hundreds  of 
millions  of  flies — ^wall  be  born  from  the 
few  flies  that  have  lived  through  the 
Winter,  and  that  struggle  now  against 
the .  pane  to  get  out  and  begin  their 
favorite  industry  of  fly  raising. 

"Every  fly  that  you  kill  now  means  a 
thousand  or  more  flies  killed. 

"Every  fly  destroyed  today  means  so 
much  less  distribution  of  disease  through 
the  coming  Summer. 

"In  Cleveland  a  committee  is  alleged 
to  offer  a  reward  for  flies  dead — ^paying 
more  at  this  season  than  later. 


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"Let  your  reward  be  the  fact  that  you 
are  as  useful  and  as  heroic  when  you 
kill  a  fly  as  was  Samson  working  with 
the  jawbone  of  an  ass.  You  are  killing 
thousands  at  a  blow. 

"When  you  destroy  one  fly  living  to- 
day you  will  destroy  a  thousand  flies 
that  would  live  later. 

"And  when  you  destroy  a  thousand 
flies  that  would  live  later  you  prevent 
the  distribution  of  millions  of  disease 
germs  by  the  thousand  flies. 

"^Killing  flies  now,  killing  flies  at  any 
time,  you  protect  the  lives  of  children, 
you  protect  your  health.  And  you  bring 
nearer  the  day  when  human  beings  shall 
have  conquered  their  real  enemies — 
which  we  now  know  are  not  the  tigers, 
the  lions,  the  serpents  or  the  extinct 
monsters,  but  the  deadly  germs  of  dis- 
ease that  travel  about  on  the  spongy, 
sticky  feet  of  flies  and  poison  the  food 
of  the  children. 

"Be  a  fly-killer,  active  and  relentless. 

"You  may  or  may  not  get  into  his- 
tory. You  won't  be  as  well  known  as 
Attila  "le  fleau  de  Dieu",  you  won't  be 
Genghis  Khan  or  Alexander — ^but  you 
will  be  a  big,  important  and  useful  fly- 
killer,  and  that  is  better  than  any  of  the 
gentlemen  named. 

"Kill  Flies." 


An  Adjustment  of  Prices. 

QNE  of  the  most  entertaining  of 
raconteurs  is  Rev.  P.  S.  Henson, 
not  many  years  since,  pastor  of  the  Tre- 
mont  Temple  church,  of  Boston.  He 
was  one  of  those  rare  fun-makers  who 
can  on  occask)n  make  fun  of  them- 
selves. 

"Starting  off  from  Oiicago  to  fill  a  lec- 
ture-engagement," he  says,  "I  had  gone 
as  far  as  the  Michigan  Central  Depot, 
when  it  occurred  to  me  that  I  had  bet- 
ter have  my  shoes  blackened.  There 
was  just  time  to  negotiate  it,  before  my 
train  left. 


"So  I  engaged  a  rugged  little  rascal 
to  do  the  job,  and  he  performed  his 
work  pretty  well. 

"At  the  conclusion  of  the  function,  he 
demanded  for  his  services,  'a  quarter'. 
'Oh  no!'  I  remonstrated,  'it's  a  dime.' 
'It's  a  quarter!'  persisted  the  boy,  pick- 
ing up  a  handful  of  mud  and  'slush*,  and 
glancing  at  the  shoes.  'I  tell  you,  it's  a 
quarter !' 

"It  was  almost  time  for  the  train  to 
go,  and  I  couldn't  aflFord  to  be  'splashed.' 

"'You're  right,  my  boy,  it's  a  quar- 
ter.' I  smilingly  answered,  and  gave  him 
the  coin." 


Gratitude  and  Generosity  Bewild- 
eringly  Mixed. 

COME  of  the  people  at  the  elevated- 
railroad-booths  are  afforded  inter- 
esting studies  of  human  nature.  One  of 
the  women  says  that  a  man  rushed  up 
to  the  wicket  one  day,  and  shouted,  be- 
seechingly, "Trust  me  for  my  nickel, 
and  I  will  pay  you  as  soon  as  I  get 
back.  I  must  make  this  train  to  catch 
another  one  at  the  Grand  Central  Depot : 
and  it  is  a  very  important  business  mat- 
ter, involving  a  good  many  dollars." 

She  knew  the  gentleman  as  a  neigh- 
bor, and  let  him  through,  although 
under  no  obligation  to  do  so,  except  as 
a  matter  of  courtesy:  and  he  made  the 
train,  which  was  already  in  the  station. 

In  a  few  days,  he  came  back  to  her, 
with  radiance  and  gratitude  in  his  face. 

"You  don't  know  what  an  advantage 
it  was  to  me — your  letting  me  through 
this  gate  the  other  morning!"  he  ex- 
claimed. "I  wouldn't  have  missed  that 
train,  for  anything.  It  enabled  me  to 
get  a  train  in  which  I  got  to  Boston  in 
time  to  'make  a  deal'  that  netted  me 
over  five  hundred  dollars.  I  shall  always 
be  under  eternal  obligations  to  you  I  and 
— ^here's  your  nickel." 

The  woman  nearly  fainted  with  grati- 
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April  3 — Seven  lives  were  lost  in  Mississippi 
flcKxis   whch   inundated   300,000  acres   of 
farming  land. 
4 — ;Mrs.    Pankhurst  was  released  from  jail 
in  $10,000  bail,  pending  her  hearing  on 
conspiracy  charges. 
The     Mississippi    continued    to    rise,     ten 
states  being  affected,   and   7,000  persons 
rendered  homeless. 
50,000  British  strikers  returned  to  the  mines, 
less    than    two-thirds    majority    favoring 
continuance. 
5 — The  Government  levee  on  the  Mississippi 
River   at   Reelport   Lake   near    Hickman. 
Ky.,    gave   way,    and    150    square    miles 
were  flooded,  scores  of  people  killed,  and 
much  live  stock  lost. 
6 — Ten    thousand    Canadians    visited    New 
York  City  for  the  Easter  holiday. 
More  breaks  were  reported   in   the   levees 
of  the  flooded  districts;  the  Government 
began    preparations     for    relief    of    the 
homeless  and  foodless. 
7 — The   Mississippi    floods   continued    rising 
till  2,000  square  miles  were  inundated,  30,- 
000  made  homeless  and  $10,000,000  prop- 
erty destroyed. 
8 — The  Mississippi  was  reported  as  receding 
at  Memphis. 
The  Arizona  House  passed  a  woman  suf- 
frage bill,  21  to  4. 
9 — A    new    break   in    the    Mississippi    levee, 
fifty  miles  north  of  Memphis,  threatened 
500,000  acres  of  rich  land  in  Arkansas, 
ro — A  serious  break,  seventeen  feet  wide,  oc- 
curred in  the  levee  of  the  Atchafayalaya 
River,  La. 
Abdul    Baha   Abbas,   leader   of   the    Bahai 
movement,  arrived  in  New  York, 
ri — Premier    Asquith    introduced    the    Irish 
Home  Rule  bill  in  Parliament. 
Gen.  Frederick  D.  Grant  died  in  New  York 
City. 
12— Ninetythree    per   cent,    of    the    members 
of   the   Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  En- 
gineers favored  striking  for  a  wage  in- 
crease. 
13— The  "Protective  League"  of  independent 
petroleum    interests    was     organized    in 
B-irlin     to     combat     the     Standard     Oil 
Company. 
14— The  great  White  Star  liner  Titanic  sent 


a  wireless  message  reporting  having  struck 
an  iceberg,  and  that  she  was  sinking; 
many  other  liners  rushed  to  the  rescue  of 
her  1,300  passengers  and  crew  of  860. 

It  was   reported   that   the   Mahometans   in 

China  had   decided   to  organize   a    force 

of  500,000  to  resist  the  republic. 

15 — The    Titanic    sank    at    2:20   a.    m.,    675 

passengers  being  saved,  .1.500  persons  lost. 

New  breaks  in  the  Mississippi  flooded 
thirteen  Louisiana  parishes  and  ten 
Arkansas  counties. 

More  rifles  and  ammunition   were  sent  to 
Mexico  for  the  defence  of  Americans. 
16 — The   Irish   Home   Rule   bill   passed   first 
reading  in  the  House  of  Commons,  360 
to  266. 

Harriet  Quimby  of  New  York  crossed  the 
English  Channel  in  a  monoplane. 
Eighteen  children  and  five  women  were 
lost  with  most  of  the  crew  of  the  fish- 
ing schooner  Uranus,  in  a  collision  off 
Sable  Island. 
I7--The  United  States  Senate  directed  a 
sweeping  inspection  of  the  Titanic  disas- 
ter. 

The  Mexican  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 
notified  Assistant  Secretary  of  State  Wil- 
son that  his  Government  refused  to 
recognize  the  right  of  the  American  Gov- 
ernment to  instruct  it  in  its  duties  in  in- 
ternational law. 

President  Taft  named  Miss  Julia  C.  La- 
throp  of  Chicago  as  head  of  the  Children's 
Bureau  of  the  Department  of  Commerce 
and  Labor. 
18 — The  Carpathia  docked  with  the  700  sur- 
vivors of  the  Titanic. 

An  Italian  fleet  bombarded  the  entrance  to 
the  Dardarnelles. 
19— The  Senate  Committee  of  Commerce  be- 
gan its  investigation  of  the  Titanic  dis- 
aster. 

Ten    thousand    persons    attended   memorial 

services  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral.  London. 

20— The    French    line    steamer    La    France, 

sailed  from  Havre  to  New  York  on  her 

maiden  voyage. 

The  Turkish   Government  ordered   the  re- 
moval of  all  mines  from  the  Dardanelles. 
21 — A  tornado  swept  across  Illinois  and  In- 


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diana,  killing  twentyfive  persons  and  in- 
juring many  others. 

Two  coast  steamers  of  the  Morgan  and 
M'alk>ry  lines  respectively,  collided  off 
Galveston,  Texas,  but  no  lives  were  lost. 

The  Stanley  Investigating  Committee  made 
public  their  report  on  the  Steel  Trust 
showing  that  its  twenty  three  officers 
and  directors  direct  also  organizations 
representing  $35,000,000,  controlling  many 
railroads,  banks,  insurance  companies  and 
industrial  concerns. 
22 — Twelve  incendiary  fires  occurred  in 
Watcrbury,  Conn.,  the  City  Hall  being 
burned. 

The  railway  engineers  voted  to  call  a  strike 
and  then  accepted  an  offer  of  mediation 
made  by  the  Federal  Mediation  Board. 

Many  persons  were  killed  by  tornadoes  in 
Alabama  and  Georgia. 
23 — The  Porte  accepted  mediation  by  the 
-Powers,  in  her  presenjt  difficulties,  on 
condition  of  retaining  sovereignty  over 
Tripoli. 

Seventyseven  bodies  were  recovered  from 
the  Titanic  wreck  by  the  Mackay- 
Bennett. 
24-»-Three  hundred  stokers  and  oilers  de- 
serted the  Olympic  at  Southampton,  be- 
lieving her  new  collapsible  lifeboats  in- 
secure. 

Commissioner  of  Labor  Neill  conferred  withi 
railway  representatives  in  the  effort  to 
avert  a  strike  of  engineers. 

A  big  Adirondack  dam  burst  flooding  two 
villages. 
25 — The  anthracite  coal  strike  was  settled, 
the  miners  getting  a  10  per  cent,  increase 
in  pay,  but  no  sliding  scale. 
26 — Three  hundred  passengers  offered  to  act 
as  stokers  on  the  Olympic;  their  offer 
was  declined. 

The  transport  Buford  was  ordered  to  the 
west  coast  of  Mexico  to  bring  out  500 
Americans  as  the  Madero  Government 
declared  it  could  not  protect  them. 

The  French  delegation,  representing  all 
classes — art,  history,  politics  and  industry, 
arrived  in  New  York,  bearing  the  bronze 
bust,  gift  of  the  Nation,  for  the  Cham- 
plain  Memorial. 
27 — It  was  reported  that  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  had  agreed  upon  a  plan 
for  settling  by  arbitration  claims  of  citi- 
zens against  either  Government. 
28 — The  two  leaders  of  the  Paris  auto-bandits 
were  trapped  in  a  garage,  and  fought 
for  hours  against  police  and  troops,  un- 
til their  retreat  was  blown  up  with  dyna- 
mite; one  was  killed;  the  other  died  on 
the  way  to  the  hospital. 

The  Buford  sailed  from  San  Francisco  for 
Mexico. 


Twentysix  steamers  were  reported  detained 
in  .the  Bosphorus,  the  Porte  fearing  a  re- 
newed attack  by  Italian  warships. 

The  great  bazaar  quarters  of  Damascus 
were  burned  in  a  fire  that  destroyed  prop- 
erty to  the  value  of  $10,000,000. 
29~The  Department  of  Justice  ordered  the 
prosecution  of  the  Harvester  Trust  for 
violation  of  the  Sherman  Law. 

Jules  Vedrines,  famous  French  aviator,  fell 
with  his  monoplane  in  St.  Denis,  France, 
and  fractured  his  skull. 
30— The  Mackay-Bennett  arrived  at  Halifax 
with  189  bodies  of  the  Titanic's  dead. 
A  steamer  was  blown  up  by  a  Turkish 
mine  near  the  Gulf  of  Smyrna  and  sixty- 
six  passengers  perished. 

William  T.  Jerome  was  retained  by  the 
State  to  oppose  Thaw's  application  for 
release  from  Matteawan. 
May  I — The  Calais  and  London  express 
jumped  the  track  at  St.  Denis,  France; 
the  locomotive  and  cars  were  piled  in 
the  roadbed  and  three  persons  were 
injured. 

The  west  side  main  line  levee  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi broke  at  Torras,  La.,  breaking 
all  flood  records. 
2 — The  House  passed  the  provision  for  a 
limited  parcels  post;  and  voted  $18,000,- 
000  for  good  roads. 

The  British  inquiry  into  the  Titanic  wreck 
began. 

The  Committee  of  Ten  of  the  United 
MHne- Workers  rejected  the  compromise 
agreement  submitted  by  their  own  sub- 
committee and  that  of  the  operatorrf.J 
3 — The  bronze  bust  "La  France"  was  pre- 
sented from  the  French  to  the  American 
people  at  Crown  Point. 

The  Board  of  Bishops  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
recommended  the  rescinding  of  the  rule 
against  certain  so-called  worldly  amuse- 
ments. 
4 — The  General  Conference  of  the  MIethodist 
Episcopal  Church,  in  session  at  Mijine- 
apolis,  denotmced  child  labor  in  the  fac- 
tories; a  commission  of  fifteen  ministers 
was  appointed  to  lead  the  fight  against  it. 

Fifteen  thousand  suffragists  paraded  in 
New  York  City. 

Emilio  Vasquez  Gomez  was  appointed 
Provisional  President  of  Mexico  by  the 
rebels. 

The  first  warship,  the  cruiser  Fei  Hung, 
of  the  Chinese  Navy  was  launched  at 
Camden,  N.  J. 
5 — In  Mexico  City  a  demand  was  promul- 
gated for  President  Madero  to  resign. 
6 — Twelve  persons  were  kill  and  fifty  injured 
in  a  railroad  wreck  in  Mississippi,  when 
Confederate  veterans  were  en  route  to  a 
reunion  at  Macon,  Georgia. 


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ASTOR,  JOHN  JACOB-On  the  Titanic 
wreck,  April  14.  He  was  bom  at  (Rihine- 
beck,  N.  Y.,  in  1864,  and  was  graduated 
at  Harvard  University.  The  management 
of  his  vast  inherited  estates  engaged  much 
of  his  time.  He  served  in  the  Spanish 
War  and  gave  a  fully-equipped  battery  of 
artillery  to  the  United  States  Government. 
He  was  a  practical  inventor  and  was  the 
author  of  "A  Journey  in  Other  Worlds." 

BARTON,  CLAIRA— At  Glen  Echo,  Md., 
April  12,  in  her  ninety  first  year.  The  fa- 
mous founder  of  the  American  Red  Cross 
Society  was  born  in  North  Oxford,  Miass. 
She  taught  school  when  sixteen  years  old. 
In  1853  she  was  given  charge  of  a  division 
of  the  Patent  Office,  displaying  rare  ability 
in  reorganizing  it.  Inheriting  an  ample 
fortune,  she  devoted  it  and  herself  to  the 
service  of  the  soldiers  in  the  Civil  War, 
being  finally  appointed  Superintendent  of  an 
Army  Hospital.  In  1869,  being  in  Switzer- 
land, she  helped  organize  the  International 
Red  Cross  Society.  She  served  at  the  front 
"n  the  Franco- Prussian  and  the  Spanish- 
American  Wars.  In  1877  the  American 
branch  was  formed,  and  she  was  its  presi- 
dent for  twentythree  years.  At  her  sug- 
gestion it  included  the  relief  of  suffering 
caused  by  great  national  calamities,  such  as 
Hoods,  famines,  and  the  like.  She  was 
honored  by  medals  from  many  foreign 
powers. 
BTTRK,  ADDISON  B.— In  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
at  the  age  of  sixty  four  years.  Philadel- 
phia was  his  birthplace.  When  only  seven- 
teen years  old  he  entered  the  army  and 
served  with  distinction  in  the  Civil  War. 
For  twentyfive  years  he  was  associate  editor 
of  the  well-known  Public  Ledger,  He  re- 
organized and  developed  the  Spring  Garden 
Institute,  a  technical  school  to  which  many 
other  noted  mechanical  trade  schools  are 
indebted  for  their  installation.  He  was 
much  interested  in  internal  waterways 
projects. 
BRISSON,  HENRI— In  Paris,  April  14.  He 
was  born  in  1835,  a  native  of  Bourges, 
France.  He  studied  law  and  later  became  a 
journalist.  He  was  the  founder  of  the 
Revue  Politique,  In  1874  he  was  elected 
to  the  National  Assembly  and  was  one  of 
363  to  sign  a  protest  against  the  Govern- 


ment of  May  16,  1877.  Since  1902  he  had 
been  a  Deputy  from  Marseilles.  He  was 
President  of  that  Chamber,  but  previously 
had  served  also  in  other  high  positions. 

BUTT,  MAJOR  ARCHIBALD  C— In  the 
Titank  disaster,  April  15.  He  was  born  in 
Georgia  of  a  fine  Southern  family.  He 
was  brilliant  and  popular  as  a  Washington 
correspondent.  He  volunteered  in  the 
Spanish  War  and  became  an  officer.  As 
personal:  aide  to  Roosevelt,  when  President, 
and  then  to  President  Taft,  and  as  social 
director  of  the  White  House,  he  was  known 
and  loved  by  many  people. 

CUTTING.  WILLIAM  BAYARD  —  Ap- 
proaching Rock  Island,  111.,  en  route  to  his 
New  York  home,  March  i,  aged  seventjrtwo 
years.  He  was  a  lawyer,  director  of  many 
corporations  and  railroads,  a  leader  in  so- 
ciety, and  interested  in  all  civil  progress  and 
charitable  affairs.  He  was  Civil  Service 
Commissioner  and  President  of  the  Tene- 
ment House  Commission  under  Mayor 
Strong. 

DAVENPORT,  HOMOER'  C— In  New  York 
City,  May  2,  aged  fortyfive  years.  He  was 
bom  in  Silverton,  Oregon,  and  reared  on  a 
farm.  He  tried  various  employments, 
finally  becoming  a  cartoonist  on  The  New 
York  Journal,  originating  the  $-mark  suit 
of  Mark  Hanna.  In  1906  the  Sultan  of 
Turkey  permitted  him  to  import  twenty- 
seven  blooded  horses  from  the  Arabian 
deserts,  the  only  real  Arab  steeds  in 
America. 

FOOS,  PROF.  CHARLES  LOUIS— In  Lex- 
ington, Ky.,  February  27.  He  was  born  in 
Alsace  in  1823,  and  was  graduated  from 
Bethany  College,  Va.  He  was  the  last  of 
the  leaders  of  Trinity  Church  of  Christ  in 
America.  H^  was  ordained  in  1849  and 
was  President  of  Eureka  College.  In  1889 
he  was  President  of  the  Foreign  Missionary 
Society.  He  was  professor  of  Greek  in 
Transylvania  University. 

FUNK,  DR.  ISAAC  K— In  Montclair, 
New  Jersey,  April  4,  aged  seventytwo  years. 
He  was  born  at  Clifton,  Ohio,  and  was 
graduated  at  Wittenberg  College.  He  filled 
pastorates  for  ten  years,  his  last  charge 
being  in  Brooklyn,  at  St.  Matthew's  Eng- 
lish Lutheran  Church.  In  1873  he  became 
one    of    the    firm    of   Funk   &  Wagnalls, 


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publishers  of  the  Standard  Dictionary,  he 
being  editor-in-chief.  He  founded  The 
Voice  in  1880,  The  Missionary  Review  in 
1888,  and  The  Literary  Digest  in  1889. 
He  was  profoundly  interested  in  psychical 
research. 
GRISWOLD,  STEPHEN  B.— In  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  May  4.  He  was  born  in  Vernon, 
N*.  Y.,  in  1836.  He  was  graduated  from  the 
Albany  Law  School,  practicing  his  profes- 
sion until  1875,  when  he  was  appointed  li- 
brarian of  the  State  Board  of  Regents.  It 
grew  from  20,000  volumes  to  81,000  during 
his  incumbency  of  thirtyseven  years,  and 
was  the  most  complete  law  library  in  the 
world.  It  was  lost  in  the  Capitol  fire  of 
last  year. 

IIKRTEL,  PROF.  ALBERT— In  Berlin,  Ger- 
many, February  19,  in  his  sixtyninth  year. 
He  was  a  native  of  Berlin,  and  studied 
art  in  Berlin  and  Rome.  He  became  a 
Professor  at  the  Berlin  Academy  in  1875 
and  was  elected  a  member  in  1901.  His 
landscapes  were  noted  for  style  and  fine 
coloring.  Emperor  William  purchased  one 
of  these. 

HOWARD,  DEAN  WALTER  E.— At  Mid- 
dlebury,  Vermont,  April  12,  aged  sixty- 
three  years.  He  was  a  native  of  Tum- 
bridge,  Vt.  He  was  United  States  Consul 
in  turn,  at  Toronto,  Ontario,  and  at  Car- 
diff, Wales.  In  1869  he  became  Professor 
of  history  and  political  science  at  Middle- 
bury  College,  and  in  1908  was  made  its 
first  dean. 

JUSTIN.  REV.  BROTHER  (STEPHEN 
McMAHON) — In  Philadelphia,  February 
28.  Born  in  1834  in  Ireland,  he  entered  the 
Novitiate  of  the  Christian  Brothers  in 
Montreal,  Canada.  He  held  important  po- 
sitions as  head  of  schools  and  colleges  in 
United  States,  Canada  and  England,-  and 
founded  the  La  Salle  Training  College, 
Waterford,  Ireland. 

MILLET,  FRANCIS  D.—Lost  with  the 
Tttanic,  April  14,  aged  sixtysix  years. 
His  native  town  was  Mattapoissett,  Mass. 
Graduating  from  Harvard,  he  served  in 
the  Civil  War,  and  then  studied  art  at 
the  Royal  Academy,  Antwerp.  He  was 
secretary  of  the  Massachusetts  Commis- 
sion to  the  Vienna  Exposition,  1873,  and 
was  a  correspondent  for  the  New  York 
IJerald,  and  two  London  papers,  during 
the  Franco- Prussian   War. 

MACK,  COL.  ISAAC  F.— In  Sandusky, 
Ohio,  April  18.  He  was  born  in  Monroe 
County,  New  York,  in  1838.  He  was 
graduated  at  Oberlin  College,  practiced  law 
in  Chicago  and  served  in  the  Civil  War. 
For  forty  years  he  was  editor  of  the 
Sandusky  Register,  and  was  one  of  the 
earliest  Directors  of  The  Associated  Press. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Soldiers' 
and  Sailors*  Home,  Sandusky. 


McCarthy,  JUSTIN— At  Folkstone,  Eng- 
land, April  24.  He  was  bom  in  1830,  in 
Cork,  Ireland.  He  was  educated  privately 
and  entered  journalism  in  1848.  Going  to 
London  in  i860  he  edited  The  Morning  Star 
from  1864  to  1868  and  wrote  for  The  Daily 
News  from  1^70.  He  was  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  Home  Rule,  sitting  for  ten  years 
in  the  House  of  Commons,  and  being  Chair- 
man of  the  Irish  Parliamentary  Party  after 
Parneirs  death.  He  visited  United  States 
twice.  Besides  being  a  most  prolific  journ- 
alist he  was  famed  as  a  historian.  Among 
hts  works  are,  "A  History  of  Our  Time," 
"A  History  of  the  Four  Georges  and 
William  IV.,"  "Life  of  Pope  Leo  XIII.," 
"The  Story  of  Mr.  Gladstone's  Life,"  be- 
sides many  novels. 

SMITH,  W.  WICKHAM— In  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  February  27.  He  was  born  fifty- 
three  years  ago  in  New  York  City.  He  was 
graduated  at  the  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  and  the  Columbia  Law  School. 
He  practiced  largely  in  Federal  courts  and 
was  an  authority  on  tariff  law.  He  was 
Assistant  United  States  Attorney  during 
Cle\eland*s  Administration. 

STRAUS,  ISIDOR— In  the  Titanic  wreck. 
April  15,  together  with  his  wife,  Ida  Blum 
Straus.  He  was  born  in  Bavaria,  in  1845, 
and  educated  in  Georgia  at  Washington 
and  Lee  University.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Fiftythird  Congress,  and  was  a  director  in 
various  banks  and  charitable  institutions, 
and  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of 
R.  H.  Macy  &  Company,  New  York,  and 
of  Abraham  &  Straus,  Brooklyn. 

STEAD,  WILLIAM  T.— Victim  of  the 
Titanic  disaster,  April  14.  He  was  born 
in  Embleton,  England,  in  1847,  and  edu- 
cated at  Silcoates  School,  Wakefield.  He 
was,  for  awhile,  in  a  merchant's  office,  and 
then  entered  journalism,  editing  the  Pall 
Mall  Gazette  for  a  number  of  years.     He 

•  founded  the  Review  of  Reviews  in  1890, 
and  the  American  edition  in  1891.  After 
visiting  the  Czar  in  1898  he  became  ar- 
dent in  the  Peace  Crusade,  writing  and 
lecturing  on  the  subject. 

WING,  DR.  YUNG— In  Hartford,  Conn., 
April  21,  aged  eighty  four  years.  A  China- 
man by  birth  he  was  a  graduate  of  Mon- 
son  (Mass.)  Academy  and  of  Yale,  with  the 
L.L,  D.  degree.  He  abandoned  the  tea  busi- 
ness for  governmental  affairs  in  China  and 
figured  in  the  Tientsin  massacre  in  1870. 
He  prevailed  on  several  hundred  Chinese 
boys  to  return  with  him  to  United  States 
for  education.  A  leader  in  the  Chinese  re- 
form movement  the  Empress  Dowager  of- 
fered $100,000  for  his  head.  He  repre- 
sented China  during  the  Chinese- Japanese 
peace  negotiations,  and  also  in  i8s>7  at 
Queen  Victoria's  Peace  Jubilee.  His  wife 
was  Mary  Ijouise  Kellogg  of  Hartford. 


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There  are  now  over  a  million  war- 
pensioners  on  the  United  States  bounty. 

Alaskans  claim  they  are  soon  to  come  to 
ihc  front  in  agriculture,  as  well  as  mining. 

Brazil  has  eighteen  millions  of  people,  or 
more  than  one-fifth  as  many  as  United  States. 

Alaska  is  not  yet  considered  capable  of 
exercising  home  government,  and  Congress 
has  told  her  to  wait. 

The  ten  commandments  are  obeyed  by  a 
good  many  people,  but  there  are  few  even  of 
these,  that  can  recite  them,  verbatim,  in  order. 

Philadelphia  is  said  to  possess  more  native- 
horn  Americans  than  any  other  place  on  the 
face  of  the  earth.    And  such  a  slow  town,  too ! 

Swordfish  are  sometimes  fifteen  feet  long, 
with  a  weight  of  a  thousand  pounds.  One  like 
this,  was  recently  captured  off  Cape  Elizabeth, 
Maine. 


President  Eliot,  once  of  Harvard;  is  hav- 
ing a  great  time  in  China,  and  is  flattered 
and  feasted  to  his  heart's  and  stomach's 
content. 


The  wreck  of  the  Titanic  has  made  several 
people  crazy.  One  of  them  shot  and  killed 
the  editor  of  a  Spokane  paper,  because  he 
printed  too  much  about  it 

A  Jersey  City  man  recovered  $2,500  for 
seven  hours   of    false   imprisonment:   almost 


six  dollars  a  minute.     Look  out  what  doors 
you  lock,  and  whom  you  leave  in  there. 

The  British  Empire  is  ninetyone  times  as 
large  as  England  itself.  It  has  fortyfive  col- 
onies, twelve  of  which  have  legislatures  of 
their  own,  while  the  remainder  are  governed 
from  London. 

A  man  near  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  came  home 
irom  California  several  years  ago,  and  hid 
two  gold  nuggets,  worth  several  hundred 
dollars,  in  a  tree.  His  grandson  has  just 
found  them,  thanks. 

A  SVx:ialist  meeting  in  New  York  was 
captured  by  a  band  of  anarchists,  who  tx>re 
down  the  stars  and  stripes,  and  trampled 
them  under  foot.  They  were  at  last  res- 
cued by  a  woman  suffragist. 

"You  lie!"  said  a  Midland,  Texas,  lawyer 
to  Judge  J.  H.  Knowles.  The  Judge  ad- 
journed, thrashed  his  detractor,  reopened 
court,  fined  himself  for  fighting,  and  went 
on  with  the  regular  proceedings. 

For  walking  barefooted  on  a  cold  winter 
day,  a  Russian  was  arrested  in  Philadelphia. 
He  stated  that  in  his  country  many  people 
did  that  habitually,  proved  that  he  was  sane, 
and  was  allowed  to  go  on  about  his  business. 

Glass-embalming  has  been  patented.  A 
solid  block  of  the  transparent  substance  is 
moulded  around  the  body,  which,  it  is  thought, 
will   thus   be  preserved  indefinitely — or   until 


Winchester's    Hypophosphites    of    Lime    and    Soaa 

I*  THI  TONIO  PAR  IXOILLBNOI  FOR 

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I*  Mifcm  from  ladlf  estioB,  AaemU,  NaorftsthcaU,  NetTou*  Dbcaies.  Bronchitis,  Excesaivo  Drains,  Weakness  and  all  Throat  and  Luaf  laftctloni 
A  Brmin,  N*rve  and  Blood  Food  and  TIstu*  Bvilder  of  Unquestioned  Merit 

Itlaolatiag  and  iBvlKoratlng  the  Nervous  System  and  Imparting  Vlfl  Strength  %nd  Energy. 
ParsAMMl  fSm^i.m.'^,m.^      ForNeurastheniatheHypophosphltesareoarmalnstays— Dr.  JAY  G.  ROBERTS.  Pblla.  Pa. 
■  vr  SUnai  WpiniOnS — Ican  certify  to  the  extreme  purity  of  Winchester  s  Hypophosphites.— Dr.  L.  PITKIN,  New  York. 

1  bavc  uken  this  e  ccellent  remedy  ( Winchester's  Hypophosphites  of  Lime  and  Soda  i  as  a  Nerrs  Food  by  my  physician's  order.    It  has  so  gready  benefited 
•ttbiitlhopeodiersaffereis  maybe  helped  likewise.— Miss  ELLA  H.JOHNSON.  Irvlngton.  N.  Y. 

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'  I  will  Ttll  Any  Woman 
Abtolutoly  Frto  of 
Chofffo  How  To  Do  n 
Poilthroly  And  Safoly. 

Many  women  be^ 
lleve  that  the  bust 
cannot  be  derel- 
oped  or  brought 
back  to  Its  former 
YliTorous  condition. 
Thousands  of  wo- 
men have  vainly 
used  massage,  elec- 
tricity, pump  In- 
s  t  r  u  ments,  olnt- 
J  ments,  general  ton- 
ics, constitutional 
treatments,  exer- 
cises and  other 
methods  with  out 
results. 
ArtT  W  anil  ft  Mit  Wow  DovIod  Hor  tuti 

I  win  explain  to  any  woman  the  plain 
truth  in  regard  to  bust  development,  the 
reason  for  failure  and  the  way  to  success. 
The  Mdme.  Bu  Barrle  Positive  French 
Method  Is  different  from  anything  else  ever 
brought  before  American  women.  By  this 
method,  any  lady— young,  middle  aged  or 
elderly— may  develop  her  bust  from  2  to  8 
Inches  In  30  days,  and  see  definite  results 
ilk  3  to  &  days,  no  matter  what  the  cause 
of  the  lack  of  development.  It  is  based  on 
■clentlfle    facts    absolutely. 

This  method  ha^  been  used  in  Europe  with 
astounding  aucceas,  and  has  been  accepted 
as  the  most  positive  method  known.  To  any 
woman  who  wtU  send  a  2c.  stamp  to  pay 
postage,  I  win  send  complete  illustrated 
tiooklet  of  Information,  sealed  in  plain  enve- 
lope.    Address 

Mdme  Du  Barrle,  Suite  3146  PoRtlao  Bldg.,  ChlosflO 


something  shatters  the  glass  2Lnd  lets  in  the 
air. 

A  chameleon  flower  has  been  introduced  into 
Europe  from  the  Isthmus  of  Tehuaxitepcc, 
Mexico.  The  blossom*  of  this  newly- 
discovered  plant  arc  white  in  the  morning, 
changing  to  red  at  noon  and  to  blue  in  the 
evening. 

Be  sure,  when  bujring  Chinese  "antique" 
china,  that  it  is  not  new  ware,  that  has  been 
placed  in  the  body  of  a  defunct  dog,  buried 
for  a  year,  and  then  exhumed,  bearing  all 
the  appearance  of  age.  That  is  one  of  the 
tricks  of  the  celestials. 

Daily  papers  once  gravely  discussed  the 
question  whether  a  little  girl  did  wrong  or 
not,  in  lying  to  prevent  a  fire-panic — telling 
the  inmates  of  a  house  that  the  blaze  was 
extinguished,  when  it  was  not.  Probably 
these  same  newspapers  never  lied,  in  the 
whole  course  of  their  existence. 

A  quarter  of  a  mile  of  snakes  was  sent 
from  Florida  to  the  New  York  Zoological 
Gardens  and  when  the  cover  of  the  box  was 
lifted,  they  all  escaped  at  once,  and  were  cap- 
tured with  difficulty.  There  were  in  this 
happy  family,  rattlers,  chasers,  pinesnakes. 
coachwhips,  copperheads,  moccasins  and  black- 
srrakes.  

China  certainly  is  becoming  civilized  with 
great  ra.pidity.  She  overturns  the  throne  for 
a  presidential  chair;  she  gives  the  suffrage 
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TEN  CENTS  PER  COPY 

CONTENTS 

FOR  JUNE 

A  Song  to  the  Mountains 

197 

Editorial  Thoughts  and  Fanqes 

mil  Carleton. 

The  Sifting  of  a  Calamity 

226 

The   New    Seven    Wonders  of  the 

Patois  and  Slang 

228 

World-I. 

198 

The  Combined  Road-and-Railroad  228 

The  Moving-Picture  Pianis.e 
One  of  Them. 

202 

A  Luxury-Famine 
The  Vacation  Industry 

229 
229 

Roses  on  the  Ocean  Wave 

205 

At  Church  : 

Margaret  E.  Songster, 

Five- Minute  Sermon 

230 

Railroading  in  Mexico 

George  Leo  Patterson, 

206 

Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 
"Follow  Me;' 

Jeanie  Oliver  Smith. 

232 

Permission  SSveetly  Granted 

208 

W   ^^^m^w^^F        ^^^•^^•^r         %^  99w^w^^u 

Old-Fashioned  Money 

209 

The  Health-Seeker: 
In  Toga  Instead  of  In  Shroud 

233 

"Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee" 

212 

Hygiene  in  the  Home 

2^ 

Bertha  Johnston. 

"Njerve"  Discouraged  and  Nerves 

A  Keen-vEycd  Engineer 

215 

Saved 

235 

William  Lloyd  Garrison  and  John 
C.  Calhoun 

216 

Cure  Up  Your  Qothcs                   23S 
Grape  Seeds  Not  Alone  Responsible  235 

Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

Death  in  Dishtowels 

23s 

In  Woodland  Paths 

218 

WoRLi>-Sucxa:ss : 

Benj.  F.  Leggett. 

"Some"  Women 

236 

Troubles  of  a  Nurse-Girl 

219 

The  Mbtor-Man 

237 

June  Blood 

Clarence  Hawkes. 

221 

A  Gleaning  From  the  Old  Fourth 

Reader                                           237 
Knew  How  Much  He  Could  Do  238 

To   the   Mound-Builders 

222 

Time's  Diary 

239 

The  Litle  Laramie 

222 

May  Preston  Slosson. 

Some  Who  Have  Gone 

241 

Some  Straw  Opinions 

223 

Famous  Doing  and  Undoings 

243 

A  Volcano  That  Became  a  Lake 

225 

Philosophy  and  Humor 

250 

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A  Song  to  the  Mountains. 

By  Will  Carleton. 


T^HE  mountains!  the  mountains! 

With  crag-step  rough  and  steep; 
With  silent  form  and  hooded  storm, 

And  avalanche  asleep  ; 
Whose  tops  are  hieroglyphics 

By  fire  and  tempest  wrought, 
That  human  race  can  never  trace 

Till  God  the  key  has  brought. 

The  mountains !  the  mountains ! 

When  fall  the  drenching  rains. 
That  glide  and  creep,  that  rush  and  leap 

To  find  their  ocean-plains ! 
When  Winter  with  loud  trumpet 

But  soft  and  silent  tramp, 
Chains  brook  and  rill,  and  makes  each 
hill 

A  whitje  tent  of  his  camp ! 

The  mountains !  the  mountains ! 

With  gardens  in  their  keep : 
With   bloom   that  shines,   and  emerald 
vines, 

And  arbors  still  and  deep. 
E'en  in  the  tropic's  empire, 

Like  floral  worlds  they  tower ; 
For  every  zone  that  earth  has  known, 

Will  send  a  greeting  flower. 

The  mountains  I  the  mountains  1 

Where  forests  live  and  die; 
Where  through  long  years  tree-moun- 
taineers 

Are  struggling  toward  the  sky. 


With  combats  fierce  though  silent, 
With  struggles  brave  and  long; 

While  in  their  tops  the  wind  oft  stops 
To  sing  their  battle-song. 

The  mountains !  the  mountains ! 

That  harbor  beasts  of  prey; 
Where    wild-dogs    howl    and   panthers 
prowl 

And  reptiles'  shun  the  day ; 
WTiere  serpents  creep  and  clamber, 

Where  eagle-broods  are  fed ; 
And  caved  from  air  the  sullen  bear 

Has  found  his  winter  bed. 

The  mountains!  the  mountains! 

Where  sickness,  pain  and  care 
'Gainst  ramparts  high  may  rest  their 
eye, 

And  drink  the  creamy  air. 
Where  smile  the  clustered  landscapes, 

Where  robins  brood  and  nest ; 
And  Nature's  child  with  song  beguiled 

May  on  her  bosom  rest. 

The  mountains !  the  mountains ! 

Great  watch-tower  tops  have  they 
Whence,    starred    and    clear,   Heaven 
seems  so  near. 

And  earth  so  far  away ! 
Whence  one  may  call  to  Jesus, 

Who  mused  on  hills  alone, 
Or  hearts  devote  to  Him  who  wrote 

The  mountain-page  of  stone. 


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The  New  Seven  Wonders  of  the  World. 


TT  HE  Faculty,  graduates  and  seniors 
*of  Cornell  University,  have  selected 
in  answer  to  queries  received,  the  fol- 
lowing, that  they  think  ought  to  be 
named  as  the  greatest  wonders  of  the 
world : 

Wireless  telegraphy,  synthetic  chem- 
istry, radium,  antitoxins,  aeroplanes,  the 
Panama  Canal,  and  the  telephone. 

Such  a  questionnaire  can  lead  to  no 
scientific  generalization,  but  it  does 
stimulate  thought,  and  serves  to  make 
the  thinker  better  appreciate  the  marvels 
of  the  age  in  which  he  lives,  and  which 
make  life  for  him  so  much  happier  and 
more  comfortable  than  it  was  for  his 
forbears.  Analysis,  discussion  and  argu- 
ment should  certainly  lead  to  clearer 
vision  and  to  truer  judgments. 

Let  us  briefly  consider  why  these 
"wonders"  deserve  to  rank  among  the 
greatest,  and  as  a  point  of  departure  let 
us  refer  to  the  dictionary  definition  of 
wonder.  Webster  defines  it  as  "that 
emotion  which  is  excited  by  novelty,  or 
the  presentation  to  the  sight,  or  mind  of 
something  new,  unusual,  strange,  great, 
extraordinary,  or  not  well  understood." 
Also,  "A  cause  of  wonder." 

According  to  this  statement,  what 
would  be  a  wonder  to  one  person,  would 
not  be  so  to  another.  Let  us  see  if  the 
seven  above  enumerated  have  a  univer- 
sal quality  that  would  make  them  "won- 
ders" to  the  large  and  decisive  majority 
of  mankind. 

RADIUM. 

Radium  truly  belongs  to  the  above 
category,  for  its  discovery  aroused  pro- 
found amazement  not  only  in  the  lay, 
but  in  the  scientific  mind. 

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The  discovery  of  radiimi  opened  up  a 
new  world  to  the  scientist,  and  a  study 
of  its  nature  and  action  stirs  one  as  does 
a  noble  poem,  awakening  in  the  soul 
awe,  delight,  and  renewed  faith  in  eter- 
nal law. 

When  its  peculiar  characteristics  first 
Jbecame  known  to  science,  the  adepts 
were  non-plussed.  It  seemed  as  if  the 
foundations  of  modern  science  were 
completely  overthrown;  and  the  two 
cardinal  principles,  the  conservation  of 
energy,  and  the  persistence  of  matter, 
were  proven  wrong.  But  further  re- 
search and  experiment  proved  that  even 
this  mysterious  matter  embodied  these 
same  elemental  laws. 

It  is  difficult  to  convey  to  the  lay 
mind  an  idea  of  this  remarkable  element 
in  a  few  words. 

Several  surprising  discoveries  pre- 
ceded that  of  rad'ium.  The  Crooke's 
tube  with  its  illustration  of  the  cathode 
ray,  (vibrations  of  moving  matter)  led 
to  Rontgen's  discovery  of  the  so-called 
X-rays,  which  are  invisible  themselves, 
but  so  act  upon  other  invisible  substan- 
ces as  to  make  them  give  out  light  rays, 
and  they  can  do  this  after  having  them- 
selves passed  through  substances  opaque 
to  light. 

Becquerel  next  added  his  quota  to  the 
chain  of  discovery.  An  accident  re- 
vealed to  his  analytic  mind  that  uranium 
possessed  a  property  known  now  as 
radio-actiznty  but  a  property  never 
dreamed  of  before.  In  the  words  of 
Dr.  W.  Hampson,  M.  A.,  "this  property 
of  radio-activity,  the  power  of  sponta- 
neously,  without  known  chemical  change, 
and  without  known  external  help  or 
stimulus,  sending  out  invisible  energy  in 
such  forms  as  to  be  capable  of  passing 

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through  substances  and  producing  chem- 
ical or  other  action  at  a  distance,  was 
investigated  by  others  than  its  discov- 
erer ;  among  them  by  Schmidt  and  Mme. 
Curie." 

Mme.  Curie  found  that  pitch-blende 
manifested  radio-activity  in  the  highest 
degree,  and,  by  continued  experiments, 
through  the  process  known  as  fractiona- 
tion, succeeded  in  separating  from  bar- 
ium of  pitch-blende  the  element  to  which 
she  gave  the  name  "radium."  We  can 
imagine  the  delicacy  of  her  experiments 
and  the  patience  of  her  scientific  mind, 
when  we  learn  that  from  two  tons  of 
uranium  residues  of  pitch-blende,  she 
obtained  about  three-fourths  of  a  grain 
of  fairly  pure  radium  chloride — one  part 
in  fortytwo  millions. 

In  the  progress  of  investigation  three 
new  substances  were  found  to  possess 
radio-activity;  uranium  was  the  first: 
the  others  were  named  thorium,  polari- 
um,  radium,  and  a  fifth  one  was  an- 
nounced by  Debierne  in  1899,  and  called 
actinium. 

The  peculiar  properties  of  radium  that 
puzzled  the  men  of  knowledge  were  the 
facts  that  it  continually  gave  forth  heat 
but  suffered  no  diminution  of  it,  even 
after  the  lapse  of  months.  Though  it 
received  no  help  or  stimulus  from  any 
outside  source,  it  neither  burnt  up  nor 
grew  cold. 

Radium  also  emits  three  kinds  of  rays 
of  startling  powers,  and  besides,  gives 
off  some  material  called  emanation, 
which  excites  luminescence  in  other  sub- 
stances and  gives  them  power  to  ionize 
the  air.  The  latter  term  means,  that  dry 
air  is  a  non-conductor  of  electricity,  but, 
by  certain  means,  can  be  disintegrated 
so  as  to  become  a  conductor.  Radium, 
in  some  mysterious  action  upon  other 
substances,  enables  them  to  so  affect  the 
air  as  to  make  it  a  conductor. 

Hampson  thus  explains  the  phenomena 
of  radium,  as  suggested  by  Rutherford 
and  Soddy.  (We  must  suppose  an  ac- 
quaintance on  the  reader's  part  with  the 
atomic  theory  up  to  1898.)  Atoms  are 
no  longer  regarded  as  indivisible.  They 
consist  of  corpuscles,  200,000  of  them  to 


one  atom  of  radium.  But  they,  the  200,- 
000,  do  not  nearly  fill  the  space  inside 
one  atom.  There  is  space  for  them  to 
be  in  continual  rapid  movement,  the  tiny 
particles  colliding  with  each  other  so 
incessantly  and  with  such  energy  as  to 
give  forth  continual  heat,  just  as  do  the 
gas  particles  in  the  Crooke's  tube.  The 
heat  developed  by  radium  in  one  hour  is 
sufficient  to  heat  its  own  weight  of 
water  from  freezing  to  boiling  point. 
The  total  heat  of  a  salt-spoon  of  radium 
would  produce  energy  enough  to  drive 
a  one-horse-power  engine  through  a 
working  year. 

Radium  is  widely  distributed  and  it  is 
now  supposed  that  many  curative  waters 
owe  their  power  to  radio-active  proper- 
ties^ but  as  it  can  be  separated  only  in 
extremely  small  quantities,  it  is  very 
scarce  and  exceedingly  valuable.  The 
discovery  of  radio-activity  obliged  sci- 
ence to  reconstruct  its  theory  of  the 
nature  of  the  atom,  while  retaining  its 
fundamental  principle  of  the  conserva- 
tion of  energy. 

Once  granted  the  new  atomic  theory, 
and  the  peculiar  qualities  of  radium, 
imagination  can  set  no  limit  to  the 
future  discoveries  in  the  field  of  Science. 

SYNTHETIC    CHEMISTRY. 

Still  another  of  the  modern  Seven 
Wonders  is  synthetic  chemistry,  and 
truly,  man  seems  in  this  era  to  have 
acquired  a  wizard's  power  over  nature's 
elements. 

For  innumerable  centuries  the  alche- 
mistt  took  apart,  analyzed,  disintegrated 
the  organic  and  inorganic  materials 
around  him,  to  learn  their  properties, 
their  elements,  their  action  under  differ- 
ent conditions.  Many  of  these  sub- 
stances and  their  elements  he  has  learned 
to  apply  and  utilize  in  various  ways, 
although  at  first  the  scientist  and  phil- 
osopher studied  and  observed  for  the 
mere  joy  of  knowing  and  of  adding  to 
the  sum  of  knowledge. 

But  lately,  many  of  the  sources  of 
supply  of  Uie  various  substances,  both 
organic  and  inorganic,  which  he  has 
applied  in  manufacturing  or  in  agricul- 

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ture,  have  begun  to  show  signs  of 
depletion. 

The  potash  fields  of  Germany,  the  coal 
supplies  of  England,  the  saltpetre  of 
Chili,  will  not  last  forever;  the  soil  is 
continually  being  impoverished  by  the 
trees  and  plants  that  absorb  its  nutri- 
ment, the  indigo  supply  grows  smaller, 
populations  increase  all  over  the  globe, 
and  all  the  mouths  want  food. 

What  can  man  do  in  the  face  of  these 
facts?  He  turns  to  the  laboratory  to 
experiment  and  learn  how  to  synthesize 
the  elements  and  so  combine  them  chem- 
ically as  to  form  the  needed  composi- 
tions. This  is  synthetic  chemistry — to 
produce  artificially  nature's  products. 

Synthetic  chemistry  dates  from  1828 
when  Wohler  succeeded  in  producing 
carbamide  (essentially  an  animal  prod- 
uct) from  purely  inorgfanic  substances, 
proving  to  an  astonished  world  that 
**vital  force"  was  not  necessary  for  the 
production  of  organic  substances. 

Since  that  day  man  has  learned  to 
utilize  the  by-products  of  manufactured 
articles  that  were  ifbrmerly  worse  than 
useless. 

We  will  give  one  instance:  Leblanc, 
in  France,  invented  the  process  of  mak- 
ing carbonate  of  soda  from  salt.  Its 
production  let  loose  in  the  atmosphere 
quantities  of  hydrochloric  acid  gas  that 
poisoned  the  air  and  devastated  vast 
areas  of  land.  In  time  the  paper  tax  in 
England  was  removed;  paper  began  to 
be  made  on  an  immense  scale,  hydro- 
chloric acid  was  needed  to  bleach  it  and 
methods  were  devised  to  absorb  and 
save  every  particle  of  the  acid. 

Man  makes  tons  of  the  artificial  ani- 
line dyes  that  now  replace  the  vegetable 
madder  and  indigo  of  former  years,  and 
he  can  now  make  artificial  camphor  also. 
By  synthesis  in  the  laboratory,  he  has 
also  succeeded  in  making  true  diamonds 
and  rubies  artificially. 

He  now  manufactures  in  Norway 
large  quantities  of  nitrate  of  lime,  for 
fertilizing  purposes,  using  the  nitrogen 
of  the  air  and  combining  it  by  electric- 
ity with  oxygen,  a  difficult  process  to 
work  out  originally. 


So  much  has  been  learned  of  the  pos- 
sibilities of  synthetic  chemistiy  that  now 
every  important  manufacturing  plant  has 
its  laboratory  and  paid  chemist  who  is 
continually  experimenting  to  the  end 
that  he  may  devise  new  ways  of  utiliz- 
ing waste  products  and'  building  up  for- 
tunes out  of  what  was  once  thrown 
away.  Of  making  the  desert  blossom  as 
the  rose.  He  has  got  hold  of  a  scien- 
tific key  that  will  help  him  to  make  the 
supply  equal  the  demand  in  all  depart- 
ments of  life. 

AEROPLANE. 

Few  if  any  people  would  omit  from 
OUT  wonder-list  the  aeroplane, — ^nine- 
teenth century  fulfillment  of  the  dream  of 
the  mythical  Daedalus,  type  of  all  those 
men  of  scientific  or  mathematical  genius 
who,  for  countless  centuries,  have  had 
visions  of  mastering  the  air. 

The  g^s-fiUed  dirigible  balloon  did  not 
suffice  for  these  thinkers:  what  they 
sought  was  a  machine,  heavier  than  air, 
that  could,,  nevertheless,  be  propelled 
through  space  as  a  bird  raises  itself  and 
flies.  And  it  remained  for  our  century 
to  see  these  dreams  become  actual  fact, 
in  that  ever  m.emorable  month  of  Decem- 
ber, 1903,  when  Wilbur  and  Orville 
Wright  flew  for  fiftynine  seconds,  a  dis- 
tance of  .98  of  a  mile,  in  a  power-driven 
machine !  A  short  time,  to  be  sure,  but 
the  first  short  flight  proved  many  things 
and  led  to  many  more.  It  meant  that 
man  was  master  of  this  new  situation. 

That  first  short  trip  was  increased  the 
next  year  to  one  of  three  miles  in  5  min- 
utes 27  seconds,  and  in  1905  a  flight  of 
24.20  miles  was  made. 

Many  experiments  had  paved  the  way 
for  the  final  success  of  latter-day  flyers, 
and  the  work  of  Lilienthal  and  Pilcher, 
who  experimented  with  gliders,  added 
much  to  the  knowledge  of  what  particu- 
lar curves  to  a  plane  help  best  to  get  a 
"lift"  out  of  the  air  beneath  it ;  as  well 
as  how  to  shape  and  control  subsidiary 
planes.  The  glider,  it  must  be  under- 
stood, is  a  small  kind  of  aeroplane  which 
is  not  equipped  with  motive  power.  It 
might  be  likened  to  a  canoe,  furnished 

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with  a  rudder,  but  no  paddle,  and  de- 
pending- on  the  current  to  draw  it  along. 

The  Wright  brothers  experimented 
long  and  patiently  with  gliders,  observ- 
ing, trying,  ifailing,  trying,  learning 
about  the  action  and  interaction  of  air- 
currents  on  planes,  and  the  control  of  all 
parts  oi  the  mechanism.  Then  they  in- 
stalled their  engine. 

But  we  would  not  have  the  aeroplane 
today  had  we  not  had  its  predecessor, 
the  automobile.  The  manufacturers, 
ever  experimenting  to  secure  much 
power  in  small  space,  evolved  smaller 
and  lighter  engines,  with  maximum  of 


must  learn  to  be  also,  so  as  to  instinct- 
ively manipulate  his  various  levers. 
Courage  and  self-possession  are  essen- 
tials would  one  learn  to  fly. 

Much  progress  has  been  made  since 
that  first  short  flight  by  the  Wrights. 
The  English  Channel  has  been  crossed 
several  times  (first  by  Bleriot.)  Long 
cross-country  flights  have  been  taken. 
Flying  schools  have  been  organized; 
the  army  is  making  continual  experi- 
ments, and  an  item  from  Berlin,  May  21, 
states  that  the  Reichstag  passed  a  pen- 
sion bill  for  injured  military  aviators. 

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propelling  force,  and  so,  in  time,  coinci- 
dent with  the  experiments  of  the  air- 
men, came  the  gasoline  motor,  which 
the  aeroists  modified  to  suit  their  ends. 

The  general  principles  once  learned, 
different  men  have  worked  out  details 
in  different  ways.  There  are  mono- 
planes, biplanes,  triplanes,  and  even  the 
hydroplane  is  now  practicable.  There 
are  various  types  of  engines ;  and  some 
recent  airships  have  carried  more  than 
one  passenger. 

The  aeroplane  is  sensitive  to  every 
slightest    gust    of    wind    and    the   flyer 


trated  energy  leads  one  to  believe  that 
perhaps  in  a  short  time  some  new  fuel 
or  source  of  power  will  be  discovered 
that  will  give  ever-increasing  efficiency 
to  the  flying-machine. 

Among  the  names  famous  in  aviation 
are  the  Wright  brothers,  Grahame- 
White,  Lilienthal,  Pilcher,  Latham, 
Johnstone,  Le  Blon,  Farman,  Paulhan, 
Moissant,  Santos-Dumont. 

The  death-list  is,  alas,  all  too  long. 
The  first  victim  of  a  power-driven 
machine  was  our  own  Lieutenant  Self- 
ridge  of  the  Unite(ltlStaj|es^aow7^^l^^ 


The   Moving-Piclure   Pianiste. 

By  One  of  Them. 


IT  looks  easy  and  simple  for  a  girl 
to  sit  and  play  tunes  wrhile  the  pic- 
tures are  acting  themselves  out  on  the 
screens  in  front  of  her:  but,  as  in  the 
continuance  performance  of  life,  there 
is  a  good  deal  more  of  it  than  first 
appears. 

In  the  first  place,  the  pianiste,  in  order 
to  make  a  success,  must  be  a  real  musi- 
cian, and  not  a  drum-major,  that  scares 
an  instrument  every  time  she  looks  at 
it.  Other  things  being  equal,  the  more 
thoroughly  grounded  she  is  in  the  great, 
far-reaching  field  of  music,  the  longer 
she  will  "last." 

And  then  she  must  look  out  for  her- 
self, dress  well,  look  after  her  health, 
take  good  care  of  her  poor  perishing 
body,  and  see  that  it  does  not  perish  too 
much  between  meals.  She  may  not 
know  such  a  tremendous  lot  about  things 
in  general,  but  what  she  does  know,  she 
must  know  good  and  hard,  and  be  ready 
to  hurl  it  into  her  piano  at  a  minute's 
notice. 

When  I  undertook  the  task  of  en- 
thralling the  ears  of  the  "aujence",  and 
luring  them  away  from  the  defects  of 
the  scenario,  I  was  so  lately  out  of  short 
dresses,  that  my  knees  still  felt  uncom- 
fortable. I  had  not  yet  learned  to  do 
my  hair  up  "like  a  young  lady  should", 
and  found  myself  under  an  inclination 
to  reach  for  a  small  hand-mirror,  and 
primp,  right  in  the  middle  of  a  piano- 
obligato.  But  I  was  fully  equipped  in 
a  number  of  other  ways:  one  of  which 
was  Necessity.  Father — poor  dear 
father — had  died,  after  telling  me  always 
to  take  good  care  of  mother :  "she  will 


have  five  of  you  to  feed,  clothe,  and 
educate,  and  most  of  them  are  little",  he 
whispered.  "Do  your  part — won't  you, 
now,  kid  ?"  And  I  had  whispered  ba6k, 
"Dad,  I  certainly  will." 

I  was  the  only  tune^ful  one  in  the  fam- 
ily excepting  him,  and  he  turned  over 
all  his  music  to  me.  There  wasn't  a 
single  one  else  in  our  family,  who  knew 
or  cared  whether  a  tone  was  on  the  top 
of  a  sky-scraper,  or  three  floors  below 
the  basement,  with  elevator  in  attend- 
ance. As  for  me,  I  didn't  know  a  lot  of 
things  that  they  knew,  but  when  the 
order  of  the  day  came  to  tumbling  all 
over  the  ivory  stepping-stones  of  a 
piano,  everybody  edged  back  and 
watched  and  listened.  That  was,  and 
is,  my  little  bit  of  brag,  and  still  I  am 
entitled  to  no  credit  for  it:  my  father 
gave  it  to  me.  But  his  grandmother 
gave  it  to  him,  he  informed  me,  and 
some  one  else  to  her,  and  where  do  we 
stop? 

Well,  when  my  fellow-childers  began 
to  go  to  business  in  different  directions, 
and!  it  became  my  turn,  it  was  music,  of 
course,  as  I  wanted  it  to  be,  and  would 
never  have  had  it  anything  else  to  be. 
Teach? — not  for  your  little  friend.  Not 
for  mine,  with  this  foolishly-high  strung 
set  of  nerves,  to  try  to  run  three  or  four 
generations  back,  and  make  Mozarts  or 
Mozartesses  of  them  at  so  much  per. 
Not  mine  to  bend  over  dear  little  dar- 
lings who  know  their  mothers  are  out, 
and  smell  their  undigested  breath,  and 
rap  their  little  fingers  gently  when  they 
wander  among  the  wrong  keys,  and 
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ache. — Concerting?  Well,  you  see,  it's 
one  thing  to  be  a  good  player,  and  an- 
other, to  get  a  good  paying  chance  to 
play.  Icebergs  of  jealousy  and  boiling 
lakes  of  unholy  passion  encounter  you, 
and  you  must  encounter  them  consider- 
ably before  you  begin  to  make  any 
money.  And — the  moving-picture  busi- 
ness came  along,  and  I  tumbled  into  it 
as  soon  as  I  could  get  there. 

My  employer  happened  to  be  a  decent, 
live-and-let-live  sort  of  man,  and  treated 
me  "white",  and  made  others  treat  me 
like  a  respectable  girl  earning  an  honest 
living,  and  I  liked  the  business  from  the 
start,  and  carried  home  money  to  my 
mother  every  Saturday  night. 

But  I  found  that  there  were  a  number 
of  things  to  learn  there,  besides  the 
chromatic  scales,  and  the  intricate  con- 
volutions of  the  latest  favorite  compos- 
er's brain. 

I  learned — That  every  different  scen- 
ario (or  set  of  pictures)  requires  not 
only  a  different  musical  selection  to 
accompany  it,  but  a  different  kind  of 
selection.  I  knew  one  girl  who  played 
the  same  ding-dong,  ding-dong,  ding-a- 
dong-a-ding-dong  sort  of  tune,  whatever 
might  be  taking  place  on  the  screen. 
She  seemed  to  think  that  whatever  was 
going  on,  from  a  wedding  to  a  funeral, 
the  only  thing  required  of  her  was  to 
fill  the  air  with  sound,  and  keep  the 
audience  from  going  to  sleep  while  the 
duller  and  more  prosaic  numbers  were 
being  exhibited. 

I  learned  that  it  is  best  to  know  as 
soon  as  possible,  what  the  program  is  to 
be  for  the  day,  and  study  it  as  well 
as  you  can  without  seeing  it.  A  descrip- 
tion goes  a  good  ways,  even  before 
you  do  the  Missourian  act  of  being 
shown. 

Having  been  taught  by  my  good  prac- 
tical mother  to  do  as  thoroughly  as  pos- 
sible whatever  I  undertook,  I  went  at 
this  new  business,  in  as  systematical 
way  as  I  could.  I  divided  "scenarios" 
into  several  classes,  and  made  a  list  of 
the  different  airs  that  would  be  naturally 
associated  with  them. 

For  instance,  there  were  the  histori- 


cal scenes ;  and  it  was  necessary  to  learn 
the  national  airs  Oi£  the  different  coun- 
tries, as  far  as  possible.  Of  course  if 
there  was  anything  happening  on  the 
screen  oonnepted  with  French  heroism, 
it  would  not  do  to  leave  out  the  Mjir- 
seilles  Hymn:  it  had  to  come  in  some- 
where. A  player  that  left  that  out  too 
often,  would  herself,  be  very  likely  to 
be  "left  out"  ere  many  weeks — that  is, 
if  the  manager  knew  anything  about 
music,  or  there  was  any  one  who  could 
tell  him.  "Rule,  Britannia,  Britannia 
Rules  the  Waves"  is  a  good  one  for  the 
English  military  scenes :  and  that  is  about 
the  only  spirited  national  air  that  the 
English  have,  in  general  use,  excepting 
"God  Save  the  King" — and  when  you 
play  that,  mos*  Americans  think  you 
mean  "My  Country  'Tis  of  Thee",  and 
have  a  habit-<formed  "going  out"  instinc- 
tive feeling  at  its  conclusion.  You  can 
wake  a  Welshman  up  with  "The  March 
of  the  Men  of  Harlech",  a  German  with 
"Watch  on  the  Rhine",  and  an  Italian 
with  the  Garibaldi  March. 

I  think  that  of  all  countries,  Ireland 
is  fullest  of  famous  airs:  I  have  used 
almost  dozens  of  them  that  the  average 
Milesian  welcomes  very  enthusiastically. 
"The  Wearing  o!  the  Green",  "Rory 
O'More",  "St.  Patrick's  Day  in  the 
Morning",  "Oft  in  the  Stilly  Night", 
"The  Last  Rose  of  Summer"  are  only 
sample-counters  of  the  various  ones  that 
are  always  in  vogue,  and  probably  will 
never  go  out  of  it. 

The  Scotch  also  have  some  good  ones, 
though  not  so  many,  that  have  "struck 
.  twelve"  with  heart-popularity.  We  of 
America  have  "Hail  Columbia",  "Yan- 
kee Doodle",  "Gem  of  the  Ocean",  and 
the  difficult  but  ever-inspiring  "Star 
Spangled  Banner."  Several  of  the  old 
Civil-war-songs  are  also  still  in  a  sort 
of  vogue,  although  their  memory  is 
slowly  fading  away. 

Social  events,  current  happenings, 
etc.,  etc.,  covering  a  vast  variety  as  rep- 
resented in  "The  Silent  Drama",  have 
plenty  of  music  to  correspond  to  them, 
alas,  they  are  not  well  enough  known  to 
the   public    generally,    to    produce   any 

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startling  effect.  They  all  understand 
and,  in  a  sense  demand,  that  a  fragment 
of  one  of  the  "Wedding  Marches"  (pref- 
erably Wagner's)  must  be  played,  when- 
ever anything  like  marrying  and  giving 
in  marriage  appears,  and  some  of  the 
bearers  keep  up  with  the  short-lived 
popular  songs ;  and  some  of  them  know 
sometMng  of  operatic  airs :  but  to  most 
of  a  miscellaneous  audience,  the  greater 
share  of  the  music  is,  so  to  speak,  anon- 
ymous, although  it  has  its  effect  among 
music-loving  folk,  and  even,  sometimes, 
among  people  who  do  not  know  one  tune 
from  another — of.  iwhom  there  are  a 
great  many — ^more  than  would  gener- 
ally be  supposed.  There  is  not  only 
such  a  thing  as  colc^r-blindncss,  with 
those  who  can  see,  but  tone-deafness 
with  those  who  can  hear. 

Although,  of  course,  my  back  is  al- 
ways toward  the  audience  (excepting 
when  I  slyly  "rubber"  around  to  see  if 
any  particular  friend  is  there)  I  half- 
instinctively  know  about  how  my  music 
is  "taking."  The  orderly  ones  do  not 
generally  make  much  noise,  and  the 
unruly  ones  are  generally  soon  squelched 
by  the  us-hers:  but  there  are,  so  to 
speak,  degrees  of  silence — ^which  I  can 
fe/^1  better  even  than  hear. 

I  have  added  to  my  work,  the  task  of 
composing  music,  such  as  it  is,  and,  I 
may  say,  with  due  modesty,  sell  a  piece 
of  music,  now  and  then,  to  an  unsus- 
I>ecting  publisher:  and  I  always  try  it 
on  the  audiences  before  submitting  it 
for  sale.  If  it  is  greeted  by  a  hush 
within  a  hush,  I  think  it  is  on  the  way 
to  success :  if  not,  I  decide  that  there  is 
still  something  that  needs  repairing,  and 
I  go  home  and  make  the  repairs  as  soon 
as  possible. 

Of  course,  we  all  have  troubles,  or  we 
never  would  succeed  in  the  world.  Quite 
often  a  woman  will  come  to  the  picture- 
show  for  the  purpose  of  getting  it  to 
keep  her  babies  still,  and  for  the  time 
succeeds  only  in  making  the  s'how  noisy. 
But,  bless  the  poor  dear !  I  am  only  too 
glad  to  help  her  out.  The  juvenile 
angels  may  spoil  one  of  my  most  cher- 
ished  musical   performances,   but  they 


can't  spoil  fne.  If  they  weep,  I  make 
my  agent  of  acoustic  torture  weep  all 
the  louder,  and  the  yelling  and  the  sob- 
bing and  the  thunder-and-lightning  of 
the  huge  harp  of  the  ivory  keys  can,  in 
the  marathon  of  sound,  conquer  any 
baby  that  ever  rendered  our  lonely 
world  the  favor  of  getting  itself  bom. 
You  can  "beat  the  band"  (I  have  seen 
it  done  by  sucking  a  lemon  right 
in  its  face  and  eyes,  and  so  setting  the 
teeth  of  every  member  on  edge),  but 
you  can\  beat  a  piano,  with  a  healthy 
and  determined  woman  behind  it — al- 
though, perhaps,  the  "boss"  may  grum- 
ble a  little  because  he  has  to  get  the 
instrument  repaired  or  retuned  next  day 
or  night. 

After  the  cherubs»  are  silenced,  it  is  a 
fine  "stunt"  to  soothe  them  to  sleep  with 
such  nice  little  ditties  as  "Hush  My 
Dear,  Lie  Still  and  Slumber",  or  "Thy 
Father  is  Watching  the  Sheep",  or 
something  else  of  that  kind:  and  occa- 
sionally I  have  furtively  "rubbered" 
around,  and  discovered  that  the  good 
mother  was  herself  in  the  arms  of  the 
somnolent  god.  Once,  I  remember,  they 
tumbled  in  a  heap,  mother  and  all,  and 
<the  "babbies"  made  a  fresh  start,  in  an 
entirely  new  set  of  tones,  and  had  to  be 
out-noised  again. 

The  usual  and  inevitable  number  o! 
dudes  and  danglers,  with  their  sweet 
little  ways,  may  always  be  expected,  and 
can  be  readily  turned  down,  by»  playing 
the  air  of  certain  songs  that  have  been 
composed  expressly  for  the  purpose  of 
ridiculing  them — and  which  they  know, 
very  well.  There  is  nothing  that  will 
conquer  them  so  quickly  as  the  pricking 
of  the  bubbles  of  their  vanity:  and  I 
have  driven  half  a  dozen  out  of  doors 
with  my  piano,  in  one  day. 

But  I  could  not  tell  half  of  my  expe- 
riences, in  a  iforest-full  of  articles.  I 
can  only  say,  in  conclusion,  that  I  like 
the  business :  and  when  I  get  married, 
as  of  course  I'll  have  to,  for  he  won't 
see  the  mat'er  in  any  other  light,  it  will 
be  with  the  cast-iron  proviso,  that  I'll 
play  for  the  "movies"  just  whenever  I 

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ROSES  ON  THE  OCEAN  WAVE. 


Roses  on  the  Ocean   Wave. 


By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 

It  was  reported  in  one  of  the  newspapers  that  a  bereaved 
wife  sailed  from  Nova  Scotia,  to  the  spot  where  the  "Titanic" 
went  down  in  April,  carrying  with  her  a  ship-load  of  flowers, 
which   were   cast   upon    the  sen. 

TTHEY  came  to  one  who  sat  alone,  and  told  her 

That  underneath  the  cold  Atlantic  waves, 
Beyond  the  reach  of  saviour  or  beholder. 

Her  darling  shared  a  thousand  wandering  graves. 
She  knew  that  nevermore  his  smile  should  greet  her, 

That  nevermore  his  voice  should  call  her  Dear, 
Nor  in  the  long  sad  years  her  love  should  meet  her, 

Lost  mid  the  ice-fields,  dark  and  wild  and  drear. 

She  rose,  and  wrapped  her  widow's  veil  around  her, 

And  then  in  shadow  of  her  life's  eclipse. 
Went  forth  in  silence  in  a  grief  profounder^ 

Than  aught  that  tells  its  tale  from  pallid  lips. 
From  stem  to  stem  with  flowers  a  ship  she  freighted 

And  bade  the  captain  sail  across  the  sea, 
Unto  the  spot  where  aye  its  grief  unsated 

The  ocean  moaned  its  ceaseless  agony. 

She  cast  her  roses  on  the  stormy  billows, 

She  said  no  word ;  her  tears  fell  fast  and  free. 
They  slumber  well  who  rest  on  dark  g^een  pillows ; 

They'll  wakem  where  there  shall  be  no  more  sea. 
Then  home  she  fared,  the  hearth  henceforward  lonely, 

But  day  by  day,  her  vision  growing  clear. 
Would  show  her  how  the  sadness  lingered  only 

A  little  while,  for  heaven  was  drawing  near. 

There  are  who  claim  that  wasteful  lamentation 

And  idle  grief  were  mingled  when  she  cast 
Her  wealth  of  roses  in  a  great  libation 

Upon  the  ocean,  grim  and  chill  and  vast. 
But  if  it  brought  her  comfort,  who  shall  chide  her, 

The  one  last  act  of  love  that  she  could  give, 
When  farew.ell  words  and  looks  had  been  denied  her. 

And  Death  had  made  it  weariness  to  live? 


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Railroading  in  Mexico. 

By  George  Leo  Patterson. 


^^  YDU  can  see  Sierra  Blanca  on  the 
right"j  said  a  fellow  passenger, 
as  our  train  passed  a  small  station  in 
western  Texas.  The  stars  were  shining 
with  great  brilliancy,  rendering  the  rug- 
ged solitude  a  place  of  unusual  beauty, 
as  an  elevation  which  appeared  less  than 
a  mile  distant  became  discernible  through 
the  clear  night  air. 

"There  it  is,"  said  the  speaker,  "it  is 
ninety  miles  to  the  north." 

From  a  discussion  of  the  mountain, 
the  conversation  drifted  to  the  adven- 
tures of  my  new  acquaintance  while  em- 
ployed as  an  engineer  on  the  Mexican 
Central  Railroad.  "As  luck  would  have 
it,  I  had  seven  smash-ups  in  one  year", 
said  he.  "Greasers,  or  low  Mexicans, 
threw  a  switch  on  me  once,  and  the 
whole  train  went  into  the  ditch.  Only 
six  weeks  later  a  steer  went  to  sleep  on 
the  track.  I  could  not  see  him  in  time 
to  stop  the  train,  so  we  had  another 
wreck.  The  next  spring  the  train  ahead 
of  us  spread  the  rails  on  a  curve.  The 
centrifugal  force  had  carried  the  outer 
rail  three  or  four  inches  beyond  its  place. 
We  struck  the  spread  and  went  to 
pieces."  Concerning  the  other  four  acci- 
dents, my  friend  was  silent,  although 
at  a  later  time  I  was  to  be  favored 
with  an  account  of  one  somewhat  in 
detail. 

In  a  few  hours  we  reached  El  Paso, 
the  little  city  that  guards  the  extreme 
southwestern  corner  of  Texas,  eight 
hundred  and  sixtyseven  miles  from  Tex- 
arkana,  the  northeastern  portal  of  the 
Lone  Star  State.  The  people  of  Texas 
take  great  pride  in  the  size  of  their  com- 
monwealth, and  when  we  remember  that 


its  area  is  greater  than  that  of  the  Ger- 
man Empire  with  Massachustts,  New 
Hampshire  and  New  York  added,  it  is 
easy  to  join  with  these  people  in  saying 
that,  size  being  the  criterion,  the  Lone 
Star  State  is  certainly  the  greatest  in  the 
Union. 

The  morrow  found  the  engineer  and 
myself  strolling  down  a  dusty  street, 
discussing  plans  for  the  day.  "There  is 
to  be  a  bull-fight  this  afternoon,"  quoth 
my  companion.  "They  have  them  across 
the  river  in  Juarez  every  Sunday."  Not 
caring  to  be  present  at  this  brutal  sport, 
we  decided  to  spend  our  time  exploring 
the  ancient  Mexican  town.  The  Rio 
Grande,  to  my  surprise,  proved  but  a 
slight  obstacle.  Although  this  stream  is 
eighteen  hundred  miles  in  length,  its 
grandeur  is  to  be  appreciated  only  at 
times  of  high  water.  Half  a  dozen  happy 
hens  were  peacefully  fording  its  dark 
depths,  while  a  small  boy  was  seen  to 
leap  its  broad  bosom  at  a  single  bound. 
Startling  stories  were  told  us,  how- 
ever, regarding  its  width  at  times  of 
flood. 

Juarez  may  be  called  the  Washington 
of  Mexico.  Many  of  the  older  citizens 
remember  Benito  Pablo  Juarez,  and  de- 
scribe him  as  a  full-blooded  Indian  hav- 
ing no  Spanish  blood  in  his  veins,  a 
descendant  of  the  Aztecs.  On  a  hill  in 
the  central  portion  of  town  stands  the 
adobe  church,  which  has  looked  across 
the  valley  for  three  long  centuries. 
There  it  stood  as  a  mission  to  the  Indi- 
ans long  before  the  first  slave  set  foot 
on  American  soil,  before  Harvard  Uni- 
versity was  founded,  while  Boston  was 
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paddled  his  way  down  the  upper  Missis- 
sippi, before  ILa  Salle  made  his  voyage 
southward  to  its  mouth  and  named  the 
country  Louisiana,  and  there  it  stands 
today  with  its  walls  of  sun-dried  brick' 
uninjured. 

The  town  was  crowded  with  men  and 
women,  American  and  Mexican,  eager 
to  see  the  contest.  Multitudes  of  peo- 
ple were  coming  from  the  Texas  side, 
for  the  bull-fights  of  Juarez  could  not 
be  continued  if  it  were  not  for  the  Amer- 
ican patronage.  "I  attended  one,"  said 
my  friend,  "just  to  see  what  it  was  like. 
Then  my  fireman  got  interested  and  I 
went  with  him.  Then  my  wife  wished 
to  see  one,  so  I  went  with  her.  I  have 
been  to  about  a  dozen  of  them,  but  don't 
care  for  the  sport." 

Americans  find  excellent  reasons  for 
attending  bull-fights,  and  the  remarkable 
thing  connected  with  the  fact  is  that  they 
never  care  to  see  them. 

Near  the  entrance  to  the  grounds, 
stood  a  small  building  which  was  equip- 
ped with  a  cock-pit,  while  at  the  rear, 
spacious  coops  were  to  be  seen  from 
which  issued  the  music  of  a  large  male 
chorus.  "These  cock-fights  occur  every 
Sunday",  said  my  companion.  "Some- 
times they  bring  in  a  henny-cock.  That 
is  the  most  formidable  kind  of  a  bird  for 
the  ordinary  rooster  to  meet,  as  it  is  a 
very  fierce  kind  of  a  cock,  yet  resembles 
a  hen.  It  is  difficult  to  induce  the  other 
bird  to  fight  one  of  these.  Often  he 
finds  himself  almost  whipped  before 
realizing  that  he  is  facing  one  of  his 
own  sex." 

In  the  southern  part  of  town  stood 
the  Mexican  Central  depot.  "Just  twelve 
hundred  miles  from  here  to  the  City  of 
Mexico",  said  the  engineer.  "I  ran  on 
that  road  four  years.  During  that  time, 
they  began  to  take  off  the  old-fashioned 
solid  pilot  wheels,  those  of  the  forward 
truck,  and  to  substitute  those  having 
spokes.  They  were  lighter  althougfh  of 
cast  iron.  Engineers  began  calling  them 
'buggy  wheels',  and  they  still  go  by  that 
name. 

"Nearly  all  the  engineers  on  Mexican 
roads   are    Americans,   as   the  average 


native  is  not  a  natural  mechanic,  and 
besides,  in  times  of  emergency,  a  Mexi- 
can would  be  more  liable  to  lose  his 
head.  American  engineers  make  mis- 
takes, however.  One  night  Bill  Zim- 
merman was  bringing  ihivtytwo  box- 
cars down  the  line.  He  was  on  time 
and  thought  everything  clear,  poor  fel- 
low, but  he  had  forgotten  just  one  thing. 
An  engineer  is  bound  to  make  a  mistake 
once  in  a  lifetime,  the  same  as  anyone 
else. 

"The  railroad  companies  say  they 
want  men  who  never  make  mistakes,  but 
they  never  find  them.  There  had  been  a 
great  carnival  at  Mexico  City,  and  I  was 
pulling  an  extra  excursion  up  the  line. 

"In  the  middle  of  a  barren  region, 
there  was  a  tank  at  which  we  always 
stopped  to  take  on  water.  The  place 
consisted  simply  of  a  pump-house,  the 
tank,  and  a  side-track.  I  could  see  the 
switch-light  for  a  number  of  miles,  and 
it  often  made  me  nervous.  I  don't  know 
how  many  times  I  had  cursed  that  light, 
because  at  a  distance  I  was  always  mis- 
taking it  for  the  head-lamp  of  an  ap- 
proaching train.  In  secluded  regions  one 
sees  many  head-lights  that  are  dim,  fed 
by  coal  oil. 

"That  night,  I  thought  I  saw  it  as 
usual.  Pretty  soon,  it  seemed  to  look  a 
little  bigger.  Those  things  are  deceiv- 
ing. It  is  hard  to  tell  whether  they  are 
one  or  five  miles  away. 

"Then   my  fireman  said,  That's  a 

HEAD-LIGHT,  AND  IT's  THIS  SIDE  OF  THE 
SWITCH  !' 

"About  then,  the  thing  began  to  glare 
at  me  the  way  one  of  them  always  does 
when  it  is  getting  close.  I  said,  *Ju"^P 
Jimmy !  We're  going  to  hit  'em  hard !' 
I  did  not  jump  myself,  for  I  did  not  have 
much  time  after  I  had  shut  off  and  put 
on  the  air.  I  was  way  up  high  on  the 
seat-box  and  was  'pumping  sand.' 

"Jimmy  had  a  better  chance,  because 
he  was  already  leaning  out  the  gangway, 
watching.  Then  there  was  another 
reason.  I  had  hesitated  just  one  mo- 
ment. The  cab  was  stripped  right  oflf 
from  me.  As  luck  would  have  it,  I  got 
out  of  the  scrape  with  a  broken  arm 

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and  a  skinned  head.  Poor  Bill,  the 
other  engineer,  was  hurt  so  that  he  died 
in  a  few  days.  His  fireman  was  killed 
as  he  jumped.  Bill  had  forgotten  all 
a:bout  his  orders  to  meet  me  on  that  sid- 
ing. You  see,  I  was  pulling  an  'extra', 
that  night. 

"When  BSll  Zimmerman  was  dead,  the 
boys  wished  to  see  him  taken  back  to 
Texas  where  his  family  lived,  and  we 
had  quite  a  time  getting  him  there.  You 
see  it  costs  a  hundred  dollars  to  carry  a 
dead  body  across  the  line  into  United 
States.  That  was  the  law,  and  we 
didn't  want  to  pay  that  hundred  doU^s, 
unless  obliged  to. 

"The  crew  had  gotten  his  firemgm's 
body  across  all  right,  and  by  a  funny 
scheme,  too.  Whwi  they-  had  got  up 
here  to  Juarez,  two  of  them  hired  a 
hack  and  sat  him  up  between  them. 
Then  they  got  out  some  whiskey,  and 
pretended  that  both  were  tipsy,  and 
that  he  was  dead  drunk.  That  worked 
all  right,  but  we  dared  not  try  the  same 
game  so  soon  after. 

"Just  then,  Bill's  conductor  said: 
1  don't  think  Zimmerman's  spirit  would 
feel  hurt  if  we  put  him  in  the  water-tank 
of  the  engine.'  We  talked  it  up  with 
the  division  superintendent,  and  he  sent 
a  special  locomotive  across  the  line  with 
our  dead  comrade.  No  questions  were 
asked,  and  we  turned  poor  Bill  over  to 
his  wife  and  children, 

"The  same  scheme  was  once  followed 
in  Arkansas.  A  railroad  there  had  of- 
fered a  reward  of  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  and  a  suit  of  clothes  to  any 
man  who  could  steal  a  ride  from  a  cer- 
tain station  to  Hot  Springs.  A  great 
many  had  tried  to  win  the  prize,  but 
failed.  At  last,  a  fellow  got  into  the 
water-tank  of  the  engine,  and  stood  with 
his  head  just  below  the  lid  of  the  man- 
hole. He  got  the  reward,  but  the  entire 
crew  of  the  train  was  discharged.  We 
thought  that  if  a  live  man  could  stand  it, 
a  dead  one  could,  especially  as  Bill  was 


a  jolly  fellow  and  would  appreciate  such 
a  thing." 

From  this  account,  the  conversation 
drifted  to  the  emergencies  of  an  engi- 
neer's life.  "I  have  got  through  jump- 
ing", said  my  new  friend.  "I  jumped 
once,  and  that  was  the  only  time  I  was 
ever  badly  hurt.  It  laid  me  up  for  six 
months.  If  you  see  that  a  collision  is 
coming,  the  safest  place  you  can  get  is 
on  the  running-board,  that  little  walk 
that  goes  around  the  boiler.  If  you 
stand  there,  the  shock  will  throw  you 
away  from  the  train.  If  you  jump,  you 
will  land  near  the  track  and  the  cars  are 
liable  to  pile  on  top  of  you. 

"In  some  cases,  it  is  better  to  jump, 
however.  If  you  have  time  enough  to 
swing  down  on  the  step  the  way  Jimmy 
did,  you  may  be  able  to  keep  on  your 
feet  and  run  away  from  the  track  before 
the  smash-up  occurs.  It  takes  as  much 
nerve  to  jump  as  to  stay  on  your  seat. 
A  man  has  to  make  up  his  mind  and  act 
all  in  a  moment  Look  out  of  the  car 
window  when  the  train  is  trotting  along 
at  a  forty  or  fifty  mile  rate,  and  imagine 
how  you  would  feel  if  you  were  about  to 
leap  to  the  ground.  It  takes  consider- 
able nerve  to  jump,  and  it  is  often  safer 
to  remain  on  the  engine." 


PermiBBion  Sweetly  Oranted. 

nr^  HE  ever-to-he  admired  Walt  Whit- 
*  man  had  such  a  pure,  sweet,  lumi- 
nous egotism,  as  to  disarm  censure. 

One  night,  at  a  reception,  he  was  sit- 
ting in  an  arm-chair,  oheerfully  appre- 
ciating himself,  when  he  noticed  that  a 
young  man  was  gazing  at  him  with  an 
expression  of  countenance  not  so  very 
many  mileposts  from  adoration. 

Finally  he  smiled  beamingly  on  his 
worshipper,  and  said,  sweetly  and  benig- 
nantly : 

"You  may  speak  to  me,  it  you  want 
to,  my  young  friend?" 

Of  course  he  spoke. 


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JN  fthese  times,  when  politics  and 
money  are  mingled  so  closely  to- 
gether, and  both  are  occupying  the 
attention  of  the  whole  country,  a  glance 
at  the  old-fashioned  currencies  will  not 
be  uninteresting.  Greenbacks,  silver  cer- 
tificates, national  bank  notes,  gold,  sil- 
ver, copper,  and  nickel,  are  more  or  less 
familiar  acquaintances  of  the  present 
generation;  although  there  are  a  great 
many  quite  thrifty  and  intelligent  peo- 
ple, to  whom  the  sight  of  a  hundred  dol- 
lars in  yellow  would  be  something  of  an 
event. 

During  the  war  of  '6i,  notj  only  gold 
but  silver  was  a  practically  unknown 
currency;  and  people  were  "put  to  it" 
for  change  in  the  small  business  trans- 
actions of  daily  life. 

American  ingenuity,  however,  was 
equal  to  the  test;  and  postage-stamps 
of  different  denominations  became  as 
current  as  i>ennies,  nickels,  dimes,  and 
quarters  are  at  present.  From  this  cir- 
cumstance rose  the  habit  of  referring  to 
money  as  "stamps",  which  with  some 
people  still  exists.  It  also  became  the 
fashion  for  firms  to  make  small  medals 
containing  their  business  cards,  and 
launch  them  into  circulation  as  one-cent 
coins ;  and  considerable  advertising  was 
thus  done  at  the  expense  of  the  general 
public,  until  the  Government  forbade  it. 

Postal  notes  were  soon  issued  rep- 
resenting different  fractions  of  a  dollar ; 
and  it  must  be  admitted  that  these 
proved  just  as  safe  as  specie,  and  much 
more  easy  to  carry.  There  was  a  gen- 
eral burst  of  enthusiasm  when  metal 
crept  back  into  circulation;  but  it  soon 
became  an  old  and  rather  heavy  story, 
^nd  more  than  one  suffering  didc-car- 


rier  would  have  welcomed  the  paper 
dimes,  quarters,  and  half-dollars  once 
more. 

Before  the  war,  while  change  was 
about  the  same  as  now,  a  hundred  dol- 
lars in  small  bills  might  represent  banks 
in  every  state  then  in  the  Union — all 
with  varying  value  and  degree  of  secur- 
ity. Many  of  them  were  subject  to  dis- 
count; every  now  and  then  the  com- 
pany issuing  some  one  of  them  would 
fail  and  make  its  issues  worthless ;  bank 
notes  were  counterfeited  much  more  fre- 
quently than  at  present,  and  any  one  but 
an  expert  felt  upon  receiving  a  "bill", 
that  it  might  be  money,  or  merely  a 
piece  of  strongly-woven  paper,  with 
various  words  and  pictures  printed  upon 
it. 

Indeed,  in  1857  nearly  all  the  banks 
in  the  country  suspended  payment,  for 
a  time,  and  business  came  nearly  to  a 
standstill — not  for  lack  of  money,  but 
for  fear  that  the  money  was  not  good. 

If  any  of  our  readers  at  that  time  pos- 
sessed bills  resembling  those  here  de- 
picted, they  might  be  sure  that  they  had 
at  least  ten  dollars  as  good  as  gold. 
Wooster  Sherman,  who  had  issued  these 
bills  from  his  own  private  bank  in 
Watertown,  N.  Y.,  was  one  oi  the  finan- 
cial predecessors  of  Henry  Keep,  as 
Keep  was  of  the  present  famous  and 
wealthy  Roswell  P.  Flower.  He  was  a 
descendant  of  the  same  common  ances- 
tor as  were  the  Shermans  of  Ohio ;  and 
seems  to  have  had  a  great  deal  of  their 
firmness  and  sagacity  in  dealing  with  a 
situation. 

When  the  trouble  above  mentioned 
occurred  in  1857,  Sherman  promptly 
advertised  that  every  cm^  of  his  bills 

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would  be  redeemed  in  gold  upon  presen- 
tation. This  announcement  was  like  a 
breath  of  fresh  and  bracing  air  upon  hot 
and  enervating^  weather;  and  a  few  peo- 
ple met  it  by  immediately  taking  him  at 
his  word.  To  -their  mingled  gratifica- 
tion and  disappointment,  they  found  that 
the  yellow  coin  was  ready  for  them ; 
people  generally  decided  that  if  the  bills 
were  as  good  as  gold  they  might  in  some 
myserious  way  be  a  little  better:    and 


nobody  wished  other  pay  for  anything 
he  had  to  sell,  than  the  bills  of  whicii 
Every  Where  this  month  contain^ 
specimens. 

Mr.   Sherman  gathered  the   fruit  oi\ 
the  great  orchard  of  confidence  which 
he  planted  during  this  ordeaL     He  **woke  ^ 
up  and  found  himself  famous**  for  relia- ! 
bility ;  he  was  for  a  long  while  the  only 
man  in  his  section  who  could  procure 
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accommodate  large  financial  ventures; 
and  the  result  was  that  his  business 
became  more  extensive  and  lucrative 
than  ever  before. 

A  few  years  ago  the  late  brilliant  aid 
erratic  Kate  Field  wrote  an  article  with 
which  she  wished  to  point  some  moral, 
and  in  it  mentioned  having  disbursed  a 
three-dollar  bill.  ''But  there  are  no 
three-dollar  American  bills",  wrote  a 
critic.     'But  this  was  a  Canadian  one", 


retorted  Kate,  driven  fairly  across  the 
international  boundary  line  in  her  vexa- 
tion. If  it  had  been  a  few  years  earlier, 
Mr.  Sherman  could  have  come  to  her 
aid  with  the  second  one  o*f  these  very 
interesting  and  well-engraved  notes. 

No  one  knows  what  the  future  differ- 
ent forms  of  money  will  be:  different 
requirements'  must  be  met,  and  the  pub- 
lic taste  must  be  pleased.  Also  ambitious 
artists  will  arise,  who  will  want  to  ex- 
ploit their  talent.  But  all  kinds  of  money 
look  good  to  most  people. 


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By  Bertha  Johnston. 


"W^HEN  the  "Titanic"  sank  so  qui- 
etly, so  irrevocably,  beneath  the 
icy  waters  of  the  wintry  ocean,  rumor 
had  it  that  her  victim-passengers  sus- 
tained their  courage  and  faith  by  sing- 
ing Mrs.  Adams'  familiar,  uplifting 
hymn.  Although  many  of  the  survivors 
reported  that  the  air  then  sung  was 
"Autumn",  a  study  of  the  former  hymn, 
the  history  of  both  poet  and  composer, 
has  been  found  most  interesting,  and  is 
not  untimely. 

One  of  those  fated  to  go  down  with 
the  "Titanic"  was  William  T.  Stead,  the 
well-known  author,  editor,  and  peace 
advocate.  Some  years  ago  Mr.  Stead 
published  a  collection  of  "Hymns  that 
Have  Helped"  secured  by  asking  many 
known  and  unknown  people  to  name 
such  as  they  would  wish  included  in  a 
compilation  of  the  kind. 

We  quote  from  his  preface,  italicising 
a  sentence  which,  looking  backward, 
hints,  almost  like  a  premonition,  of  the 
manner  of  his  passing  away: 

"There  is  a  curious  and  not  a  very 
creditable  shrinking  on  the  part  of  many 
to  testify  as  to  their  experience  in  the 
Weeper  matters  of  the  soul.  It  is  an 
inverted  egotism — selfishness  masquer- 
ading in,  disguise  of  reluctance  to  speak 
of  self.  Wanderers  across  the  wilder- 
ness of  Life  ought  not  to  be  chary  of 
telling  their  fellow-travelers  where  they 
found  the  green  oasis.  ...  It  is 
not  regarded  as  egotism  when  the  pass- 
ing  steamer  signals  across  the  Atlantic 
wave  news  of  her  escape  from  perils  of 
iceberg  or  fog,  or  welcome  news  of 
^ood  chffr.    .    ,    , 


"'Hymns  that  Have  Helped  Me.' 
What  hymns  have  helped  you?  And  if 
they  have  helped  you,  how  can  you  bet- 
ter repay  the  debt  you  owe  to  your 
helper  than  by  setting  them  forth, 
stamped  with  the  tribute  of  your  grati- 
tude, to  help  other  mortals  in  like  straits 
to  yourself?  All  of  us  have  moments 
when  we  are  near  to  the  mood  of  the 
hero  and  the  saint,  and  it  is  something 
to  know  what  hymns  help  most  to  take 
us  there  and  keep  us  at  that  higher 
pitch." 

"Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee",  must 
surely  hold  a  high  place  in  any  such 
classification,  and  we  find  that  when 
The  Sunday  at  Home  invited  its  read- 
ers to  send  lists  of  one  hundred  of  their 
favorite  English  hymns,  out  of  3,500  re- 
plies, this  hymn  stood  number  seven. 
In  his  notes,  Mr.  Stead  quotes  King 
Edward  VII.,  then  Prince  of  Wales, 
(1895)  as  saying  of  it,  "There  is  none 
more  touching  nor  one  that  goes  more 
directly  to  the  heart." 

When  we  come  to  study  the  life  of 
the  lovely,  gifted  author,  we  find  high- 
minded,  courageous  patriotism,  romance, 
and  happy  domesticity,  all  having  their 
share  in  the  prologue. 

Benjamin  Flower  was  a  brilliant 
young  Englishman,  who,  crossing  the 
Channel  a  number  of  times,  found  him- 
self greatly  stirred  by  the  spirit  of  the 
French  Revolution.  Settling  in  Eng- 
land, he  edited  The  Cambridge  Intelli- 
gencer, expressing  boldly  his  sympa- 
thies with  the  struggle  of  the  people 
across  the  water,  and  criticising,  rash 
man,  thit  poKtioBl  cow(tuct  of  9  certRJn 


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Bisbop    who    shall   be   nameless    here. 

The  ardent  young  man  was  brought 
to  trial,  fined  iioo,  and  sent  to  New- 
gate jail  for  six  months.  Two  happy 
consequences  followed  this  experience. 

Firstly,  the  occurrence  must  have  cre- 
ated considerable  debate  in  all  circles, 
for,  from  this  trial,  dates  liberty  of 
political  discussion  in  England. 

Secondly,  (and  here  enters  romance), 
Miss  Eliza  Gould  visited  the  prisoner 
to  express  her  sympathy  with  his  un- 
merited punishment,  and  with  his  polit- 
ical, religious,  and  humanitarian  ideals. 
Refined,  cultivated,  gentle,  acquaintance 
ripened  into  friendship,  and  blossomed 
into  love  and  marriage. 

Two  daughters  were  bom  of  this 
union,  each  possessing  a  fine,  true,  noble 
and  spiritual  nature.  The  mother  died 
early,  and  the  devoted  father  superin- 
tended personally  the  education  and 
training  of  his  daughters,  with  results 
that  illustrate  what  paternal  solicitude 
can  accomplish,  when  duly  and  truly 
consecrated. 

A  radical  in  politics,  and  a  Unitarian 
in  religious  faith,  the  daughters  natur- 
ally followed  in  the  father's  lead,  since 
his  life  seems  to  have  been  consistent 
with  his  humanitarian  principles.  Eliza, 
the  eldest,  developed  an  unusual  gift  for 
musical  composition,  which  found  its 
outlet  mainly  in  writing  music  for  the 
congregational  singing  of  her  pastor, 
W.  J.  Fox,  of  the  now  famous  Unita- 
rian South  Place  Chapel. 

The  second  daughter,  Sarah  Fuller 
Flower,  was  born  at  Harlow,  February 
22,  1805.  Her  genius  expressed  itself 
in  poetry  and  the  drama.  She  sent  her 
contributions  to  the  Monthly  Reposi- 
tory, conducted  by  her  Unitarian  pastor, 
and  the  two  sisters,  deeply  devoted  to 
each  other,  found  their  words  and  music 
sung  frequently  by  their  fellow-attend- 
ants at  worship,  as  well  as  by  others  all 
over  their  Motherland.  Sarah  wrote 
plays  as  well,  feeling  that  the  drama 
should  ally  itself  with  the  uplifting  work 
of  the  Church.  One  successful  drama, 
"Vivia  Perpetua",  (1841)  is  the  story 
of  the  conversion  of  a  pagan  to  Chris- 


tianity, and  is  written  in  a  highly  ele- 
vated strain. 

The  gifted  young  woman  wrote 
poems,  also,  upon  humanitarian  inter- 
ests, strongly  supporting  the  Anti-Corn 
Law  League,  and  other  liberal  measures. 

In  1834  Sarah  Fuller  Flower  married 
W.  B.  Adams,  a  successful  mechanical 
engineer,  and  the  union  proved  a  most 
happy  one.  But  when  her  dearly-loved 
sister  died  in  1847,  she  herself  gradually 
fell  into  a  decline,  and  followed  in  1848. 
Tall,  beautiful,  possessed  of  a  charming 
personality,  of  utmost  purity  and  nobil- 
ity of  character,  her  famous  hymn  well 
expresses  the  faith,  aspiration  and  trust 
of  her  loving  and  deeply  spiritual  nature. 

And  yet  5ie  theme  of  the  h)min  is  no 
new  one.  It  is  based  upon  one  of  the 
most  ancient  of  ancient  tales — one  that 
tells  of  a  tremendous  spiritual  experi- 
ence that  befell  the  Hebrew  patriarch 
Jacob.  But  the  poet  universalizes  this 
experience  so  that  it  voices  that  of  every 
human  heart. 

To  derive  greatest  help  and  pleasure 
from  the  poem  one  must  assuredly 
know  the  old  story  of  Jacob's  night  in 
the  Wilderness,  his  stony  pillow,  the 
vision  of  the  angels,  and  the  building  of 
the  altar  called  Bethel,  else  the  imagery 
means  nothing.  But  knowing  the  story, 
how  each  line  radiates  spiritual  signifi- 
cance. 

How  different  life  becomes,  when  our 
attitude  changes  so  that  all  that  comes 
to  us,  whether  it  be  of  pain,  or  loss  or 
gain,  or  hardship,  failure,  or  success,  is 
regarded  as  a  messenger  to  lead  us  ever 
upward,  to  union  with  the  Divine. 

But  because  this  perfect  expression  of 
trust  and  aspiration  was  written  by  a 
Unitarian,  and  because  there  was  in  it 
no  reference  to  the  Messiah,  many  of 
the  narrowly  orthodox  were  minded  to 
amend  it,  and  in  so  doing  failed  to  im- 
prove it.  Their  additions  were  of  no 
value  in  themselves,  and  failed  to  carry 
out  the  analogy  of  the  Old  Testament 
narrative. 

For  instance,  in  1851,  ten  years  after 
Its  first  appearance,  A.  T.  Russell  added 
this  stanza:  r^^^^T^ 

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"Christ  alone  beareth  me, 

Where  Thou  dost  shine ; 
Joint  heir  He  maketh  me 

Of  the  Divine. 
In  Christ  my  soul  shall  be 
Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee, 
Nearer  to  Thee." 
And  in  1864,  a  man  named  Skinner, 
suggested  the  following  stanza: 

'MSlory,  O  God,  to  Thee! 

Glory  to  Thee, 
Almighty  Trinity 

In  Unity. 
Glorious  mystery. 
Through  all  Eternity, 
Glory  to  Thee." 
Still  another  would-be  painter  of  the 
liiy  suggests  that  the  lines, 

"E'en  though  it  be  a  cross 
That  raisetb  me," 
be  changed  to 

"Tho'  by  Thy  bitter  Cross 
We  raised  be," 

which  completely  changes  the  author's 
thought,  without  improving  it. 

"Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee",  was  first 
sung  in  England  to  the  tune  "Horbury", 
by  J.  B.  Dykes,  and  later  to  that  of  St. 
Edmunds,  by  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan.  But 
it  had  not  yet  found  its  way  to  the  hearts 
of  the  people.  The  beautiful  idea  had 
not  yet  found  its  perfect  musical  expres- 
sion. As  Hezekiah  Butterworth  has  said 
of  it,  "Such  hymn  inevitably  acquires  a 
single  tune-voice  so  that  its  music  in- 
stantly names  it  by  its  words,  when 
played  on  an  instrument." 

Such  tune-voice  was  given  to  it  in 
1861  by  our  own  Dr.  Lowell  Mason,  and 
it  is  an  inspiration  to  learn  that  the 
career  of  the  composer  of  "Bethany'' 
was,  throughout,  worthy  of  the  author 
of  the  hymn.  Largely  through  his  de- 
voted labors,  and  high  ideals,  the  crude, 
popular  music  of  America,  underwent  a 
transformation  comparable  to  the  differ- 
ence between  a  grub  and  a  butterfly. 

Lowell  Mason  was  born  in  Medford, 
Mass.,  in  1792,  with  such  a  love  and 
genius  for  music  that  he  was  soon  able 
to  master  any  instrument  that  came  into 


his  hands,  and  at  sixteen  years  01  a{>e 
took  charge  of  a  choir  and  singing 
classes.  He  trained  bands  in  neighbor- 
ing towns  also. 

He  was  employed  in  a  bank  in  Savan- 
nah, Georgia,  when  twenty  years  old, 
and  this  gave  him  spare  time  to  devote 
to  music.  Here  he  was  greatly  helped 
by  F.  L.  Abel,  with  whom  he  studied 
harmony  and  composition,  this  being  a 
period  when  all  voices  in  congregational 
singing  in  America  sang  the  air  only. 
In  Savannah  he  helped  organize,  and 
became  Superintendent  of,  the  second 
Sunday  School  in  United  States. 

Now  it  came  to  pass  that  a  member 
of  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher's  church,  Bos- 
ton, visited  Savannah,  and  was  greatly 
impressed  by  the  unusual  beauty  and 
expressiveness  of  the  choir-singing  con- 
ducted by  young  Lowell  Mason. 

He  talked,  when  he  returned  to  Bos- 
ton, and  as  a  consequence,  three  Boston 
churches  combined  to  call  the  youthful 
conductor  to  the  Hub,  and  eventually 
we  find  him  giving  his  choir-training 
gifts  entirely  to  Dr.  Beecher's  church. 

Meanwhile,  finding  the  resources  of 
the  clioir-master,  in  the  way  of  suitable 
selections,  most  crude  in  quality  and  lim- 
ited in  number,  he  had  selected  airs 
from  Handel,  Haydn,  Mozart,  and  other 
great  composers,  and  adapted  them  to 
well-chosen  hymns.  He  suggested  to 
the  Boston  Handel  and  Haydn  Society 
that  they  would  greatly  benefit  congre- 
gational singing  throughout  the  country 
if  they  published,  and  stood  sponsor  for, 
his  compilation.  This  was  finally  done, 
although  with  many  prophecies  of  de- 
feat. The  young  and  unknown  com- 
piler kept  his  own  self  modestly  and 
discreetly  in  the  background.  Suffice  it 
to  say,  the  compilation  went  through 
twentytwo  editions  and  brought  $10,000 
to  the  coffers  of  the  Society. 

Sacred  music  was,  to  Mason,  a  truly 
sacred  thing,  and  at  his  mid-week  and 
Saturday  evening  rehearsals  he  would 
analyze  the  meaning  of  the  hymns  and 
in  every  possible  way  awaken  in  the 
young  singers  a  sense  of  solemn  respon- 
sibility. 

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But  his  good  work  for  the  musical 
vox  populi  did  not  end  here.  He  early 
became  acquainted  with  Pestalozzian 
theories  and  methods,  and  was  partly 
instrimiental  in  introducing  them  into 
the  public  schools  of  Boston.  A  great 
lover  of  children,  he  made  a  special 
study  of  how  best  to  begin  with  child- 
ish voices  and  educate  childish  ears,  to 
know  and!  to  express  sweet,  pure  tones, 
and  musical  harmonies. 

Who  does  not  recall  singing,  as  a 
child,  from  the  Mason  charts, 

"Gently  row,  gently  row, 
O'er  the  glassy  waves  we  go," 
and   many  other  simple  but   beautiful 
airs. 

But  Mason's  influence  did  not  lend 
with  the  children.  He  travelled  through 
the  States  organizing  Musical  Institutes 
in  which  he  gave  instruction  to  teachers 
who  came  from  far  and  near  to  obtain 
from  them  information  and  inspiration. 

In  recognition  of  what  he  had  con- 
tributed to  his  country's  welfare  and 
happiness,  the  University  of  New  York 
conferred  upon  him,  as  its  first  recipi- 
ent, th)e  degree  oHi  Doctor  of  Music. 
Upon  his  death,  in  1872,  he  left  to  Yale 
University  his  invaluable  musical  library. 

Such  is  the  inspiring  story  of  the  man 
whose  melody  "Bethany"  so  perfectly 
tallies  with  Mrs.  Adams'  poetic  inter- 
pretation of  Jacob's  experience,  that  one 
wonders  why  it  was  not  called  "Bethel." 

The  hymn  has  been  translated  into 
many  languages,  including  the  Gaelic 
and  Arabic,  and  numerous  stories  are 
told  of  the  comfort  and  uplift  it  has  been 
in  times  of  trial  and  distress. 

The  last  words  of  the  martyred  Presi- 
dent McKinley  were,  "Nearer,  my  God, 
to  Thee,"  and  many  now  living  recall 
how,  at  the  hour  of  his  funeral,  Sep- 
tember 19,  1901,  at  3:30  o'clock,  busi- 
ness, trafJSc  and  transportation  were 
stopped  for  five  minutes  in  all  parts  of 
the  country,  while  choirs  sang  and  bells 
tolled  the  wonderful  hymn. 

Soldiers  everywhere  have  found  con- 
solation in  its  message,  and  it  was  sunof 
by  the  Rough  Riders  at  the  burial  of 
their  comrades  in  Cuba. 


Reverend  James  King  recounts  the 
singing  of  this  hymn  by  a  group  of  trav- 
elers on  the  Heights  of  Benjamin,  near 
the  spot  where,  legend  says,  rested 
Jacob's  wearied  head  upon  the  pillow  of 
stone;  and  Bishop  Marvin,  wandering 
in  Arkansas,  during  the  Civil  war,  home- 
less and  disheartened,  heard  from  a  tum- 
ble-down log-cabin  come  the  voice  of  an 
old  widowed  woman  as  she  sang  the 
familiar  strains.  And  hope  and  faiUi  and 
strength  were  renewed  in  his  heart. 

On  May  24,  the  greatest  orchestra 
ever  assembled,  numbering  500  instru- 
ments, performed  in  Albert  Hall,  Lon- 
don, as  a  tribute  to  the  "Titanic's"  bands- 
men, while  20,000  persons  sang  the 
hymn  we  have  just  reviewed. 

Truly  the  world  has  been  greatly 
blessed  through  this  hymn;  greatly 
strengthened,  consoled,  uplifted.  And 
all  may  well  be  grateful  who  have, 
through  its  instrumentality,  been 
brought  nearer  to  the  Divine  All-Father. 


A  Keen-Eyed  Engineer. 

A  N  old  engineer  was  getting  his  sight 
tested  by  a  doctor  who  lived  in  a 
house  facing  a  large  park.  The  doctor 
used  to  say  to  his  patients,  "Look  over 
there  and  tell  me  what  you  can  see." 
When  the  engineer  learned  that  his  sight 
was  to  be  tested,  he  had  arranged  with 
his  son  to  take  his  bicycle  half  a  mile 
inito  the  park  and  be  oiling  it.  In  due 
time  the  old  man  was  led  to  the  window, 
the  doctor  saying,  as  usual : 

"What  do  you  see?" 

The  old  man,  peering  out,  said,  "I 
see  a  young  man  stooping  beside  his 
bicycle." 

"Do  you  ?"  said  the  doctor.  "I  don't 
see  anything  at  all." 

"Nonsense,"  said  the  engineer. 
"Why,  he  is  oiling  it." 

The  doctor  took  up  a  pair  of  field 
glasses  and  plainly  saw  the  scene.  He 
took  a  good  look  at  the  engineer. 

"Oiling  nothing!"  he  replied  scorn- 
fully. "He's  just  startinqf  off  with  a 
.2:irl.     I  shall  report  'Sight  failing.*  " 

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William  Llojd  Garrison  and  John  C.  Calhcun. 

By  Charles  Edwasd  Stowb. 


THESE  two  men  embodied  two  dif- 
ferent worlds — Calhoun  an  ancient 
world  that  is  dead  or  dying,  and  Gar- 
rison a  new  world  that  is  fast  coming. 

At  a  time  when  William  Lloyd  Gar- 
rison was  slandered,  vilified,  hated  and 
hunted  to  death,  for  his  fearless  advo- 
tacy  of  the  great  doctrine  of  the  equal- 
ity of  man,  and  the  rights  of  the 
enslaved  and  persecuted  blacks,  he  wrote 
to  a  friend,  "It  is  the  lowliness  of  their 
estate,  in  the  estimation  of  the  world, 
which  exalts  them  in  my  eyes.  It  is  the 
distance  that  separates  them  from  the 
blessings  and  privileges  of  society, 
which  brings  them  so  closely  to  my 
affections.  It  is  the  unmerited  scorn, 
reproach,  and  persecution  of  their  per- 
sons, by  those  whose  complexion  is  col- 
ored like  my  own,  that  command  for 
them  my  sympathy  and  respect.  It  is 
the  fewness  of  their  friends,  and  the 
great  number  of  their  enemies,  that  in- 
duce me  to  stand  forth  in  their  defence, 
and  enable  me,  I  trust,  to  exhibit  to  the 
world  the  purity  of  my  motives."  Again, 
when  in  great  personal,  danger,  he 
wrote  to  the  same  friend:  "My  friends 
are  full  of  apprehension  and  disquie- 
tude; but  I  cannot  know  fear.  I  feel 
that  it  is  impossible  for  danger  to  awe 
me.  I  tremble  at  nothing  but  my  own 
delinquencies,  as  one  who  is  bound  to 
be  perfect,  even  as  my  Heavenly  Father 
is  perfect." 

It  is  interesting  to  read  these  two 
passages  together,  as  forming  a  most 
complete  commentary  of  the  words  of 
Jesus,  "Be,  ye  perfect,  even  as  your 
Father  which  is  in  heaven  is  perfect." 
Read   the    passage    in    its    connection! 


Jesus  has  just  been  describing  the 
Father  in  heaven  as  making  his  sun  to 
shine  upon  the  evil  and  the  good,  and 
sending  his  rain  upon  the  just  and  the 
unjust.  That  is,  the  God  of  Jesus  dis- 
plays His  wonderful  perfection,  not  in 
exalting  himself;  but  in  humbling  him- 
self. He  is  perfect  as  He  stoops  to  the 
lowest,  the  unworthy,  the  outcast,  de- 
spised and  friendless.  According  to 
Jesus  the  perfection  of  the  Father  in 
heaven  consists  in  His  communicating 
His  life  and  love  to  the  smallest  things, 
and  doing  the  most  ungracious  tasks  for 
ungracious  people.  So  Jesus  manifested 
the  Father  as  he  apprehended  Him.  "He 
that  hath  seen  me  hath  seen  the  Father," 
he  said.  "He  that  hath  seen  me  as  the 
friend  of  the  poor,  the  despised,  the  out- 
cast, hath  seen  the  Father."  Just  as  w^ 
see  the  Father  when  we  read  these  noble 
words  of  Longfellow: 

"Our  hearts  in  glad  surprise 

To  higher  levels  rise. 

The  tidal  wave  of  greater  souls . 

Into  our  being  rolls, 

And  lifts  us  unawares 

Out  of  all  meaner  cares." 

"Be  like  your  Father  in  heaven," 
Jesus  said,  "be  perfect  as  He  is  per- 
fect." So  live  that  you  may  say,  *He 
that  hath  seen  me  hath  seen  the 
Father!'"  Jesus  could  talk  with  the 
harlot  and  the  drunkard  and  not  despise 
them.  He  moved  among  the  very  low- 
est of  mankind  without  any  word  of 
scorn  ever  dropping  from  his  lips;  he 
was  never  cold  or  indifferent  to  any 
form  of  hiunan  suffering,  misery,  or. 
guilt.     He  had  compassion  on  the  mtil- 

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titudes  because  they  were  like  sheep 
without  a  shepherd.  He  associated  with 
the  outcast  and  the  obscure,  and  the  un- 
known; was  comfort  for  their  sorrow, 
strength  for  their  weakness,  hope  for 
their  despair.  Jesus  saw  beauty  where 
others  only  saw  ugliness,  and  worth 
where  others  saw  only  worthlessncss. 
According  to  Jesus,  God  was  the  great 
Servant  of  all,  and  if  we  would  be  like 
Him  or  would  show  Him  to  our  fellow- 
men  we  must  love  and  serve  as  He  did. 
"If  I,  your  Lord  and  Master,  wash  your 
feet,  ye  ought  also  to  wash  one  another's 
feet.  For  I  have  given  you  an  example 
that  ye  should  do  as  I  have  done  unto 
you."  It  was  Jesus'  ideal  for  all  his  fol- 
fowers  that  they  should  so  live  as  to  be 
able  to  say  as  He  said:  "He  that  hath 
seen  me  hath  seen  the  Father." 

The  spirit  of  Garrison  is  the  spirit  of 
our  modern  democracy.  It  is  the  motto 
of  our  modern  democracy  that  he  is 
greatest  who  serves  the  lowest.  The 
old  Roman  poet  sang: 

"Odi  profanum  vulgus  et  aceo." 
(I  h^te  the  vulgar  throng,  and  spurn 
them  from  me.) 

In  many  ways  John  C.  Calhoun  was  a 
most  noble  and  exemplary  character; 
but  he  represented  the  opposite  pole  of 
what  Garrison  expressed,  and  stood  for 
what  was  passing  away.  For  the  world 
is  slowly  turning  to  Jesus  and  his  ways. 
Calhoun  clung  to  the  gods  of  ancient 
Greece,  in  spirit  at  least,  even  if  he  knew 
it  not,  and  made  his  stately  bow  to 
Jesus  of  Nazareth.  They  were  a  splen- 
did glittering  aristocracy  that  exploited 
the  race  of  mortals  for  their  own  pleas- 
ure and  profit.  They  looked  down  with- 
out pity  on  sinking  ships,  burning  cities, 
and  contending  armies.  They  would 
have  no  burdens,  no  cares,  no  sorrows, 
that  they  could  lay  on  other  shoulders. 
In  the  life  of  Rev.  Horace  Binney  we 
have  a  most  interesting  account  of  an 
interview  that  he  had  with  Mr.  Calhoun 
and  the  impression  that  it  left  upon 
him. 

"He  obviously  considered  society  as 
consisting  of  two  classes,  the  poor  who 
were  uneducated  and  doomed  to  serve, 


and  the  men  of  property  and  education 
to  whom  the  service  was  to  be  rendered. 
Regarding  these  two  classes  as  discrimi- 
nating the  people  in  Pennsylvania  as 
well  as  in  South  Carolina,  he  said,  em- 
phatically, The  poor  and  uneducated 
are  increasing,  there  is  no  power  in 
Republican  government  to  repress  them, 
their  numbers  and  disorderly  tempers 
will  make  them  in  the  end,  the  efficient, 
enemies  of  the  men  of  property.  They 
have  the  right  to  vote,  they  will  finally 
control  your  elections,  and  by  bad  laws 
or  by  violence,  they  will  invade  your 
houses  and  turn  you  out. 

"  'Education  will  do  nothing  for  them, 
they  will  not  give  it  to  their  children, 
and  it  would  not  do  them  any  good  if 
they  did. 

"  'They  are  hopelessly  doomed,  as  a 
mass,  to  poverty  from  generation  to 
generation,  and  through  the  political 
franchise  they  will  increase  in  influence 
and  desperation  till  they  overthrow 
you. 

"  The  institution  of  slavery  cuts  off 
this  evil  by  the  root.  The  whole  body 
of  our  servants,  whether  in  the  family 
or  the  field,  are  removed  from  influence 
upon  the  white  class  by  the  denial  of 
all  political  rights.  They  have  no  power 
to  disturb  society.'" 

So  William  Lloyd  Garrison  and  John 
C.  Calhoun  represented  two  different 
and  utterly  antagonistic  worlds.  An  old 
world  that  was  parsing  away,  and  a  new 
world  that  is  still  to  come  more  and 
more. 

It  is  coming  through  the  mighty 
working  of  the  teachings  of  Jesus  of 
Nazareth  in  human  society.  It  is  the 
dynamite  of  his  gospel  that  is  destroy- 
ing old  theologies,  philosophies,  and 
political  economies.  Democracy  is  only 
another  name  for  the  Christianity  of 
Jesus.  Christ  with  its  sympathy  with 
everything:  that  is  human. 

The  Christ  of  Democracy  is  the  Christ 
who  washed  the  disciples'  feet,  fed  the 
multitudes,  cleansed  the  Temple  of  fak- 
ers, and  grafters,  was  too  big  to  judge 
the  poor  woman  taken  in  adultery. 
'This  man  receiveth  sinners,  and  eateth 
with  them!*'     Horrible!       ^  t 

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*Then  gently  scan  your  fellow  man 

Still  gentler  sister  woman. 
Though  they  may  gang  a  kennie  wrang, 

To  step  aside  is  human. 
'Tis  He  who  made  the  heart  alone, 

Decidedly  can  try  us. 
He  knows  each  spring,  its  varying  tone. 

Each  chord,  its  various  bias. 


Then  at  the  balance  let's  be  mute. 

We  never  can  adjust  it. 
What's  done  we  partly  can  compute : 

But  know  not  what's  resisted." 

Jesus  Christ  has  made  humanity  di- 
vine, religion  service,  and  life  a  joy  of 
doing  good. 


In  Woodland   Paths. — ^By  Benj.  F.  Leggeti. 


rrriTHIN  the  dappled  woodland  shade 
^^       with  birches  silver  stoled. 
And  beeches  gnarled  and  hoary  set  with 

mossy  tufts  of  gold. 
With  stately  sugar-maples  and  the  oaks 

of  old  renown— 
The  linden   witih  the  nnurmur   ofi  the 

wild-bees  in  its  crown, 
What  cool  sweet  shadows  linger,  what 

rapture  ever  thrills 
The  wooded  slope  that  leans  upon  the 

shoulder  of  the  hills! 
Upon  the  lower  fringes  where  the  wil- 
low makes  its  moan 
The  sombre  firs  and  larches  breathe  a 

solemn  undertone: 
And   through   the   woodland    branches 

green — ^the     sprays     and    tangled 

vines, — 
The  chorus   of  the  poplar  leaves,  the 

minor  of  the  pines — 
Runs  on  the  sweet  old  melody  through 

all  the  chancel  vast — 
The  whisper  oi  the  ages  through  the 

aeons  of  the  past. 

The  spruces  lift  their  tips  of  flame,  the 

sturdy  hemlocks  tall 
Stand  up  as  carven  pillars  strong  within 

the  woodland  hall: 
On   lowland   slopes   the   balsams   pitch' 

their  wigwam  tents  of  gloom, 
And  yellow  birches  lift  their  stems  and 

stand  in  light  abloom: — 
The  gray  hawk  screams  above  the  nest, 

his  note  the  wood^rush  sings. 
The  squirrel  chatters  in  the  bouglis,  the 

partridge  beats  his  wings: — 


There's  music  in  the  whispering  leaves, 

the  soft  and  ceaseless  whir 
Of  wing  and  spray,  of  moth  and  bee, 

and  countless  life  astir. 
And  in  the  ferny  grot  where  lie  the 

lichened  boulders  old 
The  laughing  water  leaps  to  light  from 

caverns  deep  and  cold. 
And  round  it  throng  the  graces  sweet  o^f 

woodland  shadows  cool 
And    Adder's-Tong^e    and    Lady-Fern 

are  mirrored  in  the  pool. 

A    liquid    song    of   cool    deligfht   from 

naiad-haunted  rills 
O'erhung   by    fronded   maidenhair    the 

woodland  spaces  fills: 
And  through  the  twilight  of  the  glen 

the  limpid  waters  fall 
Do»wn-dropping  through   the  greening 

glooms    their    low,    sweet,    crystal 

call ; — • 
How  cool  the  woven  shadows  lie  around 

our  woodland  rest! 
And  sweet  our  dreams  that  thronging 

come    when    pillowed    on    earth's 

breast : — 
Then  every  note  of  rare  delight  from 

leafy  branches  rung 
Is  but  a  song  of  welcome  from  some 

happy  dryad's  tongue: — 
Above  the  runnel's   laughter  low  o'er 

pebbles  gay  with  moss 
We    see    the    airy    phantoms    dim    as 

dreamy  shadows  cross^ 
And  down  the  wildwood  hollows  pass  a 

merry,  trooping  clan 
While  rings  the  mellow  music  of  the 

reeded  pipes  of  Pan. 

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Troubles  of  a  Nurse-Girl. 


J  AM  a  fairly  well  educated  daughter 
of  an  English  farmer.  I  came  to 
this  country  with  wealthy  relatives,  but 
a  sudden  change  in  their  circumstances 
threw  me  upon  my  own  efforts  for  a 
livelihood. 

I  had  little  knowledge  of  the  busi- 
ness ways  of  the  country,  and  took  the 
first  respectable  work  I  could  get.  This 
was  a  nurse-prl  in  the  family  of  a  lady 
of  great  wealth,  who  lives  in  a  beauti- 
ful residence  on  the  banks  of  the  Hud- 
son, and  keeps  a  great  number  of  ser- 
vants. Mrs.  Blank  pays  the  highest 
wages,  and  secures  the  best  help  to  be 
had.  She  never  keeps  a  servant  long. 
They  will  not,  or  rather  can  not,  stay 
with  her.  The  house  is  beautiful,  the 
grounds  delightful,  all  the  surroundings 
as  good  as  heart  could  wish,  but  the 
girls  are  simply  prisoners  in  care  of  a 
stern  jailor.  I  was  with  her  fourteen 
months,  and  it  is  the  first  time  in  her 
life  that  she  has  been  so  long  in  connec- 
tion with  one  servant,  for  her  mother 
could  never  keep  a  girl  either. 

The  baby  I  took  care  of  is  now  eigh- 
teen months  old,  and  teething.  For 
five  months  I  have  not  been  in  church 
once.  I  have  never  had  a  day  off.  The 
child  is  heavy,  and  has  been  in  my  arms 
day  and  night.  Six  weeks  ago  another 
baby  was  born.  For  this  one  there  was 
supposed  to  be  a  special  nurse,  but  in 
the  six  weeks  we  have  had  four  nurses 
and  have  been  the  greater  part  of  the 
time  without  any,  so  that  I  have  had 
both  of  the  children  to  attend;  and  it 
has  been  no  unusual  thing  for  me  to 
leave  the  table  seven  times  while  I  was 
taking,  or  rather  trying  to  take,  one 
meal. 


Last  spring  I  had  to  have  a  new 

dress,  and  a  friend  in  New  York  offered 
to  make  it  for  me  if  I  could  come  down 
to  be  fitted.  I  asked  Mrs.  Blank  to 
arrange  for  letting  me  have  one  after- 
noon. Any  of  the  other  girls  in  the 
house  would  have  been  glad  to  take 
care  of  the  baby  for  me  if  Mrs.  Blank 
would  allow  her  the  time,  but  she  would 
not  hear  of  any  such  arrangement ;  she 
said  each  must  each  do  her  own 
work.  (She  never  would  let  us  accom- 
modate each  other  in  any  way.)  She 
would  attend  the  baby  herself,  only  she 
could  not  lift  it. 

Finally  she  said  that  if  the  baby  went 
to  sleep,  I  might  take  the  one  o'clock 
train,  but  I  must  be  back  at  five,  and 
she  and  her  mother  would  manage 
while  I  was  gone.  The  baby  did  go  to 
sleep,  but  while  I  was  dressing  it  awoke. 

Mrs.  Blank  attempted  to  quiet  it,  but 
was  so  much  of  a  stranger  to  her  own 
child  that  it  was  afraid  of  her.  She 
called  me  and  said  I  must  get  it  to  sleep 
again.  She  had  excited  it  so  by  that 
time  that  it  was  after  three  o'clock 
when  I  finally  got  it  quieted,  and  I  could 
not  take  a  train  for  New  York  until 
four. 

I  reached  the  city  to  find  that  my 
friend  had  given  me  up,  and  had  gone 
out.  I  waited  for  her,  for  I  knew  it 
would  be  impossible  for  me  to  get  an- 
other afternoon  off.  She  did  not  come 
in  until  after  six.  My  dress  was  fitted 
as  rapidly  as  possible,  but  do  my  best, 
I  could  not  get  a  train  back  until  8.40. 

When  I  got  to  Yonkers,  it  was 
raining  in  torrents,  and  so  dark  that  I 
was  afraid  to  go  home  alone ;  so  I  took 
a  hack,  which  cost  me;  a  dollar.    When 


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I  reached  the  house,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Blank 
met  me  as  though  I  had  been  a  crimi- 
nal ;  and  wanted  to  know  what  on  earth 
I  had  been  doing.  I  answered  that  I 
had  been  hurrying  as  fast  as  I  could, 
and  went  on  to  my  own  room. 

The  next  day,  Mrs.  Blank  demanded 
an  explanation.  I  told  her  plainly  that 
I  thought  her  own  common  sense  ought 
to  be  enough.  She  knew  the  running 
times  of  the  trains,  apd  what  hour  I  left 
the  house;  and  I  certainly  would  not 
for  my  own  pleasure  take  a  late  train 
and  have  to  pay  a  dollar  to  come  up 
from  the  depot  if  I  could  have  caught 
an  earlier  one,  when  I  knew  the  car- 
riage would  be  at  the  depot  and  I  could 
ride  up.  I  was  saucy,  I  know,  but  the 
way  they  both  condemned  me  without 
waiting  to  hear  any  explanation,  or  try- 
ing to  reason  it  out  for  themselves, 
was  more  than  I  could  stand. 

It  was  just  so  in  everything;  none  of 
the  girls  was  allowed  any  time  whatever 
to  herself.  They  were  supposed  to  be 
at  liberty  to  go  out  in  the  grounds  as 
they  pleased,  but  Mrs.  Blank  managed 
to  keep  every  one  at  work  every  minute, 
so  that  none  of  them  felt  like  hurrying 
to  finish  her  work,  or  like  appearing 
to  have  any  leisure,  because  they  knew 
it  was  only  a  signal  for  additional  labor 
to  be  found  or  made.  Some  of  the  fam- 
ily were  always  at  our  elbows  at  every 
turn.  Whatever  we  did  or  did  not  do 
was  spied  upon,  reported,  and  made  the 
worst  of. 

Of  course  it  was  all  right  for  her  to 
keep  watch  of  her  own  work,  but  she 
seemed  to  think  we  were  all  criminals, 
andi  in  league  against  her.  We  felt  like 
slaves.  We  could  not  draw  one  fre-e 
breath  or  be  self-respecting  human  be- 
ings. She  did  not  intend  to  be  unkind. 
On  the  contrary  she  thought  she  was 
very  good  to  us,  because  she  gave  us 
expensive  presents  at  Christmas,  and  if 
any  of  us  were  ill  she  continued  our 
wages.  When  I  had  an  abscess  in  my 
ear  and  went  to  the  hospital  she  sent 
me  fruit,  and  paid  part  of  my  doctor's 
bill.  But  she.  simply  did  not  realize  that 
we  were  just  as  human  as  she  was,  and 


that  we  were  willing  to  serve  her  hon- 
estly and  faithfully  if  she  would  treat 
us  like  something  besides  machines  that 
were  bound  to  go  wrong.  One  cook 
whom  she  had  while  I  was  there  was 
a  young  Irish  girl  who  had  previously 
lived  seven  years  in  one  place — ^the  first 
one  she  had  when  she  came  to  this  coun- 
try. At  the  end  of  the  seven  years  she 
had  quite  a  nice  little  sum  of  money 
saved  and.  went  home  to  Ireland  to  visit 
her  parents.  She  stayed  there  eleven 
months,  during  which  her  grandfather 
died.  Mary  took  care  of  him  while 
sick,  and  paid  all  his  funeral  expenses. 
Then  her  father  died,  and  she  paid  his 
funeral  expenses  and  provided  a  home 
for  her  mother. 

A  little  land  which  her  father  owned 
came  to  her,  but  was  only  an  expense 
to  her.  ShQ  could  not  sell  it,  for  there 
was  no  one  to  buy,  and  she  could  let  it 
only  for  a  few  shillings  a  year.  She  had 
a  good  deal  of  trouble  and  expense  in 
settling  up  things,  and  the  result  was 
that  when  she  reached  New  York  her 
money  was  all  gone. 

She  took  service  with  Mrs.  Blank  and 
stayed  three  months  because  she  needed 
money,  and  felt  reluctant  to  leave  and 
perhaps  be  without  work  and  have  noth- 
ing on  which  to  support  herself. 

Mrs.  Blank  gave  her  no  money  while 
she  was  there,  because  it  is  against  her 
principles  to  pay  her  servants  at  the  end 
of  every  month.  She  says  they  do  not 
need  money,  as  they  have  everything 
provided  for  them  (she  forgets  that  they 
need  clothes),  and  she  thinks  by  hold- 
ing back  their  wages  to  make  them  stay 
with  her.  The  week  before  Mary  left, 
several  of  the  other  servants  did  the 
same,  so  that  Mary,  in  addition  to  her 
own  duties,  had  to  be  chamber-maid., 
waitress,  and  laundress. 

The  day  she  left,  when  she  came 
down  stairs,  dressed  to  go  to  the  train, 
Mrs.  Blank  called  her  and  told  her  that 
the  kitchen  floor  was  dirty;  she  must 
go  down  and  scrub  it  before  she  could 
leave  the  house.  Mary  was  a  very 
mild,  timid  girl,  but  that  was  too  mudi 
for  her;    she  told  Mrs.  Blank  plainly 

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that  when  she  came,  kitchen  floor,  re- 
frigerator, and  closets  were  in  anything 
but  an  orderly  condition;  that  she  had 
left  them  all  clean,  with  the  one  excep- 
tion of  the  kitchen  floor,  which  she 
owned  was  not  what  it  should  be, 
but  called  Mrs.  Blank's  attention  to 
the  amount  of  extra  work  she  had 
been  obliged  to  do  for  the  last  four 
days. 

Mrs.  Blank  said  it  made  no  difference ; 
she  must  scrub  that  floor  before  she 
could  go.  Mary  said  "I  won't",  and 
left.  But  the  poor  girl  cried  when  she 
got  out  of  Mrs.  Blank's  sight,  as  if  her 
heart  would  break. 


She  said  to  me,  "I  have  worked  here 
as  I  never  worked  before  in  my  life.  I 
have  carried  Mrs.  Blank's  meals  up  to 
her  room,  although  it  was  not  my  place 
to  do  so ;  and  when  she  was  just  as 
able  to  come  down  to  them  as  I  was  to 
take  them  up.  I  have  never  had  a  day 
to  myself  since  I  have  been  here,  be- 
cause when  I  once  asked  for  permis- 
sion to  go  out,  Mrs.  Blank  looked  at  me 
in  such  a  way,  and  said  such  things  to 
me,  that  I  never  had  the  courage  to  ask 
again.  I  have  had  three  months  of 
slavery,  and  I  am  going  to  be  as  free 
once  more  as  a  girl  in  domestic  service 
can  be." 


June  Blood. — ^By  Clarence  Hawkes. 

TT  was  the  fatal  day  of  Waterloo,  To  victory  since  first  his  fame  began. 

And  every  hour  the  din  of  battle  And  one  and  all  they  loved  him  to  a  man 
grew; 

And  every  moment  swelled  the  muck  of  "Now  yield  ye,"  cried  a  Briton  to  the 

blood,  guard, 

And  murked  the  sky,  but  still  the  Eng-  "You    are    surrounded,    all    escape    is 

lish  stood.  ^  barred"; 

A  thousand  rifles  frowned  upon  a  few, 

French  horsemen  packed  into  one  solid  But  round  the  Emperor  closer  still  they 

form,  drew. 

Went   up   the  hillside  like  a  thunder- 

And'S^t'  their  lives  against  the  crim-  ^o  Jear^o^^death  had  they :   then  from 

Untirthe'hSe   was   a  dead  n,an's  The  Colonel  stepped  and  haughtily  ad- 
.+_:_.  dressed 

^^^^-  The  Englishman.     "We  are  the  Emper- 

As  night  came  down,  the  last  convulsive  ^^^  qj^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^^  ^^^  ^.„ 


ire 


not  yield.'* 


Of  Waterloo,  leapt  upward  like  a  fire 
About  to  die,  then  flickered  to  a  spark 

And  faded  quite,  and  France  was  in  the  Then  rage  a  thousand  triggers  pressed 

dark.  upon. 

And   when  the  smoke  rolled  back  the 

Still  'round  the  Emperor  the  old  guard  guard  was  gone ; 

stood ;  None  had  escaped  that  storm  of  English 

For   they   had    followed    him   through  lead, 

smoice  and  blood,  Except  the  Emperor ;   and  he  had  fled. 


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To  the  Mound-Buildere. 

T  ONG  have  I  dreamed  o'er  thy  clay- 
covered  dwellings — 
Spectres  of  yore: 
Heroes   of   hi&tories    vanished,    whose 
telling. 
E'en,  is  no  more! 
Oft  will  the  grave,  with  its  monuments 
singing 
Praise,  e'en  through  silence  be  heard: 
Thine,  to  the  depths  of  Oblivion  clinging, 

Scorns  us,  and  deigns  not  a  word. 
Not  through  thie  long  fickle  centuries 
faring, 
Blest  and  unblest, 
Even  the   names  thou   wert  weary  of 
wearing. 
Now.  are  at  rest. 

Yet  thou  dost  tell  me,  though  mayhap 
unwilling, 
Deeds  thou  hast  done : 
Thou  hadst  the  clouds  of  the  earth,  and 
the  thrilling 
Fire  of  the  sun  ; 
Thou  hadst  the  keeping  of  Love's  kingly 
treasure. 
Chained  with  the  mortgage  of  doubt 
and  of  care ; 
Thou  hadst  of  Hate's  mingled  torture 
and  pleasure. 
Heavens  full  of  hope,  and  the  hells  of 
despair. 
Forests  now  dead  heard  the  songs  of  thy 
dancing 
In  the  gay  hour. 
Then  o'er  the  plains  blood-stained  le- 
gions advancing, 
Crushed  every  flower. 

When  our  Today,  with  its  shout  and  its 
gleaming. 
Lies  cold  and  dead, 
Still   will  the  child   of   the  future   be 
dreaming 
Round  thy  grim  bed. 

Here  the  ambitious,  whatever  his  choos- 
ing 


Proudly  immortal  to  be. 
Can,  by  this  lack  of  a  record  perusing. 

Learn  his  bleak  future  from  thee. 
Nought  born  of  earth  but  on  earth  has 
to  perish, 
New  life  to  give ; 
Only  the  soul  Heaven  finds  worthy  to 
cherish. 
Has  long  to  live. 


The  Little  Laramie. 

I T  is  born  in  the  mountains,  the  beau- 
tiful river ! 
And  its  young  waves  fret  over  rugged 
rocks. 
O'er    its    cradle    the    watching  aspens 
quiver, 
Clouds  float  above  it  in  fleecy  flocks 
And  darken  an  instant  the  dancing  river. 

It  comes  from  the  mountains,  the  turbu- 
lent river. 
Rushing    away    from    its    sheltering 
pines ; 
Its  shimmering  waves  forever  shiver 
Into  sparkling  fragments  the  sky  that 
shines 
Fondly  and  faithfully  on  the  swift  river. 

What  means  the  slackening  pace  of  the 
river? 
Has  it  grown  weary  of  dance  and  of 
song? 
Between  low,  level  banks  bare  of  aspens 
aquiver 
A  tired  traveler  it  wanders  along — 
What  burdens  the  heart  of  the  listless 
river  ? 

Look  again !  clasi>ed  in  the  arms  of  the 
river 
Emerald  meadows  are  stretching  wide. 
Grain  laughs    in    the    light,  the    long 
grasses  shiver, 
A  desert-won  garden  on  either  side ; 
It  has  found  its    mission,  the    strong, 
slow  river! 

May  Preston  Slosson. 


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T^HIS  Magazine  is  taken  and  read  by 
people  of  all  sorts  of  political 
leanings.  It  has  a  good  many  opinions 
of  its  own,  but  does  not  take  time  to 
express  them  all.  Indeed,  it  is  going  to 
let  its  readers  edit  it,  politically,  during 
the  next  few  months.  It  has  sent  all 
about,  asking  for  sentiments  and  pref- 
erences, and  a  good  many  of  them  have 
arrived.     Here  are  some: 

TAFT   THE    MAIN    STAY. 

I  do  not  see  how  any  one  can  want 
to  change  our  present  Executive,  for 
any  uncertain  quantity,  such  as  any  new 
President  would  necessarily  be.  We  are 
progressing  in  pretty  good  shape.  Liv- 
ing is  high,  but  means  are  being  brought 
to  bear  to  make  it  lower,  and  to  equal- 
ize matters  so  that  every  one  will  have  a 
square  deal.  Can  any  one  suppose  that 
Taft  does  not  want  this,  and  that  he  is 
not  working  for  it  ?  More  things  of  the 
right  sort  have  l>een  accomplished  dur- 
ing his  administration,  than  in  any  for  a 
long  time.  He  has  done  twice  as  much 
in  his  one  term,  as  Roosevelt  did  in  his 
two.  It  is  unfortunate  that  the  Repub- 
lican Party  has  to  have  a  big  fight  with 
itself  before  it  has  one  with  the  Demo- 
crats, but  when  that  is  over  let  it  take 
hold  and  maintain  its  position  as  the 
great  organizer,  and  the  great  nation- 
saver. 

Samuel  R.  Kline. 


DARK-HORSE-HUNTING. 

The  Republican  Party  must  begin  to 
look  after  its  Dark  Horse — and  to  do  a 


good  deal  of  thinking  about  him.  That 
is  what  it  did  with  Garfield,  in  1880:  it 
had  had  him  upon  its  mind  a  good  while 
before  it  sprang  up  and  nominated  him 
"all  of  a  sudden." 

I  cannot  agree  with  Mr.  McGrath,  in 
the  May  number  of  Every  Where,  that 
Mr.  La  Follette  will  make  a  good  one 
to  lead  out  of  the  stable :  he  has  already, 
jbeen  out  too  long.  He  has  been  cur- 
vetting about  the  country  for  months 
and  months,  without  any  breeching  on 
his  hips,  or  bridle  on  his  tongue:  and 
he  has  made  enemies  all  over  the  whole 
broad  land.  He  is  probably  sincere 
enough,  but  he  has  illustrated,  if  any  one 
ever  did,  the  old  axiom  that  the  truth 
should  not  be  spoken  at  all  times, — at 
least  if  a  man  wants  to  win  votes  by 
making  friends  instead  of  enemies. 

I  could  mention  the  best  dark  horse  in 
the  whole  paddock:  but  it  isn't  just  the 
psychological  moment,  yet,  and  he  will 
be  brought  out  at  the  right  time. 

A.  N.  TUPPER. 


NOT    CORDIAL    ENOUGH. 

We  do  not  want  a  man  in  the  Presi- 
dential chair  any  longer,  or  for  a  candi- 
date, who  is  as  cold  as  a  fish.  If  you 
do  not  want  to  get  frost-bitten  when  you 
shake  hands  with  President  Taft,  wear  a 
thick  glove  on  your  right  hand.  Presi- 
dent Benjamin  Harrison  would  have 
been  elected  for  a  seaond  term,  andl 
President  Ulysses  S.  Grant  for  a  third, 
if  it  had  not  been  for  the  same  lack  of 
responsiveness  that  affects  our  present 
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he  goes,  and  attaches  and  holds  people 
to  him  by  his  personality.  Nominate 
him,  and  he  will  conduct  a  whirlwind  and 
an  avalanche  campaign  throughout  the 
country,  that  will  beat  every  other  can- 
didate "to  a  frazzle."  Nominate  any  one 
else,  and  the  Republican  Party  is  a  dead 
one. 

Emma  R.  Dibble. 


A   SINGLE-TAXER  SPEAKS. 

I  am  a  disciple  of  Henry  George,  the 
great  author  of  "Progress  and  Pov- 
erty", which  is  to  usher  in  a  new  sys- 
tem for  raising  the  revenues  essential  for 
the  support  of  Government. 

All  revenues  should  be  raised  from 
taxation  of  land  values. 

This  does  not  mean  that  the  average 
farmer  would  be  more  heavily  taxed.  It 
does  mean  that .  if  he  spent  money  in 
building  larger  and  better  barns,  drain- 
ing his  land,  or  making  other  improve- 
ments (thus  employing  labor  and  put- 
ting money  into  circulation)  he  would 
not  be  taxed  or  fined  for  the  outlay  thus 
spent  in  benefitting  the  community.  If 
the  money  A  spends  in  improvements 
increases  the  value  of  stingy  B's  unim- 
proved property,  B's  land  would  be 
taxed  enough  to  make  him  want  to  im- 
prove it  or  sell  it. 

Two  men  own  adjacent  city  lots:  one 
waits  many  years  for  his  neighbor  to 
spend  money  in  building,  laying  out 
lots,  improving  rt)ad«,  etc.,  and  then 
sells  his  own  lot  at  great  profit  without 
himself  paying  out  a  cent  in  making  his 
land  more  valuable,  while  they  who 
have  spent  money  continually,  thus  ben- 
efitting society,  are,  as  it  were,  fined  for 
so  doing.  Such  is  the  system  of  taxa- 
tion which  was  organized  and  has  for 
innumerable  centuries  held  sway  under 
the  government  of  our  logical  (?)  pre- 
decessors. 

Vancouver,  Canada,  has  for  five  years 
been  gradually  reducing  the  tax  on  prop- 
erty other  than  land,  and  the  impetus 
given  to  factory  and  home  building  has 
been  remarkable.  Indeed,  such  has  been 
the   effect,   that    its    rivs^l   city    Seattle 


has  made  plans  to  try  such  a  scheme. 

As  expressed  by  Henry  George  him- 
self the  program  proposes,  "not  the  dis- 
turbing of  any  fhan  in  his  holding-  or 
title,  but  the  abolishing  all  taxes  on 
ifidustry  or  its  products  to  leave  the  pro- 
ducer the  fruits  of  his  exertion  and  by 
the  taxation  of  land  values,  exclusive 
of  improvements,  to  devote  to  the  com- 
mon use  and  benefit,  those  values,  which, 
arising,  not  from  the  exertions  of  the 
individual,  but  from  the  growth  of  soci- 
ety, belong  justly  to  the  community  as  a 
whole." 

A  number  of  European  States  and 
many  smaller  communities  are  trying 
the  plan  and  find  it  workable.  It  will 
not  bring  in  the  millennium,  but  it  is  a 
step  in  that  direction.  Send  five  cents 
to  The  Joseph  Pels  Fund  of  America, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  gtt  two  well- 
printed  copies  of  George's  Book  "Pro- 
tection and  Free  Trade",  one  for  your- 
self and  one  for  a  friend. 

Common  Sense, 

New  York. 


A  FIRM  PROHIBITIONIST. 

You  may  turn  the  matter  over  and 
over  and  over  again,  and  the  main  issue 
in  American  politics  (and  in  English, 
too,  for  that  matter)  must  sooner  or 
later  be  Prohibition,  and  if  it  is  not  set- 
tled right,  a  general  state  of  bestial 
drunkenness  will  afflict  the  majority  of 
us.  Perry  M.  Warner,  in  the  April 
Every  Where,  hit  the  nail  square  on  the 
head,  when  he  asserted  that  we  are 
going  to  develop  into  a  "senile,  wet-rot 
race",  unless  we  take  this  matter  up  very 
soon. 

I  am  informed  by  several  who  have 
seen  what  they  describe,  that  certain 
ones  of  the  prominent  candidates  are 
keeping  up  their  strength,  during  the 
arduous  labors  of  their  campaigns,  by 
means  of  alcoholic  liquors;  and  that  at 
a  .public  dinner,  they  often  drink  whis- 
key as  commonly  as  some  would  tea,  or 
coffee,  or  even  water.  I  am  not  saying 
who  these  particular  ones  are,  but  I 
have  been  given  the  names. 

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should  succeed  in  being  elected  to  the 
chief  magistracy  of  the  country:  how 
long  could  the  stimulus  of  alcohol  be 
depended  upon,  to  keep  up  his  strength  ? 
Is  there  not  danger  of  a  collapse  ? 

We  had  the  humiliation  of  an  intoxi- 
cated Vice  President,  at  the  very  hour 
of  his  inauguration:  and  he  afterwards 
became  President,  by  the  tragic  death  of 
his  superior.  Did  his  subsequent  career 
make  us  proud  of  him  ?  And  how  much 
of  his  dangerous  eccentricity,  bringing 
him  to  the  verge  of  impeachment  and 
the  country  to  the  limits  of  endurance, 
was  attributable  to  alcohol?  And  how 
long  can  we  bear  to  let  this  sort  of 
thing  go  on,  and  how  much  of  it  can  we 
afford? 

Henry  N.  Barlow. 


THE  DEMOCRATS*  HOPE. 

Now  is  the  time,  Democrats,  for  us  to 
get  our  innings !  The  Republican  Party 
has  been  doing  the  Kilkenny  cat  act,  and 
is  hopelessly  torn  in  two.  How  can  any 
one  of  these  two  worse-than-warring 
factions,  conduct  a  campaign  with  any 
degree  of  strength  and  enthusiasm,  even 
in  case  it  succeeds  in  nomir  iting  its  can- 
didate? Both  sides  of  tlie  party  are 
tired  out,  and  each  thoroughly  angry  at 
the  other. 

Our  Democratic  Party  has  been  con- 
ducting a  fine  old  "scrap"  among  its  vari- 
ous favorite  sons,  but  there  has  been 
very  little  if  any  poison  in  it:  no  can- 
didate has  said  anything  that  need  pre- 
vent him  from  taking  an  active  and  prof- 
itable part  in  the  coming  campaign. 
We  do  not  need  a  "dark  horse":  any 
one  of  several  fine,  well-equipped  can- 
didates, is  good  enough.  We  have  saved 
most  of  our  bitterness,  for  our  friends 
the  enemy :  and  they  are  doing  the  best 
they  can,  to  help  us. 

If  we  have  the  self-possession  and 
stamina  to  come  into  our  own,  and  then 
know  how  to  use  our  power  after  we 
get  it,  we  can  keep  the  control  of  this 
country  for  many  a  term,  and  save  it 
from  revolution  and  ruin. 

G.  H.  McLain. 


A  Volcano  That  Became  a  Lake. 

TJ  NIQUE  among  the  natural  wonders 
of  America  is  the  lake  in  Crater 
Lake  National  Park  in  Oregon,  which 
is  described  in  a  publication  entitled 
"Geological  History  of  Crater  Lake", 
just  issued  by  the  Department  of  the 
Interior.  The  traveller  who,  from  the 
rim  of  the  lake,  looks  across  its  waters 
to  the  cliffs  beyond,  stands  where  once 
ithe  molten  lava  of  Mount  Mazama  boiled 
and  seethed  in  its  efforts  to  find  an  out- 
let, for  Crater  Lake  is  all  that  remains 
of  a  great  volcano  that  ages  ago  reared 
its  summit  high  above  the  crest  of  the 
Cascade  Range. 

Before  the  Cascade  Range  existed  the 
region  now  included  in  the  State  of  Ore- 
gon was  a  great  lava  plateau  that  ex- 
tended from  the  Rocky  Mountains  to 
the  present  Coast  Range.  Gradually 
mountain-making  forces  became  opera-: 
tive;  the  surface  of  the  plateau  was 
arched  and  there  rose  the  great  moun- 
tain system  which  is  now  known  as  the 
Cascade  Range.  With  the  hardening  of 
the  crust  the  centres  of  eruption  became 
fewer  until  they  were  confined  to  a  few 
high  mountains  that  were  built  up  by  tiie 
flows  of  molten  lava.  In  this  way  were 
created  Hood,  Rainier  and  Mazama, 
from  whose  sides  and  summits  streams 
of  lava  poured.  Hood  and  Rainier  still 
lift  their  caps  to  the  clouds.  Mazama 
alone  is  gone,  engulfed  in  the  earth  from 
which  it  came.  In  what  is  left  of  its 
caldera  lies  Crater  Lake. 

Mount  Mazama  in  its  prime  rose  to  a 
height  of  over  14,000  feet  above  the  sea. 
Mount  Scott,  which  towers  above  Crater 
Lake  on  the  east,  was  onlv  a  minor  cone 
on  the  slope  of  Mount  Mazama.  The 
portion  of  the  mountain  that  has  been 
destroyed  was  equal  in  size  to  Mount 
Washington  in  New  Hampshire  and  had 
a  volume  of  seventeen  cubic  miles. 

From  the  crest  of  the  rim  surround- 
ins:  the  lake  the  traveller  beholds  twenty 
miles  of  unbroken  cliffs  which  ranee 
from  500  to  nearly  2,000  feet  in  height. 
The  clear  waters  of  the  lake  reflect  the 
vivid  colors  of  tlie  surrounding  walls. 

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The  Sifting  of  a  Calamity, 

The  chief  ocean-slaughter  of  all  the 
centuries  thus  far,  has  been  now 
depicted  before  the  world  in  such  a  shape 
that  the  people  can  understand  its  grue- 
somely  terrible  details.  In  a  philippic  of 
clearness  and  force,  Senator  Smith  has 
placed  the  matter  so  that  no  one  can 
doubt  the  startling  facts. 

Some  have  asked  why  United  States 
should  take  so  much  interest  in  the  fate 
of  an  English  vessel,  and  what  she  can 
do  aboufe  it,  anyway?  To  this  may  be 
answered,  American  citizens  are  con- 
stantly traveling  to  and  fro  upon  these 
ships,  and  must  be  protected  there  the 
same  as  in  any  foreign  country ;  and  as 
for  the  matter  of  what  she  can  do  about 
it—- she  can  close  her  ports  to  every  Brit- 
ish ship  that  approaches  them,  if  due 
regard  to  her  interests  are  not  shown  in 
their  handling. 

Here  are  the  most  important  points 
covered  by  Senator  Smith's  speech,  and 
by  other  accounts  equally  reliable : 

I- — Every  preparation  for  sacrificing 
the  vessel  to  ruin  if  there  should  arise 
any  opportunity  for  doing  so,  seems  to 
have  been  made  before  she  started. 
There  were  no  tests  of  boilers,  bulk- 
heads, equipments,  or  signal-devices. 

2. — No  proper  discipline  existed  be- 
tween officers  and  men,  and  the  crew 
were  not  familiar  with  the  ship's  imple- 
ments and  tools,  and  with  their  use. 

3- — There  were  1,324  passengers,  and 
life-boat  accommodations  for  only  1,176. 
This  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the 
usual  idiotic  idea  was,  in  case  the  ship 
should  sink,  and  every  bit  of  room  in 


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these  boats  be  used,  that  148  of  these  pas- 
sengers should  drag  on  behind,  and  drag 
through  the  water  till  aid  was  at  hand, 
or  quietly  and  decorously  drown. 

4. — Although  the  sea  was  almost  as 
smooth  as  glass,  the  confusion  and  lack 
of  discipline  was  such,  that  these  boats, 
capable  as  they  were  of  containing 
1,176  persons,  took  oflF  only  740,  and 
twelve  of  those  were  rescued  from  the 
water. 

5- — On  the  evening  of  the  disaster,  no 
practical  attention  was  paid  to  wireless 
information  from  three  steamers,  that 
they  were  in  a  region  of  icebergs.  The 
speed  of  the  giant  ship  was  kept  up  to 
24i  miles  per  hour — half  as  fast  as  one 
of  our  swiftest  railroad-trains.  A  Sun- 
day dinner  and  dance  went  on  till  a  late 
hour  in  the  saloon,  in  which  champagne 
flowed  freely,  and  some  of  it  went  out  to 
the  men  \vlio  were  supposed  to  be  on 
watch. 

6. — Nobody  was  advised  of  danger, 
although  the  President  of  the  Company 
was  on  board,  and  knew  of  the  warn- 
ings that  had  been  given.  All  these  peo- 
ple— of  all  ranks  and  conditions  in  life, 
who  had  trusted  themselves  under  the 
protection  of  this  precious  band  of  care- 
less roysterers,  were  allowed  to  believe 
that  they  were  as  safe  as  in  their  own 
homes. 

7— After  the  Company  had  been  fully 
informed  of  the  extent  of  the  disaster, 
it  for  some  reason  gave  out  false  state- 
ments that  all  were  saved,  and,  appar- 
ently, yielded  to  the  trutli  only  when  it 
had  to  do  so. 

8. — ^The  above-mentioned  President  of 

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the  Company,  after  he  had  been  saved 
with  other  passengers,  occupied  one  of 
the  best  staterooms  of  the  rescuing-ship, 
and  allowed  feeble  and  suffering  women 
and  children  to  lie  upon  the  floor,  any- 
where they  could  get  a  chance. 

9. — ^The  Captain  of  the  vessel,  an  expe- 
rienced seaman,  and  one  who  might  be 
supposed  to  oversee  ever)rthing,  and 
safeguard  the  people  under  his  charge^ 
would  appear  to  have  been  overruled  by 
the  superior  commercial  rank  of  the 
President  of  the  Company,  and  to  have 
conducted  the  boat  in  accordance  with  a 
desire  to  make  a  "record  trip"  for 
speed — no  matter  what  risks  were  run. 
What  more  wholesale  impishness  has 
ever  been  known  than  this — if  it  be  true? 
— ^and  how  else  do  the  appearances  look, 
than  that  they  are  true  ? 

10. — ^Although  the  shock  of  the  col- 
lision was  sufficient  to  convince  any  prac- 
ticed seaman  that  thd  ship  wasi  doomed, 
no  general  alarm  was  given  for  some 
time,  and  no  orderly  routine  of  rescue 
was  established.  What  a  forcible  pic- 
ture of  the  situation  is  this: 

"Haphazard,  they  rushed  by  one  an- 
other, on  stairways  end  in  hallways, 
while  men  of  self -control  gathered  here 
and  there  about  the  decks,  helplessly 
staring  at  one  another  or  giving  encour- 
agement to  those  less  courageous  than 
themselves.'* 

What  a  picture  of  the  condition  of 
things  on  an  ocean  palace  that  had  been 
advertised  as  the  safest  ship  that  floated ! 
That  which  ought  to  have  been  a  regi- 
ment of  well-trained  rescuers,  was  a  mob, 
bent  upon  saving  itself,  and  such  others 
as  were  bound  to  go. 

And  here  is  another  diabolical  fact: 

"The  lifeboats  were  filled  so  indiffer- 
ently and  loivered  so  quickly  that,  accord- 
ing to  the  uncontradicted  evidence,  nearly 
500  persons  zvere  needlessly  sacrificed  to 
want  of  orderly  discipline  in  loading  the 
few  that  were  provided,'* 


II. — ^When  the  lifeboats  were  reached 
by  such  as  were  able  to  reach  them,  they 
were  as  poorly  equipped  as  if  they  were 
intended  to  float  upon  an  inland  pond. 
There  was  not  a  compass  in  one  of 
tbcm:  and  lanterns  in  only  two.  Weak 
women  had  to  do  much  of  the  rowing. 

The  above  record  is  bad  enough :  but 
there  is  a  worse  one,  connected  with  a 
man  who  had  nothing  to  do  with  the 
"Titanic",  and,  apparently,  took  care  not 
to  have.  The  Senate  Committee  claims 
that  one  Captain  Lord,  of  the  ship  "Cal- 
ifornia", was  WITHIN  FOUR  MILES  of  the 
sinking  vessel,  while  she  was  firing  dis- 
tress-rockets that  were  plainly  seen  from 
his  ship.  Instead  of  rousing  his  wireless 
operator,  who  could  easily  have  found 
where  the  trouble  was,  he  went  to  his 
room  and  lay  down,  with  all  this  misery 
where  he  could  have  reached  and  relieved 
it  in  fifteen  minutes'  time. 

The  world  is  curious  to  know  what 
the  man's  explanation  can  be — if  he  has 
any.  If  there  is  no  good  reason  that 
compelled  him  to  perform  this  act  of 
imparallelled  cruelty  and  meanness,  be 
ought  to  be  pursued  wherever  he  goes, 
with  the  curses  of  his  fellow-men,  A 
man  who  hau$  the  opportunity  of  saving 
life  that  this  man  had,  and  doe5  not  im* 
prove  it  to  the  utmost,  is  a  thousand 
murderers  in  one.  If  there  ever  was  a 
case  upon  the  tigh  seas  that  ought  to  be 
thoroughly  investigated,  and,  if  possible, 
punished,  it  is  this. 

Gleaming  like  a  star  through  and 
above  these  murky  clouds  of  woe,  is  the 
conduct  of  Captain  A.  H.  Rostron,  of 
the  "Carpathia."  No  wonder  Congress 
is  presenting  him  with  a  gold  medal,  and 
will  give  him  other  honors  that  it  is  able 
to  bestow.  His  rush  through  distance 
and  danger  to  save  as  many  of  the 
stricken  people  as  he  could,  will  be  told 
as  long  as  the  ocean  endures ;  and  when 
he  dies,  a  monument  will  be  reared  to 
him,  reaching  well  toward  the  heavens. 


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Patois  and  Slang. 

QNE  of  the  most  sensibk  and  con- 
servative of  our  American  news- 
papers is  worried  because  some  for- 
eigner has  been  criticizing  the  way  that 
Americans  talk,  he  asserting  that  speech 
in  this  country  is  merely  a  succession  o*f 
one  patois  after  another. 

The  nation  to  which  the  critical  for- 
eigner deigns  to  belong  is  not  disclosed ; 
but  whatever  it  is,  he  might  as  well  look 
and  listen  at  home.  No  country  of  any 
size  maintains  uniformity  of  speech  and 
pronunciation.  In  England  tfie  York- 
shireman,  the  Cumberlander  and  the 
Northumberlander  all  have  dialects  of 
their  own,  and  the  cockney  speaks  a  cer- 
tain something  over  which  no  diction- 
ary has  ever  been  able  to  throw  its  pro- 
tecting arms.  France,  Germany,  Italy 
— all  countries  of  any  size,  have  their 
dialects,  often  amounting,  sooner  or 
later,  to  the  dreaded  patois.  It  is  not 
to  be  wondered  at  if  we,  with  such  a 
large  variety  of  climate  (which  in  its 
influence  upon  the  vocal  organs  Is 
largely  responsible  for  dialect)  and  al- 
most every  blessed  and  otherwise  tongue 
of  the  earth  to  encounter,  assimilate  and 
extinguish,  should  "wabble"  a  little  in 
our  language.  Let  us  hope  that  rail- 
roads, telegraphs,  and  especially  tele- 
phones and  phonographs,  may  some 
time  help  form  a  United  States  language 
that  will  be  uniform  and  universally 
intelligible. 

The  same  paper  says  that  slang  is 
perfectly  reprehensible,  even  if  it  some- 
times adds  to  the  language;  for  there 
are  already  words  enough  and  more 
too.  It  forgets  that  every  language 
needs  constant  additions,  from  the  fact 
that  more  or  less  old  words  are  all  the 
while  going  out  of  us»e.  People  get 
tired  of  always  calling  a  spade  a  spade, 
and  when  some  new  designation  comes, 
even  if  it  be  slangy,  it  rests  them  so  that 
they  are  willing  to  give  it  a  trial.    If  it 


stands  the  test,  it  passes  into  the  regu- 
lar language;  if  not,  it  is  dropped  as 
soon  as  its  novelty  wears  away. 

A  live  language  is  not  a  stagnant 
pool  of  words,  which  must  never  be 
increased  or  lessened;  but  a  broad, 
sparkling  river,  ministering  and  gather- 
ing as  it  goes ;  making  its  way  through 
the  valleys  of  Time  into  the  ocean  of 
Eternity ;  where  probably  all  languJ^s 
will  mingle  in  one  grand  universal  ver- 
nacular. 


The  Combined  Road-and-Railroad. 

IT  used  to  be  very  dull,  when  roads 
were  merely  ior\  carriages,  bicycles, 
and  foot-passengers.  To  be  sure,"  the 
little  two-wheeled  gliders  sometimes 
made  people  look  to  their  .steps  in  order 
not  to  be  butted  over :  but  on  the  whole, 
the  highways  were  still  a  trifle  monoto- 
nous. 

When,  however,  the  automobiles  ar- 
rived, all  was  changed,  and  the  world 
felt  that  there  was  something  for  which 
to  live,  and  something  by  which  to  die. 
One  did  not  have  to  drive  close  up  to 
a  railroad,  in  order  to  get  his  horses 
frightened  half  to  death:  he  dSd  not 
have  to  cross  the  tracks  in  front  of  a 
train,  in  order  to  be  butted  oflf  the 
earth ;  the  automobile  furnished  all  need- 
ful sources  of  danger. 

It  is  so  now.  The  highways  of  our 
country  are  now  practically  all  rail- 
roads. You  are  no  safer,  in  walking 
or  driving  upon  the  road,  than  if  it 
were  a  railway,  along  which  express- 
trains  w^re  liable  to  rush  along  at  cer- 
tain intervals.  Indeed,  you  are  not  so 
safe:  for  you  know  exactly  where  an 
express-train  will  run,  and  you  are 
never  at  all  sure  where  an  automobile 
for  a  motorcycle)  will  go,  or  from  what 
direction  it  may  be  coming. 

What  comfort  is  there  in  America,  if 
there  is  to  be  no  safety  for  foot-passen- 
gers?   If  an  aged  woman  cannot  walk 

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across  the  corner,  without  perhaps  her 
body's  being  crushed  to  pieces  by  an 
automobile,  without  any  record  as  to 
who  did  the  worse-than-careless  deed? 
When  one  even  has  to  be  on  the  look- 
out in  going  along  the  sidewalk,  for 
fear  some  one  of  the  machines  may 
"skid^',  and  crush  him  against  the  wall? 
If  legislatures  are  good  for  anything, 
they  will  soon  provide  the  means  for 
every  one  to  have  a  free  chance  to  walk 
or  drive  along  the  earth,  without  the 
liability  of  being  assaulted  by  machinery, 
and  wounded  or  killed  by  mechanical 
violence. 


A  Luxury-Fantine.  , 

^  O  one  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
Washington,  or  any  city  of  this 
country,  but  can  buy  enough  food  to 
sustain  human  life,  at  a  few  cents  per 
day:  but  when  it  comes  to  the  super- 
fluities that  "swell"  people  expect  to 
have  flung  all  over  their  viands  now- 
adays, that  is  a  different  matter. 

Did  you  ever  ride  through  rural  dis- 
tricts until  you  were  "right  jolly 
hungry",  and  then  hitch  in  front  of  a 
village  grocery-store,  go  in,  and 
strengthen  yourself  up  with  crackers 
and  cheese,  variegated,  perhaps,  with  a 
pitcher  of  new  cider?  You  had  no  use 
for  waiters  then:  all  there  were  in  the 
world  might  have  gone  on  a  strike  that 
day,  and  it  would  have  made  little  dif- 
ference to  you,  from  a  palatal  and 
stomachal  standpoint. 

You  can  have  the  same  experience  in 
New  York,  or  any  of  the  large  or 
small  cities:  all  you  need  to  do,  is  to 
go  without  food  long  enough  to  give 
you  a  genuine  appetite,  and  then  walk 
into  a  dairy  or  bakery  where  good  sub- 
stantial food  is  to  be  had. 

Some  of  the  waiters  of  New  York 
have  been  striking,  and  vowing  that 
they  will  not  carry  any  more  high-priced 


food  to  the  tables  of  guests,  if  they  do 
not  have  their  way  in  the  matter  of 
remuneration.  The  proprietors  are  not 
yielding  to  their  demands,  and  at  this 
writing,  the  strike  seems  to  be  a  fail- 
ure, as,  fortunately  or  unfortunately, 
nine^tenths  of  the  strikes  are. 

If  the  people  (who  are  the  real  suf- 
ferers in  such  matters)  would  cultivate 
more  independence  in  their  habits  of 
eating,  there  would  be  no  such  troubles 
as  New  York  has  just  been  enduring 
— or  thinking  that  it  endured.  But  the 
average  high-liver  is  a  sort  of  slave  to 
his  waiter,  and  knows  that  if  he  wants 
himself  and  friends  waited  upon  with 
any  kind  of  thoroughness  and  decency, 
he  must  conform  to  that  waiter's  ideas 
of  things — among  which  the  most  im- 
portant are  "tips"— large,  and  plenty 
of  them. 


The  Vacation  Industry, 
P  VERY  WHERE  wishes  all  its  read- 
ers  a  pleasant  vacation,  and  prays 
that  no  detail  of  the  great  annual  out- 
ing may  go  wrong.  May  the  fishings, 
the  sailings,  the  mountain-climbings,  the 
flirtings,  the  summer  engagements,  the 
sea-bathings,  and  the  educational  assem- 
blies, all  go  off  without  flaw  or  accident. 
May  the  children  have  so  good  a  time 
as  to  temporarily  forget  all  the  arts,  sci- 
ences, and  illimitable  lore  that  has  been 
injected  into  their  brain  by  the  Leam- 
it-all-while-you-wait  System. 

May  everybody  come  back  to  work  in 
the  Autumn,  better  fitted  for  work  than 
ever  before. 

And  they  who  cannot  afford  a  vaca- 
tion, and  there  are  many  of  them — let 
them  remember  that  it  is  a  short  river 
that  has  no  windings,and  hope  for  bet- 
ter days  ahead. 

Every  Where  takes  no  vacation;  it 
works  all  the  harder  during  the  hot 
months,  and  strives  to  make  itself  the 
more  worthy  of  reading. 

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By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 
forgiveness. 

TT^HEN  John  Wesley  was  in  Georgia 
with  General  Ogelthorpe,  on  one 
occasion  the  General  was  in  a  rage  with 
a  soldier  who  had  offended  against 
military  discipline.  Wesley  pleaded  for 
the  offender.  'Torgive  him  this  time, 
General",  he  said.  "Mr.  Wesley,"  re- 
plied the  General,  "I  never  forgive!" 
"Then  God  grant  that  you  never  sin, 
General!"  replied  Mr.  Wesley. 

Let  us  suppose  a  domestic  servant  of 
good  intentions,  but  uneducated,  un- 
trained, and  not  very  strong-minded. 
She  goes  out  to  service  in  a  reckless, 
extravagant  family  where  temptation  is 
put  in  her  way,  and  in  an  unguarded 
moment  she  takes  a  valuable  bracelet  or 
ring.  She  is  detected  and  arrested,  tried 
and  convicted.  Her  general  character  is 
overlooked,  her  penitence  goes  for  noth- 
ing, and  her  protestations  of  innocence 
are  unheeded.  She  is  sent  to  jail,  her 
character  is  ruined. 

She  is  like  one  who  has  fallen  into  the 
ocean,  and  left  to  sink  alone.  Had  this 
first  fault  been  covered  and  its  repetition 
prevented  by  kind  and  watchful  care, 
great  good  might  have  been  accom- 
plished. A  character  might  have  been 
formed  instead  of  lost.  But  this  first 
fault  unforgiven  became  the  beginning 
of  a  ruin  that  could  not  be  arrested. 

Here  again  is  a  young  man  just  begin- 
ning life,  who  falls  into  bad  company. 
''^  gets  into  debt,  and  jnelding  to  temp- 


tation takes  money  to  use  in  an  alluring 
speculation,  thinking  that  he  can  win  a 
high  stake  and  replace  it.  He  loses ;  be 
is  imable  to  meet  the  amount  of  money 
he  has  borrowed  without  his  employer's 
consent  or  knowledge.  His  father 
makes  good  the  amount  and  the  case 
against  him  is  not  pushed ;  but  his  re|>- 
utation  is  gone.  No  one  will  employ 
him.  He  becomes  discouraged  and  sinks 
into  poverty,  and  as  situation  after  situ- 
ation is  denied  hhn,  he  is  embittered, 
and  drifts  away  in  the  vast  multitude  of 
the  abandoned  and  self-abandoned.  He 
feels  that  society  is  against  him,  and  it  is. 
What  he  needs  is  the  whole  moral  and 
spiritual  force  of  society  behind  him, 
pushing  him  onward  to  higher  and 
higher  moral  and  spiritual  attainment: 
instead  of  that,  it  is  in  front  of  him, 
pushing  him  back  into  crime  and  wretch- 
edness. The  whole  weight  of  the  moral 
and  spiritual  forces  of  society  are 
brought  to  bear  on  him ;  but  to  ruin 
him,  not  to  help  him. 

So  those  who  offend  are  reviled,  con- 
demned and  dismissed  from  the  regards 
of  good  people,  and  refused  opportunity 
to  reform  or  to  redeem  themselves.  All 
this  because  men  will  not  forgive  the 
moment's  weakness  and  drag  the  fault 
out  into  the  lime-light  instead  of  cover- 
ing it 

Now  let  us  look  at  the  other  side  of 
the  question. 

Society  needs  to  be  toned  up  in  vir- 
tue, and  all  crime  must  be  punished  as 
an  example  to  others.  The  purpose  of 
punishment  is  the  protection  of  society. 
Each  man  must  feel  that  he  lives  in  the 


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ppcscnce  ot  pitiless  law,  and  that  it  is 
sure  death  for  him  if  h^  swerves  from 
the  path  of  exact  rectitude  by  a  single 
hair.  We  have  been  sentimental  and 
compassionate  too  long,  till  our  virtue 
has  lost  its  nerve,  and  we  are  more  in- 
clined to  sympathize  with  the  criminal 
than  to  punish  him.  Again,  the  individ- 
ual for  his  own  sake  needs  to  be  held 
to  strict  accountability.  Personal  char- 
acter requires  the  support  of  law,  and 
good  men  must  feel  that  they  have  solid 
ground  under  their  feet.  If  there  be  no 
justice,  and  if  people  may  escape  the 
evil  consequences  of  their  misdeeds, 
what  encouragement  is  there  to  practice 
virtue  ? 

Yet,  after  all,  we  are  not  satisfied 
with  this  reasoning;  we  cannot  feel  that 
it  is  altogether  convincing.  There  is  a 
lingering  kindness  in  our  hearts  that 
protests  against  that  harshness  and  vin- 
dictiveness  that  we  are  compelled  to 
associate  with  pitiless  law.  Other  con- 
siderations must  come  in. 

The  value  of  the  individual:  the  in- 
dividual soul  and  life  and  character  can- 
not be  permitted  to  go  for  nothing.  Is 
not  a  human  soul  a  most  precious  thing, 
and  is  not  hope  worth  cherishing?  Is  it 
not  our  duty  to  make  the  most  we  can 
of  the  individual?  Society  is  not  a 
Moloch,  that  human  beings  should  be 
offered  before  it  on  flaming  bloody 
altars.  It  is  made  up  of  men,  women 
and  children;  and  elach  individual 
should,  if  possible,  be  rescued  or  given 
a  fighting  chance.  How  can  one  be 
saved,  or  how  was  any  one  ever  saved, 
but  by  kindness? 

Here  come  in  the  great  precepts  of 
religion — ever  the  same.  Every  scrip- 
ture that  has  been  accepted  as  sacred  by 
mankind  in  any  age  of  the  world,  bears 
the  same  emphatic  testimony  to  the 
nobleness  of  kindness,  to  the  omnipo- 
tence of  love.  We  treasure  the  tradi- 
tions of  mercy  as  the  dearest  traditions 
of  the  race.  We  tell  ever  with  unflag- 
ging interest  of  the  lives  of  those  who 
have  devoted  themselves  to  the  saving 
of  the  lost ;  we  think  of  the  Christ  going 
into  the  wilderness  to  find  the  one  shtep 


that  was  lost;  we  cherish  that  beautiful 
legend  of  St.  John,  who,  says  tradition, 
left  his  church,  disappeared,  and  was 
supposed  by  his  people  to  be  dead,  but 
who  returned  bringing  with  him  a 
young  disciple,  who  had  relapsed  into 
ways  of  wickedness;  to  save  that  one 
youth  the  apostle  had  left  all  and  gone, 
.  not  into  the  wilderness,  but  into  the  city 
to  rescue  the  lost  sheep.  Such  legends 
are  the  heart  and  soul  of  Christian  his- 
tory. 

So  we  have  the  two  laws, — ^and  here 
is  the  whole  subject  before  us;  justice 
and  mercy,  law  and  love— the  power 
that  condemns  and  punishes,  and  the 
power  that  acquits  and  delivers.  Which 
is  supreme? 

So  the  question  of  forgiveness  is  the 
central  question  of  religion  and  lies  at 
the  heart  of  all  great  religious  systems. 
The  religious  system  of  Christendom 
turns  on  the  question,  Can  God  forgive 
sin  ?  If  He  can,  on  whati  terms  can  the 
grace  be  secured  ? 

There  is  a  wonderfully  suggestive 
passage  in  Romans  X. :  "Vengeance  is 
mine;  I  will  repay  saith  the  Lord: 
THEREFORE  if  thine  enemy  hunger,  feed 
him,  and  if  he  thirst  give  him  drink!" 
It  is  not  ours  to  hurl  the  thunder-bolts, 
but  to  stand  by  to  give  the  cup  of  cold 
water,  the  pitying  word,  and  the  help- 
ing hand.  "Vengeance  is  mine:  I  will 
repay,  saith  the  Lord !" 

The  worst  punishment  comes  in  the 
very  act  of  guilt.  He  who  lies  discredits 
himself,  he  who  steals  robs  himself,  he 
who  commits  murder  kills  himself.  We 
cannot  do  a  wrong,  or  commit  an  act  of 
impurity  or  injustice,  but  the  punishment 
falls  with  immediate  and  awful  cer- 
tainty. Sins  against  the  body  are 
wrought  into  the  very  texture  of  the 
physical  frame.  The  bones  take  note 
of  it,  the  nervous  tissue  bears  testimony 
to  it,  and  the  man  is  not  the  same  man 
that  he  was;  his  organic  constitution 
has  undergone  a  change. 

"Having  eyes  full  of  adultery  they 
cannot  cease  from  sinning!"  What  a 
terrible  doom!  This  is  hell!  This  is 
never-ending  fire  prepared  for  the  devil 

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and  his  angels !  The  laws  of  spirit,  as 
uniform  as  those  of  matter,  cannot  be 
violated  with  impunity.  If  a  man  enter- 
tains impure  desires,  hateful  thoughts, 
and  base  purposes,  the  poison  infects 
his  moral  and  intellectual  nature.  Every 
earnest  desire  is  corrupted;  thoughts 
are  weakened;  all  purposes  are  made 
infirm;  resolutions  do  not  resolve  nor 
purposes  determine.  The  man  is  under- 
mined, ruined. 

People  in  this  world  do  not  need  to 
be  told  that  there  is  a  hell.  They  know 
that,  well  enough,  already !  What  they 
need  to  be  told  is  how  to  get  out  of  it ! 

The  writer  was  personally  acquainted 
with  a  man  who  was  an  active  member 
of  a  Congregational  church  in  one  of 
the  New  England  cities.  He  was  active 
in  Sunday  School,  prayer-meeting,  and 
in  every  good  work,  and  was,  I  Wieve, 
a  sincere  good  man,  and  an  earnest 
Christian.  In  an  evil  moment,  when 
hard-pressed  in  his  business,  he  used 
money  and  securities  that  he  had  no 
right  to  use.  His  speculations  proved  a 
■failure,  and  his  guilt  was  detected.  He 
was  arrested,  tried  and  convicted.  He 
had  opportunity  to  flee  but  refused  to 
do  so.  "I  have  done  wrong,  I  am  heart- 
ily sorry,  and  now  I  mean  to  take  my 
medicine  like  a  man!"  he  said.  When 
asked  if  he  had  anything  to  say  before 
being  sentenced  he  replied,  '* Nothing,  I 
am  guilty,  it  is  right  that  I  should  be 
punished !" 

In  his  church  there  was  no  sympathy 
or  pity  for  him.  His  crime  was  all  the 
worse  because  of  his  position,  promi- 
nence and  activity  in  Church-work.  As 
unworthy  of  membership  he  was  excom- 
municated. He  was,  many  said,  a  dis- 
grace to  church  and  community.  He 
came  back  to  his  home  and  his  church 
after  serving  his  sentence.  He  again 
tried  to  take  up  Christian  work.  He 
met  the  cold,  unsympathetic  stare  and 
the  averted  face.  "The  idea  of  his  com- 
ing back  here  where  he  is  known !  He 
ought  to  begin  life  anew  where  people 
do  not  know  his  record!"  said  many. 
"He  is  a  disgrace  to  our  church  I"  said 
others.    There   was    no   sympathy,   no 


friendly  grasp  of  the  hand,  no  word  of 
encouragement- 

Everything  was  said  and  done  that 
could  be  said  and  done  to  remind  him 
that  the  way  of  the  transgressor  is  hard. 
He  was,  however,  a  strong  good  man 
and  lived  it  down.  All  the  efforts  of 
the  good  people  of  that  church  to  hold 
his  head  under  water  and  drown  him 
were  in  vain :  he  conquered  at  last,  and! 
won  their  respect  and  confidence.  It 
was  a  long,  discouraging  task,  however, 
for  the  most  unforgiving  people  in  this 
unforgiving  world  are  too  often  to  be 
found  among  the  professed  followers  of 
Him  who  taught,  "If  ye  forgive  not  men 
their  trespasses,  neither  will  your  Father 
in  heaven  forgive  your  trespasses." 


Oems  From  Talmage. 

There  is   a  gravel   in   almost   every 
shoe. 


Ointment  may  smart  the  wound  before 
healing  it. 


Surely  this  world  is  large  enough  for 
you  and  all  your  rivals. 

Oh,    the    opportunity    which    every 
woman  has  of  being  a  queen! 


When   you    hear   a   man  or   woman 
abused,  drive  in  on  the  defendant's  side. 


It  is  not  a  dead)  weight  that  you  lift 
when  you  carry  a  Christian  to  the  grave. 


Small  ropes  hold  mighty  destinies. 
Nothing  unimportant  in  your  life  or 
mine. 


In  all  circles,  in  all  businesses,  in  all 
professions,  there  is  room  for,  straight- 
forward successes. 


The  body  and  soul  are  very  fond  of 
each  other.  Did  your  body  ever  have  a 
pain  and  your  soul  not  pity  it?  Or  your 
soul  ever  have  any  trouble  and  your 
body  not  sympathize  with  it? 


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In  Toga  InBtead  of  In  Shroud. 

fUf  OST  people,  at  the  age  of  eightyfive, 
are  in  their  coffins,  and  have  been 
so,  for  a  long  time.  United  States  Sena- 
tor Stephenson,  of  Wisconsin,  is  still  on 
outside  of  his,  and  likely  for  some  time 
to  remain  so.  This  is  the  way  he  pre- 
serves his  health  and  strength  according 
to  his  own  statement: 

"I  eat  very  plain  food.  I  don't  want 
any  pepper  and  spices,  nor  highly- 
seasoned  dishes  of  any  kind;  no  mince 
pies  for  me.  I  don't  drink  coffee,  but 
take  a  cup  of  rather  weak  black  tea  with 
every  meal  when  I  can  get  it.  This 
morning  I  had  oatmeal,  one  egg,  bread 
and  butter  and  black  tea;  for  lunch  a 
piece  of  custard  pie,  bread  and  butter 
and  tea.  You  would  notice  that  I  do  not 
eat  much  meat.  For  dinner  I'll  have  a 
piece  of  roast  lamb,  with  nice  potato — I 
am  a  great  potato  eater — and  formerly  I 
ate  a  good  deal  of  fruit  of  all  kinds ;  not 
so  much  now,  as  it  sometimes  disturbs 
digestion. 

"One  thing  I  might  mention  that  is 
often  forgotten,  yet  it  has  a  great  deal 
to  do  with  good  health,  and  that  is,  reg- 
ularity of  the  bowels.  I  do  not  take 
much  medicine,  but  for  thirtyfive  years  I 
have  taken  a  dinner-pill  practically  every 
day.  I  know  its  composition,  and  it  is 
recommended  by  my  doctor  and  it  seems 
to  be  just  what  I  need  to  keep  me  reg- 
ular. 

"There  is  one  thing  about  this  life  in 
Washington,"  said  the  Senator,  "that  is 
not  favorable  to  health — I  am  short  on 
exercise,  although  I  walk  a  great  deal. 
The  boys  h«-e  seem  to  think  I  ought  to 


ride  in  the  elevators,  but  I  walk  up  and 
down  stairs  every  time  I  can  get  away 
from  them.  That  is  very  good  exer- 
cise ;  and  with  committee-rooms  on  dif- 
ferent floors,  I  get  a  lot  of  it.  In  the 
old  days,  in  the  woods,  there  was  no 
trouble  about  exercise.  Many  a  night 
have  I  lain  out  in  the  woods  in  zero 
weather.  I  would  be  cold,  and  shiver 
like  a  dog  in  the  effort  to  get  warm ;  we 
would  be  rather  lame  and  stiff  when  we 
started  in  the  morning  and  it  would  take 
some  time  to  get  warmed  up:  but  we 
did  not  take  cold.  You  would  be  more 
likely  to  take  cold  from  a  strong  draught 
in  a  closed  room." 

"What  do  you  do  for  fun?"  was  the 
question.  "Don't  you  ever  let  up  in 
work?" 

"Oh  yes,"  was  the  reply,  "I  play 
cards  and  I  raise  trotters.  I  have  raised 
good  horses  on  my  farm  for  many  years. 
I  have  a  lot  of  good  ones  now  that  I've 
never  even  held  a  rein  over. 

"There  is  one  bit  of  advice  that  is 
really  worth  something,  if  you  want  to 
keep  well.  You  observe  I  have  but  one 
tooth,  but  don't  think  for  a  moment  that 
I  do  not  masticate  my  food  thoroughly. 
It  is  very  important  to  do  so.  You  can't 
*bolt'  what  you  eat,  and  have  it  digest 
well." 

Senator  Stephenson  comes  of  a  long- 
lived  race.  His  father  was  eightythree 
when  he  died.  He  has  been  thrice  mar- 
ried and  has  seven  children.  He  has  a 
kindly,  courteous  way  which  makes 
friends.  He  declares  that  he  enjoys  his 
work  and  finds  it  as  interesting  and 
absorbing  as  ever.  He  was  in  the  Wis^ 
consin  legislature  in  1867-8;  was  amem- 


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ber  of  the  48th,  49th  and  50tb  Congresses 
and  came  to  the  United  States  Senate  in 
1907,  succeeding  the  defeated  Senator 
Spooner. 

"There  is  just  one  thing  more,"  said 
he,  "that  you  can  tell  the  young  fellow 
who  wants  to  live  long  and  be  success- 
ful. It's  this :  if  anything  you  eat,  drink, 
or  do,  hurts  you,  stop!  About  nine- 
tenths  of  the  men  don't  have  will-power 
enough  to  do  that.  Hence  they  don't 
succeed." 


Hygiene  in  The  Heme. 

TTHE  direst  needs  of  the  human  race 
are  not  shown  in  foreign  wars  or 
forms  of  government.  The  battle  royal 
is  between  Health  and  Disease.  Every 
home  in  the  land  is  a  center  of  the  siJent 
struggle,  while  the  heaviest  burdens  and 
the  most  far-reaching  responsibilities  fall 
upon  the  housewife. 

To  maintain  the  proper  administration 
of  the  home,  even  under  normal  and 
healthful  conditions,  demands  the  most 
intelligent  and  watchful  care  of  the 
housekeeper.  The  proper  selection  and 
preparation  of  the  food,  and  the  execu- 
tion of  the  thousand  daily  household 
duties  involves  a  knowledge  of  hygienic 
laws  and  facts  that  scieijce  itself  has  not 
long  since  made  possible. 

But  note  for  a  moment  the  nature  and 
extent  of  the  added  and  abnormal  bur- 
dens that  enter  the  administration  of  the 
household  from  causes  distinctly  pre- 
ventable by  the  careful  and  united  exer- 
cise of  simple  hygienic  laws: 

In  Europe  a  million  i>ersons  die  yearly 
from  consumption ;  and  in  United  States 
the  mortality  from  the  same  disease 
reaches  a  hundred  thousand.  In  fact, 
nearly  a  half  of  all  who  die  go  down 
t>efore  the  ravages  of  infectious  diseases 
made  possible  by  unhygienic  conditions. 
These  cases  with  their  manifold  attendr 
ant  dangers  and  complications,  come  into 
the  home  and  there  demand  of  the  house- 
keeper the  constant  exercise  of  a  thor- 
ough hygienic  system,  no  matter  how 
ill-prepared  she  may  be,  in  knowledge  or 


in  physical  ability,  to  meet  the  reepoD- 
sibility. 

That  we  are  indeed  derelict  in  our 
duty  to  Hygeia  may  be  seen  not  only  in 
a  realization  of  present  conditions  but 
in  contemplation  of  the  vast  plans  for 
the  improvement  of  public  health  that 
are  already  under  way.  The  common 
consciousness  is  beginning  to  demand, 
in  no  uncertain  tenns,  a  national  Bureau 
of  Public  Health  or  its  equivalent,  and 
some  permanent  provision  therefor  in  the 
organic  law  of  the  land.  Although  at 
present  Hygiene  is  almost  an  unknown 
name  in  our  schools,  earnest  men  and 
women  are  adopting  a  rich  literature  of 
hygienic  science  for  graded  and  continu- 
ous instruction  in  the  vast  system  of 
public  learning.  At  present,  however, 
if  public  inspection  of  sanitary  conditions 
is  defective,  domestic  cleanliness,  gained 
at  an  increased  cost  of  labor  and  vigi- 
lance, has  to  wipe  out  the  plague. 

Though  our  boys  and  girls  may  yet 
learn  the  laws  of  health  as  surely  as  their 
Arithmetic  or  Grammar,  our  housewives 
have,  for  the  most  part,  only  their  sound 
sense  to  guide  them.  Yet,  to  the  credit 
of  the  American  housewife  it  must  be 
said  that  she  has  always  been  faithful  to 
her  heavy  burdens  and  wearing  respon- 
sibilities ;  and  when,  in  time,  these  have 
been  rightly  distributed  by  public  enact- 
ments and  a  wider  hygienic  culture,  our 
homes  will  indeed  be  temples  of  health. 

But  now,  while  the  vast  agencies  and 
systems  for  the  preservation  of  health 
are  yet  unformed,  we  must  fortify  the 
home,  the  storm  center,  in  the  fight  with 
death,  with  every  weapon  of  defense  that 
Science  can  offer.  For  the  housewife 
herself  we  would  not  always  suggest  a 
painstaking  study  of  the  laws  of  life,  for 
such  a  training  may  only  be  obtained, 
in  a  thorough  and  continuous  way,  by 
her  children.  But  wherever  and  when- 
ever it  is  possible,  let  those  who  can, 
throw  the  light  of  reason  on  the  prob- 
lems of  household  health,  and  let  the 
housewife,  by  careful  thought  and 
patient  industry,  make  the  offered 
knowledge  a  part  of  her  own  good 
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Death  in  Dish-towelB. 

niSH-TOWELS  arc  an  important  item 
in  most  families.     One  may  have 
cheap  and  woolly  hand-towels,  very  ordi- 
nary sheets  and  pillow-cases,  and  many 
other  things  of  inferior  quality,  but  the 
good  housekeeper  knows,  to  her  sorrow, 
what  cheap  dish-towels  mean.   Their  use 
entails  almost  double  the  labor  required 
if  one  has  those  of  poor  quality.    The 
lint  and  dust  from  cheap  goods  cover  the 
china  and  glass,  and  lodge  in  every  nook 
and  comer  of  her  belongings.    Round- 
thread  Russia  crash  is  far  and  away  and 
always  the  best  dish-toweling  that  one 
can  use.     It  absorbs  water  almost  in- 
stantly, and  can  be  used  a  long  time 
before  becoming  unavailable  because  too 
wet.     Who  has  not  worried  with  the 
ordinary  checked  glass  toweling  in  com- 
mon use,  rubbing  and;  twisting  and  pat- 
ting, trying  to  make  it  absorb  the  water 
from  the  dishes,  while  it  is  yet  new? 
This  sort  of  goods  acquires  value  when 
it  begins  to  grow  old.    Russian  crash  is 
in  perfect  condition  after  the  second  or 
third  time  of  using.    Dish-towels  should 
be  thoroughly  boiled  whenever  they  are 
washed,  where  scalding  does  not  answer 
the  purpose.    The  intense  heat  of  boil- 
ing is  absolutely  necessary  if  one  would 
have    health    and   cleanliness    in    the 
kitchen.    A  merely  scalded  dish-towel  is 
unfit   for  the  use  of  any   woman.    It 
takes  more  than  just  hot  water  to  remove 
the  disease  germs  and  impurities  that 
may  lodge  in  these  domestic  necessities. 
Because  a  dish-cloth  looks  clean  it  does 
not  in  any  sense  follow  that  it  is  clean. 
Many  a  family  has  had  its  number  re- 
duced by  death  because  of  the  persistent 
refusal  of  the  maids  to  boil  the  dish- 
towels  as  they  should  be. 


''Nerve"  Discouraged  and  Nerves 
Saved. 

DERLIN,  of  all  big  cities,  has  most 
successfully  dealt  with  the  problem 
of  keeping  noises  down  to  the  minimum. 
Railway  engines  cannot  blow  their  whis- 
tles inside  the  city  limits.     Hucksters, 


newsboys  and  street  peddlers  are  not 
allowed  to  bawl  their  wares.  A  wagon 
that  makes  an  unnecessary  rattling  is 
stopped  and  the  driver  is  lucky  to  escape 
a  fine.  The  courts  never  hesitate  to  im- 
pose a  pecuniary  penalty  on  people  that 
make  useless  noise,  and*  they  have  a  wide 
discretion.  Even  piano-playing  is  reg- 
ulated in  a  town  noted  for  its  music-lov- 
ing inhabitants.  Before  a  certain  'hour 
in  the  morning  and  after  a  certain  hour 
at  night  no  one  is  at  liberty  to  indulge 
in  practice,  and  mere  pounding  on  a 
piano  is  unlawful  at  all  hours. 


Cure  Up  Your  Clothes. 

IF  you  have  laid  a  suit  one  side  for 
some  time,  owing  to  the  fact  that  it 
does  not  agree  with  the  season,  rest 
assured  that  it  is  "sick" — more  or  less 
microbes  have  gathered  within  and  upon 
it,  and  it  ought  to  be  subjected  to  reme- 
dial agencies,  before  going  upon  you 
again. 

For  such  purposes,  there  are  three 
fine  agencies :  the  brush,  the  air,  and  the 
sun.  The  first  does  a  great  deal,  if  you 
give  it  a  chance ;  the  second  more ;  and 
the  third  most.  The  power  of  the  great 
"god  of  day"  is  just  coming  to  be  gen- 
erally realized:  it  contains  the  very 
essence  of  health,  and,  physically,  is  the 
source  of  all  life  on  this  planet. 


Short  Health  Stories. 

A  towel  wet  with  moderately  cold 
water,  pressed  to  the  back  of  the  neck, 
is  a  well-known  remedy  for  sleepless- 
ness. 


"Whistle  deafness"  has  been  named 
by  some  surgeons  as  sometliing  often 
acquired  by  engine  drivers,  and  is  be- 
lieved by  them  to  be  responsible  for 
many  railroad  accidents. 


The  electric  light  is  said  to  be  respon- 
sible for  a  better  state  of  the  air  in  halls 
and  churches,  and  public  speakers  and 
singers  say  their  throats  are  the  better 

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"Some"  Women. 

OERE  is  an  object-lesson  to  women 
who  have  talent,  but  allow  it  to  be 
repressed  by  untoward  circumstances 
and  environments.  A  suffragette  pro- 
cession of  mothers,  wives,  sisters,  broth- 
ers, sons,  daughters,^  banners,  horses, 
and  brass  bands,  has  a  powerful  effect 
upon  the  inhabitants  of  a  great  city,  and 
it  is  no  wonder  that  they  are  arranging 
already  for  the  next  one,  that  occurs  in 
May,  1913. 

A  procession  of  brilliant  business- 
successes  in  the  life  of  an  ambitious  and 
capable  woman,  is  also  a  great  help  in 
furthering  the  cause  of  suffrage.  Here 
is  an  instance,  as  narrated  by  the  New 
York  Mail,  that  carries  with  it  not  only 
display,  but  practicality: 

"One  night,  seven  years  ago,  a  woman 
stood  watching  the  burning  of  a  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  building.  Her  interest  was 
not  that  of  the  merely  curious  spectator ; 
the  fire  meant  a  loss  of  everything  she 
possessed.  A  friend  edged  his  way  to 
her  side. 

"'Are  you  protected  by  insurance, 
Mrs.  White?* 

"  *No,'  she  said,  'my  policy  expired 
yesterday.  This  means  a  total  loss  to 
me.' 

"  'Don't  suppose  you  will  try  it  again  ?' 

"'Yes,  I  will.  My  courage  is  fire- 
proof; I  will  be  selling  hats  within  a 
week.' 

"It  had  been  just  one  year  since  Lou- 
ella  White  had  opened  a  millinery  shop 
in  the  building  now  demolished  by  fire. 
Her  little  establishment  had  represented 
years  of  planning,  working  and  saving. 
Now  it  was  gone,  leaving  her  $97  with 
which  to  begin  again. 


"On  the  way  home  from  the  fire  she 
began  to  make  her  plans  for  the  future. 
Before  10  o'clock  the  next  day  she  had 
paid  $50  for  the  first  month's  rent  of  a 
basement  storeroom.  Then  she  obtained 
a  stock  of  goods  on  consignment  and 
started  her  workers  on  the  execution  of 
orders  placed  before  the  fire.  There 
was  still  the  problem  of  furnishing  to  be 
met.  Her  bank  balance  was  $47;  she 
decided  that  this  amount  would  have  to 
cover  the  cost  of  furnishing  the  new 
shop. 

"  'It  can't  be  done,'  said  her  friends. 

"Mrs.  White  thought  differently.  She 
invested  the  $47  in  a  couple  of  tables, 
some  Japanese  screens,  lampshades  and 
curtain  material,  several  rolls  of  crepe 
paper  and  matting  rugs.  Chairs  and 
mirrors  she  brought  from  home.  The 
day  after  the  opening  it  was  noised 
abroad  that  she  had  the  most  unique 
millinery  shop  in  town.  She  was  quick 
to  see  the  possibilities  of  such  adver- 
tisement. 

"  'I  resolved  then,'  she  says,  'that  I 
would  never  -  again  be  an  "also  ran."  My 
first  establishment  had  been  like  any 
other  millinery  shop,  and  it  took  that 
fire  to  wake  me  up  to  the  fact  that  if 
you  want  to  be  a  big  success  in  business 
you  have  got  to  do  the  same  thing  in  a 
different  way.  It  wasn't  long  before  I 
outgrew  my  basement  quarters.  Then 
I  took  an  entire  floor  and  fitted  it  up 
like  a  typical  Parisian  shop.  There 
were  mirrors  on  all  sides,  all  the  wood- 
work and  furniture  were  white,  and  my 
saleswomen  and  I  dressed  in  black. 
This  scheme  was  another  happy  thought 
that  justified  itself.' 

"Mrs.  White  now  has  two  establish- 
ments— one  in  St.  Paul  and  the  other  in 


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Minneapolis.  Every  summer  she  spends 
in  Paris,  and  twice  a  year  she  visits 
New  York  for  new  models. 

"  'I  never  lose  sight  of  the  fact/  she 
says,  'that  quality  and  style  are  the  most 
important  factors  in  holding  my  trade. 
My  customers  may  be  attracted  by  my 
salesrooms,  but  they  must  be  pleased 
with  their  purchases.  They  must  have 
the  latest  and  best  the  market  affords. 

"  'I  have  never  lost  a  customer  through 
dissatisfaction.  I  sell  hats  to  former 
Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul  women  who 
now  live  in  Alaska,  Hawaii,  the  Philip- 
pines, and  even  in  New  York  City 
Itself. 

"  'They  knew  me,'  she  said,  'and  they 
can  depend  upon  my  judgment.  I  see 
every  customer  that  comes  into  my  shop, 
and  I  would  rather  sell  a  woman  an 
$18  hat  that  is  becoming  to  her  than  a 
$40  hat  that  doesn't  suit  her  style.  My 
customers,  who  have  moved  away,  real- 
ize this,  and  they  would  rather  buy  from 
me  at  a  distance  than  from  some  one 
close  at  hand  whom  they  do  not  know.* 

"Mrs.  White's  reputation  was  made 
through  unique  furnishings,  but  she  has 
kept  her  trade  through  sound  business 
methods." 


The  Motor-Man. 


TT  is  said  that  motor-men  on  the  elec- 
tric cars  endure  the  toil  and  bear  the 
pain,  or,  as  they  say,  "stand  the  racket" 
only  a  very  few  years;  and  then  often 
retire  into  the  Society  of  Human 
Wrecks. 

One  reason,  as  they  allege,  is  that  their 
nerves  are  so  tried  at  narrow  escapes  of 
people  who  will  run  in  the  way  and  chil- 
dren who  will  dance  across  the  road — 
and  at  some  occasions  when  the  escape 
is  left  out.  In  such  cases,  they  are  gen- 
erally arrested,  whether  to  blame  or  not ; 
and  although  that  process  is  in  most 
cases  a  formality,  it  is  at  best  a  very 
gruesome  one. 

"Stamping  on  the  button  to  ring  the 
car-bell"  is  said  to  overwork  the  right 
leg,     and    produce     habitual     nervous 


twitchings  in  it,  which  often  run  into 
worse  trouble.  This  might,  perhaps,  be 
remedied  by  providing  two  buttons, 
both  connected  with  the  alarm-bell — so 
that  the  work  could  be  equally  divided 
between  the  feet.  For  if  it  is  as  hard 
as  it  sounds,  there  surely  should  be  pro- 
vided a  division  of  Jabor  among  the 
limbs. 

The  joints  of  the  right  arm  are  also 
said  to  enlarge,  from  constant  use  of 
the  lever  in  braking  the  car,  and  in  some 
cases  there  is  kidney  disease  from 
standing  too  long  in  the  same  position. 

Taken  all  in  all,  a  part  of  humanity 
has  to  pay  pretty  well  for  the  facilities 
and  conveniences  the  other  part  possess. 


A  Oleaning  From  ttie  Old  Fourth 
Reader. 

I  T  is  a  good  test  of  the  stability  and 
*  natural  qualities  of  Bryant's  literary 
work,  that  many  of  the  lines,  even  of  his 
shorter  poems,  still  linger  in  the  mem- 
ory of  numerous  people,  and  are  brought 
to  mind  at  different  times  of  the  year. 
Bryant  was  always  happiest  when  de- 
scribing some  of  the  scenes  of  Nature. 

The  following  letter,  from  one  of  our 
esteemed  subscribers,  is  an  illustration 
of  the  fact  that  Bryant,  "though  gone, 
is  not  forgottwi":  and  that  he  has  the 
same  influence  over  the  mind  and  the 
heart  of  thoughtful  people,  that  he  had 
while  living. 

Editor  Every  Where  Magazine, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Sir: 

I  notice  on  page  373  of  February 
copy  of  Every  Where,  a  reference  to 
a  "heretofore  unpublished  poem  of  Wil- 
liam Cullen  Bryant." 

I  enclose  a  copy  of  "The  Gladness  of 
Nature"  to  be  found  in  Sanders'  Fourth 
Reader,  which  was  used  in  the  public 
schools  of  Norfolk,  Conn.,  in  the  early 
fifties.  I  was  then  about  eleven  or 
twelve  years  old. 

The  poem  must  have  been  printed  at 
^east  sixty  years  ago,  for  I  .shall  be 
seventyone  next  month.    The  poem  is 

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a  gem,  and  might  be  appreciated  if  pub- 
lished  in  full  in  Our  Magazine. 

With  best  wishes  for  the  success  of 
Every  Where  in  every  way — 
Your  friend, 

Elizabeth  Butler. 
Litchfield,  Conn. 


The  Poem. 
THE  GLADNESS  OF  NATURE. 

Is  this  a  time  to  be!  cloudy  and  sad, 
When    our    mother    Nature    laughs 
around, 
When  even?  the  deep  blue  heavens  look 
glad, 
And  gladness  breathes  from  the  blos- 
soming ground? 

There  are  notes  of  joy  from  the  hang- 
bird  and  wren. 
And  the  gossip  of  swallows  through 
all  the  sky; 
The  ground-squirrel  gaily  chirps  by  his 
den, 
And  the  wilding-bee  hums  merrily  by. 

The  clouds   are  at  play   in   the  azure 
space. 
And  their  shadows  at  play   on  the 
bright  green  vale, 
And  here  they  stretch  to  th©  frolic  cha§e, 
And  there  they  roll  on  the  eaey^te. 

There's  a  dance  of  leaves  in  that  aspen 
bower ; 
There's    a    titter    of    winds    in    that 
beechen  tree ; 
There's  a  smile  on  the  fruit,  and  a  smile 
on  the  flower. 
And  a  laugh  from  the  brook  that  runs 
to  the  sea. 

And  look  at  the  broad-faced  sun,  how 
he  smiles 
On  the  dewy  earth  that  smiles  in  his 
ray. 
On  the  leaping  waters  and  gay  young 
isles, — 
Ay,  look,  and  he'll  smile  thy  gloom 
away  I 


Kaew  How  Much  He  Oonld  Do. 

\T7HILE  still  practicing  law  in  Buf- 
^^  falo,  N.  Y.,  and  before  he  had 
ever  been  mentioned  for  the  Presidency, 
Grover  Cleveland  was  offered  the  attor- 
neyship of  the  New  York  Central  Rail- 
road in  Western  New  York.  The  salary 
was  $15,000. 

"Well,  I'm  making  $10,000  a  year 
now,  and  that  is  enough",  replied  Cleve. 
land. 

"But  you  can  still  earn  that,  and  the 
$15,000  besides",  persisted  Chauncey 
Depew,  who  was  making  the  offer. 

"No,"  replied  Qeveland :  "I  have  set 
for  myself  a  limit  of  the  work  I  will  do, 
and  reserve  time  enough  for  pleasure 
and  sport.  I  have  reached  that  limit  in 
my  private  practice,  and  a  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  a  year  would  not  tempt  me 
to  add  an  hour  more  to  what  I  am 
doing." 

He  evidently  knew  enough  not  to  work 
himself  to  death  in  order  to  make  a  liv- 
ing for  others. 


Missing  Them,  He  Loved  Them. 

T    DREAMED  the  plowman  told  me: 
"Grow  your  bread 
And  tend  yowr  fields  alone;    I  plow 

uo  more." 

The  weaver  bade  me  spin  the  clothes 

I  wore, 

The  masons  quit  the  wall  above  my  head. 

Deserted  so  by  all  who  warmed  aiid  fed 

And  sheltered  me,  my  heart  was  sad 

and  sore, 
For  seek  what  path  I  would,  I  heard 
the  roar 
Of  sullen  lions;  and  the  sky  was  lead. 
My  eyes  fell  open,  and  I  saw  the  sun. 
I   heard    a   hundred   hammers  beat  as 

one, 
.    The  plowboy  whistle,  and  the  builder 

call; 
And  then  I   knew  my  happiness — ^and 

then 
I  felt  my  endless  debt  to  other  men, 
And  since  that  morning  I  have  loved 
them  all. 

Sallie  Prudhon^me- 

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May  7 — The  Senate  passed  a  bill  regrulatmg 
wireless  communication. 

The  Navy  Department  ordered  several 
warships  rushed  up  the  Mississippi,  to 
rescue  the  endangered  and  dispense 
provisions. 

The  Swedish  people  subscribed  $3,360,000 
to  King  Gustav  for  a  new  battleship. 

General  Orozco  refused  to  recognize  the 
Provisional  Government  established  by 
Gomez. 
8 — The  Senate  Committee  on  Foreign  Re- 
lations refused  to  report  favorably  the 
treaties  with  Nicaragua  and  Honduras 
arranging  for  a  money  loan. 
9— The  second  reading  of  the  Home  Rule 
bill  was  voted  in  the  House  of  Commons. 

Count  Paul  Wolff-Metternich  resigned  as 
German  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain. 
10— Heavy  rains  and  high  winds  vastly  in- 
creased the  flood  danger  along  the  lower 
Mississippi  and  every  available  man  was 
rushed  to  the  levees. 

The  bill  for  adding  40,000  men  and  246 
field  guns  to  the  German  army  pawed  iti 
second  reading  in  the  Reichstag. 

Mexican  federals  defeated  the  rebel  ad- 
vance guard  north  of  Torreon. 

The  United  States  transport  Buford  ar- 
rived at  Altata,  Mexico,  and  took  on 
board  nineteen  Americans. 
II — President  Taft  signed  the  Increased  Pen- 
sion bill,  carrying  increased  payments  of 
$35-000.000   the   first  year. 

A  tornado  killed  several  persons  in  Ala- 
bama and  did  extensive  damage. 

John  Grier  Hippen  was  inaugurated  Presi- 
dent  of    Princeton   University. 

The  House  of  Representatives  adjourned 
early  to  attend  a  baseball  game. 
12— After  twelve  hours  of  fighting  General 
Huerta,  Federal,  gained  a  decided  ad- 
vantap^e  over  5,000  Mexican  rebels  un- 
der General  Orozco. 

The    flood   situation    along  the   Mississippi 
River  began  to  improve. 
'3— The  House  passed  the  Senate  resolution 
for   the   direct   election   of   Senators   by 
the  people. 


The  Senate  Judiciary  Committee  sustained 
a  recommendation  that  the  Constitution 
be  changed  to  limit  a  President  to  one 
term. 

There  was  a  heavy  snowfall  on  a  mountain 
near  Cumberland,  Maryland. 
14 — Taking  of   testimony   began   in   the  suit 
of  the  United  States  Government  to  dis- 
solve the  Sugar  Trust. 

The  King  of  Denmark  died  at  Hamburg, 
Germany. 

Atlantic  City  adopted  the  commission  form 
of  government 
15 — The  eldest  son  of  King  Frederick  was 
proclaimed  King  of  Denmark,  as  Chris- 
tian X. 

The  Austrian  Premier,  Count  Stuergh,  was 
stricken  with  sudden  blindness  and  the 
Emperor  asked  Minister  of  the  Interior 
Heinold  von  Udynski  to  act  as  Premier. 
16— The  second  reading  of  the  Welsh  dis* 
establishment  bill  was  passed  in  the 
House  of  Commons. 

MZme.  Navratil,  mother  of  the  two  Titanic 
waifs,  arrived  in  New  York  and  identi- 
fied thenu 
17— The  Turkish  garrison  at  Rhodes  sur- 
rendered to  the  Italians  with  the  honors 
of  war  after  a  vigorous  fight 

Dean  Alexander  Meiklejohn  of  Brown  Uni- 
versity was  elected  President  of  Amherst 
College. 
I &— United  States  District  Attorney  Wise 
brought  suit  to  break  up  the  valorization 
scheme  of  the  "coffee  ring". 

The  anthracite  coal  strike  came  to  an  end, 
after  seven  weeks'  idleness,  the  men  se- 
curing a  good  wage  agreement. 
19 — Fire  in  Houston,  Texas,  endangered  the 
business  sec  ion  and  did  damage  esti- 
mated at  $400,000. 

The  United  States  transport  Buford  sailed 
from  Salina  Cruz,  Mexico,  with  399 
refugees. 

Archduke  Joseph  received  the  special  com- 
mittee of  the  Panama  Exposition  in  spe- 
cial audience  at  Budapest 

A  two-ton  whale  was  lassoed  by  a  cowboy 
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20— The    Senate    Committee    agreed    unani- 
mously to  report  the  resolution  for  a  con- 
stitutional amendment  to  prohibit  a  third 
term    for   which   to   elect    Presidents  of 
United  States. 
Prince  George  William,  eldest  son  of  the 
Duke  of  Cumberland,  was  killed  in  an 
au  omobile  accident  in  Prussia,  en  route 
to  attend  the  funeral  of  his  uncle,  the 
late  King  of  Denmark. 
The    republican    governor    of    Sin-Kiang 
province,   China,   was  murdered   by  Ma- 
hometan reactionaries. 
21 — The  bill  increasing  the  German  army  and 
navy    passed   the   third    reading   of    the 
Reichstag. 
The    House    voted    to    make  the  Panama 
Canal    free  to  coastwise  vessels  and   to 
prohibit      railroad-owned      ships      from 
using  it. 
Mexican  rebels  took  the  town  of  Guada- 

loupe. 
The  new  $41,000,000  Paris  bond  issue  was 
oversubscribed   eighty   times   throughout 
France. 
22 — Mrs.   Emmeline  Pankhurst  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Pethick  Lawrence  were  sen:enced  to 
nine  months'  imprisonment  without  hard 
labor,  for  conspiracy  and  inci.ing  to  ma- 
licious  damages. 
The  Reichstag's  final  session  was  a  stormy 
one,  the  Social   Democrat  leader,  Lede- 
hour,  attacking  the  Kaiser  for  his  threat 
in  regard  to  Alsace-Lorraine. 
23 — The    House    of    Representatives  passed 
the  Panama  Canal  bill  making  the  canal 
free  to  United  States  coas:wise  steamers 
and  forbidding  railroads  to  control  com- 
peting steamship  lines. 
The  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  refused 

to  open  the  puipit  to  womeii. 
Premier  Tang  Shao-yi,  of  China,  resigned. 
A  strike  of  15,000  transport  workers  began 

in  London. 
The  Uni  ed  States  transport  Prairie  sailed 
for  Guantanamo,  Cuba,  to\  protect  Ameri- 
can life  and  property. 
24 — The  Senate  and  House  conferees  agreed 
upon  a  bill  that  removes  Major  General 
Leonard  Wood  from  his  place  as  Chief  " 
of  Staff,  with  a  restricting  clause  requir- 
ing ten  years'  service  in  field  for  future 
eligibility. 
Joseph   H.  Choate.  in  open  court,  charged 
that    the    Government    suit    against    the 
Coffee   Trust   was   instigated   by   certain 
persons  for  personal  profit. 
25 — The  Navy  Department  ordered  the  mobili- 
zation  of  two  divisions  of  the   Atlantic 
Fleet  at  Key  West,  to  be  ready  10  go  to 
Cuba  if  peed  developed. 
Galveston.  Texas,  opened  its  new  $2,000,000 
concrete  causeway. 
26-— Conditions   in   the   Province  of   Oriente, 
Cuba,  were  still  reported  serious. 


A  parade  of  15,000  dock  strikers  was  h^d 

in  London. 
Rioting  in  Peru  caused  the  Government  to 
declare  the  Presiden.ial  ballotting   (then 
in  progress),  closed. 
27— Eighty    persons    were    killed    in    a    fire 
caused  by  an  explosion  of  a  cinemato- 
graph, in  a  theater  at  Vallareal,  Spain. 
President  Taft  informed  President  Gomez 
that  the  sending  of  marines  did  not  mean 
intervention  in  Cuban  affairs. 
28 — The  "Titanic"  investigating  committee  re- 
ported its  findings;  the  thanks  of   Con- 
gress were  presented  to  the  officers  and 
crew  of  the  "Carpathia"  for  their  rescue 
of    the   survivors. 
The  House  passed  the  navy  appropriation 
bill    carrying    $119,000,000,    without    any 
provision   for  new  battleships. 
The  Ohio  Constitutional  Convention  passed 
the  woman's  suffrage  proposal  in  the  final 
readmg. 
The  "Prairie"  landed  700  marines  at  Guan- 
tanamo;   the    Cuban    Government    sent 
more  troops  to  suppress  the  revolt. 
29 — The    litanic    survivors  presented   Capt 
Rostron,  of  the  Carpathia,  with  a  k>ving 
cup,   and   each  of  his   officers  and  crew 
wi.h  medals. 
30— The  Senate  passed  the  Steel-Revision  bill. 
31 — Havana  papers  announced  a  serious  bat- 
tle   in    Oriente    Province   in    which   one 
hundred  rebels  were  killed. 
June  I— It  was  reported  in  Havana  that  one 
hundred  and  for:yseven  Cuban  rebels,  in- 
cluding eighteen  women,  had  been  killed 
by   regular   troops,    and   that   affairs    at 
Daiquiri  were  serious. 
2 — The    Cunarder    Carmania  was  seriously 
damaged  by  fire  at  her  dock  in  Liverpool. 
3 — Senator    Nelson    introduced    the    Ocean 
Safety  Act,  covering  the  lessons  learned 
from  the  "Titanic"  disaster. 
President  Gomez  appealed  to  Congress  for 
authori  y  to  declare  martial  law  in  Cuba. 
Fire  in  the  Mohammedan  section  of  Con- 
stantinople made  15,000  homeless. 
4 — Riotous  members  of  the  Opposition  in  the 
Hungarian  Diet  were  evicted  by  the  po- 
lice, and  the  government  rushed  through 
bills  that  had  been  blocked. 
Belgium  was   reported   in  a  state  of  riot 
the  result  of   recent  elections,  by  which 
the    government    will    subsidize    church 
schools  as  it  does  the  public  schools. 
Many  more,  including  women  and  children, 

were  killed  in  the  Belgian  riots. 
The    convention     on     wireless     telegraphy 
opened   in    London,   with   representatives 
from  thirty  five  countries. 
The    United     S  ates    Army   formally  wel- 
comed Rear  Admiral  von  Rebeur-Pasch- 
witz  and  the  other  officers  of  the  Kaiser's 
visiting   squadron. 
5— The  fourth  division  of  the  Atlantic  fleet 
was  ordered  to  speed  to  Guantanamo. 


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DIED: 

BLOCKX,  JAN— In  Antwerp,  his  native  city. 
May  26.  He  was  born  in  185 1,  and  in  1902 
was  appointed  director  of  ihe  Royal  Con- 
servatory of  Music,  Antwerp.  He  was  Bel- 
gium's greatest  composer,  and  an  authority 
on  Flemish  music  and  folklore.  Among  the 
operas  he  composed  is  "Princess  d'Auberge", 
"Thiel  Uylenspiegel"  and  *'La  Fiancee  de 
la  Mer",  besides  a  large  number  of  songs 
and  cantatas. 

BORDEN.  MATTHEW  JC.  D.— At  Oceanic, 
N.  J.,  May  28.  He  was  born  seventy  years 
ago,  at  Fall  River,  and  was  educated  at 
Yale.  He  became  one  of  the  mos:  impor- 
tant owners  of  print  cloth  mills  in  the 
country,  building  several  in  Fall  River. 
He  was  much  interested  in  the  genuine 
welfare  of  his  employes,  providing  steady 
work  at  good  wages. 

BURNHAM,  DANIEL  H.— In  Heidelberg, 
Germany.  June  i,  aged  sixtysix  years.  He 
was  born  in  Henderson,  N.  Y.  He  was 
educated  in  Chicago,  studying  architecture, 
and  receiving  honorary  degrees  from  many 
universities.  He  was  Chief  Architect  and 
Director  of  Works  for  the  wonderful  White 
City  of  Chicago,  during  the  exposiuon 
year;  was  chairman  of  the  national  com- 
mittee for  beautifying  Washington,  and 
planned  the  beautification  of  Manila.  No- 
table structures  throughout  United  States- 
were  designed  by  him.  He  a  wsa  leader  in 
every  movement  for  developing  a  love  of 
beauty  and  art  in  American  life. 

CAMERON.  AGNES  DEANS— In  Victoria, 
(B.  C)  her  native  town.  May  13,  aged 
fortynine  years.  She  began  to  teach  when 
fifteen  years  old,  and  later  was  elected 
School  Trustee.  She  became  a  journalist, 
author  and  lecturer,  touring  United  States 
and  Canada,  lecturing  on  "Journeys  through 
Unknown  Canada,"  based  on  personal  ex- 
periences in  the  region  of  the  Arctic 
Ocean  and  the  Mackenzie  River. 

EATON,  PROF.  D.  CADY— In  New  Haven. 
Conn.,  May  11.  He  was  born  in  1838  and 
was  graduated  from  Yale  College.  He  was 
an  officer  in  the  Civil  War  and  then  studied 
law  at  Columbia.    For  thirty  years  he  had 


been  Professor  of  Criticism  and  History  of 
Art  at  Yale. 

PINCH,  PROF.  WILLIAM  ALBERT— In 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  31.  He  was  born 
in  1855,  in  Newark,  N.  J.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Cornell  University  practiced  law, 
and  in  189 1  joined  the  faculty  of  his  alma 
mater  as  Professor  of  Law.  He  wrote 
"Finch's  Cases  on  the  Law  of  Property  in 
Land." 

FREDERICK  VIII..  KING  OF  DENMARK 
—At  Hamburg,  Germany,  May  14,  He  was 
born  in  1843,  c^nd  succeeded  his  father  to 
the  throne  in  1906,  being  ihen  sixtytwo 
years  of  age.  He  married  Princess  Louise 
of  Sweden  and  Norway.  He  entered  the 
Danish  Guards  at  an  early  age.  serving 
through  the  ranks,  till  he  became  Inspector- 
General  of  the  army.  He  was  a  model  con- 
stitutional monarch,  and  was  beloved  and 
respected  by  all  his  subjects,  including  the 
many  Socialists.  He  was  related  :o  many 
of  the  royal  houses  of  Europe,  one  son  be- 
ing King  Haakon  VII.,  of  Norway.  His 
eldest  son.  Christian,  has  succeeded  him  in 
regular  course. 

FULLER.  SIDNEY  THOMAS— At  Kenne- 
bunk,  Maine,  aged  seventysix  years.  He 
was  widely  known  as  an  authority  on  rail- 
road engineering.  He  helped  build  the  first 
railroad  in  Mexico  and  was  Chief  Engineer 
of  the  Mexican  lines.  In  1879  and  i^  the 
Massachusetts  Railroad  Commission  ap- 
pointed him  to  report  on  the  condi  ion  of 
railroads  in  that  State  and  the  Russian 
Government  employed  him  similarly.  He 
had  served  as  member  of  the  Maine  House 
of  Representatives. 

GOULD.  DR.  ELIZABETH  TAYLOR— In 
East  Orange,  N.  J.,  May  28,  at  the  age  of 
sixty  nine  years.  She  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Woman's  College,  New  York,  and  was  one 
of  the  pioneer  woman  physicians  of  New 
Jersey. 

HERNDL.  MARPE  N.— In  Milwaukee,  Wis.. 
May  13.  aged  fifty  years.  She  was  a  pain- 
ter, receiving  a  bronze  medal  for  her  painted 
glass  window.  "The  Fairy  Queen",  at  the 
World's  Fair  in  1893,  and^  was  the  recipient 
of  awards  at  the  St  Louis  Exposition. 


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IRWIN,  DR.  JOHN  A.— In  New  York  City, 
June  I,  at  the  age  of  fiftynine  years.  He 
was  born  at  Roscommon,  Ireland,  and  waj 
educated  at  Cambridge  and  Dublin  Univer- 
sities. He  came  to  United  States  in  1882. 
He  had  been  editorial  writer  for  several 
important  English  medical  journals  and  be- 
longed to  many  well-known  American  and 
foreign  medical   sociodct. 

KILBOURN,  EDWARD  E.— In  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.,  May  25,  aged  eighty  one  years. 
Hn  birthplace  was  Norwalk,  Conn.,  where 
he  went  early  to  work  in  his  father's 
hosiery  and  cloth  factory.  He  invented, 
and  in  1857  built,  the  first  practical  hosiery 
machine,  which  he  later  introduced  into 
vEngland  and  Germany.  He  organized  sev- 
eral knitting  and  manufacturing  companies. 

MARTINO.  EDUARDO  DE—In  London, 
England,  May  22.  He  was  marine  painter 
in  ordinary  to  Queen  Victoria.  His  birth- 
place was  Meta,  near  Naples,  Italy.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Fine 
Arts,  Rio  Janeiro.  After  serving  as  an  offi- 
cer in  ihe  Italian  army,  he  went  to  England 
in  1875.  Among  his  paintings  is  a  series  of 
four  of  the  battle  of  Trafalgar. 

MASON,  VICTOR  L.— In  a  monoplane  acci- 
dent, at  Brookfields,  England,  May  13,  aged 
fortytwo  years.  He  was  born  and  educated 
in  Washington,  D.  C.,  receiving  the  D.  S. 
degree  from  Columbian  University.  He 
was  successively  private  secre.ary  to  Secre- 
taries of  War  Alger  and  Root,  having  pre- 
viously been  secretary  to  the  Board  of  Ord- 
nance and  Fortifications.  He  was  promi- 
nent in  National  Republican  politics  and 
had  many  mining  interests. 

MAY,  KARI^-In  Dresden,  Germany,  April 
I,  in  his  seventieth  year.  His  early  life  was 
shrouded  in  mystery,  but  later  he  became 
well  known  as  a  writer  of  adventurous 
sories  for  boys.  He  translated  hundreds 
of  tales  from  Arabian,  Turkish,  Persian 
and  Chinese  sources  and  wrote  many 
dealing  with  our  own  American  Indians. 
A  part  of  his  life  had  been  spent  in 
prison. 

MERRITT,  ARTHUR  H.— In  Durham. 
N.  C,  May  17.  He  was  a  native  of  New 
York  and  became  Professor  of  Greek  at 
Trinity  College,  Durham,  being  one  of  the 
leading  Greek  scholars  of  the  South. 

OTTEN-SACKEN,  COUNT  VON  DER— 
At  Monte  Carlo,  May  22,  in  his  eightysecond 
year.  He  was  a  Russian,  who  entered  dip- 
lomatic life  in  1853.  He  was  made  a  Count 
for  valor  during  the  Crimean  War.  He 
served  in  legations  at  The  Hague,  Madrid, 
Berne  and  Turin,  being  at  Darmstadt  dur- 
ing the  Franco-Prussian  War,  and  remain- 
ing there  for  eleven  years.  Then  to 
Munich,  and  finally  to  Berlin  for  seventeen 


years  as  Russian  Ambassador,  and  ^^cr« 
he  was  dean  of  the  Diplomatic  Corps  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

PASCOLI,  GIOVANNI— At  Bologna,  Italy. 
April  6.  The  poet  was  born  at  San  Maura. 
Romagna,  and  studied  at  the  Universities  of 
Messina  and  Pisa,  He  held  the  chair  of 
Italian  Literature  at  the  University  of 
Bologna. 

ROMANA,  A.  LOPEZ  DE—In  Lima,  Peru. 
May  27.  He  was  President  of  that  country 
from  1899  to  1903. 

PORTER.  EX-GOVERNOR  J.  D.— In  Paris. 
Tenn.,  May  18,  aged  eightyfour  years.  He 
was  Governor  of  Tennessee  from  1874  to 
1878,  and  was  Assistant  Secretary  of  State 
under  President  Cleveland.  He  vras  Minis- 
ter to  Chile  also  under  Qeveland.  For 
many  years  he  was  President  of  the  Nash- 
ville, Chattanooga  and  St.  Louis  Railroad. 

STRINDBERG.  AUGUSTE— In  Stockholm, 
Sweden,  his  native  town.  May  14.  He  was 
born  in  1849  and  studied  at  the  University 
of  Upsala.  Until  1883  he  was  librarian  of 
the  Royal  Library  at  Stockholm,  spending 
the  next  fif.een  years  in  extensive  travel 
He  was  in  turn  chemist,  scientific  explorer, 
photographer  and  prolific  writer  of  poems, 
novels  and  plays,  being  known  as  "the  most 
hated  literary  man  in  Sweden",  and  as  a 
bitter  misogynist. 

TARR.  PROF.  RALPH  S.— In  Ithaca,  N.  Y., 
March  21,  aged  fortyeight  years.  His  na- 
tive town  was  Gloucester,  Mass.  He  was 
a  graduate  of  the  Lawrence  Scien  ific 
School  and  of  Harvard  University.  He 
was  one  of  the  best  known  geographers  in 
United  States  and  was  an  authority  on 
glaciers  and  earthquakes.  He  had  held  im- 
portant positions  under  the  United  Staes 
Government,  and  wrote  several  text-books, 
besides  monographs  on  geographical  and 
geological  topics.  ^^ 

TYLER.  MRS.  KATHARINE  SKARK— At 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  May  27.  She  held  the  chair 
of  music  in  Syracuse  University  from  1885 
to  1892,  and  had  been  soloist  in  All  Souls 
Church  and  the  Broadway  Tabernacle, 
New  York.  Her  husband  was  profes- 
sor emeritus  of  philosophy  a-t  Cornell 
University. 

WERNHER,  SIR  JULIUS— In  London, 
England.  May  21,  aged  sixtytwo  years.  He 
was  a  Hessian  by  birth,  but  received  the 
title  of  an  English  baronet  from  Edward 
VII.,  in  1905.  He  was  the  head  of  the 
South  African  De  Beers  Diamond  Syndi- 
cate and  of  the  firm  of  Wernher,  Beit  & 
Co.  For  fortytwo  years  he  was  prominent 
in  the  South  African  diamond  market  He 
was  a  great  patron  of  art  and  known  for 
his  benevolence.  ^  t 

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A  Japanese  hermit  has  lived  on  fruit  for 
ninety  years,  and  is  still  healthy  and  vigorous. 

You  can  hear  fifty  feet  under  ground,  by 
aid  of  the  michrophone,  and  detect  running 
water,  thus  knowing  how  to  dig  for  wells. 

Cats  in  offices  and  shops  are  said  to  pro-  . 
duce  content  and  increase  of  work  among  the 
inmates,  especially  if  they  (the  inmates)  are 
girls.  

Lead  pencils  made  Lothair  von  Faber,  of 
Nuremberg,  rich  enough  so  that  he  was  able 
to  leave  half  a  millions  dollars  to  beautify 
the  city.  

"Will  you  see  me  starve?"  telegraphed  a 
college  boy  who  wan.ed  a  remittance  from 
a  disgusted  father.  "Not  at  this  distance/' 
was  the  reply.         

Lincoln  used  to  say  that  books  were  valu- 
able in  showing  a  man  that  the  thoughts  he 
had  considered  as  original  with  himself  were 
not  so  very  new  after  all. 

The  Boy  Scouts  are  tabooed  by  some  of 
the  labor  organizations,  because  they  consider 
thai  the  order  is  an  aristocratic  one,  and  does 
not  give  poor  boys  a  chance. 

Electric  fans  will  soon  be  generally  used 
in  orchards  and  vineyards,  during  sudden 
cold  nights,  to  keep  the  frost  from  settling 
down  and  spoiling  the  fruit. 

Persistent  efforts  are  being  made  to  change 


the  date  of  the  Presidential  inauguration  into 
April,  so  that  the  weather  will  surely  be  de- 
cent, or  at  least  not  blizzardish. 

Bicycles  still  hurt  and  sometimes  kill  a 
good  many  people,  although  such  an  event 
does  not  awaken  as  much  interest  as  before 
their  big  brothers,  automobiles,  began  opera- 
tions. 

One  of  the  greatest  dangers  that  aviators 
encounter  when  near  the  shore,  is  sea-gulls 
entangling  themselves  in  their  machines. 
They  sometimes  bring  the  voyager  down  to 
death. 


A  ring  half  an  inch  across,  contains  the 
entire  works  of  a  watch  just  made  in  Geneva, 
Switzerland.  It  will  cost  you  a  lit.le  matter 
of  six  thousand  dollars,  should  you  wish  to 
buy  it. 

College  people  are  always  disturbing  the 
established  order  of  things:  and  one  of  the 
Yale  professors  not  long  ago  sta:ed  that 
horse-meat  is  the  best  and  least  liable  to  be 
diseased.  

David  Crockett's  Masonic  apron  is  in  ex- 
cellent condition  and  treasured  highly.  It  was 
preserved  by  a  descendant  of  a  friend*  one  of 
the  old-time  settlers,  and  an  associate  of 
Crockett.  

A  hundred-year-older  "bobs  up  serenely", 
every  once  in  a  while,  as  the  years  go  on. 
Mrs.  Spencer  Mowry,  of  Woonsocket,  R.  I., 


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CONTENTS 

FOR  JULY 

Song  of  the  Church-Bell 

261 

Editorial  Thoughts  and  Fancies 

Will  Carleton. 

Neutral  in  Politics 

290 

The   New    Seven   Wonders   of   the 

-Hotel  Carelessness 

29D 

World-II. 

262 

The  Blessing  and  Curse  of  Weal .h 

291 

The  Mistake 

267 

Short  Editorials 

291 

Alma   M,   Honey. 

Editorial  Correspondence 

292 

The  Art  of  T, ace- Making 

270 

At  Church  : 

A  Lesson  in  Chess 

272 

Jesus    Christ,    the    Founder    of 

The  Weight  of  a  Hole     . 

273 

Modern   Democracy 
Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

294 

Summer  Musings 

275 

Gems  from  Talmage 

29G 

Clerical  Reminiscences 

279 

The  'Health -Seeker: 

Thc^  Witches'  Brew 

281 

Dialogue  with  Death 

207 

Margaret  E,  Songster. 

Balancing  the  Circulation 

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298 

Superstitions  of   Poets 

282 

How  Not  to  Nurse 

299 

The  American   King 

283 

The  Occupation  of  Dying 

299 

Up  and  Down  the  World:  ' 

A  Freckle-Exterminator 

299 

Origin  of  Some  Common  Plants 

284 

World- SlrccESS : 

A  Floating  Farm 

285 

Succeeding  as  a  Guest 

300 

The  Labor-Saving  Windmill 

285 

Great  Men's  Sons 

301 

Should  Vivisection  Be  Abolished 

^286 

Don'ts  for  Wives 

301 

The  Model  Woman 

287 

The  Habit  of  Success 

302 

An  lOasis  With  a  History 

288 

Time's  Diary 

303 

East  Centerboro 

288 

The   Brook 

289 

Some  Who  Have  Gone 

305 

"Follow.  Me" 

289 

Various  Doings  and  Undoings 

307 

Jeanie  Oliver  Smith. 

Philosophy  and  Humor 

314 

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By  Will  Carleton. 

^OME  to  me,  come  to  me,  you  who  are  sad  and  lone, 

You  who  k^ew  sorrows  of  others,  that  now  have  become  your  own ; 
You  who  greet  only  by  memory  the  friends  you  once  have  known, 
You  who  are  walking  desolate,  tortured  by  thorns  of  care, 
Come  to  the  house  of  prayer. 

Come  to  mc,  come  to  me,  you  who  in  pleasures  bright 
Drown  the  gold  hours  of  morning,  or  the  sweet  shades  of  night ; 
Oh,  you  will  feel  for  my  presence  when  trouble  encumbers  sight! 
Joy  is  the  mother  of  sorrow :  pleasures  can  breed  despair : 
Then  there  is  wailing  and  prayer. 

Come  to  me — come  to  me — ^you  who  helpless-wise. 

May  be  unable  to  come  in  the  fragile  body's  guise: 

It  is  the  spirit  that  clambers  into  the  towering  skies. 

So  though  bodies  be  prisoned,  yet  souls  in  Heaven  may  share : 

Come  to  the  house  of  prayer. 

Come  to  me,  come  to  me,  you  who  can  only  agree 
In  the  great  lessons  of  Nature,  with  what  yourselves  you  can  see ; 
Pray  as  you  live — ^to  the  Unknown ! — for  all  that  is  yet  to  be — 
All  that  has  been — -has  been  given  Mystery's  garment  to  wear : 
Mystery's  even  in  prayer! 

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Many  the  doctrines  and  fancies  that  different  natures  weave ; 
Many  the  rafters  to  which  their  hopes  of  mercy  cleave. 
Heaven's  great  dome  of  splendor  is  reached  by  many  a  stair  ; 
Come  to  the  house  of  prayer  I 

Pray  with  me,  pray  with  me,  you  who  in  toil  are  bowed. 
You  who  are  striving  and  grieving  alone  in  a  sneering  crowd ; 
Maybe  the  lower  they  crush  you,  the  higher  the  strength  allowed. 
Look  to  the  sky  above  you — look  to  Heaven — it  is  there : 
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II. 

WIRELESS    TELEGRAPHY. 

W^IRELESS  telegraphy  seems  to  the 
uninitiated  one  of  the  greatest  of 
modern  marvels,  although  to  those 
versed  in  itelegraphic  lore  and  the  vi- 
bratory theory,  the  idea  of  communi- 
cating through  vast  distances  of  space 
with  no  visible  means  of  transmission 
may  not  seem  quite  so  novel.  Never- 
theless, it  was  Guglielmo  Marconi  who, 
in  1897,  first  made  it  commercially 
practical. 

As  early  as  1859  a  Scotchman,  James 
B.  iLindsay,  read  a  paper  before  the 
British  Association  on  "Telegraphing 
without  Wires",  Michael  Faraday  and 
William  Thomson  (Lord  Kelvin),  be- 
ing present  at  the  meeting.  In  1854  he 
had  sent  telegraphic  messages  across  the 
river  Tay,  without  submerged  wires,  the 
water  being  the  conducting  medium. 

Later,  Sir  William  Preece  worked  out 
another  system  based  on  the  principle 
that  an  electric  current  passing  along 
one  wire,  will  at  each  make  and  break 
of  the  current,  set  up  a  similar  current 
in  a  wire  parallel  to  it,  though  many 
miles  apart. 

Marconi's,  system  is  quite  different 
and  more  truly  wireless.  The  hundreds 
of  lives  saved  through  its  agency  in  the 
recent  "Titanic"  disaster  indicates  some 
measure  of  its  value.  But  Marconi's 
invention  depended  upon  the  preceding 
discovery  by  Heinrich  Hertz,  that  an 
electric  wave  could  be  projected  through 
space  much  as  is  light. 

A  pebble,  cast  into  a  stream,  sets  in 
vibration  rings  of  undulating  waves  that 


may  carry  to  the  farther  shore.  Ether 
is  supposed  to  pervade  all  space  and 
to  permeate  all  matter  and  an  electric 
battery  sets  in  motion  ether  waves  some- 
thing as  the  pebble  does  the  water  un- 
dulations. This  imperfect  comparison 
may  help  the  imagination  to  perceive 
what  occurs  when  a  wireless  is  sent. 

In  ordinary  telegraphy  the  operator 
employs  a  battery  to  generate  the  elec- 
tricity, a  contact  key  to  close  and  oi>en 
the  circuit,  and  a  wire  to  conduct  the 
current  to  the  receiving  operator,  the 
short  and  long  clickings  of  the  lever 
conveying  to  the  latter  the  message. 
The  experimenter  with  "wireless"  had 
to  answer  the  question :  Is  it  possible  to 
substitute  for  the  contact  key  something 
that  can  be  operated  without  the  need 
of  a  conducting  wire?  The  answer  was 
found  in  the  device  known  as  the 
"coherer". 

The  coherer  is  a  small  tube  or  box 
filled  with  loosely  packed  iron  filings. 
Under  ordinary  conditions  these  filings 
offer  strong  resistance  to  any  current, 
but — if  "certain  ether  or  electric  waves 
fall  upon  these  filings  their  resistance 
to  the  current  is  so  far  diminished  that 
the  current  is  then  able  to  pass  through 
them  and  operate  the  telegraph  instru- 
ment." 

The  tube,  if  shaken,  returns  to  its 
usual  state  of  resistance.  Upon  this  pe- 
culiarity of  the  filings  rests  the  prin- 
ciple of  "wireless''. 

Let  the  reader  imagine  a  battery,  with 
one  wire  running  from  it  to  a  bell,  and 
another  from  the  bell,  back  to  the  bat- 
tery, making  a  complete  circuit.  If  the 
electric  current  generated  in  the  battery 

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runs  continuously,  there  is  no  interrupt- 
ed ringing  or  tapping  to  correspond  to 
the  long  and  short  dashes  that  form  the 
telegraphic^  alphabet. 

Imagine  one  of  these  wires  cut,  and 
the  coherer  inserted  between  the  cut 
ends.  The  electric  current  cannot  pass- 
through  now.  But  that  far-distant 
Leyden  jar,  perhaps  in  a  far-away  city, 
is  sending  its  strong  electrical  discharges 
in  short  and  long  jerks :  the  ether  waves 
vibrate  to  remote  distances,  the  coherer 
opens  and  closes  in  response,  the  cur- 
rent from  the  battery  passes  through 
now  in  corresponding  jumps,  and  af- 
fects the  receiving-bell  accordingly.  In 
a  regular  wireless  station  the  engine  and 
dynamos  for  generating  the  currents  for 
setting  the  ether  waves  vibrating,  must 
be  of  great  power,  and  hence  magnetic 
and  electrolytic  detectors  supply  the 
place  of  the  simple  tube  of  iron  filings. 

In  order  to  obtain  secrecy,  in  the  giv- 
ing and  receiving  of  wireless  messages, 
it  is  necessary  that  transmitters  and  re- 
ceivers should  be  so  "tuned"  that  they 
respond  to  each  other  alone,  much  as  one 
tuning  fork  responds  to  another,  and 
this  has  been  accomplished  by  various 
inventions.  And  a  receiver  attuned  for 
long  distance  news  will  not  re^ve  short 
distance  messages.  Also,  as  has  fre- 
quently happened,  if  several  operators 
are  sending  messages  at  the  same  time 
the  ether  waves  are  likely  to  cut  across 
and  interfere  with  each  other,  causing 
great  confusion.  This  fact  has  caused 
United  States,  since  the  "Titanic"  dis- 
aster, to  follow  in  England's  lead  and 
seriously  consider  drastic  laws  prohibit- 
ing amateur  and  irresponsible  people 
from  sending  wireless  messages.  Bills 
recently  introduced  in  both  Houses  of 
Congress  make  it  necessary  for  all 
operators  and  stations  to  obtain  licenses 
from  the  Secretary  of  Commerce  and 
Labor. 

Government  supervision  has  also  been 
proved  necessary  since  it  has  developed 
that  different  "wireless"  companies  have 
occasionally  refused  to  send  messages, 
even  in  cases  of  dire  distress  at  sea,  to 
operators    using    rival    apparatus.    The 


"Titanic"  investigation  has  brought  a 
certain  order  into  this  confusion  of 
counter-commercial  currents. 

The  many  lives  already  saved  through 
this  wonderful  evolution  of  telegraphic 
knowledge  may  well  cause  Signor 
Marconi  to  feel  a  thankful  pride  in  his 
beneficent  achievement. 

ANTI-TOXINS. 

The  medical  doctors,  however  prone 
to  disagreement,  would  probably  accord 
in  at  least  one  particular: — in  counting 
anti-toxins  among  the  new  seven  won- 
ders that  modern  times  have  added  to 
the  old-time  list. 

An  anti-toxin  is  a  substance  that  may 
produce  immunity  from  disease,  or  is 
capable  of  counteracting  the  poisonous 
effects  of  pathogenic  bacteria.  Hence  the 
discovery  of  anti-toxins  depended  upon 
the  previous  discovery,  by  men  of  the 
microscope,  of  those  infinitesimal  forms 
of  life  known  as  bacteria,  and  the  recog- 
nition of  the  fact  that  many  forms  of 
disease  were  traceable  to  such  micro- 
organisms, in  human  or  animal  tissues, 
although  most  bacteria  are  not  disease- 
producing. 

The  first  to  recognize  and  describe 
bacteria  was  a  Dutchman,  Anthony  van 
Leeuwenhoek,  (1632-1723) — a  linen- 
weaver,  who  ground  lenses  with  skill 
and  perfection,  as  a  pastime.  He  drew 
pictures  of,  and  described  the  forms  and 
movements  of  several  of  these  animal- 
culae  which  he  saw  in  water,  his  saliva, 
tartar,  and  other  substances.  In  1762  a 
Vienna  physician,  Plenciz,  suggested  for 
the  first  time,  a  germ  theory  of  disease. 
Others  continued  his  researches  and  the 
battle  waged  furiously  between  the  pros 
and  the  cons,  and  between  those  who 
upheld,  and  those  who  opposed,  the  the- 
ory of  spontaneous  generation. 

With  Louis  Pasteur  began  a  new  em 
in  the  study  of  bacteriology.  He  intro- 
duced the  experimental  method  in  study- 
ing the  processes  of  fermentation,  and 
putrefaction,  and  the  relation  of  these 
organisms  to  disease.  In  1880  he  dis- 
covered that  he  could  protect  an  animal 
from  a  disease  by  inoculating  it  with  an 
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attenuated  "culture**,  or  anti-toxin,  thus 
continuing,  but  on  a  scientific  basis, 
what  Jenner  inaugurated  with  the  small- 
pox vaccination. 

Koch,  Cohn,  Novy,  Behring,  Roux 
and  others  developed  further  researches, 
Koch,  in  1882,  giving  a  new  impetus  to 
investigation  by  his  gelatin  plate  culture 
method,  which  was  much  helped  by 
Weigert's  discovery  of  the  fact  that  the 
study  of  bacteria  can  be  much  assisted 
through  use  of  anilin  dyes,  since  some 
bacteria  take  one  dye,  and  some  another, 
and  thus  can  be  made  to  stand  out  more 
clearly  from  the  surrounding  matter. 

Experimentation  upon  innumerable 
sacrificial  rabbits,  dogs,  guinea-pigs, 
horses,  etc.,  have  added  much  to  bacte- 
riological knowledge.  The  specific  path- 
ogenic bacteria  of  most  diseases  being 
known,  the  next  tremendous  step  was  to 
learn  how  to  make  artificial  cultures  of 
these,  and  employ  these  as  so-called  anti- 
toxins. When  we  recall  how  infinitesi- 
mal these  are,  we  realize  the  remarkable 
type  of  mind  that  patiently  learned  how 
to  separate  one  wee  form  of  life  from 
another,  for  often  several  kinds  grow  in 
the  same  "colony."  The  cultures  are 
obtained  by  inoculating  healthy  horses, 
cows,  etc.,  with  the  bacteria,  and  by  vari- 
ous processes  removing  from  the  blood 
the  desired  anti-toxin. 

Now,  a  teacher,  if  fearful  that  the 
throat  of  a  child  looks  suspiciously  as 
if  infected  with  diphtheria  germs,  can 
take  a  specimen  and  have  it  analyzed  by 
the  Board  of  Health,  and  then  knows 
what  treatment  is  necessary. 

In  inoculating,  however,  there  is  al- 
ways the  possibility  of  infecting  the 
body  with  other  toxins,  and  there  are 
those  who  hope  that  science,  will  in  time 
learn  to  conquer  disease  without  so  much 
agonizing  sacrifice  of  animal  life,  and 
by  inoculating  with  germs  of  health 
rather  than  of  disease. 

PANAMA    CANAL. 

In  point  of  its  magnitude  and  the  pos- 
sible effect  upon  the  history  of  the  world, 
of  this  tremendous  undertaking,  the 
Panama   Canal   may  be   regarded   as   a 


marvelous  piece  of  man's  handiwork, 
although  no  really  great  new  principle 
is  represented  thereby. 

The  idea  of  connecting  the  two  oceans 
is  contemporaneous  with  the  discovery 
that  they  were  separated  by  so  narrov^r 
an  isthmus.  In  1529,  Alvara  de  Saave- 
dra  Ceron,  a  cousin  and  able  lieutenant 
of  Cortez,  prepared  plans  for  a  canal, 
the  Spaniards  having  begun  to  lose  faith 
in  the  existence  of  a  natural  strait  or 
waterway,  but  death  came  before  he 
could  lay  them  before  the  King  of  Spain. 

Through  the  centuries  many  others 
dreamed  of  such  a  canal.  In  1701  a 
Scotchman,  William  Patterson,  founder 
of  the  Bank  of  England,  and  familiar 
with  the  country,  suggested  such  inter- 
oceanic  communication. 

The  great  scientific  explorer,  Alexan- 
der von  Humboldt,  suggested  nine  dif- 
ferent routes  across  Central  America  for 
a  canal,  and  in  1827,  the  poetic  genius 
of  the  German  Goethe  foresaw  the  de- 
velopment of  United  States  westward, 
and  prophesied  the  building  of  the  canal 
by  our  country. 

But  we  must  omit  many  other  names, 
until  we  come  to  De  Lesseps,  who  had 
so  well  accomplished  the  building  of  the 
Suez  Cai^l,  and  who  was  the  .first  to 
really  practically  begin  this  gigantic 
imdertaking,  which  he  did  in  1881, 
after  many  diplomatic  negotiations  with 
United  States  and  Colombia,  and  despite 
the  protests  of  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment, and  much  consideration  of  the 
Clayton-Bulwer  Treaty.  The  writer  re- 
calls, as  a  little  girl,  a  visit  of  the  great 
Frenchman  and  his  wife  to  the  public 
school  where  she  was  a  pupil,  during 
Hayes'  administration.  But  the  great 
French  project  fell  through,  after  mil- 
lions of  dollars  had  been  wasted,  through 
graft  and  corruption,  although  time  has 
exonerated  the  great  French  genius  from 
any  purposed  fraud,  and  we  who  know 
•how  few  of  our  own  Capitols  or  other 
public  buildings  are  free  from  the  taint 
of  wasted,  stolen  money,  can  not  throw 
stones  at  our  French  neighbors. 

But  United  States  has  learned  from 
the  mistakes  of  the  French,  and  has  taken 

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advantage  of  the  latest  contributions  of 
science  to  hygienic,  to  mechanical,  and 
to  sociological  lore.  The  knowledge  that 
yellow  fever  and  malaria  are  propagated 
by  mosquitos  has  led  to  the  most  pre- 
cise sanitary  precautions  in  the  destruc- 
tion of  tropical  plant  life,  proper  drain- 
age and  use  of  all  known  safeguards: 
huge  machinery,  unknown  a  few  decades 
ago,  now  does  the  work  of  many  men ; 
and  the  general  life  of  the  unskilled 
workman,  as  well  as  of  those  holding  the 
most  responsible  positions,  has  been 
carefully  regulated  so  as  to  be  free  of 
all  corrupt  influences,  and  to  give  to  all 
a  proper  amount  of  rest  and  recreation. 
Indeed,  it  has  been  said  that  the  so-called 
Canal  Zone  approaches  closely  to  the 
ideal  State  dreamed  of  by  the  Utopians. 
No  gambling  is  allowed,  and  all  kinds 
of  healthful  wholesome  opportunity  are 
provided  for  recreation. 

We  cannot  here  go  into  the  details  of 
the  procedure  by  which  United  States 
acquired  possession  of  the  Canal  Zone, 
nor  into  the  disputes  concerning  the 
rival  merits  of  the  Nicaraguan  and  the 
Panama  routes — a  dispute  several  cen- 
turies old.  We  will  close,  however,  by 
giving  a  few  important  statistics  taken 
from  the  unique  little  relief  map  pub- 
lished by  Charles  W.  Gray,  New  York, 
and  who  publishes  as  well  a  nine-foot 
map  of  the  Canal  Zone,  which  is  used 
by  the  Government: 

The  Lidgerwood  Unloader  is  a  mon- 
ster unloading  engine,  operated  by  steam 
from  a  regular  train  engine.  It  draws 
by  cable  reel  a  huge  steel  plow  the  whole 
length  of  a  train  of  sixteen  cars  in  three 
minutes,  unloading  320  cubic  yards  con- 
taining rocks  of  greater  weight  than 
could  be  used  by  human  hands.  Thirty 
of  these  unloaders  are  being  used  in  the 
canal  construction. 

The  stability  of  the  canal  hinges  upoii 
the  efficiency  of  the  Gatun  dam.  Two 
million  cubic  yards  of  concrete  are  being 
put  in  place  at  rate  of  2,841  cubic  yards 
a  day.  The  extreme  width  of  the  dam 
is  2,000  feet;  height  above  normal  lake 
level  30  feet.  The  Culebra  Cut  is  nine 
miles  long.     At  Gatun  there  are  three 


double  sets  of  locks;  at  Pedro  Miguel 
one  double  set ;  at  Miraflores  two  double 
sets,  the  average  lift  being  twentyeight 
feet. 

It  will  take  eight  to  ten  hoiirs  to  pass 
through  the  canal  and  three  hours 
through  the  locks.  The  area  of  the 
Canal  Zone  is  436  square  miles;  the 
width,  ten  miles.  Forty  thousand  men 
are  employed.  The  excavation  amounts 
to  more  than  195,000,000  cubic  yards,  the 
estimated  total  cost  being  $375,000,000. 

TELEPHONE. 

Many  would  undoubtedly  give  first 
place  to  the  telephone  in  our  list 
of  Seven  Wonders.  Although  the  "far- 
off-sounding"  instrument  has  been  in 
use  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
now,  it  is  still  a  source  of  profound  mys- 
tery to  many — the  realization  that  we 
can  actually  hear,  though  many  miles 
away,  the  very  tone  and  inflection  of  a 
friend's  voice. 

The  legal  controversy  between  Bell 
and  Edison  for  priority  of  invention,  has 
made  these  two  names  familiar  in  the 
history  of  the  telephone.  Less  known 
ones  are  those  of  Wheatstone,  Page,  and 
Reis,  who  may  be  said  to  represent  dif- 
ferent stages  in  its  evolution. 

Wheatstone,  in  1831,  showed  that  if 
the  sounding-boards  of  two  musical  in- 
struments are  connected  by  a  rod  of  pine 
wood,  a  tune  playted  on  one  will  be 
reproduced  by  the  other. 

Then  it  was  found  that  if  the  centres 
of  two  discs  of  metal  or  membrane,  each 
furnished  with  a  mouthpiece,  are  con- 
nected by  a  string,  held  taut,  the  words 
spoken  into  one  will  vibrate  the  disc, 
the  string  communicates  the  pulsation  to 
the  other  membrane,  it  in  turn,  to  the 
air,  and  the  sounds  are  reproduced  ex- 
actly-as  to  pitch,  intensity  and  quality. 

The  next  step  was  the  application  of 
electricity  to  telephony,  and  it  was  Dr. 
C.  G.  Page,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  who,  in 
1837,  unconsciously  took  the  first  step 
in  this  direction,  by  his  experiments 
with  "Galvanic  Music."  A  Frenchman. 
Charles  Bourseul,  in  1854,  wrote  an  arti- 
cle   on    the    electrical    transmission    of 

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speech,  and  then  came  Philip  Reis,  the 
German,  the  first  lo  use  the  word  tele- 
phony. But  in  their  experiments,  while 
both  Bourseul  and  Reis  recogtiized  that 
pitch  and  intensity  were  essentials  that 
must  be  kept  in  thought  by  one  who 
would*reproduce  sound,  both  failed  to 
realize  that  quality  must  also  be  consid- 
ered as  an  essential  characteristic ;  hence 
they  never  carried  their  experiments  to 
that  perfection  which  the  Scotch-Ameri- 
can Bell,  Edison,  and  hosts  of  other 
inventors  have  since  helped  in  doing. 

Countless  experiments  have  brought 
to  us  the  "  *phone",  as  we  now  know  it, 
and  use  it  daily  for  business  and  for 
social  needs.  The  externals  of  the  so- 
called  transmitter  and  receiver  are  famil- 
iar to  all.  The  mechanism  they  conceal 
rests  upoa  the  following  principles: 

Sound  is  air  set  in  vibration  which, 
striking  the  tympanum  of  the  ear,  sends 
a  message  to  the  brain.  That  which  dis- 
tinguishes one  sound  from  another  are 
diflferences  in  pitch,  intensity  and  quality. 

Sound  vibrations  travel  through  sol- 
ids and  water  more  readily  than  through 
the  gaseous  air.  Molecules  of  air,  being 
set  in  motion,  set  neighboring  molecules 
to  vibrating,  but  this  vibratory  influence 
becomes  less  and  less  with  increasing 
distance  and  is  soon  dissipated  and  dies 
away ;  the  electrical  current  is  therefore 
called  upon  to  be  the  indispensable  agent 
in  the  real  telephone,  together  with  other 
adjuncts  as  follows :  a  battery,  an  elec- 
tro-magnet, a  box  of  powdered  carbon, 
and  some  elastic  metal  discs. 

The  battery  creates  a  current,  which 
runs  along  wHres  that  connect  the  trans- 
mitter and  the  receiver,  the  latter  being, 
mayhap,  miles  away  from  the  former. 
The  progress  of  the  electrical  current  is 
resisted  by  the  box  of  powdered  carbon, 
so  placed  as  to  intercept  the  wire.  The 
lid  of  this  box  is  the  disc  against  which 
the  air  vibrations  caused  by  the  voice  of 
the  speaker  press.  This  pressure,  vary- 
ing with  every  intonation  of  the  voice, 
compresses  the  carbon  more  or  less,  and 
thus  allows  more  or  less  of  the  electric 
current  to  pass  through  the  carbon  and 
along  the  line  wire.     At  the  further  end 


of  the  wire  the  ever-delicately- varying 
current  is  led  through  the  coil  of  a  tiny 
electro-magnet.  Directly  in  front  of  this 
is  a  metal  disc  similar  to  that  in  the 
transmitter.  This  disc  is  attracted  to  the 
electro-magnet  in  exact  degree  to  the 
varying  strength  of  the  current,  and 
hence  vibrates  in  unison  with  its  mate 
in  the  far  distance.  The  pulsation  of 
the  disc  sets  the  air  in  vibration  just  as 
it  is  vibrated  at  the  transmitter,  and 
these  air-vibrations  affect  the  listener's 
ear-drum  exactly  as  if  the  speaker  were 
but  a  few  feet  away. 

The  telephone  has  brought  the  isolatetl 
fajrmer's  wife  into  intimate  conversa- 
tional reach  of  her  near  or  distant  sis- 
ters ;  it  has  often  hastened  the  steps  of 
the  needed  physician,  and  also  been  the 
Hieans  of  preventing  many  an  accident: 
it  has  expedited  business  and  added  to 
the  joys  of  mankind, — it  may  truly  be 
regarded  as  one  of  the  greatest  blessini^^s 
of  modern  times. 


Short  Editorials. 

A  bad  man  can  sometimes  make  good- 
ness itself  appear  bad. 

♦  *    ♦ 

The  more  Life  gives  to  the  human 
race,  the  more  Death  requires  of  it. 

♦  ♦    ♦ 

A  brave  man  often  has  no  idea  that 
he  is  brave,  until  the  time  comes. 

♦  *    * 

Few  people  are  in  a  hurry  to  heal  up 

a  scar  gloriously  received. 

♦  *    * 

«A  liar  is  handy  and  entertaining,  until 

he  gets  to  lying  to  you. 

♦  ♦    ♦ 

A  "dog  in  the  manger",  before  he  gets 
away,  is  likely  to  be  sorry  he  ever  got 

there. 

♦  ♦    ♦ 

When  you  "stoop  to  conquer",  do  not 
go  down  so  far  that  you  can't  get  back- 
again. 

♦  ♦    ♦ 

When  you  start  oflF  to  have  a  good 
time,  take  a  tremendously  good  temper 
along  with  you. 

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The    Mistake. 

By  Alma  M.  Honey. 


^JjT^HEN  Mother  and  Sister  Annie 
received  a  letter  from  Belle  say- 
ing^ that  she  had  engaged  herself  to  a 
big  lumberman,  who  lived  in  the  little 
country  town  where  she  taught,  they 
were  disappointed.  Both  had  planned 
something  better  for  pretty  little  Belle. 
They  had  scrimped  to  give  her  an  edu- 
cation and  they  were  proud  of  her. 
Some  time  they  hoped  she  would  make 
a  "big  match." 

But  Belle  was  the  baby  and  she  was 
pretty  and  had  a  winning  way  about  her, 
and  she  usually  got  what  she  wanted, 
especially  with  the  folks  at  home.  So 
Annie  merely  sighed  after  she  and  the 
mother  had  read  the  letter,  and  said  in 
a  loudly-pitched  voice — for  the  mother 
was  very  deaf — 

"Belle  says  he  won't  always  be  a 
mere  lumberman.  He  is  smart  and  is 
out  for  what  he  can  learn.  He'll  be  here 
to  spend  two  or  three  days  with  us  in  a 
day  or  two  when  he  comes  to  town  on 
a  special  load.  We'll  have  to  be  nice  to 
him,  Mother,  Belle  loves  him." 

Mrs.  Blythe  nodded.  "O'  course, 
Annie,  we'll  treat  him  good.  If  Belle 
wants  him,  he  must  be  all  right." 

It  was  a  cold,  hungry,  heart-sick  man. 
Bill,  who  trudged  along  the  country  road 
about  dusk  a  few  days  later.  It  was 
bitter  cold  and  the  distance  seemed  end- 
less. He  had  a  desire  to  lie  down  in 
the  snow  and  die. 

He  went  up  to  the  cottage  and  rapped 
timidly  at  the  backdoor,  and  he  was 
thinking  up  a  little  speech  to  say,  when 
suddenly  the  door  flew  open,  letting  a 
flood  of  yellow  light  over  him,  and  show- 
ing an  angel  standing  just  inside.     At 


least,  he  thought  it  was  an  angel.  It 
wasn't,  though;  it  was  only  gray-eyed 
Annie,  with  a  pink  flush  of  expectancy 
in  her  cheeks,  smiling  a  friendly  greet- 
ing on  him.  She  held  out  her  hand  im- 
pulsively. 

"You're  Bill :  ain't  you  ?  Come  right 
in.  We've  been  waiting  for  you ;  thought 
you'd  get  here  about  this  time.  Isn't  it 
cold !  Come  right  over  to  the  sink  and 
wash  and  we'll  have  supper  right  away. 
This  is  Mother.  Mother,"  she  yelled, 
"this  is  Bill." 

Bill  was  so  overwhelmed  at  such  a 
welcome  that  he  could  only  stammer, 
"Yes,  ma'am." 

While  he  washed,  Annie  looked  him 
over  out  of  the  corner  of  her  eye, — 
looked  him  over,  and  his  clothes.  They 
were  coarse  and  worn,  she  thought, — 
but  then.  Bill  was  a  lumberman. 

Supper  never  tasted  so  good  to  a  man 
as  it  did  to  poor,  hungry  Bill.  It  seemed 
as  if  he  must  eat  plate  and  cup  and  all, 
and  he  had  to  hold  himself  in  check  so 
as  not  to  disgrace  himself  before  the 
pink-cheeked  angel  and  the  timid,  white- 
haired,  wrinkle-faced  lady.  The  fried 
ham  was  just  right  and  the  flavor  of  the 
fried  potatoes:  he  sighed  to  think  he 
could  have  eaten  all  of  both  and  not 
have  felt  he  had  had  anything.  The 
little  biscuits  were  just  like  those  his 
mother  used  to  make:  they  almost 
brought  tears  to  his  eyes.  The  little 
dish  of  plum  sauce  made  him  smile. 
That  much  wouldn't  fill  up  even  one  of 
the  smaller  hollows  in  his  stomach,  let 
alone  the  great,  big  hollow.  And  the 
cake?  He  laughed  outright  when  he 
saw  it,  and  then  remembered  he  hadn't 

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spoken  a  word  since  they  had  sat  down 
to  supper. 

"You  make  it?"  he  asked  Annie,  and 
the  amused  look  in  his  big  brown  eyes 
made  her  pink  cheeks  flush  again. 

She  nodded. 

"It's  great",  he  said  approvingly,  and 
smiled  at  its  fancy-icing  like  a  tickleS 
boy. 

There  was  something:  about  this  husky 
fellow,  big  as  he  was,  that  reminded 
Annie  of  a  boy.  She  felt  that  he  needed 
to  be  petted.  Well,  probably  Belle  would 
pet  him.  She  didn't  blame  Belle  now 
for  loving  him.  He  was  quiet,  but  prob- 
ably he  felt  strange,  that's  all.  Yes,  he 
was  just  like  a  boy. 

"Put  the  frosting  on?"  Bill  inquired 
incredulously. 

She  nodded  and  smiled  proudly.  "  'Bill 
and  Belle* "  he  read  from  the  icing. 
"Say,  that's  great.  I  choose  a  hunk 
from  Belle's  name.  The  chocolate  looks 
deeper  that  side."  * 

They  laughed  like  two  children  when 
she  cut  it,  and  he  took  his  piece  with 
"le"  on  it,  and  she  took  hers  with  the 
•"11"  of  Bill.  The  mother  took  all  of 
"and",  which  was  a  pretty  large  piece  for 
such  a  little  wrinkled  mite  of  a  lady.  Bill 
told  her  so  in  a  loud  voice,  laughing, 
and  she  answered  proudly,  "Annie  made 
it,  so  it  won't  hurt  me  none." 

Bill  insisted  on  helping  with  the  dish- 
es, because  he  always  used  to  help  his 
mother  until  the  unfortunate  day  when 
he  left  home.  When  he  spoke  of  home, 
Annie  noticed  tears  in  his  eyes — this  big 
boy,  and  she  changed  the  subject  quickly. 

"You'll  have  the  spare-room.  Bill,  and 
it'll  be  mighty  cold;  but  I'll  let  you 
have  three  or  four  hot  flat-irons,  and  be 
careful  not  to  burn  yourself.     Probably 

your    mother "   Annie  stopped  and 

bit  her  lip.  She  hadn't  meant  to  men- 
tion his  mother,  since  it  made  him  feel 
badly. 

"She  did,"  said  Bill  solemnly,  "always 
give  me  a  hot  flat-iron  to  take  to  bed." 
He  smiled  and  dropped  the  white  china 
cup  he  held  in  his  hand,  which  broke  in 
a  hundred  pieces. 

"Never    mind,"    said    Annie,    smiling 


(bravely,  although  it  was  one  of  her 
choicest  cups.  "Never  mind.  Bill,  it  was 
cracked  anyway." 

He  settled  down  into  the  soft  feather- 
bed with  the  greatest  sense  of  peace  and 
comfort  he  had  known  for  weeks.  It 
was  so  good  to  have  some  one  look  after 
you  and  fix  you  up  with  hot  flat-irons 
and, — 'he  fell  asleep. 

It  seemed  no  more  than  a  few  minutes 
when  he  heard  a  voice  outside  his  door 
calling  softly,  and  he  opened  his  eyes  to 
see  the  sunshine. 

"Bill,  I  hate  to  rouse  you,  but  my 
water-pipe  is  froze  solid,  and  I  can't 
thaw  it.    Oh!  could  you  help?" 

"I'll  be  along  in  a  minute,  angel",  he 
called,  as  he  sprang  out  of  bed,  and 
heard  her  go  away  laughing  into  the 
kitchen. 

It  took  half  the  morning  to  thaw  out 
the  frozen  pipe,  and  they  were  all  nearly 
starved  before  breakfast  was  ready. 

"Now  I'll  just  shovel  the  snow  off 
your  walk,"  said  Bill,  when  he  finished 
wiping  his  last  dish  for  Annie,  "and 
then  I'll  be  moving  along,  I  guess." 

Annie  turned  on  him,  surprised. 
"Moving  along?  Why,  Bill,  the  letter 
said  you'd  stay  two  or  three  days,  and 
there's  so  much  I  want  done  about  the 
place.  I  thought  you  would  fix  things 
up." 

"Well,  I  got  to  be  hunting  a  job,  you 
know,"  said  Bill,  "and—" 

"Hunting  a  job?"  asked  Annie,  in- 
credulous. Then  Bill  was  dissatisfied 
with  lumbering,  and  he  was  going  into 
something  else.  Oh !  that  would  be  fine 
for  Belle.    Her  eyes  shone. 

"Then,  you're  not  going  to  be  a  lum- 
berman ?"  she  said,  tense  with  happiness. 

Bill  shook  his  head.  "No,"  he  said. 
"not  a  lumberman." 

"Oh,  that's  great,"  said  Annie.  "Oh' 
be  a  clerk,  or  something  like  that;  it's 
much  nicer.  Will  you?"  She  clasped 
her  hands  over  the  dish-cloth  and  held 
them  out  to  him,  pleading.  She  was 
such  a  pretty  angel.  Bill's  heart  went  out 
to  her.  He  felt  he  could  deny  her  noth- 
ing. 

"All  right,  angel,"  he  said,  laughing, 

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'Til  be  a  clerk.     Td  do  anything  for 
you." 

When  the  snow  was  cleared  away,  he 
asked  for  a  hammer  and  nails  to  fix  the 
hen-coop  fence. 

"It  won't  take  me  long  to  do  up  these 
little  odd  jobs,  angel,"  he  said,  "and 
then  ril  be  hustling  for  that  clerk  job 
youVe  so  anxious  about." 

It  was  while  he  was  fixing  the  hen- 
coop that  Annie  answered  a  loud  rap  at 
the  front  door  to  find  a  tall,  big-boned 
young  stranger  standing  there  smiling  at 
her.  He  was  a  good-looking  boy  with 
a  mop  of  light  curly  hair  that  stood  up 
dishevelled  from  the  cap  he  removed, 
and  a  pair  of  clear  blue  eyes.  "A  book- 
agent",  she  thought. 

"Good-morning",  she  said  stiffly. 
"This  Annie?"  he  asked,  pleasantly. 
She  nodded. 
^^  "Well,    I'm    Bill,"    he    said,    smiling. 
"Belle  said  you'd  know  me  just  by  that." 
Annie   gasped.     "But  you  can't  be", 
she  said. 

"Why?"  he  asked,  wondering. 
•   "Because  Bill  has  been  here  since  last 
night." 

The  fellow  doubled  up  his  fists. 
"Show  me  Bill",  he  said,  pugilistically. 
Annie  spread  her  skirts  across  the 
door-way,  barring  him  out.  "Yes,  I 
will,"  she  said,  "but — but  promise  you 
won't  hurt  him.    Promise !" 

The  young  man  held  up  his  hand, 
laughing.     "I  promise",  he  said. 

Annie  brought  him  into  the  kitchen 
and  closed  the  door  so  that  her  mother 
might  not  hear.  Then  she  called  Bill 
from  his  labors  at  the  hen-coop  fence. 
She  watched  him  closely  when  he  came 
in  to  see  if  he  would  start  guiltily.  He 
merely  looked  questioningly  at  the 
young  iellow,  however,  and  smiled  at 
Annie  and  wondered  why  she  did  not 
smile  back,  and  why  her  cheeks  were  so 
flushed,  and  who  this  fellow  could  be. 

"Are  you  Bill?"  Annie  asked  him, 
holding  her  breath  for  his  answer. 


"Yes,  ma'am",  said  Bill  seriously.  He 
began  to  feel  a  little  of  last  night's  shy- 
ness. 

"Bill  Jones?"  asked  the  light-haired 
man. 

Bill  nodded  and  smiled  at  the  angel. 
*Bill  Jones  it  is",  he  said. 

"There!"  said  Annie  to  the  young 
fellow,  as  she  sank  relieved  into  a  chair. 
"I  told  you  so." 

"Jones  is  a  common  name",  said  light- 
haired  Bill,  tentatively. 

"Yes",  said  Bill,  who  could  not  get 
the  meaning  of  this  conversation.  "Fif- 
teen families  of  Joneses  in  our  town." 

"Where  is  your  town?"  asked  light- 
haired  Bill. 

"Over  at  R — ,"  he  answered  sadly, 
"over  at  R — ."  He  sat  down  in  the 
nearest  chair  and  bowed  his  head  on 
the  back  of  it. 

"Then jrou're  not  from  H —  and  you 
ain't  engaged  to  my  sister  Belle  and 
you've  never  been  a  lumberman,  and — 
and — and  you're  just  a  tramp?"  Annie's 
voice  trailed  off  into  a  whisper. 

Bill  raised  his  head  and  nodded  at  her 
sadly.  "Just  a  tramp,  I  guess.  You 
sure  was  nice  to  me,  angel,  and  I'll 
n^ver  forget  it.  It's  been  pretty  bad  this 
last  three  weeks  since  I  left  home,  and  I 
thought  maybe  the  folks  had  written  you 
to  treat  me  good  and  that's  why  you 
did  and,  well — I  guess  I  better  go. 
Good-bye,  and  thank  you." 

He  picked  up  his  hat,  went  out,  and 
shut  the  door  softly  behind  him. 

"Well,  I'll  be  gol-darned!"  said  the 
light-haired  Bill. 

Annie  sat  rigid,  with  her  eyes  glued 
to  the  door  where  Bill  had  disappeared. 
Perhaps  she  thought  he  might  come 
back.  Suddenly  she  jumped  up  and 
ran  out  to  the  door-step. 

"Bill !  Bill !"  she  called  to  him,  where 
she  saw  him  plodding  up  the  road. 
•"Opme  back  and  finish  the  hen-coop 
fence." 

And  Bill  came. 


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The    Art    of    Lace-Makin< 


SISTER-MEMBERS  of  the  Every 
Where  Family,  I  am  going  to  write 
you  a  letter  from  this  far-off  little 
hamlet  of  Buckinghamshire,  England. 
Though  my  epistle  is  altogether  unso- 
licited and  does  not  claim  to  be  "liter- 
ary", I  trust  it  will  be  interesting  to 
many  of  the  Every  Where  readers.  I 
have,  for  several  years,  in  the  Massachu- 
setts city  where  I  have  my  home,  been 
interested  in  developing  a  saner  life  for 
the  girlhood  and  womanhood  of  our 
country.  Children  of  the  fortunate  have 
the  fine  qualities  of  the  soul  developea 
by  education,  while  the  children  of  the 
unfortunate  have  those  same  qualities 
repressed  by  hard  and  unlovely  physical 
!abor.  This  tendency  of  society,  work- 
ing itself  out  through  many  years  and 
decades,  has  reared  between  the  two 
extremes  of  our  sex  a  barrier  that  many 
generations  of  right  living  may  not  over- 
come. 

If  children  must  work,  is  it  not  possi- 
ble to  provide  them  with  an  occupation 
that  will  not  stunt  their  growing  physi- 
cal powers,  that  will,  in  some  measure 
at  least,  train  their  minds,  and  touch  to 
life  their  innate  love  of  the  beautiful? 
These  are  some  of  the  questions  that  I 
have  thought  a  greati  deal  about,  and  I 
am  sure  that  many  brave-hearted  men 
and  women  in  America  today  are  work- 
ing for  the  same  end.  And  it  is  because 
I  believe  I  have  found  a  valuable  sug- 
gestion along  this  line,  that  I  write  the 
letter :  I  want  to  tell  you  about  the  girl-* 
und  women-lace-makers  of  Buckingham- 
shire, Bedfordshire,  and  Northampton- 
shire, En^;land. 

As  you  pass  through  the  quiet  lanes 


of  these  peaceful  hamlets  you  find  the 
lace-maker  at  her  work,  sitting  under 
the  shade  of  a  lavender-bush  or  in  the 
open  doorway.  So  rapidly  does  she 
toil,  that  the  swiftly-flying  bobbin  seems 
alive  as  it  jumps  here  and  there  in  the 
ever-restless  shuttle  of  her  hands.  Tc 
watch  the  beautiful  pattern  of  the  fabric 
as  it  mysteriously  emerges  from  this 
swift  play  of  mingled  hands  and  thread, 
the  gHnt  and  clash  of  needles  and  bobbin, 
and  the  gentle  jingle-jangle  of  bead- 
spangles  attached  to  the  apparatus,  is 
indeed  a  fascinating  sight. 

The  lace  is  made  upon  a  great  pillow- 
shaped  apparatus  that  is  held  on  a  litlk 
stand  or  tripod  before  the  weaver.  In 
these  villages  the  lace-pillow  is  as  com- 
mon a  household  article  as  the  spinning-- 
wheel used  to  be  in  the  homes  of  our 
New  England  forefathers  and  as  the 
sewing  machine  is  in  the  American  home 
today. 

But  all  of  these  matronly-looking  lace- 
inakers  have  been  weaving  these  delicate 
traceries  of  marvelous  pattern  since  they 
were  children. 

Many  years  ago  every  neighborhood 
had  its  lace-school  where  the  little  tots 
were  taught  the  beautiful  and  delicate  art 
that  they  have  used  to  such  good  advan- 
tage (for  there  is  no  poverty,  no  squalor 
in  these  humble  English  homes)  in  gain- 
ing their  livelihood. 

And  the  thought  has  come  to  me: 
why  could  not  the  idea  of  lace-schools 
be  introduced  into  our  own  cities  and 
villages?  Why  could  not  some  of  the 
many  women's  organizations  that  al- 
ready exist  for  the  betterment  of  work- 
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maker  and  give  instruction  to  all  tBe 
young  who  are  anxious  to  advance  them- 
selves beyond  the  realm  of  the  cotton- 


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THE   LACE-TRIPOD. 

mill  or  domestic  service?  There  is  noth- 
ing so  powerless,  so  dependent,  and 
therefore  so  prone  to  err,  as  the  young, 
poor,  untrained  girl;  and  this  plan,  if 
put  into  operation,  would  serve  to  add 
independence,  stability,  and  responsibility 
to  character,  and  open  the  way  to  inde- 
pendent and  happy  life. 

Nor  would  it  need  "fairs"  and  "festi- 
vals" to  dispose  of  the  products  of  such 
hand-made  lace.    If  the  American  youths 


A    MAKER   OF    LACE. 

proved  half  as  facile  in  making  this 
"filmy  stuff"  as  the  little  English  maid- 
ens of  a  generation  ago  (for,  strange  to 


say,  there  seem  to  be  few  young  peo- 
ple in  these  English  villages  today)  did, 
their  products  certainly  would  not  have 
to  go  begging  for  purchasers.  Though 
the  machines  of  English  and  French 
manufacturmg  towns  make  intricate  and 
finely-woven  fabrics  in  lace,  there  always 
has  been  and  there  probably  always  will 
be  a  good  market  for  the  hand-made 
article,  when  intelligence  and  skill  have 
been  woven  with  the  strands. 

There  are  already  schools  of  design, 
where  new  forms  and  figures  of  lace  are 
created,  and  I  see  no  reason  why  a  lace- 
school  might  not  be  made  the  practical 
complement  of  such  existing  institutions. 
Then,  too,  if  the  simple  lace-school  were 
founded,  the  more  capable  and  ambitious 
students  might  graduate  into  a  depart- 


A   GOOD  SPECIMEN. 

ment  of  designing  where  unlimited  de- 
velopment and  reward  would  await 
them. 

The  story  of  lace-making,  if  properly 
presented  by  an  instructor,  would  prove 
not  only  fascinating  but  an  exceedingly 
profitable  study,  from  every  point  of 
view,  for  the  beginner  in  such  an  enter- 
prise ;  for  even  the  humble  art  of  lace- 
making  has  a  "history."  Way  back  in 
the  middle  ages  fashionable  women  wore 
small  cords  of  plaited  and  twisted 
threads  fastened  in  loops  along  the 
edges  of  their  costumes,  and  sometimes 
a  kind  of  darning  work  done  upon  a  net- 
ground  ;  and  from  these  simple  attempts 
at  personal  decoration  has  developed  the 
marvelous  production  of  needle  point  and 
pillow-lace,  with  their  machine-made  Im- 
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Islands  and  Greece — land  where  even 
common  things  were  made  beautiful  and 
where  things  of  beauty  gave  perpetual 
joy — ^these  delicate  meshes  of  thread 
were  first  made  and  from  there  imported 
into  Venice.  Here  Greek  influence  was 
abroad,  and  the  lace-industry  took 
speedy  root,  and  grew  in  beauty  and 
variety  of  pattern,  complexity  of  stitch, 
and  delicacy  of  execution,  until  Venetian 


lace  attained  an  artistic  grace  and  per- 
fection which  baffle  all  description.  The 
two  widely  separated  regions  of  Europe 
where  the  art  of  painting  first  flourished 
and  attained  a  high  perfection — tfie 
north  of  Italy  and  Flanders — were  the 
same  localities  where  lace-making  first 
became  an  industry  of  importance  both 
from  an  artistic  and  from  a  commercial 
point  of  view. 


A    Lesson    in    Chess. 


'J*  HE  Mayhew  children  had  been  play- 
ing a  most  momentous  game  of 
checkers  with  their  Uncle  Jack,  and  had 
beaten  him  for  the  first  time  in  three 
weeks.  They  wished  they  had  kept 
count  ofl  'the  moves,  as  they  considered 
it  one  of  the'  most  important  games  on 
record. 

Uncle  Jack  was  pleased,  too,  though 
perhaps  not  quite  so  well  as  the  chil- 
dren. "Maybe  I  could  worst  you  on 
chess",  he  ventured. 

"But  we  don't  understand  the  game", 
replied  Alice. 

"I  can  teach  you",  rejoined  Uncle 
Jack. 

"But  we  haven't  any  chess-board", 
suggested  Ethel. 

"Why,  yes  you  have",  remonstrated 
the  Uncle.  "A  checker-board  is  a  chess- 
board." 

"But  we've  no  chessmen",  said 
Arthur. 

"You  can  make  them  easily",  replied 
Uncle  Jack.  "The  regular  chessmen  are 
images — little  statues,  in  fact;  but  an 
image  is  nothing  else  than  a  graven  pic- 
ture. Cut  out  thirtytwo  pieces  of  white 
pasteboard,  about  half  the  size  of  the 
squares  on  your  checker-board." 

Several  hands  made  light  work,  and 
tha  required  material  was  soon  ready. 

"Bring  your  bottles  of  black  and  red 
ink",  said  Uncle  Jack,  "and  a  pen  and 
penholder  for  each."  The  articles  were 
there  before  he  had  laid  down  his  pipe. 


"Now  we  will  make  the  'pawns'  first", 
said  the  old  gentleman.  "There  are  to 
be  eight  of  each  color,  and  at  the  begin- 
ning of  a  game  they  stand  in  two  rows, 
staring  fiercely  at  each  other.  There 
are  four  rows  of  squares  between  them, 
and  one  row  behind  each  of  them." 

The  pawns  were  soon  made.  Uncle 
Jack  did  not  use  much  care  with  them ; 
they  resembled  a  small  pepperbox  or 
saltcellar,  as  much  as  anything  else. 

"These  are  the  common  soldiers  of 
the  battle  we  are  about  to  fight",  said 
the  Uncle.  "They  are  not  so  valuable 
as  the  others  we  will  make,  but  they  are 
good  men  and  true  in  a  battle." 

The  pawns  being  duly  placed  upon 
the  two  second  rows  of  the  board,  the 
Mayhew  children  awaited  with  interest 
the  filling  up  of  the  one  square  behind 
each  of  them. 

The  next  picture  Uncle  Jack  drew  was 
something  that  looked  like  the  small 
turret  of  a  castle  of  the  middle  ages. 
There  were  two  for  each  color. 

"These  are  the  'cas-tles',  or  'rooks',  as 
they  are  sometimes  called",  he  said. 
"They  are  very  important  men.  We 
put  one  upon  each  corner." 

They  were  soon  placed  upon  the 
checker-board,  or  the  chess-board,  as  it 
had  now  become.  Uncle  Jack  then  pic- 
tured two  black  and  two  red  images  of 
something  very  like  a  horse's  head. 

"These  are  the  knights",  said  be. 
"They  go  next  the  castles," 


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He  then  made  something  that  looked 
like  the  hat  of  a  bishop — two  of  each 
cofor.  "These  are  the  bishops",  he 
explained.  "They  come  next  to  the 
knights." 

After  this,  he  drew  two  crowns  of 
each  color :  one  of  them  with  gems  upon 
it,  and  the  other  of  a  soberer  pattern. 
"One  of  these  is  the  queen,  the  other 
the  king",  said  he.  "We  put  the  black 
queen  on  the  first  black  square,  next  a 
bishop,  and  the  red  one  (which  we  call 
'white*  for  convenience)  on  the  first 
white  square  next  her  bishop.  The 
space  beside  the  queen  in  each  case  is 
taken  up  by  the  king." 

The  chessmen  (and  women)  all  hav- 


CHESS-BOARD  READY  TO  COMMENCE  GAME. 

ing  been  set.  Uncle  Jack  now  showed 
them  about  the  moves.  "They  all  have 
their  own  way  of  moving",  said  he :  "a 
good  deal  like  people  generally. 

"The  pawns  can  go  two  squares 
straight  ahead  of  them,  the  first  move ; 
but  after  that  they  can  go  only  one  at  a 
time,  and  cannot  come  back.  If,  how- 
ever, they  happen  to  get  through  to 
king-row,  then  they  become  queens,  and 
can  move  just  as  the  queen  does — of 
which  I  shall  tell  you  a  little  later. 
When  they  want  to  take  a  man,  they  do 
not  'jump  him,  as  you  do  in  checkers: 
they  simply  push  him  off^  cornenvise, 
and  stand  in  his  place. 

"The  castles  can  go  straight  ahead-  or 
straight  side  wise  at  each  move,  just  as 
far  as  the  coast  is  clear;  and  if  any 


other  :  piece  is  in  their  way  they  can 
push  him  off,  if  they  like,  and  take  his 
place. 

"The  bishops  can  do  the  same  thing 
exactly,  except  that  they  move  comer- 
zvise  instead  of  proceeding  straight  up 
or  across. 

"The  knights  move  very  much  like  a 
restive  horse  under  an  ambitious  rider. 
They  go  two  squares  straight  in  one 
direction  and  then  one  to  the  right  or 
left.  They  can  vault  over  anything,  and 
push  off  any  one  of  an  opponent';5  men, 
if  in  the  place  where  they  wish  to 
alight. 

"The  king  can  move  just  one  square, 
straightwise  or  cornerwise. 

"The  queen  is  the  star  of  the  whole 
<)oard  so  ifar  as  moving  is  concerned; 
she  is  the  bishop  and  castle  hckh  to- 
gether. She  can  go  as  far  as  the  board 
is  clear,  in  any  direction — straight  or 
cornerwise." 

Just  as  the  children  had  set  their 
board  nicely,  and  learned  thie  moves, 
thq  supper-bell  rang;  and  as  they  went 
to  a  board  quite  as  interesting  and  more 
indispensable  than  the  one  they  were 
quitting,  Uncle  Jack  told  them  he  would 
give  them  the  next  lesson  before  long, 
if  tl  ev  remembered  this. 


The  Weight  of  a  Hole. 

C  AM  WELL,  as  they  always  called  him 
at  home  (short  for  Samuel),  had 
been  two  terms  at  the  academy  in  town, 
so  as  to  "top  off'*  what  common  school 
education  he  had  managed  to  acquire  at 
the  **deestrict  school."  The  rest  of  the 
family  were  quite  willing  to  have  him  do 
so;  but  they  were  rather  inclined  to 
laugh  at  him  about  it. 

"Samwell  ought  to  be  able  to  hoe  corn 
twice  as  fast  as  the  rest  of  us",  they 
would  say. 

"I  don't  see  that  Samwell  gits  any 
more  potatoes  out  of  a  hill  than  the  rest 
of  us,  for  all  his  larnin'  ",  another  would 
assert. 

"Samwell  ought  to  be  able  to  tell  us 
into  an  ounce  liow  much  oqr  hay  an'  cat- 

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tie  weighs,  without  drivin*  'em  onto  the 
scales",  a  third  would  remark. 

But  it  was  a  bright  and  well-disposed 
family,  though  an  uneducated  one;  and 
the  youth  took  all  their  good-natured 
jokes  as  calmly  and  smilingly  as  he 
could.  One  day,  however,  he  did  get  a 
little  roiled,  although  he  had  self-disci- 
pline enough  not  to  show  it  That  was 
when  one  of  them  was  telling  about  the 
famous  hole  in  the  butter. 

It  seems  that  a  man  had  bought  five 
pounds  of  the  oleaginous  substance,  of 
"a  groceryman",  and  found,  after  he 
arrived  home,  that  there  was  a  large  hole 
in  it.  He  had  returned  the  article,  claim- 
ing that  he  had  been  cheated.  The  man 
from  whom  he  bought  it,  suggested  that 
he  would  deduct  twenty  cents  a  pound 
for  the  hole,  if  the  customer  would  tell 
him  how  much  it  weighed. 

"I  wonder  how  much  that  hole  did 
really  weigh?"  remarked  one  of  the 
boys. 

"Samwell  has  been  to  'Cademy  an* 
ought  to  be  able  to  tell  us",  chimed  in 
another. 

**How  can  I  tell  you,  when  I  haven't 
the  hole  here?"  inquired  Samuel. 

''Wall,  it  was  about  three  times  as  big 
as  the  one  in  this  cruller",  replied  one  of 
the  boys,  who  professed  to  have  wit- 
nessed the  circumstance.  "Tell  us  how 
much  this  hole  weighs,  an'  then  the 
other'll  be  just  three  times  as  much." 

"Saniwell  can't  do  it,  for  all  he's  be'en 
to  'Cademy"  spoke  up  his  father. 

There  was  a  good-humored  laugh  at 
the  youth's  expense,  and  the  eating  went 
amiably  on.  But  Samuel  was  thinking. 
At  last  he  spoke: 

"Yes,  Samwell  has  been  to  'Cademy", 
he  replied.  "He  didn't  go  there  long 
enough  to  leam  much,  except  the  fact 
that  he  knew  very  little.  But  he  believes 
he  can  tell  you  very  nearly  what  that 
hole  weighs." 


At  this,  there  was  another  good  laugh. 

"A  hole  weigh  anything!"  they 
chuckled. 

"Perhaps  Samwell  can  prove  it  to 
you",  remarked  that  young  man,  qui- 
etly, "and  will,  too,  if  you'll  ,pay  him  a 
'quarter'  for  it.  Otherwise,  it's  hardly 
worth  while." 

The  boys  soon  had  the  "quarter" 
made  up,  and  laid  it  not  far  from  his 
plate,  to  be  his  when  he  told  them^  the 
weight  of  the  hole. 

Samuel  "ciphered"  for  a  minute  on 
the  margin  of  a  newspaper,  looked  up, 
and  said,  calmly:  "You  told  me  yester- 
day, Nathan,  that  you  weighed  125 
pounds.  I  suppose  that  included  every- 
thing in  you  at  the  time?" 

"Sure",  replied  Nathan. 

"All  agreed  to  that?" 

"Yes",  they  all  replied. 

"Well,"  continued  Samuel  "it's  fair 
to  weigh  the  hole  in  the  same  way. 
Agreed  again  ?" 

"Yes." 

"Well,  it  has  been  proved  that  every 
cubic  inch  of  air  at  this  height  and  tem- 
perature weighs  31-100  of  a  gram,  or 
3i-700j000  of  a  pound;  and  there  is  a 
slice  of  that  air  in  the  cruller-hole.  and. 
of  course,  there  was  in  the  butter. 

"I  should  think  this  hole  in  the  cruller 
contained  about  two  cubic  inches,  fcr 
it's  one  of  the  largest  that  Mother 
builds;  and  if  so,  it  weighs  62-700,000 
of  a  pound. 

"If  the  hole  in  the  butter  was  three 
times  as  large  as  the  one  in  the  cruller, 
it  weighed  186-700,000  of  a  pound. 

"Well,  'tis  worth  somethin',  after  all. 
to  go  to  'Cademy",  murmured  Nathan. 
"^Here  Samwell  has  made  twentyfive 
cents  in  just  five  minutes  by  the  clock. 
That's  five  cents  a  minute,  an'  it  would 
amount  to  somethin',  ef  he  could  keep 
it  up  all  day.  I  b'lieve  I'll  go  to  'Ca'1 
emy  myself,  next  winter.'* 


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Summer    Musings 

By  Bertha  Johnston. 


These  are  the  days  when  the 
nomadic  instincts  come  to  the 
fore  and  we  all  long  "to  take  to  the 
woods",  or,  if  not  personally  concerned 
with  the  trend  of  politics,  a  trip  up  a 
"Salt  River"  is  not  viewed  askance. 
There  are  many  so-called  rivers,  in  and 
around   New   York;  narrow  inlets   and 


to  get  far  enough  away  to  prevent  any 
reasonable  prospect  of  verifying  the 
story  by  eyewitnesses." 

Alas,  that  a  placid  stream  that  reflects 
the  truth  and  purity  of  the  sky,  should 
have  to  mirror  in  its  faithful  surface 
the  features  of  the  piscatorial  prevari- 
cator.    The  scales  of  Justice  and  Truth 


"a  small,  gently-meandering  streamlet." 


sheltering  bays,  th^t  lure  those  to  medi- 
tation inclined — while  fish  and  crabs  at- 
tract the  visitors  of  more  active  dispo- 
sitions. 

As  our  esteemed  contemporary,  the 
IVashington  Star,  has  recently  re- 
marked, with  the  wisdom  born  of  self- 
study,  "there  is  good  fishing  along  the 
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seem  not  to  accord  with  the  scales  of  a 
fish. 

So  lovely  and  alluring  to  the  eye  arc 
most  of  our  small,  gently-meandering 
sti^eamlets,  with  their  willow-fringed 
embankments,  or  lily-padded  recesses, 
that,  in  driving  along  the  roads  of 
attractive  countrysides,  one  questions, 
Why  so  few  beautiful  villas,  or  inviting 

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w: 


"will  he  hit  it?" 


bungalows  upon  its  terraces?  Why  so 
few  canoes  or  yachts  skimming  over 
the  surface?  But  soon,  when  the  wind 
blows  in  the  direction  o'f  our  unfortu- 
nate nose,  the  reason  is  plain.  Facto- 
ries, here  and  there,  pour  into  the 
wholesome  stream  their  aisagreeable, 
nauseating  refuse,  which  kills  the  fisTi, 
spoils  the  bathing,  pollutes  the  air  for 
miles  around,  and  destroys  property  val- 


ues throughout  a  wide  area.  Unfortu- 
nately, for  those  whose  o/factory  nerves 
are  at  all  sensitive,  such  odors  have  not 
yet  been  proved  injurious  to  health,  and 
hence  land-owners  and  pleasur-e-seekers 
have  as  yet  no  redress.  It  may  be.  that 
we  must  look  to  the  chemical  laboratory 
for  relief.  Realizing  what  synthetic 
chemistry  has  already  accomplished  in 
utilizing    waste    products,    the    experi- 

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menter  may  find  some  market  value  in 
that  which  now  discolors  and  glazes 
over  so  unpleasantly  with  its  oily  scum 
the  naturally  limpid  waters.  TTien  will 
the  current  speedily  clear  itself  once 
more.  One  wonders  at  the  patience  of 
the  tax-paying  citizen  who,  for  so  long, 
permits  a  few  individuals  to  vitiate  exist- 
ence for  hundreds  of  their  fellows. 
But  there  are  rivers  that  still  dance 


shell",  by  which  they  are  now  known. 
Is  there  any  happier  creature  in  the 
swimming  pool  than  the  clean,  cool 
frog,  who  has  finally  completely  out- 
grown his  long  baby-clothes,  and  dons 
his  new  suit  of  trousers?  What  boy 
but  envies  him  his  i>erfect  skill  at  swim- 
ming, as  he  changes  from  a  squatter  on 
the  bank,  to  become  the  lord  of  the 
pond. 


XROSSING   THE    CRUDE,    LOG   BRIDGE. 


and  dimple  cleanly  and  sweetly  beneath 
the  summer  sun,  and  midnight  moon, 
and  c^  joy  it  is  to  float  and  dream  and 
study  Mother  Nature's  change  of  fash- 
ions !  Along  the  salt-water  streams  one 
may  see  the  crabs,  when  one  suit  has 
been  outgrown,  in  process  of  changing 
their  clothes — half  in,  and  half  out  of 
the  old,  stiff,  shell — the  new  tender  body 
that  emerges  explaining  the  name  "soft- 


Such  a  cheerful  group  of  frogs  recalls 
the  incident  in  the  boyhood  of  the  great 
Unitarian  preacher,  Channing.  Pass- 
ing a  small  pond,  one  day,  he,  like  the 
other  boy^i,  raised  a  stone,  ready  to 
fling  at  the  unconscious  creatures,  when 
it  seemed  as  if  some  invisible  power  held 
back  his  hand.  He  stopped,  and  ran 
home  to  his  mother,  asking  in  awe- 
struck tone,  "Moth^,c^WhftfM^^m<ept 


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me  from  throwing  the  stone  at  the 
frog?"  To  which  the  devoted  mother 
replied,  "Some  would  say  it  was  con- 
science, but  I  prefer  to  call  it  the  voice 
of  God  in  your  heart." 

But  these  placid  scenes  and  quiet 
meditations  do  not  suit  all  natures. 
There  are  adventurous  folk  who  enjoy 
the  sense  of  struggle,  of  combat  with 
elemental  'forces,  and  alas,  who  can  sat- 
isfy this  primal,  savage  impulse  only  by 
undertaking  for  pleasure  the  hunting 
expedition,  which^  to  primitive  man, 
wae  hard  work,  rather  than  strenuous 
pastime. 

One  can,  in  part,  excuse  the  yielding 
of  civilized  man  -to  this  instinct,  when 
he  gives  his  foe  a  fair  deal.  We  can, 
in  a  measure,  realize  the  excitemeat 
stirred,  and  the  bodily  and  nervous  self- 
control  exerted,  when  stealing  silently 
through  the  woods  after  the  wrathful 
bear,  or  concealed  behind  a  log,  bring- 
ing down  a  bird  with  unerring  aim. 

The  stalking  of  the  deer,  with  all  that 
it  implies  of  patience,  endurance,  knowl- 
edge, skill,  and  general  self-control,  re- 
quires certain  manly  qualities  that  ap- 
peal to  most  masculine  minds,  and  if  the 
hunters  have  given  their  prey  a  fair 
fight,  the  return  in  the  early  morning, 
through  the  dewy  woods,  "Indian  file", 
bearing  across  the  crude  log  bridge  the 
results  of  their  labors,  may  easily  cause 
a  thrill  of  'exultation  in  the  hunter's 
heart.  And  yet — when  we  read  the  re- 
cent account  by  the  German  Crown 
Prince,  of  his  hunting  of  the  lion  and 
*he  tiger  in  African  jungles,  although 
in  his  case  the  creatures  destroyed  were 
cruel  beasts  of  prey,  we  find  it  hard  to 
understand  his  point  of  view  when  he 
says  that  he  feels  nearer  to  God,  the 
Father  and  Creator  of  all,  when,  in  the 
evening,  after  a  day's  hunting  and  kill- 
ing, he  sits  with  his  rifle  on  his  knee, 
.crazing  into  the  wonderful  depths  of  the 
starry  sky,  with  all  that  they  speak  of 
peace  and  beauty.  Such  is  the  inconsis- 
tency of  mankind!  Destruction  and 
worship  claiming-  to  be  comrades. 

Hunters  will  be  needed  as  long  as  the 


wildernesses  harbor  animals  inimical  to 
man — but,  as  we  learn  to  understand 
and  love  Nature  more  and  more,  we 
will  find  greater  joy  in  observing  her 
living  creatures  than  in  destroying  them. 
S|o  that,  though  we  sympathize  to  a 
degree,  with  the  hunter's  enthusiasm, 
we  anticipate  a  time  when  his  activities 
will  find  gratification  in  other  directions. 
The  summer  days  are  too  lovely  for  us 
to  ruthlessly  destroy  that  which  is  harm- 
less, innocent,  and  happy. 

We  rejoice,  however,  that  the  spirit 
of  adventure  and  competition  has  other 
outlets  besides  those  found  in  conflict 
with  nature.  In  the 'spring  and  summer 
days  the  streams  are  alive  with  craft  of 
all  kinds,  the  racing-shells  being  espec- 
ially conspicuous,  for  their  long,  slen- 
der grace,  and  speed. 

The  college-boy  has  long  been  a  feat- 
ure of  those  streams  tliat  beautify  the 
vicinity  of  the  seats  of  intended  intel- 
lectual culture,  as  he  practices  for  a 
forthcoming  race.  Who  does  not  recall 
Tom  Brown's  river  experiences  at  Ox- 
ford, so  graphically  depicted  by  Thomas 
Hughes  ? 

But  the  college-girl  has  come  into 
being  in  our  era  and  she  takes  the  lib- 
erty of  sharing  the  sports  as  well  as  the 
toils  of  her  brothers.  What  prettier 
sight  can  be  imagined,  than  a  crew  of 
bonnie  maidens,  in  dainty  white  boat- 
ing-costume, "keeping  time,  time,  time", 
to  the  stroke  of  their  leader. 

It  is  frequently  said  that  women  do 
not  know  how  to  cooperate,  to  unite  for 
common  ends,  as  do  their  masculine 
friends.  Rowing  in  crews  should,  there- 
fore, be  excellent  practice  for  learning 
how  to  "pull  together",  both  literally  and 
figuratively,  and  is  to  be  recommended 
for  this  advantage  in  addition  to  many 
others  incident  to  life  in  the  open  air. 
But  possibly  competition  should,  in  tne 
case  of  women,  be  tabooed,  as  involving 
great  strain  on  heart  and  lungs.  The 
strenuous  life  has  its  merits,  but  in  sum- 
mer days  let  us  learn  the  lesson  of  relax- 
ation, and  develop  the  powers  of  ab- 
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f  T  is  not  often  that  a  clergyman  takes 
time  to  write  a  book  of  reminis- 
cences: indeed,  out  of  the  many  works 
of  this  kind  that  we  have  perused,  we 
remember  very  few  as  coming  from  "the 
cloth." 

And  yet,  no  kind  of  life  or  occupation 
can  be  fuller  of  interesting  and  instruc- 
tive incidents.  The  great  trouble  is,  per- 
haps, that  many  a  man  can  preach  a  good 
sermon,  but  is  unable  to  tell  a  good 
story  well — no  matter  how  full  of  fine 
material  it  may  present  itself. 

If  Rev.  Thomas  Shrympton  Anderson, 
of  Bay  City,  Michigan,  can  preach  as 
well  as  he  can  write,  he  is  well  worth 
hearing.  His  new  work,  "Thoughts  and 
Pictures  Taken  from  Life",  is  full  of 
graphic  interest,  from  beginning  to  end. 
The  book,  published  by  the  Every 
Where  Publishing  Company,  New  York, 
and  for  sale  by  them,  ought  to  command) 
a  Istrge  circulation,  among  both  clergy- 
men and  layir.cn. 

Perhaps  the  most  characteristic  chap- 
ter is  the  ninth,  entitled  "Parish  Pick- 
ings." It  is  so  interesting,  that  we  take 
the  liberty  of  quoting  from  it : 

"This  is  a  post-card  and  moving-pic- 
ture age,  and  I  might  insert  a  few  right 
here,  if  it  were  not  that  I  wish  to  give 
you  mental  rather  than  physical  im- 
pressions. 

"The  very  first  work  of  my  ministry, 
while  I  was  a  student-preacher,  was  out 
in  Keyapaha  county,  Nebraska.  Every 
time  I  pronounced  that  name  I  felt  like 
adding  a  war-whoop  to  proclaim  the 
Indian.  I  boarded  around  with  the  peo- 
ple there.  The  life  was  pioneer,  and 
primitive,  indeed.    Nearly  all  the  people 


lived  in  sod  houses  and  dug-outs,  wiih 
a  few  log  cabins  in  the  canyons  of  the 
Niobrara. 

"The  settlers  had  taken  government 
land  from  the  Nebraska  end  of  the  Sioux 
Indian  Reservation.  The  oldest  settler 
had  only  resided  in  the  new  homestead 
county  about  two  years. 

"Some  of  the  people  came  a  distance 
of  ten  miles  to  church  service,  held  at 
first  in  a  little  log  school-house.  In  the 
course  of  a  very  few  weeks  we  all  con- 
cluded to  build  a  church  and  the  student- 
pastor  drove  a  mule  team  to  haul  logs 
to  a  portable  saw-mill  in  a  canyon. 
Afterwards  he  helped  to  nail  the  shingles 
on  the  roof  of  the  church,  doing  the  first 
carpenter  work  of  his  life.  There  were 
three  carpenters  in  the  district  and  these 
supervised  the  work.  Everybody  gave 
time  and  labor.  The  church  cost  very 
little  money,  all  paid  as  needed,  and  it 
was  quite  a  comfortable  little  building, 
seating  about  two  hundred  people. 

"The  Synodical  missionary  came  to 
organize  a  regular  church,  and  the  stu- 
dent-pastor was  given  the  use  of  a  don- 
key and  dog-cart  to  visit  the  parish.  .  I 
could  either  ride  or  drive  the  donkey: 
and  one  process  was  about  as  easy  as 
the  other. 

"I  recall  trying  to  ride  the  donkey  to 
a  distant  home  in  a  wing  of  a  canyon. 
I  was  in  perfect  harmony  with  all  nature, 
even  with  the  donkey,  as  jogging  along 
I  reflected  upon  my  visit  and  the  pros- 
pect of  my  next  Sunday's  sermon.  Sud- 
denly,  for  no  apparent  reason,  that  don- 
key waved  his  left  ear  over  his  right  eye, 
and  exchanged  ends,  moving  along  both 
horizontal  and  perpendicular  and  even 


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zigzag  lines  at  the  very  same  instant, 
leaving  me  dazed  and  dilapidatedly  lying 
by  the  roadside.  Well,  I  had  the  pleas- 
ure of  walking  six  miles,  moodily  reflect- 
ing upon  the  uncertainties  of  life  and  the 
unfriendly  faithlessness  of  donkeys!  I 
have  had  many  other  donkeys  try  to 
down  me  in  my  pastoral  life  and  work 
since. 

"The  Sioux  Indians  were  threatening 
an  outbreak  that  summer,  and  I  rode, 
on  a  good  horse,  one  day  with  a  number 
of  cowboys  to  round  up  some  cattle 
which  were  wrongfully  permitted  to 
graze  on  the  South  Dakota  side  of  the 
line. 

"I  saw  a  cowboy,  with  his  long- 
lashed  cattle  whip,  snap  the  head  off  a 
large  bull-head  snake  as  it  lay  coiled  in 
the  grass. 

"We  chased  a  wild  horse  for  a  couple 
of  hours  over  the  plains  and  sand  dunes, 
but  lost  him.  We  succeeded  late  at 
night  in  getting  our  cattle  rounded  up 
and  safely  corralled. 

"My  boyhood  farm  experience  now 
helped  me  greatly,  so  that  I  could  work 
out  in  the  fields  and  with  the  cattle  men 
and  keep  my  mind  preparing  my  ser- 
mons at  the  same  time. 

"The  homes  were  nearly  all  just  one- 
roomed  buildings,  curtained  off  at  night 
into  sleeping  apartments.  Yes,  they 
were  just  as  decently  respectable  and 
comfortable  as  modern  Pullman  palace 
sleeping-cars  anyway. 

"In  one  of  these  homes,  where  I  was 
entertained  more  frequently  than  others, 
there  was  a  very  little  three-year-old 
girl  who  'became  a  great  friend.  One 
Sabbath  in  the  midst  of  my  sermon,  she 
skipped  away  from  her  mother,  and, 
running  to  me,  wanted  me  to  take  her 
in  my  arms.  I  lifted  her  upon  the  pul- 
pit desk,  and  holding  her  in  one  arm, 
I  preached  away  as  best  I  could,  gesticu- 
lating with  the  other  arm. 

"But  a  few  days  after  this  in  the 
home,  the  father  was  detained  away 
until  quite  late  at  night,  and  the  child 
caught  the  restless  fear  of  the  mother, 
and  would  not  say  her  prayers  and  go 
to    bed.      I    tried    to   comfort   her   and 


assure  her  that  her  papa  was  safe  and 
would  come  home  very  soon.  Taking 
her  in  my  arms,  I  asked  her  to  say  her 
prayer  to  me,  and  this  is  how  it  came: 
*Now  I  lay  me,  I  want  my  papa, — down 
to  sleep,  I  want  my  papa, — ^if  I  should 
— want  my  papa-— die  befpre — I  want 
my  papa,  I,  I,  I,  want  my  papa,  I  pray, 
I  pray,  I  want  my — ^my — I  pray' — and 
the  little  head  wearily  fell  over  and  the 
eyelids  closed  and  the  troubled  little  life 
was  resting  fast  asleep,  and  so  the  lov- 
ing father  found  her. 

"When  I  completed  my  summer  work 
the  people  gave  me  fifty  dollars  and  a 
monster  big  watermelon  to  express  their 
appreciation  of  my  labor,  and  ever  as  I 
took  back  upon  the  scene,  that  water- 
melon grows  larger  and  larger,  until  it 
seems  to  fill  the  earth  with  its  watery 
sweetness. 

"In  the  twenty-four  years  of  my 
ordained  ministry  I  have  had  four  pas- 
torates. This  is  not  nearly  so  frequent 
a  change  as  the  average  minister  makes, 
and  there  is  little  need  that  I  should 
mention  it,  only  that  it  affords  opportu- 
nity to  suggest  the  shifting  home  scenes 
of  a  minister.  If  a  man  is  a  home- 
builder  and  home-lover  he  feels  keenly 
this  broken-up  condition  of  ministerial 
life.  Men  are  not  turtles  or  crabs,  that 
is,  most  men  are  not,  so  as  to  live  in  a 
shell  and  carry  home  on  the  back.  A 
true  home  is  not  only  established  in  tlie 
confident  love  of  a  family,  but  it  is  knit- 
ted into  and  closely  woven  with  a  nec- 
essarily limited  number  of  warm  loving- 
friendships  in  community  relation. 

"Why  should  a  minister  be  compelled 
to  be  a  man  without  a  friend,  because 
he  is  constantly  held  to  be  a  compara- 
tively passing  stranger  in  the  commu- 
nity where  he  lives? 

"However,  a  minister  is  supposed  to 
be  neither  fish,  flesh  nor  fowl,  and  so 
he  may  be  very  foully  dealt  with.  I  may, 
perhaps,  further  along  show  you  how 
some  nondescript  churches,  put  together 
like  the  class  in  Zoology  put  together 
the  mysterious  humbug,  not  only  tor- 
ture the  pastor,  but  destroy  every  v^s- 
tige    of   the   home    life   of   the   church 


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itself,  and  bring  reproach  upon  the 
cause  of  Christ. 

"Of  course,  ministers  may  be  some- 
what to  blame  also.  They  are  just  as 
human  as  the  rest  of  humanity,  if  not  a 
little  more.  But  they  are  one  among 
hundreds  generally,  and  far  better 
trained,  and  the  church  could  hold  and 
help  them  if  it  would. 

"Since  the  church  relation  between 
pastor  and  people  has  always  been  sym- 
bolized   by    marriage,    neither   party,   I 


guess,  wishes  to  fall  behind  the  times 
in  divorce  proceedings.  Indeed,  the 
relations  of  a  great  many  people  to  the 
church  today  are  about  as  perplexing  as 
Sambo's  relation  to  home  and  family. 
Trying  to  explain,  his  unfortunat-e  state 
he  said :  *You  see,  it  was  just  this  way, 
— fust  my  fadder  dies,  den  my  modder 
marries  again,  den  my  mudder  run  away 
and  my  second  fadder  marries  again, 
and  howcome  I  doesn't  seem  to  have  any 
parents  at  all,  nor  no  home,  no'  nuffin.' '' 


The  Witches'  Brew.— By  Margaret  E.  Sangster. 


'PHE    witches    three    they    stir    their      In 
broth 

Infused  with  bitter  rue, 
With  many  an  incantation  wroth 

Above  the  evil  brew. 
Then  swift  three  phantom  shapes  appear, 

The  witches  fade  away ; 
And  Pride,  and  Hate,  and  craven  Fear 

Stalk  in  the  light  of  day. 


They  mock  our  banner  of  the  stars 

With  cruel  jibe  and  quip: 
They  break  our  peace  with  fateful  jars. 

From  bad  to  worse  they  slip. 
Lo!    Fear  at  every  seaport  stands, 

With  look  of  dread  dismay, 
And  fain  would  turn  with  hostile  hands 

Our  alien  guests  away. 

And  Greed,  a  robber  chieftain  he 

Grinds  out  the  life  of  men. 
Steps  on  the  bloom  of  infancy 

And  drains  its  life  blood,  when 


mills    and    mines    and    sweat-shops 
drear, 
The  children  spend  the  day, 
Grown  old  and  haggard,  wasted  ere 
They  have  an  hour  to  play. 


And  Pride,  with  brow  of  haughty  scorn 

And  air  of  conscious  strength, 
Forgets  the  place  where  Pride  was  born. 

The  place  he'll  reach  at  length. 
And  riding  in  his  car  of  ease, 

He  dares  to  bruise  and  slay 
The   crowds    who    strive   his   mood    to» 
please. 

And  make  his  holiday. 

The  witches  three    from  ancient  eld„ 

They  stir  their  evil  brew, 
And  who  by  them  in  chains  is  held 

His  plight  of  woe  shall  rue. 
The  witches  three,  they  call  them  forth, 

Grim  shapes  that  blight  the  way, 
And  East  and  West,  South  and  North 

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T  is  related  of  Homer,  the  greatest 
epic  poet  of  whom  we  have  any 
account,  that  in  the  various  battles  which 
he  conducted  on  paper,  or  more  accu- 
rately speaking,  on  parchment,  or  papy- 
rus, he  never  killed  a  man,  without  first 
kneeling  and  praying  the  gods  to  tuck 
him  up  and  do  the  best  they  could  with 
him,  as  soon  as  he  arrived  in  the  next 
world.  Homer  had  not  only  a  good 
head,  but  a  good  heart. 

Homer  is  also  related  to  have  had 
a  superstition,  that  Helen,  reputed  to 
have  been  the  handsomest  and  winsome- 
est  woman  of  all  history,  used  to  come 
to  him  when  he  was  asleep,  insinuate 
her  facile  spirit  into  the  interstices  of 
his  soul,  and  beg  of  him,  in  the  next 
book  of  the  Iliad,  to  do  her  proud. 

Now  the  human  eye,  as  has  been  assert- 
ed by  scientists,  can  see  both  ways,  out- 
wardly and  inwardly.  When  it  is  what  is^ 
called  awake,  it  sees  into  this  little  world" 
of  ours,  and  what  few  things  Nature 
wants  it  to  see :  when  it  looks  the  other 
way — into  the  great  recesses  of  mind — . 
it  sees  what  it  longs  and  yearns  itself 
to  see.  When  it  looks  out  into  the  physi- 
cal night,  it  sees  the  great  bright  stars 
that  frescoe  the  sky :  when  the  five  out 
of  possible  million  senses  are  shut  off, 
then  we  are  expected  to  look  within,  and 
see  the  treasures  of  the  mental  and  spir- 
itual world.  Splendors  that  artists  can- 
not paint  and  wouldn't  be  believed  if  they 
did.  Figures  that  Fra  Angelico  tried  to 
bring  from  his  trances,  and  only  partially 
succeeded;  poets  and  painters  and 
dreamers  of  all  kinds,  have  seen  these 
visions.  Prophets  have  seen  them  ;  seers 
have  seen  them.    The  drunkard  who  has 


been  putting  fiery  serpents  of  destruc- 
tion into  his  body  year  after  year,  until, 
in  the  very  ganglions  are  nests  of  writh- 
ing creeping  animalculae,  sees  an  image 
of    them    in    his    mind,    and    yells     in 
mortal    fear    of   the    snakes    which    we 
do  not  see,  but  which  he  does.     That 
which  we  store  in  our  minds,  we  will 
some  time  see  again.    The  pen  of  mem- 
ory does  not  use  sympathetic  ink.      It 
brands  in  letters  of  fire  the  records  of 
our  actions  and  our  sufferings,  and  the 
impositions  that  others  make  upon  us. 
And   as   bodies   breed   each   other   and 
fragments  of  animal  life  breed  into  defi- 
nite forms  in  physical  life,  it  is  no  won- 
der that  constituent  elements  in  the  mind 
should  do  the  same  thing.    It  is  no  won- 
der  that   Luther,   having   contemplated 
one  by  one  the  hoofs  and  the  horns  and 
the  omnivorous  maw  of  the  evil   one, 
should  bye  and  bye  witness  him  as  a 
whole,   and  materialize;   him,    until   the 
whole  hideous  creature  furnished  a  tar- 
get at  which  to  throw  his  ink-stand. 

How  much  of  that  comes  from  the 
seer's  own  inner  consciousness,  and  how 
much  from  some  other  inner  conscious- 
ness, we  do  not  know.  Whether  the 
baby  smiles  because,  as  the  doting  father 
believed,  the  angels  were  whispering,  or 
whether,  as  the  prosaical  nurse  suggest- 
ed, it  had  too  much  wind  on  its  stomach, 
we  don't  know. 

What  did  the  poet  of  Paradise  Lost 
see,  after  blindness  had  shut  everything 
out  from  mortal  view? 

Let  us  then  look  at  some  of  the  dead 
poets.  Was  it  a  superstition  when 
Thomas  Campbell  said  that  tickers  roared 
on  the  shores  of  Lake  Erie?    Or  was  it 

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a  guess?  Or  was  it  a  prophecy?  Per- 
haps the  last-named ;  for  there  wasn't  a 
tiger  on  the  Western  continent  when  he 
wrote  that :  and  now  it  is  fulfilled.  He 
only  located  it  a  few  hundred  miles 
west — and,  what  is  that,  toween  friendi 
— and  poets  ? 

Burns  saw  in  the  old  Kirk  AUoway, 
tliat  "coffins  stood  round  like  empty 
presses,  that  showed  the  dead  in  their 
last  dresses",  and  he  has  made  the  world 
see  it  ever  since.  He  paraded  a  train  of 
gypsies  pursuing  Tam  O*  Shanter,  and 
that  crowd  of  people  take  their  jaunt 
every  time  an  appreciative  pilgrim  visits 
the  spot.  Thus  do  the  superstitions  of 
yesterday  flame  up  into  the  realities  of 
today.  Burns  had  another  superstition, 
as  it  might  be  called :  that  every  woman 
was  divine  and  an  angel.  In  many  cases, 
it  flames  up  into  reality. 

Poor  Cowper  had  a  superstition,  to- 
ward the  latter  part  of  his  life,  that  he 
was  booked  for  eternal  spiritual  destruc- 
tion and  damnation.  Of  course  we  all 
know  that  such  a  gentle  and  command- 
ing spirit  as  Cowper,  would  naturally  be 
persona  grata  in  Paradise.  If  the  angels 
already  there  knew  that  there  was  a 
movement  on  foot  to  send  him  to  the 
other  place,  there  wouM  be  another 
strike  in  Heaven.  It  was  certainly  a 
superstitious  delusion  that  ailed  Cowper. 

The  poet  has  always  had  the  right  of 
way,  through  all  superstitions.  Super- 
stition is  recognized  as  one  of  the  poeti- 
cal licenses. 

When  Washington  Irving — more  of  a 
poet  than  many  a  rhymester — sent  th? 
famous  Van  Winkle  out  into  the  moun- 
tains, he  created  a  superstition  that  never 
will  be  destroyed.  And  what  a  gran. I 
refreshing  thought — of  such  a  sleep-  - 
twenty  years  at  a  stretch — or  maybe 
without  a  stretch!  What  a  rest  from 
the  busy  and  lazy  cares  of  the  world — 
and  from  Gretchen !  I  have  often  wished 
that  my  last  distemper  might  be  the 
sleeping  sickness — so  that  I  could  get  a 
good  rest  before  passing  from  the  activi- 
ties of  one  life  to  those  of  another — 
with  perhaps  a  pleasant  and  acceptable 
change  of  climate. 


The  American  E[ing. 

W7  E  brook  no  king  with  haughty  mien 

To  hold  our  sons  in  thrall ; 
No  knight  or  lord  with  clanking  sword 

To  rule  in  court  or  hall. 
No  potentate  of  high  estate 

May  mould  us  to  his  will; 
No  despot  power  in  evil  hour 

Our  land  with  woe  may  fill. 
One  king  alone  rules  on  the  throne, 

Each  freeman's  will  to  cross; 
He  rules  by  might  through  wrong  or 
right, 

In  politics  the  boss. 

We  proudly  boast  of  all  it  cost, 

Of  blood  and  toil  and  tears, 
To  set  us  free  from  tyranny 

These  many  gladsome  years. 
O'er  land  and  seas  floats  on  the  breeze 

The  flag  we  love  so  well; 
No  more  it  waves  o'er  dusky  slaves. 

Our  nation's  shame  to  tell. 
We  love  each  star;  each  crimson  bar 

We|  guard  from  shame  and  loss ; 
But  the  star-decked  flag  in  mire  we  drag 

At  the  bidding  of  the  boss. 

We  vote  and  fight  for  home  and  right, 

For  pure  and  upright  laws ; 
Each  candidate  must  legislate 

And  work  for  freedom's  cause. 
We  still  maintain  that  right  is  gain, 

Since  righteous  laws  must  win; 
We  prate  of  truth  to  man  and  youth. 

And  dread  the  shame  of  sin. 
Known  men  of  skill  to  work  our  will, 

If  free  from  selfish  dross, 
We  call  to  rule,  then  blindly  pull, 

At  the  bidding  of  the  boss. 

No  laws  are  made  without  his  aid, 

Or  passed  against  his  will; 
The  Senate  bends  to  suit  his  ends, 

The  House  its  servile  sill. 
Each  party  quails  whene'er  he  rails, 

It  shrinks  before  his  frown ; 
His  willing  tool  is  made  lu  rule. 

His  foeman  is  cast  down. 
Through  wily  ways  and  tricky  plays, 

Through  games  of  pitch  and  toss, 
The  party  makes,  the  party  breaks, 

At  the  bidding  of  the  boss. 


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Origin  of  Some  Oommon  Plants. 

nPHOSE  who  have  learned  something 
of  the  wonderful  mechanism  of 
plant  structure,  something  of  the  man- 
ner of  plant  growth,  and  how  the  great 
races  of  plants  are  all  related,  one  to 
another — have  had  their  imaginations 
stirred  to  ask  some  of  the  more  fasci- 
nating questions  of  plant  history  and 
<lestiny. 

When  one  has  gained  some  knowledge 
of  these  elemental  truths,  and  caught  the 
great  idea  of  organic  continuity,  it  is 
natural  for  the  mind  to  go  back  into 
some  past  epoch  and  ask  what  kind  of 
plants  were  then  dwellers  upon  the  earth. 
It  is  natural  for  the  imagination  to  roam 
about  wanting  to  know  what  kind  of 
vegetation  made  these  hills  and  valleys 
green,  and  what  kind  of  forests  covered 
those  mountain-sides.  If  a  certain  spe- 
cies is  found  only  in  widely  separated 
places  on  the  earth's  surface,  then  the 
natural  query  is:  *'How  and  when  did 
it  traverse  >he  intervening  spaces?" 

In  other  \/ords,  as  soon  as  one  gets  a 
glimpse  into  the  heart  of  the  earth's 
great  garden,  the  romance  of  the  plant 
world  appeals  to  him,  and  makes  further 
study  a  ten-fold  delight. 

All  of  these  things  cannot  be  even 
touched  upon  in  a  short  space  and,  in 
fact,  the  secrets  of  many  of  them  have 
not  yet  been  karned.  It  will  be  pleas- 
ant and  profitable,  however,  to  know 
something  about  the  origin  of  two  or 
three  of  the  most  common  vegetables. 

The  apple-tree,  for  instance,  belongs 
to  the  great  rose  family,  members  of 
which,  either  in  their  wild  or  domesti- 
cated state,  have  spread  to  nearly  every 


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portion  of  the  globe.  Just  where  the 
king  of  fruits  originated,  or  how  many 
years  it  had  lived  before  the  foot  of 
Adam  pressed  the  soil  of  the  garden  of 
Eden,  is  not  very  accurately  known. 
For  the  place  of  its  birth  we  have  to  go 
back  to  the  region  of  Caucasus  and 
Thibet,  a  country  so  fertile  in  begin- 
nings— the  very  cradle  of  the  nations. 

The  races  to  whom  fell  the  luxury  of 
harvesting  the  first  crop  were  probably 
some  of  the  western  Aryans.  Roots  of 
certain  of  the  w^ords  that  they  coined  'to 
describe  the  plant  and  its  fruit  are  ab 
af,  az'  and  ob;  and  they  are  recognized 
in  aphal  (old  German),  appcl  (old  Eng- 
lish), and  apli  (Scandinavian). 

The  country  in  which  the  apple  ap- 
pears to  be  most  indigenous,  is  near 
Trebizond,  in  Annenia.  The  variety 
which  there  grows  wild  has  leaves 
downy  on  the  under  side,  short  stems, 
and  sweet  fruit.  Evidence  also  goes  to 
show  that  it  developed  independently, 
and  perhaps  aU  about  the  same  time,  in 
northern  Russia  and  eastern  Asia  Minor. 
It  is  quite  certain,  however,  that  the 
fruit  had  been  taken  from  its  wild  state, 
and  cultivated  for  the  use  of  man 
before  the  dawn  of  history. 

As  to  the  potato — that  very  humble 
but  powerful  inhabitant  of  the  soil- 
powerful  because  it  is  useful — where  did 
its  progenitors  dwell?  It  is  not,  as 
might  be  supposed,  a  native  of  the  Emer- 
ald Isle ;  but,  instead,  it  has  been  proved 
beyond  a  doubt  that  at  the  time  of  the 
discovery  of  America,  the  cultivation  of 
the  potato  was  practiced,  w^ith  every  ap- 
pearance of  ancient  usage,  in  the  temper- 
ate regions  extending  from  Chile  to  Cen- 
tral America.     In  the  latter  half  of  the 

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sixteenth  century  it  was  introduced  into 
that  part  of  North  America  now  known 
as  Virginia  and  North  CaroHna,  by  the 
Spaniards.  These  same  bold  sailors  were 
responsil?le  for  its  entry  into  Europe, 
about  1580:  and  soon  after  that,  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh  carried  it  back  to  Ire- 
land. 

The  date-palm  is  another  very  old  in- 
habitant of  the  East.  It  is  certainly 
much  older  than  the  recorded  memory 
of  man,  but  just  how  ancient  it  is,  or 
where  it  first  began  to  bear  its  delicious 
fruit,  may  not  be  known  until  palaeonto- 
logical  research  brings  up  more  secrets 
from  the  depths  of  the  earth.  There  is 
evidence,  however,  that  in  times  far  an- 
terior to  the  earliest  Egyptian  dynasties, 
the  date-palm  already  existed  wild,  or 
sowTi  here  and  there  by  wandering  tribes, 
in  a  narrow  zone  extending  from  the 
Euphrates  River  to  the  Canary  Islands. 
It  is  probable  that  the  cultivation  of  the 
fruit  began  much  later,  and  covered  an 
area  extending  from  northwest  India  to 
the  Cape  Verde  Islands ;  so  that  the  nat- 
ural boundary-lines  of  the  date-palm 
world  have  remained  very  nearly  the 
same  for  more  than  five  thousand  vears. 


A  Floating  Farm 

TENS  SOEBY\S  "floating  farm''  is  one 
^  of  the  famous  sights  on  the  Colum- 
bia River.  All  the  buildings  are  sup- 
ported by  three  rafts  made  of  huge  pine 
logs.  Soeby,  a  veteran  of  the  Spanish- 
American  war,  got  the  idea  of  a  floating 
house-boat  when  traveling  in  China  and 
Japan,  and  when  he  returned  home  after 
the  war  he  built  three  rafts  on  the 
Columbia  River,  and  on  these  he  erected 
a  house  and  a  warehouse  to  keep  nets 
and  boats,  chicken  pens,  and  so  on ;  he 
also  made  a  garden  in  which  he  raised 
enough  vegetables  for  the  use  of  his 
family.  Soeby's  farm  and  inn,  floating 
serenely  on  the  water,  soon  became  a 
favorite  headquarters  for  fishing  pafties. 
Here  they  were  housed  and  fed,  and  at 
night  Soeby  would  play  his  old  violin 
for  th^ir  entertainment.     He  also  gave 


music  lessons.  The  "farm"  was  moored 
in  front  of  the  property  of  Mr.  C.  E. 
De  Long,  who  charged  Soeby  fifty  cents 
a  month  rental.  When  Soeby  did  not 
•pay  his  rent  for  two  years  De  Long 
secured  a  judgment  and  a  writ  of  eject- 
ment from  the  judge  of  the  Superior 
Court,  but  when  the  sheriff  attempted  to 
enforce  the  order  the  water  was  too  low 
to  move  the  rafts.  Recently,  after  a 
freshet,  the  water  rose,  and  George 
Johnson,  deputy  sheriff,  was  sent  to 
remove  Soeby's  property.  He  hired  a 
river  steamer  and  crew  of  half-a-dozen 
men,  pulled  up  the  anchors  of  the  rafts, 
and  towed  this  unique  floating  habita- 
tion half  a  mile  down  the  stream,  where 
it  was  anchored,  and  where  Jens  and  his 
wife  still  Uwe.—lVide  World. 


The  Labor-saving  Windmill. 

WIND-ENGINES,  whose  name  is 
legion,  consist  for  the  most  part 
of  variations  and  amplifications  of  the 
familiar  windmill,  which  is  not,  how- 
ever, so  familiar  in  England  as  it  de- 
serves to  be.  With  a  surface  sufficiently 
exposed  great  power  is  obtainable  for 
operating  a  dynamo.  One  cannot  help 
marvelling  at  the  general  neglect  of  this 
source  of  industrial  energy.  They  are 
used  for  draining  purix)ses  in  Holland 
and  Norfolk  and  for  mining  in  several 
countries.  It  was  I>ord  Kelvin  who  first 
proposed  to  utilize  them  in  charging 
electric  accumulators.  A  single  wind- 
mill at  Faversham,  of  fifteen  horse- 
power, raised,  in  ten  months,  twentyone 
million  gallons  of  water  from  a  depth 
of  one  hundred  and  nine  feet ;  but  Amer- 
ican windmills  have  far  exceeded  this 
record  of  usefulness.  These  latter  have 
the  sails  arranged  in  an  annylus  or  disk, 
the  sails  consisting  of  narrow  slats 
arranged  radially,  each  board  inclined  at 
a  constant  angle  of  weather.  In  what 
are  called  centrifugal  governor  mills  the 
slats  are  set  in  a  bar;  by  rotating  the 
bar  the  slats  are  brought  end  on  to  the 
wind,  the  action  resembling  the  shutting 
of  an  umbrella.     The  slats  are  held  up 


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to  the  wind  by  a  weight,  and  are  also 
connected  to  a  centrifugal  governor.  If 
the  speed  of  the  governor  increases,  the 
balls  fly  out  and  lift  the  weight,  and  at 
the  same  time  the  sails  are  partially 
furled.  There  are  five  hundred  wind- 
mill patents  in  America  alone.  If  a 
single  horse-power  wind-engine  were 
affixed  to  the  roof  of  every  London 
house,  think  of  the  enormous  saving  to 
the  hands,  the  legs,  and  the  backs  of  half 
a  million  housewives  and  domestic  ser- 
vants. Every  family  could  then  keep  its 
horse  or  at  least  its  horse-power;  every 
householder  could  afford  a  motor;  and, 
from  an  artistic  standpoint,  what  a  great 
gain  to  the  eye  it  would  be  to  see  Lon- 
don a  city  of  windmills. — Strand. 


Should  Vlvldection  Be  Abolished  ? 

g  OME  say  yes :  some  no.  Alexis  St. 
Martin  was  vivisected  in  spite  of 
himself,  with  having  the  fleshly  cover 
of  his  stomach  torn  off  by  a  shotgun: 
and  Dr.  Beaumont,  his  physician,  was 
not  very  anxious  to  put  the  covering  on 
again,  even  .if  he  could  have  done  so. 
He  made  very  valuable  discoveries  con- 
cerning the  process  of  digestion,  which 
could  not  have  been  accomplished  with- 
out that  fortunate-unfortunate  accident. 

But  this  was  different  from  taking 
some  helpless  animal,  and  making  it  suf- 
fer in  order  to  get  from  it  a  little  more 
knowledge  concerning  the  functions  of 
its  body.  And  if  this  is  permitted  to  go 
on,  how  can  we  be  sure  that  the  same 
process  will  not  be  perpetrated  upon 
human  beings  ?  Upon  condemned  crimi- 
nals ?  Upon  captives,  that  never  will  be 
able  to  tell  what  they  suffered — their 
deaths  being  attributed  to  other  causes  ? 
Upon  brave  men  who  secretly  submit  to 
it  in  consideration  of  a  sum  of  money 
paid  to  their  families?  Many  sell  their 
bodies,  so  to  speak,  after  death:  why 
not.  in  rare  cases,  before? 

A  physician  writes  from  London  to 
"Health  Culture'',  as  follows: 

"Every  one  who  is  interested  in  reform 
in  general,  and  health-reform  and  food- 


reform  in  particular,  must  be  interested 
in  human  itarianism,  and  the  Anti- Vivi- 
section cause. 

"The  attitude  of  those  who  go  in  for 
vivisection  is  quite  wrong ;  the  argument 
of  the  research  people,  as  they  call  them- 
selves, is  that,  because  their  data  has 
been  obtained  by  certain  methods,  there- 
fore no  other  methods  were  open  to  sci- 
ence ;  they  have  implied  that  science,  or 
what  they  mean  by  science,  does  not 
know  of  any  other  methods.  Even  if 
we  grant  that  some  of  the  data  obtained 
by  vivisection  and  inoculation  experi- 
ments have  value,  it  does  not  prove  that 
these  methods  were  the  best,  or  even 
that  they  were  necessary.  I  wish  to  sup- 
port those  statements  from  two  points  of 
view. 

"The  first  is  my  own.  For  many 
years  I  have  advised  people  about  health 
and  fitness ;  I  have  given  advice  as  to 
diet  and  abstinence,  exercise  and  mus- 
cular relaxing,  deep  and  full,  breathing, 
simple  water  treatments,  simple  mental 
helps,  and  so  on  ;  of  all  the  advice  which 
I  have  given,  I  cannot  trace  any  items  to 
information  supplied  by  experience  in 
vivisection  or  inoculation;  every  prin- 
ciple which  I  have  applied  has  been  de- 
rived by  different  means. 

"Secondly,  I  have,  working  with  me. 
an  expert  who  makes  an  analysis  of 
blood,  urine,  etc. ;  by  a  prick  with  a 
needle,  he  gets  a  drop  of  blood ;  beyond 
this  there  is  no  vivisection :  the  work  is 
chiefly  microscopic:  none  of  the  facts  of 
physiological  chemistry,  which  he  relies 
on,  are  supplied  by  experiments  in  vivi- 
section or  inoculation;  his  methods  for 
the  correct  diagnosis,  on  which  we  base 
our  advice,  are  independent  of  these 
branches  of  science. 

"Without  vivisection  and  inoculation 
we  can  give  a  satisfactory  and  sensible 
treatment  which  prevents  or  removes 
disease  and  produces  health,  and  that  we 
owe  nothing  to  these  branches  of  re- 
search, is  an  argument  against  vivisec- 
tion and  inoculation. 

"As  to  the  horrors  which  have  been 
perpetrated  under  cover  of  these  names, 
everyone  who  becomes  a  food-reformer 

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along-  sensible  lines  can  scarcely  bear  the 
thought  of  them. 

"One  more  argument.  It  is  generally 
admitted  that  the  disease  of  the  age  is 
neurasthenia;  I  think  no  open-minded 
person  could  claim  that  the  prevention 
or  cure  of  neurasthenia  has  been  aided 
either  by  vivisection  or  inoculation  ex- 
periments. 

"If  it  be  maintained  that  uric  acid  dis- 
orders are  more  prevalent  than  neuras- 
thenia, let  us  ask,  with  regard  to  the 
treatment  of  uric  acid  disorders,  what 
contribution  of  any  value  has  come  from 
vivisection  or  inoculation?" 


The  Model  Woman. 

C  HE  ariseth  early  in  the  morning  and 
retireth  late  at  night,  and  eateth  not 
the  bread  of  idleness:  yea,  she  maketh 
her  own  bread  and  buyeth  not  yeast  of 
the  baker.  She  maketh  also  her  own 
cakes,  and  pies,  and  soap,  and  candles, 
and  soups,  and  sauce,  and  pickles,  and 
preserves,  and  puddingfs,  and  dough- 
nuts, and  dumplins^fs.  She  washeth  ;  she 
moppe-th  also  and  ironeth. 

In  the  spring  she  teareth  up  the  car- 
pets and  pryeth  out  the  windows,  and 
whitewasheth  and  cleaneih  from  garret 
to  cellar.  Then  she  tacketh  down  the 
new  carpets  and  d^rnetb  the  old  and 
maketh  j^reat  spreading  mats  to  cover 
the  darns  thereof. 

She  seweth  also  and  quilteth,  and 
cutteth  carpet-rags,  coloring  much  and 
dyeing  many  times.  She  maketh  the 
clothes  of  her  children ;  and  concerning 
the  garments  of  big  John,  she  maketh 
them  over  /for  little)  John,  for  she  saith, 
"Shoddy  is  dear,  and  the  old  will  last 
longer  than  the  new."  Her  own  dresses 
she  maketh  when  at  any  time  she  get- 
teth  any,  and  these  she  weareth  long  and 
buyeth  no  more  forever,  that  Angelica 
may  have  many  dresses  and  go  to  school 
and  graduate. 

Also  she  goeth  not  abroad,  except  on 
Sundays,  when  she  sitteth  meekly  in  the 
corner  in  the  shadow  of  the  window,  lest 
her  old  bonnet  and  shabby  gloves  should 


be  discerned  by  the  children.  Neither 
goeth  she  to  hear  what  is  her  sphere — 
whether  to  go  out  or  to  stay  at  home ; 
and  thereby  she  saveth  a  quarter. 

She  stayeth  also  at  all  times  with  little 
John,  because  big  John  wanteth  not  little 
John  to  assemble  on  the  street  corners. 
But  little  John  crieth  and  saith  "Why 
can't  I  go  out  to  play  high-spy  and 
mumblety-peg  with  the  other  boys?" 

Then  the  model  woman  saith  unto 
little  John,  **,Go  not  forth  my  son  into 
the  streets  to  learn  the  ways  of  saloons, 
but  be  thou  like  thy  father,  who  stayeth 
at  his  office,  and  smoketh  not,  neither 
playeth  billiards  like  ungodly  men;  or 
like  the  nice  college  boys,  who  are  so 
wise  and  well-behaved."  But  little  John 
"winketh  with  his  eyes"  and  saitii, 
"What  does  a  woman  know?  for  does 
not  father  smoke  all  the  time  at  the 
office  and  play  billiards  when  he  is  com- 
ing home  ?  And  do  not  the  college  boys 
play  pranks  when  a  professor  is  not 
with  them?" 

Then  little  John  readeth  his  Mother 
Goose,  and  when  he  is  sleepy  his  mother 
tucketh  him  in  bed,  and  waiteth  for  big 
John  to  come  from  "down  town."  And 
by  and  by  Ansrelica  cometh  in  from  a 
party,  and  big  John  also  cometh  in,  and 
the  model  woman  riseth  and  stirreth  the 
cakes  and  setteth  the  house  in  order  and 
sleepeth  hastily  till  the  five  o'clock  bell 
rings,  when  she  ariseth  and  stirreth  the 
cakes  and  goeth  over  the  work  of  the 
day,  yea,  the  work  of  three  hundred  and 
sixtyfive  days ;  which  addeth  wrinkles 
to  her  brow  and  tingeth  her  hair  with 
gray. 

But  Angelica  riseth  not,  for  she  hath 
a  bad  cold,  and  had  a  beau  last  night; 
by  and  by  she  hath  another  beau,  and 
then  she  graduate th,  and  when  she  hath 
earned  fourteen  dollars  and  twentyfive 
cents  teaching  school,  she  marrieth  Phil- 
etus,  and  her  husband  taketh  her  home 
to  his  folks.  But  the  mother  of  Philetus 
is  not  a  model  woman.  She  scoldeth 
much  that  Angelica  is  long  at  lacing  up 
her  shoes,  and  is  tardy  at  breakfast, 
and  is  good  for  nothing  on  general 
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Then  Angelica  groweth  wrathy  and 
crieth  aloud,  and  goeth  into  hysterics 
and  teareth  the  hair  of  Philetus,  and  bit- 
eth  his  mother,  who  saith,  '"You  can't 
skeer  me ;  Tve  seen  too  much  of  sich 
actions." 

Then  Angelica  saith  if  she  has  got  to 
live  with  his  folk?,  she'll  go  home  to  ma, 
and  Philetus  stayeth  with  his  pa. 

And  the  model  woman  goeth  on  rising 
early  and  retiring  late,  till  at  last  the 
night  Cometh  when  she  stirreth  not  the 
cakes,  and  riseth  not  in  the  morning, 
but  turneth  her  face  to  the  wall  and 
saith,  "I  am  sick,  I  am  sick.  I  am  so 
tired."  Then  she  foldeth  her  hands 
meekly  and  murmureth,  "My  children, 
oh,  my  children",  and  dieth.  On  earth 
a  model  woman  less,  in  heaven  an  angel 
more.  And  the  good  husband  goeth 
and  buyeth  her  a  tombstone,  and  then 
looketh  about  cautiously  but  industri- 
ously, but  we  hope  unsuccessfully,  to 
find  another  model  woman. 


An  OaBiB  with  a  History. 


I 


N  the  mountain  range  of  El  Guettera, 
writes  Captain  A.  H.  Haywood  in  the 
July  IVidc  World,  I  came  across  that 
precious  and  rare  thing  in  the  desert,  a 
clear  spring.  Of  course,  these  springs 
are  very  few  and  far  between,  and  there 
is  a  tragic  little  story  attached  to  this 
particular  one.  A  man  and  his  wife  were 
making  their  way  across  tlie  desert  not 
long  ago,  and  their  water  supply  ran 
short.  They  struggled  on  weak  and 
parched  with  thirst.  One  by  one  their 
camels  died,  and  at  last,  overcome  with 
suffering,  the  woman  died  too.  The 
man  dragged  himself  painfully  onward 
in  the  weary  search  for  water.  It  was 
all  in  vain,  however,  and  at  last  he,  too, 
gave  up  the  struggle :  and  tortured  with 
a  burning  thirst,  death  came  upon  him 
and  mercifully  relieved  his  suffering. 
Someone  passing  that  way  soon  after 
found  his  body — lying  barely  a  hundred 
yards  from  the  little  mountain  spring  of 
El  Guettera.  Little  he  knew  how  close 
he  was  to  bis  goal,  poor  fellow ! 


East  Oenterboro. 

[From  the  East  Centerboro  Intelligent.] 

D  Y  the  advice  and  with  the  aid  of  Eh 
L.  Barker,  Miss  Jane  Esther  Sam- 
ple, who  has  written  more  or  less  all  the 
time  during  the  last  few  years,  has  con- 
sented to  pen  her  literary  paroxysms  for 
the  Intelligent.  These  are  not  to  mean 
that  she  has  been  in  a  real  paroxysm 
concerning  literary  matters,  but  that  she 
is  to  tell  to  the  world  how  she  succeeded 
in  becoming  such  a  great  writer,  and  the 
authors  for  whom  she  has  suffered  par- 
oxysms of  fondness.  Mr.  Barker  points 
out  the  fact  with  great  truth  that  other 
authors,  especially  Mr.  Howells,  some- 
times do  this,  and  that  it  should  be  per- 
formed with  the  proper  amount  of  refer- 
ence to  the  author  who  had  the  parox- 
ysms, lie  has  also  been  kind  enough  to 
fix  them  over  a  little. — [Ed.  Intelligent.] 

JANE    ESTHER    SAMPLE's    LITERARY 
PAROXYSMS. 

I  do  not  know  how  I  happened  to  run 
across  the  novelist  that  I  love  better 
than  I  love  any  other  that  I  ever  n;ef; 
but  I  whisper  this  to  my  readers:  that 
I  early  read  Sylvanus  Cobb,  Jr.,  and  that 
I  drew  from  him,  as  I  may  say,  much 
of  that  ability  which  I  now  possess.  I 
think  that  if  I  have  any  choice,  I  should 
say  that  I  choose  him.  I  do  not  mean  t^) 
say  that  I  have  not  read  other  writers ; 
but  I,  who  was  then  I,  am  now  another 
I,  and  I  still  hold  to  Sylvanus.  Most  of 
my  friends  with  whom  I  have  read  the 
Gunmaker  of  Moscow  and  other  stories 
that  I  have  enjoyed  with  them,  are  now 
dead,  I  believe;  but  I  remember  very 
well  how  they  enjoyed  my  enjoyment  of 
them — indeed  do  I ! 

I  should  have  liked  very  much  to 
have  known  Tupper.  He  existed  in  my 
time,  but  I  hardly  think  I  appreciated 
him  at  the  time.  I  do  now ;  and  indeed, 
I  am  not  sure  but  I  did  then.  Indeed  I 
did  feel  every  thing  he  said  that  I  find 
now  could  have  possibly  aided  me  in  my 
preparing  to  be  the  writer  that  I  am.  I 
at  one  time  commenced  writing  like 
Tupper;  but  Tupper  ig  hard  to  imitate, 

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and  nobody  would  read  it.  I  see  now 
that  I  made  my  mistake  in  that  I  did  not 
do  something  wholly  of  my  own.  Tiip- 
per  was  undoubtedly  a  favorite  of  mine. 
I  have  long  thought  it  more  discredit- 
able to  our  taste  and  less  to  his  talent, 
that  he  is  not  now  considered  the  lead- 
ing English  poet.  '  I  think,  however,  that 
if  I  was  hard  pressed,  I  could  better  him 
a  little  here  and  therj^;  but  after  I  had 
bettered  him  here  and  there,  I  am  not 
sure  that  I  should  like  him  so  well  as  I 
do  now.  I  will  not  pretend  to  say  why 
others  like  him  less  than  I  do ;  1  am  out 
of  patience  with  such  people,  and  I  have 
small  regard  for  their  taste. 

My  affections  have  been  terribly  Mat- 
tered in  my  various  literary  paroxysms, 
but  I  am  sure  my  readers  who  may  hap- 
pen to  love  history,  will  be  glad  to  know 
that  I,  too,  have  always  loved  history. 
Perhaps  I  shall  not  be  believed,  when  I 
mention  the  fact  that  I  only  read  Milton 
last  year,  and  that  I  have  yet  to  say 
whether  Virgil,  Homer,  and  Euripides 
meet  with  my  approval.  I  may  tell  this 
later  in  another  series  of  paroxysms. 
My  readers  will  also  be  surprised,  when 
I  inform  them  that  I  am  yet  to  know 
whether  I  approve  of  the  Moody  and 
Sankey  Collections  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  4,  5, 
and  6. 

I   have,  during  the   past  years 

and  months,  read  carefully  some 

seven  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty- 
four  books,  besides  the  head-lines  of  a 
great  many  newspapers,  which  I  have 
counted  as  fictions.  Some  of  them  I 
have  been  moved  by — some  I  have  not. 
r  have  written  a  great  deal  during  that 
time;  my  friends  all  Say  to  me.  Go  on 
and  write  more  and  more  and  more  and 
more,  and  so  say  I,  and  you  may  look 
for  additional  literary  paroxysms. 


Short  Editorials, 

A  man's  stomach  generally  goes  along 
with  his  dreams. 

♦    *    * 

Interference  with  pleasures  is  one  of 
Nature's  great  industries. 


Th«  Brook. 

fUf  Y  meadow  brook  slides  through  the 
sedges  green, 
While  o'er  it  wave  brown  clubs  of 

bladed  flags ; 
Sometimes  it  hurries  on,  sometimes  it 
lags 
In  open  space  or  shady  nook  unseen — 
But   still   it  sings  where   water-cresses 
lean, 
Or  where  the  rushes  stand  in  jointed 

mail; 
In  sun,  or  gloom,  its  song  doth  never 
fail, 
But     gurgles     low     its     ferny     banks 

between — 
Sing  ever  on,  O  songful  meadow  stream ! 
While    seeking    aye    thy    boundless 

ocean  home. 
And   nearing   it    with  all  thy  curves 
and  turns; 
Thou  flowest  on  as  though  a  quiet  dream, 
While    ragged    boneset    spreads    its 

creamy  foam, 
And  scarlet  cardinal's  lighted  signal 
burns. 


"FoUow  Me," 


^^HAT  power   in   that   divine   com- 
mand 

That  all  the  twelve  obeying. 
Arose  as  one,  with  clasp  of  hand 
For  service,  an  unselfish  band, 

No  vain  regrets  delaying. 

That  there  was  one  of  sordid  aim 

And  one  whose  stern  denial 
Should  one  day  his  forbearance  claim — 
This     brought     not     banishment     nor 
blame ; — 
Far  hence  his  hour  of  trial. 


And  how  he  loved  them  every  one, 
Their  human  faults  excusing, 

Gently  or  strongly  leading  on 

That  upward  sunward  path  where  shone 
Heaven's  virtues  for  their  choosing! 
^EANiE  Oliver  Smith. 

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Neutral  in  Politics, 

T^OT  as  a  partisan,  but  as  an  impartial 
spectator,  Every  Where  is  look- 
ing upon  the  great  political  conflict  now 
taking  place.  It  will  next  momh  have  a 
variety  of  statements,  from  people  of 
different  opinions  and  prejudices,  as 
last  month  and  the  month  before:  is 
gathering  them  up,  with  the  view  of 
again  presenting  the  most  trenchant  of 

them  to  its  readers,  and  will  continue     T"?.^°^*^!':y '^"^*^'■^"y_^"P?°'^'^,*? 
to  do  this,  from  issue  to  issue,  during 


are  always  ready  to  follow  it  if  you  give 
them  a  chance,  our  envy  is  very  much 
reduced  in  quantity,  if  not  entirely 
removed. 

For  instance,  no  doubt  the  much-to-be 
pitied  mother  of  the  lunatic-murderer, 
Harry  Thaw,  is  perhaps  more  to  be  pit- 
ied than  any  other  woman  in  the  coun- 
try today — however  poor  in  purse. 


Hotel  Carelessness. 


the  campaign :  but  will,  as  a  Magazine, 
take  no  part  in  the  nation-wide  contro- 
versy. It  recognizes  the  fact  that  it  is 
read  by  people  of  all  parties  and  opin- 
ions, and  that,  as  far  as  possible,  they 
are  entitled  to  expression  on  its  pages — 
with  no  sign  from  its  editor,  either 
of  approbation  or  disapprobation,  con- 
cerning measures  or  men.  It  will  look 
upon  the  strife  with  a  kindly  feeling 
toward  all,  and  use  the  various  events 
and  utterances  that  will  come  forth, 
merely  as  material  for  the  instruction 
and  amusement  of  its  readers. 


The  Blessing  and  Curse  of  Wealth. 

nr  O  one  not  burdened  with  very  much 
worldly  pelf,  wealth  "looks  good." 
Handsome  clothes,  dainty  food,  pleasant 
surroundings — all  seem  legitimate  ob- 
jects of  the  most  intense  envy. 

But  when  we  look  at  the  curses  that 


be  a  home — and  a  safe  home — ^fo- 
whoever  makes  his  temporary  abiding- 
place  there.  They  are  its  guests,  and 
pay  for  the  privilege,  whatever  it  asks. 
Should  it  not  use  the  utmost  care  to 
keep  them  from  being  robbed  and  mur- 
dered ? 

Should  not  the  character  and  former 
life  of  every  servant  be  closely  investi- 
gated, before  he  or  she  is  admitted  into 
the  house? 

They  have  the  run  of  the  guest's 
room;  they  can  examine  his  baggage, 
unless  he  take§  pain  to  lock  it  up,  which 
he  seldom  does ;  they  have  really  super- 
vision over  his  very  life. 

But  what  particular  care  does  the 
average  hotel  take,  to  secure  proper 
conduct  from  these  employes?  Only  a 
few  months  ago,  a  seventeen-year-old 
lad,  who  had  been  caught  in  dishonesty 
before  coming  to  New  York,  climbs  into 
the  rooms  of  a  deaf  old  man,  tries  to 
chloroform  him,  finally  chokes  him  to 
death,  robs  the  body,  and  gets  away 
with  his  plunder — no  one  but  the  victim 
having  seen  him. 


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The  little  wretch  had  been  discharged, 
a  day  or  two  before,  as  "suspected  of 
dishonesty":  but  he  seems  to  have  still 
had  the  run  of  the  house,  and,  accord- 
ing to  his  own  statement,  carried  a  pass- 
key, with  which  he  could  unlock  any 
of  the  rooms.  Upon  being  discharged 
from  this  hotel,  he  had  immediately 
obtained  a  similar  position  in  another 
one — evidently  without  the  recommen- 
dation of  his  former  employers,  or  any 
one  else. 

How  many  guests  had  h/e  robbed, 
before  ?  How  many  travelers  had  missed 
one  or  more  articks,  and  had  not  time 
to  "bother"  about  it?  How  many  had 
lost  valuable  jewels,  and  been  unable  to 
detect  the  thief?  How  many  have  been 
found  dead  in  hotels,  and  announced  as 
"suicides",  when  they  were  really  the 
victims  of  servant-murderers? 

Probably  the  majority  of  the  attaches 
of  most  hotels,  are  honest :  but  one  bad 
one  is  more  than  enough. 

Strict  laws  should  be  passed  concern- 
inq:  the  liability  of  inn-keepers  in  such 
matters,  and,  more  than  that,  enforced. 


Editorial  Correspondence. 

En  Route — on  train. 
A  DA'SH  out  among  the  schools  and  col- 
leges,  and  back  again ! — it  is  joyously 
pleasant,  even  if  laborious.  The  leaves  and 
flowers  of  June,  that  form  almost  a  glittering 
avenue  from  one  railroad-station  to  another; 
the  towns  where  commencements  are  lo  be 
held,  in  gala  mood,  and  perhaps  gaily 
dressed;  teachers  and  pupils  keyed  up  to  a 
high  pitch  of  excitement;  and  so,  political 
conventions  may  come  and  go  at  Chicago 
and  Baltimore— but  to  the  student,  the  mem- 
ory of  this  blessed  day  will  go  on  forever. 

So  yesterday  afternoon  at  five,  I  took  the 
"Wolverine"  fast-express-train  for  Michigan 
(that  was  the  state  into  which  I  was  first  go- 
ing). It  is  not  such  terribly  hard  work  to 
travel,  nowadays,  so  long  as  you  are  used  to 
it,  make  yourself  at  home,  keep  on  the  big 
trains,  avail  )rourself  of  every  opportunity  for 
comfort,  and,. luckily,  keep  out  of  smash-ups. 
The    dining-car    tliis    time  is  superb,  and 


really  gives  you  something  fit  to  eat,  though 
it  charges  a  price  that  convinces  you  it  is 
thoroughly  aware  of  the  "high  cost  of  liv- 
ing"; the  waiter  is  a  Chesterfield  in  animated 
bronze,  and  thanks  you  devoledly  for  what 
you  give  him  independently  of  the  above- 
mentioned  prices;  the  porter  of  the  sleeping- 
car  is  good-natured  and  obliging;  our  fellow- 
guests  are  orderly  and  decorous,  and  do  not 
look  as  if  they  would  silore  when  night 
comes ;  the  lower  berth  into  which  I  tumble,  is 
almost  as  good  as  my  bed,  and  better  than 
most  beds ;  and  sleep,  to  one  who  has  at  one 
time  and  another  and  in  cne  way  and  another, 
travelled  a  few  millions  of  miles,  and  is  used 
to  curves  and  jolts,  naturally  comes  very  soon. 
The  Hudson  River,  and  the  histories  and 
legends  that  linger  upon  its  banks,  gradually 
sink  out  of  the  mind's  sight. 

Still  En  Route. 

Alas  and  alack!  In  the  morning,  I. awaken, 
believe  that  I  am  not  so  very  far  from  De- 
troit, and  decide  that  it  is  about  time  to  gain 
a  series  of  perpendicular  positions.  But,  un- 
happily, there  is  plen.y  of  time  to  "turn  over" 
and  go  to  sleep  again;  Detroit  is  still  afar  off, 
and  St.  Thomas.  Canada,  will  be  the  next 
populous  town  that  shall  greet  us. 

While  all  of  us  were  sleeping,  a  freight- 
train  went  wrong— two,  in  fact— and  the  New 
York  Central  "metals",  as  the  'English  call 
car-rails,  were  littered  for  furlong  after  fur- 
long. The  Wolverine  Express  could  not  get 
past  it,  and  had  to  return  nearly  to  Albany, 
cross  the  Mohawk  River,  and  go  to  Buffalo 
on  the  West  Shore  track:  and  so  it  was,  that 
I  arrived  in  Detroit  nearly  four  hours  late, 
lost  the  northern  train,  and  missed  my  en- 
gagement: for  there  was  not  time,  the  rail- 
road-managers informed  me,  to  get  through, 
even  with  a  special  train.  Heaven  speed  the 
day  of  practical  aeroplanes! 

A  "wire"  to  the  Lecture  Committee,  sev- 
eral hundred  miles  off,  an  asking  of  them  if 
they  could  postpone  the  engagement  for  a 
fraaion  of  a  week,  a  gracious  reply  that  they 
could,  and  the*  pitching  of  a  room-tent  in  a 
large  hotel  near  the  shore  of  the  Detroit 
River. 

A  different  sort  of  stream  is  this  Detroit 
River,  from  the  one  which  greeted  me  a  few 
years  ago,  when  I  came  here  to  the  City  of 
the  Straits  to  edit  at  one  of  its  newspapers. 
Then,  a  room 


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with  now  and  then  a  string  of  sailing-vessels 
coursing  up  or  down  the  stream  from  one  big 
lake  to  another:  what  steamers  there  were 
seemed  to  have  a  sort  of  dignified  hush  along 
w^ith  them,  for  vapor-propelled  craft.  Even 
since  coming  to  New  York,  I  can  remember, 
the  river  used  to  look  lonely,  as  compared 
with  those  of  our  great  Eastern  metsopoliw. 

But  now  J  Sorry  am  I  that  I  engaged  rooms 
looking  upon  this  watery  highway,  for  this 
night  of  waiting  for  convenient  trains.  There 
is  scarcely  a  minute  but  some  one  of  the 
monsters  of  this  river-deep  howls  at  another, 
screams  at  people  on  the  shore  whom  it  wants 
to  come  with  it,  yells  at  the  earth,  the  air, 
the  sky,  or  whatever  may  be  nigh  at  hand  or 
far  away.  The  iron-ore  steamers  on  their 
way  from  and  to  the  upper  lakes,  their  black 
shark-like  hulls  well-nigh  a  score  of  rods  long, 
\pith  a  pilot-house  "built  upon  the  bow  anfl  a 
cabin  on  the  stern,  pass  each  o:her  every 
few  minutes,  giving  amiable  growls  of  greet- 
ing, which  echo  to  and  fro  among  the  hills  of 
Canada,  just  across  the  river.  All  of  which 
is  interesting,  but  not  resting. 

No,  Detroit  is  not  now  the  dear  old  dreamy 
city  it  used  to  be:  but  a  great  rustling, 
bustling,  hustling  camp  of  commerce,  making 
faces  at  Chicago,  and  not  even  pretending  to 
understand  why  it  shouldn't  some  day  be  at 
least  the  second  city  of  America.  It  has 
already  caused  more  people  to  mortgage  their 
homes  so  as  to  buy  automobiles,  than  any 
other  city  in  the  world. 

It  is  full  of  history.  Not  far  from  where 
I  am  writing,  this  minute,  Lewis  Cass,  once 
a  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  bought  a 
farm  of  500  acres,  and  grew  rich  farming — 
city  lots  and  outside  lands  speculations.  He 
also  knew  how  to  deal  gently  but  thriftily 
with  the  Indians  all  about,  and  was  a  sort 
of  nineteenth-century  Penn  to  them.  He  was 
in  his  day  one  of  the  most  popular  citizens 
of  America;  but  like  many  another  favorite 
and  eagerly  willing  son,  he  could  not  dig  the 
Presidency  up  from  either  end  of  the  rain- 
bow. 

Would  like  to  walk,  and  drive,  and  sail,  and 
swim  all  about  here,  and  call  on  and  visit  with 
an  hundred  well-loved  friends — just  as  I  used 
to  do:  but  a  week  of  day-and-night  travel, 
with  talks  and  original  recitations  strung  con- 
stantly in  between,  makes  one  hearken  when  the 
drowsy-eyed  old  god  Mbrpneus  comes  to  him 


and  says,  "You  must  lie  down,  become  uncon- 
scious, and  be  as  dead."  I  can  feel  intima- 
tions of  his  approach:  he  will  soon  be  here. 

Dear  old  Morpheus !  What  could  we  do  in 
the  world,  if  it  were  not  for  him? — Die.  And 
the  nearer  we  can  let  him  bring  us  to  the 
seeming  of  death,  the  better.  A  straightfor- 
ward, dreamless  sleep  does  more  for  a  human 
being  than  any  other  one  thing  in  the  world, 
except  religion,  and  even  more  than  that,  if 
his  religion  shouldn't  happen  to  be  the  right 
one.  I  have  been  pretty  nearly  all  over  a 
good  part  of  the  world.  I  have  railroaded, 
stage-coached,  bicycled,  motored,  ballooned, 
horsebacked,  walked,  and  have  stood  in  front 
of  a  great  many  hundred  audiences,  at  the 
close  of  fatiguing  journeys;  and  my  only 
stimulus  has  been  sleep.  Lecturer  after  lec- 
turer and  reader  after  reader,  full  of  bright 
hopes  and  glorious  talents,  has  gone  down  be- 
fore my  eyes,  on  account  of  stimulating  to 
keep  his  strength  before  exac.ing  audiences. 
One  of  the  best  woman  lecturers  that  ever 
charmed  America,  is  a  wreck  to-day,  and  has 
been  for  years,  on  account  of  the  rum-fiend. 

Morpheus  has  come.  Welcome,  drowsy  old 
god!  Wake  me  up  about  breakfast-time  to- 
morrow morning! 

Chicago. 

Too  much  excitement  for  a  dreamer :  I  shall, 
please  Heaven,  leave  this  babel  of  stealthy 
whispers  and  maddening  sounds  called  a 
National  Convention,  and  hie  to  more  con- 
genial scenes.  And  yet  a  thousand  delegates, 
ruly  or  unruly,  is  an  inspiring  sight — con- 
genial or  uncongenial. 

For  instance — when  a  deadlock  occurred  in 
this  very  city,  the  issue  being  whether  Gen- 
eral Grant  should  get  a  third  term,  I  was 
glad  to  have  an  opportunity  of  seeing  one  of 
the  most  dramatic  events  that  ever  occurred 
within  convention  walls. 

The  voting  had  gone  on  day  after  day, 
until  the  delegates  were  all  tired  out,  and  the 
country,  too,  for  that  matter.  The  Michigan 
Central  Railroad  on  its  way  to  its  station  ran 
along  within  a  few  s.eps  of  the  convention 
hall,  and  thousands  of  passengers,  as  they 
per  day  went  by,  gazed  longingly  at  the  out- 
side of  the  grim  walls.  The  cars  were  com- 
pelled to  proceed  very  slowly  through  the 
city,  and  it  was  easy  to  swing  on  or  off  as 
they  went  along.  I  was  coming  .into  the  city, 
and  instead  of  gazing  longingly  at  the  big 
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hall,  dropped  oflF  at  its  very  back  door.  A 
few  delegates  had  wandered  out,  and  were 
standing  around,  getting  a  little  fresh  air,  in 
contrast  to  the  "hot  air"  within.  I  heard  and 
felt  the  activity  going  on  within  the  hall,  and 
felt  an  intense  desire  to  be  there.  I  knew 
there  was  no  use  of  going  around  an  eighth 
of  a  mile  to  the  front  doprs,  for  I  had  no 
ticket,  and  there  were  no  seats  to  be  had  in 
the  galleries,  anyway. 

An  inspiration,  or  whatever  you  call  it, 
seized  me.  I  began  to  act  as  much  like  a 
tired,  jaded,  worn-out  delegate  as  I  could.  It 
seems  to  me  that  I  yawned  once  or  twice  and 
inserted  my  knuckles  into  my  eye-sockets. 
The  guards  (themselves  tired)  evidently  be- 
gan to  look  at  me  as  a  poor,  jaded,  delegate, 
out  a  few  moments  for  a  breath  of  lake- 
ozone;  and  pitied  me  when  I  finally  lounged 
"back"  through  the  door  into  the  convention. 

Mercy! — ^before  I  knew  it,  I  was  right  up 
on  the  platform !  There  was  at  my  very  feet 
a  huge  concourse  of  delegates — any  one  of 
whom  had  a  better  right  there  than  the  sub- 
scriber within  those  sacred  precincts.  The 
famous  Senator  Hoar,  permanent  President 
of  the  Convention,  sat  within  a  few  feet 
of  the  chair  into  which  your  friend  the 
new-comer  carelessly  dropped.  Don  Cameron 
was  right  behind  me.  Roscoe  Conkling  was 
down  on  the  main  floor,  within  a  few  inches 
of  the  edge  of  the  platform.  Ben  Harrison, 
who  was  afterwards  to  be  President  himself, 
was  three  hundred  feet  in  front  of  me,  and 
eighty  feet  to  the  right.  I,  a  political  nonen- 
tity,  was  surrounded  by  political  giants! 

But  the  fact  seemed  to  make  no  particular 
impression  on  any  one;  there  was  tpo  much 
excitement  in  that  great  sultry  hall,  with  its 
thermometers  up  in  the  nineties,  for  any  one 
to  throw  intruders  out.  They  were  voting 
and  had  been  voting,  day  after  day,  to  see 
if  Grant  (or  rather  Mrs.  Grant,  for  she  was 
the  really  ambitious  one  of  the  family) 
should  have  a  third  term. 

One  monotonous  vote  after  another  was 
taken — and  then — Wisconsin  gave  her  four- 
teen votes  to  James  A.  Garfield:  and  there 
took  place  one  of  the  most  extraordinary 
scenes  ever  witnessed  in  any  room.  The 
whole  conven.ion  was  carried  away  by  a 
mental  cyclone.  The  tension  was  relieved, 
and  with  a  bang.  Delegation  after  delega- 
tion rushed  forward  to  change  its  vote  to  the 


coming  Ohioan.  He  was  standing  in  the 
crowd  during  the  tumult,  looking  grand  and 
self-contained.  Several  of  the  delegations  ran 
up  and  made  an  impromptu  awning  of  their 
banners  over  hin'  Peal  after  peal  of  ap- 
plause hurled  its  way  up,  down,  and  across 
the  vast  temple  of  politics.  Silk  hats  were 
flung  toward  the  lofty  ceiling,  with  appar- 
ently very  little  chance  of  their  owners'  get- 
ting them  back.  Men  deliberately  (?)  took 
off  their  coats,  leaned  over  the  edge  of  the 
gallery,  and  waved  and  "flopped"  the  dis- 
carded garments  up  and  down,  and  in  every 
direction  excepting  toward  the  proper  position 
upon  their  shoulders.  Men  hugged  each 
other,  pounded  each  other,  embraced  each 
other,    waltzed   with    each   other. 

Owosso,  Mich. 

Good-bye,  Chicago,  with  all  your  interest- 
ing memories,  and  your  gfrand  realities  and 
startling  absurdities  of  the  present;  here  is 
something  of  more  importance  than  a  na- 
tional convention:  the  Commencement  of  a 
High  School.  The  men  in  the  former  are 
striving  to  decide  who  shall  rule  a  hundred 
million  of  people:  in  the  latter  is  gradually 
being  decided  who"^  shall  rule  in  future  days 
over  perhaps  a  hundred  and  fifty  or  two  hun- 
dred millions.  There  are  perhaps  in  this 
audience  of  2,000,  boys  (and  girls)  who  will 
be  governors,  who  will  be  congressmen,  sena- 
tors—perhaps presidents.  There  may  be 
capitalists,  generals,  editors,  authors,  and 
philosophers.  They  may  be  some  of  the 
worst  criminals  that  are  to  infest  the  coun- 
try. Mtich  depends  upon  how  the  schools 
are  conducted. 

I  have  addressed  a  good  week-full  of  these 
commencements  at  high  schols  and  colleges, 
and  every  one  of  them  has  gladdened  my 
heart. 

Would  that  I  had  space  here,  to  tell  of  the 
brilliant  appearance  that  this  grand  exhibit 
of  education  makes! 


Short  Editorials. 

When  a  man  has  not  strength  of  soul 
to  have  religion,  he  is  likely  to  pick  up 
a  few  superstitjons  instead. 

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when  (lone  with  them,  and  you  will 
spend  half  your  life  hunting  for  them. 

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Jesus  Ohrist,  the  Founder  of  Mod- 
ern  Democracy. 

By  Rev.  Charles  Edward  Stowe. 

"He  who  will  be  greatest  among  you 
let  him  be  your  servant." 

CHRISTIANITY   AND  CHRIST. 

T^HERE  has  been  too  often  a  wide 
difference  between  what  is  popu- 
larly called  Christianity,  and  what 
Jesus  lived  and  taught.  He  gave  life, 
and  men  have  turned  it  into  doctrine. 
He  gave  liberty,  and  men  have  turned 
it  into  bondage.  He  gave  Good  News, 
and  men  have  turned  it  into  "Christian- 
ity", Churchianity,  Inanity,  and  even 
Insanity.  Read  Gibbon's  "Decline  and 
Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire"  and  see  how 
men,  for  centuries  professing  to  be  the 
followers  of  Jesus,  acted  like  the  devil. 
lYes,  and  in  the  name  of  Christianity 
and  Christ ! 

To  know  what  true  Christianity  is, 
we  must  look  to  Christ  himself. 

CHRISTIANITY    AND    DEMOCRACY   THE 

same  thing. 

Jesus  was  the  first  true  democrat. 
"The  common  people  heard  him  gladly", 
for  he  was  of  the  common  people.  He 
said :  "Whosoever  among  you  will  be 
.greatest  let  him  be  your  servant."  "I 
am  among  you  as  him  that  serveth." 
"One  is  your  Master,  even  Christ,  and 
all  ye  are  brethren!"  All  equal,  all 
kings  and  priests  unto  God!  What  is 
this  but  the  real  and  true  charter  of 
Democracy  ? 

Why   do   we  revere   the   memory   of 


Washington  and  Lincoln  ?  Because  they 
were  the  servants  of  the  people.  They 
washed  the  people's  feet  as  Jesus  did, 
and  set  them  in  the  ways  of  liberty  and 
truth.  Absolutely  unselfish  they  were, 
and  with  such  men  for  leaders,  ours  is  a 
government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
and  for  the  people ;  but  when  selfishness 
gets  in,  and  greed,  and  public  office  is 
made  the  stepping-stone  to  wealth  and 
special  privilege,  and  people  are  plun- 
dered by  robber-tariffs,  then  a  govern- 
ment of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for 
the  people,  changes  into  a  government 
of  rascals,  by  rascals,  for  the  rich. 
The  good  shepherd  gives  his  life 
for  the  sheep;  but  the  rascal  shears 
them  ancj  runs  away!  with  the  wool. 
Think  of  men  that  in  Senate  and  House 
make  merchandise  of  the  people,  and  rob 
them !  Why  does  it  cost  so  much  to  live 
today?    Turn  the  rascals  out! 

ANCIENT    and    MODERN    DEMOCRACY. 

All  ancient  democracies  rested  on  an 
iniquitous  injustice  in  the  way  of  slav- 
ery and  social  inequality.  There  was  no 
such  thing  as  universal  suffrage  under 
ancient  democracy.  The  rights  of  the 
citizen  alone  interested  them.  They 
knew  nothing  of  the  rights  of  man. 
They  had  no  conception  of  humanity  a^ 
we  have^  One  thing  only  did  ancient 
democracy  contribute  to  modem  democ- 
racy: that  is  the  conception  that  law 
should  express  the  will  of  the  people, 
and  that  the  voice  of  the  people  is  the 
voice  of  God.     Vox  populi  vox  Dei! 

In  all  ancient  civilizations  we  find  law 
thought  of  as  something  revealed  snper- 


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naturally  by  God  himself,  and  therefore 
as  unchangeable  and  unalterable  through 
the  popular  will.  But  in  Athens  and 
other  democracies  in  ancient  times,  the 
people  came  to  realize  their  power  to 
make  laws  for  themselves:  hence  the 
phrase,  lex  est  quod  popultis  jubet  atque 
constituit.  Law  is  what  the  people  deter- 
mine and  establish. 

MODERN   DEMOCRACY  THE  CHILD  OF   THE 
REFORMATION. 

Under  the  tyranny  of  the  Papal  Hier- 
archy, in  the  dark  ages  of  despotism,  this 
truth  of  the  people's  right  to  enact  laws 
for  themselves,  was  forgotten.  Then, 
in  the  Reformation,  men  b^^n  to  read 
the  New  Testament,  and  found  that  the 
Christianity  of  Jesus  Christ  was  a  pure 
democracy,  in  which  it  could  be  truly 
said,  ''One  is  your  Master*:  even  Christ 
and  all  ye  are  brethren."  There  was 
then  no  Pope. 

So  they  hit  on  two  great  principles: 
the  right  of  each  man  to  read  the  Bible 
and  judge  for  himself  as  to  the  truth, 
and,  secondly,  that  all  men  as  brethren 
were  equal  before  God — -were  they  popes, 
bishops,  or  kings!  They  first  applied 
these  principles  to  the  government  of 
spiritual  affairs ;  but  they  could  not  but 
perceive  that  they  applied  to  political 
affairs  as  well.  Here  we  have  the  origin 
of  our  modern  democracies.  Here  is  the 
source  of  thati  one  truth  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Indei>endence,  "We  believe  that 

ALL    men   are  created  EQUAL." 

This  truth,  through  the  Reformation, 
goes  back  to  Christ  and  his  disciples. 


ALL   YE  are   brethren 


The  equality  of  man  as  stated  in  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  means  that 
all  men  are  equal  in  the  sight  of  their 
Creator,  and  in  the  sight  of  justice,  and 
that  there  should  be  one  law  for  all  and 
one  equity  for  all,  one  rule  and  moral 
obligation,  and  that  all  should  hold  life 
under  the  same  conditions  and  be  per- 
mitted to  pursue  happiness  by  the  same 
road.  All  have  an  equal  right  to  life, 
liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness. 


WHO  are  the  people? 

"Law  is  what  the  people  order  and 
establish."  Well,  then,  who  are  the  peo- 
ple? If  we  are  striving  to  build  up  a 
government  of  the  people,  for  the  peo- 
ple, and  by  the  people,  the  prime  ques- 
tion obviously  is.  Who  are  the  people? 
Democracy  means  a  government  of,  and 
by,  and  for,  the  people,  and  today  we  are 
in  the  midst  of  a  hot  discussion  as  to 
who  the  people  are.  It  is  the  question 
of  suffrage.  At  present,  among  us,  there 
is  a  hot  debate  as  to  whether  women 
shall  be  counted  as  among  the  people,  or 
counted  with  lunatics,  criminals,  idiots, 
and  babies,  as  incapable  of  expressing  a 
voice  in  the  government  of  the  country 
they  live  in;  and  the  writer  is  free  to 
confess  that  he  is  one  of  those  who  are 
convinced  that  men  should  not  have  the 
exclusive  direction  of  affairs  in  commu- 
nities in  which  women  are  a  large  and 
deeply  interested  class.  It  is  to  him 
self-evident,  that  women  should  have  a 
voice  in  making-  the  l.i\v?  and  ordering 
the  arrangements  under  which  they  are 
to  live.  If  any  one  has  any  doubt  as  to 
this,  let  him  note  the  unutterable  silli- 
ness of  the  arguments  against  woman 
suffrage.  You  would  think  that  the  men 
and  women  who  concoct  them  had  just 
jumped  out  of  Noah's  Ark  and  had  not 
had  time  to  catch  up  with  the  modem 
world. 

In  Christ,  as  Paul  said,  there  is  neither 
Jew  nor  Greek,  Barbarian,  Scythian, 
male  nor  female,  bond  nor  free.  Here  is 
universal  humanity!  All  human  beings 
are  the  people. 

only    humanity    can    legislate    for 

humanity:   the  ultimate  rule 

of  democracy. 

Neither  sex,  color,  or  creed  should  be 
any  baij  in  the  way  of  a  purely  human 
administration  of  human  affairs.  Wo- 
men should  be  admitted  to  citizenship 
as  human  beings  on  precisely  the  same 
conditions  as  men.  No  class  can  legis- 
late for  another,  neither  can  men  legis- 
late for  women  any  more  than  women 
can  legislate  for  men.     Each  class,  as  a 


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class,  requires  to  be  held  in  check  by 
its  opposite, — the  rich  by  the  poor,  the 
learned  by  the  simple,  the  powerful  by 
the  weak,  the  exalted  by  the  lowly.  "We 
that  are  strong  ought  to  bear  the  infirm- 
ities of  the  weak  and  not  to  please  our- 
selves." "Mind  not  high  things  but  con- 
descend to  men  of  low  estate."  Such 
are  the  injunctions  of  Christian  Democ- 
racy. 

No  class  can  be  entrusted  with  the 
concerns  of  even  a  specific  department. 
The  property  interests  cannot  be  safely 
committed  to  the  wealthy;  the  interests 
of  education  could  not  be  entrusted  to 
the  exclusive  management  of  the  learned. 
Nothing  less  than  humanity  can  be  en- 
trusted with  the  regulation  of  the  aflfairs 
of  humanity. 

humanity's  rule  democracy's  goal. 

This  is  what  is  goiner  on  today  in  our 
nation.  Governor  Winthrop,  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  used  to  say,  "In  every 
community  the  lesser  part  is  the  wiser 
part,  and  of  that  lesser  part  it  is  only  the 
smaller  part  that  are  fitted  to  rule." 
This  is  the  political  philosophy  of  that 
eminent  statesman,  Noah.  He  took  it 
into  the  ark  with  him  and  kept  it  quite 
dry,  till  the  flood  was  over,  and  it  has 
been  handed  down  to  our  own  day  and 
we  hear  still,  that  the  people  are  not  fit  to 
rule  themselves,  and  that  they  must  be 
ruled  by  men  cooped  inside  that  moss- 
grown  document  called  the  Coftstitution 
of  United  States,  that  was  made  over 
a  hundred  years  ago,  by  a  nation  of 
three  or  four  millions  of  people  dwell- 
ing along  the  sea-coast!  So  the  will  of 
the  people  is  to  be  forever  expressed  by 
the  words  of  men  dead  and  gone  ages 
ago.  Not  only  that,  but  whatever  re- 
forms are  hindered,  whatever  suffering 
and  injustice  ensues,  we  are  to  fall  on 
our  knees  and  cry,  "Great  is  the  Consti- 
tution !"  You  might  as  well  try  to  keep 
a  grown-man  clothed  with  baby  gar- 
ments! When  the  goldsmiths  of  Ephe- 
sus  thought  that  their  craft  was  to  be 
interfered  with*  by  the  gospel  that  Paul 
preached,  they  all  bawled,  "Great  is 
Diana  of  the  Ephesians !    Great  is  Diana 


of  the  Ephesians !"  So  today,  those  in- 
terests that  have  entrenched  themselves 
behind  certain  outworn  and  mischievous 
features  of  our  Constitution,  when  they 
see  their  business  of  plundering  the  peo- 
ple threatened,  cry,  "Great  is  the  Con- 
stitution! Great  is  the  Constitution!' 
"The  people  cannot  be  trusted  to  govern 
themselves !" 

That  means  that  the  government  is  to 
be  run  in  the  interest  of  the  rich,  power- 
ful and  intelligent.  They  are  to  be  the 
people!  But  the  hour  fias  struck  for 
such  business  to  come  to  an  end.  The 
handwriting  is  on  the  wall.  "You  can- 
not fool  all  the  people  all  the  time",  as 
Lincoln  said. 


Gems  From  Talmage. 

Some  of  the  finest  houses  of  our  cit- 
ies were  built  out  of  money  paid  for 
votes  in  the  Legislature. 

In  some  lives  the  saccharine  seems  to 
predominate ;  but  in  a  great  many  cases 
there  are  not  so  many  sugars  as  acids. 

I  unroll  the  scroll  of  public  iniquity 
and  I  come  to  bribery— bribery  by 
money,  bribery  by  proffered  office. 

If  some  one  is  more  beautiful  than 
you,  thank  God  that  you  have  not  so 
many  perils  of  vanity  to  contend  with. 


Take  care  of  all  your  physical  forces 
—nervous,  muscular,  bone,  brain: — for 
all  of  them,  you  must  be  brought  to 
judgment. 


The  world  has  the  habit  of  making 
a  great  ado  about  what  you  do  wrong 
and  forgetting  to  say  anything  about 
what  you  do  right. 


Life  is  short  at  the  longest;  let  it  be 
filled  up  with  helpfulness  for  others, 
work  and  sympathy  for  each  other's  mis- 
fortunes, and  our  arms  be  full  of  white 
mantles  to  cover  up  the  mistakes  and 
failures  of  others. 


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ON  VIVANT.— Good  morning,  old 
fellow:  I  have  been  face  to  face 
with  you  so  long,  that  it  seems  as  if  I 
had  always  known  you.  How  are  you 
today  ? 

Death,  languidly,  but  promptly — Oh, 
Fm  always  well;  I  have  so  much  to  do, 
I  can't  afford  to  be  sick.  And  how  are 
you  today,  my  fine  fellow  ?  Almost  ready 
to  go  along  with  me  ? 

B.  V. — ^You  know  just  as  well  as  I  do, 
that  very  few  of  us  want  to  go  with -you 
at  any  time ;  but  we  have  to,  when  you 
give  the  word. 

D. — -When  I  give  the  word  ?  Oh,  no ! 
I  always  have  to  wait  till  the  word  is 
given  to  me.  They  call  me  the  great 
murderer,  and  bestow  upon  me  several 
other  pretty  names,  for  all  of  which  I 
am  very  much  obliged ;  but  as  for  being 
a  murderer — why,  I  am  only  obeying  the 
commands  of  Providence,  when  I  liber- 
ate any  one  from  this  world. 

B.  V. — Well  now,  my  dear  but  I  trust 
distant  friend,  you  know,  as  well  as  I  do, 
that  you  can  leave  me  here  as  long  as 
you  wish :  don't  you  ? 

D. — -You  never  made  a  greater  mis- 
take in  your  life.  When  you  depart  from 
this  world,  you  will  be  really  your  own 
murderer. 

B.  V. — My  own  murderer?  How  you 
talk !  !  I  had  never  the  least  bit  of  such 
an  idea! 

D.— J^isten.  You  will  never  die  of 
old  age ;  and,  bedridden  as  you  are  now, 
it  is  not  probable  that  y<3u  will  become 
the  fated  victim  of  an  accident,  or  of  a 
homicide.    And  those  are  the  only  three 

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ways  that  people  die,  that  are  not  the 
result  of  their  own  actions. 

B.  V. — How  can  my  death,  when  you 
choose  to  take  me,  be  called^  the  "result 
of  my  own  actions"  ? 

D. — 'You  commenced  killing  yourself 
in  your  youth.  You  were  always  the 
first  arrival  and  the  largest  eater  at  your 
parents'  table.  You  continually  kept  ask- 
ing for  "a  little  more",  and  held  on  till 
you  got  it. 

B.  V. — ^Well,  but  doesn't  any  growing 
child  do  that? 

D. — ^To  some  extent ;  but  the  largest 
proportion  of  children  know  at  least 
when  they  have  got  enough ;  while  you 
never  seemed  to. 

B.  v.— Well,  you're  about  right.  But 
what  else  did  I  do  ? 

D. — -You  went  on  eating  faster  and 
more  than  ever,  after  you  grew  to  be 
a  man.  You  became  an  epicure  and  a 
gormandizer  combined.  You  never  ate 
less  than  three  or  four  times  as  much  as 
you  needed,  at  any  given  meal.  You  had 
money  left  you,  and  instead  of  using  part 
of  it  to  keep  others  from  starving,  you 
contributed  it  toward  stuffing  yourself. 
Am  I  not  right? 

B.  V. — Yes,  I  suppose  your  statements 
are  about  correct,  though  not  particu- 
larly chummy.  I  have  been  a  high  liver. 
But  why  and  how  should  that  kill  me  ? 

D. — Little  by  little,  it  has  been  taking 
your  life.  The  large  quantities  of  food 
that  you  ate,  clogged  the  stomach,  and 
made  it  digest  with  difficulty:  it  thick- 
ened the  blood,  and  put  into  it  all  sorts 
of  impurities.  The  spices  and  other  "rel- 
ishes" you  used  with  which  to  sharpen 
your  appetite,  strung  up  your  nerves  to 


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an  unhealthy  and  dangerous  tension,  and 
then  kt  them  back  into  drooping,  lan- 
guid masses.  The  impurities  in  your 
blood  settled,  many  of  them,  into  and  be- 
tween your  bones,  and  gave  you  rheum- 
atism, sciatica,  and  gout. 

B.  V. — Yes,  gout,  plague  take  it! — 
Why  did  I  need  to  have  that  come  upon 
in«e,  with  all  my  other  ills? 

D. — -You  did  not  need  it ;  but  Nature 
could  not  prevent  it.  There  are  certain 
laws,  from  the  obeying  of  which  there 
is  no  escape,  except  through  the  regions 
of  disease  and  death. 

B.  V. — ^You  rather  enjoy  seeing  any 
one  fall  into  your  hands,  don't  you? 

D. — ^Why,  of  course  I  like  to  have 
plenty  of  business,  but  I  do  not  care  to 
be  overworked.  Like  many  other  people 
who  obtain  employment,  I  find  that  I  am 
expected  to  do  a  great  deal  more  than 
I  at  first  contracted  for.  But  I  am  really 
engaged  in  doing  deeds  of  mercy. 

B.  V. — 'How  can  you  say  that? 

D. — What  can  be  more  merciful  than 
to  release  the  sutferer,  after  he  has  lived 
as  long  as  he  can  do  so  without  daily 
torture?  What  can  be  more  beneficent 
than  to  help  a  soul  escape  from  the  house 
that  is  falling  upon  it,  timber  by  timber, 
and  crushing  it  ? 

B.  v.— And  yet,  O  Death,  I  feel  that 
I  am  not  quite  ready  to  go,  just  yet :  that 
I  have  many  things  I  ought  to  do,  and 
that  I  have  done  many  things  that  I  want 
to  undo ;  that  I  have  much  to  learn  that 
ought  to  have  been  learned  long  ago. 
Can  you  not  spare  me  a  few  years 
longer? 

D. — You  can  spare  yourself. 

B.  v.— How,  pray? 

D. — -Follow  all  the  rules  of  health. 
Purify  your  system,  and  then  keep  it 
pure.  Eat  in  moderate  quantities,  and  of 
the  simplest  food.  Breathe  and  exer- 
cise in  the  open  air.  If  you  do  all  these 
things  faithfully,  and  quit  gorging  your- 
self with  food  on  every  possible  occa- 
sion, you  may  live  several  years  longer. 
It  is  indeed  unprofessional  for  me  to 
give  you  this  information,  but  you  are  a 
rather  good  fellow,  aside  from  your 
appetite,  and  I  have  handed  you  infor- 


mation free,  which  will  l>e  worth  several 
thousands  of  dollars  to  you,  if  you  value 
your  life  that  much. 

B.  V.  {moving  over  lazily) — Well,  I'll 
think  of  it. 


Balancing  the  Oirculation. 

UEALTH   is  maintained   only    when 
the  circulation  is  evenly  balanced. 

In  an  acute  attack  of  fever  or  inflam- 
mation of  any  organ  the  blood  and  nerve 
forces  are  sent  to  that  orgari  to  remove 
some  stoppage  in  the  circulation  caused 
by  an  accumulation  of  waste  particles. 

The  physician's  duty  is  to  send  this 
extra  blood  away — ^that  is,  to  "balance 
the  circulation",  as  Dr.  Trail  used  to  say 
regularly  daily  as  he  came  into  the  lec- 
ture room.  This  can  be  done  in  many 
ways.  The  wisest  way  is  to  do  this  with 
the  least  disturbance  to  the  vital  econ- 
omy. It  can  be  done  in  this  way :  The 
extremities  are  cold;  the  trunk  of  the 
body  is  hot.  We  must  warm  the  ex- 
tremities by  calling  the  blood  back  to 
them. 

First  give  a  large  enema  of  water  as 
hot  as  can  be  borne,  using  soap  or  borax 
in  the  water  to  dissolve  or  soften  the 
hard  mass ;  send  this  water  up  into  the 
transverse  bowel,  under  the  stomach ; 
and  if  possible  down  into  the  right 
groin.  Have  this  retained  as  long  as 
possible. 

The  next  thing  is  to  put  the  patient 
into  a  bathtub  of  warm  water,  having 
plenty  of  hot  water  at  hand;  pour  this 
in  carefully,  stirring*  the  bath  to  prevent 
scalding  the  patient.  Keep  the  patient 
in  thirty  or  forty  minutes.  If  the  hot 
water  is  added  slowly  he  won't  faint. 
Now  take  him  out,  wrap  him  in  a  hot 
sheet,  which  is  covered  by  a  hot 
blanket,  put  him  in  bed,  let  him  lie  a 
while,  then  wipe  dry  and  put  on  dry 
clothing.  Now,  if  the  trouble  is  inflam- 
mation of  the  lungs  or  bowels,  put  on 
cloths  (wrung  in  a  towel)  and  well  cov- 
ered with  hot  flannel,  or,  if  the  circula- 
tion will  permit,  crack  ice,  wrap  in  a  dry 
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and  prevent  the  drip  of  the  ice  from  wet- 
ting bed  or  clothing.  Always  watch  the 
feet  and  hands ;  see  that  they  are  warm 
and  dry.  Plates  made  hot  by  putting  in 
boiling  water  is  a  pleasant  way  of  keep- 
ing wet  applications  warm. 

Keep  up  these  applications  until  the 
pulse  and  temperature  are  normal  and 
the  pain  all  gone.  Suit  the  patient's  feel- 
ings about  the  different  temperatures. 


How  Not  to  Nurse. 

JJELEN  HUNT  JACKSON,  in  a  let- 
ter to  her  physician,  described  a 
stupid  nurse  as  follows : 

Can  I  endure  the  prlesience  of  this 
surly,  aimless  cow  another  day  ?  No ! 
Why? 

She  has  less  faculty  than  any  human 
being  I  ever  undertook  to  direct  in 
small  matters. 

When  I  ask  her  to  bring  me  any- 
thing, she  rises  slowly  with  a  movement 
like  nothing  I  ever  saw  in  my  life,  un- 
less it  bel  a"  derrick. 

She  sighs  and  drops  her  under  jaw 
after  every  exertion. 

She  "sets"  with  a  ponderous  inertia 
which  produces  on  me  the  most  remark- 
able effect.  I  have  a  morbid  impulse 
to  fling  my  shoes  at  het  head  and  see 
what  would  come  of  it. 

She  asks  me  in  dismal  tones  if  I  am 
well  in  other  ways  besides  my  throat, 
conveying  the  impression  by  her  slow- 
rolling  eye  that  I  look  to  her  like  a 
bundle  of  unfathomable  diseases. 

She  takes  the  tray  out  of  a  trunk  to 
get  some  articles  at  the  bottom  (where 
articles  always  are),  and  having  given 
me  the  article  asks  helplessly  if  she 
shall  put  the  tray  back  again.  (Happy 
thought.)  Next  time  Til  tell  her  "No, 
we  keep  the  trays  in  piles  on  the  floor." 

Is  this  Christian?  No,  for  she  is 
well-meaning  and  wishes  to  do  aright, 
and  I  don't  doubt  every  glance  of  my 
eye  sends  a  thrill  of  inexplainable  dis- 
comfort through  her. 

But  as  a  professional  nurse  *she  is  the 
biggest  joke  I  ever  saw. 


The  Occupation  of  Dying. 

1  T  is  singular  how  many  people,  almost 
as  soon  as  they  are  born,  go  imme- 
diately to  dying.  There  are  a  million 
and  a  third  deaths  in  the  country,  every 
year — almost  one  half  as  many  as  the 
whole  population  at  time  of  the  Revo- 
lution. And  we  hardly  ever  hear  of  any 
one's  dying  because  old  enough  to  die — 
most  of  them  go  through  some  needless 
disease. 

There  is  typhoid  fever — which  only 
the  other  day  carried  away  Wilbur 
Wright — one  of  the  greatest  inventors 
of  the  age.  It  was  the  filth  in  some  food 
that  he  ate,  or  some  water  that  he  drank, 
that  planted  the  germs  of  the  fearlul 
disease  in  his  system.  There  are  over 
30,000  people  dying  every  year  in  this 
country,  of  the  baleful  disease  of  typhoid 
fever  alone. 

Of  the  numerous  cases  of  tuberculosis 
that  spring  up  all  the  time,  a  hundrecf 
and  fifty  thousand  of  them  succumb  to 
death. 

It  is  asserted  by  those  who  have  made 
a  close  study  of  the  matter,  that  of  the 
myriads  of  children  born  every  year, 
only  one  third  live  until  they  are  five 
years  old. 

Amid  all  the  ingenuity  used  for  mak- 
ing life  comfortable,  why  can  there  not 
be  used  some  for  keeping  and  enjoying 
it  longer? 


A  Freckle-Exterminator. 

pAREWELL  to  freckles  on  faces, 
arms  and  legs,  if  the  experience  of 
a  South  American  lady  is  verified.  She 
says  that  some  time  ago,  in  the  absence 
of  water,  of  which  there  was  a  great 
dearth  at  the  time,  she  washed  her  face 
with  some  of  the  juice  of  a  watermelon. 
The  result  was  so  soothing  that  she  re- 
peatedly washed  her  face  in  this  man- 
ner, and  her  astonishment  was  great,  a 
few  days  later,  on  seeing  that  there  was 
not  a  freckle  left  on  her  previously  be- 
freckled  face.  This  recipe  is  not  guar- 
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By  Florence  L.  McCarthy. 

IJOW  to  succeed  as  a  guest? — Why: 
get  an  invitation  somehow,  and  go 
and  stay  and  stay  and  stay  till  the  time 
for  which  you  were  invited  runs  out, 
and  then  go  home,  or  somewhere  else? 

No,  my  unsophisticated  little  maiden: 
take  another  good  nice  long  thought. 
If  you  make  a  success  of  your  visit  and 
bag  (not  beg)  an  invitation  to  come 
again,  you'll  be  as  wise  as  a  serpent 
in  a  miniature  anaconda-show,  and  as 
harmless  as  a  young  man  calling  on  his 
covet?ed  sweetheart  for  the  first  time. 

First,  you  must  "be  somebody" — -but 
not  too  much  of  anybody.  You  must  not 
in  any  event  whatever,  come  nearer  than 
within  a  degree  or  two  of  your  hostess' 
appearance.  You  must  be  good-looking, 
but  not  enough  so  to  inspire  jealousy; 
and  if  she  is  homely,  you  must  take  a 
considerable  tuck  in  what  comeliness  you 
may  happen  to  possess.  You  must  look 
well  enough  so  she  will  not  be  ashamed 
of  you  when  you  go  out  with  her:  but 
must  always  allow  it  to  be  understood 
that  she  is  the  "looker"  of  the  occasion. 
You  must  never,  on  any  account,  walk 
the  least  bit  ahead  of  her — but  just  about 
the  eighth  of  an  inch  behind. 

At  meals,  and  in  general  company 
when,j'our  hostess  is  present,  however 
brilliant  a  person  you  may  be,  do  not  be 
as  brilliant  as  you  can:  you  are  not  in 
the  family  to  play  a  star  part,  but  the 
second  violin,  or  some  of  the  other 
minor  roles.  You  are  in  some  one  else's 
house,  and  not  expected  to  outshine  her, 
but  to  help  her  shine.  You  cannot  ex- 
pect her  to  be  so  fascinated  with  your 
fine  qualities,  as  to  turn  the  whole  estab- 


lishment over  to  your  entertainment  and 
aggrandizement.  You  are  there  to  be 
helped,  to  a  certain  extent,  but  you  are 
there  also  to  help,  in  every  deft  and  sub- 
tle way  you  can. 

I  have  known  guests  to  enter  a  house 
with  the  evident  intention  of  showing  off 
their  own  qualities,  and  they  seemed  to 
get  along  very  well,  for  a  time:  but, 
somehow,  they  did  not  thrive  very  long 
in  their  guestship.  Something  or  other 
would  occur,  the  first  they  knew,  that 
made  it  inconvenient  for  them  to  stay 
there  any  longer,  and  they  never  were 
invited  back.  In  other  words,  when  you 
go  into  a  family  as  a  guest,  join  the 
administration. 

If  there  are  children  in  the  family,  you 
must  study  and  know  them  pretty  well, 
in  order  to  get  along  with  them  and 
their  parents.  This  requires  vigilance 
and  patience,  especially  if  the  dear  creat- 
ures have  been  spoiled  by  their  parents. 
In  that  case,  they  are  sometimes  disposed 
to  snub  you,  at  first,  and  require  you  to 
pay  court  to  them  before  they  will  have 
much  of  anything  to  do  with  you :  or,  if 
they  are  of  a  more  responsive  nature, 
they  will  perhaps  want  to  use  you  as  a 
plaything,  so  long  as  the  novelty  lasts, 
and  your  vogue  continues.  There  are. 
however,  ways  of  dodging  them  when 
your  nature  does  not  require  them,  and 
wooing  them  to  your  side,  when  you 
pine  for  their  company. 

Children,  however,  are  of  one  great 
advantage  to  a  guest:  they  furnish  a 
subject  of  conversation,  that  is  probably 
interesting  to  the  hostess.  If  her  inter- 
est in  you  and  what  you  are  saying  ap- 
pears to  lag,  you  can  generally  revive  it 
by  making  one  or  more  of  her  children 
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of  the  dialogue.  Of  course  this  is  noth- 
ing against  her — she  cannot  help  it — ^nor 
could  you,  were  you  in  her  place — al- 
though you  may  think  you  could. 

Of  one  thing,  you  must  be  very  care- 
ful :  and  that  is,  not  to  arouse  the  jeal- 
ousy of  the  parents,  in  your  dealings 
with  their  children.  Let  them  think  or 
imagine  for  a  moment  that  the  child  pre- 
fers you,  and  there  is  trouble  in  the 
camp.  Just  how  a^d  how  not  attentive 
you  should  be  to  the  children,  is  a  very 
important  matter. 

The  servants  also  need  considerable 
attention.  In  the  first  place,  it  is  no 
more  than  justice  that  you  get  them  to 
like  you,  if  you  can — for  it  makes  mat- 
ters much  more  easy  with  the  hostess. 
A  guest  has  to  be  welcome  to  servant, 
as  well  as  to  family,  in  order  to  make^ 
things  run  with  smoothness. 

"To  this  end",  notice  them  with  a 
smile  or  a  slight  nod,  whenever  conven- 
ient, and  quietly  make  them  a  small  pres- 
ent now  and  then.  Money  is  always 
welcome,  but  some  pretty  little  article  of 
use  or  ornamentation,  will  often  have 
more  effect,  as  showing  that  you  have 
done  some  thinking,  and  feeling,  as  well 
as  giving."  At  any  rate,  a  pleasant  little 
gift  now  and  then  to  a  host's  or  hostess' 
servants,  is  seldom  anywhere  near  lost. 

Keep  careful  how  you  criticise  tih«e 
other  guests  of  the  house — ^be  their  stay 
there  long  or  short.  You  do  not  know 
how  warm  their  friendship  may  be  with 
the  family,  and  how,  valuable  their  good 
will  may  be  to  you.  Keep  up  a  good 
feeling  of  comradeship  with  fellow- 
guests. 

The  good  man  of  the  house  (if  there 
is  one)  will  also  have  to  be  reckoned 
with.  Some  of  these  are  really  good 
men,  and  a  part  of  them  not  so  much  so. 
Some  of  them  are  willing  to  utilize  lady- 
guests  for  the  purpose  of  flirting,  if  the 
guests  are  willing.  The  success  of  such 
men  (of  whom  there  are  too  many  m 
the  world,  however  respectable  they  may 
appear),  will  depend  largely  upon  you, 
and  so  will  the  hostess'  kind  regards: 
for  she  is  probably  sensitive  to  what  is 
going  on  within  her  domestic  bailiwick. 


Indeed,  you  will  find  guestship  to  be 
no  sinecure:  but  will  be  much  more  easy 
and  successful  in  the  long  run,  as  every- 
thing else  will  be,  if  you  follow  the 
Golden  Rule. 


"Don'tB"  for  Wives. 

T^HE  following  bits  of  advice,  from 
a  distinguished  clergyman,  are  so 
sensible  that  we  give  them  prominence 
in  the  Success  page: 

First — Don't  marry  a  man  for  a  liv- 
ing, but  for  love.  Manhood  without 
money  is  better  than  money  without 
manhood. 

Second — -Don't  overdress  or  under- 
dress;  common  sense  is  sometimes  bet- 
ter than  style. 

Third — ^A  wife  with  a  hobble  skirt 
and  a  husband  with  patched  trousers 
make  a  poor  pair.  A  woman  can  throw 
more  out  of  a  kitchen  window  with  a 
spoon  than  a  man  can  put  into  the  cel- 
lar with  a  shovel. 

Fourth — Don't  think  that  the  way  to 
run  a  house  is  to  run  away  from  it. 
It  is  wrong  to  go  around  lecturing 
other  women  on  how  to  bring  up  chil- 
dren while  you  are  meanwhile  neglect- 
ing your  own. 

Fifths — 'Don't  tell  your  troubles  to 
your  neighbors;  they  have  enough  of 
their  own.  Fight  it  out  with  your  hus- 
'band  if  it  takes  all  summer. 

Sixth^ — Don't  nag.  The  saloonkeeper 
is  always  glad  to  welcome  your  hus- 
band with  a  smile. 

Seventh — 'Don't)  try  to  get  more  out 
of  a  looking  glass  than  you  put  into 
it.  Nature's  sunshine  is  better  for 
woman's  beauty  than  man's  powder  and 
paints. 

Eighth — Don't  make  gamblers  and 
drunkards  out  of  your  children  by  run-^ 
ning  whist  parties  tor  prizes  and  serv- 
ing punch'  with  a  stick  in  it. 

Ninth— Don't  forget  to  tell  the  truth, 
especially  to  the  conductor,  about  the 
age  of  your  child.  Honesty  is  worth 
more  to  you  and  him  than  a  nickel.  A 
boy  who  is  eight  years  old  at  home  and 

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six  on  the  cars  will   soon  learn  other 
things  that  are  not  so. 

Tenth^ — Don't  forget  that  home  is  a 
woman's  kingdom,  where  she  reigns  as 
queen.  To  be  the  mother  of  a  Lincoln, 
a  Garfield  or  a  McKinley  is  to  be  the 
mother  of  a  prince. 


Great  Men's  Sons. 

pOOR  Alexander  the  Little,  son  of 
Alexander  the  Great,  was  cruelly 
murdered  at  Amphipolis  while  still  a 
very!  young  man.  "He  inherited  neither 
his  father's  push  nor  his  grandfather's 
persistence;  he  w^as  first  the  tool  and 
then  the  victim  of  those  who  made  his 
life  so  miserable,  and  when  he  died,  he 
died." 

Mark  Cicero,  son  of  the  famous 
Roman  orator,  occupied  several  high 
official  positions  because  he  was  the  "son 
of  his  father,"  but  in  none  of  them  dis- 
played much  ability. 

Commodus,  son  of  Marcus  Aurelius, 
was  "as  great  a  tyrant  as  his  father  had 
been  good;  as  small  as  his  father  had 
been  great." 

Louis,  the  son  of  Charlemagne,  was  a 
noble  man  in  many  ways,  but  lacked  his 
father's  strength  of  mind  and  firmness 
of  will,  was  out  of  touch  with  his  times, 
and  "while  history  accords  him  praise 
for  honesty  of  purpose,  gentleness  of 
heart,  good  intentions,  and  lofty  aims, 
it  still  writes  him  down  as  an  unsuccess- 
ful ruler." 

It  is  a  relief  to  know  that  the  son  of 
Alfred  the  Great  was  one  of  the  best 
and  most  successful  of  the  kings  of 
Saxon  England. 

Henry  the  Scholar,  the  best  and 
brightest  of  the  sons  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  has  also  a  claim  to  great- 
ivess,  eiven  if  overshadowed  by  his 
father's  name.  The  wise  Saladin  was 
not  so  fortunate,  for  his  son  Afshal  was 
both  "lazy  and  dissipated,"  and  died  in 
exile  and  disgrace  soon  after  the  year 
1 200. 


The  son  of  Tamerlane  was  no  leader 
of  men,  but  a  valiant  soldier,  a  patron 
of  learning,  a  better  and  more  merciful 
man  than  his  father. 

John  Luther,  the  great  reformer's 
son,  the  "dear  Johnny"  of  his  letters, 
simply  made  a  fairly  good  lawyer,  and 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty. 

The  son  of  Oliver  Cromwell  was  a 
lamentable  failure,  and  Joseph  Charles 
Francis,  son  of  the  Emperor  Napoleon, 
one  gloomy  day  composed  for  his  own 
epitaph  the  following  lines : 

"Here  lies  the  son  of  the  Great  Napoleon  ; 
He  was  born  king  of  Rome 
And  died  an  Austrian  colonel," 

which  were,  truly  enough,  the  summing 
up  of  a  life  that  began  in  glory  and 
went  out  in  gloom. 


The  Habit  of  Success. 

CUCCESS  is  the  accomplishment  of 
what  we  undertake,  because  we 
undertake  it.  Not  because  some  one 
undertakes  and  accomplishes  it  for  us; 
not  because  we  undertake  one  thing  and 
accomplish  another;  not  because  we  in- 
herit it,  or  find  it,  or  purloin  it:  but 
because  we  seek  it,  for  a  definite  pur- 
pose, and  continue  seeking,  until  we  find 
and  attain  it. 

Whoever  strikes  a  blow  exactly  where 
he  aimed  it,  has,  in  that  instance,  made 
a  success.  Whoever  arrives  at  the  exact 
place  for  which  he  started,  at  the  exact 
time  which  he  intended,  has,  to  that  ex- 
tent, accomplished  a  success.  Whoever 
brings  about  a  result  or  a  series  of 
results,  exactly  as  he  planned,  has  accom- 
plished a  success. 

And  although  these  instances  may  not 
belong  to  the  very  highest  class  of  suc- 
cesses, they  form  the  foundation  for 
them,  and  always  lead  up  toward  them, 
and  are  indispensable  to  them. 

The  habit  of  succeeding  is  one  of  the 
very  best  in  the  world. 


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June  6— It  was  reported  hat  ic»,ooo  men 
were  on  strike  in  Belgium. 
7 — ^JuIius  Kovacs,  one  of  the  Hungarian  Op- 
position, fired  three  shots  at  Count  Tisza, 
President  of  the  Chamber,  missed  him, 
and  then  killed  himself. 

The  Secretary  of  War  ordered  a  force  of 
5,000  troops  to  be  ready  to  leave  for  Cuba 
at  an  hour's  notice. 
8 — The  French  submarine  "Vendemaire", 
with  twenty  four  men,  was  sunk  oflF 
Cherbourg  during  naval  manoeuvres  by 
collision  with   the  battleship  "St.  Louis". 

Anti-negro  riots  broke  ou:  in  Havana. 
9 — Two  battleships  sailed  from  Key  West 
for  Havana  on  hurried  orders  from 
Washington. 
ID — England's  Home  Secretary  modified  the 
prison  sentences  of  Mrs.  Pankhurst,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lawrence,  from  criminal 
to  political   status. 

The  General  Council  of  the  Transport 
Workers'  Federation  of  Great  Britain 
called  out  300.000  men  on  strike. 

The  State  Senate  of  Minnesota  ratified  the 
amendment  for  direct  election  of  United 
States  Sena.ors. 
II — A.  L.  Welsh,  Wright  teacher  of  aviation, 
and  Lieutenant  Leighton  W.  Hazlehurst, 
U.  S.  A.,  were  killed  in  ai  flying  accident 
at   College   Park,   Md. 

One  thousand  women  held  a  massmeeting 
in  New  York  to  denounce  the  high  price 
of  meat. 
12 — The  Senate  amended  the  Judiciary  Ap- 
propriation bill  by  abolishing  the  Com- 
merce Court. 

Governor  Oddie  of  Nevada  appointed 
George  Wingfield  United   States  Senator. 

President    Gomez    promised    to    quell    the 
Cuban   revolt  in  ten  days. 
13 — Surveyor     Henry     seized     quantities     of 
opium  on  two  British   ships. 

The  House  adopted  the  conferrees'  report 
on  the  Army  bill,  which  displaces  General 
Leonard  Wood. 

A  woman,  Fran  Vyk  Kume  icka,  was  elect- 
ed to  the  Bohemian  Diet. 


14 — Secretary  Knox  again  assured  Minister 
Bcaupre  at  Havana  that  United  States 
did  not  contemplate  intervention. 

15' -A  ^orrtado  destroyed  much  life  and  prop- 
erty in  Kansas  and  Missouri. 
Eighteen    persons   were  killed    and   sixteen 
injured  in  a  railway  collision  in  Sweden. 

16 — A  tornado  swept  through  Ohio,  damaging 
1,000  or  more  houses,  killing  many,  and 
rendering  thousands  homeless. 
Fifty  thousand  persons  on  Boston  Common 
agreed  to  uphold  the  car  strike  by  not 
patronizing  the  lines. 

17 — President  Taft  vetoed  the  Army  Appro- 
priation bill  carrying  a  provision  to  legis- 
late Major-General  Wood  out  of  office 
of  Oiief  of  StafT. 
Premier  Tang-Shao-Yi  of  China  announced 
his  intention  to  retire  from  office. 

r8 — Owing  to  the  continuation  of  the  trans- 
port workers'  strike  the  sailing  of  the 
White  IStar  liner  Oceanic  from  England 
was  cancelled. 
The  Zeppelin  airship,  Victoria  Luise,  left 
Dusseldorf  with  twentyfive  persons,  in- 
cluding naval  officers,  cruised  over  Hol- 
lan<l,  and  then  to  Hamburg,  a  twelve- 
hours'  flight. 

19— The  Navy  Department  recalled  Admiral 
Sutherland  and  his  flagship  from  Chinese 
waters,  indicating  confidence  in  the  new 
republic. 
Two  French  army  aviators.  Captain  Dubois 
and  Lieutenant  Peignan.  had  a  fatal  col- 
lision in  midair  at  Douai. 

20 — The  Republican  leaders  in  convention  in 
Chicago  decided  to  nominate  President 
Taft  for  a  second  term;  Roosevelt 
threatened  to  bolt,  but  reconsidered  his 
decision. 
The  bankers  representing  the  six  powers, 
United  States,  England,  France,  Germany, 
Russia  and  Japan,  finally  concluded  the 
agreement  of  the  loan  to  China  of 
$300,000,000. 
Henri  Bryois.  French  Consul  at  Santiago 
de  Cuba,  was  accused  of  aiding  the  rebels. 

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unanimously   recommended   the  impeach- 
ment   of   Judge   R.   W.   Archbald. 

22 — There  was  a  great  exodus  of  thousands 
of  people  from  Chicago,  at  close  of  the 
Republican  nominating  convention. 

23 — The  pier  at  Eagle  Rock,  Niagara  Falls, 
collapsed,  throwing  250  excursionists  into 
the  river  and  drowning  a  score  or  more. 
The  United  States  Consul  at  Chefoo,  China, 
telegraphed  the  urgent  need  of  a  warship 
for  ihe  protection  of  foreigners. 

24— The  Supreme  Court  of  the  District  of 
Columbia  re-affirmed  its  decision  against 
Gompers,  Mitchell  and  Morrison  of  the 
American  Federation  of  Labor  for  con- 
tempt of  court. 
Mrs.  Emmeline  Pankhurst  and  Mrs.  Pethick 
Lawrence,  the  English  suffragettes,  were 
freed  from  prison  after  serving  one  month 
of  their  nine-months'  term. 
The  Socialists  of  Washington  nominated 
Miss  Anna  Mailey  for  Governor  and  Mrs. 
Minnie  Parks  for  State  Treasurer. 

25— W.  J.  Bryan  was  defeated  for  Temporary 
Chairman  of  the  Baltimore  Convention  by 
Alton  B.  Parker. 
Sir  Lawrence  Alma-Tadema,  celebrated  ar- 
tist, died  in  Wiesbaden,  Germany. 

26— J.  R.  Law,  parachute  jumper,  floated  safely 
to  earth  from  a  biplane  at  an  altitude  of 
3,500  feet,  at  Hicksville,  N.  Y. 
The  labor  famine  in  the  Pittsburgh  district 
necessitated  recourse  to  securing  service 
of  prisoners  by  payment  of  fines,  on  part 
of  a  Steel  Corporation  and  Coal  Company. 
The  premature  explosion  of  a  gun^  on  a 
French  armored  cruiser,  killed  one  and 
seriously  injured  more  than  a  score  of 
other  men. 

27-^Failure  of  Congress  to  pass  the  ap- 
propriation bills  created  a  scare — cessa- 
tion of  all  official  operations  was  threat- 
ened. 
President  Gomez  received  word  that  the 
Cuban  rebel  chief,  General  Estenoz,  had 
been  killed. 
Pethick  Lawrence,  co-editor  with  his  wife, 
of  the  English  suffragette  paper,  was  lib- 
erated from  jail,  to  which  he  was  sen- 
tenced May  22. 

28— The  Cabinet  decided  to  open  all  Govern- 
ment departments  on  Mtonday,  despite  the 
failure  of  the  appropriations;  Congress 
then  to  pass  an  emergency  relief  measure. 

29— It  was  reported  that  the  Cuban  insur- 
gents were  rapidly  dispersing. 

30— The  Socialists  at  Albany  nominated  a 
complete  State  ticket,  with  Charles  E. 
Russell  for  Governor. 
Two  hundred  lives  were  reported  destroyed 
by  a  tornado,  at  Regina,  Canada;  $10,- 
000,000  damage  was  done  to  property. 

July  I — Emergency  legislation  was  rushed 
through  Congress  and  approved  by  the 
President,    extending    the    appropriation 


for   the    Government's   business    for    aui- 
other  month. 
Miss   Harriet  Quimby  and  W.  A.  P.   Wil- 
lard  were  killed  by  falling  from  an  aero- 
plane  at   Squantum,   Mass. 

2 — Mlelvin  Vaniman  and  his  airship  crew 
of  four  were  killed  on  falling  from  a 
height  of  1,000  feet  when  his  dirigible 
exploded,  at  Atlantic  City. 

3 — Governor  Woodrow  Wilson  was  nomi- 
nated for  President  by  the  BaUimore 
Convention  on  the  fortysixth  ballot. 

4 — A  collision,  near  Corning,  -N.  Y.,  on  the 
Lackawanna  (Railroad,  killed  fortyone 
persons  and  injured  many  others. 
Thomas  Moore,  balloonist,  was  killed  at 
Belleville,  N.  J.,  in  a  1,000-foot  fall  from 
a  parachute. 
Orozco's  rebel  army,  defeated  after  a  two- 
days'  battle  at  Bachcimba,  hurried  to- 
ward the  American  border. 

5 — Twentyone     persons     were     killed,     and 

thirty     injured,     when     a     Pennsylvania 

freight-train    ran    into  a  passenger-train, 

at  Wilpen,  Pa. 

Serious  rioting  marked  the  strike  of  sailors 

and  dockmen  at  Havre,  France. 
Two  British  army  aviators  were  killed   in 
a  fall  at  Salisbury  Plain. 

6 — The  opening  events  of  the  Olympian 
games  at  Stockholm  were  a  succession 
of  triumphs  for  America. 

7 — Presiding    Judge     Bianchi    collapsed    in 

court  in  the  trial  of  the  Camorrists. 
Stringent  measures  to  keep  bubonic  plague 
out  of  this  country  were  put  in  force  at 
every  Atlantic  and  Gulf  port. 
The'  Fall  River  liner  Commonwealth 
crashed  into  the  battleship  New  Hamp- 
shire at  anchor  in  Newport  Harbor. 


Short  Editorials. 


Whoever  is  praising  you  unstintingly, 

is  praising  himself  secretly. 

*  ♦    ♦ 

Do  not  take  time  and  trouble  to  "walk 
over  your  enemies":    fly  over  them. 

¥        ♦        ♦ 

Lawns  too  wide  and  fields  too  nar- 
row, point  toward  national  poverty  and 

starvation. 

*  *    * 

If  a  goose  knew  human  beings  thor- 
oughly, she  might  call  them  something 
worse  than  geese. 

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It  is  a  great  thing  to  "act  well  your 
part",  a  much  greater  thing  to  do  your 
part,  and  a  still  greater  on«  to  be  your 
part. 

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DIED: 

ALMA-TADEMA,  LAWRENCE— At  Wies- 
baden, Germany,  June  24.  The  famous  ar- 
tist was  a  Dutchman  by  bir.h,  being  born 
at  Dronkyp,  Holland,  in  1836.  Early  at- 
tracted to  painting,  he  found  his  forte  when 
visiting  Rome,  in  1862.  Since  1870  he  had 
made  his  home  in  England,  becoming  a 
naturalized  citizen.  His  faithful  pictures  of 
Greek  and  Roman  life  are  well  known  the 
world  over.  He  was  a  Royal  Academician, 
and  belonged  to  other  notable  associations. 
In  1899  he  was  knighted,  and  he  was  the 
only  artist  whom  the  Crown  admitted  to 
the  Order  of  Merit.  Several  of  his  beauti- 
ful pictures  are  in  American  galleries. 

ANSCHUTZ,  THOMAS  F.— In  Fort  Wash- 
ington, Pa.,  June  16.  He  was  born  in  185 1, 
his  birthplace  being  Covington,  Ky.  For 
more  than  thirty  years  he  was  an  instructor 
in  the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Fine  Arts, 
and  his  own  work  and  that  of  his  pupils 
was  well  known  at  home  and  abroad.  He 
was  President  of  the  Philadelphia  Water 
Color  Club. 

AYMIE,  CONSUL  GENERAL  LOUIS  H.— 
In  Lisbon,  Portugal,  May  16.  He  was  a 
native  of  New  York  City,  and  prior  to  en- 
tering the  consular  service,  in  1906,  had 
been  engaged  in  newspaper  and  scientific 
work.  He  had  been  press  editor  at  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposi.ion,  Chicago,  in 
1891  to  1893,  and  had  been  special  ethnolo- 
gist  for   the   Smithsonian   Institution. 

BARTLETT,  DAVID  W.— At  West  Harbor. 
Conn.,  June  25,  aged  eighty  four  years. 
From  1872  to  1^7  he  was  Secretary  of  the 
Chinese  Legation  at  Washington.  He  was 
a  noted  newspaper  correspondent,  writing 
for  The  SpringHeld  Republican  and  New 
York  Evening  Post.  He  was  associate  edi- 
tor of  The  New  Era,  when  it  published  the 
first  instalment  of  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin". 

BRAGG,  GENERAL  'EDWARD  S.— In  Fond 
du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  June  20.  He  was  a 
native  of  Unadilla,  N.  Y.  lie  studied  at 
Geneva  College,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bars  of  New  York  and  Wisconsin,  and  to 
the  United  S:ates  Supreme  Court.  He  was 
Commander  of  the   famous    Iron    Brigade 


during  the  Civil  War;  was  State  Senator, 
Congressman,  Minister  to  Mexico  and 
Consul  General  to  Hong  Kong.  He  wii« 
famed  for  his  oratory  and  impromptu 
speaking.  He  seconded  the  nomination  of 
Cleveland  at  the  1884  convention,  saying 
"We  love  him  for  the  enemies  he  hat 
made." 

DECKER.  M.RS.  SARAH  PLATT— In  San 
Francisco,  July  7.  She  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  suffragists  in  Colorado,  and  was 
intensely  interested  in  sociological  and 
economic  problems.  She  belonged  to  nu- 
merous civic  organizations  and  had  been 
President  of  the  General  Federation  of 
Women's  Qubs.  She  was  a  prolific  writer 
and  an  accomplished  lecturer.  Her  home 
was  in  Denver. 

DOW,  DR.  HOWAIRD  M.— At  Pelham 
Manor,  N.  Y.,  June  12.  He  was  bom  in 
Boston  seventy  five  years  ago.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  Harvard  Medical 
School,  and  had  an  extensive  practice. 
Deeply  interested  in  music,  he  composed 
some  twelve  books  of  church  music,  includ- 
ing the  "Masonic  Orpheum",  the  first  book 
of  Masonic  anthems  ever  written.  He  was 
organist  of  the  Boston  Church  of  the 
Unity  for  twentynine  years,  and  of  the 
Boston  Lodge  of  Masons  for  fiftynine 
years. 

DUNCAN,  WILLIAM  BUTLBRn-In  New 
York  City,  June  20,  aged  eightytwo  years. 
He  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  that  city  and  at  Brown  University. 
•He  was  a  power  in  the  business  life  of 
New  York,  holding  important  offices  in 
railroad  and  other  capitalist  organizations. 
He  entertained  King  Edward,  the  then 
Prince  of  Wales,  when  he  visited  United 
States  in  i860.  He  was  owner  of  a  very 
fine  library. 

FLOYD,  ROBERT  MITCHELI^In  New 
York  City,  June  12,  aged  sixtyeight  years. 
He  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  and  was  en- 
gaged in  the  publishing  business  in  New 
York.  He  represented  New  Jersey  at  the 
Nashville,  Omaha  and  Paris  Exi»ositions, 
and  was  the  special  representative  of  the 
National  Grower^|g,'^^sociation  at  the  Lon- 


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don  Convention  in  1869.  ^^^  ^^  Paris  the 
next  year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Mon- 
treal Board  of  Trade. 

•GOODWIN,  PROFESSOR  WILLIAM  W.— 
In  Cambridge,  Mlass.,  June  16,  aged  eighty- 
one  years.  He  was  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Greek  literature  in  Harvard  University,  and 
was  one  of  the  best-known  Greek  scholars 
in  United  States.  He  wrote  several  Greek 
textbooks,  and  had  received  honorary  de- 
grees from  a  mimber  of  American  and  for- 
eign universities,  among  them  Bonn,  Cam- 
bridge and  Oxford,  England,  Edinburgh 
and  Gocttingen. 

HOBRECHT,  ARTHUR,  H.  R.  J.— In  Ber- 
lin, Germany,  July  7.  He  was  born  in 
1824,  and  had  held  important  Ministerial 
posts. 

LENZ,  OSCAR— In  New  York,  June  25,  in 
his  fortieth  year.  He  was  born  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.  He  was  taught  by  tutors  and 
studied  sculpture  at  the  Rht)de  Island 
School  of  Design.  He  was  a  pupil  of  St. 
Gaudens  and  at  the  New  York  Art  Students* 
League.  He  executed  a  part  of  the  Court 
of  Honor,  Chicago  Wbrld's  Fair,  the 
Colonial  group  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  and 
other  subjects. 

LEROY-BEAULIEU.  ANATOL/E— In  Paris, 
France,  June  16.  He  was  born  in  1842,  a 
native  of  France.  He  was  a  Director  of 
the  Institute  of  France,  an  extensive 
writer,  and  closely  identified  with  the 
peace  movement. 

MOLESWORTH,  SIR  LEWIS  W.— In  Lon- 
don, England;  May  29.  He  was  born  in 
1853  and  was  created  eleventh  Baronet  in 
1869.  He  was  a  Member  of  Parliament 
from  1900  to  1906,  having?  been  High 
Sheriff  the  previous  year.  His  es'.ates  em- 
braced 20,000  acres. 

PURON,  DR.  JUAN  GARlCLA— In  Llanes, 
Asturias,  Spain,  his  native  town,  June  9,  in 
his  fiftyninth  year.  He  studied  medicine  in 
Spain  and  went  to  Mexico  to  practice,  and 
to  advance  education.  He  was  banished  be- 
cause of  rising  against  Diaz.  Coming  to 
United  States,  he  became  head  of  the  Span- 
ish department  of  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  and 
was  the  author  of  Spanish  textbooks  used 
in  Argentine  and  other  South  American 
countries.  His  wife  was  a  sister  of  the 
late  Richard  Watson  Gilder. 

RICQRDI,  GUILIO  T.— In  Milan,  Italy, 
June  6.  He  was  the  grandson  of  the  foun- 
der of  the  music  publishing  house  known 
as  the  Casa  Ricordi.  After  several  years 
in  the  army  he  entered  partnership  with 
his  father,  publishing  the  operas  of  Verdi, 
Rossini,  I>onizetti,  Bellini  and  Puccini,  and 
establishing  branches  in  important  Euro- 
pean   centers,  besides    Buenos    Ayres    and 


New  York.     He  was  asked  to  be  manager 
of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House. 

RICHMIAN,  JULIA— In  Paris,  France.  June 
25.  Born  in  New  York,  in  1856,  she  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city 
and  was  graduated  from  its  Normal  College 
at  the  age  of  sixteen.  She  taught  in  the 
city  schools  and  was  the  first  Jewish  princi- 
pal to  be  appointed  and  the  first  woman  to 
be  elected  District  Superintendent  in  Man- 
hattan. She  was  a  woman  of  rare  energy 
and  disinterestness,  and  did  much  to  better 
the  public  school  system,  accomplishing 
much  for  defective  children,  and  for  those 
handicapped  in  other  ways. 

iROSE.  SECRETARY  JAMES  A.— In  Spring- 
field, Illinois,  May  29,  aged  sixtytwo  years. 
For  a  raimber  of  years  he  had  been  Sec- 
retary of  State  for  Illinois. 

SANGSTER,  MRS.  MARGARET  E.— In 
Maplewood,  N.  J.,  June  3.  This  well-known 
author,  editor  and  poet,  so  long  a  con- 
tributor to  Every  Where,  was  born  in  New 
Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  seventy  four  years  ago.  As 
Margaret  Elizabeth  Munson,  and  later,  as 
Mrs.  Sangster,  her  name  was  familiar  to 
magazine  readers.  She  once  edited  Harper's 
Bcsar  and  contributed  to  many  well-known 
journals.  She  was  married  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  and  long  supported  her  family  by 
her  verses  and  storjes.  Her  collected  works 
include  several  volumes,  among  them  being 
"Poems  of  the  Household",  "Winsome 
Womanhood",  and  "The  Story  Bible". 

iSHBEPSHANKS,  THE  RI'GHT  REV. 
JOHN — In  London,  England,  June  3.  He 
was  born  in  1834,  and  educa.ed  at  Cam- 
bridge. In  1^59  he  became  Chaplain  to 
the  Bishop  of  Columbia,  and  in  1893  was 
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golia and  Siberia,"  "The  Pastor  in  His 
"Parish,"  and  other  books. 

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for  sixty  years  had  been  superintendent  of 
the  National  Botanical  Garden.  He  owned 
an  unusually  fine  collection  of  Robert 
Burns's  works,  which  he  bequeathed  to  a 
•^ard  of  trust,"  to  aid  in  preserving  the 
(Republic  in  pure  democracy. 

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his  ninetyfirst  year.  Paris  was  his  birth- 
place. He  was;  educated  as  a  lawyer,  but 
became  auditor  in  the  State  Council.  Re- 
signing, he  devoted  himself  to  political 
economy,  becoming  an  authority  therein. 
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■Deputies,  and  was  much  interested  in  the 
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the  Spanish  freighter  ship  Francisco  Cianta. 
upon  its  latest  arrival  in  New  York.  He  had 
apparently  died  of  starvation,  but  more  likely 
for  want  of  water. 

Hume,  the  infidel  his.orian,  admitted  that  if 
he  had  a  wife  and  daughter,  he  would  not 
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cism."  he  used  to  explain,  "may  be  too  sturdy 
a  virtue  for  a  woman." 

Fielding  first  tried  to  be  a  dramatist;  "bu:," 
as  he  expressed  it.  "left  off  writing  for  the 
stage  at  just  about  the  time"  he  "ought  to 
have  begun."  He  evidently  became  a  novelist, 
however,  at  exactly  the  right  time. 

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color  into  sound — so  thai  it  can  be  heard  by 


any  one  who  uses  the  instrument.  One  of  the 
ner\\>us  editors  wishes  that  sound  could  be 
made  into  colors,  when  it  gets  too  fierce. 

The  woman  who  has  been  housekeeper  for 
John  D.  Rockefeller  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, has  died,  and  was  buried  from  the 
"funeral  church  of  Frank  E.  Campbell",  in- 
stead of  a  regular  church,  or  the  millionaire's 
own  home. 

The  Yiddish  language  is  made  up  of  frag- 
ments of  many  old  ones,  and  such  adap  able 
ones  ns  it  finds  in  countries  to  which  it  goes. 
It  is  called  "the  language  of  Jews  in  exile" — 
which  all  Hebrews  outside  of  Judea  consider 
themselves  to  be. 

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flagration. That  was  the  way  wi:h  Mrs.  Geo. 
Wheaton,  of  Ithaca,  New  York,  and  she  lost 
most  of  her  hair,  and  was  glad  to  save  her 
life.  

Some  of  the  papers  are  again  exploiting  the 
deeds  of  an  old  "miser"  named  Guyot,  who 
was  hooted  at  all  through  his  life  by  the  peo- 
ple of  Marseilles.  They  changed  their  minds, 
when  they  found  at  his  death  that  he  had 
been  saving  money  to  build  an  aqueduct,  so 
that  the  people  could  get  free  water. 

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and  to  have  at  last  died  in  blngland  in  abject 
poverty. 

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mother  (poor  old  Dad),  who  looks  little  older 
than  her  daughter,  and  this  wi.h  no  intimation 
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woman  in  her  teens." 

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event.  A  well-known  young  woman  news- 
paper-correspondent whose  pen-name  was 
"Nellie  Bly",  married  rich,  became  an  opulent 
widow,  had  business  troubles,  and — 'has  been 
reporting  the  Baltimore  Democratic  Conven- 
tion for  one  of  the  newspapers. 

Wooed  from  the  air,  without  the  suitor 
knowing  it  until  he  met  her,  Mass  Dorothy 
Taylor  of  New  York  was  recently  married  to 
Claude  Grahame-White,  the  famous  aviator. 
They  met  on  the  ship  Olympic,  fell  promptly 
in  marriageable  love,  and  were  wed  in  Eng- 
land. It  remains  to  be  seen  whether  or  not 
the  fancy  will  be  a  flighty  one. 

President  McKinley,  nearly  his  whole  cabi- 
net, and  a  number  of  United  States  sena- 
tors, were  traveling  in  a  railroad-coach  to- 
gether, and  saw  in  one  of  the  fields  a  boy 
warming  his  bare  feet  in  a  place  where  a 
cow  had  been  lying;  and  found,  by  inquiry, 
that  every  one  in  the  car  had  been  a  farmer's 
boy,and  had  that  same  experience. 

The  clerical  father  of  George  Bancroft,  ihe 
historian,  used  to  laugh  at  his  recollection  of 
a  painter  whcm  he  employed  to  inscribe  the 
Ten  Commandments  on  a  table  of  wood.  The 
timber  was  faulty,  and  the  dominie  enjoined 
the  painter  no.  to  let  the  knots  show.  To  his 
consternati(ni,  he  found  that  the  painter  had 
left  out  the  nois,  and  the  tablets  ordered  his 
congregation  to  commit  all  the  principal 
known  sins.  

No  more  the  climbing  up  the  "outside*' 
of  famous  mountains!  Wait  a  few  years, 
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thrown  so  many  victims  from  its  slippery- 
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madam ;  your  face  seems  strangely  familiar  to 
me,  but  for  the  life  of  me,  I  cannot  remem- 
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Don't  Let  Them  Bury  Me  Deep 

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Editorial  Thoughts  and  Fancies 

Will  Carletou. 

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Woven-Wire  Fencing 

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Don't  Let  Them  Bury  Me  Deep. 


By  Will  Carleton. 


T   ri'T  me  a  bit  in  niv  l>e(l,  father. 

Press  your  warm  lip  t<^  my  cheek, 
I*iit  ycuirarms  under  my  head,  father. 

I  am  so  tired  ^^m\  so  weak ! 
I  cannot  stay  long  awake,  now    - 
^^any  a  night  I  shall  sleep! — 
Promise    one     thing    for    my    sake, 
now — 
Don't  let  them  bury  me  deep ! 

Cover  my  grave  with  sweet  flowers, 
father, 
Those -I    so  well  loved  to  see — 
So  in  the  long  lonely  hours,  father, 

They'll  be  companions  for  me. 
If  I  should  wake  Mn  the  night,  then. 
Their    lips    my    sad     face    would 
sweep :    . 
Make  my  grave  cheerful  and  bright, 
then — 
Don't  let  them  bury  me  deep  I 

Call  on  me  whene'er  you  pass,  father, 
Where  by  your  side  I  oft  ran, 

liend  your  face  down   in  the  grass, 
father, 
Near  to  my  own  as  you  can. 


If  r  could  look  up  and  hear -you. 
Into  your  arms  I  would  creep ; 

Let  me  sometimes  nestle  *near  you. 
Don't  let  them  bury  me  deep! 

Soft    and    scarce-heard    are    the   sad 
tones, 

Kve  the  sweet  e3es  close  in  sleep : 
hVebly  and  sadly  she  moans. 

Don't  let  them  bury  mc  deep! 

Look!   who  has  come   for  me  now, 
father, 

Standing »so  near  to  my  bed? 
Some  one  is  kissing  my  brow,  father, 

Mamma,  I  thought  you  were  dead! 
See !  she  is  smiling  »so  bright  to  you, 

Motions  to  us  not  to  weep! 
'Tis  not  "good-bye"  but  "good-night" 
to  you, 

They  cannot  bury  mc  deep! 

Soft  but  clear-heard  is  the  glad  voice, 
Ere  the  bright  eyes  close  in  sleep ; 

Sweetly  the  pale  lips  rejoice, — 
"They  cannot  bury  me^deep!" 


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summer  iuusiDgs. 

II. 


"Vr^HAT  lli()ii|;,^Ii  the  windows  of 
heaven  arc  opened,  and  the 
fhK)ds  descend,  when  we  sit  safe  and 
snni^^  inside  the  curtain-w'alls  of  tlic 
auto,  tlie  isini>hiss  windows  permitting 
a?n|)]e  views  of  the  bcantiful  landscape 
as    we    i)nrsne   the    more   or    less    even 


coats  protect  them  and  the  wetness  doe> 
not  penetrate  the  outside  garment  <»r 
dampen   the  gay  spirits. 

The  chauffeur  of  the  party  lias  verv 
acute  vision,  and  can  read  the  warnini; 
signs  from  afar ;  he  also  perceives  quail 
and  other  birds  in  the  road  ahead,  tliat 


**A   CHARMING    MOUNTAIN    STREAM. 


tenor  of  our  way.  Wo  realize  that 
femininity  has  a  few  privileges  when 
the  men  of  the  (juintette  decide  that  the 
slippery  roads  necessitate  the  use  of  the 
chains  on  the  wheels,  and  are  obliged  to 
])Ut  them  on  while  the  torrents  descend 
from   above.      P.ut   their    ''real"    rubber 


are  away  and  invisible  before  the  les> 
trained  eyes  can  see  them.  His  quick- 
ness of  vision  is  explained  when  lu 
recounts  the  hunting  experiences  of  hi> 
l)oyhood  and  youth.  Grouse,  quail  ami 
rabbit  became  readily  discerned,  as  hi- 
eye  l>ecame  practiced  hi  discrimination. 

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and  with  dogs  and  gun  he  scoured  the 
Maine  woods.  It  was  from  his  birch- 
bark    canoe   he   eventually    sighted   his 


"fisherman's   luck." 


first  wild  deer,  but  we  are  glad  to  state 
that  "hunter's  fright"  assailed  his  nerves 
and  the  deer  got  away.  When  he  meets 
his  first  wild  bear  face  to  face,  our  sym- 
pathies will  be  with  the  hunter. 

Our  camp  was  established  upon  the 
bank  of  a  charming  mountain  stream, 
with  enticing  pools  of  an  icy  quality  that 
made  a  dip  of  two  minutes'  duration 
seem  quite  long  enough.  The  boating 
was  fine  in  spots,  and  we  were  fortunate 
in  having  no  "fool  who  rocks  the  boat'', 
in  our  party.  This  summer  season  of 
joy  and  freedom  in  the  outdoors!  Why 
should  it  be  saddened  by  the  many 
unnecessary  tragedies,  in  which  the 
drowned  are  victims  of  their  own  fool- 
hardiness,  or  of  that  of  their  wickedly 
thoughtless  friends? 

The  birchbark  canoe  is  a  model  of 
beauty,  lightness  and  grace,  and  a 
source  of  infinite  delight  to  those  who 
handle  it  according  to  the  laws  of  its 
being.  In  this  case,  as  in  all  others, 
obedience  to  law  means  life ;  disobedi- 
ence danger  or  death. 

We    had    arisen    at    4.30    a.  m.    and 


started  oh  our  way  at  5.30,  so  that 
when  we  arrived  in  camp,  our  first  stop- 
ping place,  some  hours  later,  we  were 
quite  prepared  to  enjoy  a  part  of  "the 
great  catch"  of  the  early  morning  fish- 
ers who  had  preceded  us  by  several 
days.  The  remainder  of  the  fish  were 
shipped  to  friends  or  home,  as  examples 
of  "fishermen's  luck",  or  skill.  Surely 
the  brain-power  of  some  portion  of  the 
community  must  have  been  greatly  in- 
creased by  such  a  supply  of  fish  food. 

But  the  leader  of  the  party  announces 
that  the  wood  supply  is  low,  and  so  the 
merry  group  separates  into  twos  ancf 
threes,  forming  a  link  with  mediaeval 
life,  as  they  become  fagot-gatherers  pro 
tern  and  learn  what  the  weight  of  a 
fagot  must  be  upon  the  backs  of  the 
aged,  the  sick,  or  the  decrepit,  as  they 
carry  them  with  some  awkwardness 
upon  their  own  vigorous,  young  shoul- 
ders. My  turn  has  come,  so  I  leave  pen 
and  paper  to  join  the  other  firewood 
seekers,  who,  nevertheless,  do  not  pur- 
sue their  task  so  arduously,  that  they 
cannot  take  time  to  enjoy  the  fragrance 
of  the  pine   trees,   the  straightness   of 


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their  trunks,  the  glory  of  their  dark- 
ji^reen  crowns  against  the  now  blue  sky ; 
and  the  beaut v  of  hill  and  stream  and 


humble  flower  that  gladden  e>*e  ami 
heart,  absorbing  all  they  can  of  their 
loveliness  and  primeval  power. 


•the  deer  got  away. 


The  Tyranny  of  Things.— By  Margaret  E  Sangster. 

A  H,  the  clutter  and  confusion !  ah,  the  trouble  and  the  toil ! 

Ah,  the  dread  that  household  treasures  moth  and  rust  may  wreck  and  ^oil! 
IIow  we  spend  our  days  in  labor  and  consume  our  strength  with  care, 
Over  goods  that  in  the  u^mg  perish  to  our  soul's  despair ! 
How,  at  length,  for  all  our  planning,  packed  and  crowded  in  the  van. 
Things  we've  hoarded,  things  weVe  cherished,  do  not  fright  the  moving  man. 

Swift  he  hurries  our  possessions,  fine  and  coarse,  upon  the  road, 

Mirrors,  sofas,  chairs  and  tables,  dishes,  carpets,  on  the  load. 

And  Ave're  tired  with  endeavor  what  to  keep  and  what  to  lose, 

Things  we've  loved  and  things  we've  hated,  what  a  heartache  when  to  chouse  I 

Till,  in  May-time,  we  are  tempted  just  to  wish  that  wealth  had  wings — 

Crushed  and  borne  to  earth  and  burdened,  by  the  tyranny  of  things. 


Once,  perchance,  man's  life  was  simple,  woman's  work  an  easy  round ; 
She  but  kept  a  hut  in  order,  he  but  tilled'  the  laughing  ground. 
Naught  they  recked  of  gems  and  money;  little  thought  of  vaini  display, 
Wrought,  or  rested,  slept  or  idled,  lived  like  children  at  men's  play, 
When  the  race  was  poor  and  merry  as  the  forest  bird  that  sings. 
They  were  free  and  indei>endent  nor  were  tyrannized  by  things. 


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Old    Chinatown. 


Bv  Harry  E.  Rieseberg. 


^'Q  HINATOWN''  was  the  first  thing 
that  the  tourist  asked  to  see, 
ihe  first  thing  that  the  guides  offered 
to  show  on  arriving  in  San  Francisco, 
the  City  of  Many  Adventures.  For  the 
tourist  who  came  but  to  look  and  enjoy, 
this  was  the  real  heart  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, this  bit  of  mystic,  suggestive 
East,  so  modified  by  the  West  that  it 
was  neither  Oriental  nor  Occidental — 
hut  just  Chinatown.  It  is  gone  now — 
gone  with  the  odd  and  mysterious  city 
which  encircled  it,  and  in  the  newer  and 
more  modern  San  Francisco  rises  a 
newer,  cleaner,  and  more  healthful 
Chinatown. 

Within  a  few  minutes*  walk  from  the 
leading  hotels  and  center  of  commerce, 
we  arrived  at  one  of  the  many  entrances 
to  "Chinatown."  Here  we  saw  build- 
ings which  had  been  evolved,  and  others 
shaped  out  of  semblance  to  their  origi- 
nal design,  wherever  and  whenever  pos- 
sible, with  heathenish  architecture  and 
imagery.  Here  you  were  apt  to  regard 
the  intrusion  which/  the  Chinese  had 
made  on  the  acreage  of  this  section  of 
the  city  as  an  interesting  phenomenon, 
from  a  single  "wash-house",  on  Ports- 
mouth Square,  now  known  as  the  Plaza, 
until  this  quarter  comprised  over  fifteen 
iblocks  of  houses,  and  wherein  forty 
thousand  Chinese  resided  and  did  busi- 
ness. 

Chinatown  proper,  that  is  before  the 
earthquake  of  1906,  was  that  portion  of 
the  city  occupied  almost  exclusively  by 
Chinamen;  it  extended  from  Stockton 
Street,  almost  to  the  border  of  Kearney, 
and  from  Sacramento  to  Pacific  Streets, 


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including  all  the  lanes  and  alleys  that  lay 
between.  The  most  densely  populated 
portion  of  this  section  was  the  block  on 
Dupont  Street,  which  is  bounded  by 
Jackson  and  Pacific  Streets.  Here  one 
would  find  himself  in  a  maze  of  passages 
and  alleyways,  where  none  but  the  Chi- 
namen themselves,  and  a  few  of  the . 
police  officers,  could  thread  their  way 
with  certainty.  The  principal  passage 
of  this  great  network  was  termed  Sul- 
livan's Alley,  and  midway  in  the  block 
was  a  passage  about  two  feet  wide,  con- 
necting Sullivan's  Alley  with  narrow- 
lanes,  called  Li  Po  Tai's  alleys,  from  the 
fact  that  the  greater  part  of  this  prop- 
erty was  at  one  time  owned  by  a  Chinese 
physician  of  that  name.  On  the  north 
side  of  Pacific  Street,  and  above  Sulli- 
van's Alley,  came  Ellick's  Alley,  where 
were  displayed  some  of  the  grosser  feat- 
ures of  Mongolian  life. 

In  going  through  this  section  you 
would  see  many  wonderful  sights,  not 
to  be  observed  elsewhere.  As  you 
walked  along  the  main  thoroughfare 
of  this  quarter,  with  its  lines  of  bazaars, 
the  picturesqueness  of  which  was  in- 
creased by  elegantly  decorated  silk  em- 
broideries and  draperies  displayed  for 
sale,  ebony-carved  cabinets  rich  in  design 
and  ornamentation,  bronzes,  cloisonne 
ware  and  many  other  objects  of  exquis- 
ite beauty  and  workmanship  met  the 
eye;  and,  with  a  constant  stream  of 
tourists  from  all  parts  of  the  world  daily 
visiting  this  mecca,  you  would  realize 
that  there  was  an  active  participation 
in  the  busy  scenes  of  life  going  on  here, 
notwithstanding  its  Oriental  aspect. 

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Stroll  where  you  would,  you  would 
find  curious  studies,  many  of  which 
w<?re  calculated  to  amuse  and  instruct 
you,  for  the  personality  of  this  con- 
course of  people  is  difficult  to  describe 
and  analyze.  One  must  be  brought  into 
actual  touch  to  appreciate  the  various 
characters  found  here,  the  variety  of 
things  to  admire  and  wonder  at,,  others 
to  ponder  over,  and  all  of  them  interest- 
ing. It  does  not  seem  possible  that  >x>u 
could  stroll  for  blocks  without  encoun- 
tering a  single  Christian  place  of  busi- 
ness in  this  quarter,  yet  it  was  so. 

As  we  continued  our  walk,  you  would 
investigate  narrow  passages  under- 
ground and  above-ground:  to  fathom 
these,  it  would  l>e  necessary  to  hava 
an  experienced  and  trustworthy  guide; 
you  would  review  scores  of  opium- 
joints  beneath  stained  and  cobwebbed 
frescoes,  and  hear  the  click  of  the 
domino  in  the  game  of  "pi-gow",  as 
you  passed  the  scarred  and  battered 
portal  of  what  was  once  some  stately 
dwelling;  you  would  meet  at  intervals 
athletic-looking  officials  in  disguise, 
passing  up  s^ome  dark,  foul-smelling, 
tortuous  alleyway,  or  scaling  some  peril- 
ous roof  to  cut  oflF  the  retreat  from  a 
game  of  *'fan-tan",  or  "sup-choy." 

The  world  of  Chinatown  was  bea^iti- 
ful  at  night,  when  the  shadows  hid  the 
unpleasant  places,  and  the  great  lanterns 
of  the  joss  glowed  in  rovv^  on  the 
flower-laden  balconies  and  in  the  doors. 
It  looked  beautiful  to  those  who  saw 
only  the  surface,  and  did  not  dream  of 
the  slavery  and  vice  underlying  it. 

The  Chinese  restaurant  interior  is 
always  carefully  arranged  according  to 
the  Oriental  idea  of  artistic  taste.  The 
quaint  form  of  carvings  of  the  tables  and 
seats,  the  tessellated  floors  and  the  pen- 
dent lanterns,  present  an  odd  and  im- 
pressive picture.  The  common  impres- 
sion that  a  Qiinese  menu  is  composed 
of  all  sorts  of  repulsive  things,  is  erro- 
neous. True,  a  soup  of  "bird's  nest"  or 
a  stew  (»f  "shark's  fins"  may  not  look 
inviting  to  those  epicures  wliose  ])alates 
have    been    cultivated     in     a    different 


school,  but  the  Chinese  chef  'never  fails 
in  producing  the  most  satisfactory  culi- 
nary results  even  from  this  odd  mate- 
rial. The  Chinese  restaurants  are  pic- 
turesque in  the  extreme.  Hiere,  on  the 
wide  balconies,  the  guests  sit  and  gaze 
down  on  the  passer-by,  often  hailing  a 
friend  by  name,  and  hospitably  bidding' 
him  join  in  a  cup  of  tea  and  a  pipe. 

After  lunch  a  draught  at  the  opium- 
pipe  on  a  bamboo-bed  was  the  custom, 
so  we  left  the  restaurant  and  made  our 
way  up  Jackson  Street  until  we  stopped 
at   one   of   the   numerous   opium-dens. 
The  opium-smoke  is  the  grand  consola- 
tion of  the  Chinese  amid  the  trials  and 
tribulations  of  American  life.    On  enter- 
ing,  we   found  ourselves  in  an  apart- 
ment   about    fifteen    feet    square.     We 
could  touch  the  ceiling  on  tip-toe,  and 
yet  there  were  tiers  of  bunks  in   this 
place,  with  hard  boards  against  the  wall, 
each  bunk  just  broad  enough  for  two 
occupants.     The  atmosphere  was  heavy 
with  fumes  from  a  score  of  the  habitual 
smokers  who  had  become  slaves  to  the 
deadly  drug.     Almost  every  bunk  wras 
filled.     Some  of  the  smokers  had  had 
their  dream,  and  were  in  grotesque  atti- 
tudes,   insensible,    having    the    look    of 
plague-stricken     corpses.     Some     were 
dreaming.     You    could    see    it    in    the 
vacant  eye,  the  listless  face,  the  expres- 
sion that  betrayed  hopeless  intoxication. 
Some    were    preparing  the   enchanting 
pipe,  which  is  quite  a  complicated  ar- 
rangement,   requiring   much    skill    and 
experience  to  make  it  a  success.     The 
pipes  are  as  cumbersome  as  flutes.    They 
are,  most  of  them,  of  bamboo,  and  very 
often  beautifully  colored  with  the  mel- 
lowest   and    richest   tints   of   a   wisely- 
smoked     meerschaum.     There     is     an 
earthen  bowl  at  the  lower  end  of  the 
pipe-stem.     A    small    jar    of    prepared 
opium  stood  close  to  the  lamp.    It  is  a 
black,  thick  paste,  resembling  tar.    The 
smokers  dip  a  wire  into;  the  paste,  and 
hold  the  few  drops  that  adhere  to  it  in 
the   flame,  where  it   fries   and  bubbles. 
It  is  then  daubed  upon  the  rim  of  the 
pipe-bowl,  and  the  smoker  at  once  in- 

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hales  three  or  four  whiffs  of  the  smoke, 
which  empties  the  pipe-bowl,  and  then 
the  long  process  of  filling  is  repeated. 
They  renew  the  pipe  again  and  again. 

Their  talk  grows  feeble  and  less  fre- 
quent. They  laugh  with  deHrious  eyes. 
Their  fingers  relax;  their  heads  sink 
upon  the  pillows ;  and  directly  the  mo- 
tion of  the  anatomy  ceases,  they  suc- 
cumb to  the  benumbing  yet  not  unpleas- 
ant effect  of  the  drug,  the  opium  attacks 
the  system,  and  dreams  of  the  Orient 
float  upon  the  air.  Half  asleep,  half  in 
dreamland,  half  awaking,  the  mental 
condition  of  the  opium-smoker  is  beyond 
description.  At  last,  more  stupid  than 
they  are  willing  to  acknowledge,  they 
come  back  to  the  fact  that  they  have 
returned  to  the  basement,  their  Pagan 
surroundings,  and  their  actual  existence. 
r»ut  the  novice  who  "hits  the  pipe"  for 
the  first  time  is  apt  to  carry  with  him 
some  regrets  for  his  rash  experiment. 

Not  a  cafe,  nor  restaurant,  nor  pleas- 
ure-house in  the  quarter,  but  has  its', 
couch,  its  mats,  its  pillows,  together  with 
pipe  and  pot  of  paste  and  a  lamp.  It  is 
all  at  your  service  for  the  required  fee. 
Cut  off  the  opium  supplies,  and  the  Chi- 
nese will  either  leave  of  necessity,  or 
they  will  rise  against  the  citizens  of  San 
Francisco  with  the  ferocity  of  savage 
beasts. 

Leaving  this  den  of  misery  and  vice, 
we  crossed  the  street  and  entered  the 
rear  of  a  Chinese  boarding-house  front- 
ing on  Dupont  Street.  This  building 
contained  about  seven  hundred  China- 
men. Seven  hundred  Chinamen  ate, 
drank,  slept  and  existed  under  this  roof. 
The  light  of  day  never  reache<l  the 
rooms  back  of  those  fronting  on  Dupont 
Street.  The  daily,  not  to  mention 
weekly,  monthly  and  annual  secretions 
and  accumulations,  which  were  forced 
from  the  number  of  human  beings,  was 
something  aj)])alling  to  the  senses  of  a 
Caucasian.  There  was  a  noisome  dens- 
ity in  tlie  atmosphere,  which  could  not 
be  received  into  the  system  without 
great  nausea.  Half  of  the  lujuse,  at 
least,    was    buried    in    darkness,    more 


dense  than  the  underground  abodes  of 
the  scavengers.  Here  could  be  experi- 
enced all  the  horrors  of  a  catacomb, 
packed  with  living  disease-breeding 
Hesh,  slowly  drifting  into  their  graves. 
\'entilation  is  unknown  to  these  houses. 
This  particular  boarding-house  was  but 
one  of  the  many  decorating  the  thor- 
oughfare of  Chinatown. 

Passing  up  Portsmouth  Hill  just  be- 
yond Dupont  Street,  we  were  reminded 
of  the  near  proximity  of  one  of  their 
temples  of  worship  by  the  long  and  half  • 
stooping  line  of  believers,  as  they  ap- 
peared in  the  entry-way  of  a  building 
fronting  on  Jackson  Street.  Following 
this  crowd,  we  ascended  the  creaking 
stairwjiys,  groped  through  darkened 
halls,  passing  the  kneeling  penitents, 
and  at  the  farther  end  of  the  hall  we 
reached  the  dismal  rooms  of  the  joss- 
house.  The  first  impression,  on  enter- 
ing these  rooms,  was  one  of  an  intensely 
grotesque  nature.  There  is  nothing 
alxDut  the  interior  of  a  Chinese  temple 
to  inspire  a  feeling  of  reverence.  Fumes 
of  incense  fill  the  rooms,  and  curling 
smoke  from  burning  paper,  typical  of 
sins  forgiven,  circles  around  the  hydra- 
headed  symbols  of  their  deity.  The 
ugly  idol,  its  bizarre  surroundings,  the 
garish  and  inharmonious  mingling  of 
color,  and  the  heavy  and  oppressive 
odor  of  burning  wood,  do  not  consort 
with  the  Caucasian  idea  of  the  worship 
of  the  Supreme  P>eing.  However,  many 
of  these  temples  are  devoted  to  the  con- 
ciliation of  wicked  and  arbitrary  gods, 
who,  unless  they  have  received  their  full 
measure  of  offerings  and  respect,  will 
work  havoc  upon  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Chinese  quarter.  In  the  temple  which 
we  now  entered,  all  was  conducted  in 
piuUomime,  and  the  place  had  the  silence 
of  a  tomb,  unl)roken  save  by  the  omi- 
nous clang  of  their  sacred  bell,  which 
told  Oi*  a  victim  kneeling  at  the  foot  of 
his  altar  pleading  for  forgiveness.  The 
most  important  part  was  the  gaudy  altar 
whereon  sat  in  majesty  the  five  gods, 
variously  denominated  Virtue,  Health, 
Sickness.   Prospe^|fej,tD^i<!^vJsQ,|^me,  for 


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the  delectation  of  the  endless  demands 
made  upon  them  by  the  wicked  China- 
men :  their  heads  g^ay  with  red  and  gold 
paper  ornaments,  from  which  flaunted 
a  peacock  feather.  Rare  carvings  of 
l)rass  and  wood  were  everywhere,  and 
huge  panels  with  black  letters  covered 
the  walls.  These  had  been  given  to  the 
tcmi)le  with  a  large  sum  of  money  by 
wealthy  people,  and  when  one  read  the 
Chinese  name,  one  was  always  supposed 
to  remember  who  gave  the  panel — and 
the  money.  This  room  led  to  a  pictur- 
esque balcony  outside,  where  one  might 
stand  and  look  down  upon  thousands  of 
swaying  lanterns,  and  throngs  of  people. 
Among  the  peculiar  features  of  Pa- 
ijanism  there  is  none  more  revolting 
tlian  the  cruelty  practiced  upon  young 
girls,  based  upon  a  system  of  slavery. 
It  is  a  prolific  source  of  corruption  and 
degradation,  and  had  much  license  in 
this  quarter.  The  profound  pity  felt 
for  these  unhappy  victims,  who,  from 
ignorance,  adverse  conditions  of  hered- 
ity and  environment,  were  being  con- 
tinually bought  and  sold,  smuggled  on 
steamers  or  over  the  boundary-lines,  has 
at  last  awakened  an  effort  to  abridge, 
if  not  actually  to  suppress  this  traffic, 
which  prevailed  in  all  the  heartless  cru- 
elty which  characterized  that  condition 
at  the  close  of  the  Roman  Republic. 
The  law  in  regard  to  this  slave  traffic  is 
specific  and  exacting;  but  there  was  a 
certain  spirit  prevalent  in  this  neighbor- 
hood which  often  warped  the  judgment 
of  the  most  upright  and  honest  men, 
and  when  by  the  assistance  of  legal 
technicalities  this  spirit  was  coupled  to 
a  writ  of  habeas  corpus  procedure,  to 
be  subsequently  investigated  by  the  Fed- 
eral courts,  the  law  became  elastic,  and 
the  victim  was  permitted  to  land,  to  be 
readily  delivered  to  some  old  hag  of 
moral  unconsciousness  and  indifference 
of  feeling,  of  insolent  manners  and  sav- 
age temper,  for  a  moneyed  considera- 
tion varying  from  five  hundred  to  four 
thousand  dollars,  according  to  the  girl's 
age  and  personal  attraction.  Should  the 
girl  l)e  of  tender  years,  she  was  made  to 


perform  menial  drudgery,  and  was  fre- 
quently treated  not  only  unkindly,  but 
cruelly.  At  maturity  the  slave  girl  be- 
came more  valuable.  Here  for  a  time 
she  was  kept  under  strict  surveillance, 
bedecked  with  gaudy  trinkets,  and  then 
began  a  slavery  of  many  years  of  a 
fiercer  kind.  The  best  part  of  her  life 
was  wasted  amidst  unfriendly  and  de- 
graded companions ;  she  found  no  com- 
fort in  life,  nothing  to  love,  nothing  to 
look  forward  to ;  family  and  friends 
were  to  her  as  though  they  were  not. 
and  very  few,  if  any,  had  any  recollec- 
tions whatever  of  parents  or  relations. 

Here  let  me  mention  that  there  were 
a  great  many  white  women  scattered 
throughout  this  section  who  were  slaves, 
held  by  stern  contracts,  the  infringement 
of  which  meant  to  them  mutilation  or 
death.  The  majority  of  them  were 
coarse  and  unprepossessing,  but  some 
retained  a  freshness  of  complexion  and 
an  innocent  expression  which  strangely 
jarred  with  their  wretched  lives.  It  not 
infrequently  happened  that  some  Chi- 
nese merchant  or  merchant's  clerk  took 
a  fancy  to  one  of  these  odalisques,  and 
removed  her  to  his  house,  where  she 
was  treated  as  his  wife.  But  in  most 
cases  they  inhabited  their  wretched  den> 
without  any  prospect  of  rescue,  and  died 
young  of  ill  treatment  and  disease. 

There  was  something  of  interest  to  W 
learned  in  every  square  foot  of  this  sec- 
tion. There  are  no  words  wherein  to 
describe  the  subtleties  and  eccentricities 
into  which  living,  among  these  people, 
was  apt  to  generate,  where  so  many  pe^)- 
ple  were  crowded  into  so  little  room, 
where  the  aggregate  of  suffering  woukl 
be  multiplied  by  every  individual  tale. 

There  is  nothing  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
which  is  exempt  from  the  touch  of  the 
"Celestial."  All  departments  of  trade 
are  set  upon,  and  the  dogged  endurance 
of  their  slavish  instincts  bears  with  any 
task  set  before  them.  They  know  no 
law  of  social  life;  they  know  or  recog- 
nize no  religion,  save  that  which  ruled 
the  world  thousands  of  years  before  the 
Christian  era — ^^Paganism.^^  ,.^alp 

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A  Homely  Sacrifice. 


TT^HILE  Mrs.  Thompson  stood,  one 
^  morning  in  late  September,  at 
the  moulding-board  in  her  tidy  kitchen, 
she  looked  tired  and  discouraged. 

The  cause  of  her  weariness  of  body 
and  soul  wa§  not  to  be  found  in  the  fra- 
i^nant  loaves  of  bread,  nor  yet  in  the 
crisp,  flaky  pies,  now  cooling  on  the 
pantry  shelves.  The  pucker  between  the 
kind  old  eyes  and  the  anxious  look  on 
the  wrinkled  face  were  all  caused  by  the 
thought  of  a  dingy,  threadbare,  black 
dress,  at  that  moment  lying  in  state 
upon  the  blue-and-white  quilt  which 
adorns  the  company-bed,  in  the  tiny 
front  room  upstairs. 

This  garment  was  undeniably,  and  all 
too  plainly,  worn  out.  It  had  been  a 
very  good  dress  in  the  past,  but  the  day 
of  its  usefulness  and  beauty  had  gone 
by  forever.  It  had  been  turned  and 
inade-oVer  more  than  once,  and  by  no 
contriving  could  it  be  made  to  do  duty 
again  as  a  respectable  gown;  and  Mrs. 
Thompson  had  at  last  been  compelled  to 
admit  the  unwelcome  fact. 

'T  don't  see  whatever  I'm  going  to 
do",  she  mused,  as  she  busied  herself 
about  her  morning  work.  "I  can't  ask 
Solomon  for  any  money  this  fall;  for  1 
know  it'll  take  just  ev'ry  cent  he  can 
rake  and  scrape  to  pay  the  interest  on 
the  mortgage:  .and  I  can't  save  any 
money  from  the  butter  and  eggs;  for 
after  the  groceries  are  paid  for,  there's 
nothing  left  to  save.  TU  just  have  to 
make  up  my  mind  to  go  without  a  new 
dress,  and  stay  at  home  from  church 
this  winter.  I  presume  some  folks 
would  call  that  a  manifestation  of  sinful 
pride,  and  say  Td  ought  to  go  just  the 


same;  butl  I  can't  help  it;  I've  always 
had  good  clothes  to  wear  to  meeting, 
and  now  that  I'm  getting  old  I  shan't 
start  wearing  calico,  and  parade  our 
poverty  to  all  the  country  round  about : 
and  if  that's  sinful  pride,  I've  got  a  good 
full  share,  and  that's  all  about  it." 

You  see  it  was  only  a  trifle,  after  all, 
to  any  sensible  person.  But,  then,  this 
dear,  homely  woman  was  not  a  sensible 
person.  To  this  humble  soul  who  had 
toiled  early  and  late  all  her  hard,  nar- 
row life  for  bare  necessities,  it  seemed 
a  cruel  hardship  to  be  shut  out  from  the 
few  social  privileges  which  she  might 
enjoy,  just  because  she  lacked  the  few 
coins  necessary  to  the  purchase  of  a 
decent  dress. 

Many  and  many  a  time  had  she 
thought  over  every  possible  chance  of 
earning  a  few  extra  dollars,  but  each 
time  she  had  ended  her  cogitations  with 
a  hopeless  sigh:  but  at  last  an  inspira- 
tion came  to  her  at  a  moment  when  it 
was  least  expected. 

Just  as  Mrs.  Thompson  was  taking 
the  last  golden-brown  loaf  from  the 
smoking  oven,  her  husband  drove 
through  the  yard  on  his  way  to  the 
barn.  As  he  passed  the  doorway,  he 
tossed  into  his  wife's  hands  the  pack- 
age of  tea  which  she  had  charged  him 
to  bring  from  the  village,  and  that 
week's  issue  of  the  county  paper.  The 
crisp,  white  pages  looked  so  inviting  to 
the  weary  woman,  that  she  said  to  her- 
self, as  she  sank  with  a  weary  sigh  upon 
the  comfortable  step  of  the  old-fash- 
ioned porch,  and  settled  her  iron-bowed 
spectacles  firmly  astride  her  nose,  "Well, 
there!     The   work's  all   done,  and  it's 


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EVERY    WHERE. 


only  tcij  o'clock,  and  I  guess  I'll  just 
Hook  through  the  paper  a  little  mite. 
Dear  me!  I  do  wish  Solomon  'd  quit 
taking  it.  Not  but  what  I  like  it  first 
rate,  for  I  know  Mr.  Barnard's  an  awful 
nice  man,  and  he  prints  a  good  paper, 
but  I  don't  feel  that  we  can  aflFord  to 


up  her  potato  paring  as  she  talked  with 
them. 

"Well,  I  do  declare!"  she  exclaimed 
a  moment  later,  **here's  a  supplement.  1 
W'Onder  what  it's  about ;  all  g"ot  up  on 
pink  paper,  fine  as  you  please.  Oh  !  The 
county  fair,  to  be  sure!    Here's  a  list  of 


**SHE   TOOK    UP    HER    POTATO    PARING." 


take  it  any  longer.  I  s'pose  Solomon 
wouldn't  know  hardly  how  to  live  with- 
out it,  though.  He  sets  a  dreadful 
sight  of  store  by  the  news." 

She  was  still  lost  in  its  contents  when 
two  neighbors  came  along,  and  she  took 


all  the  premiums:  T»est  si)ecimcn  of 
fine  needle-work,  five  dollars.'  Marv 
Ann  Lee  took  that  last  year,  on  her 
ocean-wave  quilt.  I  heard  she  was  piec- 
ing a  red  and  yellow  tulip  pattern,  in 
hopes  to  get  it  again  this  year."     And 

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then  giving  her  attention  to  the  next 
item  on  the  Hst,  she  continued  reading 
aloud: 

**Best  loaf  of  home-made  bread:  First 
premium,  plush  photograph  album ;  sec- 
ond premium,  one  dollar.  Mandy  Por- 
ter, from  over  in  Dorset  took  first  prize 
on  bread  last  fall."  As  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son's eyes  took  in  the  next  item,  they 
grew  bright  with  interest,  and  a  faint 
spot  of  pink  crept  into  her  faded  cheeks. 
"Well,  well ;  here's  something  new  I 
guess !"  she  said,  with  a  thrill  of  excite- 
ment in  ber  voice.  "  'Parker  and  Trim- 
mer, dry-goods  merchants,  offer  one 
'black,  all-wool  dress-pattern,  with  lin- 
ings and  trimmings  complete,  to  the  lady 
making  and  exhibiting  the  best  loaf  of 
old-fashioned  election  cake.'  I  declare! 
I've  half  a  mind  to  try  for  that  myself. 
T  used  to  be  a  master  hand  at  making 
'lection  cake. 

*'l  hadn't  calculated  on  going  to  the 
fair  this  year,  but  if  I  could  only  get 
that  dress,  linings  and  trimmings  com- 
plete, it  says,  I  could  afford  to  pay  out 
fifty  cents  or  so,  J  should  think.  Fll 
see  what  Solomion  says  about  it,  any- 
way. 

**Let's  see,  my  receipt's  in  the  clock, 
I  guess.  I  ain't  made  one  since  the  dona- 
tion for  Elder  Dutton,  three  years  ago 
this  fall.  It's  been  a  long  time,  but  I'm 
pretty  sure  I  ain't  forgot  how.  To 
be  sure,  they're  expensive,  and  if  I 
shouldn't  get  the  premium  I'd  wish'd  I 
hadn't  spent  my  money.  Solomon  al- 
ways said,  though,  that  there  wasn't  a 
woman  anywhere  around  could  beat  me 
making  'lection  cakse,  an'  I  most  know 
he'll  say  I'd  better  try  it." 

And  so  it  happened  that  two  weeks 
later  found  Mrs.  Thompson  and  her 
husband  ensconced  in  their  rickety  old 
carriage,  riding  patiently  along  in  the 
dust  cast  up  by  hundreds  of  rolling 
whetels  as  they  kept  their  place  in  the 
slow-moving  procession,  all  bent  on  the 
same  errand — a  day's  outing  at  the 
county  fair. 

"You're  sure  you  entered  my  cake  all 
right,  are  you,  Solomon,  and  you  didn't 
crack  the  frosting  any,  did  you?    You 


know  if  it  was  mussed  just  the  least 
little  mite,  it  would  spoil  my  chance  of 
the  prize."  And  there  was  an  anxious 
look  on  the  tired  old  face  as  she  awaited 
the  answer  to  her  question. 

"Of  course  I  'tended  to  it  all  right, 
Hannah.  Didn't  I  bring  you  the  ticket 
they  gave  me?  And  the  woman  that 
took  it,  said  it  looked  so  good  she  most 
knew  it  would  take  the  prize.  She  was 
a  real  nice  little  woman,  and  she  seemed 
to  take  lots  of  interest  in  your  cake." 

"Why  you  didn't  tell  me  that  before ! 
I  wonder  if  she  reallv  thougfht  it  would. 
Why  didn't  you  tell  me,  Solomon?" 

"Why,  I  forgot  all  about  it  till  now. 
/  knew  it  would  take  the  premium,  any- 
way, so  it  don't  make  no  difference  what 
any  one  else  thinks." 

"Well,  I  s'pose  not.  I'll  soon  know 
now,  anyway,  for  here  we  are  at  last. 
You'll  have  to  get  the  tickets,  now, 
won't  you?  I  wondlcr  if  we'll  ever  get 
through  that  jam  at  the  gate.  I  de- 
clare it  seems  ev'ry  year  as  if  there's  a 
bigger  crowd  than  there  was  last." 

It  took  a  long  time  to  make  their 
way  through  the  dense  mass  of  people 
and  vehicles,  of  every  kind  and  descrip- 
tion, which  was  packed .  so  closely  at 
the  gates;  but  at  last  the  task  was  ac- 
complished, and  they  found  themselves 
a  part  of  the  gala  scene  behind  the  high 
board  fence. 

What  a  flutter  of  ribbons  and  drap- 
ery! What  splashes  of  gaudy  color 
against  the  white  of  the  canvas  tents! 
What  a  medley  of  noises!  And  amid 
thie  ceaseless  hum  of  hundreds  of  voices, 
one  heard  the  happy  laughter  of  chil- 
dren and  the  shrill  cries  of  importunate 
venders.  Somewhere  in  the  distance 
came  the  sound  of  voices  singing,  and 
over  and  above  all,  was  the  monotonous 
music  glround  out  by  an  enjterprising 
merry-go-round. 

White-winged  tents  dottled  the  grounds 
almost  as  far  as  the  eye  could  reach, 
and  loud-voiced  attendants  besought  the 
people  to  buy  their  sweetmeats,  or  be- 
hold the  marvelous  sights  of  the  "side- 
shows." And  in  front  of  one  of  these 
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plenty  of  self-assurance,  was  giving  a 
couple  of  attendants  ^  free  lecture  on 
the  use  of  languaee. 

The  shabby  little  woman  stood  still 
and  listened.  She  watched  it  all  for  a 
f€w  moments,  and  then  some  unseen 
force  laid  hold  upon  her,  and  led  her 
captive,  until  she  found  herself  push- 
ing a  way  through  the  dense  crowd  of 
])eoplc  which  was  surging  through  the 
i^neat  building  known  as  Floral  Hall, 
but  in  which,  however,  the  floral  exhibit 


would  be  hard  to  tell  from  their  looks 
which  is  the  better;  but  the  instinct  of 
thie  experienced  baker  of  cakes  tells  the 
careworn  little  woman  that  she  has 
failed. 

There  is  no  longer  any  joy  for  her 
in  the  happy,  noisy  scene.  She  looks 
down  at  hter  rusty,  threadbare  dress, 
and  remembers  that  it  is  very  old,  and 
that  it  is  aU  she  has ;  and  she  is  old,  too, 
she  thinks.  She  feels  out  of  place  and 
alone    in   the  happy,   care-free    throng. 


"A   FREE  LECTURE  ON   THE    USE   OF   LANGUAGE.' 


was   by   no  means   the   only  attraction. 

At  last,  in  rather  a  breathless  state, 
Mrs.  Thompson  reached  the  corner  de- 
voted to  the  display  of  the  culinary 
skill  of  the  ladies  of  Clinton  County: 
and  now  to  find  her  cake!  Ah!  Here 
it  is !  "Election  Cakie !"  it  says  on  the 
placard.  There  are  only  two,  and  this 
is  hers.  There  are  not  cards  on  the 
cakes  as  yet.  The  judges  have  not  yet 
made  their  rounds ;  but  she  knows  in  a 
moment  that  it  will  vot  be  her  cake  to 
which  they  will  award  the  premium. 

There  .they  stand:    two  perfect,  light, 
sweet-smelling,  snow-crowned  cakes.    It 


and  she  stands  still  and  stares  at  the  two 
smooth  mounds  of  cake,  with  unseeing 
eyes,  until  a  cheery  voice  calls  back 
her  wandering  mind,  and  she  sees  her 
nearest  neighbor  smiling  at  her  in  a 
friendly  way. 

"Why,  you  look  all  tired  out,  Aunt 
Hannah!"  said  Mrs.  Rogers,  "and  I'm 
sure  I  don't  wonder  at  it.  Wasn't  there 
a  crowd  ut  the  gates,  and  it's  such  a 
warm  day,  too,  for  this  time  of  the  year ! 
Did  you  come  to  see  the  cakes  ?  There's 
some  real  nice  ones  here.  I  wonder  who 
made  this?  You?  Well,  I  declare! 
This  on^'s  mine.    J  thought  I'd  bring  it 

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just  for  fun,  and  our  two  are  the  only 
ones  here,  aren't  they?  I  thought 
there'd  be  a  lot  that  would  try  for  that 
prize,  it  was  such  a  good  one.  Well, 
one  of  us  is  sure  of  it,  that's  certain." 
And  then  she  passed  on,  and  Mrs. 
Thompson's  weary  eyes  went  back  to 
the  cakes  again. 

So  that  was  Sally's  cake,  she  thought, 
with   a   sigh.     Why,  yes;    to  be  sure! 


as  her  leyes  took  in  all  the  shabbiness 
and  the  threadbareness  of  the  rusty 
gown,  as  it  moved  away  through  the 
well-dressed  crowd. 

Mrs.  Rog«ers  knew  well  the  reason 
that  the  faded  gown  had  been  so  long 
in  wear,  and  sihe  knew,  too,  that  no 
other  could  be  bought  that  fall,  to  take 
its  place.  She  had  often  heard  of  the 
debt  on  the  little  farm,  and  of  how  hard 


*WHAT     A     FUNNY     SIGN     THEYVe     <iOT. 


Slie  might  have  known.  She  had  taught 
her  how  herself;  and  Sally  was  always 
quick  to  learn.  She  would  get  the  dress, 
of  course ;  though  she  didn't  need  it  at 
all :  she  had  more  dresses  now  than  she 
could  ever  wear  out.  And  then  she 
thought  of  the  money  she  had  wasted, 
and  the  tired  eyes  filled  with  disappoint- 
ed tears  as  she  turned  away. 

She  will  go  to  sorn^e  place  and  sit 
down,  she  thinks.  There  are  so  many 
people,  and  the  noise  hurts  her  head. 
And  shte  goes  away,  alone,  through  the 
noisy,  happy  crowd;  and  Mrs.  Rogers, 
watching  her  as  she  goes,  sees  the 
troubled  eyes  and  the  white,  disappoint- 
ed face,  and  guesses  the  whole  pitiful 
story. 

"PcK)r  thing!  She  wanted  that  dress, 
I  do  believe,  and  goodness  knows  she 
needs  it  bad  enough",  she  said,  softly, 


it  was  to  keep  the  interest  paid:  and 
that  year,  she  kn«ew,  had  been  even 
worse  than  usual.  Poor  old  Uncle  Sol- 
omen  is  proverbially  slow,  she  mused, 
and  what  few  crops  he  has  managed  to 
put  in  the  ground  this  yfear  have  obsti- 
nately refused  to  multiply  and  increase, 
and  this  fall  he  has  scarcely  more  than 
the  sefed  he  sowed  to  show  for  his 
whole  summer's  toil :  so  of  course  there 
will  be  no  money  to  spend  on  dresses. 

There  isn't  th-e  least  doubt  of  my  get- 
ting the  premium,  softly  communed 
Mrs.  Rogers  with  herself;  and  I'm  sure 
Aunt  Hannah  thought  so,  too.  Weil, 
I'll  be  fairly  entitled  to  it,  for  I  took 
lots  df  pains  with  that  cake.  I  don't 
need  the  dress,  to  bo  sure,  but  it'll  be 
something  to  have  the  name  of  taking 
the  premium.  If  I'd  known,  though, 
that  Aunt  Hannah  was  going  to  tr^,  I 

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never  would  have  hrouy^ht  my  cake  at 
all ;  but  it\s  too  late  now ;  it's  tiine  the 
ju(l»(es  were  here  I  should  think. 

"There,  1  believe  that's  tlitem  now. 
Yes,  they're  cutting  a  cake  and  tasting 
it.  Poor  Aunt  Hannah!  How  disap- 
pointed she  w'ill  be:  sIk  needs  a  nc\v 
dress  so  much,  and  she  taught  me  her- 
self how  to  make  that  cake,  and  a  great 
many  other  things  besides — and  she 
shall  have  that  dress,  too,  if  she  wants 
it,  or  my  name  isn't  Sally  Ann  Rogers" 
— she  ended  with  a  mental  jerk,  as  she 
hurri*?(l  toward  the  long  table,  where, 
far  down  at  the  lower  end,  the  judges 
wer{»  sampling  the  cakes,  and  here  and 
then?  affixing  the  red  and  blue  cards 
which  were  the  proofs  of  their  merit. 

As  she  reached  the  table,  Mrs.  Rog- 
ers rais«ed  the  plate  which  held  her  own 
cherished  cake,  and  a  moment  later  it 
lay  on  the  dusty  floor  amid  the  ruins  of 
a  gold-banded  china  plate!  And  Mrs. 
Rogers  was  saying,  with  a  careless 
smile,  to  the  startled  atiejndjant,  who 
happened  forward  to  see  what  havoc 
had  ])een  wrought  in  her  domain,  "Oh, 
you  needn't  be  frightened!  There's 
nothing  harmed  but  my  election  cake! 
1  just  thought  I'd  see  if  the  frosting  was 
cracked  any,  and  some  way  it  slipped 
right  out  of  my  hands.  I  must  have 
been  a  littl'c  careless,  I  guess.  There 
won't  be  any  question  now  as  to  who 
will  take  the  prize,  will  there,  seeing 
there's  only  one  left? 

"Too  bad  mine  was  spoiled?  Oh,  T 
djin't  know:  it's  only  a  cake  anyway, 
and  likely  as  not  it  wouldn't  have  taken 
the  prize,  even  if  I  hadn't  dropped  it. 
1  am  a  littk  sorry  about  the  plate,  I'll 
admit.  It  was  one  of  a  set,  but  it  can't 
))e  helped  now,  of  course."  And  then 
Mrs.  Rogers  walked  quietly  away  from 
the  scene  of  the  disaster,  and  no  one 
even  dreamed  that  it  had  all  been  done 
on  purjKise. 

A  few  moments  lat>er  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son, sitting  in  the  very  darkest  corner 
of  the  "rest  for  weary  mothers",  heard 
her  friend's  cheery  voice  as  she  called, 
**\Vhy,  Aunt  Hannah,  what  are  you  mop- 
ing here  for?     Just  come  and  see  your 


cake  with  the  blue  card  on  it.  It  looks 
nice,  I  can  tell  you ;  but  not  as  nice.  I 
don't  suppose,  as  you  will,  when  you 
wear  that  nice  dress  that  you  are  going 
to  get  as  a  premium.  Come  on,  let's 
go  up  there :  I  want  you  to  see  for 
yourself."  And  a  little  later  Mrs. 
Thompson  stood  once  more  in  front  of 
the  long  table :  but  her  face  now  looked 
almost  young  again,  as  the  old'  ^yes 
proudly  viewed  the  blue  card,  which 
gleamed  a  bright  bit  of  color,  on  the 
snowy  frosting  which  covered  the  s])'c\ 
richness  of  the  cake.  In  her  joy  it  wa^ 
quite  a  minute  before  she  saw'  that  <nii 
cake  was  missing,  and  th-en  in  surprise 
she  questioned: 

"Why,  Sally,  where's  your  cake?  i 
don't  see  it  at  all!  I  felt  sure  that  it 
would  take  th»e  premium.  Have  v-i 
taken  it  away?" 

"Why,  no,  Aunt  Hannah !  I  took  it 
up  to  look  at  the  frosting,  and  some 
way  I  managed  to  drop  it,  so  it  wa> 
spoiled,  of  course.  Now  don't  you  feel 
bad  a  niinute ;  I  don't  se<?  how  it  coulii 
have  taken  the  premium,  anyway,  for  tlic 
judges  all  said  yours  was  the  best  cake 
they  ever  tasted.  I  heard  them  my  sell. 
anci  it  isn't  likelv  mine  could  have  beat 
it!" 

"Did  they  say  that?  Did  they  really. 
Sally?"  returned  the  delighted  oi'l 
woman,  in  an  excited  tone. 

"Yes  they  did,  really  Aunt  Hannali. 
You'd  l>etter  stop  at  the  store  when  yp 
go  home,  and  get  your  dress,  hadn't 
you?  And  I'll  help  you  mak-e  it  up  next 
week.  I  haven't  much  to  do  just  now. 
and  I'd  as  soon  help  you  as  not,  if  you 
want  me  to.  There's  a  black  dress  n<»w 
that's  made  up  real  neat  and  tasty:  y(u: 
might  have  yours  made  something  likv 
it,  only  V<]  get  silk  instead  of  velvet  to 
trim  it  in.  if  I  were  you.  And  now  tlia: 
weVe  seen  the  prize  cake,  let's  go  aiul 
look  at  the  poultry  exhibit.  They  sa> 
it's  real  fine  this  year.  Oh,  yes,  and  I 
want  you  to  see  w^hat  a.  funny  sign  they 
have  got  in  the  tent  around  the  corner, 
where  they  se-em  to  be  selling  some  *ne\\ 
fangl-ed'  kind  of  cheese.  And  we'll  want 
to  go  down  to  the  grand-stand  at  noon. 


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and  see  the  show;  and  then  we'll  find 
the  men  and  go  back'  to  the  grove  and 
eat  our  dinners." 

As  the  two  moved  away  together,  it 
would  hav^  been  hard  to  tell  which  was 


the  happier  heart,  the  one  beneath  the 
smart,  new  gown,  or  th€  one  which  beat 
so  joyously  ben»eath  the  rusty,  time- 
worn  dress,  which,  that  day,  was  mak- 
ing its  last  forlorn  appearance  in  public. 


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ik  TINY  brown  thing  in  the  pocket 
of  a  lx)y — that's  all  I  was,  once. 
He  found  me  lying  on  the  ground  under 
a.  big  tree,  which  was  my  mother. 

Earlier  I  had  been  very  happy  with 
my  brothers  and  sisters  as  we  rocked 
in  our  mother's  arms:  for  at  first, .you 
know,  we  were  little  and  green  like  most 
lx)ys  and  girls,  and  we  lay  all  day  in  our 
little  green  cradles. 

The  leaves  that  grew  aix)ut  us  were 
also  green ;  they  kept  the  hot  sun  from 
scorching  us,  and  tliey  fanned  us  when 
the  wind  blew. 

Of  course  we  loved  the  kaves  very 
much,  because  they  were  so  good  to  us. 
Our  mother  loved  them,  too,  almost  as 
much  as, she  did  us.  I  think  they  were 
kin  to  us — cousins  or  something  like 
that.  At  any  rate,  we  all  lived  happily 
together. 

But  after  a  while,  when  the  beautiful 
summer  was  gone,  our  lives  changed.- 
Something,  I  do  not  know  what,  hap- 
pene<l,  and  we  found  that  we  were  turn- 
ing brown,  every  one  of  us.  I  suppose 
we  played  too  long  in  the  sun  without 
our  bonnets.  Anyhow,  we  were  surely 
very  sunburnt. 

The  leaves,  too,  were  no  longer 
green,  but  changed  to  red  and  gold. 
Tliey  w^re  very  pretty  and  danced  gaily 
in  the  breeze.  Of  course,  we  were  not 
so  pretty;  for  I  heard  them  bragging 
about  Jack  Frost  painting  them  one 
night  from  his  wonderful  box  of  colors. 

I  did  not  know  who  he  was,  but  I  did 
not  like  his  name  from  the  very  first. 

It  made  me  jealous  to  see  the  leaves 
so  bright,  and  it  made  me  angry  to  hear 
them  laugh  at  our  dull  dresses. 

We    were    now    no    longer    happy. 


Even  our  moth'er  did  not  seem  to  love 
us  nor  hold  us  so  close ;  so  that  it  was 
often  all  we  could  do  to  keep  from  fall- 
ing wh'en  the  wind  was  high.  But  it 
may  have  been  she  was  tired,  for  she 
seemed  so  very  drowsy  all  the  time. 

One  day  my  littl-e  brother,  whose  cra- 
dle was  just  by  mine,  rolled  over  and 
crept  ver>"  close  to  me,  and  told  me  the 
greatest  secret.  He  had  been  eaves- 
dropping, as  naughty  brothers  will,  and 
had  heard  the  leaves  planning  some  new- 
dresses.  Jack  Frost  was  sure  to  come 
that  night,  for  the  wind  blew  right  out 
of  the  north.  I  determined  right  then 
that  I  would  sit  up  for  him,  and  when 
.he  came  I  would  be  very  brave  and  beg 
him  to  make  us  as  pretty  as  our  cousins. 

But  when  it  grew  dark  and  the  birdies 
were  asleep  in  their  nest  in  our  tree,  the 
wind  blew  so  gently — oh,  so  gently,  that 
before  1  knew  it  I  was  fast  asleep.  Next 
morning  when  I  woke  up  the  sun  was 
shining,  but  I  knew  he  had  been  there. 
I  felt  him.  I  was  cold  even  through  my 
warm  brown  jacket. 

And,  oh,  the  funniest  thing  had  hap- 
pened to  the  gay  giddy  leaves.  I 
laughed  in  spite  of  my  good  manners 
when  I  saw  how  brown  and  sober  their 
friend's  visit  had  made  them.  He 
brought  nothing  but  his  brown  paint 
that  night,  and  he  gave  the  whole  world 
a  good  thick  coat  of  it. 

After  that  my  cradle  did  not  fit.  f 
bumped  so  against  the  sides  that  I 
longed  to  get  out. 

So  one  day,  when  the  wind  was  in  a 
rage,  he  rocked  us  more  than  ever ;  and 
his  voice  was  harsh  and  his  l)reath  was 
jold. 

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shook  us  so  hard,  we  lost  our  balance 
and  fell  down  and  down  to  the  soft 
earth  below.  Our  mother  was  so  sleepy 
she  could  not  keep  us  from  falling,  and 
though  we  lay  at  her  feet  and  her  arms 
were  still  over  us,  she  could  not  tell  us 
what  to  do  for  she  was  now  sound 
asleep. 

It  was  not  long  until  I  discovered  all 
the  leaves  had  fallen,  too,  and  when  I 
touched  them  I  soon  saw  that  not  only 
had  their  beauty  faded,  but  they  were 
even  dead. 

Poor,  foolish  leaves,  you  boasted  of 
your  loveliness,  but  your  brief  life  is 
clone  1  You  must  now  decay  and  enrich 
us.  We  were  always  brown  and  ugly. 
You  laughed  at  us,  but  we  still  live,  and 
shall  some  day  be  changed  into  some- 
thing beautiful. 

We  lay  for  a  long  time  where  we  fell, 
and  I  could  tell  many  fine  stories  of  all 
1  saw  and  heard.  However,  there  is  one 
thing  I  never  shall  know,  and  that  is 
what  became  of  my  brothers  and  sis- 
ters. For  as  I  told  you  when  I  started 
out,  a  boy  picked  me  up  and  put  me  in 
his  pocket./  I  think  he  intended  to  eat 
me. 

It  isn't  altogether  pleasant  to  stay  in 
a  boy's  pocket.  You  know  how  they 
bulge  out  with  marbles,  tops,  and  strings, 
and  a  thousand  little  things  a  boy  knows 
I>ockets  are  made  for.  But  there  was 
one  thing  in  this  pocket  that  he  didnH 
know  about.  It  was  a  hole ;  so  one  day 
as  we  crowded  and  jostled  one  another, 
I  got  beneath  all  the  other  things,  ana* 
being  so  small  I  fell  out.  The  boy 
really  didn't  care:  I  was  just  an  acorn: 
and  that  is  how  I  came  to  be  something 
else.  He  was  scampering  along  a  hot 
(lusty  lane  when  he  lost  me,  and  I  was 
soon  buried  under  the  leaves  and  soil. 
After  a  while  the  April  showers  pattered 
down  on  my  bed,  and  the  warm  sun 
shone  down  until  I  began  to  sprout,  and 
feel  the  thrill  of  life. 

I  heard  the  voices  of  the  birds  and  I 
peeped  out  to  see  what  they  were  sing- 
ing about. 

From  a  tiny  green  sprig  T  grew  high- 
er and  higher  until  one  day  T  stood  a 


beautiful  tall  tree.  I  threw  out  my  arms 
wider  and  wider.  I  filled  them  with 
green  leaves;  for  I  knew  spring  ha'l 
come. 

Many  travelers  rest  under  my  shack, 
and  praise  my  beauty ;  and  I  look  out 
across  the  fields  to  the  stretch  of  cool 
green  wood,  and  wonder  if  my  mother 
is  still  there.  If  she  is,  she  is  very  old. 
for  soon  quaintly  carved  cradles  will  In.* 
hidden  among  my  leaves,  and  when  the 
autumn  days  are  come  I  shall  rock  niv 
own  brown  acorn  babies. 


Song  of  The  Adulterated. 

Tjn^HEN  with  blithe  bells  the  morning 
^       tells 

That  night  from  the  world  is  thriisl, 
I  rise  and  sip,  with  resonant  lip. 

My  cup  of  coffee  and — chicory-dnsr. 

I   can   make  it  seem,   with — chalk   and 
cream, 
Like  draughts  from  a  fountain  jL^rand. 
.\s  I  stir  it  round  to  its  dej)ths  profound.         ' 
.\nd  sweeten   it  up  with — sugar   and        i 
sand. 

At    dinner-hour,    when    from    hungers 
power 

My  nature  craves  relief, 
With  pleasure  I  spy  my  roast  or  fry 

Of  tender,  fresh — saltpeter  and  beef. 

When  evening  throws  her  restful  glows 

Of  mingled  gray  and  red, 
I  sit  me  down  with  a  smile  and  frown. 

To    my    frugal    meal    of — alum    and 
bread. 

My  gleaming  board  is  mildly  stored 

With  adulterated  glee, 
.\nd  comforts  deep  through  my  stomach 
creep. 
From  my   cup  of — prussic  acid  and 
tea. 

And  when  I  lay  at  close  of  day 
My  form  on  its  mattressed  shelf, 

I  can't  deny,  though  hard  I  try — 
I  am  very  much  of  a  sham  myself. 


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A   Second  Lesson  in  Chess. 


nr  HE  Mayliew  children  were  very 
much  disappointed,  soon  after 
the  first  lesson  their  uncle  gave  them  in 
chess,  to  find  that  ho  had  been  "drawn 
on  a  jury",  and  would  profcably  have  to 
l>e  absent  from  them  for  several  days. 
It  must  be  confessed  that  their  uncle 
rather  liked  "the  jury  business",  as  he 
called  it:  for  it  enabled  him  to  meet  a 
good  many  old  friends,  and  talk  over 
ancient  times.  Besides,  he  enjoyed  hear- 
ing the  witnesses  testify,  and  the  lawyers 
make  their  speeches.  Still,  he  hated  to 
leave  the  children ;  and  they,  too,  were 
disconsolate,  for  he  was  great  company 
for  them  on  general  principles;  and, 
besides,  they  did  not  like  to  wait  till  his 
return,  for  their  further  instructions  in 
the  game. 

He  was  an  expert  in  the  game  of 
chess,  and  loved  to  instruct  the  children 
in  the  deeper  aspects  of  the  game.  He' 
had  arranged  a  local  tournament  of  the 
chess  fiends  of  the  village  an-d  was  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  best-informed  iri 
that  part  of  the  country. 

They  were  looking  the  "men"  over  the 
next  day  after  Uncle  Jack  left  them,  and 
wondering  whether  they  couldn't  make 
a  few  rules  of  their  own  and  play  a  sort 
of  game,  when  the  pastor  called,  rather 
unexpectedly.  They  tried  to  hide  the 
board  and  men,  thinking  he  would  not 
approve  of  them;  but  he  was  too 
quick,  saw  the  whole  outfit  before  they 
could  get  it  out  of  the  way,  and  asked 
them  all  about  it.  They  explained  the 
different  men  and  moves,  as  their  Uncle 
Jack  had  told  them;  and  their  manner 
of  doing  so  afforded  the  pastor  consid- 
erable quiet  amusement.  At  last  he 
said: 


"I  play  chess,  sometimes,  with  my 
boys,  in  order  to  please  them,  and  rest 
myself;  and  I  think  I  can  start  you  off 
and  tell  you  how  to  conduct  a  game 
properly." 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  children 
were  very  much  delighted  at  this;  and 
they  soon  had  their  men  all  "set",  and 
ready  to  begin. 

"Now,"  5aid  the  pastor,  "the  fir»t 
thing  you  must  learn,  is  how  to  record 
your  games,  so  you  can  look  over  them, 
s-tudy  them,  and  learn  what  to  do  the 
next  time.  You  can  thus  find  out  your 
mistakes,  and  learn  how  to  avoid  them 
in  the  future. 

"You  can  also  trace  other  people's 
chess  games,  when  you  see  them  record- 
ed in  books,  newspapers,  and  magazines. 

"The  best  way  to  learn  how  to  play, 
is  to  play;  and  so  we  will  commence  f 
game  now. 

"I  will  this  time  no-t  only  move  my 
own  men,  but  will  tell  you  how  to  move 
yours.  I  will  take  'white'  (as  you  may 
call  the  red-marked  men),  and  you  may 
take  'black.' 

"Now  we  will  commence  the  game.  I 
I  will  move  my  king's  pawn  two  squares ; 
which  I  can  do  the  first  time  it  is 
moved" —      x. 

"Your  king's  pawn?",  repeated  Alice. 
"Which  one  is  that?" 

"Why,  the  one  directly  in  front  of  the 
king",  replied  the  pastor,  while  the  r-^st 
of  the  children,  who  had  wanted  to  prsk 
the  same  question,  laughed  at  the 
somewhat  disconcerted  girl.  "And  the 
queen's  pawn  is  of  course  in  front  of 
her,  and  the  king's  bishop's  pawn" — 

'*Which   of  your   two   bishops  i>  the 


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"The  one  nearest  the  king*',  replied 
the  pastor,  while  Alice  had  her  laugh. 
**An(l,  in  the  same  way,  there  is  the 
queen's  knight,  her  bishop,  and  her  cas- 
tle, and  each  has  its  pawn." 

"But  in  moving  to  one  place  and  an- 
other, they  may  get  away  from  the  king 
or  queen'',  suggested  Claude.  "Do  they 
keep  the  same  names  still?" 

**Yes,"  replied  the  pastor.  "Wherever 
they  go  during  the  game,  they  always 
keep  the  same  name  with  which  they 
started  out. 

"So  I  will  commence  by  moving  my 
king's  pawn  two  squares  directly  in 
front.  This  move  we  will  record!  as 
*P  to  K4',  which  means  that  my  king's 
pawn  has  been  placed  in  square  number 
four,  in  the  king's  line  of  squares." 

"But  why  don't  you  write  it  'King's 
pawn  to  King  4?'  "  asked  Gladys. 

"Because  king's  pawn  is  the  only  one 
that  could  be  moved'  there,"  replied  the 
pastor:  "and  in  recording  a  game,  we 
shorten  the  record  as  much  as  we  can. 
Now,  you  may  also  move  your  pawn  to 

KIU." 

The  move  was  made,  and  the  two 
pawns  stood  close  together,  staring 
fiercely  at  each  other.  This  move  was 
also  recorded,  in  a  column  headed 
"Black",  as  "P  to  K4." 

"Now,"  continued  the  pastor,  "I  will 
move  my  king's  bishop's  pawn  to  the 
fourth  square,  also:  and  this  we  will 
record  (under  the  heading  'White')  T 
to  KB4.' 

"It  is  now  your  move;  and  we  will 
say  tliat  you  decide  to  take  my  pawn 
with  yours,  by  pushing  him  off.  So  we 
will  record  that  (under  the  heading 
M5Iack')  as  T  takes  P.'  We  do  not  tell 
7cJiidi  pawn  we  mean,  because  there  are 
at  present  only  two  on  the  lx)ard  that 
could  be,  meant." 

"Would  we  have  to  take  it  if  we  did 
not  wish  to?"  asked  Hugh. 

*'No ;  there  is  this  difference  between 
checkers  and  chess,  in  taking  men," 
replied  the  pastor:  "in  checkers  you 
have  to  capture  a  man  if  iK)ssible,  wheth- 
er you  wish  to  or  not;  but  in  chess  you 
-^■m  do  as  you  like.    It  is  good  policy  for 


l^iABUr"  «"' 


you  to  take  his  pawn,  however,  for  if 
you  did  not,  I  w^ould  probably  take 
yours,  at  my  next  turn. 

**I  will  now  move  my  king's  bishop 
cornerwise,  to  the  fourth  space  in  the 
queen's  bishop's  line.  ThLs  I  can  easily 
do,  for  I  took  my  pawn  out  of  the  way 
in  the  preceding  move.  We  record  that 
a,s  'B  to  B4.' 

"Next,  you  may  move  your  queen 
queen's  cornerwise  to  *Rs',  whkh  means 
<he  fifth  square  (from  your  side)  on  the 
castle's  (or  rook's)  line.  (In  chess,  we 
generally  call  the  'castle'  a  'rook',  and 
designate  it  by  the  letter  'R'.)  You 
now  must  say  *Check !'  to  me." 

"What  for?"  asked  Arthur. 

"Because  that  is  a  signal  agreed  upon, 
when  you  have  put  your  adversary's 
King  in  danger.  The  King,  although 
he  is  not  much  of  a  fighter,  is  the  most 
important  'piece'  on  the  board,  and  I 
must  protect  him,  whatever  happens.  If 
you  can  manage  to  get  him  in  enough 
ilanger  from  your  various  'pieces*  so 
that  I  can  not  save  him  from  danger, 
then  you  say  'Checkmate!'  and  the  game 
is  yours,  no  matter  how  many  or  how 
few  of  my  men  you  have  taken.  That  is 
the  object  of  the  game — to  'checkmate' 
your  opix)nent. 

"You  see,  at  the  next  move,  you  could 
run  your  queen  dowm  to  the  king,  and 
push  him  off  (for  that  is  the  way  we 
lake  men,  in  chess,,  instead  of  'jumping' 
them  jis  in  checkers),  if  I  did  not  get 
something  in  the  w^ay,  or  get  him  out 
of  the  way.     Sl$>g,Jzc^iR/ teVPir^ido  so, 


FKMINMXI':  ODD   VOCATIONS. 


M.^ 


or  give  up  the  game.  As  you  'threaten' 
him  only  with  your  queen  I  will  move 
him  one  square  to  the  right,  where  my 
bishop  was.  This  move  will  be  recorded 
as  White's  move  No.  4,  and  written  as 
follows :  'K  to  B  sq' ;  meaning,  'King 
moved  to  bishop's  square.' 

"Y^ur  next  move  (which  is  Black's 
No.  4)  will  be  recorded  as  'P  to  QKt4\ 
which  means  that  you  move  your  queen's 
knight's  pawn  to  the  knight's  fourth 
square. 

"In  my  next  move  (No.  5)  I  take 
your  pawn  with  my  bishop.  This  move 
is  recorded  *B  takes,  KtP.' 

**In  the  next  move  (your  No.  5)  you 
move  your  knight  to  the  third  square  of 
the  king's  bishop ;  which  is  duly  record- 
ed in  Vwur  column  as  *Kt  to  Kl»3.'  " 

"Why  do  we  do  thai;?"  asked  Hugh. 

"All  I  can  tell  you  now,"  replied  the 
pastor,  **is,  that  it  will  be  -the  best  play, 
under  the  circumstances.  You  will  soon 
learn  the  Svhys  and  wherefores'  of  the 
game.  We  are  now  merely  practicing  to 
leani  the  moves. 

"My  fifth  play  will  be,  'I>  takes  Kts 
I*',  which  means,  that  my  bishop  runs  up 
and  ])uslies  your  knight's  pawn  off  the 
l)oard.  1  am  now  even  with  you,  on 
men,  having  taken  one  of  your  pawns, 
as  you  did,  one  of  mine. 

"'Your  plav  No.  5  will  be  *Kt  to 
Kr,3.'" 

"Which  knight?''  asked  Arthur,  l>e- 
fore  he  thought. 

"The  only  one  that  could  make  such 
a  movo  in  tlie  present  state  of  the  l^oard, 
of  course",  laughed  Alice;  and  all 
joined  in  the  merriment,  including  the 
victim. 

"It  is  time  now,"  said  the  pastor,  look- 
ing at  his  watch,  "for  me  to  go,  for  1 
must  make  two  or  three  more  calls  this 
afternoon.  lUit  I  will  come  again,  in  a 
day  or  two,  and  bring  the  l)oys,  and  we 
will  finish  this  game. — You  may  keep 
the  record  carefully,  meanwhile." 

And  as  he  went  out,  the  Mayhew 
children  voted  him  almost  equal  to 
Uncle  Jack,  in  his  ability  to  interest, 
amuse,  .111(1  instruct  them. 


Feminine  Odd  Vocations. 

IT  was  indeed,  with  prophetic  vision, 
*     that  Kate  Field  penned  the  follow- 
ing verse : 
"They  talk  about  a  woman's  sphere  as 

if  it  had  a  limit. 
There's  not  a  place  in  earth  or  heaven, 
There's  not  a  task  to  mankind  given, 
There's  not  a  blessing  or  a  woe. 
There's  not  a  whisper  *yes'  or  'no', 
There's  not  a  life,  a  death,  a  birth, 
There's  not  a  feather's  weight  of  wortli 
wiUiout  a  woman  in  it." 
Avocations    of   women  that   half   or 
even   quarter  of  a  century  ago    would 
have  been   regarded   as   little   short   of 
criminal  in  their  mascidinity,  today  ex- 
cite  slight    comment.    The   professions 
long    ago    yielded    up    their    spoils    to 
feminine  captors,  and  the  trades  are  sur- 
rendering one   after   another.    Women 
around  this  great,  wide  world  are  daily 
joining  the  ranks  of  new  industry.    The 
calling  that  may  be  classed  "queer"  iii 
one  section  may  have  become  legitimate 
in  some  other.     There  has  been  a  grad- 
ual change. 

A  wife  in  the  habit  of  practicing  the 
tonsorial  art  in  her  family  may  surprise 
the  conservative  East,  but  the  occur- 
rence is  far  too  common  in  the  Middle 
West  to  occasion  remark.  Indeed,  the 
one  who  does  not  save  her  husband  the 
expense  of  a  professional's  service,  or, 
at  least,  the  iK)ssibility  of  infection  from 
poisonous  razors,  is  (juite  the  excep- 
tion: and  her  inborn  deftness  of  touch 
seems  to  have  discovered  its  original 
purpose. 

I»arbers  without  sons  to  succeed  to 
the  business  often  train  their  daughters 
to  the  tricks  of  the  trade,  and — incident- 
ally— do  a  rushing  business  thereafter. 
We  are  not  discussing  the  desirability 
of  the  association  for  the  young  women, 
but  are  merely  stating  the  facts  as  they 
are. 

One  of  the  northern  counties  of  Mich- 
igan exults  in  a  feminine  game-warden : 
and  very  efficient  she  is  said  to  be, 
without  ])eer  or  rival  in  the  use  of  fire- 
arms. Again  Michigan  claims  a  prod- 
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igy.  Doing  a  thriving  livery  business  at 
its  "Athens*',  is  a  modest  little  woman 
who  claims  to  be  one  of  the  two  women 
in  United  States  engaged  in  that  occu- 
pation. She  succeeded  her  grandfather, 
and,  moreover,  has  been  successful. 
Her  judgment  of  horseflesh  is  quite 
infallible,  and  patrons  and  assistants 
admire  and  respect  her. 

Perhaps  the  most  unusual  of  avoca- 
tions among  church- women  had  its 
origin  in  the  little  town  of  Dundee, 
Mich.  So  zealous  did  the  women  of  the 
Congregational  Church  become  regard- 
ing the  construction  of  a  new  house  of 
worship  that  they  inaugurated  a  "stone- 
gathering",  spending  a  whole  day  at  the 
arduous  labor  of  picking  and  heaping 
up  stones  ready  for  hauling.  They 
made  a  picnic  of  the  occasion,  feasting 
at  noon  in  the  open  air  and  enjoyed 
the  frolic  (?)  exceedingly.  Drawing  the 
stones  through  the  town  to  the  church 
site  would  not  daunt  these  invincible 
daughters  of  Zion  should  it  appear  nec- 
essary so  to  do. 

A  town  in  Connecticut  furnished  a 
parallel  case.  It  is  stated  that  four  days 
previous  to  her  ninetyfourth  birthday, 
a  Mrs.  Smith  led  forth  a  party  of  women 
and  children  to  repair  the  roads  which 
the  selectmen  had  been  petitioned  in 
vain  to  do.  The  determined  brigade, 
with  the  venerable  dame  at  its  head, 
cleared  the  road  of  stones,  aftd  made  it 
fit  for  travel.  May  not  these  women  be 
first  cousins  to  those  who  constitute 
village-improvement  societies  in  many 
states  ? 

The  stale  of  Washington  enumerated 
among  its  enterprising  citizens  a  young" 
woman  who  shoots  squirrels  for  a  liv- 
ing. Kansas  is  proud  of  a  woman  black- 
smith, who  at  a  church  benefit  turned 
and  cast  a  perfect  horseshoe  in  less  than 
'four  minutes,  winning  the  prize  from 
two  male  competitors.  She  learned  to 
do  the  work  at  her  father's  forge  and 
was  only  seventeen  years  old  at  the  time 
of  the  contest.  The  derricks  for  the 
construction  of  the  Paris  Exposition 
buildings,  made  of  durable  stone,  were 
furnished   by    Mrs.    Cram,    of    Boston, 


who  personally  supervised  the  placing  o\ 
them. 

Philadelphia  has  a  colored  woman 
undertaker.  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  is  the  home 
of  a  feniale  pilot,  who  holds  a  national 
commission  to  guide  boats  up  and  down 
the  shifting  channels  of  the  Mississippi. 
There  abides  in  Maine  an  expert  woman 
cobbler,  who  earns  a  good  living  plyini: 
her  trade.  California  boasts  of  a  woman 
who  runs  and  keeps  in  repair  the  engine 
in  one  of  the  largest  lumber  mills  of 
that  state.  Cincinnati  harbors  a  female 
United  States  marshal,  likewise  Okla- 
homa Territory.  Women  mail-carriers 
in  remote  districts  of  the  West  and 
South,  where  the  performance  of  duty 
requires  no  little  courage  and  endur- 
ance, are  not  at  all  uncommon. 

We  find  women  doing  duty  as  "fore- 
men" of  juries,  coroners,  chaplains  of 
legislative  bodies,  civil  engineers,  elec- 
tricians, druggists,  pharmacists,  sanitary 
inspectors,  railway  contractors,  manag- 
ers of  street  railways,  hunters,  farmer^. 
machinists,  architects,  decorators,  man- 
agers of  shingle-mills,  and  running  ele- 
vators in  some  of  our  large  cities.  In 
the  old  countries  they  do  the  work  oi 
coal-mining,  attending  switches,  levelini^ 
and  grading  railroads,  and  in  Cannev 
there  is  a  woman's  street-cleaning  bri- 
gade. 

Mexico,  not  long  since,  was  the  scene 
of  a  duel  between  two  society  women 
who  sought  to  settle  their  love  affairs 
after  the  manner  most  anciently  ap- 
proved of. 

In  the  pursuit  of  pleasure  youni^ 
women  now  keep  pace  with  their  brotli- 
ers.  Over  a  thousand  of  the  former 
own  and  sail  their  own  boats  along  the 
coast  of  Maine  and  Massachusetts. 
Female  Nimrods  have  stepped  out  of 
the  realms  of  fabled  song  and  stor>'. 
and  figure  valorously  as  slayers  of  fert>- 
cious  American  animals,  and  in  tiger- 
and  elephant-hunts  in  the  wilds  of  cen- 
tral India. 

Now  there  wants  but  the  creation  of 
"new  worlds"  for  our  twentieth-century 
women,  with  their  electric  energ>'  ami 
intrepidity,  to  meet  and  conquer. 

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Up   and    Down   the   World. 


Dangerous  Jewelers. 

A  COMMON  menace  which  we  often 
meet  with  when  we  wish  watches 
repaired,  our  diamonds  cleaned  or  reset, 
is  the  dishonest  jeweler.  When  we 
leave  our  watch  to  be  repaired,  we  nat- 
urally do  not  think  but  what  the  work 
will  be  done  properly,  and  a  fair  charge 
will  be  paid  willingly  for  the  work  done. 
We  trust  the  jeweler,  take  him  on  his 
honor,  and  oftentimes  we  do  so  to  our 
misfortune,  sometimes  never  knowing 
that  while  the  watch  has  been  repaired 
so  that  it  now  runs  properly,  some  of 
the  valuable  parts  may  have  been  re- 
moved and  inferior  parts  substituted  for 
them. 

The  writer  had  the  sad  misfortune  to 
take  his  watch  to  a  quack  jeweler  a  few 
years  ago,  and  left  it  in  his  possession 
for  a  few  weeks  because  it  seemed  nec- 
essary to  send  to  the  factory  for  certain 
jewels.  Notice  that  it  was  in  the  jevvel- 
er's  possession  for  a  time  sufficient  so 
that  inferior  pieces  might  be  substituted 
should  be  desire  to  do  so.  However,  I 
received  the  watch  in  due  season,  and 
it  kept  perfect  time  and  the  charge  was 
very  reasonable,  as  I  remember  it.  A 
year  or  so  later  the  watch  fell  from  my 
pocket  and  the  stem  was  crushed  in  and 
the  case  badly  bent.  So  I  repaired  to 
the  jeweler  who  had  done  such  good 
work  before,  but  his  store  was  now  occu- 
pied by  a  fruit-dealer  and  he  was  no- 
where to  be  found.  Waiting  until  I 
reached  my  home  city,  I  took  the  watch 
to  the  jeweler  who  had  always  done  my 
work  before,  and  told  him  to  fix  it  up  as 
best  he  could.  A  few  days  later  the 
watch  was  finished,  but  I  also  learned 


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that  at  some  time  before  cheap  material 
had  been  substituted  and  several  ex- 
changes made  where  there  would  be  a 
gain  for  the  jeweler,  and  immediately  I 
thought  of  the  last  repairs  made  by  the 
watch-maker  in  the  neighboring  town. 

An  excellent  way  to  make  one's  liv- 
ing, by  deceitfully  taking  you  into  his 
confidence,  so  to  speak,  and  then,  un- 
known to  you,  of  course,  making  sub- 
stitutions so  that  he  would  gain  at  your 
expense  and  no  one  would  be  the  wiser. 
\'ery  little  chance  of  detection,  to  be 
sure,  and  this  makes  it  all  the  more  a 
sneaking,  cowardly,  despicable  act.  Most 
of  us  would  rather  know  at  least  when 
we  were  being  robbed,  and  in  a  way,  we 
have  a  respect  (if  you  call  it  such)  for 
the  man  who  open  and  above  board 
takes  some  valuable  from  us.  A  high- 
wayman, single  handed,  holding  up  a 
west-bound  express  train  is  taking  great 
chances  for  his  stake;  but  a  thieving 
jeweler,  being  more  or  less  a  specialist 
in  his  trade,  may  easily  delude  an  ignor- 
ant public  and  therefore  is  to  be  con- 
demned for  his  low-lived  actions.  He 
has  little  chance  of  being  caught,  and 
even  if  the  substitutions  are  detected, 
the  accused  man  could  still  say  that  he 
left  the  watch  as  he  found  it  and  it  would 
be  very  difficult  to  prove  otherwise. 

This  class  of  men  are  usually  to  be 
found  in  our  larger  cities  where  they 
can  ply  their  trade  without  being  detect- 
ed so  easily ;  in  the  smaller  cities,  how- 
ever, it  does  not  take  a  long  time  for 
the  all-wise  public  to  discover  that  the 
jeweler  is  dishonest.  This  may  be  due 
to  the  concentration  of  his  business,  and 
the  public  in  some  subtle  way  will  in  a 
short  time  discover  that  it  is  being  de- 

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liVKRY   WHERE. 


lucled.  In  the  large  city  the  customers 
are  many,  bujt  they  do  not  always  con- 
sult the  same  jeweler  and  do  not  get  to 
know  him  as  well  as  the  people  in  a 
smaller  tow'n.  He  is  not  in  such  close 
contact  with  them  and  so  can  be  more 
free  in  his  operations  and  still  remain 
undetected.  Usually  we  find  him  on  the 
side  street  where  rents  are  lower,  as  he 
realizes  that  he  is  engaged  in  a  risky 
business  and  so  plays  the  game  as  eco- 
nomically as  possible,  using  just  enough 
capital  to  keep  his  business  going  while 
his  illegitimate  savings  may  be  invested 
elsewhere.  He  realizes  that  exposure 
may  come  sooner  or  later,  and  so  he  is 
prepared  for  any  emergency. 

Usually  he  is  not  even  well  informed 
concerning  his  trade,  but  if  we  talk  to 
him  he  seems  very  fluent  regarding  any 
]}hase  of  his  business,  and  the  technical 
terms  Mie  uses  are  a  blind  to  convince 
us  that  he  is  well  informed  in  his  special 
line.  He  is  an  apt  conversationalist  and 
seems  so  pleasant  that  we  do  not  doubt 
his  sincerity.  Give  him  a  diamond  and 
offhand  he  can  tell  us  its  true  worth  and 
go  mto  great  details  as  to  the  causes  of 
its  value.  Be  it  a  perfect  cut,  he  might 
suggest  that  we  leave  it  so  that  he 
might  examine  'it  further.  Nine  cases 
out  of  ten  we  might  do  so  to  our  sor- 
row, if  he  thought  that  we  were  at  all 
ignorant  as  to  its  real  value,  for  he  could 
easily  substitute  a  kstone  from  his  own 
stock  which  to  our  untrained  mind 
would  appear  to  be  the  same  one  which 
wc  had  left  »to  be  examined.  Large 
trays  of  diamonds,  so  called,  usually  are 
to  l)e*  found  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the 
show'-window,  and  are  always  marked 
flown  or  at  odd  prices. 

The  dishonest  jeweler  is  in  a  class 
with  the  dentist  who  advertises  his  pro- 
fession by  street-corner  exhibitions,  or 
the  quack  doctor  who  is  a  great  believer 
in  patent  medicines.  He  cannot  make  a 
living  by  legitimate  means,  so  he  takes 
advantage  of  your  confidence  and  makes 
up  for  his  ignorance  of  the  jewelry  busi- 
ness 'bv  slylv  preying  on  his  innocent 
customers.  If  he  really  knew  the  jew- 
elry business,  tlie  chances  are  he  would 


be  a  reliable  person  and  'one  whom  you 
could  trust ;  but  as  his  knowledge  of  the 
business  is  limited,  he  must  rely  'on  dis- 
honest means  to  make  a  livelihood  for 
himself.  v 

There  should  be  a  law  against  such 
evil  doers:  but  even  if  there  were,  it 
would  be  very  difficult  to  enforce,  as 
the  proof  would  be  very  hard  to  obtain. 
The  accused  could  easily  say  that  he 
returned  the  watch  just  as  he  found  it, 
save  for  the  repairs,  and  his  statement 
would  be  very  hard  to  disprove. 

The  best  way  to  eliminate  these  para- 
sites of  our  modern  life,  is  to  d-eal  only 
with  the  long-established  and  reliable 
houses.  It  may  cost  a  itriflc  more  to 
have  the  work  done  by  an  experienced 
man,  but  w^e  can  rest  assured  that  the 
work  will  be  done  as  requested,  and  no 
unfair  advantages  taken  over  *us.  The 
cheap  jeweler  w^ill  tempt  us  with  the 
lower  charge,  but  he  exi)ects  to  make 
his  profit  by  making  substitutions  un- 
known to  us.  It  seems  rather  unfair  to 
the  honest  jeweler  who  conducts  his 
business  with  justice  to  •all,  while  his 
dishonest  competitor  may  cut  prices  so 
that  all  of  the  business  will  come  to  hiin 
and  *he  will  be  repaid  because  of  the  dis- 
honest tactics  he  may  employ.  How- 
ever, in  the  long  run,  the  public  begin  to 
see  things  as  they  'really  are,  and  the 
business  of  the  dishonest  man  will  slack- 
en 111  ate  ri  ally. 


Woven-Wire  FencixiK. 

T^HIS  great  industry,  whose  prod- 
ucts are  used  in  all  parts  of  the 
civilized  world,  had  its  feeble  l^eginning 
in  a  shanty  on  a  small  farm  in  Southern 
Michigan.  Here  a  genius  was  at  work, 
devising  a  loom  which  would  make  a 
woven-wire  fence.  His  difficulties  were 
many:  he  could  not  readily  obtain  the 
parts  he  desired;  his  capital  was  lim- 
ited :  he  was  the  laughing  stock  of  the 
neigh l>ors,  who  considered  his  idea  a 
good  joke.  However,  he,  though  quite 
alone,  saw  the  enormous  possibilities  of 
his  loom  and  so,  despite  the  obstacles 

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UP  AXl)  DOWN   TIIK  WORLD. 


347 


put  in  his  path,  he  went  steadily  ahead 
and,  in  1889,  announced  his  invention. 

Next,  he  set  about  raising  capital,  so 
that  he  could  erect  a  factory.  This  was 
also  a  very  hard  thing  to  accomplish",  as 
his  friends  were  few,  and  those  he  had, 
looked  askance  at  his  loom  and  made  it 
the  butt  of  many  a  joke.  He  finally 
interested  a  neighboring  farmer,  who 
gave  some  of  his  means  to  promote  the 
enterprise.  A  site  was  secured  in  the 
largest  town  in  the  county  and  a  small 
building  erected  where  operations  were 
immediately  begun  for  the  manufacture 
of  a  woven-wire  fence.  As  with  all  new 
undertakings  this,  too,  met  with  revers- 
es at  first,  but  soon  the  people  in  the' 
vicinity  began  to  see  that  this  "fool 
farmer"  really  had  made  a  machine 
which  would  weave  wire  into  fencing. 
Then  all  wished  to  get  in  on  the  ''ground 
floor"  of  the  proposition,  and  enough 
capital  was  collected  so  that  a  large  fac- 
tory, covering  several  acres,  could  be 
erected.  Success  began  to  come  to  this 
man  who,  while  not  in  any  sense  a  busi- 
ness man,  was  a  genius  ift  mechanics. 
Little  refinements  in  the  machinery  were 
added  from  time  to  time,  so  that  best 
results  would  be  obtained;  also,  the 
best  methods  as  regards  business  man- 
agement were  employed,  that  there 
might  be  maximum  output  at  minimum 
cost.  In  this  way  success  came  quickly 
to  this  man  with  the  idea. 

Soon  others  saw  the  great  possibili- 
ties of  this  industry,  and  many  compa- 
nies were  formed  to  make  wire  fencing. 
However,  as  patents  had  l>een  obtained 
on  the  woven-wire  fence  loom,  it  could 
not  l>e  duplicated,  and  so  many  different 
kinds  of  *'knot"  fence  were  made  here 
])y  other  manufacturers. 

The  knot  consists  of  a  small  piece,  or 
l)ieces,  of  wire,  firmly  bound  around  the 
place  where  the  vertical  wire  crosses  the 
horizontal,  thereby  holding  both  secure- 
ly in  place,  while  the  woven-wire  fence 
has  one  wire  which  is  wound  about  the 
horizontal  wires.  The  woven  fence  will, 
of  course?,  be  the  stronger  and  more 
durable,  because  with  constant  wear.,  the 
knots  are  apt  to  slip  either  up,  down. 


or  to  either  side,  thus  getting  the  up  and 
down  rod  out  of  place.  With  the  woven 
wire  the  vertical  rod  will  remain  in 
place,  as  it  is  held  securely  by  the 
double  twist  around  each  horizontal 
wire.  It  cannot  sag,  but,  in  the  course 
of  time  it  may  vary  a  bit  so  that  the  ver- 
tical line  is  no  longer  true.  The  woven 
wire  does  away  with  the  knot,  thus  mak- 
ing it  a  more  practicable  fence. 

The  woven  fence  has  a  distinct  feature 
unknown  to  other  wire  fences,  in  that 
the  top  wire  will  be  depressed  to  the 
wire  below  it  when  one  is  climbing  over 
the  top  of  the  fence,  but  will  spring  up 
to  its  former  position  when  the  weight 
is  taken  from  it.  This  has  a  very  dis- 
tinct advantage  over  the  knot  fence, 
because  continual  climbing  or  leaning 
upon  a  knot  fence  will  tend  to  bend  it 
toward  the  center,  and  therefore  knot 
fencing  will  require  posts  placed  much 
nearer  together,  in  order  to  stand  the 
strain. 

Woven  fence  which  has  been  put  in 
ten  years  ago,  still  appears  in  upright 
Ix)sition,  although  it  may  be  rusted,  and 
possibly  the  vertical  wires  may  not  be  in 
a  straight  line.  However,  it  does  not 
sag  between  posts  as  will  this  knot 
fence,  which  has  been  up  the  same  num- 
ber of  years. 

The  pioneer  fence  company  made 
great  strides,  and  good  dividends  were 
paid  the  stockholders  even  though  the 
greater  share  of  the  earnings  were  used 
to  build  new  factories,  get  l>etter  equip- 
ment, etc.  Wire  had  to  be  bought  of 
the  Steel  Trust  or  its  subsidiaries,  and 
when  it  became  apparent  to  the  Trust 
that  this  company  was  harming  one  of 
its  own  wire-fence-producing  concerns, 
it  promptly  raised  the  price  of  wire  so 
that  it  would  then  be  unable  for  this 
Company  to  buy  wire  at  this  price,  and 
M\  make  a  reasonable  profit  on  its 
investment.  By  predatory  methods  it 
thus  forced  this  corporation  into  bank- 
ruj)tcy  ])rocee(lings.  A  reorganization 
took  place,  and  a  wire  mill  has  been 
built  in  the  steel  region  in  Western 
Pennsylvania.  Now,  although  freight 
rates  have  liincl^gfi^jij^igj^s^gy  much, 


34« 


EVERY   WHERE. 


the  Company  is  once  more  on  a  firm 
foundation  and  hopes  to  be  paying  divi- 
dends in  the  near  future. 

It  seems  a  pity  that  in  this  enlight- 
ened country,  the  letter  of  the  law  can 
be  obeyed  and  still,  one  competitor,  by 
unfair  means,  and  because  of  his  ample 
resources,  can  completely  crush  and 
wipe  out  another,  simply  because  his 
very  progress  has  been  detrimental  to 
him  in  a  business  sense.  Let  us  hope 
that  the  Sherman  Anti-Trust  Law  may 
be  so  improved  upon  that  the  best  laws 
of  business  ethics  may  obtain. 

Wherever  one  goes,  whether  it  be  to 
the  country  villa,  the  zoological  park, 
the  suburban  home  or  the  modest  farm, 
there  will  usually  be  found  a  stretch  of 
wire  fence  which  takes  the  place  of  the 
old  rail  and  stump  fences  of  an  earlier 
(lay.  It,  too,  is  a  sign  of  progress, 
wherever  it  is  seen,  and  is  a  silent  wit- 
ness to  the  advance  of  civilization. 


Rubber. 


T^  HERE  are  certain  things  which  for 
years  have  haunted  the  dreams  of 
inventors  as  very  desirable  subjects  for 
work  and  research,  and  among  these  one 
of  the  most  prominent  is  the  production 
of  rubber  in  the  laboratory.  So  far 
none  of  the  so-called  patent  substances 
are  really  rubber,  nor  can  they  fairly  be 
described  as  rubber  substances,  since 
none  of  them  have  all  the  valuable  prop- 
erties of  the  natural  article.  All  asser- 
tions that  rubber  can  be  manufactured 
are  viewed  with  suspicion  by  experts,  as 
so  many  have  announced  a  discovery 
only  to  be  misled. 

Rubber,  as  everyone  knows,  is  ob- 
tained from  the  juice  of  a  great  many 
(liflferent  kinds  of  trees  and  shrubs. 
This  milky  juice  is  coagulated  and  a 
crude  rubber  obtained  whch  is  not  a 
definite  chemical  compound,  but  admix- 
ture of  a  great  many  substances.  In 
fact,  the  commercial  article  is  found  to 
contain  water,  sand,  pieces  of  plants, 
fragments  of  wood,  etc.  Many  of  these 
impurities  may  be  removed  by  washing 


with  water,  but  this  may  dissolve  certain 
sugars  which  are  associated  naturally 
with  rubber.  Even  after  the  washing, 
though  technically  tpure,  the  rubber  is 
still  not  chemically  pure,  and  it  is  nec- 
essary to  use  various  solvents  to  obtain 
this  condition.  This  product,  when  an- 
alyzed, is  found  to  have  the  following 
approximate  composition:  Carbon,  88 
per  cent.  Hydrogen,  12  per  cent.  Rub- 
ber of  commerce  is,  of  course,  not  a 
pure  substance  of  this  kind. 

The  purest  rubber  that  can  be  ob- 
tained is  a  nearly  colorless  substance 
slightly  lighter  .than  water.  It  is  not 
soluble  in  water,  but  it  absorbs  it  slowly. 
That  it  is  not  perfectly  impervious  to 
water  has  been  shown  by  experiment, 
although  it  is  valuable  as  a  waterproof- 
ing material.  Rubber  is  very  elastic,  in 
that  a  relatively  large  deformation  may 
be  produced  and  yet  it  will  assume  its 
original  form  when  the  force  producing 
the  deformation  has  been  removed. 
According  to  Weber,  rubber  has  the 
remarkable  property  of  becoming 
charged  with  negative  electricity  when 
it  is  stretched,  and  Joule  observed  that 
heat  was  given  off  under  similar  condi- 
tions, while  it  is  absorbed  when  the 
strain  is  released. 

From  a  practical  point  of  view,  the 
most  important  property  of  rubber  is  the 
peculiar  effect  obtained  by  heating  it 
with  sulphur,  the  process  being  known 
as  vulcanization.  As  early  as  1832 
Luedersdorf  and  Hayward  noticed  the 
beneficial  results  of  the  mixture,  but  it 
was  Goodyear  who  first  demonstrated 
the, value  of  sulphur  in  keeping  the  elas- 
tic properties  of  rubber  constant  over  a 
wide  range  of  temperature. 

Many  years  ago  Tilden  produced  rub- 
ber from  a  chemical  substance  called 
isoprene,  by  what  is  known  as  the  poly- 
merization process.  By  analysis  it  is 
shown  that  a  substance  may  contain 
twelve  parts  of  hydrogen  and  eighty- 
eight  parts  of  carbon  and  still  not, re- 
semble rubber  in  the  least.  For  instance, 
oil  of  turpentine  has  just  the  same  pro- 
ix^rtions  of  hydrogen  and  carbon.  From 
oil  of  turpentine  the  chemical  compound 

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VV  AND   DOWN   THE  WORLD. 


349 


isoprcne  may  be  prepared,  and  further- 
more, if  rubber  is  heated  under  certain 
conditioms,  isopriene  is  the  result. 
Finally,  if  isoprene  is  brought  in  con- 
tact with  hydrochloric  acid  at  ordinary 
temperatures  for  a  long  period,  rubber 
will  be  found.  This  is  a  good  example 
of  polymerization,  for  the  only  way  in 
which  we  can  explain- the  extraordinary 
difference  in  the  physical  properties  of 
rubber  and  the  Highly  volatile  liquid 
isoprene  is  to  suppose  a  change  in  the 
molecular  structure  of  the  two  sub- 
stances. 

Commercially,  it  has  not  been  con- 
sidered as  yet,  as  the  process  seems  too 
expensive  to  compete  with  that  obtained 
from  the  juices  of  the  rubber  planta- 
tions. The  work  of  some  of  the  later 
"discoverers"  is, different,  for  they  do 
not  start  with  turpentine  as  a  raw  mate- 
rial from  which  isoprene  is  to  be  made. 
Instead  of  that,  fusel  oil  is  produced. by 
a  process  which  is  said  to  be  relatively 
cheap,  and  from  that  ,is  separated  a 
compound  called  isobutyl  alcohol,  this 
in  turn  being  used  to  prepare  isoprene. 
Then,  instead  of  using  the  hydrochloric 
acid  reaction,  sodium  is  the  reagent  em- 
ployed for  the  polymerization  of  the 
isoprene  to  rubber.  However,  this  pro- 
cess has  been  little  used  as  yet,  and  so 
no  one  can  tell  just  what  the  practical 
resuUs  will  be,  but  .the  new  process  at 
first  sight  seems  to  be  entirely  practical 
and  at  the  same  time  inexpensive. 


Japanese  Waltzing  Mice. 

PASSING  an*animal  dealer's  window 
one  day,  in  Chicago,  my  attention 
was  attracted  by  a  large  gold-fish  globe 
in  which  several  tiny  figures  » were  cir- 
cling around  and  around  at  a  dizzy  rate. 
Closer  inspection  proved  them  to  beia 
species  of  mouse,  tinier  than  an  ordi- 
nary gray  house  mouse,  or  white »albino 
pet ;  the  lively,  energetic  little  fellows 
resembled  in  color  and  markings  the 
ordinary  fox-terrier,  ^eing  white,  with 
black  or  brown  splotches  on  the  head, 
or  back,  as  it  might  happen, 


Their  ^continued  circular  movement 
was  so  queer  and  uncanny  as  to  be  al- 
most painful.  One  wondered  if  it  were 
induced  by  the  '^closeness  of  their  quar- 
ters or  the  globular  form  of  their  glass 
habitation.  Had  they  been  driven  insane 
thereby,  as  the  ^keepers  of  circular  light- 
houses are  said  to  be  sometimes? 

Inquiry  developed  that  they  were  the 
so-called  "Waltzing  Mice"  of  Japan,  that 
land  of  eerie  goldfish.  And  the  reason 
for  their  perpetual  round  •of  pleasure  ? 
The  physiological  and  psychological 
causes  underlying  the  phenomena  are, 
to  say  the  least,  surprising.  Who,  at 
first 'thought,  would  dream  that  the  cir- 
cular mode  of  progression  was  associ- 
ated with  ithe  organ  of  hearing?  Yet 
such  is  claimed  by  some  to  be  the  case. 

If,  in  your  Webster's  Unabridged, 
you  will  look  'Up  the  word  "ear",  with 
its  accompanying  illustration,  you  will 
see  that  an  important  part  of  the  mech- 
anism of  that  organ  «are  the  three  semi- 
circular canals.  If,  in  any  vertebrate, 
the  horizontal  semi-circular  canal  is  cut 
or  seriously  injured  or  » missing,  the 
creature  loses  its  power  of  balancing, 
and  of  orientation.  It  cannot  progress 
in  a  straight  line,  but  tends  always  to 
the  right  or  left,  as  a  person  does  who 
is  lost^  "An  undirected  organism  always 
tends  to  go  in  circles  or  loops."  Exper- 
iments in  the  physiological-psychologi- 
cal laboratory  go  to  show  that  ^f  the 
nerve  of  direction  be  otherwise  cut,  the 
animal  may  veer  to  one  side»or  another, 
or  may  turn  somersaults  in  certain  direc- 
tions. ' 

It  has  been  said  that  one  cure  for  sea- 
sickness is  found  in 'rubbing  a  spot  just 
back  of  the  ear,  the  disagreeable  mal  dc 
mer  being  due  to  a  swaying  world  •and 
one's  inability  to  walk  straight  therein. 
We  give  this  statement  for  what  it  is 
worth.    Ivet  the  despairing ^.ones  try  it. 

In  reply  to  the  question  whether  this 
mouse's  peculiar  mode  of  progression  is 
due  to  natural  or  artificial  causes,  we 
cite  one  authority,  who  says: 

"A  structural  variation  or  mutation 
which  occasionally  appears  in  Mns  Mus- 
culus,  and  causes  those  peculiarities  of 

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EVERY    WHERE. 


movement  which  arc  known  as  dancing, 
has  been  preserved  and  accentuated 
through  selectional  breeding  by  the  Chi- 
nese and  Japanese,  until  finally  a  dis- 
tinct race  of  mice  which  breeds  true  to 
the  dance  character  was  established." 

The  waltzing  mice  make  interesting 
pets,  and  require  little  care.  Birdseed, 
water,  and  bread  and  milk,  compose 
their  menu.  A  soft  bed,  and  a  good 
floor  for  waltzing  are  desirable,  and  also 
some  little  arrangement  for  amusement. 

Recently,  in  a  bird-fancier's,  we  saw 
a  simple  and  ingenious  device  for  afford- 
ing fun  and  exercise  to  ordinary  white 
mice.  A  circular  platform  is  set  oblique- 
ly on  a  pivot,  in  the  cage.  The  mice 
jumj)  on  this,  ad  libitum,  and  it  goes 
whirling  away  like  a  merry-go-round, 
to  the  evident  .  pleasure  of  the  little 
rodents.  Whether  such  a  moving-plat- 
form would  harmonize  with  waltzing,  is 
a  question  I  cannot  now  answer. 


Adulterating  Silks. 


I 


N  this  day  and  age  we  are  astonished 
when  we  see  pure  silk  shirts  (so 
advertised)  selling  for  $1.15  or  some 
other  ridiculously  low  price.  We  pur- 
chase one,  two,  or  a  dozen  shirts,  think- 
ing that  we  are  cheating  the  merchant 
who  sacrifices  them  thusly.  But  it  is 
not  so,  the  merchant  knows  his  busi- 
ness, has  not  forgotten  what  he  paid 
for  them,  and  makes  a  handsome  profit. 

The  silk  is  adulterated  in  most  every 
case,  and  use  of  adulterants  may  be 
detected  by  different  means.  The  pres- 
ence of  perspiration  is  fatal  to  tin- 
weighted  silks,  as  will  be  seen  by  the 
rotting  at  the  armholes  and  by  the  dis- 
colored spots  that  sometimes  occur,  and 
which  l>ec()me  very  tender  t^)  the  touch. 
This  is  due  to  the  sodium  chloride  (salt) 
present  ij>  the  perspiration  and  in  con- 
junction with  weighting,  the  chloride  is 
liberated  and  attacks  the  silk. 

Tin-weighted  silk,  particularly  in  light 
vshades,  rots  rapidly  when  exposed  to 
the  sun.  The  explanation  here  is  that 
the  tin,  which  is  present  in  the  silk  fibre 


in  an  'amorphous  condition,  is  crystal- 
lized by  the  action  of  the  light  and  so 
the  fibres  •  are  filled  with  millions  of 
these  minute  but  sharp-angletl  crystals, 
which  cut  the  silk  at  every  motion. 

By  means  of  replacing  expensive  silks 
with  cheaper  chemicals,  great  savin^^s 
are  effected,  and  thisr  is  of  much  advan- 
tage when  low-priced  and  sightly  fab- 
rics are  required  in  which  the  question 
of  durability  is  not  essential.  Within 
the  limits  of  commercial  prudence,  there 
is  much  to  justify  loading,  but  there  is 
nothing  to  justify  misrepresentation 
regarding  it. 

If  one  wishes  to  tell  if  a  silk  has  been 
weighted,  let  him  cut  a  small  striji  and 
burn  it.  Pure  silk  crisps  up  like  the 
hair  of  the  head  when  burnt,  whik 
weighted  silk  leaves  an  ash  in  the  sem- 
blance of  the  fabric,  and  ijie  more  the 
weighting,  the  greater  the  body  of  the 
ash.  The  nature  of  the  weighting  ag-ent 
employed  may  be  judged  by  the  color 
of  the  ash  and  other  signs.  So  let  us 
not  l>e  ini'such  a  hurry  to  stock  up  on 
pure  silk  shirts  when  the  price  seems  to 
us  to  be  ridiculously  low. 


Orape  Seeds  Not  Alone  Respon- 
sible. 

D  ECAUSE  a  seed  or  two  from  the  lus- 
cious globe  of  the  vine  has  now  and 
then  been  found  in  the  appendix  during 
cas<»s  of  appendScitis,  people  have  hit 
upon  them  as  the  principal  culprit  in 
such  cases,  and  many  take  special  pains 
not  to  swallow  them.  lUit  physicians 
know  very  well  that  a  crowded  condi- 
tion of  the  colon  is  just  as  likely  to  force 
other  foreign  bodies  into  the  worrisome 
little  sac,  as  it  is  grape-seeds.  The  fol- 
lowing pleasant  little  articles  have  been 
found  there,  at  one  time  and  another: 
A  grain  of  oat,  a  fin  of  a  fish,  a  fruit 
stone,  a  chocolate,  nuts,  melon-seeds, 
cherry-stones,  prunc-stones,  raspberry- 
seeds,  a  date-seed,  orange-seeds,  tomato- 
see<ls,  a  bean,  whortleberry  and  black- 
berry-seeds, certain  medicines,  hairs, 
fragments  of  hazelnut-shells,  etc.,  etc. 

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Some    Straw    Opinions. 


This  Maj^azine  is  taken  and  read  by 
people  of  all  sorts  of  political 
leanings.  It  lias  a  g^ood  many  opinions 
of  its  own,  hut  does  not  take  time  to 
express  tlieni  all.  Indeed,  it  is  going  to 
let  its  readers  edit  it,  politically,  during 
the  next  few  months.  It  has  sent  all 
atout,  asking  for  sentiments  and  pref- 
erences, and  a,  good  many  of  them  have 
arrived.     Here  are  some: 

FROM    TEDDY    TO    VVOODROW. 

Two  months  ago  I  was  determined 
that  Roosevelt  would  get  my  vote,  but 
now  that  Wilson  lias  l>een  nominated 
]>y  the  Democratic  convention,  I  have 
changed  my  mind,  asi  Wilson  seems  to 
cmlKKiy  the  same  principles  for  which 
Roosevelt  stands,  and  I  see  no  use  in 
throwing  my  vote  to  the  winds  by  vot- 
ing for  Roos-evelt  and  his  third  party 
scheme,  when  I  think  that  inasmuch  as 
the  Republican  party  is  split  up  as  it 
now  is,  neither  one  of  the  two  factions 
can  hope  to  be  successful  at  the  next 
•election. 

Teddy  was  my  choice,  and  would 
still  be,  if  be  headed  the  Republican 
ticket.  It  was  only  downright  thievery 
and  misuse  of  Federal  privileges  that 
enabled  Taft  to  win.  Had  Presidential 
primaries  been  held  in  all  states,  Taft 
would  now  be  wondering  where  next 
year's  bread  and  butter  were  coming 
from. 

Wilson  is  progressive,  honest,  un- 
prejudiced, and  we  can  refer  to  his 
record  as  Governor  of  New  Jersey.    He 


is  not  backed  by  the  bosses.  It  was  only 
when*^Murphy  saw  that  Clark  could  not 
l>e  nominated  that  he  shifted  the  New 
York  vote  to  him,  and  it  would  not  have 
happened  then  had  not  Murphy  wished 
to  escape  utter  humiliation.  The  bosses 
wanted  Clark,  but  not  being  able  to 
nominate  him,  and  also  seeing  that  a 
strong  man  would  be  needed  in  order 
to  carry  the  Northern  states,  they 
wisely  switched  to  Wilson  as  the  ulti- 
mate choice.  All  hail  to  Bryan  for  his 
iron  rule  in  the  convention ;  and  his 
drastic  resolution  against  Ryan,  Bel- 
mont and  Morgan  will  not  be  forgotten 
by  the  people  when  they  cast  their  votes 
next  November.  It  was  the  most  radi- 
cal thing  done  by  a  convention  in  some 
time,  and^  the  results  of  it  will  l>e  seen 
later.  However,  we  are  now  pulling  for 
a  man  who  has  been  called  plain  and  of 
the  people,  and  let  us  see  what  a  man 
untainted  by  politics  can  do  for  our 
country.  Therefore  I  second  the  nomi- 
nation of  our  next  president,  Woodrow 
W^ilson. 

L.  C. 


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CKRTAINTY    FOR    WOODROVV. 

Mr.  Wilson  will  1>e  elected  by  the  big- 
gest majority  ever  given  a  Democratic 
president.  I  am  no  prophet,  but  neither 
am  I  a  blind  man.  With  the  Rq^ublican 
party  split  as  it  now  is,  it  is  plain  to  be 
seen  that  the  Democratic  party  will 
easily  be  returned  victor  over  the  two 
struggling  factions  in  the  Republican 
party. 

Mr.  Taft  is  a  mere  figurehead  on  the 
Republican  ship  of  state,  and  a  mighty 
poor  one  at  that.    It  would  not  surprise 

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E\'EEn^    WHERE. 


nie  at  all  to  see  the  Socialist  party  poll 
more  votes  than  will  the  Republican 
party  in  the  coming  election.  Mr.  Taft 
has  about  as  much  chance  of  being 
elected  as  I  have.      / 

However,  the  "Big  Noise"  of  Oyster 
Ray,  of  the  Bull  Moosers,  and  of  the 
country  in  general,  has  a  ghost  of  a 
show,  but  that  is  about  all.  He  does 
appeal  to  a  few  who  are  attracted  by 
the  popular  planks  in  his  platform,  such 
as  the  cost  of  living,  woman  suffrage, 
etc.,  but  most  intelligent  people  can 
quickly  see  that  they  are  merely  put 
forth  as  bait  for  the  unwary.  If  elected, 
I  am  afraid  that  Teddy's  memory  would 
fail  him,  and  these  so-called  pet  ideas  of 
his  would  be  forgotten  forever,  he  hav- 
ing achieved  his  desired  purpose. 

But  Mr.  Wilson  will  be  the  logical 
choice  of  the  majority,  as  it  is  a  well- 
known  fact  that  there  must  be  a  change 
of  ix)licy,  and  this  is  the  year  to  make 
that  change.  Mr.  Wilson  is  the  man  for 
the  place:  his  record  as  Governor  of 
New  Jersey  qualifies  him  for  the  higher 
office.  He  is  a  man  of  the  people  and 
not  influenced  by  political  bosses.  Tag- 
gart,  Murphy  and  Sullivan  threw  their 
votes  to  him  only  because  they  saw  that 
it  was  impossible  to  nominate  Clark, 
and  Mr.  Wilson  was  the  man  whom  they 
thought  could  save  the  Democratic 
party.  He  is  well  qualified  by  his  study 
of  the  science  of  government,  and  now 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  can  put  his 
theory  into  actual  practice.  Little  fear 
need  be  expressed,  for  as  things  now 
a|)pear,  his  election  in  November  seems 
a  certainty. 


CL1N(;S    TIGHTER    AND    TIGHTER    TO    DEBS. 

Although  1  am  what' is  called  a  Social- 
ist, and  so  am  a  very  dangerous  person, 
I  would  like  to  briefly  express  my  views 
through  your  •columns.  At  the  present 
time,  the  country  is  in  a  very  prosperous 
condition,  and  still  there  are  thousands 
idle  all  over  the  ^country.  Immigraiion, 
invention,  and  the  employment  ot  wo- 
men have  all  aided  to  cut  down  the 
amount  of  nvork,  and  so,  in  the  Inrg^c 


cities,  especially,  we  see  thousands  of 
the  unemployed.  A  political  system 
under  which  this  is  possible  is  funda- 
mentally'wrong,  and  the  only  solution 
to  my  mind  is  Socialism. 

When  the  average  person  thinks    of 
Socialism,  he  imagines  that  all*the  prop- 
erty of  the  country  will  be  divided  "up 
and  each  person  get  an  equal  amount. 
Nothing  is  further  from  the -truth,  and 
such  a  procedure  would  be  impossible, 
even    though    it    were    our    program. 
What  we  do  mean  is  that  the  instru- 
ments    of    production,    transportation, 
communication,    and    anything    that    is 
concerned  with  the  welfare  of  the  •pub- 
lic, should  be  controlled  and  belong-  lo 
the  state.     For  instance,  the  railroads 
are* used  by  all  of  us  and  so  should  be- 
long to  all  of  us;    or,  in  otlier  words. 
the    state.     Just   as    the   post-office    is 
owned  and  operated* by  the  Government, 
so  should  the  telegraph  and  telephon*^* 
companies. 

Under  the  present  order,  we  ^see 
those  who  own  the  instruments  of  pro- 
duction as  they  glide  by  in  their  •auto- 
mobiles, and  they  live  in  ease  and  lux- 
ury, while  the  oppressed  "laborer  works 
ten  hours  a  day  to  support  his  already 
wealthy  employer.  This  is  not  right! 
and  the 'Spread  of  Socialism  shows  that 
the  people  are  awakening  to  the  mon- 
strous injustice.  Therefore  my  vote 
will  be  cast  for  Eugene  Debs,  i  the 
Socialist  mmiinee  for  President. 

H.  S.  R. 


A    ROCK-RIBBED. 

rresident  Taft  first,  last,  and  all  the 
time,  for  me.  I  think  that  Mr.  Taft  has 
tried  to  do  ithe  best  he  could  for  the 
interest  of  the  people:  but  he  has  been 
hampered  by  a  Democratic  majority  in 
the  Mouse,  who  have  repeatedly  put 
obstacles  in  his  way.  He  worked  hard 
for  reciprocity  with  Canada,  and  despite 
all  that  has  been  said,  I  think,  in  the 
long  run,  it  would  have  been  best  for 
Ixitli  countries  had  the  bill  passed. 

The\,President  has  made  mistakes,  but 
who  does  not  make  them  in  a  high  office 


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like  this?  He  is  the  kind  of  man  who 
will  see  his  errors  and  profit  by  them, 
and  therefore  he  should  be  given  the 
courtesy  of  a  second  term. 

As  for  the  Bull-Moose  party  and  its 
official  mouthpiece,  I  have  no  sympathy 
whatsoever.  It's  head  is  a  seeker  after 
notoriety,  a  revolutionist  and  an  egotist, 
lie  is  not  worthy  of  further  discussion. 

M.  M.  M. 


we  will  see  a  more  efficient  government. 
Therefore,  Teddy. 

L.  L.  Y. 


•A    SINCERE   BULL-MOOSE. 

After. Teddy's  Progressive  parly  be- 
comes a  reality,  we  will  see  the  best  man 
elected,  and  he  is,  in  my  opinion,  Mr. 
Roosevelt.  He  has  been  tried,  and  all 
know  his  wonderful  straightforward- 
ness. He  never  sits  \c>n  the  fence,  but 
calmly  jumps  over  in  the  field  with  the 
bull,  and  proceeds  to  clean  him  up.  v  He 
is  a  typical  American  and  even  his  ene- 
mies admire  his  fearlessness.  • 

Just  at  this  time  we  are  confronted  by 
the  high  cost  of  living,  and  recognizing 
that  this  is  one  of  the  most  vital  issues 
of  the  day,  Mr.  Roosevelt  puts  it  into 
his  platform.  This  will  attract  many  of 
the  laboring  class  and  » drive  from  him 
the  people  who  make  their  money 
through  the  toil  of  others;  it  will  pro- 
vide a  way  towards  the  more  just  equal- 
ization of  incomes  and  should  benefit 
the  oppressed  of  the  country.  In  a 
way,  it  steals  the  plunder  of  the  Social- 
ist, but  still  is  not  socialistic,  by  any 
means. 

Many  other  reasons  could  be  given 
to  explain  his  popularity,  but  they  are 
all  well  known  to  most  of  us.  A  busi- 
ness man  is  needed,  one  who  under- 
stands government  and  who  does  not 
view  everything  from  the  le^al  stand- 
point. The  trouble  with  the  country 
now  is  that  there  is  government  by 
attorneys,  for  attorneys,  and  of  attor- 
neys. Get  a  business  man  in  the  Presi- 
dent's chair,  and  a  few  more  business 
men    in    the   House   of   Congress,   and 


COLLEGE    MEN   TO  THE   FRONT ! 

About  the  only  argument  against  Wil- 
son is  that  he  is  a  "college  man",  and  so 
too  narrow  in  his  views.  Any  man  who 
takes  note  of  events  of  public  interest, 
will  see  at  once  the  superabundance  of 
college  men  who  are  doing  things  in 
this  world.  Go  through  a  modern  office 
building,  and  I  dare  say  that  twothirds 
of  the  men  behind  the  desks  have  had 
some  higher  training.  I  am  not  a  col- 
lege man  myself,  I  wish  I  were,  and  so 
you  can  see  that  my  viewpoint  is  not 
prejudiced:  but  to  a  man  who  says  that 
college  training  is  superfluous,  you  can 
know  that  "sour  grapes''  are  in  the 
woodpile  or  that  he  is  extremely  nar- 
row-minded. Avoid  him,  as  he  will  be 
abnormal  in  other  things. 

Mr.  Wilson  is  not,  in  any  sense,  a 
politician,  he  simply  wants  fair  play. 
This  is  evidenced  by  his  earnest  desire 
that  all  contributions  to  his  campaign 
should  be  made  public.  He  is  not  yet 
accustomed  to  the  devious  means  of 
obtaining  votes  by  party  favors,  and  he 
does  not  care  to  be:  he  simply  wants 
everything*  for  the  best.  In  the  conven- 
tion at  Baltimore,  he  did  not  demand 
the  nomination :  in  fact,  after  it  seemed 
as  though  he  could  not  win.  he  instruct- 
ed his  delegates  to  vote  as  they  pleased. 
He  was  working  in  the  interests  of  the 
party  and  not  for  his  own  special  wel- 
fare. In  other  words,  he  is  a  man,  and 
a  man  is  needed  in  these  troublous 
times. 

I  think  that  by  the  time  November 
gets  here,  public  opinion  will  be  almost 
unanimous  for  Mr.  Wilson,  and  that  he 
will  be  elected  by  good  majorities.  As 
for  Mr.  Roosevelt's  new  party,  I  say, 
"Poof,  bigger  windbags  ne'er  were 
made." 

Samuel  H.  Tyler. 


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The  Road  Is  the  World's  Property, 
TT  HE  whole  civilized  world  is  blocked 
up  with  legal  ownership:  none  of 
us  has  a  right  to  more  than  a  certain 
amount  of  space,  which  we  "own"  or 
rent.  We  cannot,  legally,  "cut  across- 
lots":  we  must  go  by  road — however 
round-about  the  trip  may  be. 

The  Road  thus  comes  to  be  one  of 
the  most  imperative  necessities:  and 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  stable  insti- 
tutions in  the  world.  It  may  be  like  the 
Romans  used  to  make  it,  with  rocky 
foundations  that  nothing  but  an  earth- 
quake will  remove :  or  it  may  be  an  un- 
cultivated oblong  space,  a  certain  num- 
ber of  feet  wide,  extending  from  one 
village  or  city  to  another.  But  it  is  a 
road,  and  sacred  as  such,  and  everybody 
in  the  world  owns  an  interest  in  it,  and 
a  part  of  it.  Whatever  space  anyone  is 
occupying  while  moving  to  and  fro,  is 
his  own  property,  as  much  as  if  he  pos- 
sessed a  deed  of  it.  No  one  has  a  right 
to  molest  him,  in  these  different  bits  of 
space  he  occupies  in  making  his  way 
along. 

When,  long  years  ago,  horses  and 
carriages  were  introduced,  their  owners 
were  infringing  upon  the  public  rights, 
although,  no  doubt,  permitted  to  do  so 
by  law.  The  road  was  not  made  for 
beasts,  but  for  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren. "A  horse  is  a  vain  thing  for 
safety,  and  so  he  has  proved,  ever  since 
he  was  enslaved  into  a  beast  of  burden 
and  an  acceleration  of  speed.  Often 
the  highway  has  been  temporarily  used 


as  a  race-track.  Runaways  have  been 
frequent,  and  pedestrians  by  the  thous- 
and have  been  killed  and  injured  by 
being  trampled  down  by  frightened  ani- 
mals. Cattle  have  been  driven  to  and 
fro  in  herds  that  often  did  much  dam- 
age along  the  way.  Many  of  these  en- 
croachments seemed  necessary,  and  were 
so,  no  doubt,  to  a  certain  extent:  but 
they  were  certainly  offenses  against  the 
original  intent  and  purpose  of  the  road 
— which  was  safe  transit  for  every 
pedestrian. 

The  stage-coach  was  another  innova- 
tion— necessary,  of  course — but  still  an 
innovation.     It  decreased   the  chances 
of  safety  in  walking  along  the  road:  it 
was  The  Thing  for  this  vehicle  of  the 
people  to  travel  fast,  in  order  to  "make 
time"  for  its  impatient  passengers.     If 
it  ran  over  now  and  then  a  pedestrian 
in  the  daytime,  he  was  well  taken  care 
of  after  death — or  before,  if  he  made  a 
live  of  it ;    if  a  dead  body  was  found  in 
the  morning,  because  this  chariot  of  the 
people  happened  to  run  over  a  deaf  man 
some  time  during  the  preceding  dark- 
ness, it  was  condoned.    Railroad-trains 
followed,  but  they  are  upon  the  whole 
easy  to   escape,   if  one   minds  his  and 
their  business. 

Then  came  the  bicycle — one  of  the 
most  dangerous  obstructions  that  our 
regular  highways  had  ever  encountered. 
It  was  swift,  agile,  silent;  it  came,  did 
its  mischief,  and  often  slipped  away 
without  even  making  as  much  as  an 
apology.    It  used  as  its  roadway  almost 


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any  place  wh^re  one  wheel  could  follow 
another.  It  took  more  lives,  several 
times  over,  than  most  people  suppose. 
It  is  still  somewhat  in  vogue,  but  has 
been  overshadowed  by  its  terrible  suc- 
cessor, the  automobile. 

The  trolley  cars  are  among  the  most 
formidable  of  road-obstructions,  for  they 
run  mostly  in  the  road.  In  such  cases 
as  they  do  this,  they  practically  make  the 
foot-road  and  the  wagon-road  into  a 
railroad  upon  which  private  conveyances 
can  travel,  if  they  look  out  for  them- 
'^elves.  They  find  the  roadbed  already 
Cfraded,  and  are  not  slow  in  taking  ad- 
vantage of  the  fact. 

The  worst  of  all,  is  the  automobile. 
It  goes  where  it  likes,  when  it  likes,  and 
as  fast  as  it  likes.  Prosecutions  against 
it,  are  generally  farces.  No  one  knows 
whether  the  driver  is  a  law-abiding  citi- 
zen, or  a  drunken  roysterer.  No  one 
knows  whether  he  is  meeting  a  party  of 
ladies  and  gentlemen,  or  a  band  of  "joy 
riders."  Nobody  knows  exactly  how 
to  encounter  them,  which  way  to  turn 
from  them,  by  what  method  to  escape 
from  them.  In  the  city  it  is  everywhere 
the  same — in  the  country  it  is  growing 
to  be  the  same.  If  you  are  not  abnor- 
mally active,  agile,  and  alert,  you  cross 
a  street  at  the  risk  of  your  life.  Even 
the  sidewalks  are  not  safe  from  them : 
they  often  "skid"  upon  them,  and  claim 
their  prey  there.  There  is  not  a  city  but 
gives  its  tribute  to  this  imposition  upon 
the  roads  and  streets,  week  after  week 
and  day  after  daj^. 

Will  the  people — the  large  majority 
of  whom  cannot  afford  to  use  auto- 
mobiles— stand  this,  very  long? — ^The 
statesman  (or  stateswoman)  who  will" 
and  can  remedy  all  this — who  will  and 
can  keep  every  vehicle  in  its  place,  and 
give  people  in  general  a  due  measure  of 
safety,  will  be  one  of  the  most  popular 
men  (or  women)  that  our  country  has 
lately  produced. 


Carelessness  at  Summer  Resorts. 

T  ARGE  and  thickly-clustered  collec- 
tions  of  summer  cottages  are  al- 
most sure  to  be  wiped  out,  sooner  or 
later,  by  fire.  It  would  be  mournfully 
interesting  to  know  how  many  resort- 
cottages  and  hotels  have  been  rebuilt, 
and  how  many  vacant  lots  there  are, 
that  contain  the  ashes  of  pleasure-domes. 
"They  all  get  it,  after  a  while",  said  an 
old  resort-man  who  had  been  in  the 
business  nearly  all  his  life.  "Nearly 
every  summer  'watering  place'  has  been 
at  one  time  and  another,  entirely  or 
nearly  all  burned  up,  either  at  some  one 
time  or  in  piece-meal.  The  cottages 
that  now  exist,  are  nearly  all  rebuilt, 
at  one  time  and  another,  and  some  over 
and  over  again." 

This  fact  is  mournfully  in  evidence, 
when  one  reads  of  gallant  old  Thous- 
and Island  Park,  on  the  St.  Lawrence 
River,  and  its  baptism  of  fire  the  other 
day. 

This  river-village  on  an  island,  was  at 
first  a  sort  of  summer-camp-meeting  set- 
tlement— a  miniature  Chautauqua,  it 
might  perhaps  be  called.  It  was  as 
Puritanical  as  a  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  society  could  make  it,  and  rap- 
idly grew  into  a  well-known  resort  for 
people  who  wished  a  safe  and  sane  sum- 
mer. Instead  of  a  gay  hotel-resort  for 
the  dizzier  portion  of  the  city  populace, 
it  had  a  plain,  Doric-builded  country- 
like hostelry,  with  a  good  plain  table,  and 
good  plain  Christian  and  Christian-like 
people  occupying  its  rooms.  Instead 
of  an  orchestra,  it  had  a  fine  quartette 
of  singers,  which  could  give  harmless 
secular  songs,  and  could  be  also  utilized 
as  the  nucleus  of  a  church  choir.  In- 
stead of  card-playing,  there  were  harm- 
less indoor  games,  and  placid  bouts  of 
croquet.  No  steamers  were  allowed  to 
land  there  on  Sunday.  It  was,  in  fact, 
a  good  place  to  go  and  have  a  summer's 
rest  from  city  complications  and  wick- 

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cdncsses ;  and  its  hotel  was  restful  and 
(liamondless. 

It  followed  the  regular  way  of  sum- 
mer hostelries,  and  burned,  after  a  cer- 
tain number  of  years,  and  a  new  one 
was  built  in  its  place. 

This  one  was  not  so  particular  as  the 
other:  it  purveyed  more  to  the  "mad- 
ding crowd" ;  the  croquet-grounds  were 
turned  into  golf-links,  the  quartette  to 
an  orchestra  that  could  play  dancing- 
music,  and  the  tabernacle  to  a  home  not 
only  for  spiritual  pabulum^  but  for  in- 
tensely world-like  amusements.  The 
island-village  in  the  river  grew  and 
throve;  cottages  and  business  places 
huddled  more  and  more  thickly  togeth- 
er; fire-extinguishing  methods  did  not 
keep  step  with  fire-devourable  accumu- 
lations: and — the  calamity  was  soon 
there. 

Lucky  it  was  i»ot  in  the  night :  other- 
wise, a  hundred  or  more  lives  would 
probably  have  been  the  price  of  the 
event.  It  came  at  near  midday;  and 
even  then,  several  people  had  difficulty 
in  saving  their  lives.  Both  the  large 
hotels  were  burned,  all  the  business 
places,  hundreds  of  cottages,  and  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  dollars'  worth  of 
property.  The  conflagration,  after  eight 
hours'  fierce  and  steady  progress,  was 
driven  hack  into  the  earth,  there  to  wait 
until  another  chance  came  for  it  to  ex- 
hibit and  prove  its  prowess. 

All  of  which  furnishes  one  more 
object-lesson  to  the  effect  that  water- 
ing-places ought  to  be  guarded  from 
fire  ten  times  as  well  as  are  city  resi- 
dences, instead  of  one  tenth  as  well,  as 
is  usually  the  case. 

Some  ultra-religious  people  say  that 
the  reason  Thousand  Island  Park 
burned  up,  was  that  she  departed  from 
her  first  traditions  and  dared  Heaven 
by  becoming  too  secular :  but  other  very 
good  people  will  say  that  it  was  because 
;he  did  not  keep  up  with  the  times  in 


the    methods    of    extinguishing  earthly 
fires. 


Editors'  Methods, 

fJ[lSS  FRANCES  WILLARD,  the 
-  —  distinguished  and  illustrious  lady 
temperance  apostle,  once  begged  certain 
editors  not  to  print  so  much  bad  news ; 
or  at  least  to  "boil  down"  the  details  of 
such  things  as  ought  not  to  be  told. 

To  grant  this  request  would  revolu- 
tionize the  methods  of  many  journals, 
which  pick  out  th€*  meanest  things  that 
happen,  employ  trained  and  untrained 
writers  to  work  them  up  into  novelettes 
of  the  blood-and-thunder  variety,  and 
catch  a  large  class  of  readers  who  like 
to  have  the  worst  things  in  the  world 
told  them  in  the  plainest  manner. 

There  is  no  law  to  curtail  this  harm- 
ful mal-freedom  of  the  press,  so  long  as 
it  keeps  within  Anthony-Comstockian 
limits;  and  Miss  Willard  showed  a 
sense  of  this  fact,  in  appealing  directly 
to  the  offenders,  instead  of  to  the  au- 
thorities. Her  entreaties  will  have  no 
effect,  however;  for  the  publisher  is 
really  the  power  behind  the  editorial 
throne,  and  the  worst  of  these  are  coarse, 
unscrupulous  men,  who  care  no  more 
about  the  true  progress  of  mankind  than 
they  do  for  the  pavements  under  their 
feet. 

But  Miss  Willard,  who  always  num- 
bered perseverance  among  her  virtues. 
had  her  useful  life  been  spared  would 
have  stopped  appealing.  She  would 
have  tried  to  induce  poets,  novelists, 
clergymen,  ex-senators,  and  other  peo- 
ple of  influence,  to  stop  writing  for  bad 
papers.  She  would  have  shown  them 
that  they  could  not  with  impunity  launch 
their  names  in  such  vile  literary  mill- 
ponds:  that  the  people,  who  always 
judge  correctly  and  rule  supremely  as 
soon  as  they  can  get  around  to  it,  are 
even    now    associating   some   of   their 

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former  intellectual  and  emotional  lead- 
ers, with  the  bad  company  they  keep; 
and  gradually  dropping  them  from  their 
list  of  favorites. 

Miss  Willard  would  also  perhaps  have 
addressed  those  who  buy,  read,  adver- 
tise in,  and  otherwise  patronize  objec- 
tionable papers.  This  appeal,  though  it 
would  not  remove  the  evil,  would  have 
an  effect  upon  some  people,  and  would 
result  in  literary  house-cleaning  in  a 
great  many  homes. 

She  would  also  write  to  the  editors 
of  decent  journals,  and  induce  them  to 
make  their  papers  more  entertaining. 
The  dullness  of  some  exemplary  litera- 
ture is  partly  responsible  for  the  success 
of  the  other  kind.  People  are  not  going 
to  read  a  lot  of  twaddle  simply  because 
it  is  moral ;  and  one  of  the  best  defenses 
good  reading  can  organize  for  itself,  is 
to  perk  up,  and  keep  above  the  tedious 
and  the  commonplace. 


Aiding  Ahead. 

J^O  one  can  help  admiring  the  pastor's 
cheery  little  wife  out  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, we  think  it  was,  who  came  to  her 
husband  the  other  day  and  said,  "You 
have  been  pretty  good  to  me  ever  since 
we  were  married,  in  the  way  of  follow- 
ing the  dear  old  custom  of  giving  me 
the  wedding-fees.  Perhaps  you  think  I 
spent  them :  but  I  didn't,  although  sev- 
eral times  sorely  tempted  to  do  so. 
They  would  have  *come  in'  pretty  handy, 
now  and  then. 

'They  would  have  tricked  out  a  hat, 
or  put  a  new  bow  on  a  dress,  and  once 
in  a  great  while  there  was  one  so  large 
as  to  make  me  feel  like  putting  it  into 
a  new  gown:  but  I  resisted  all  those 
little  temptations  and  kept  all  the  money 
intact  as  a  surprise  to  you^although  at 
times  it  was  a  rather  hard  task.  I  was 
more  than  once  tempted  to  share  it  with 


you,  as  we  went  along:  but  I  hung  to 
my  object. 

"You  know  you  and  I  never  had  but 
one  bridal  tour — and  that  a  rather  short 
one.  I  made  up  my  mind  that  we  would 
have  another,  some  time,  and  I  think 
that  now  is  about  the  time.  They  have 
agreed  to  give  you  a  vacation  of  three 
months,  and  there's  honeymoon-money 
enough  to  keep  us  going  up  and  down, 
as  long  as  that  time  lasts." 

We  cannot  expect  this  most  wonder- 
ful example  to  be  very  generally  fol- 
lowed: but  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  if 
it  were,  a  good  many  sad  and  dispirited 
clerg:^men  would  "perk  up"  and  take 
heart  again.  The  helpmeet  who  looks 
ahead,  is  the  truest  kind  of  a  helpmeet : 
and  may  Heaven  devise  many  more  of 
them. 


Short  Editorials. 

Wastefuhiess  of   some  things   is  the 

finest  sort  of  thrift. 

*  ♦    * 

Among  other  matters,  look  out  that 
you  do  not  have  arterial  hardening  of 

the  soul. 

*  *    * 

Do  not  imagine,  when  you  are  buying 
anything  for  49  cents,  that  that  is  any- 
where near  40. 

*  *    * 

Did  you  ever  notice,  that  over  half 
of  the  time,  the  more  any  one  requires, 
the  less  he  gets  ? 

*  ♦    ♦ 

Perhaps  work  would  not  be  so  much 
of  a  hardship,  if  Adam  had  not  had  so 
easy  a  time  at  first. 

*  *    * 

Do  not  put  in  any  time  in  searchinjc 
for  luxuries:  use  it  for  making  your- 
self worthy  of  them. 

*  ♦    * 

When  a  woman  very  suddenly  pro- 
fesses a  very  intense  passion  for  you, 
keep  one  hand  on  your  heart,  and  the 
other  on  your  pocket-book.>  t 

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Out-of-Pulpit  Sermon. 

"/«  my  Father's  house  are  many 
mansions.'' 

'LJOW  little  care  or  knowledge  it  takes, 
to  realize  the  meaning  of  this  sub- 
lime assertion !  It  is  a  trumpet  blast  of 
truth,  that  will-  vibrate  throughout  eter- 
nity. 

What  mansions  there  are  of  material 
things!— All  the  Father's.  What  elab- 
orate structures — what  lordly  dwellings 
— what  glorious  palaces,  on  this  earth 
alone! — and  all,  the  Father's.  Monu- 
ments of  the  living  and  to  the  dead — 
monuments  that  have  taken  years  of  time 
and  billions  of  money  to  make — and  all, 
the  Father's — and  stored  in  His  infinite 
blue-walled  house. 

But  all  this  is  only  one  grain  of  sand 
on  the  seashore — even  if  the  seashore 
itself  were  a  million  times  as  wide.  Do 
you  suppose  there  are  no  mansions  on 
Venus  ? 

Venus  is  a  world  of  just  about  the 
same  size  as  this  one. — It  might  be  im- 
agined as  our  twin.  It  is  sometimes  our 
evening,  sometimes  our  morning  star: 
maybe  the  favor  is  reciprocated. 

"No  one  with  any  thoughtfulness,  can 
doubt  that  Venus  is  inhabited,  the  same 
as  our  own  world,  and  has  as  many 
people  and  cities — perhaps  more — which 
are  as  grand — perhaps  grander.  How 
rich  would  any  person  be,  if  he  owned 
them  all !  They  may  have  erected  man- 
sions more  splendid  than  any  to  which 
this  world  has  yet  progressed ;  they  may 
])e  in  the  names  of  people  of  whom  we 
never  heard  and  never  will;    but  they 


are  all  in  the  Father's  house,  and  arc 
His  property. 

And  Jupiter — to  say  nothing  about  the 
other  planets — ^many  of  diem  larger  than 
this  earth — even  one  of  its  five  moons  is 
nearly  as  large — what  mansions  might 
we  not  find  there!  All  in  the  Father's 
house — and  all  His  property. 

But  we  are  in  merely  one  of  the  very 
smallest  parts  of  the  house — only  in  one 
corner  of  one  of  the  very  tiniest  of  tlic 
rooms.  We  have  not  yet  been  to  the 
very  nearest  one  of  the  smallest  of  the 
fixed  stars.  We  will  find  there,  another 
sun,  and  another  solar  system.  Maybe 
that  sun  is  as  large  as  ours — and  maybe 
larger.  And  ours  would  contain  this 
earth  and  the  moon,  just  as  far  away  as 
it  is  now,  and  another  moon  nearly  as 
far  away  from  that. 

Of  all  the  stars  we  see  in  the  sky,  (»n 
the  very  clearest  night,  every  one  o." 
them  but  seven  (the  planets  of  our  own 
system)  are  suns.  And  there  have  al- 
ready been  photographed  over  a  hun- 
dred million  of  these.  All,  so  to  speak, 
stored  in  the  Father's  house. 

But  the  mansions,  the  planets,  the 
stars,  all  the  constellations,  everything 
that  can  be  seen  by  the  eye  or  heard  by 
the  ear,  must  be  classed  as  an  atom, 
when  compared  with  the  mansions  of 
mind  that  there  are  in  this  universe,  and 
even  upon  this  planet.  The  sick  man 
lies,  paralyzed,  upon  a  scanty  and  rag- 
ged bed:  but  his  memory  leads  him 
away  off  into  luxurious  marble  halls, 
through  beautiful  groves  and  forests, 
where  he  has  some  time  been,  or  which 
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and  perhaps  the  rest  oi  the  world  about. 
The  poor  but  self-reliant  youth  works 
on,  with  apparently  little  progress  just 
now :  but  his  courage  is  renewed  by  his 
dreams  of  the  mansions  of  wealth  that 
are  awaiting  him,  when  he  achieves  his 
grand  success. 

But  even  all  these  are  merely  founda- 
tion-stones to  the  mansions  to  which  our 
text  mostly  refers:   and  those  are  the 

MANSIONS  OF  THE  SOUL. 

These  exist  in  the  world  of  spirit :  but 
they  can  be  often  reached,  even  from 
this  world,  and  before  the  soul  leaves 
its  clay.  That  is  the  reason  that  poor, 
dejected  creatures,  whose  pleasure  in  the 
things  of  this  world  is  all  gone, — who 
have  lost  everything  that  worldly  people 
consider  valuable — who  have  remaining 
neither  the  good  looks  upon  which  they 
once  so  prided  themselves,  nor  the 
money  they  worked  so  hard  to  earn  and 
save,  nor  the  friends  they  cherished,  nor 
the  honors  they  once  enjoyed,  nor  the 
beautiful  and  restful  homes  they  once 
occupied — still  live  as  if  their  life  was  a 
pleasure. 

And  why? — Because  they  are  not 
dwelling  entirely  in  this  world:  they 
have  found  mansions  of  the  soul  in 
which  they  can  even  now  lie  down  and 
rest  when  this  life  becomes  too  weary: 
mansions  to  which  they  know  they  will 
soon  remove  forever,  free  from  the  cares 
and  pains  of  the  body. 

And  these  are  the  property  of  the 
I'^ather,  who  owns  all  things. 


Why  Do  They  Stay  Away  ? 

J^  QUESTION  that  has  been  asked 
again  and  again,  and,  I  suppose, 
will  be,  until  time  is  no  more,  is,  Why 
don't  people  come  to  church?  Why 
can't  they  come  and  fill  up  the  pews? 
If  you  will  bear  with  an  old-fashioned 
Christian,  perhaps  I  can  answer  a  part 
of  it. 

In  the  first  place,  a  pretty  large  per- 
centage of  our  church-members  have 
never    been    really    converted,    to    start 


with.  They  have  gone  along  "with  the 
swim''  when  some  protracted  effort 
occurred,  have  joined  the  church  in 
which  the  exercises  were  held,  or  some 
other  one  in  which  they  had  more 
friends,  or  which  possessed  a  more 
a/ttractive  pastor,  or  the  sanctuary  of 
which  was  nearer  to  their  house,  and, 
changing,  perhaps,  to  some  little  extent, 
the  trend  of  their  daily  behavior,  have 
gone  on  with  their  life  as  if  nothing  had 
happened.  Is  that  an  old-fashioned  con- 
version ? 

Maybe  a  company  of  professional 
''evangelists"  came  through  the  town, 
and  mowed  as  clean  a  swath  as  they 
could.  There  was  an  orator,  a  singer 
or  two,  and,  most  important  of  all,  a 
business  manager.  The  orator  was  a 
"smart"  man,  and  knew  his  business. 
He  made  his  meetings  into  a  sort  of 
sacred  vaudeville.  He  had  his  audiences 
laughing  about  something  or  other,  half 
the  time.  He  had  his  own  h>'inn-books, 
or,  perhaps,  more  accurately  speaking, 
song-books  with  him,  for  sale  at  so 
much  per.    His  photographs,  also. 

An  old  negro  once  said  he  would  like 
to  be  converted,  if  it  wasn't  for  the 
process.  But  nobody  need  worry  about 
the  process  here.  It  was  not  only  pleas- 
ant, but  hilarious,  and  sometimes  ludi- 
crous. 

When  the  least  lack  of  interest  oc- 
curred, the  trained  musicians  that  he 
carried  along  with  him  would  rise  and 
sing  a  dashing  rag-time  sort  of  hymn, 
to  a  catchy  air :  and  the  whole  congre- 
gation united  to  join  in  the  chorus. 
There  was  sure  to  be  something  about 
this  song  that  was  a  Uttle  funny,  and 
the  audience  laughed  again. 

And  the  manager — was  he  on  his  job? 
Rather.  He  sold  hymn-books  at  a  profit, 
apparently,  of  about  500  per  cent.  (I  am 
a  printer,  and  know  what  it  cost  to  make 
them).  He  sold  photos  of  the  whole 
troupe,  and  reaped  a  good  many  dollars 
— ^just  in  that  way. 

When  the  last  evening  arrived,  there 
was  a  "free-will  offering"  to  the  "Evan- 
gelist", and  the  manager  took  care  to 

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see  that  every  convert  did  his  duty. 
Hundreds  and  hundreds  and  hundreds 
of  dollars  came  pouring  in,  that  the  poor 
needed  woefully  within  a  few  stones' 
throw  from  the  church. 

The  only  way  he  really  made  conver- 
sions, was  to  induce  the  "convert"  to 
rise^  and  say  he  or  she  was  willing  to  be 
a  Christian.  No  doubt  it  did  some 
Rood:  but  were  those  real  conversions? 
1  low  long  did  the  impression  last?  Was 
It  deep  enough  to  take  them  to  church 
the  following  summer,  when  there  were 
inducements  to  stay  away? 

How    to    fill    the    churches?— Stock 
tliem  with  really  converted  people. 
A.  H.  Barber. 


Salvation  by  Plutocracy. 

'J*  HE  pastor  of  the  Calvary  Baptist 
church  in  New  York  City,  Dr. 
MacArthur,  has  been  telling  his  hearers 
at  the  Tremont  Temple,  in  Boston,  that 
great  good  would  come  to  mankind  if 
only  Andrew  Carnegie,  John  D.  Rocke- 
feller and  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  would 
give  their  time,  brains  and  money, 
(mostly  the  latter)  to  missionary  work 
in  China,  Japan,  India,  and  Continental 
Europe;  in  fact,  to  any  place  where  the 
Gospel  is  as  yet  unknown.  He  is  quoted 
as  saying:  "If  these  three  men  would 
get  their  hearts  and  wealth  together, 
they  would  evangelize  the  world  in 
twentyfive  years." 

He  seems  to  think  that  money  alone 
is  needed  for  this  great  Christian  work, 
else  he  would  not  choose  such  wealthy 
men.  The  words  "hearts  and  wealth" 
are  used,  but  the  word  wealth  is  the  all- 
important  word  to  his  mind. 

He  is  right  in  his  declaration  that 
more  money  is  needed,  and  as  we  read 
the  stories  of  hardships  undergone  by 
our  heroic  missionaries  in  the  Far  East, 
It  pains  us  because  we  cannot  give  more 
to  foreign  missions.  Some  of  us  have 
read  the  many  accounts  of  great  suffer- 
ing and  become  accustomed  to  them, 
but   let  us  stop  to  think  what  a  great 


sacrifice  is  made  in  order  to  spread  the 
gospel.  Many  go  to  the  foreign  shores 
who  have  the  ability  to  become  very 
successful  in  their  home  land,  but"  giv- 
ing up,  what  to  us  seem  pleasures,  they 
betake  themselves  to  a  distant  land, 
having  Christ-like  joy  in  their  hearts 
because  they  are  following  the  Lord's 
command,  "Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and 
preach  the  gospel  to  every  living: 
creature." 

But  the  spectacle  of  these  three   men 
evangelizing  the  world   seems  absurd: 
it  staggers  the  imagination.     The    ro- 
mancers of  Europe  and  America   liave 
depicted   many   wonderful    schemes     i>f 
future  civilization,  operated  by  machin- 
ery and  directed  by  science  under    the 
control  of  plutocracy,  but  none  of  them 
dreamed  of  a  highly  financed  religion. 
Nor  are  they  to  be  blamed.     Never   in 
the  History  of  the  world  has  any  creed 
been  formulated,  inculcated  or  dissemi- 
nated   by    rich    men,    or    by    methods 
through  which  riches  are  gained.     We 
should  not  try  to  win  souls  to  Christ  by 
business  methods  alone:    it  is   well   to 
have  system ;   but  let  us  not  taint  relig"- 
ion  with  too  much  business,  as  the  real 
aim  of  religious  precepts  would  be  lost 
in  the  haze  of  everyday  business.     Re- 
ligion should  be  on  a  higher  plane. 
'  Rich  men  have  played  little  part   in 
founding    great    religious    institutions, 
such  as  the   Salvation  Army.  Method- 
ism,  and    Presbyterianism.      Usually    a 
body  of  sincere  and  earnest  men  have 
been  the  foundation  of  great  religious 
faiths,    and    in    most   cases    they    were 
hampered  because  of  lack  of  funds,  but 
down   in  their  hearts  they  had  a  firm 
conviction  that  they  were  doing  w^hat 
their  Lord  demanded. 

The  ways  and  means  of  evangeliza- 
tion are  open  to  all  the  world.  India, 
China,  Japan,  Continental  Europe,  and. 
incidentally,  New  York  and  Boston, 
will  be  evangelized  when  the  true  evan- 
gel comes.  As  for  Carnegie,  Rocke- 
feller and  Morgan,  they  do  not  si>eak 
either  in  the  right  voice  or  of  the  right 
things.     Dr.  MacArthur  should  try  it. 

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Orowing  Handsomer  While  Sleep- 
ing. 

AS  he  grew  older,  the  famous  Mark 
Twain  was  more  and  more  of  a 
hygienist.  He  took  to  what  is  now 
called  Osteopathy,  when  something  very 
much  like  it  already  existed  in  England. 
The  practice  of  it  was  against  the  law, 
but  the  barristers  and  the  judges  winked 
at  it  (many  of  them  had  experienced  its 
benefits)  and  when  any  punishment  ims 
inflicted  for  practicing  the  art,  it  was  so 
light  that  the  independent  style  of  phy- 
sician did  not  sensibly  J:el  it  to  any 
degree. 

The  mind  of  the  famous  humorist  was 
a  wonderfully  progressive  one,  and  he 
gradually  evolved  other  matters  pertain- 
ing to  the  welfare  of  the  body,  that  were 
of  use  to  him.  That  was  the  reason  that 
although  rather  "sporty"  in  his  habits 
while  a  youth  and  while  a  young  man, 
he  managed  to  live  pretty  well  along 
into  the  seventies. 

Among  other  of  the  later  methods 
attributed  to  him,  was  the  ''beauty- 
sleep."  He  did  not  care  much  for  per- 
sonal appearance,  but  he  did  like  an  occa- 
sional miniature  slumber  in  the  mid-day 
or  the  mid-evening,  and  would  often 
leave  a  day-  or  evening-party,  for  a  half- 
hour's  nap,  returning  with  pleasant  coun- 
tenance and  renewed  cheerfulness  and 
merriment. 

**I  have  a  science  in  this  'beauty  sleep' 
business,  as  people  have  come  to  call  it 
in  late  years",  he  said  to  the  lady  who 
sat  beside  him,  on  a  certain  evening, 
upon  his  return  from  one  of  these  ex- 
cursions to  meet  bis  friend  Morpheus. 

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"I  have  discovered  that  the  happier  the 
mind  is,  when  you  are  slumbering,  the 
happier  your  face  will  look.  Thus  y<Mi 
can  grow  better-looking,  while  you  are 
asleep. 

"But  if  your  stomach  is  disorderly,  it 
will  make  an  announcement  of  that  fact, 
upon  the  bulletin  of  your  face,  and  some 
of  the  lines  may  stay  there — especially  if 
they  are  made  over  and  over  again.  If 
you  go  to  sleep  'mad'  at  somebody,  or 
bothered  about  something,  or  puzzled,  or 
anything  disagreeable,  it  will  tell  tales 
through  your  face. 

"So  I  always  try  to  get  into  as  good 
a  mood  as  possible,  when  about  to  let 
myself  into  the  depths  of  unconscious- 
ness. I  like  to  read  some  pleasant  book, 
containing  fine  sketches  and  pictures,  or 
to  take  leave  of  some  intelligent  and 
beautiful  lady,  as  I  did  this  time  (here 
his  companion  blushed)  before  starting 
off  to  keep  my  appointment  with  the 
invisible  Apostle  of  Slumber.  As  a  man 
sleepeth,  so  is  he,  to  a  considerable  ox- 
tent,  even  after  he  waketh." 

At  this  point,  Mr.  Clemens  was  called 
upon  for  a  speech,  which  proved  as 
bright  as  anything  that  had  been  heard 
from  him  in  his  palmiest  days ;  and  the 
lady  deemed  that  she  had  conned  a  les- 
son in  the  art  of  dermatology. 

When,  two  or  three  years  afterward, 
she  viewed  the  humorist's  dead  face 
lying  in  his  casket,  surrounded  by 
famous  literary  people  from  all  over  the 
country,  she  saw  one  of  the  most  happy- 
looking  countenances  that  had  ever 
come  under  her  observation.  Was  he 
still  dreaming  pleasant .  dreams,  or  did 
Iiis  face  belie  his  life?    ^  t 

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How  to  Climb  Stairs. 

liJT  does  tire  me  out  so,  to  climb  them 
stairs",  I  heard  a  woman  say,  as  she 
struggled  painfully  up  the  last  few  steps, 
to  the  platform  of  the  elevated  railroad, 
the  other  day.  Being  a  bit  of  a  purist 
1  wanted  to  say  to  her,  that  "those 
stairs"  would  be  better,  but  immediately 
a  more  important  thought  forced  itself 
upon  me :  Why  should  people  find  climb- 
ing stairs  such  a  painful  experience? 

Indeed,  how  many  are  there  who  do 
not  take  it  for  granted  that  going  up 
stairs  ought,  in  the  nature  of  things,  to 
tire  one?  People  seem  to  think  that 
exhaustion  brought  on  by  «this  kind  of 
exercise  is  one  of  the  visitations  of  God, 
and  therefore  to  be  borne  with  resigna- 
tion. 

Nothing  is  farther  from  truth.  We 
should  be  able  to  climb  four  or  five 
"flights"  of  stairs,  and  experience,  on 
arriving  at  the  top,  a  feeling  of  pleas- 
urable exhilaration  instead  of  utter  col- 
lapse. 

The  reason  why  it  tires  people  so 
much  to  go  up  stairs  "on  foot",  is  two- 
fold: in  the  first  place  they  assume  a 
false  position  of  the  body  while  climb- 
ing, and  secondly,  the  general  physical 
condition  of  most  people  is  so  far  be- 
low the  normal,  that  any  slight  exertion 
is  sufficient  to  cause  a  painful  feeling  of 
exhaustion. 

The  first  law  to  be  observed  in  climb- 
ing stairs,  is  that  the  center  of  gravity 
of  the  body  should  be  kept  directly  above 
the  force  that  is  being  applied  to  raise 
the  body  from  one  step  to  another. 
Now  the  center  of  gravity  of  the  body 
lies  in  the  lower  part  of  the  trunk,  and 
the  force  being  applied  is  in  the  mus- 
cles of  the  lower  and  upper  leg:  conse- 
quently we  should  stand  erect  instead  of 
leaning  forward.  The  reason  for  this  is 
evident:  if  the  upper  part  of  the  body 
and  the  arms  extend  in  front,  it  takes  a 
great  deal  of  exertion  on  the  part  of  the 
muscles  of  the  back  and  legs,  to  keep 
the  climber  from  falling  forward.  This 
expenditure  of  energy  of  course  con- 
tributes to  the  general  weariness. 


Another  thing  to  be  remembered  is 
that  the  movement  should  be  from  the 
knees,  instead  of  the  waist  or  hips,  and 
the  chest  should  be  expanded  so  that  as 
much  air  as  possible  will  fill  the  lungs. 

Another  point  is,  that  the  legs  should 
bei  kept  directly  under  the  body,  instead 
of  being  thrown  out  at  the  sides,  so  that 
their  lifting  power  may  be  more  directly 
applied  to  its  task. 

If  a  person  observes  these  rules,  and 
still  finds  the  process  of  climbing  a  few 
stairs  a  painful  one,  his  or  her  physical 
condition  is  far  below  what  it  ought  to 
be,  and  a  campaign  of  physiological  and 
hygienic  education  should  be  begun  at 
once,  to  locate  the  trouble.  Of  course 
very  fleshy  persons  labor  under  a  great 
disadvantage  and  must  have  greater 
muscular  development  than  their  more 
"skinny"  brothers  and  sisters,  in  order 
to  be  in  the  same  class  with  them  in  stair- 
climbing  ability.  Then,  too,  those  per- 
sons whose  hearts,  for  any  reason,  have 
become  really  weak,  will  find  themselves 
"out  of  breath"  after  any  expenditure 
of  energy,  and  should  not  go  up  stairs 
too  fast. 


Ohild  Drug-Fiends. 


D 


R.  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  pure  food 
champion,  speaking  before  the 
National  Educational  Association  in 
Chicago,  startled  his  audience  by  de- 
claring that  drug  habits  of  various  kinds 
are  prevalent  among  school  children. 
He  urged  the  teachers  to  do  all  in  their 
power  to  abolish  this  condition. 

In  his  address,  he  said  that  while  there 
has  been  a  diminution  of  infectious  dis- 
eases, there  seems  to  bq  an  increase  of 
the  so-called  nervous  disorders  and  this 
has  been  due  to  the  growth  of  drug  hab- 
its among  the  children.  Either  through 
neglect  or  carelessness  thousands  of 
children  are  becoming  addicted  to  drug 
habits,  and  from  birth  there  seems  to  be 
an  incessant  craving  to  fill  the  baby's 
stomach  with  drugs  rather  than  food. 
Every  household  has  its  cupboard  with 
so-called  household  remedies  consisting 

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mostly  of  synthetic  preparations  of 
quack  medicines,  some  of  which  are 
advertised  to  cure  almost  every  disease 
that  may  befall  a  child. 

In  addition  to  these,  many  children 
are  allowed  to  drink  tea  and  coffee,  and 
thus  take  into  their  systems  an  alkaloid, 
caffeine,  which  has  a  tendency  to  take 
away  fatigue,  stimulate  the  heart  action 
and  in  general  to  urge  the  child  forward 
to  greater  physical  and  mental  activity 
ihan  he  should  l>e  called  upon  to  endure. 

Then  he  told  of  the  bad  effects  of  so- 
called  soft  drinks  on  the  system,  and  how 
caffeine  had  been  added,  so  as  to  make 
the  beverage,  when  consumed,  have 
ab<.)ut  the  same  quantity  of  the  poison- 
ous drug  that  tea  and  coffee  contain. 
.Vext  the  tobacco  habit  was  discussed, 
and  he  told  of  the  great  injury  to  the 
system  that  cigarette  smoking  would 
bring,  and  lastly,  he  urged  parents  to  co- 
operate with  teachers  so  that  anti-drug 
habits  could  be  instilled  in  the  mind  of 
the  coming  generation. 


;^  Some  Ways  to  Cook  Rice. 

THOUSANDS  of  people  are  now 
realizing  the  truth  of  what  a  few 
have  for  a  long  time  maintained,  that 
meat  need  not  be  the  ''king  of  foods/' 
In  the  absence  of  that  high-priced  com- 
modity, however,  all  may  have  recourse 
to  rice,  which,  though  not  a  perfect  sub- 
stitute, furnishes  one  of  the  most  nour- 
ishing and  delicious  of  all  foodstuffs. 
Anyway,  it  is  well  to  cultivate  a  taste 
for  this  white-kerneled  product  of  the 
field,  for  commercial  men  say  that  it  is 
going  to  be  very  cheap — and  that  grim 
old  visitor.  Hard  Times,  you  know,  zvill 
come  around. 

First,  a  few  words  as  to  the  prepara- 
tion of  rioe  alone.  Before  .cooking,  the 
seeds  should  be  washed  in  cold  water  at 
least  twice,  then  drained,  put  in  a  china 
vessel,  and  scalded  by  pouring  over  it 
some  boiling  water,  in  which  it  may 
remain  about  fifteen  minutes,  before 
Ijeing  drained  «'y.?ain.  For  cooking,  put 
into  boiling  water,  one  quart  for  a  quar- 


ter of  a  pound  of  rice,  and  two  table- 
spoonfuls  of  salt  for  that  quantity. 
Allow  it  to  boil  rapidly  for  twenty  or 
twentyfive  minutes,  then  drain  off  the 
water  and  place  on  the  back  of  the 
stove,  with  the  dish  uncovered,  where 
the  rice  may  dry. 

In  this  way  the  kernels  remain  whole, 
which  greatly  adds  to  the  looks  of  the 
dish,  and,  what  is  more  to  the  point, 
does  not  cause  the  rice  to  lose  its  mealy 
*  quality  nor  sweetness  of  taste.  To  see 
if  the  rice  is  done — and  it  should  be 
well  cooked — press  some  of  the  seeds 
between  the  fingers,  and  if  they  crush 
easily,  it  is  ready  to  eat,  and  may  be 
served  in  various  ways.  If  it  is  being 
ci;oke(l  for  serving  simply  as  a  vege- 
table, a  piece  of  butter  the  size  of  an 
egg — for  the  amount  of  rice  mentioned 
above — should  be  added  while  the  rice 
is  boiling. 

In  case  one  has  some  ham  left  over, 
and  wishes  to  use  it  in  another  form,  a 
combination  with  rice  will  make  a  very 
palatable  dish.  Take  some  cold  rice 
cooked  according  to  the  method  given 
here,  and  mix  with  it  a  tablespoonful  of 
melted  butter,  one  or  two  eggs,  well- 
beaten,  the  ham  chopped  fine,  and  if 
you  have  it,  some  grated  cheese.  Put 
the  mixture  in  a  buttered  dish,  cover 
with  a  thin  layer  of  grated  cheese,  and 
bake  in  a  hot  oven.  In  about  fifteen 
or  twenty  minutes  try  with  a  clean 
straw  of  broom  to  see  if  it  is  done.  If 
on  withdrawing  the  straw  from  the 
midst  of  the  mixture  none  of  the  egg 
adheres  to  it,  the  "baked  rice"  as  the 
dish  is  called,  has  -been  cooked  suffi- 
ciently. 

Another  method  is  to  take  a  quarter 
of  a  pound  of  ric.e  which  has  been 
cooked  with  a  piece  of  butter  and 
a  small  onion  stuck  with  one  clove,  and. 
when  dry,  mix — by  means  of  two  forks, 
so  that  the  kernels  may  not  be  crushed 
— with  six  ounces  of  boiled  ham,  either 
chopped  or  cut  in  little  squares  or  nar- 
row strips.  Mix  just  before  serving, 
set  it  in  the  oven  for  five  minutes,  in 
order  to  heat  it  over,  and  heap  on  a  hot 

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Requirements  of  Students. 

JUST  at  this  time,  those  wlio  recently 
were  graduated  from  our  high 
schools,  are  carefully  perusing  those 
huge  catalogues  which  are  sent  to  them 
hy  colleges  and  universities.  All  is  a 
jumhle  to  them.  Will  I  get  advanced 
credit?  Have  I  enough  to  enter?  How 
do  they  figure  on  my  Mechanical  Draw- 
ing? How  many  hours  will  they  give 
me  for  my  summer  work?  Such  ques- 
tions as  these  are  asked  daily,  and  the 
catah  guc  is  the  silent  answer.  Find  the 
exact  page,  exact  line,  and  you  may  be 
able  to  answer  your  question.  Finally, 
you  give  it  up  in  disgust,  forget  about 
it  until,  say,  on  the  twentysecond  of 
Sejitember,  and  then  finding  you  have 
only  three  days  to  make  preparations, 
you  consult  the  catalogue  once  more. 
Then  you  decide  to  let  the  officials 
arrange  your  credits,  and  your  worries, 
as  far  as  credit  adjustments  are  con- 
cerned, fly  out  of  the  window. 

Next,  what  will  I  take  with  me  ?  Here 
is  a  real  question.  You  may  take  every- 
thing you  ever  called  your  own,  or  you 
may  take  only  a  few-  necessities.  As  you 
get  along  in  your  course,  I  believe  you 
are  inclined  to  take  less  and  less,  pos- 
sibly because  you  store  some  of  your 
things  during  the  vacation  months. 
You  will,  of  course,  want  everything 
that  you  intend  to  take  with  you.  The 
((uestion  is:  Given  two  trunks,  two  suit 
cases,  what  must  be  put  in  and  what 
left  out? 

Some  kind  forbear  of  ours  evidently 
saw  the  need  of  providing  a  list  of 
things  needed  at  college,  because  in  the 
catalogues  of  most  of  our  small  denomi- 
nati<  nal  c<>1Uo-os  there  is  neatlv  printed 


.^^>4 


a  list  of  necessities  at  least,  and  then  apt 
suggestions  as  to  other  articles  which 
may  pronvDte  the  public  welfare.  It  may 
run  like  this : — two  towels,  two  pair  of 
shoes,  pair  of  suspend)ers,  one  razor, 
one  pair  cuff-buttons,  several  neck- 
ties, several  pairs  of  hose,  two  hats  or 
caps,  three  shirts,  three  collars,  all  toilet 
articles,  tw^o  suits  of  clothes,  bathrobe, 
and  a  Bible. 

Please  notice  that  this  list  contains 
only  the  least  number  of  articles  that 
you  possibly  can  get  along  with,  so  you 
(if  a  young  man)  jam  these  into  your 
trunks  and  then  take  a  few  such  edify- 
ing posters  as  "Burning  the  Midnight 
Oil",  "Snake  Dance",  and  "The  Most 
Beautiful  of  Co-eds."  At  the  last  min- 
ute you  think  of  your  tennis  racquet, 
net,  and  balls,  a  few  pennants,  two  old 
snowshoes  given  you  by  your  grand- 
father, hockey-stick,  skates,  sweater, 
vest,  and  a  few  other  boy  necessities. 
But  to  your  horror,  you  only  have  one 
trunk  packed,  and  neither  of  the  suit- 
cases are  full.  You  think  some  more, 
look  around  the  room  and  snatch  a  few- 
more  pennants  from  the  wall  and  put 
them  in  the  trunk.  Still  not  full,  and  at 
this  juncture  mother  enters  and  your 
embarrassment  flees,  for  she  alone  can 
find  enough  for  two  or  three  more 
trunks. 

She  begins  to  stow  away  another  pair 
of  pajamas,  some  more  shirts,  more 
hose,  more  shoes,  another  suit  of 
clothes,  some  of  father's  choice  neck- 
ties, some  more  collars,  a  few  handker- 
chiefs, your  bathing-suit,  and  another 
Bible.  By  this  time  we  have  two  well- 
filled  trunks,  but  sister  comes  in  and  she 
has  suggestions  to  make.  She  coyly 
unties  a  package  done  ug^  in  i)ink  paper 

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and  white  baby  ribbon  and  bestows  on 
her  affectionate  brother  a  brand  new 
toilet-set  equipped  with  everything  from 
a  nail  file  to  face  powder.  Inasmuch  as 
he  is  leaving  soon,  he  is  very  much 
]>leased  with  the  gift,  and  places  a  little 
kiss  on  sister's  cheek,  for  which  sister 
is  truly  grateful.  Father,  however,  is 
too  much  concerned  with  getting  the 
necessary  w'herewithal  for  son,  and  so 
cares  little  what  his  young  hopeful  takes 
as  baggage. 

But  with  the  young  man  starting  for 
a  large  university,  it  is  another  question. 
He  takes  just  whatever  he  ihinks  is 
needed,  and  of  course  gets  advice  from 
the  other  boys  who  have  gone  before 
him.  Father  may  have  been  a  graduate 
of  this  college,  but  times  have  changed 
since  father  went  to  school.  Nowadays 
the  competition  is  keener  and  clothes 
and  general  appearances  count  for  much 
more  than  in  father's  time.  So  son  gets 
a  suit  or  two  made  just  before  leaving, 
so  that  a  good  impression  may  be  made 
on  his  companions.  He  knows  before 
going  that  while  clothes  do  not  alone 
make  the  man,  they  help  a  long  way 
towards  doing  so,  and  with  clothes  tail- 
ored as  the  latest  dictates  of  fashion 
decree,  he  stands  a  good  chance  of  re- 
ceiving a  "bid"  to  £  select  fraternity  <  r 
club.  In  the  small  colleges  the  candidate 
for  a  club  is  usually  better  known,  but 
in  a  big  university  the  student  is  only  a 
drop  in  the  bucket  and  so  must  make 
himself  known  by  his  attractive  clothes 
or  some  other  means.  The  strict  rules 
usually  forbid  a  freshman  from  takinir 
part  in  the  activities  of  the  school  out- 
side of  his  own  studies.  He  must  "make 
good''  in  his  freshman  year  and  then  he 
is  allowed  more  freedom  to  enter  vari- 
ous undergraduate  activities. 

The  young  man  starting  for  the  big 
university  would  do  better  should  he 
take  just  the  necessities,  and  then  when 
he  finds  what  strata  of  student  life  he 
will  be  throw^n  into,  he  can  write  home 
for  the  other  articles  which  this  new 
position  may  demand.  He  may  be  of 
such  a  nature  that  he  does  not  care  ^or 
a  highly  decorated  room,  and  I  j-ecall 


one  case  where  the  walls  were  at  first 
covered  with  pennants,  expensive  ban- 
ners and  flags  of  va;'ious  kinds,  and 
within  one  month  from  that  time  they 
were  covered  with  coal  soot  from  the 
hot-air  furnace.  Needless  to  say  the 
room  remained  bare  from  that  time  on, 
and  the  boys  stemed  to  like  it  much  bet- 
ter. They  were  freer  to  do  as  they 
pleased,  to  disturb  some  student  who 
was  absorbed  in  the  mysteries  of  "Trig" 
by  hurling  some  innocent  pillow  at  his 
head  without  fear  of  bringing  down  all 
the  pictures  on  the  wall.  They  could 
get  the  human  nature  out  of  their  sys- 
tems, after  which  they  seemed  ea.q:er  to 
delve  further  into  the  mysteries  of  sci- 
ence. These  boys  found  bare  walls, 
little  furniture,  and  much  space,  more  to 
their  liking  than  a  highly  decorative 
room,  with  huge  chairs  and  tables  scat- 
tered about  it. 

Then  others,  of  a  literary  vein,  would 
need  to  take  a  shelf  library  of  books  t(^ 
supplerfient  the  general  library  of  the 
university,  and  as  their  course  pro- 
gressed they  could  add  to  it  all  of  th? 
text  books  so  far  received  in  their  sev- 
eral courses.  These  would  be  a  great 
help  later  in  life.  Each  to  his  taste,  and 
the  hobby  of  any  one  should  not  be  neg- 
lected because  in  a  new  environment : 
rather  these  new  conditions  should  aid 
in  the  development  of  that  particular 
hLMit  r»r  inclination. 

\\  hile  in  school  it  is  a  good  plan  to 
get  as  much  gfeneral  information  as  po<- 
sible  and  still  know  all  there  is  to  he 
known  about  some  particular  thing.  It 
is  the  day  of  specialization,  but  let  us 
prepare  our  education  so  that  we  may 
develop  along  all  lines,  but  specialize  in 
some  one.  If  we  do  this  we  will  be  able 
to  scrutinize  questions  from  the  right 
point  of  view,  and  not  be  prejudiced  in 
our  attitude. 

Young  men  preparing  to  enter  col- 
lege in  the  fall  should  take  such  things 
with  them  that  will  be  of  benefit  to  them. 
Of  course,  we  all  know  that  the  neces- 
sities must  be  taken,  but  it  is  the  things 
not  absolutelv  needed  that  we  have  to 
be  careful  about.     Nothing  should  be 

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taken  which  will  waste  our  time,  injure 
our  health,  or  in  any  way  interfere  with 
studies.  Most  young  men  go  to  cx>llcge 
in  order  to  give  themselves  a  broader 
viewpoint  on  life,  to  come  in  contact 
with  well-educated  people,  and  to  learn 
all  that  can  be  learned  concerning  their 
especial  profession. 

This  is  the  seed-time  of  his  life,  and 
what  he  does  now  will  in  a  large  meas- 
ure determine  what  he  will  be  in  the 
future.  (Let  him  enter  the  social,  politi- 
cal and  scholastic  life  of  the  collie,  but 
not  let  any  one  of  these  various  phases 
of  student  life  dominate  him  entirely. 
In  this  way  he  should  emerge  a  well- 
rounded  young  man,  ready  to  enter  his 
life's  work,  having  had  the  proper  edu- 
cational advantages. 


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TTJiE  Kentucky  State  Fair  Associa- 
tion  one  year  offered  a  prize  of 
ten  dollars  in  gold  for  each  of  the  best 
samples  of  corn,  oats,  and  tobacco. 
This  offer  gave  one  of  the  local  editors 
an  idea.  He  advertised  that  he  would 
g'wt  a  year's  subscription — worth  two 
dollars — for  the  best  samples  of  corn, 
oats,  and  tobacco,  that  were  brought  to 
liim  within  a  certain  time. 

The  people  jumped  at  the  opportunity 
t(^  get  a  year's  reading  matter  on  such 
easy  terms.  Every  farmer  in  Hardin 
County  brought  his  contribution,  and 
when  all  the  samples  had  been  deposit- 
ed, the  far-sighted  editor  had  a  barnful 
of  stuff. 

On  a  certain  day  the  corn,  oats,  and 
tobacco  were  spread  upon  tables  which 
ran  along  three  sides  of  the  court-house 
square,  and  after  a  very  prolonged  ex- 
amination the  prize  was  duly  awarded. 

Then  the  editor  picked  out  the  finest 
ears  of  corn,  the  heaviest  heads  of 
oats,  and  the  best  twists  of  tobacco,  and 
sent  these  selections  to  the  state  fair. 
He  captured  the  thirty  dollars  in  gold, 
nnd  besides  that  he  sold  enough  stuff 
to  the  hotel  proprietor  to  pay  his  board 
for  six  months. 


Saying. 

J  N  the  present  day,  the  question  of 
the  high  cost  of  living  is  brought 
home  to  us  with  great  frequency. 
Whenever  we  pay  our  grocery  bill,  wc 
are  astounded  by  the  apparent  jump  in 
prices  within  the  last  few  years.  How- 
ever, we  should  try  to  practice  thrift 
and  take  a  lesson  from  our  French 
brethren. 

French  thrift  is  proverbial  and  the 
wide  distribution  of  wealth  among  the 
people  is  well  known.  The  small 
French  investor  confines  himself  to 
home  securities  and  invests  in  bonds  of 
small  denominations.  Money  does  nt^t 
burn  in  his  packet  and  if,  at  the  end 
of  the  week,  he  has  a  surplus,  it  is 
(deposited  in  a  savings  bank  and  not 
spent  over  the  bar  of  the  nearest  saloon. 
The  American  would  not  find  it  hard 
to  save  something  out  of  even  a  small 
weekly  or  monthly  wage,  by  applying 
the  French  principles  of  saving  and 
economy. 

When  a  young  man  finds  himself  in 
possession  of  a  small  surplus  just  be- 
fore payday,  he  should  put  it  safely 
away  and  count  himself  so  much  ahead. 
But  this  is  a  difficult  thing  to  do,  as  he 
would  rather  have  so  much  enjoyment 
ahead  than  so  much  money  ahead. 
The  average  American  lives  beyond  his 
means;  if  he  gets  $10  a  week,  he  spends 
$12 :  if  he  gets  $1,000  a  year,  he  spends 
$1,200,  and  so  on  up  the  scale.  He  can- 
not seem  to  gauge  his  living  expenses 
to  his  income,  and  so  at  the  end  of  the 
year  his  books  show  a  loss  and  he 
wonders   why. 

The  American  shpuld  think  of  his 
small  expenditures,  as  they  mount  up 
so  that  they  become  important  in  the 
gross.  A  nickel  here  and  a  dime  there 
is  very  little  in  itself,  but  when  this  is 
repeated  day  after  day,  it  gets  to  repre- 
sent a  large  sum.  Wliile  we  are  fully 
aware  of  the  importance  of  little  things, 
still  we  do  not  at  all  times  obey  the  dic- 
tates of  our  own  conscience  and  we  suf- 
fer accordingly. 


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July  8 — Nine  of  the  Camorrists  were  con- 
victed of  the  murder  of  the  Cuocolos, 
and  the  rest  were  found  guilty  of  insti- 
gating the  murder  and  of  belonging  to  a 
criminal  society;  the  prison  terms  varied 
from  thirty  to  five  years. 
The  Judiciary  Committee  recommended  the 
impeachment  of  Judge  Archbald  of  the 
Commerce  Court. 

9 — A  series  of  explosions  in  a  colliery,  at 
Conisbrough,  England,  killed  sixtynine  or 
more  miners  and  their  rescuers. 
C.  D.  Hilles  was  chosen  Chairman,  and 
James  B.  Reynolds,  Secretary,  of  the 
Republican   National   Committee. 

10 — A.  W.  S.  Jackson,  of  lEngland,  won  the 
classic  1,500-meter  race,  at  the  Olympic 
games,  defeating  thirteen  of  the  greatest 
known   mile-runners. 

1  r — General  Monteagudo,  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  the  Cuban  Government  troops, 
turned  over  the  Government  of  Oriente 
to  the  civic  au'horities.  declaring  the  re- 
bellion over. 
The  National  Progressive  party  of  the  .State 

of  New  York  was  organized. 
The  State  Department  signed  an  extradition 
treaty  with  Honduras. 

12 — Secretary  Nagel's  interpretation  of  a  par- 
ticular case  removed  restrictions  on  ad- 
mission to  United  States  of  children  of 
naturalized  parents. 
A  general  strike  began  in  Zurich,  Switzer- 
land, as  a  protest  against  admission  of 
foreign  workmen  of  doubtful  character. 

r.3 — The  Uni'ed  States  Senate  voted  40  to 
34  to  make  the  Panama  Canal  bill  unfin- 
ished business,  which  meant  a  refusal  of 
Great  Britain's  request  to  hold  it  up  pend- 
ing diplomatic  negotiations. 
By  a  vote  of  two  to  one  the  United  States 
Senate  voted  to  expel  William  Lorimer  as 
having  been  elected  by  dishonest  methods. 

14 — Washington,  D.  C,  broke  ^  all  previous 
rainfall  records,  when  2.5  inches  fell  in 
45  minutes. 
Thirteen  persons  were  killed  and  more  than 
twentyfive  injured  in  a  collision  on  the 
Burlington  Railroad  eighteen  miles  west 
of  Chicago. 


The  M'arathon  race  at  Stockholm  was  won 
in  2  hours  and  36  minutes  by  K.  K.  Mc- 
Arthur,  a  South  African  policeman. 
15— James  Thorpe,  Carlisle  Indian,  won  the 
decathlon  (ten  events) -at  the  Olympic 
games,  in  Sweden ;  King  Gustav  distri- 
buted the  medals,  concluding  the  festival. 

England's  national  insurance  act  was  put 
into  operation ;  12,000  dock  laborers  in 
Liverpool  and  20,000  in  Birkenhead  struck, 
refusing  to  have  tax  deducted  from  their 
pay. 
r6-^Herbert  Knox  Smith  resigned  as  Com- 
missioner of  Corporations  to  join  Roose- 
velt and  the  third  term  party. 

The  Senate  organized  itself  into  a  court 
for  impeaching  Judge  Archbald. 
17 — The  American  gasoline  launch  Bonila, 
of  Seattle,  was  captured  while  poaching 
off  Vancouver  Island,  by  the  fishing  pro- 
tection cruiser  Newington. 

The  Turkish  Cabinet  resigned  in  conse- 
quence of  a  revolt  in  the  army  against 
the  methods  of  the  Young  Turks'  or- 
ganization. 
18 — 'General  Pedro  Ivonet.  the  negro  rebel 
leader,  was  killed  by  Cuban  troops;  the 
United  States  Navy  Department  ordered 
two  companies  to  return  home. 

Boston  suffered  from  the  heaviest  rainfall 
in  forty  years ;  twentyseven  were  killed  in 
a  cloudburst  at  Seven  Troughs,  Nevada. 
19 — Guadalajara,  Mexico,  suffered  from  twen- 
tythree  earthquake  shocks,  but  no  loss  of 
life  was  reported. 

The  Chinese  National  Assembly  vetoed  all 
President  Yuan  Shi  Kai's  nominees  for 
Cabinet  portfolios. 

Eight  Italian  torpedo  boats  attacked  the  en- 
trance  of   the   Dardanelles;   the  Turkish 
forts  sank  two  and  damaged  six. 
20 — Mutsuhito,   Emperor    of   Japan,   was    re- 
ported critically  ill. 

The  National  Packing  Company  of  Chicago 
was  reported  dissolved,  forestalling  Fed- 
eral action. 

A  horde  of  Zapatistas  attacked  a  Mexican 
train  near  Parres,  killing  more  than  three 
score  passengers,  and  many  soldiers  of 
the  escort.  ^^  ^ 

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21— Ghazi    Moukhtar    Pasha    was    appointed 
Grand  Vizier  by  the   Sultan  of  Turkey, 
and  immediately  formed  a  new  Cabinet. 
A  great  wind  storm  created  havoc  at  At- 
lantic City. 
22— Winston  Spencer  Churchill,  First  Lord  of 
the  Admiral :y,  introduced  in  the  House 
of  Commons  a  supplementary  bill  for  an 
appropriation  of  :€5,ooo,ooo  for  the  navy, 
pointing  to  Germany  as  England's  only 
real  naval  danger. 
23 — President  Fallieres   of  France  decorated 
the  Prince  of  Wales  with  the  Grand  Cross 
of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 
The  British  Medical  Association  passed  a 
resolution    refusing    to    accept    office    in 
connection  with  Lloyd-George's  National 
Insurjlnce  Act  except  under  certain  finan- 
cial conditions. 
24— Fourteen  men  were  drowned  in  a  mine, 
flooded  by  a  cloudburst  that  caused  great 
damage  in  the  region  of  Pittsburgh. 
Empress  Augusta  Victoria,  of  Germany,  in- 
vited    four     hundred     visiting    German- 
American     school-teachers     to     be     her 
guests   at   the    imperial    summer    palace 
near  Cassel. 
j5_The  Senate,  in  Committee  of  the  Whole, 
passed  a  substitute  for  the  House  Wool 
Tariff  bill ;  the  Cummins  bill  was  defeated. 
England's   Premier   disclaimed  any  aggres- 
sive purpose  in  calling  for  increased  navy 
appropriations. 
2^ — The  Senate  passed  the  House  Excise  bill, 
taxing  individual  and  partnership  incomes 
over  $5,000,  at  i  per  cent.;  it  adopted  an 
amendment  repealing  the  Canadian  Reci- 
procity act. 
The  Chinese  Assembly  confirmed  President 
Yuan  Shi-Kai's  nominees  for  the  Cabinet, 
hut  under  m  litary  pressire. 
2,*] — It  was  reported  that  Capt.  Ejnar  Mikkel- 
sen  and  Engineer  Iversen.  Danish  Arctic 
explorers,  missing  siiice  March,  1910.  had 
been    rescued    from    Greenland    by    Nor- 
wegian whalers. 
The    Senate   passed    the   Republican    Sugar 
bill,  reducing  the  tariff  30  cen  s  per  cwt.. 
by  a  vote  of  52  to  3. 
28— President  Leguia,  in  opening  the  Peruvian 
Congress,  announced  that  the  Government 
had  sent  special  commissions  to  investi- 
gate the  question  of  atrocities  connected 
with  the  rubber  industry. 
More  than   100  persons  were  dropped  into 
the  Baltic  Sea,  ?t  Binz,  Germany,  when  a 
landing     stage     collapsed;     many     were 
drowned. 
J9— Judge  Archbald  denied  that  he  was  guilty, 
in  the  Senate  impeachment  proceedings.    ' 
The  strike  of  the  conductors  and  motormen 
of  the  Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company 
ended  after  a  53-day  struggle,  the  strikers 
winning  every  point. 
30 — Mutsuhito,  Emperor  of  Japan,  died,  and 
Yoshihito  mounted  the  throne. 


31— One  person  was  killed  and  many  wounded 
in  a  riot  when  2,000  striking  English 
dockers  returned  to  work  and  found  non- 
union men  in  their  places. 
August  I— Tlie  House  passed  Represen:a- 
tive  McCall's  resolution  calling  for  infor- 
mation as  to  the  existence  of  slavery  on 
the   Peruvian  rubber  plantations. 

2 — The  United  States  Government  ordered 
the  gunboat  Tacoma  to  Bluefields,  Nicar- 
augua,  to  be  ready  for  possible  trouble. 
Ten  workmen  were  killed  and  thirt>'five 
seriously  injured  at  Nuremberg,  Ger- 
many, when  an  immense  power  station 
collapsed  under  construe,  ion,  burying 
seventytwo  laborers. 

3— The  Massax:h.usetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology announced  that  it  would  estab- 
lish a  course  in  aeronautics  in  connection 
with  the  department  of  mechanical  en- 
gineering. 

4— The  Turkish  Cabinet  and  Senate  voted 
to  dissolve  the  Chamber  of  Deputies, 
now  in  extra  session;  strong  forces  guard 
the  Parliament. 

5— The  Senate  adopted  the  conference  re- 
port on  the  same  Wool  bill  tflat  was  ve- 
toed last  year  by  President  Taft. 
Martial  law  was  proclaimed  in  Constanti- 
nople and  the  Sultan  dissolved  Parlia- 
ment after  the  Chamber  of  Deputies,  in 
a  riotous  session,  voted  lack  of  confidence 
in  the  Cabinet  and  adjourned  without 
date. 


Short  Editorials. 


Many  people  would  never  form  intem- 
perate habits,  if  they  took  enough  sleep. 

♦  *    * 

Mankind  is  always  telling  of  its  own 
faults  and  discomfitures :  one  would 
suppose  that  it  would  have  more  pride. 

.<«    ♦    » 

It  is  wonderful  how  much  noise  you 
can  gather  to  disturb  you  as  you  go 
along,  if  you  will  only  send  your  ears 

out  hunting  for  it. 

♦  *    * 

Strange,  how  the  triumphs  and  sor- 
rows of  nations  and  generations,  will 
sometimes  come  along  down  for  centu- 
ries, and  express  themselves  in  a  voice! 

♦  *    ♦ 

A  dreamy  little  four-year  oid  girl 
opined  the  other  day,  that  the  famous 
"Man  in  the  Moon"  was  not  very  much 
of  a  fellow,  after  all — sailing  around 
without  any  body. 


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DIED: 

liOYO,  DR.  H.— In  Nashville,  Tenn.,  July  20. 
He  was  a  prominent  negro  physician,  foun- 
der of  the  Boyd  Infirmary  and  Mercy  Hos- 
pital, and  he  was  President  of  the  People's 
Savings  Bank.  He  left  a  large  personal 
estate. 

CANTLXE.  CHARLES  FREEMAN— In 
Kingston,  N.  Y.,  July  14,  aged  fiftyfour 
years.  He  was  born  in  Saugerties,  N.  Y., 
educate  at  Rutgers  College  and  the  Colum- 
bia Law-school,  served  nine  years  as  dis- 
trict attorney,  was  elected  County  Judge  in 
1904,  and  re-elected  two  years  ago. 

CARTER,  BERNARD  —  At  Narragansett 
Pier,  R.  L,  June  13.  He  was  born  in  1834 
in  Maryland,  and  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Harvard  Law  School.  He  practiced  in  Bal- 
timore, served  in  the  City  Council  and  the 
Maryland  Constitutional  Convention.  He 
was  a  professor  in  the  Maryland  University 
Law  School  in  1878  and  was  Solicitor  of  the 
City  of  Baltimore  for  a  number  of  years, 
fie  was  one  of  counsel  for  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad. 

CLUETT,  GEORGE  B.— In  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in 
his  eightieth  year.  He  was  lK)rn  at  Wolver- 
hampton. England.  Coming  to  America 
when  twelve  years  old,  he  entered  a  collar 
fasTtory  in  Troy.  Liter,  with  a  brother,  J. 
\V.  A.  Cluett,  and  C.  J.  Saxe,  he  founded 
the  firm  now  known  as  Cluett,  Peabody  & 
Co.  He  was  noted  for  numerous  benefac- 
tions, among  them  being  a  yacht  used  by 
the  Labrador  missionary.  Dr.  WiUord 
Grenfell. 

COXGDON,  JAMES  F.— In  Plainfield.  Conn.. 
July  31,  at  (the  age  of  seventyfive  years.  He 
was  the  last  male  member  of  the  Congdon 
branch  of  the  Mohegan  Indians. 

GREENOUGH,  GEN.  GEORGE  G.— In 
Charleston,  S.  C,  June  27,  aged  sixtyeight 
years.  He  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
was  educated  in  France,  and  graduated 
from  West  Point  in  1865.  For  several  years 
he  was  Professor  of  French  at  West  Point. 
He  served  in  Indian  campaigns,  and  in  the 
Nevada  and  Powder  River  expeditions,  also 
in  Cuba  and  the  Philippines.  He  invented 
a  number  of  devices  for  artillery  operations. 


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He  was  retired  as  Brigadier  General  in 
1908. 

HARALSON,  JUSTICE  JONATHAN— In 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  his  native  State, 
aged  eighty  two  years.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  the  University  of  Alabama,  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Bar  and  practiced  law  at  Selma. 
In  i89Z  he  became  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Alabama.  He  was  a 
Trustee  of  the  State  Agricultural  and  Me- 
chanical College  and  was  President  of  two 
Bap'.ist  conventions. 

HERRICK,  JiEV.  JOHN  R.— In  Chicago, 
July  26,  aged  ninety  years.  He  had  been 
at  one  time  President  of  the  Pacific  Uni- 
versity, Forest  Grove,  Oregon,  and  later,  of 
the  South  Dakota  State  University. 

HUDSON,  J.  L— At  Worthing,  England, 
July  5.  He  was  born  in  1846,  in  New  Cas- 
tle-on-Tyne,  coming  to  United  States  as  a 
poor  boy.  He  went  to  Detroit  in  1877,  to 
take  charge  of  a  clothing  establishmefit. 
Later,  he  entered  into  business  for  himself, 
becoming  known  as  Detroit's  wealthiest 
merchant,  owning  department  stores  in  sev- 
eral cities.  He  was  an  active  worker  for 
civic  betterment. 

JACKSOfN.  REV.  DR.  S.  M.— At  Washing- 
ton, Conn..  August  2.  He  was  born  in  New 
York  in  185 1  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Union  Theological  Sieminary,  and  ordained 
in  the  Presl)>lerian  ministry.  He  was  the 
editor  of  religious  topics  in  encyclopedias, 
and  wrote  a  number  of  works  on  religious 
subjects,  among  them  being,  "Heroes  of  the 
Reformation,"  "Papers  and  Proceedings  of 
the  Huguenot  Society  of  America,"  etc. 
He  was  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  Canton  (China)   Christian  College. 

LAXG.  ANDREW— At  Banchory.  Scotland, 
July  20,  aged  sixtyeight  years.  His  native 
town  was  Selkirk,  Scotland,  He  was  edu- 
cated at  St.  Andrews  University,  Edinburgh, 
and  at  Oxford,  and  became  on,e  of  the  most 
versatile  men  of  letters  of  modern  times, 
writing  novels,  poetry,  essays,  critical  and 
historical,  translations,  and  compiling  many 
volumes  of  fairytales  and  other  folklore 
material.  He  succeeded  William  Black  as 
a  contributor  of  leading  articles  to  the  Lon- 
don   Daily   News,     -f^lj^pj^  J^i^J\cjy^g)^i 


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works  are:  "Ballads  and  Lyrics  of  Old 
France,"  "The  Making  of  Religion,"  "Ho- 
meric Hymns,"  "A.  History  of  Scotland 
from  the  Roman  Occupation,"  etc. 

LEVINSON,  RABBI  ABRAHAM  C— In 
Baltimore,  Md.,  June  8.  He  came  to  this 
country  from  Russia,  thirtyone  years  ago, 
settling  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.  After  ten  years 
he  received  a  call  to  B'Nai  Israel  Congre- 
gation, Baltimore,  becoming  one  of  the  best- 
known  scholars  in  United  States  among  the 
Orthodox  Jews.  He  could  speak  many  lan- 
guages, and  knew  the  thirtyone  books  of 
the  Talmud  by  heart. 

McCHESNEY,  DORA  G.— In  Paris,  France, 
July  5.  In  1871  she  was  born  in  Chicago. 
She  was  educated  by  her  mother,  by  travel 
and  by  wide  reading.  She  became  a  prolific 
writer,  being  the  author  of  many  novels,  be- 
sides articles  contributed  to  magazines  and 
reviews.  She  made  a  special  study  of  tht 
English  Civil  War. 

MACLEAN,  MRS.  MARY  DUNLOP— In 
New  York  City,  July  12.  Nassau,  capital 
of  the  Bahama  Islands,  was  her  birthplace. 
iS5ie  came  to  United  States  when  a  young 
girl,  entering  journalism,  and  writing  for 
both  newspapers  and  magazines.  She  was 
assigned  by  the  New  York  Times  to  write 
up  the  Messina  earthquake  and  was  the  only 
woman  correspondent  on  the  scene  of  which 
she  gave  a  graphic  account. 

MbViBY,  ADOLPHUS  G.— In  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  July  14,  aged  sixtynine  years.  He 
was  with  the  Boston  Herald  as  yachting- 
editor  until  six  years  ago.  Not  only  did 
he  write  of  yachts,  but  occasionally  de- 
signed them. 

MILLER,  J.  M. — In  Macon,  Ga.,  July  14, 
aged  one  hundred  and  two  years.  He  was 
too  old  to  fight  for  the  South  in  the  Civil 
War ;  so  he  aided  by  giving  provisions  from 
his  big  plantations  in  South  Carolina  and 
Georgia.  He  leaves  many  children  and 
hundreds  of  grandchildren. 

MILLER.  REV.  DR.  JAMES  RUSSELL— In 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  July  2,  aged  seventytwo 
years.  He  was  the  author  of  many  reli- 
gious works  and  was  Editorial  Superinten- 
dent of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publica- 
tion and  Sunday  School  Work. 

MUTSUHITO,  EMPEROR  OF  JAPAN— In 
Tokio,  July  30,  in  his  sixtieth  year,  after 
a  reign  of  fortyfour  years.  He  was  born 
two  years  before  Commodore  Perry  visited 
Japan,  and  ascended  the  throne  when  four- 
teen years  old,  the  121st  sovereign  of  an  un- 
broken line.  He  was  both  spiritual  and 
secular  head  of  his  people,  and  supposed  to 
have  descended  from  the  gods.  He  sur- 
rounded himself  with  able  ministers,  con- 
quered the  rebellious  Shogunate,  and,  in 
1868,  invited  foreign  representatives  to  con- 
?^r    with    him.      Throughout    his    reign    he 


strove  for  the  progressive  welfare  of  his 
people.  He  abolished  the  feudal  system  an<l 
encouraged  the  introduction  of  modern 
methods  in  commerce,  science,  war,  educa- 
tion. He  was  both  an  artist  and  a  poer. 
His  successes  in  the  wars  with  China  and 
Russia  are  well  known. 

NEWBERRY,  G<EN.  WALTER  CASS— In 
Chicago,  July  20.  He  was  seventysix  years 
old,  a  native  of  Waterville,  N.  Y.  He 
served  in  the  Civil  War  and  was  brevetted 
Brigadier  General.  After  the  war  he  lived 
in  the  South  awhile,  and  was  once  Mlayor 
of  Petersburg,  Va.  He  later  went  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  became  Postmaster.  He 
served  as  member  of  Congress  also. 

NORCROSS,  CAPT.  ALVINE— In  Boston. 
Mass.,  June  8.  He  was  born  in  Bradford, 
Vt.,  sixtynine  years  ago.  He  was  of  a 
mechanical  turn  of  mind,  and  an  auto 
pioneer,  building,  in  1865,  a  successful  steam 
carriage,  which  he  operated  in  the  streets 
of  Boston.  In  his  early  days  he  was  Cap- 
tain of  a  towboat  in  Boston  Harbor. 

POINCARE,  JULES  HENRI— In  Paris. 
France,  July  17.  He  was  a  native  of 
France.  He  was  a  famous  mathemati- 
cian, and  was  regarded  as  the  greatest  scien- 
tist of  modern  France.  He  wa§  a  Profes- 
sor in  the  Paris  University  and  a  member 
of  the  Institute  and  of  the  French  Academy, 
besides  being  Inspecting  General  of  Mines. 
He  wrote  extensively  on  scientific  subjects. 

RAMONDOU,  HENRI— At  Fau,  France. 
July  27.  He  was  born  iuj  i860  in  Lot-et- 
Garonne,  and  entered  the  service  of  his 
government  in  1883,  in  the  office  of  the 
Minister  of  the  Interior.  He  became  Pre- 
fect of  Ardennes  in  1898,  and  later,  Secre- 
tary-General to  the  President.  He  was  an 
officer  in  the  Department  of  Instruction  and 
a  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 

TOWER.  LEVI  L.— In  Newton,  .Mass.,  June 
19.  He  was  born  in  1826  at  Cummington, 
and  was  known  as  the  dean  of  the  station- 
ery trade.  He  was  President  of  the  United 
Cotton  Gin  Company,  the  Cutter-Tower 
Company,  and  the  Greene  Consolidated 
Copper  Company.  He  realized  a  fortune 
through  introducing  the  wooden  toothpick 
into  this  country. 

WHITE.  FIELD  MARSHAL  SIR  GEORGE 
STUART— In  'London,  England,  June  24. 
County  Antrim,  Ireland,  was  his  birthplace, 
in  1835.  He  was  one  of  Great  Britain's 
most  distinguished  soldiers,  participating 
in  quelling  the  Indian  mutiny  of  1857-59, 
and  in  the  Afghan,  Soudan,  and  Boer  Wars. 
As  Commander-in-Chief  at  Natal,  he  de- 
fended Ladysmith  against  the  Boer  besieg- 
ers for  119  days.  After  that  war  he  was 
Governor  of  Gibraltar,  and  for  seven  years 
past  had  been   Governor  of  Chelsea  Hos- 


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A  barunet  sells  papers  in  Melbourne,  Aus- 
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Aeroplanes  are  beginning  to  supplant  mov- 
ing-vans  in   an  enterprising  Eastern  city. 

It  is  more  sensible  to  pay  serious  attention 
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Berlin  experts  tell  us  that  heat  above  73.4 
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A  man  must  lack  nerve  when  he  has  to 
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An  agricultural  college  exclusively  for 
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A  wild  Texas  steer  was  so  overjoyed  (or 
bewildered)  with  his  first  visit  to  a  large  city, 
that  he  dashed  up  the  streets,  goring  people 
right  and  left,  • 

A  Chicago  hotel  has  abolished  the  register, 
and  the  guests  sign  cards,  which  are  filed  out 
of  sight.  This  gives  "rubberers"  in  front 
of  the  desk  a  vacation. 

Two  New  Jersey  men  were  fined  because 
of  omitting  to  drain  pools  on  their  lands,  and 
thus  hiaintaining  breeding  places  for  New 
Jersey's  pet  beast,  the  mosquito. 

Frozen  water-pipes  on  one  of  the  hottest 
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one  mixed  too   much  salt  with   the  ice  sur- 
rounding three  drinking-fountains. 

A  Newfoundland  dog  was  all  that  saved  the 
lives  of  those  in  fishing-boats,  directly  in  the 
path  of  an  ocean  steamer.  He  should  have 
a  Carnegie  medal  attached  to  his  collar. 

A  Canadian  autoist  struck  and  killed  a  cow 
and  paid  the  owner  seventyfive  dollars  for  it. 
He  threw  the  carcass  over  the  hood  of  the 
machine,  and  proceeded  to  the  next  town — 
where  he  sold  it  for  eightyfive  dollars.  Some 
financier. 

So  firm  was  his  belief  in  Christian  S<Mciicc 
as  a  cure,  a  Yonkers  man  would  not  allow 
the  anti-toxin  treatment  to  be  given  him, 
even  after  his  young  daughter  had  died  of 
the  same  disease  a  week  before.  He  also  died 
'in  the  faith. 

A  doctor  left  a  small  eastern  town  in  his 
automobile  with  $5.00  in  his  possession.  He 
is  to  go  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  return  within 
six  months,  and  not  practice  his  profession, 
beg,  'borrow%  nor  steal.  If  he  succeeds,  he 
"  wins  $10,000. 

Of  the  various  languages  used  in  Switzer- 
land, sixtynine  per  cent,  of  the  inhabitans 
speak  German,  twentytwo  per  cent.  French, 
eight  per  cent.  Italian,  and  i  per  cent.  Roman- 
ish.  In  the  summer-time,  a  very  large  per 
cent,  indeed,   speak   English. 

Suit  has  been  instituted  against  a  telegrnpli 
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lovelorn  youth  sent  a  message  to  his  fiance, 
saying,  "I  love  you  forever'*:  but  when  it  was 
transmitted,  she  received  this.  "1  leave  you 
forever."  This  broke  the  match,  and  suc- 
ceeded a  lo\e-suit  with  a  law-suit. 


Daniel  Webster  was  careless  about  money 
matters,  and  often  had  to  he  sued,  in  a 
friendly  manner,  so  that  his  tra  ^esmen  could 
get  their  bills  paid.  A  butcher  who  had  sued 
him  in  earnest  did  not  come  any  more  for 
orders;  and  Webster,  meeting  him  one  day, 
reproached  him  for  his  timidi:y,  saying,  "Sue 
me  as  often  as  you  like;  but  for  Heaven's 
sake  don't  starve  me!" 


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The  late  Dr.  William  M.  Taylor  was  ncc  on 
an  Illinois  railroad  train,  when  a  news-b  y 
cani,e  through  the  coach  selling  papers,  among 
which  was  Harper's  Weekly.  "Paper,  sir!"  he 
shouted  in  the  doctor's  ear — "an*  you  in  it!" 
he  continued,  in  a  shrill  yell  of  surprise,  after 
a  look  at  the  doctor.  It  was  true:  the  rever- 
end gentleman  found  his  portrait  there,  and 
of   course  bought   a  paper. 

Mass  Mary  Taylor,  who  is  said  to  have 
been  the  heroine  of  the  poem.  "Mary  Had  a 
Little  Lamb,"  died  at  Somerville,  Mass.— 
presumably  of  too  much  lamb.  It  would  be 
interesting  but  mournful  to  know  how  she 
was  incessantly  bored  rpon  the  subject:  how 
she  had  to  describe  the  school,  the  teacher, 
the  scholars  who  laughed  and  played,  and 
the  spot  where,  after  his  ejection,  he  lingered 
near  until  Miss  Taylor's  reappearance.  She 
also  no  doubt  had  to  occasronally  explain 
how,  although  a  lamb,  he  had  already  devel- 
oped a  fleece,  and  to  tell  how  much  it 
weighed  wlien  clipped. 

Many  tourisis  when  in  London  have  visited 
the  last  London  home  of  Sydney  Smith,  and 
regretted  that  it  was  torn  down.  Smith  not 
only  was  but  is,  notwithstanding  the  faci  that 
he  lias  been  dead  many  years,  one  of  the 
most  lovable  of  men.  He  was  a  sort  of  -Ad- 
mirable Crichton  of  the  intellect;  an  essayist, 
an  editor,  a  teacher,  a  lecturer,  a  clergymar. 
and  an  incurable  joker — all  in  one.  He  was 
not  only  respectable  but  universally  respected 
in  all  these,  and  seems  to  have  lacked  only 
the  very  important  element  of  Self-interest 
— a  certain  amount  of  which  is  necessary  to 
a  successfully  rounded  career.  The  world 
applauded  him  and  admitted  that  it  owed  him 
much,  but  he  never  collected  the  debt. 

The  term  " Stump- Speaking**  is  said  to  have 
originated  as  follows :  In  1815,  John  McLean, 
at  the  age  of  24,  moved  from  Logan  County 
to  Sftiawneetown,  111. — "poor,  talented  and 
ambitious."  Besides  his  great  strength  of 
mind,  there  was  no  man  in  Illinois,  before 
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natural  eloquence.  AfcLean's  first  serious 
trial  of  his  power  was  for  a  seat  in  Con- 
gress upon  the  admission  of  his  adopted 
state  into  the  union,  in  1818.  His  opponent 
was  Daniel  P.  Cook,  also  a  Kentuckian,  from 
Scott  County,  "quick,  w^iry,  eloquent,  and  de- 
termined." On  stumps  of  trees  (literally) 
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